Only 10 stages?
So the stage we saw in F.A.N.G. trailer is the boss stage?
Seems so, unfortunately. 10 + 1 training stage, with the purple one showing the four king busts being the boss stage. I had hoped for at least one more to make 12 total, if only to fix the stage select screen that currently has 6 stages on one side and a burning, empty 6th spot on the other side, but alas.
Like I've been repeating (too many times perhaps, sorry), this means that many characters have official art that shows a stage that is not currently in the game. This includes Rashid (= Dubai inspired stage), Necalli (= something with a cliff and temple, possibly in South America), F.A.N.G. (= despite an old magazine(?) showing his asian temple style stage in an older build I believe), and R.Mika (= wrestling ring) (and perhaps even Ryu if the temple on the left of the Kanzuki estate stage isn't the same one as his art shows). Moreover, people like Nash and Birdie have art that hints at currently unreachable, off-screen parts of existing stages (Waterfall and Union Station respectively) being accessible (originally or still planned).
Hopefully they plan on offering at least a few more stages as DLC later so that everything seen in the art will correspond with a stage. Then again that would be a first ever for SF I think, stage DLC.
Ok, I'll shut up about the stages again now...
Edit: except for asking this: in which stages do you guys think the DLC characters will go, assuming each of them "belongs" (aka shows up) in a stage?
Ibuki > Kanzuki since there are ninja there;
Alex > New York since he's already there;
Balrog > either New York or one of the two Shadaloo stages I think;
Juri > no idea, depends on her story and current affiliation;
Urien > either the Forgotten Waterfall (due to the Illuminati style statues to the right in the cave) or the possibly still coming Necalli S.A. stage;
Guile > also depends on where the story places him, so not sure.
