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Still no info on Tomoka's playstyle, just more stuff on her aesthetics (she can shoot the hoops that appear out of nowhere and uses some Japanese dancing moves, too). No new info on Assists, either, but at least they got some screens: I was afraid they announced them before actually finishing their sprites.

I think the BGM was a brand-new track, though of course, I can't be sure whether it's for Zato vs Millia or Assassins (or just new Millia theme).

Charged 5C doesn't knock down, that was a mistranslation.

Oh yeah, forgot about the PWAB's involvement. Anyways, the single fact that Faust saves lives while Assassins take them (including his patient, even if that was PWAB's contract) should be enough for him to hate their guts. I don't doubt that Vastedge is canon, I'm just not sure that Venom reforming the Guild under his lead is. Been a while since I played through XX/AC story modes, so I'm not sure which events happened when.

Well what could you expect, all those people already had close ties to Zato before. Faust not so much, but he knows that the Assassins are behind his patient dying, so confronting their leader is something that was bound to happen. As for reasons behind reviving Zato, I'd guess that someone important (the Senate?) wants some of Assassins' services, and it wasn't possible under Venom's lead (was that even canon?).

Blackout itself now costs 1 Heat Up (or if you don't have it, 50 Heat, like before). So in total, you pay 50 heat for Serpentine Assault, 1 Heat Up for Frangible Engage, and 1 Heat Up (or 50 more Heat) for Blackout. A weird side-effect this might cause is that you can probably drop Blackout and follow up Frangible with a different Engage move. This might be the first Engage that doesn't consume all Heat Up, just one.

There was no proper arcade mode, but if they mean story mode, then they're doing the right thing by fixing it.

Also, Isocchi's voicing April and Leap (May's BFF and the killer cook from her IK). Ishiwatari's a great guy to be around, good to know we're getting more of him soon. Didn't know he was born in Africa, huh. Also, the whole Isocchichi part was hilarious.

Reposting announced Bullet changes: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201401/31047214.html Personal thoughts: - Changes to Miquelet and 3C make sense: they're supposed to help her against zoners, but weren't good enough to do so. - I think her pressure is already good enough, it's capitalizing on it that can be problematic. Though of course, good pressure means that they're afraid of hitting buttons, which means that it's easier to mix them up, so it all comes together in the end. - There is a slight mistranslation about charged 5[C]: it doesn't knock down, you can just use it to punish mashing. Doesn't sound too major to me, but having more options in pressing is great. - Another mistranslation, this one says that there is no gap between 5B and new 5C. That's good, but not too many people mash DP or IB punish it in that particular spot (at least in my experience). - New Blackout is simply amazing and might make her mix-ups very scary all by itself. Imagine getting a 5C blocked and getting 5020 damage out of the deal.

Another point about the Bullet changes: It doesn't say anything about 5[C] knocking down, it just says that you can use it to prevent people from mashing (using it in combination with 5C for frame traps, basically).

I gave a look at the sentence in question ("通常の立ちCがいまよりもコンパクトになって、立ちBから連続ガードさせられるようになりました"), and I think it simply says that the new uncharged 5C after 5B is a tight blockstring with no gap.

Dem Bullet changes, man. I'm in love. Not sure what the 5B change means (more blockstun?), and new 5C might be cool, might be bad, might be nothing at all (if you can charge it for the old version mid-combo). Also, no Amane changes make my friends sad.

Speaking of announcements, they also said that Xrd is also going to be represented on Japan Amusement Expo, which takes place on February 14th-15th. Also, episode 7 (starring Ishiwatari and Nakata) airs on February 20th.

That's my point, yeah.

Time to bump this thread and discuss all the goodness we got with the recent developments. Apparently, Ky is flying to Japan in his arcade opening. Yeah, not to Colony, but to Japan. Is that just how people call it nowadays, or did they revive the country while we weren't looking?

Yeah, nah.

She's the Kokonoe of this game, so yeah.

The summary of the article is up on the Famitsu website: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201401/30047285.html Just to confirm, Google is correct, for once.

Some LQ scans of the article: http://bbs2.ruliweb.daum.net/gaia/do/ruliweb/default/psp/117/read?articleId=1304019&bbsId=G003&itemGroupId=34&pageIndex=1

If only they were light novels for this light novel company to publish. KYH is less of a zoner and more of a footsies-oriented character, with long pokes and good mobility. Shana has a good projectile and Kirino has her weird item toss, but Misaka is probably the closest character to a zoner so far. EDIT: The Dengeki article is up: http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/795/795915/ http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/795/795915/index-2.html - No info on Tomoka's gameplay other than that she calls her teammates for attacks (which you can see from the screenshots). - Hina attracts the opponent's attention. Judging from that screenshot, it turns them around, allowing for crossup-like situations. - Kouko hits the opponent with a rose bouquet and blows a kiss, reducing their gauge. - Kino comes out quickly, shoots at the enemy (even if they're in midair), then gets on Hermes and rolls away (like Celty?). - Mashiro draws something in mid-air and something happens after it materializes (?). - Erio comes out wrapped in her futon; she can either block the opponent's attack with it or perform her own attack.

I don't think they have enough resources to make every single assist playable, though. Also, it's very likely that they miht add more characters after the game's release, maybe even on the game's console release. Just give me my Horizon chars so I don't have to be so nervius about the roster's potential shortcomings.

Didn't imagine it was possible to have this much blur in a fighting game. Or chainsaws, for that matter - every single character so far has one in some form. The style is a mixed bag, and obviously the game has nothing else going about it for now (the fact that the Facebook admin speaks in poor English doesn't help, either), but hey, if they manage to deliver a robust roster and keep that common chainsaw theme fresh over so many characters, I can only respect them. Just please, don't try to be a 2D Death Cargo.

I've been playing the game for a week, so yeah. I suppose I should use her 5C more often as a poke, even if it whiffs on crouchers (if they're crouching, I should be in their face mashing 5/2A or something). I also can't get used to her B+C and when I'm supposed to use it. And yeah, her jumping normals are all amazing.

Loli basketball is playable, while Kino isn't? That's not gonna sit too well with some (most?) people.

Didn't think I'd like the Noel vs Nu scene as much as I did. A bit uneventful, but that's how the episode was, so can't do much about it. Glad you fixed all the problems people had with last episode (you might've fixed them in that re-upload of the first episode, but I didn't watch it).