EteRnal PAL
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Gargos tease!!!! WOW!!!
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Killer Instinct Season 2 |OT| It's international RIPTOOOOORRRRRR day.
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SlipperyMoose
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Video on GameSpot won't load on my phone whomp
Youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU1nahZDJjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU1nahZDJjo
EteRnal PAL
Member
Gamespot article talking a little about Riptor - http://www.gamespot.com/articles/killer-instinct-season-2-the-return-of-riptor/1100-6424228/
IG is not Fox
sixteen-bit
Member
Is there a thread for the Tiptor trailer?
Just noticed her stage, very cool.
bloodyroarxx
Member
We know, but still means Gargos is a thing.
JB-the-Hunter
Member
*Herald. The character is definitely not Gargos, but Gargos is probably coming.
Looks like spikes to me.
Purple, yellow, and orange spikes? With some of them curving?
Didn't really get a good look at them.
The fuck does that even mean? A "Herald" is not a Fox only concept.
Gargos has always been a thing.
Doesn't mean it anymore than Shadow Jago did, really.
I misunderstood that post ignore my stupidity pls.
Ultratech doesn’t always look forwards to find the solutions to future military development. Sometimes, they look to the past.
So it was with the Riptor project.
A competing combat contract project with the Fulgore line and the Cinder initiative, brilliant Ultratech genetic engineer Dr. Erin Gupte saw a better path to follow. She thought that Fulgore’s maintenance and lack of ability to adapt to radically different hostile environments would create a nightmare for upkeep and result in a prohibitively expensive machine. At the same time, she saw the Cinder initiative as pure R&D with years before any interesting developments could be realized. She believed that a creature built on a ruthless adaptable predator and augmented and constrained by modern technology would result in the ideal combat platform. It could rely on its own victims for sustainment, and could maneuver and infiltrate in areas that the Fulgore line would never be able to function; Riptor couldn’t be jammed or hacked, stopped by weather, or be disabled by a grain of sand in an intake. Nor would it take a decade of research to decode the alien technologies the Cinder initiative toyed with.
The first batch of Riptor units were vicious, and even with cybernetic augmentation and programming, were completely uncontrollable. No amount of shock, drugs, or control systems would contain them, and they would tear anything it saw apart in moments, making it impossible for them to work as a coordinated team as planned.
Digging into the problem, and amidst the pressures from Utratech leadership for results, Erin theorized that all her creations had no upbringing, no parenting, only genetic memories to kill that she could not overwrite; they came into the world fully ready to fight, and without any other upbringing to guide them, that’s exactly what they did.
She destroyed the initial batch of Riptor assets and began work on a new batch, augmenting the creatures even further than the originals. Borrowing cast-off technology from the Fulgore project, Erin began using her own mind as a training tool for her new creations, simulating upbringing through her own directed thoughts, guiding the creatures into understanding that there was a place for family, and the idea of a pack…
http://www.ultra-combo.com/forums/index.php?topic=4959.msg90083#new
So it was with the Riptor project.
A competing combat contract project with the Fulgore line and the Cinder initiative, brilliant Ultratech genetic engineer Dr. Erin Gupte saw a better path to follow. She thought that Fulgore’s maintenance and lack of ability to adapt to radically different hostile environments would create a nightmare for upkeep and result in a prohibitively expensive machine. At the same time, she saw the Cinder initiative as pure R&D with years before any interesting developments could be realized. She believed that a creature built on a ruthless adaptable predator and augmented and constrained by modern technology would result in the ideal combat platform. It could rely on its own victims for sustainment, and could maneuver and infiltrate in areas that the Fulgore line would never be able to function; Riptor couldn’t be jammed or hacked, stopped by weather, or be disabled by a grain of sand in an intake. Nor would it take a decade of research to decode the alien technologies the Cinder initiative toyed with.
The first batch of Riptor units were vicious, and even with cybernetic augmentation and programming, were completely uncontrollable. No amount of shock, drugs, or control systems would contain them, and they would tear anything it saw apart in moments, making it impossible for them to work as a coordinated team as planned.
Digging into the problem, and amidst the pressures from Utratech leadership for results, Erin theorized that all her creations had no upbringing, no parenting, only genetic memories to kill that she could not overwrite; they came into the world fully ready to fight, and without any other upbringing to guide them, that’s exactly what they did.
She destroyed the initial batch of Riptor assets and began work on a new batch, augmenting the creatures even further than the originals. Borrowing cast-off technology from the Fulgore project, Erin began using her own mind as a training tool for her new creations, simulating upbringing through her own directed thoughts, guiding the creatures into understanding that there was a place for family, and the idea of a pack…
http://www.ultra-combo.com/forums/index.php?topic=4959.msg90083#new
GuitarAtomik
Member
Looks fucking vicious. I love it.
Troubled Bat
Member
Riptor!! They didn't show off her anti-corner abilities in the trailer! D: I hope the stream gets uploaded soon.
I really love the look of her stage!
And Herald of Gargos? What does this mean!
I really love the look of her stage!
And Herald of Gargos? What does this mean!
Miles Quaritch
Member
Video is private. WHAT THE FUCK.
FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT.
Still not feeling the redesign, but she doesn't look too bad. Wish they'd kept the more humanoid aspect to her figure.
SEGAvangelist
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I think she fits right in with the direction Double Helix was going at least. I'm curious how the classic skins will look.
Riptor!! They didn't show off her anti-corner abilities in the trailer! D: I hope the stream gets uploaded soon.
I really love the look of her stage!
And Herald of Gargos? What does this mean!
The tail looks like it will be a good anti-corner ability.
Calling it now, Riptor can gain health back by biting/eating the opponent. Specifically that move where she pounces and starts biting Jago's face in the trailer.
Which is what happened to Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park, and is why that move is going to be the move called "Clever Girl" that Adam teased in the textual stream.
Which is what happened to Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park, and is why that move is going to be the move called "Clever Girl" that Adam teased in the textual stream.
Instinct mode ability?
I'm okay with no music, but I don't like the tease at the end. Felt like the Thunder tease from Evo only with even less of the character shown. Unless we get the trailer for that character pretty early next month that's pretty disappointing.
Riptor looks okay, but I'll need to play her first.
Riptor looks okay, but I'll need to play her first.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Yeah. Seems like the eating is some kind of Instinct mode ability.
Blitzblotz
Banned
So the next dude is named Harold?
Nice one.
bumpkin
Member
I'm actually pretty happy with how Riptor turned out. I was a little skeptical from a posture and movement point of view based on the concept art, but she(?) looks great!
Seeing as Season 2 is the 'Ultratech' Season, I can really see Season 3 being the Gargos Season with him being the main villain and maybe the last fighter to be released for Season 3. Season 1 had a few Ultratech seeds planted with Fulgore and Sadira and it seems that Season 2 might be planting some Gargos seeds now for Season 3.
Troubled Bat
Member
I now assume that the stream hasn't happened yet? :V
Yeah, she has pretty beefy arms.. And thumbs, plus she stands a lot more straight up than I thought. There is definitely still some human in Riptor.
That would explain the 'h'
Miles Quaritch
Member
Thanks.
After watching that, I'm actually more optimistic. Seems she does still have the more pronounced humanoid figure than the images led me to believe.
Very pleasing indeed.
That's what the retro is there for!
Yeah, let's hope the classic skin is up to snuff.
Yah that was the biggest difference between the concept art and the model.
Irish Fighter Harold O'Gargos
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
The only thing that is disappointing to me is that I very much prefer the old riptor sound effects over the new ones. Specifically how they strung together when you did a combo.
This is something I really hope they get right for cinder. My all time favorite.
This is something I really hope they get right for cinder. My all time favorite.