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I dunno I'm just watching. Didn't use him yet

Jungle stage looks more like a forest. Huge dead gear can be partially seen. Waterfall. And 2 giant sword are sticking out of the ground like Excalibur Other new stage. Sorta frosty looking village with wolves chilling. Busted wagon and palm trees. Slayer stage has a big portrait of him on the wall and there's a feast table with gothic chairs and candles

Slayer has new animation or new move that absorbs a hit. He sorta recoils and the slashes both his arms out. Looks pimp. Slayers new stage is awsome. Sharon is running around in the background. Looks like some sorta Castlevavia dungeon.

Blitz shield is active about a half second or less. Causes that extreme slash state as seen before. I was able to combo Faust standing P into a ground combo after fairly easy at point blank range. It can absorb one hit projectiles (dunno about multi) and you won't take damage but it does nothing to your opponent.

None, it was Faust and slayer.

Axl alt color brownish green and yellow

Slayer has air 2k with slight different animation

Slayer other color is dark red and gold I-no alt color is green

Potemkin 6.hs causes opponent to roll backwards on the ground on hit (not sure if counter only)

YRC is 25% meter. Purple and red are 50%. Purple seems to be what you get for whiffed moves that don't allow for YRC which is why new pogo move is still active but even on whiff doesn't allow YRC for 25. Any non projectile move that touches the opponent is red RC. Faust can YRC air teleport before it hits.

All 3 hits of Fausts 2k hit low! Can jump cancel first 2 hits

Faust still has his glowing head taunt that hits lol

New stage Similar to old Japan stage with the Sakura and walking spirits. Chipp's stage.

New stages Axl stage is on a moving train. Really pretty night view of city in distance. A which on a broom flys along the side of train. Jungle stage. I thinks it's Fausts. There's trees. I can't remember. Ill post more next time I see it.

Slayer win animation. He embraces Sharon as she sips tea and Slayer talks shit like a boss Faust win animation. Flys away on umbrella with dynamic camera angles. Slayer cinematic super is dead on time. Just dynamic camera.

Slayer opening animation. Smokes his pipe and sucks Sharon's blood. The camera angles at cool.

Slayer alt color blue and white

Faust new items. Black hole! He throws a mini black hole that falls one the ground and sucks opponent towards it. Lasts for like 3 seconds. Similar to magnetism in BB. Giant loony tunes style weight. When it hits the ground it knocks both opponents down similar to Potemkin slide head. Not sure if it hits cuz it whiffed but I'd assume it does. Smoke bomb on balloon. Floats slowly down and causes smoke effect. Not sure what it really does yet. Spring board. If someone walks on it they are shot up into the air really high. They can't recover till they hit ground. Only saw it. Returning items. Mini Faust. Same Poison. Same Hammer. Same Doughnut. Same Candy. Same Meteors. Same Bomb. Reduced blast radius. Removed (or at least I didn't see these yet. They could just be rare) Mini Po Mini RK Tub Chikuwa Coin Normals. Brand new 2.HS. Less range. Faust kinda spins break dance style and it pokes straight along ground. Might be low. I think it cancels into 5P Far 5.S. still good long range forward poke but is now more of a thrust. Can cancel into specials but no normals that I could find. J.S. similar animation but range looks reduced. All other normals are about the same. Can't Gatling 2.D into any normal but jump cancellable. Close 5S doesn't Gatling into P 5k gratlings into 2S like XX - slash. Not other way around like AC Can still FDC drill and do instant overheads and whatever else Pogo stuff New move (press up)- Faust spins around like a tornado really high and floaty and falls down still spinning. All active hit box. Lands back on pogo. Can by purple RCd for 50% (so maybe it's not active the whole time? I dunno yet) can adjust direction with stick slightly. Other pogo moves are just like reload. No slide on pogo hit. Wall bounces. Ground flower is Close short range. Only knocks down on counter. P now uses his tongue intead of head but otherwise same. Kancho super. Cinematic after opponent chooses one of 4 boxes. This time you can move the box with the angel around really fast multiple times and it shows where it starts. Think coin under the cup game that peoe do at carnivals. I don't think opponent can get angel by simply pushing a button before Faust player now. Faust just pokes you with his fingers now. Item super same. Items seem to not go as high in the air but angles still vary. Can't do anything until you land after a regular going my way. Ai (bomb bag) still hits both players Can YRC Ai, both door teleports (not sure about air one) Can YRC normals on pogo stance (at least head flower for sure) Rerere no tsuki animation new on pullback. Scalpel bends to look like fishing rod. Swat follow up same. I think D follow up removed. Alt color is blue with orange and white (Chicago bears!) Opening animation - Faust looks at medical chart and camera zooms in over his should. Spins around. He goes in a door and pops out of the floor on the stage aswsomely stuff and comical. Camera goes back to view from other side of door. A sign lights up above door that says (operation in progress (in Japanese)). Door slams. More to come!

If I had to guess, I would say that the new feature is not going to work on projectiles since it causes that extreme clash state. I guess we will find out in less than 10 hours! I just checked into the manga kissa down the street from Club Sega. Gonna be there nice and early!

Ill be at the Xrd loketest in less than 10 hours. Gonna try to snag more of those nice fans to auction off! All you have to do to be in the drawing is prereg for the GG singles tourney at FFVI! Dont miss out!

Let me just say that even here in Japan you don't see slash back that often. Only certain players use it very often and it's usually only one someone is being really predictable (or in the case of FAB, fairly often)

So ill be at the loketest in Tokyo Saturday morning to post a lot of live updates in small chunks like last time. Posting one big organized list will result in much slower flow of info plus ill be posting from my phone so the easier the better. Question for mods: would you prefer I... A: just clutter up this thread like last time? B: post in official news thread even though it will be kinda raw...? C: start a new thead for live updates from 2nd loketest so that someone else can compile the info neatly into a nice neat list in the official thread? Also, to everyone else, I am happy to answer specific question requests but some things to keep in mind: - the wait may be long and some things get priorit over others - some things are too hard to test unless my opponent is cooperative or does specific things (some people are cool about letting you test and some just play all hard and serious to try to stay on longer) - some information will be obtained from observation. It is possible that I may mistake things as I am not an expert on every single character. I will do my best to post accurate info and will make corrections if I realize something I posted was incorrect. - if I don't answer your question, I either A. Don't know yet. B. your question has already been answered or is stupid. C. It hasn't changed from loketest 1. I really don't want to repeat info so just read all posts carefully before asking stuff. That's all. Thanks! Oh and I'm not gonna ninja videos so don't ask. Someone else is bound to though.

Words cannot express how hype I am right now! This weekend is going to be amazing! Expect A LOT of information!

I suppose you can run a BB team tourney Saturday instead then as long as its not getting in the way of other stuff. Maybe later on. Sure I'm happy to play casuals when I have time.

We can probably run one on Sunday after BB singles if there is enough interest but I would rather not make it an official event. I am pretty fine with just about any side tournaments as long as there is resources and space.