07-19-2019, 02:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2019, 02:40 AM by sleepy_scrub.)
So I was watching BushinStyle's stream on twitch the other night (great Zeku player, streams good house music too) and somebody asked him in the stream if he had heard anything about Super SF5.
(I've clipped it for you)
https://clips.twitch.tv/TentativeLuckyCl...PTropPunch
BushinStyle relays, though I have no idea what his sources are, that he's heard:
10 New Characters (!!)
Story Mode Season 2
V-Skill 2
CA 2
V-Focus Attack (works but costs V-Gauge a-la Red Focus...?)
More V-System things
More stages
And with a few weeks to EVO, I guess it's time to make our predictions for the big SF5 announcment this year! Maybe it's Super Ultra Rainbow Edition! Maybe it's just another Abigail or Kage and that's it! Who knows!
My prediction based off what I've been hearing around the internets:
They do announce a new expansion, probably Super Street Fighter 5 (tracks with what X-Kira has been saying, Ono is tweeting again that he's excited to show off something)
At least 3 characters (10 would blow my mind, I'd expect 5 to round out a normal season including Kage).
C. Viper likely? (game needs more Waifus, appears on this Udon swimsuit cover with the rest of the SF5 ladies from like a month ago)
-Rose likely? (I've said all along that Menat (Rose Jr.) means Rose is out but Catalyst, the Editor of Eventhubs, claims his sources have told him she's in for sure and he's 95% sure she's gonna get in during their podcast. While he admits he's a Rose stan, I don't think he'd go on record saying that if he wasn't sure).
Story Mode 2 likely (I again point to Ed's story mode taking place after Bison dies in Season 1, and him forming Neo-Shadaloo with Falke, Beardy, and the Gorilla, doesn't make sense to set this up and never speak of it again).
-More of X-Kira's predictions probably come true and piss off his haters (BushinStyle citing CA2, story mode and new stages also tracks with stuff X-Kira said was coming a long time ago but hasn't happened yet).
And now my predictions of things that people won't like:
-Expansion not dropping until end of the year (tracks with another thing X-Kira said forever ago, also if any of the system changes are true they can't drop it until after Capcom Cup or the pro players will riot).
-Characters are dropping as an all-or-nothing package deal. No more buying them one at a time, no more buying them with fight money. You buy the expansion or you don't get anybody. Though Capcom MIGHT drop 1 or 2 characters at EVO as a preorder bonus if you preorder Super SF5 now.
The hints for this are everywhere. The "we're doing things differently" post on Capcom Unity. Slowly phasing out fight money all year by getting rid of ways to earn it. Not dropping any characters throughout the year, even with other fighting games launching and taking a lot of SF5's shine. To me the only reason to not drop characters throughout the year is if you believed releasing them all at once as a package was ultimately going to be more profitable.
Also a lot of characters were bashed on release for being low tier or having janky animations (Falke, Ed, Cody, Sakura.... people didn't LOVE Kolin or Zeku early on either). Dropping the characters as a package means people might be more receptive to weirdo/oddball characters they wouldn't try normally. Plus who would buy E. Honda as standalone DLC, honestly? Or somebody weird like Hakan or Rufus? Or Beardy and Gorilla from Ed's ending, maybe?
Plus let's be honest, fight money as a system is probably not the best idea financially. The diehards who play ranked everyday are gonna have a boatload of fight money and not have to pay for the DLC, while the casuals are expected to somehow pony up when they just want to play Ryu and Ken (there's a reason Ryu is always at the top of character usage rankings even though he's terrible). It's literally the opposite of what you're trying to achieve by selling DLC.
So while I think Capcom going back to a more traditional "expansion disc" DLC format is probably good for the game, I think there's definitely going to be some people with a trillion fight money hoarded that are going to be PISSED Capcom didn't give them a heads up in January to stop grinding (I would be too).
And those are my predictions for this year. Do ya'll have any thoughts?
(I've clipped it for you)
https://clips.twitch.tv/TentativeLuckyCl...PTropPunch
BushinStyle relays, though I have no idea what his sources are, that he's heard:
10 New Characters (!!)
Story Mode Season 2
V-Skill 2
CA 2
V-Focus Attack (works but costs V-Gauge a-la Red Focus...?)
More V-System things
More stages
And with a few weeks to EVO, I guess it's time to make our predictions for the big SF5 announcment this year! Maybe it's Super Ultra Rainbow Edition! Maybe it's just another Abigail or Kage and that's it! Who knows!
My prediction based off what I've been hearing around the internets:
They do announce a new expansion, probably Super Street Fighter 5 (tracks with what X-Kira has been saying, Ono is tweeting again that he's excited to show off something)
At least 3 characters (10 would blow my mind, I'd expect 5 to round out a normal season including Kage).
C. Viper likely? (game needs more Waifus, appears on this Udon swimsuit cover with the rest of the SF5 ladies from like a month ago)
-Rose likely? (I've said all along that Menat (Rose Jr.) means Rose is out but Catalyst, the Editor of Eventhubs, claims his sources have told him she's in for sure and he's 95% sure she's gonna get in during their podcast. While he admits he's a Rose stan, I don't think he'd go on record saying that if he wasn't sure).
Story Mode 2 likely (I again point to Ed's story mode taking place after Bison dies in Season 1, and him forming Neo-Shadaloo with Falke, Beardy, and the Gorilla, doesn't make sense to set this up and never speak of it again).
-More of X-Kira's predictions probably come true and piss off his haters (BushinStyle citing CA2, story mode and new stages also tracks with stuff X-Kira said was coming a long time ago but hasn't happened yet).
And now my predictions of things that people won't like:
-Expansion not dropping until end of the year (tracks with another thing X-Kira said forever ago, also if any of the system changes are true they can't drop it until after Capcom Cup or the pro players will riot).
-Characters are dropping as an all-or-nothing package deal. No more buying them one at a time, no more buying them with fight money. You buy the expansion or you don't get anybody. Though Capcom MIGHT drop 1 or 2 characters at EVO as a preorder bonus if you preorder Super SF5 now.
The hints for this are everywhere. The "we're doing things differently" post on Capcom Unity. Slowly phasing out fight money all year by getting rid of ways to earn it. Not dropping any characters throughout the year, even with other fighting games launching and taking a lot of SF5's shine. To me the only reason to not drop characters throughout the year is if you believed releasing them all at once as a package was ultimately going to be more profitable.
Also a lot of characters were bashed on release for being low tier or having janky animations (Falke, Ed, Cody, Sakura.... people didn't LOVE Kolin or Zeku early on either). Dropping the characters as a package means people might be more receptive to weirdo/oddball characters they wouldn't try normally. Plus who would buy E. Honda as standalone DLC, honestly? Or somebody weird like Hakan or Rufus? Or Beardy and Gorilla from Ed's ending, maybe?
Plus let's be honest, fight money as a system is probably not the best idea financially. The diehards who play ranked everyday are gonna have a boatload of fight money and not have to pay for the DLC, while the casuals are expected to somehow pony up when they just want to play Ryu and Ken (there's a reason Ryu is always at the top of character usage rankings even though he's terrible). It's literally the opposite of what you're trying to achieve by selling DLC.
So while I think Capcom going back to a more traditional "expansion disc" DLC format is probably good for the game, I think there's definitely going to be some people with a trillion fight money hoarded that are going to be PISSED Capcom didn't give them a heads up in January to stop grinding (I would be too).
And those are my predictions for this year. Do ya'll have any thoughts?