Karsticles
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Dragon Ball FighterZ - Characters, Specials, and Stages Discussion
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Yeah the 6 they showed were the easiest to understand.
Mr. Smiley
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I figured. Following the Evo thread and saw discussion and whatnot.
Vaughngief
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Probably not.
NoctisVsStar
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Trunks being held hostage.
https://twitter.com/AllAksys/status/885876356776566784
Well according to this tweet the producer of the game is scheduled to make an appearance on this stream tomorrow at 12:30. I'm guessing it's nothing important though.
Comic-con is in 6 days and DBFZ is going to be there.
So I can see why they may not make reveals at EVO this year.
I'm in the camp that a new reveal would have been perfect for Evo, but I'm not mad that there isn't.
I feel them actually getting the game in the hands of these people and showing a mini tournament is much more apt.
IMO they can reveal characters when they wish. They have plenty of avenues to do so.
I feel them actually getting the game in the hands of these people and showing a mini tournament is much more apt.
IMO they can reveal characters when they wish. They have plenty of avenues to do so.
No confirmation, just speculation, there are two more tourneys tomorrow anyway.
Yeah, this is where I am. They know that a character drop is just another means to keep the game visible, so there's not as much of a need to have one at EVO. People are just having fun playing what they can.
I'm at least hoping we get the beta confirmation this weekend. Y'know, for those of us stuck at home.
http://www.shonengamez.com/2017/07/...o-crossplay-planned-update-on-switch-version/
You can't choose multiple assists
You can't choose multiple assists
AKingNamedPaul
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Personally loved the tourn especially as a long time tatsu fan. Vegeta looks so sick and I cant wait to see how the game play evolves.
New interview with Tomoko http://www.shonengamez.com/2017/07/14/dragon-ball-fighterz-interview-no-crossplay-planned-update-on-switch-version/
One assist per character confirmed, a little disappointing but oh well.
Edit: beaten
One assist per character confirmed, a little disappointing but oh well.
Edit: beaten
GuitarAtomik
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I kind of have a new policy to never buy fighting games again because I never have the time to really learn them the way I want (NetherRealm games are exempt because I can just play through the story mode), but I'm pretty sure I'm going to break that policy for this. Assuming it has a decent training mode that is which is likely considering this is ArcSys. Looks so good.
They must be planning for some characters to have pretty powerful assists if they feel it would make up for not having the power to beat a better fighter like Goku one on one, for example. Plus she confirmed only one assist per character, and that characters are chosen based on the unique moves they can being. It'll be very interesting to see how they handle that with this game, it seems based on what's being said that the team aspect could be a lot more important than how it's been with the six fighters shown so far.
MiguelMexMIstery
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You can't turn off auto-combos and seems that after the initial 6 they're looking for characters that add something unique to the game.
how exactly do auto combos work in this game?
Spinosaurus
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That's actually really lame. Really limits team building and character synergy. :/
This is too early to say, but so far Freeza's assist seems really good (it's the only I've seen actually get abused, a lot of people started putting Freeza at anchor for it.), Vegeta's also good and the rest don't seem as great.
I think it just means you need to be more careful about which fighters go with which when building a team, cause just having three powerful fighters might not be enough if none of them have good assists. So it could be looked at as a limitation sure, but it also could help give more fighters a chance to be effective and actually feasible to use within their niche imo. It all depends on the implementation.
Karsticles
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It's effectively just like every Marvel game for 99% of the cast.
Spinosaurus
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Sure, but the option is there anyway in case . It's like if Sentinel only had the Bomb variant of Sentinel Force and Dante only had crystal, and then you'd be missing out on the other Sentinel Force and Jam Session. Though I hope this means they'll make sure characters will actually have a good assist. None of them seem outright bad so far.
That bit in the interview that made it sound they're deliberately designing the weaker in canon characters to be only useful as assists is more concerning, actually.
DR2K
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One is better than none.
Sounds like they want to let Xenoverse 2 make its money on the Switch so FighterZ (if it indeed comes to the Switch) doesn't completely throw it under the bus for Switch owners.
Glitter and Gold
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No it doesn't
Spinosaurus
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Still lame. :V
How could it not?
Some Marvel characters only have one useful assist, but in lots of team compositions and match-ups you pick different assists to compliment different point characters. It really adds to the exploration of different teams and play-styles. Limiting to one assist - and most of the assists seem bad - can only make the game more limited.
Considering the game is already going to be overly homogeneous thanks to an inevitable small cast, is a bit disappointing.
Glitter and Gold
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This game isn't Marvel
We literally have no idea what goes into team composition in this game system. Let's figure the game out before we start crying about it being limited
Master Milk
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it'd be cool to get two characters revealed tomorrow and then a new build of the game at whatever the thing is next week
no, that's not true at all
no, that's not true at all
Comic-con next week. I want Piccolo bad, he should be one of the more unique ones from the early cast at least. Gimme dem stretchy limbs!
SixMachine
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I hope they give him Hellzone Grenade setups like he used against 17.
Kain-Nosgoth
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i see everyone talking about assist.. Was it not when you summon someone from your team to do an attack?
Anyone can point me out to a video where we see an assist? Like the one with frieza? Thanks
Anyone can point me out to a video where we see an assist? Like the one with frieza? Thanks
FadedRevolution
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You can pick any video and see assists. We are just talking about being able to select assists like in MvC where you can choose from 3 different attacks as an assist. On the other hand DBZ will only have one specific assist per character.
Kain-Nosgoth
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ho that's what i didn't understand, when people said "one assist" i thought it was one character! Thanks
Are we really pretending it's not?
The games known mechanics are almost entirely ripped right out of Marvel 2/3. It's not hard to see how one worked and use that to predict the other.
But isn't like P4A(U) where certain strings are only available via auto combos?
McGruber21
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So what is the updated roster on this? Is my boy Tien included?
MiguelMexMIstery
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Only Trunks (through a screenshot) has been revealed since the announcement. But in a interview the developer/director (I think?) said they were fans of Tenshinhan so you shouldn't worry.
Eh. They're in KOF and I never see it come up ever that someone accidentally got an auto combo
So I just read the full interview. RE: Characters working better as assists:
I actually like the idea of emphasising the support aspect in a team based game, though it doesn't mean they'll necessarily be ass on point as I do trust they'll make it all work. Not many seem to be very keen on this but I'm honestly looking forward to seeing how they play it out.
It's solid conceptually but I am concerned they won't have enough characters to avoid homogeneity.
This is a game archetype that demands like 40 characters and we may have as few as half that based on what we know about ArcSys and how long it takes them to animate characters in this style.