Street Fighter 5 Announced: PC and PS4 Only With Cross Play!

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

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[WarMachineRhodey]

Seems ultradavid isnt happy about laura's alt imgur.com/zSiIBKj

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Jan 20, 2016 18:07:47 GMT -5 WarMachineRhodey said:

Seems ultradavid isnt happy about laura's alt imgur.com/zSiIBKj

Boo hoo.

The people who would have been uncomfortable with this would have been uncomfortable with other things. Trying to cater to an audience that isn't there is a waste of time. Who are these people not playing because of this? I see far more angry about Mika's censorship.

Not to mention that the outfits were all taken in provocative angles anyways. You won't see them in still images like that in gameplay.

[WarMachineRhodey]

Jan 20, 2016 18:15:26 GMT -5 The Big Daddy C-Master said:

Jan 20, 2016 18:07:47 GMT -5 WarMachineRhodey said:

Seems ultradavid isnt happy about laura's alt imgur.com/zSiIBKj

Boo hoo.

The people who would have been uncomfortable with this would have been uncomfortable with other things. Trying to cater to an audience that isn't there is a waste of time. Who are these people not playing because of this? I see far more angry about Mika's censorship.

Not to mention that the outfits were all taken in provocative angles anyways. You won't see them in still images like that in gameplay.

Well i think chances might have risen that capcom will censor laura's alt now that someone who is well known in the community doesnt like it. You know how the USA fgc is when it comes to popular people and just agree and kiss ass to them no matter how wrong they are.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I wouldn't be surprised with the cult like personality of people in the FGC. These guys get the game earlier than everyone else and they're treated like gods despite most of them not doing or accomplishing much of anything.

Anyways with the mods around it doesn't matter as much for PC players. That said not sure why they keep releasing these outfits if they are just going to censor them later.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

A video:

[Nyu Nozomi Hyuga]

Here is stream information form shoryuken:

Mad Catz V Cup feat. Street Fighter V Streaming Live from San Francisco, California

Can’t wait until Thursday to get your fill of Street Fighter V competition? Well, the Mad Catz V Cup has got you covered with an early broadcast.

Mad Catz will be partnering with Showdown, Capcom, Red Bull, and PlayStation over the next couple of days to provide folks in northern California an opportunity to try out the upcoming title at San Francisco’s Folsom Street Foundry. Tournament action is planned for tomorrow’s Churning the Butter, but tonight’s event will see players like Mad Catz’ Tokido, Evil Geniuses’ Justin Wong, Capcom’s Peter “Combofiend” Rosas, Twitch’s Mike Ross, and Red Bull’s Snake Eyez compete in high-level exhibitions.

Tune into the stream below or head on over to Twitch to watch it live.

xhttp://www.twitch.tv/madcatz/v/36673422

[Nyu Nozomi Hyuga]

A recent interview from www.gamesindustry.biz:

Capcom giving eSports a fighting chance

Publisher is finally treating eSports like a business, hoping to use exclusivity to turn Street Fighter V into the future of competitive gaming

On February 16, Street Fighter V will launch on PlayStation 4 and PC. It will not be launching to Xbox One thanks to an exclusivity deal signed with Sony. And as Capcom director of brand marketing and eSports Matt Dahlgren told GamesIndustry.biz recently, there are a few reasons for that.

Dahlgren called the deal "the largest strategic partnership that fighting games have ever seen," and said it addressed several problems the publisher has had surrounding its fighting games for years.

"Basically every SKU of a game we released had its own segmented community," he said. "No one was really able to play together and online leaderboards were always segmented, so it was very difficult to find out who would be the best online and compare everybody across the board."

Street Fighter V should alleviate that problem as it's only on two platforms, and gamers on each will be able to play with those on the other. Dahlgren said it will also help salt away problems that stemmed from differences between platforms. For example, the Xbox 360 version of Street Fighter IV had less input lag than the PS3 version. That fraction of a second difference between button press and action on-screen might have been unnoticeable to most casual players, but it was felt by high-level players who know the game down to the last frame of animation.

"There were varying degrees of input lag, so when those players ended up playing each other, it wasn't necessarily on an equal playing field," Dahlgren said. "This time around, by standardizing the platform and making everyone play together, there will be a tournament standard and everyone is on an equal playing field."

Finally, Dahlgren said the deal with Sony will help take Street Fighter to the next level when it comes to eSports. In some ways, it's a wonder it's not there already.

"I think fighting games are one of the purest forms of 1v1 competition," Dahlgren said. "A lot of the other eSports games out there are team-based, and while there's an appeal to those, there's something about having a single champion and having that 1v1 showdown that's just inherently easy for people to understand."

Street Fighter has a competitive gaming legacy longer than League of Legends or DOTA, but isn't mentioned in the same breath as those hits on the eSports scene. In some ways, that legacy might have stymied the franchise's growth in eSports.

"A lot of our community was really built by the fans themselves," Dahlgren said. "Our tournament scene was built by grassroots tournament organizers, really without the help of Capcom throughout the years. And I would say a lot of those fans have been somewhat defensive [about expanding the game's appeal to new audiences]. It hasn't been as inclusive as it could have been. With that said, I do definitely feel a shift in our community. There's always been a talking point with our hardcore fans as to whether or not Street Fighter is an eSport, and what eSports could do for the scene. Could it potentially hurt it? There's been all this controversy behind it."

Even Capcom has shifted stances on how to handle Street Fighter as an eSport.

"In the past, we were actually against partnering up with any sort of corporations or companies out there that were treating eSports more like a business," Dahlgren said. "And that has to do out of respect for some of our long-term tournament organizers... Our fear was that if we go out and partner up with companies concerned more about making a profit off the scene instead of the values that drive the community, then it could end up stomping out all these tournament organizers who are very passionate and have done so much for our franchise."

So instead of teaming with the MLGs or ESLs of the world, Capcom teamed with Twitch and formed its own Pro Tour in 2014. Local tournament organizers handle the logistics of the shows and retain the rights to their brands, while Capcom provides marketing support and helps with production values.

"I can't say Capcom wouldn't partner up with some of the other, more established eSports leagues out there," Dahlgren said. "I do think there's a way to make both of them exist, but our priority in the beginning was paying homage to our hardcore fans that helped build the scene, protecting them and allowing them to still have the entrepreneurial spirit to grow their own events. That comes first, before partnering with larger organizations."

Just as Capcom's stance toward tournaments has changed to better suit Street Fighter's growth as an eSport, so too has the business model behind the game. The company has clearly looked at the success of many free-to-play eSports favorites and incorporated elements of them (except the whole "free-to-play" thing) into Street Fighter V. Previously, Capcom would release a core Street Fighter game, followed by annual or bi-annual updates with a handful of new fighters and balancing tweaks. Street Fighter V will have no such "Super" versions, with all new content and tweaks made to the game on a rolling basis.

"We are treating the game now more as a platform and a service, and are going to be continually adding new content post-launch," Dahlgren said. "This is the first time we're actually having our own in-game economy and in-game currency. So the more you play the game online, you're going to generate fight money, and then you can use that fight money to earn DLC content post-launch free of charge, which is a first in our franchise. So essentially we're looking at an approach that takes the best of both worlds. It's not too far away from what our players really expect from a SF game, yet we get some of the benefits of continually releasing content post-launch and giving fans more of what they want to increase engagement long-term."

Even if it's not quite free-to-play, Street Fighter V may at least be cheaper to play. Dahlgren said that pricey arcade stick peripherals are not as essential for dedicated players as they might have seemed in the past.

"Since Street Fighter comes from an arcade heritage, a lot of people have this general belief that arcade sticks are the premier way of playing," Dahlgren said. "I think now that the platform choice has moved more towards consoles, pad play has definitely become much more prevalent. I would believe that at launch you're probably going to have more pad players than you actually have stick players. And in the competitive scene, we've seen the rise of a lot of very impressive pad players, which has pretty much shown that Street Fighter is a game that's not necessarily dictated by the controller you play with; it's the strategies and tactics you employ. And both of them are essentially on equal playing ground."

[JACK-2]

How is Laura's outfit bad but Chun li's outfit okay? This is getting retarded now.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Chun can do no wrong. The double standard is absurd. R. Mika gets the most slack and she's the most covered up, especially in her alt (although Karin is covered up too). Somehow Chun is "classy" despite wearing her DoA dress.

We'll see how the Esports thing goes. Can't say for sure. I'm already looking at these sites like Eventhubs are saying that it's either FGC or Esports and we shouldn't "suck up" to big companies and that we need our arcade culture, despite arcades dying and netplay being the future.

These clowns don't know what they want. They just complain they're not taken seriously and don't make much money and then complain about the FGC "selling out". Just a bunch of poverty idiots.

The community is just toxic.

[JACK-2]

Capcom needs to grow some balls. Most of the censorship has been around camera angles, I think if they start censoring costumes it would be worst.

Edit: What arcade culture?! This isn't Japan, these guuys are such tryhards it's pathetic. How many of these people have even been to an arcade?

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Jan 21, 2016 1:18:19 GMT -5 JACK-2 said:

Capcom needs to grow some balls. Most of the censorship has been around camera angles, I think if they start censoring costumes it would be worst.

Edit: What arcade culture?! This isn't Japan, these guuys are such tryhards it's pathetic. How many of these people have even been to an arcade?

Which is silly because these costumes don't look like this in gameplay. Taking some provocative shots in certain angles and posting them doesn't show how they'll look in motion, where things are on screen a split second and you aren't looking at that kind of stuff anyways.


They are try-hards and even other countries are starting to go online there more and more with certain genres, but there's NO culture in America. These guys are kids who don't remember the 80's and 90's of arcades lol.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

James Chen is cucking.

[WarMachineRhodey]

Someone with a twitter account please ask where was his outrage about sf4 cammy alternate 1

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Jan 21, 2016 11:10:12 GMT -5 WarMachineRhodey said:

Someone with a twitter account please ask where was his outrage about sf4 cammy alternate 1

Not to mention Poison being more revealing than Laura.

I don't this new wave of nonsense. Cammy is basically wearing underwear with a top in two of her SF4 alts.

[JACK-2]

Jan 21, 2016 10:56:25 GMT -5 The Big Daddy C-Master said:

James Chen is cucking.

Him and Ultra David need to f*ck off, honestly.

[JACK-2]

The responses are killing me, though. Glad people are calling people are calling this shit out now.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

It isn't popping up. When you go to a tweet just copy the link at the top and it should work.


When you click on a tweet it pops up in the screen and you can do it then.

[JACK-2]

Here's the link, this pc on Campus is acting dumb.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

It's crazy how this dumb movement grew so quickly.

[spliffybaz]

I don't enjoy reading these bitter remarks towards absurdly Chun, have some f'n respect clowns! Complaining on mighty Cammy is also not acceptable. Jchensor can fuck right off.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Most of the complaints are on Laura from what I see.

[Nyu Nozomi Hyuga]

Here comes an onslaught of information from Eventhubs & shoryuken:

Europe Gets Its Own Street Fighter V PlayStation 4 Bundle

Recently, we reported that Sony will be releasing a limited edition PlayStation 4 bundle for Street Fighter V, and now word is Europe will receive one as well.

The bundle in question will include an “Ultimate Player” PlayStation 4 with a full terabyte of memory and a physical copy of Street Fighter V. Unlike the Japan exclusive model, however, it retains the normal jet black color scheme without any special artwork.

Launch is scheduled for February 16, the same day Street Fighter V becomes available to the masses. A public price hasn’t been set at this point, though similar bundles have gone for about £329.99 / $399.99 in the past. Stay tuned for more details.

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Limited edition, Street Fighter 5-themed PlayStation 4 consoles headed to Japan; set to ft. Necalli, Laura, Chun-Li, and more

A batch of limited edition, Street Fighter 5-themed PlayStation 4 consoles is headed to Japan.

Sony has revealed four options branded with different Street Fighter 5 designs that will be released alongside the game on February 18th. Those looking to purchase can pick one console up for 37,480 yen ($320 USD), and pre-orders are available now.

Additionally, each system will come with a special theme and a custom sleeve drawn by One Punch Man illustrator Yusuke Murata. Unfortunately, this special console does not actually come with a copy of Street Fighter 5.

There is currently no word on a western release for these special consoles.

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Xian, Alioune Latest to Join Red Bull Kumite 2016 Lineup

Razer’s Ho Kun Xian and Alioune Camara have been invited to participate in Red Bull Kumite 2016, an official statement announced this morning. They will join previous invitees like Evil Geniuses’ Justin Wong and Yusuke Momochi, AVerMedia’s Bruce “GamerBee” Hsiang, and Lee “Poongko” Chung-gon at the Street Fighter V-focused event in April.

More than any player invited thus far, both Xian and Alioune have been on the forefront of developing Street Fighter V strategies before its official release next month. Combined with their status on the competitive circuit, those contributions will certainly make for an exciting competition.

Red Bull Kumite 2016 is scheduled for April 23-24 in Paris, France.

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The finished Street Fighter 5 Ryu statue looks amazing, take a closer look at the NA collector's edition

Back in September of last year, we reported on the Street Fighter 5 collector's edition set to be released in North America. This limited package includes a 10-inch-tall Ryu statue posed in the same way we see him on the game's cover art.

When we last saw it, the Ryu statue was a near-colorless prototype that looked pretty cool. Today, however, we get to see the finished product, and it looks amazing.

Capcom Unity gives us a closer look at the North American collector's edition, which will include the statue, a 48-page art book, and more. You can see the statue and a page from the art book below.

The Street Fighter 5 collector's edition is still available for pre-order over at GameStop, and will run you $99.99. Street Fighter 5 is set for PlayStation 4 and PC release on February 16th.

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Bafael Shows Off Birdie and Rashid’s Combo Potential in Street Fighter V

If you’re looking to be at the top of your game when Street Fighter V releases next month, Bafael’s series of videos dedicated to bread and butter combos will get you where you need to be. His latest releases–covering Birdie and Rashid–can be found below.

Through these videos, you’ll learn various hit-confirm options, punish combos, how to apply V-Skills and V-Triggers under certain circumstances, and lots more. The information provided comes from the third beta phase, so please keep in mind that what’s presented in the videos may not remain exactly the same upon release.

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LPN's sick V-Trigger juggle with Birdie, Filipino Champ's lethal corner pressure, and more: Mad Catz V Cup replays ft. Tokido, Mike Ross, Ricki Ortiz

Day 2 of the Mad Catz V Cup concluded with a pro player exhibition and open Street Fighter 5 tournament.

Team Spooky's channel has already managed to upload the action from last night, and in these replays you'll find such players as MCZ|Tokido, EG|Ricki Ortiz, Mike Ross, pH|LPN, EG|Justin Wong, and more.

Below are just a couple of GIFs to give you a glimpse at what level of play you can expect to see here.

www.eventhubs.com/images/2016/jan/22/mad-catz-v-cup-day-2-highlight-1/

www.eventhubs.com/images/2016/jan/22/mad-catz-v-cup-day-2-highlight-2/

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Nash's EX Tragedy Assault restores health on hit in Street Fighter 5

Nash's EX Tragedy Assault restores some of his health in Street Fighter 5 when it connects, Capcom's Peter "Combofiend" Rosas relayed at the recent Mad Catz V Cup.

This is not a technique that seems overpowered, as it was barely used from the Nash players at the event — and I only saw it off of one specific setup.

Most Nash players were using a Spinning Back Knuckle (Toward + Heavy Punch) causing a Crush Counter, and then following it up with a Tragedy Assault.

Here's an animated sequence of the setup, along with a health comparison of how things changed.

www.eventhubs.com/images/2016/jan/22/nashs-ex-tragedy-assault-restores-health/

www.eventhubs.com/images/2016/jan/22/nashs-ex-tragedy-assault-health-restore-comparison/

Note that it's only the EX version of Tragedy Assault that restores health, the regular version does damage and drains a part of the opponent's super meter.

What I found to be the most interesting aspect here is the fact Capcom is adding some moves with different properties into the mix, and the strategies that will potentially develop around these attacks.

They've said a number of times that Street Fighter 5 is a clean slate, and adding attacks like this backs up that point.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I like the designs on these.

[Nyu Nozomi Hyuga]

Here is some alternate covers from Eventhubs:

R. Mika gets in a work out, more alternative covers for Street Fighter 5 - Capcom Japan shows off artwork

Capcom Japan has been showing off more of the artwork they had created for the release of Street Fighter 5, including new alternative covers for the PlayStation 4 version, and R. Mika getting in some exercise time.

There's also artwork of the entire launch cast, which comes with the special PlayStation 4 consoles being sold in Japan, and a few images from the books that come with the special editions of the game in Japan. Here's everything.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Definitely like the Mika one.

You did well once again.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Looks like someone already fixed those camera angles:

xheczx.deviantart.com/art/Camera-fix-586305311?q=gallery%3AxHECZx%2F21847001&qo=1



And gave Laura a booty with skin color pants:

xheczx.deviantart.com/art/BootyMod-586301559?q=gallery%3AxHECZx%2F21847001&qo=2