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Yes. Full stop. In fact a lot of the universal mechanic changes are gonna shake up how a lot of characters are going to be playing now. Insofar as Rage goes, now you'll see more consistent stuff at lower percentages + a distinct lack of janky kills and other semi-randomnesss associated with it.
Yes, Magnet Hands has bee removed, but survivability is still insane. You gotta get hit TOO the blast zone to die in most cases, and on top of that, it takes a lot to be able to secure kills from what we saw at the invitational. Smash 4 played a lot like that, where it was very easy to stay alive at high damage, and it also factored in Rage. Getting rid of Magnet Hands is a step forward, but not a complete solution. Surviving past 120% should be a rare occurance. Not something so common we see it every other stock in the first tournament. Hell, in Sheik vs. Snake, Sheik who's lightweight tanked like 3 of Snake's kill blows in a row while being over 100%. There's still more work to be done. The game will be a lot more fun to play/exciting to watch if you have less comebacks and players are able to more certainly secure kills at earlier percentages.
Both actually. She had a huge fanbase. Even people who didnt want her in knew she had some very rabid fans.
Wouldn't that make it worse for a lot of lightweights like Jigglypuff/Kirby/Pichu, etc, since they wouldn't be able to start using it until percents they're usually dead by? I'm not sure that'd help balance the game overall lol.
My best guess is the latter, and she was in at least one mainstream Super Mario title before transitioning over to spin-offs.
But saving a few until release doesn't preclude showing the typical amount, unless you're working with less.
SOME people were irraltionally salty cause they don't understand how game development works. Just cause you plan something doesn't mean you've got it done. In fact, more often than not, you PLAN before you even start developing anything. ASW clearly barely got the characters done in time, and started working on the DLC post launch. When Tien got revealed, he wasn't even finished, lol. So they barely made their deadline. So, no DLC, means the roster would have ended at 25 with Android 21 rounding off the list. People don't have a problem with how the DLC is being handled now. People are still excited for each reveal and announcement. They've still got 4 more characters to go, and rumors are going about that there's a Season 2. At least, there's demand/anticipation for it.
"Change into"?
We should try to remember that Ridley's tail special can deal as much as 59.3% damage during 1-on-1 bouts. That could potentially lead to very cheap follow-up KOs for Ridley if he manages to land the sweetspot against a lightweight fighter.
...except that Sakurai himself said that the numbers are likely to change. Nothing is set in stone, lol
Yeah, DBFZ’s game development was a mess, I’m glad the game was even playable by then.
I say we're gonna see 3 newcomers from here till launch, and the rest will be echo characters to round things off. Probably 3-4 of those as well.
I feel like some popular characters will be relegated to DLC though. This is the Ultimate Smash Brothers game (or a Special one in the East), and if it's Sakurai's last ride, I imagine he's going to want to represent as much as he can, including unrepresented and up-and-coming series (Xenoblade, Rhythm Heaven, etc.) He's also going to revisit previous ideas from other games (Geno, Chrom, etc.).
This is something I’ve always thought about for Smash. There are certainly characters you can make an argument for, characters like Impa, Tingle, Skull Kid, etc. However, more so than other games the existence of the main characters is so important to the Zelda universe. Despite Link and Zelda being different people every game, they’re still the same and have the same roles every game. Meanwhile, Ganon’s opposite, he’s always the same evil but in new forms. I don’t know, the Zelda games feel like they’re designed to revolve around those three’s importance more than, for instance, Mario in his series or Kirby in his. Lately I’ve enjoyed their representation, I just want to see more diverse representation of those three characters.
People with no taste have a problem with Base Goku and Base Vegeta. Lol.
Yeah I strongly think that the sweetspot's damage output is going to get nerfed so that it won't be quite as devastating.
Yeah, that was the sticky thread.
When people wanted all the characters back, it was always with the preface that we get a lot of other stuff too. Remember that Smash would add 12 characters and a ton of new stages (think Brawl had 30 new ones, Smash 4 had 50+ in total). Here, we're trading new content for old. It sounds cool in theory but I don't think it will work in practice. What dominated the discussion was new stuff. Even now, its new characters that most people are talking about, but with fewer characters, there's less to talk about. I don't think this will translate into excitement. My hope is that the inevitable Smash Direct is focused on the new stuff and they just wanted to start with the old stuff. Maybe they can make this game like Splatoon and have it keep updating (which this game lends itself to very well). I feel like that's the only thing that can save it.
You have to have a reboot. I don't see another way. Even if you try and cut, you'll still end up with a 50-60 character roster at the end of it.
SmashChu
If we get every veteran and 10 newcomers total BEFORE DLC, nobody can complain about the quantity of fighters we got.
Yeah three between now and launch seems about right. Especially since Nintendo's Q3/4 this year seem lighter than last.
Free characters, at all, seem optimistic to me. :/
I think ten newcomers is way too much if all of them are unique.
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That happens when different alternate costumes are chosen, apparently.
Mimikyu
*Insert Rhythm Heaven Character Here* BEATS THE BEAT!
It's most likely they'll add a new character every 2-3 updates.
How would you personally feel if, instead of Ken, Akuma was chosen as an echo fighter?
That's true for DBFZ, but that's because they can escape from
