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Killer Instinct Season 2 |OT| It's international RIPTOOOOORRRRRR day.

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Poker Face

Member
Yea I wonder when we're going to see the thing that they spent a ton of time.

In my opinion KI doesn't really need any more new modes. Things like humiliations, ultimates, knockoffs, etc. are way more important to me than something like a shadows mode. Don't get me wrong, shadows are amazing, but it doesn't seem to me like the mode gets used a whole lot. We don't have any numbers on how many people play KI and what modes they're playing so I could be completely wrong.
 
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The Flash

Banned
DopeyFish said:
ps: Flash, i compiled all the KI trailers for you

Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_-Q5Hu24zQ
Sabrewulf Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H-HWChee4c
Jago Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZlxVMvj8M
Glacius Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJYgZPWB1Co
Thunder Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuLupSM8dk
Sadira Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvlM3ZYdoew
Sadira trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDuhmE7DsXo
Orchid trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz83xJNGRw
Spinal trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnlUjgWcDg
Fulgore trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9UqcLTVTY
Season 1 Launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FgmHRPtLU
TJ Combo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElgzU8cneY
Maya trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrh_DXnhrA
Season 2 Launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_rGfXw2x7k
Kan-Ra Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akH5xenzw34
Riptor trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybg-uLKrCs
Omen trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9x4008zYog
Aganos trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roH_tUW-JSA
Hisako trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcstYvfwRsE
Cinder trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KpYlEfYdQ
Aria trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7wZAypppHU
Season 2 Finale trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kECFQz4tc8s
Rash trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xzwafCJ28I
Kim Wu trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYhCBh7snA
Arbiter trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgJvFQHw-1w
Tusk trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbTF0xEzHwA
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Thanks dude. I already got this part covered but I appreciate it nonetheless.
 
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SAB CA

Sketchbook Picasso
Double Helix specifically didn't want the training stage playable in matches, because they wanted:

A> Not to watch the effort on designing awesome stages to be wasted playing on a pre-stage-design bounding box.
B> They were committed to making sure every stage played with no frame drops, and had no errors that kept people from using the actual stages.

Of course, this is IG's baby now, so they might do it. I really hope they don't personally, at least without putting something special into it (such as it transforming, or making it have a destroyed state for Ultras, that opens up into a skybox or something.)

As far as a music selector... Eh, I guess it'd be fine after all this time with themed music perfectly matching stages. It'd be nice also if the music just switched to the match winner's theme, or something.
 
Troubled Bat

Troubled Bat

Member
Why, Flash, why?! Why did you have to quote that? ;___; It took me forever just to get into posting something since it kept kicking me out. Lol

Anyway, an 11 hour stream is amazing. It's too bad that I'll miss it. :T But we're definitely going to see the rest of the stages and all the accessories / retros they have. :D
 
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The Flash

Banned
Troubled Bat said:
Why, Flash, why?! Why did you have to quote that? ;___; It took me forever just to get into posting something since it kept kicking me out. Lol
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Keits

Developer
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
 
-tetsuo-

-tetsuo-

Unlimited Capacity
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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What about that UI tho

; ;

Seriously though first request is to see new lighting on Thunders stage.
 
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Remapped88

Member
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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Play through all the old stages if y'all can, especially Thunder's!
 
.la1n

.la1n

Member
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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Thanks for the stream, hope we get to see some fun matches.
 
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vg260

Member
Poker Face said:
Yea I wonder when we're going to see the thing that they spent a ton of time.

In my opinion KI doesn't really need any more new modes. Things like humiliations, ultimates, knockoffs, etc. are way more important to me than something like a shadows mode. Don't get me wrong, shadows are amazing, but it doesn't seem to me like the mode gets used a whole lot. We don't have any numbers on how many people play KI and what modes they're playing so I could be completely wrong.
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Have to disagree. The Shadow mode is awesome and the best single player mode in a fighter in a long time because it's not just a mode built around the same standard CPU AI. The other stuff seem more like frills to me.

I love using the mode when I don't feel like playing an online match. It's a great intermediate step between single player and going online. That jump is way to intimidating for a lot of people. The genre needs more games with a bridge mode like this. MvC3 made an attempt, but didn't execute it as well. Even if not perfect, it feels more like playing real person, which is cool.

It deserves more attention. They just need a way to encourage more people to use it, or a better way to blend it into the game.
 
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The Flash

Banned
2n2 said:
Have to disagree. The Shadow mode is awesome and the best single player mode in a fighter in a long time because it's not just a mode built around the same standard CPU AI. The other stuff seem more like frills to me.

I love using the mode when I don't feel like playing an online match. It's a great intermediate step between single player and going online. That jump is way to intimidating for a lot of people. The genre needs more games with a bridge mode like this. MvC3 made an attempt, but didn't execute it as well. Even if not perfect, it feels more like playing real person, which is cool.

It deserves more attention. They just need a way to encourage more people to use it, or a better way to blend it into the game.
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Shadow Mode XP events?
 
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Poker Face

Member
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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Thanks for doing this, you guys obviously don't have to do stuff like this. It's awesome to have devs that genuinely care enough about the community + game to stream the game for like 10 hours on their day off.

We really do appreciate it.
 
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Nori Chan

Member
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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Maybe we can have someone on stream gif the rash taunt :p

I wish I would be able to watch, I'll be able to catch the latter part of the stream.
 
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CommandThrower

Member
Keits said:
Sunday's stream is all competitive minded, using the same showbuild from this week. If all you care about is new builds or announcements or whatever, you may want to skip it. We will be playing matches and testing things in training mode, helping players interested in mid-to-high level play get a head-start, and hopefully entertaining you.
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This is gonna be good. Mid-high level KI? I'm in.
 
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tapedeck

Do I win a prize for talking about my penis on the Internet???
bumpkin said:
God, Tusk's head/face just looks so fucking awful... The hair, the teeth, the beard. Yikes.
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The more I see of him the worse he looks, I'd be 100% ok if they delayed his release to improve his appearance.
 
.la1n

.la1n

Member
tapedeck said:
The more I see of him the worse he looks, I'd be 100% ok if they delayed his release to improve his appearance.
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I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that the team behind character models and texture work is aware of how awful it looks right now and will iron it out for launch.

If it's still the same at launch? Eek.
 
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tapedeck

Do I win a prize for talking about my penis on the Internet???
I only got to watch the stream on mobile so couldn't see Kims face too well..but it did seem slightly improved, hopefully they are still working on it. It'll be interesting to see some comparison pics of Kim from the KIWC build and the S3 launch build.
 
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FadedRevolution

Member
I hope to god that KI pc doesn't have the problems Gears of War is having. I got it on Xbox but I much prefer to play on pc and I don't want to pay for online anymore.
 
Troubled Bat

Troubled Bat

Member
So with the stream that happened and being able to see all the stages with the new lighting.

Favorites:

Sadira, Glacius, and Hisako. I feel Sadira's had the biggest improvement of the bunch, I absolutely love it.


- Big improvement on Orchid's stage.

- I was actually disappointed with Riptor's/Cinder's stage because they both lost the color they had going with them, especially on Cinder.

- Not entirely sure how I feel with Thunder's. Something just feels off to me, but I still love it because of the stage itself.
 
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vg260

Member
Thunder's stage looked lighter to me, which I'm not as crazy about.

I'm actually not too crazy about Glacius' updated stage either. I'm not a fan of the color changes to the background elements. They stick out a bit too much to me now. I preferred everything being the same color hue. I actually like some stages that are essentially one color tone, but particularly in this case where everything looked completely iced over.
 
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CommandThrower

Member
The Flash said:
How would you guys group the characters in terms of accessibility?
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In my opinion:


Easy:
Jago
Sabrewulf
Thunder
Orchid
Riptor
Tusk(I'm guessing)
Rash(as per Keits)


Medium:
Sadira
Glacius
Fulgore
Spinal
TJ Combo
Omen
Maya
The Arbiter(I'm guessing)
Kim Wu(I'm guessing)


Hard:
Kan-Ra
Aganos
Cinder
Hisako
ARIA
 
.la1n

.la1n

Member
CommandThrower said:
In my opinion:


Easy:
Jago
Sabrewulf
Thunder
Orchid
Riptor
Tusk(I'm guessing)


Medium:
Sadira
Glacius
Fulgore
Spinal
TJ Combo
Omen
Maya
The Arbiter(I'm guessing)
Kim Wu(I'm guessing)
Rash(I'm guessing)


Hard:
Kan-Ra
Aganos
Cinder
Hisako
ARIA
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Wouldn't argue with this list, obviously minus the season 3 characters since we probably don't know enough yet. I do remember them mentioning Tusk would be accessible though.
 
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