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I just realized Akatsuki's probably going to have the Reflector mechanic from Blitzkampf. Sounds like a good character already, considering this game lol

Bummer. Would've wanted to see a schoolgirl with a giant sword instead but oh well. Perfecti could've been nice but we already have Vatista lol EDIT: There are definitely some changes with a few of the movesets. For example, Merkava's fireball attack is now j.214A/B/C instead of j.236A/B/C.

Yeahhhh, time to NICE CATCH some bitches. So happy right now.

It's acting up on my side as well. Weird... I just hope the orange Eltnum doesn't show up while it's like that. v_v

Thursday can't come soon enough... I'm more excited to actually see footage for characters who haven't even shown up on the recent streams yet. Starting to get very tired of Gordeau winning almost every single match lol I especially want to see Hyde because that dumb Ragna 2D loop thing and those double veil off combos are pretty much history.

The most obvious is a change to her normal rejump combos, limiting up to at most 2 rejumps before knocking opponent down. Her strong exploding crystal + laser combos are still there... but hitstun becomes very tight at that point so it's better to do a combo ender afterwards. Other stuff like hovering before lobbing a laser midair and her B+C attack now taking away 1 GRD block are pretty new, though.

Chaos players really like to use throws a lot lol It's a bit too much expecting good Chaos players the first few days though but seriously... (Although it's a bit funny how many people fail to tech those throws haha)

Wow, all of a sudden? No trailer? :/ I'm pretty sure there was a teaser picture of Chaos as if he was put into that trailer from last year. Hoping they'll at least show a trailer on release day then lol EDIT: Found it. https://twitter.com/narita_ton/status/337829380229320704/photo/1 Now that I think of it, since they're probably revealing Nanase this week then they'll probably release the trailer with both new characters...

Hahaha, Hilda's doing it too. Same guy. Must be some kind of mad dash canceling lol

Coulda sworn Hilda had a boss version at some point last version... Did they scrap it along with her 400% meter? I remember her 2C? (the sword that pops out of the ground) summoning like 3 swords at once or something...

Awesome! Thanks again for the footage! This was that 66B thing I was talking about earlier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QrAoH7ljx0c#t=1070

Nightmare Fiction's gotta be my favorite theme name. I can agree that a lot of theme names are pretty straightforward like "Marionette Purple" and "Howling Moon" haha

Yeah, there was barely anyone who used it. Sometimes you could catch someone doing that shoulder tackle after his j.C then linking into Grim Reaper. Which reminds me, I want to know if his 22A loop (5B -> 22A -> 5B -> 22A, etc) is still there as well too looooool (It's that one where he slams his scythe on the ground)

No, I didn't mean Gordeau's 3C. I was talking about the repeating 66B's in combos (Hyde, Orie, Vatista, Gordeau specifically). Sorry if I wasn't clear enough : ( 66C. (It's not new)

Run-B loops still exist?? Hahahahaha Still better than boring rejumps. Vatista doing score attack in stream now. Still waiting for Eltnum gameplay.

It's his B+C move. He still has his old throw. (I like that one a lot) The question we should all be asking is: Where the hell are all the Hyde and Carmines?? :<

They removed Merkava's hilarious elbow loop but in turn gave him some really nice looking combos : o His snake oki game is still there too.

http://i.imgur.com/BDufwAD.png So uhhhh, when's the next game?!?

Again, thanks so much for the footage! In the 2nd video Abelcru uploaded, 6:25. First Double Down I have ever seen in this game haha

Merkava B+C has him grabbing then twirling the opponent around and flinging him/her across the screen. People who were usually Hilda or Merkava got hit by Chaos' Infinite Worth a lot lol Vatista's most likely to become a victim as well Chaos player managed to hit the "Instant Kill" (which we should call something else by this point since it's not really an IK anymore) but I only caught the last few seconds of it lol It's not that spectacular. No Merkava vs. Orie or Seth vs. Linne theme sadly... I'm probably just expecting too much.

I'm starting to wonder if they made vs themes for the other characters... Just heard Gordeau vs. Chaos so I hope they follow up with Orie vs. Merkava or Linne vs. Seth...

Haha, I lost my shit at that point. Convenient timing indeed I'm really glad I'm not seeing anymore of those j.A->j.B->j.C rejumps; those were really dumb lol

Looks like some characters have specific vs quotes pre-battle now (not generic vs quotes). Just heard Chaos and Hilda acknowledging each other. Also, the new B+C actions are pretty neat in motion!

There's Margaret too. She'll probably be like Elizabeth except she actually uses multiple personas. I can only wish though... lol

Nothing from the loketest as of now, but French Bread did put up a stream earlier and archived it... http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/36392421 First half mostly has Chaos footage then the other half of the video basically shows them playing Yatagarasu lol Edit: Still haven't watched the whole first half yet but I managed to grab a few tidbits: - Hyde has some sort of new move? An ground attack (normal?) that pushes the enemy to the other side of a screen or something. - New air recovery effect? At least I think it is... - Icons? Card system looks like it has these now. - At one point they showed some sort of training mode menu(?) - Chaos has a unique icon which tells you when your stand buddy is ready to attack again - Chaos doing some sort of Counter Assault. Could be universal? I don't think there were Counter Assaults in earlier versions... - His EXS super (200%) has him putting some sort of magic circle on the floor. Dunno what's the use of this yet.