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Dizzy, Johnny, Baiken, Anji, Sin plus a new character. Also, while they have Low-to-None chances to be added even if everyone else was in the game, I'm interested in what Arc could do with Kliff and Justice now that they don't have to work around old sprites.

There is nothing about new characters at the moment, except for some rumors that Sin might be a timed release due to having a model ingame. As for Order Sol, you can at least expect a HOS Alt costume for Sol. EDIT: Since we are talking about Order Sol, some posters here have stated that since everything is build from scratch for Xrd in the first place, HOS should be scrapped and his moveset given to the new character, but personally I think that it would be a waste for a brand new character to be a mechanical clone of an old one.

I think they will make the pace faster a bit by bit with each new major update.

Speaking of the new RC system: Besides the major rebalancing it would bring, what if the Overdrives cost 25% outside of combos like YRCs, and Forcebreaks cost 50% during the combo if they were added back?

Subs. The few times I enjoyed English voices in the Fighting Games (and Japanese games in general) are from the series where the english voices are a planned part right from the start and not because of the localization: Marvel series, SF3, Devil May Cry and a few others.

If we will have access to Dizzy's original costume (right of the bat or unlock/DLC), I hope that her shoulder pads will stay on her shoulders like in her sprite\GGX ingame artwork instead of being off shoulder like in virtually all post-X artwork.

What if the girl Ky was referring to in the endings was Dizzy? Maybe Ky just barely managed to free her by the time Ramlethal arrives or Dizzy was able to temporarily break stasis, probably at the cost of her health, to convey some important information, which she got either through instinctual knowledge as a commander gear or she was in some kind of equivalent of the dreamlands where she got the info on Ramchan and the Senate. If true this will also explain why Ky specifically asked for Sin's presence even if he would have shown up with Sol anyway, since Ky was bearing news of Dizzy, and when he tried to tell this and Sol interrupted him to stop wasting time, he didn't attempt to try again since he figured that that will distract them when confronting Ramlethal.

I always though that there is an unwritten rule that forbids using IKs unless someone is already near death.

I expect that Sol will at least get the Holy Order alt costume (unlockable or DLC), which may or may not lead to Arc deciding to go all the way and make OS playable since they already made the model and some existing framework.

Is it just me, or the large black belt May is wearing is actually Johnny's?

Unless they have a mid-boss and a boss as a surprise, probably not.

Yeah, although the "Imitate-2D-as-faithfully-as-possible" style with all the squashing and stretching might make it a little harder than usual. EDIT: While we are on the topic of alt.costumes: Who wants to have Zato-1's Eddie-coat from his winpose as his alt?

I am wondering what they will give Baiken for an IK, since Ky kinda stole the "single slash-beat-fall over" thing with his new Rising Force.

The loketest should be starting in around 12 hours, right? Kinda hoped that Arc would have made a surprise announcement about new/returning characters during this week.

Since 3D = more opportunity to show off, I think something simple like Napalm Death is unlikely, that may be a more cinematic All Guns Blazing, OS's Raging Rave or something new entirely. In the same vein, Ky may swap Rising Force for Zwei Voltage.

One of the comments on SRK about this suggests that this is a reference to the early Doom Metal band Pentagram, who had an offshoot called Bedemon.

Garou and 3S got different reactions, though. SF3 series, as a part of the most mainstream fighter franchise, got a near universal disdain when it was released for replacing fan-favorite characters with "bland nobodies" and 3S started getting proper recognition only after Daigo performed the Full Parry, while Garou, as a part of a more niche cult franchise, got praised for replacing fan-favorites with new interesting characters. As I said way back in summer, the SF3 fiasco is a reason that nobody tries the "replace nearly the whole cast with the new one" thing in Fighters anymore outside of few exceptions like Tekken 3, and even then the old crew got gradually added back in.

Besides the other possible characters already mentioned, the only other known and named cripple in GG is Marina from the Lightning the Argent novel, and the last we heard of her is that she and her artificial command-gear sister Solaria are under the Police's protection, which doesn't sounds that safe anymore considering how Ky got "promoted" to royalty.

And Testament, who is probably the next one to be covered.

Japan stage

New Guilty Bits (Ep.21: May) is up.

She will probably get an alt.costume with that fur-collared jacket from her debut(?) artwork.

So the actual problem you have with BB's story mode is that there is too much talking and not enough fighting?

If they decide to add Kliff, whatever it will be in the initial release or in the DLC/Update, they can change him considerably, even replace him with his younger self via I-No time-travel shenanigans, since they have to create everyone from the ground-up anyway, where before they couldn't afford to create extra sprites for a nostalgia fanservice character with a limited appeal.

A question: If they decide to make one of the new characters an obvious walking reference to BlazBlue, what BB characters, or rather the gameplay concepts/mechanics/styles behind them, can be naturally converted to Guilty Gear mechanics without much trouble? Obviously, not counting the ones that were heavily inspired by GG in the first place, like I-am-not-Vampire!Sol Ragna.