hellsoldier

Yes it is the arcade patch. Official announcement was over on the console twitter account.

There's definitely frame drops on the PS3 version, Specifically during Echika's Level 3 (the last part with the gun). This also happens from time to time on the character select screen for Story Mode (hasn't happened to me yet in Versus for whatever reason). Anyone else experiencing this?

Yeah I figured all those characters you listed were up there just because of their range and being able to whiff punish anything. I've wondered about Altina as well. She's definitely the type of character I'd play, but nobody plays her so I have no idea what good Altina is supposed to look like. Maybe we'll see something at the D-1 tournament.

Yeah it seems hard to find solid info on this game so I think most people will be going in relatively blind. Which is fine since I don't think people will take this game super seriously. And no online pretty much makes it another Chaos Code. I'll still give it a shot though.

Was torn between getting Koihime Enbu or this, but since Koihime got pushed back ill prolly be picking this game up when it comes out later this month. Wondering if there is a tier list from japanese players floating around somewhere. I know a new patch just came out and all, i just don't know how different the changes are from the previous version. I see a lot of Pairon, Rage and Urayukihime in vids

IMO, the chip on the C normals is whatever. It's not like she was winning games left and right with just chip. Most of the time I'd see 5C it would be to bait out a guard cancel or set up assist-cancelled pressure. The change to the airdash and airtech means (understanding it properly) the changes to her jump normals don't really mean anything since the button will come out earlier in the airdash/airtech? Not 100% on that. The dropkick change should mean more damage (wtf) and her chainsaw AA combo ender move dropping less in combos. Increased range on recovery on her throw super is always good news. I don't know, she seems pretty good to me at the moment. Very straightforward, good buttons, easy confirm into her level 3. She seems like a bulldog kind of character. Has a hard time getting in on some characters, but once she gets in it's hard to get away from her.

I had a feeling Echika's slide was going to get nerfed before console release. The cheese was too strong I guess. Everything else looks good though. One more month...

I was watching the stream last night, really like how fast she is, those air dropkick corner carrys and the people's elbow :P Also gotta love the day 1 roll into command throw cheese. I wonder how fast her grabs actually are.

2 short video's of Sonico's assist and a Day 1 combo for Ethica.

New Examu blog featuring the change list for Version 1.03 (in japanese obv) http://www.examu.co.jp/ex-blog/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2015-8-5

Nice, next Friday. I expected her to be released closer to the Tokyo Necro release date, but this is a pleasant surprise.

Weren't you the Selvaria player that was at the CEO freeplay event last year? I was one of the Kuroyukihime players lol. I'm pretty much going to CEOtaku for melty and maybe DFC. We should definitely get some games in if you go.

I didn't see this store list. Was it in one of the famitsu articles? Good thing I saw this, I was thinking about preordering it on AmiAmi sometime next week.

Hmm...maybe i'm not watching the right videos then lol. Most of the videos i've watched have a lot of Ein and Al winning, but maybe that's because they are easier to use than the others. I'm sure Igniz probably has some nasty stuff, I just haven't seen it. I agree with Saya not being up there because of her floaty jump maybe not having as good of pressure as everyone else? Just giving my two cents.

IMO i'd have to say Ein, Al and Anna are the better characters in the game, but not necessarily in that order. Ein and Anna seem to have the most screen control with Al just being really fast and having good buttons. But now with Saber in the game she's definitely up there as well.

So with the JP release date set on December 10th and XSEED still has the game listed as "winter", I wonder if this will be the same situation as console Xrd (english version coming out less than 2 weeks after the JP version)

If this actually happens then I'd be willing to make the drive up there to check it out.

Still need Ethica gameplay But yeah, very excited that this got localized so quickly. XSEED has been doing mad work lately.

Nitro Royale 2.0.....I can dig it. Looking forward to see if the game plays fast like AH or ground based like Aquapazza.

Don't know if this has been asked yet, but how do you change what the background says in the Arena stage?

They literally JUST showed up lol.....sweet I'm so ready for tomorrow

Anyone else waiting longer than usual for their digital PSN codes to show up on Play-Asia? I ordered mine about 45 minutes ago and they still haven't shown up...just wondering since the last time I ordered mine it was about an hour or so before UNIEL came out and they showed up in my account immediately.

Thank you Kieofire! I appreciate all the hard work!

Rachel might me a good choice as Venussail stated above. There are basically two different types of defensive play in fighting games. One is projectile heavy not letting your opponent get anywhere near you and one is not pressing anything and waiting for the right moment to attack. Based off the characters that you have described (Remy and Ash) you seem more like the former than the latter. You can definitely play Ragna and Jin defensively but you would have to have some pretty good spacing. Noel can't really be played defensively to my knowledge. I would look into character such as Rachel, V-13 and Mu-12. All three of those characters gameplan is to throw out their projectiles (V-13's D moves aren't projectiles but you know what I'm saying hopefully lol) and waiting for the opponent to be in the right position to start your offense.

Im pretty sure her matchups are gunna come down to whether the character she's fighting can do something about her 236 slashes. Just a guess because so far from what i've seen only Eltnum can do something about it (gun super which she can combo afterward). Im prolly forgetting other obvious ones but yeah. Other than that she's seems extremely powerful and I am ready to embrace the top tier