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ASB and Arcana Heart 3 side tourney at Evo to be streamed here in a few minutes: http://www.twitch.tv/numakie

From what I've read, it's the same netcode as the JP version, so expect to get generally good connections with other EU players and potentially much worse playing outside of that. You at least now have the option to filter by either the same region or all regions, and there's now a small label besides a player's name indicating what region they're from (NA/EU/ASIA).

Online seems to be working now from what I've seen others reporting.

Out in the US today, however it seems the Campaign/DLC packs are bugged for the US version and players are unable to access the contents from both, also resulting in nobody being able to play online at the moment. Namco put out a statement saying they're working on it. http://bandainamcous.tumblr.com/post/84289251846/jojos-bizarre-adventure-all-star-battle-update

It's out in EU/AUS day, 29th for US. There's also a launch stream going on for the Singapore release right now: http://www.twitch.tv/battlefieldfridays

Namco Europe are putting out individual character combo videos leading up to release: http://shoryuken.com/2014/04/14/bandai-namco-releases-official-jojos-bizarre-adventure-all-star-battle-combo-videos-for-jotaro-kujo-and-polnareff/

Looks like the NA PSN store will be getting an ASB demo this Tuesday: http://www.psnstores.com/2014/04/playstation-store-sneak-peek-april-8th-2014/

There was a Jojo ASB exhibition in London recently where all this new info about the localisation came from. They streamed it on twitch and also uploaded the matches to their Youtube channel:

Could somebody explain these other glitches for me, please? I haven't been keeping up with the discussions much so I'm not sure what these are referring to.

http://www.uk.namcobandaigames.eu/news/2014/02/27/save-the-date-jojo-s-bizarre-adventure-all-star-battle-and-its-pre-orders-are-coming/4045 EU/AUS release date is April 25th. Both the Kira and Shigekiyo DLC will be free as a pre-order bonus. Guess this also confirms that they'll be selling the DLC characters like the original release did. Hope they at least extend this to the digital version like the original release had, where early purchases get the DLC characters free for the first couple weeks.

Got it, thanks Hecatom.

Looks like both the Facebook and Vimeo videos got removed. Does anywhere else have them by any chance? I already saw the I-No vid last night, just the May/Ky vid I'd want to see.

Well, at least my second question was answered: the US/EU version won't be able to play online with the original JP release. https://twitter.com/NamcoBandaiUK/status/429309253581799424

Yeah, it will be available for purchase digitally as well. I'm wondering if the original Japanese release will be updated with the extra stuff as well, and if they'll allow for online play between the different releases.

Got to try it out and wow, it does activate much faster. Before, you basically had to wait for when C-Moon's arms were almost fully raised for the counter to be active, now I can time hitting 22A and an opponent's L attack at the same time and the opponent always gets countered. Before I would have had to wait a fraction of a second with the L attack to get it countered. Maybe it really was 20 frames, but if so, were the devs really that afraid of giving Pucci something semi-reliable to get into MiH (pre-1.04) that they gave him a near-useless counter that, more importantly, needed perfect screen positioning?