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Injustice 2 Roster Discussion & Speculation Thread

Quite looking forward to this.

My only request is that Booster Gold is one of the dlc characters. I don't care who else is chosen as long as I get Booster.

(Although Fire would be pretty awesome too, but I guess she would be a bit redundant with Firestorm.)
 

Q8D3vil

Member
I wish that we got MR terrific instead of cyborg, that guy is full of style.
Cyborg is in every JL related stuff because of diversity, he wasnt even an original JL character. There are much better diverse character.
 

Khezu

Member
They changed like all of Green Lanterns specials.

He lost Oas Rocket, Rocket Power, Gatling Gun, and Turbine.

All moves that seem very Hal Jordan.

Seems like they tried to make his moveset more neutral.
 

sinkfla87

Member
They changed like all of Green Lanterns specials.

He lost Oas Rocket, Rocket Power, Gatling Gun, and Turbine.

All moves that seem very Hal Jordan.

Seems like they tried to make his moveset more neutral.

I'm pretty sure turbine is still in, saw it in a video earlier. The other moves however like you said are gone. :(
 

sinkfla87

Member
He still has the turbine and the basic projectile is similar. The meter burn version looks way worse though.

Yeah, kind of like the nerf they gave Black Adam. His back 2,3 string now auto jumps.

I'm hoping we get a watchtower stream this week but everyone's been radio silent :(.
 

Khezu

Member
The one video I saw with the Turbine was against a CPU custom GL with gear moves.
One that had the old Oas Rocket projectile as well.
So I'm not sure if he has it by default.
 
Kinky.

Anyway, with this video, NRS obviously knows that he can transfigure matter, so I'm hoping he has some of those abilities hidden away in his gear.


He should basically be Tremor from MKX not
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Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Injustice is its own thing. Aren't the characters supposed to be somewhat older in the game's storyline/universe?

IIRC, Superman killing Joker was over five years before Injustice 1's main plot takes place. Prior to that event, characters like Cyborg were already adults, Lois and Clark were settling down to have a child, etc. Lot of history already gone by.

I'd guess it's upwards of 15 years past the typical prime of a DC setting.
 

Slaythe

Member

Who is your worst designed returning character?

Superman. He looks like a random middle-aged dude in a Superman costume to me. They obviously modelled him after Cavill, even added his noticably receeding hairline, but they failed to give him Cavill's good looks. I don't like his default costume either. His costumes in the recent movies or in Injustice 1 looked much sleeker. As the main character (alongside Batman) he feels especially unremarkable.


I'd like to see more random middle aged men look like that. / shrug

I think he looks good he is just older, nothing wrong with that.

His default costume is shit. Luckily for us, there's dozens of replaceable gear parts :) .

Plus it's triggering me because somehow Black Adam is better than Superman to you. And I'm like "yeah nice trolling dude".
 

Khezu

Member
I could see Ares over Manta.

I hope he keeps his trait and weird weapon telekensis bullshit, but with something better then his other weird abilities like god smack and invisibility.
 

Ryce

Member
I could see Ares over Manta.
Why not both? They wouldn't play anything alike.

It's strange that the Black Manta NPC in the Atlantis stage transition has a brand new helmet design in the latest build of the game. It makes me hopeful that NRS wants consistency between the cameo model and the playable one.
 

vg260

Member
I could see Ares over Manta.

Oh hell no. They better not do that. I'm gonna be sore if Manta doesn't make it in, but that would be way worse. Ares can stay gone. I want new characters in the first 9.

I just watched that video and I didn't get the impression that he was implying that he would be DLC as much as he was just an example of a character they had to cut. In an old previous interview he made it sound like Manta was still a possibility, but I don't put much stock in his interviews for actual teases. His interview style tends to be fairly reticent to tease or reveal any clues. It's much more restrained than his Twitter persona. The npc headgear change does make me a bit more hopeful than interviews.

I don't care if they release DLC one by one but they sure better announce at least 3 before they game releases.

I should probably prepare myself for disappointment with the DLC though.
 

sinkfla87

Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9eX1uf7h8

Ed Boon says that the DLC characters will be added one at a time, that there's hope for old characters as DLC, and that Ares isn't in "the main roster to start." It sounds like he might show up as DLC to coincide with the Wonder Woman movie.

Return of Ares? YES PLEASE. He was one of my favorites in I1 and the gear system will do wonders for him.

Also in regards to the NPC Manta changes, they've added daggers to his legs lol. He looks a lot different than he did before, maybe this is a DLC hint?
 

Khezu

Member
Why not both? They wouldn't play anything alike.

It's strange that the Black Manta NPC in the Atlantis stage transition has a brand new helmet design in the latest build of the game. It makes me hopeful that NRS wants consistency between the cameo model and the playable one.

Gotta make room for guests and facebook favorites.
Only a handful of slots for decent choices.
 

sinkfla87

Member
Lol my IP is blocked and I never even being on 4Chan haha

I think they do that with all hot linking in general. Regardless, they're more than welcome to ban my IP haha... Except this time :(.

Edit: does it have anything to do with this page that has an image that says spoiler, and when you click on it it reveals Booster Gold? No... No...

Edit: not an in game photo, just some artwork someone did so I had to make the greatest of illogical jumps to connect these dots lol.
 

vg260

Member
Just for the heck of it some comparison shots between an old IGN E3 video and a recent one. Pulled from YouTube so that may account for texture appearance differences.
Looks like they really only changed the helmet. Maybe they upped the texture detail, but it's hard to tell from videos. Hopefully it means they were working on gear, but it could mean they were just touching up the stage work.
 

sinkfla87

Member
Just for the heck of it some comparison shots between an old IGN E3 video and a recent one. Pulled from YouTube so that may account for texture appearance differences.


Looks like they really only changed the helmet. Maybe they upped the texture detail, but it's hard to tell from videos. Hopefully it means they were working on gear, but it could mean they were just touching up the stage work.

I never even noticed that the daggers were already there haha. Optimism blinds reality at times.
 
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