Official Newcomer/DLC Speculation Discussion

[Door Key Pig]

Again, they could honestly just give an option to Stage Builder to make layouts with breakable Targets in them (listed in their own stage section), allow you to upload them to the content share with everyone being able to showcase their best times for a level, let users give a recommendation/ruling as to what character(s) to play it with if they're more character specific and just call it a day. Don't know if people would get pissy if they didn't have some pre-made levels for all/some of the characters, but the idea as a whole is certainly better than nothing.

If we do get more characters I suspect an Echo Pack. Again not as time consuming and simply redone models of already existing ones.

Maybe that'd be a great way to finish off bolstering the roster with some fan requests cheaply shoved in there last minute; Octolings, and the stretches of Dixie and Shadow come to mind, but who else?

 

[N3ON]

So just a heads up, for anyone who, in the past, requested an icon like one of those below, or wanted to know who I've made, I created a thread which will house them all! Right now I have 75 different ones. Hopefully you'll find yours there. If not, I am open to requests (though please make them in that thread, I don't want to derail this one too much).

Here's the link:
https://smashboards.com/threads/ultimate-siggy-icons-by-n3on.499876/

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Maybe that'd be a great way to finish off bolstering the roster with some fan requests cheaply shoved in there last minute; Octolings, and the stretches of Dixie and Shadow come to mind, but who else?

Dixie and Octoling maybe but not Shadow as he's an assist.

Besides those two only ones I can think of that are requested would be Kasumi () and Impa ().

 

[Rie Sonomura]

Dixie and Octoling maybe but not Shadow as he's an assist.

Besides those two only ones I can think of that are requested would be Kasumi () and Impa ().

Medusa for and Black Shadow for are possibilities though they may get the Ken treatment

 

[ThatOneAnon]

If a Direct is announced tomorrow for Wednesday I hope people don't take that as a sign of Mandy being credible. A Direct this week is a safe bet and it being on Wednesday is an even safer bet.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

If a Direct is announced tomorrow for Wednesday I hope people don't take that as a sign of Mandy being credible. A Direct this week is a safe bet and it being on Wednesday is an even safer bet.

feel like his TGA predictions were safe bets too, and him not knowing about the terry presentation was a red flag

also i found some sabi and leakypandy tweets in his likes despite him dissing sabi (and verge) earlier. hmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM :bigthonk:

 

[N3ON]

If a Direct is announced tomorrow for Wednesday I hope people don't take that as a sign of Mandy being credible. A Direct this week is a safe bet and it being on Wednesday is an even safer bet.

Even if a Wednesday Direct happens, Mandy is ultimately going to live or die by whether Crash shows up next.

 

[3BitSaurus]

Not going to lie here, but I think Melee's adventure mode was the first good adventure mode, with Brawl's being the last (hate on me all you want for liking Subspace Emissary). Ultimate's Adventure Mode I found decent at points (such as ****ING GIGA BOWSER, Marx, and Galleom, the Street Fighter segment, and even the pop-quiz like Mysterious Space map), but the rest of the "Adventure" mode so they call it was just a borefest. Hell, it felt like forever trying to get Dedede!

Most of the good moments in WoL come from the sub areas. Like the Bowser's Castle, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Gourmet Race and Donkey Kong Country ones in the first half and the Castlevania one in the second. But a lot of the navigation feels like it drags on forever, particularly in the first half.

Like... getting to where Ganon and Marx are is such a chore in a 100% run, it's not even funny.

 

[CapitaineCrash]

Aren't most direct on a Thursday? I wouldn't call Crash a lock if it's Wednesday (I need to see it to believe it), but I feel like the chance that he's just lucky if it happens on Wednesday are slim.

 

[ThatOneAnon]

Aren't most direct on a Thursday? I wouldn't call Crash a lock if it's Wednesday (I need to see it to believe it), but I feel like the chance that he's just lucky if it happens on Wednesday are slim.

Not only do direct on Wednesdays happen more frequently than you'd think, but last year there was a direct in February that happened on a Wednesday.

 

[SMAASH! Puppy]

Most of the good moments in WoL come from the sub areas. Like the Bowser's Castle, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Gourmet Race and Donkey Kong Country ones in the first half and the Castlevania one in the second. But a lot of the navigation feels like it drags on forever, particularly in the first half.

Like... getting to where Ganon and Marx are is such a chore in a 100% run, it's not even funny.

Don't remember Ganon's area. Marx was the one where you had to guess the correct character, and then battle all of the spirits anyway right?

 

[DarthEnderX]

So, I know this is a little off the topic, but Dragon Ball FighterZ (as it has a Fighters Pass similar to Smash Ultimate, but it's called the FighterZ Pass) had it's 3rd Season of DLC confirmed. I'm pretty excited for Kefla to join the DBFZ roster actually!

Let me know your thoughts on this.

Well yeah, it IS pretty exciting when they announce a character that's not a non-canon movie character or another Goku.

Unfortunately, the previous DLC for that game has been so much of the former two that I've already written off the game. Which sucks, because I used to be super hyped about that game. But I'm not giving them any more money so they can make more Gokus.

I would like to see the rest of the season be Roshi, Toppo and Bergamo though.

 

[3BitSaurus]

Don't remember Ganon's area. Marx was the one where you had to guess the correct character, and then battle all of the spirits anyway right?

Ganon's is divided into three areas corresponding to the Triforce pieces. You have to solve two puzzles in Wisdom and Courage to unlock Power, which is like 20-ish fights. Then there's about 10 more until you reach the top of the area, then after beating almost everyone you go down again.

Some areas just take way too long to complete sometimes. The quiz before Marx is a great idea on paper, but it overstays its welcome imo.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Medusa for and Black Shadow for are possibilities though they may get the Ken treatment

Man how much I hope you're right. Especially would love for Medusa.

 

[DarthEnderX]

Maybe that'd be a great way to finish off bolstering the roster with some fan requests cheaply shoved in there last minute; Octolings, and the stretches of Dixie and Shadow come to mind, but who else?

10e. Ninten [Ness]
11e. Black Shadow [Captain Falcon]
14e. Dry Bowser [Bowser]
16e. Impa [Sheik]
27e. Galacta Knight [Meta Knight]
31e. Liquid Snake [Snake]
32e. Black Knight [Ike]
36e. Dixie Kong [Diddy Kong]
38e. Shadow [Sonic]
46e. Bass [Megaman]
61e. Zack [Cloud]
63e. Jeanne [Bayonetta]
64e. Octolings [Inklings]

 

[MrJudd]

Based on the maintenance site for Nintendo, I'm guessing Thursday for the Direct.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

Based on the maintenance site for Nintendo, I'm guessing Thursday for the Direct.

wait what? got a link?

 

[MooMew64]

Based on the maintenance site for Nintendo, I'm guessing Thursday for the Direct.

Or it's just general maintenance.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

So just a heads up, for anyone who, in the past, requested an icon like one of those below, or wanted to know who I've made, I created a thread which will house them all! Right now I have 75 different ones. Hopefully you'll find yours there. If not, I am open to requests (though please make them in that thread, I don't want to derail this one too much).



Here's the link:
https://smashboards.com/threads/ultimate-siggy-icons-by-n3on.499876/

*sees layton*

 

[Icedragonadam]

Not only do direct on Wednesdays happen more frequently than you'd think, but last year there was a direct in February that happened on a Wednesday.

And it was on the 2nd week of February as well which is this week.

 

[Deleted member]

Didn't Sakurai just get done telling us not to expect anything anytime soon? Even if there's a Direct this week, I wouldn't place money on it saying anything about Smash at all. You guys might be setting yourselves up for another Game Awards disappointment right now.

 

[perfectchaos83]

On the topic of MandyCan, I want to mention that the Smash community has a lot of wannabe detectives who scour the internet for rumors and leaks, no matter ridiculous they are. With that in mind, am I supposed to find it believeable that the Smash community somehow completely missed the alleged leaker who ostensibly predicted No Smash and (vague) Mortal Kombat stuff at TGA, and that nobody brought him up in the time period between TGA and Byleth's reveal which was longer than one month, which should be more than enough time for the aforementioned wannabe detectives to find him. The only way it makes sense is if his twitter account was set to private until Byleth's reveal... which puts his credibility and track record into question because that would make it easy for him to delete incorrect predictions.

There's one such detective on GFAQs. His experience leads him to the same conclusion

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/78388131?page=2#26

 

[Animegamingnerd]

With Mandy doubling down on Wednesday, seems tomorrow is gonna be judgement day for them.

 

[Krankees]

So, I know this is a little off the topic, but Dragon Ball FighterZ (as it has a Fighters Pass similar to Smash Ultimate, but it's called the FighterZ Pass) had it's 3rd Season of DLC confirmed. I'm pretty excited for Kefla to join the DBFZ roster actually!

Let me know your thoughts on this.

That and seeing the gameplay changes they're bringing to season 3 was enough to make me want to get back into Fighterz.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Didn't Sakurai just get done telling us not to expect anything anytime soon? Even if there's a Direct this week, I wouldn't place money on it saying anything about Smash at all. You guys might be setting yourselves up for another Game Awards disappointment right now.

Wouldn't count on it but an tease with no gameplay similar toandcould happen.

 

[Cosmic77]

With Mandy doubling down on Wednesday, seems tomorrow is gonna be judgement day for them.

The preparations are already being made just in case.

But seriously, I think we'll keep getting someone "predict" that a Nintendo Direct is happening sometime soon until it actually comes true and they can take credit for it, like they always knew.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

We hear nothing tomorrow then there goes MandyCan's credibility.

 

[Hinata]

With Mandy doubling down on Wednesday, seems tomorrow is gonna be judgement day for them.

Clearly I have missed much. Who's Mandy?

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Clearly I have missed much. Who's Mandy?

Here you go.

https://twitter.com/MandyCanNot

Predicted Byleth and saying that Crash is FP6. For all we know probably piggybacked on other sources or did whatever kind of editing comments its called.

 

[Animegamingnerd]

Clearly I have missed much. Who's Mandy?

The twitter account who supposedly predicted Byleth and claiming Crash is FP6.

 

[MooMew64]

Yeah, I wouldn't bet on MandyCan. That's just me, though.

 

[Kokiden]

So just a heads up, for anyone who, in the past, requested an icon like one of those below, or wanted to know who I've made, I created a thread which will house them all! Right now I have 75 different ones. Hopefully you'll find yours there. If not, I am open to requests (though please make them in that thread, I don't want to derail this one too much).




Here's the link:
https://smashboards.com/threads/ultimate-siggy-icons-by-n3on.499876/

Thank you for this. It must've taken a lot of effort but I appreciate it all the same.

My sig has been empty for awhile now.

Now to figure out how to put these as my sig lol.

Didn't Sakurai just get done telling us not to expect anything anytime soon? Even if there's a Direct this week, I wouldn't place money on it saying anything about Smash at all. You guys might be setting yourselves up for another Game Awards disappointment right now.

Smash news would be nice, but I'm not expecting it.

I just want Bayonetta 3 news and hope some light is shed on that at the very least.

Gimme something... anything... a glimpse of her new design even if the release date isn't decided yet.

 

[Idon]

I thought Mandy turned out to just be a guy who spams a bunch of fake leaks and then deletes them leaving only the real ones behind.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

There was a problem fetching the tweet

We shall see indeed... hope they’re ready to take that big fat L if Crash doesn’t open the pass

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Good night everyone. Tomorrow will be the day whether or not Crash is truly FP6.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Why’ everyone thinking a direct this week? Don’t we all think that every week?

 

[cosmicB]

I'm not ready to trust Mandy even if Crash is 6. Need to see them confirm more esoteric info that is later revealed as true.

 

[DarthEnderX]

Why’ everyone thinking a direct this week? Don’t we all think that every week?

We do! And 1 out of 12 times...we're right!

We call that the "Smash leaker ratio".

 

[Icedragonadam]

Oh look at that, an attention seeker making a failsafe post in case things don't pan out for him.

 

[Kokiden]

Why’ everyone thinking a direct this week? Don’t we all think that every week?

It's more most people think there's a direct in February.

It just seems very strange, if not too late, for Nintendo to set the precedent for 2020 games in March, the last month of the first quarter.