I think Rukk means “As of Right Now”. 3 Stages Total launching with S3.
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Don’t you give me the James Goddard treatment. When I say 3 stages in Season 3, that’s what I mean. Also Shadow Jago is the only character with an Ultimate.
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This is either a super troll or a super brick of news.
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Interesting choice here. I wonder what else this implies for S3…
I may troll around teasing news and information, but when it is written on the site, there is no trolling. What’s written is factual.
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I am curious to see what the trade off for fewer stages is but regardless it seems like an odd choice. Individual stages added a ton of personality to the characters. It’s going to absolutely suck to lose them.
It also changes things up from a value proposition as well. Buying the character got you the stage, so that will have to be replaced with something as well.
3 stages? That’s mean we will see rash’s stage! Wait…
1- Rash
2- Kim Wu
3- Arbiter
OMG!!! WE WILL SEE ARBITERS’S TRAILER TOO!!!
I just got even more hyped.
Hmmm but no one on the forums mentioned Ultimates…interesting
You’re looking at a good part of it in relighting 17 existing stages. From what I understand - and I am no dev - but this isn’t a copy/paste method.
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You imply he’s getting one… Remember he’s a guest plus he comes through a portal
Okay, okay, now i’m really starting to question what IG is up to.
Grant it, I’m extremely hyped for season 3, and I remember Adam from an interview stating that characters and stagers were to two most expensive things to make in KI. That being said, it’s extremely shocking that S3 will only be featuring THREE stages. Like, jeez! If there’s only going to be three stages in S3, then they most be really good!
Now this leads me to the biggest question. Since stages are one of the most expensive things to make in KI, and now they’re only putting three stages into S3, what else could they be doing to make up for this? More characters? New mechanics?.. Will there be preorders for S3? 
I use that reference because after that live stream everyone seemed to think we were playing coy.
But relighting isn’t going to be a selling point for someone looking to buy S3… sooooooooo
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Well that seems even more strange to me then. Less content to improve lighting is a very poor trade off in my opinion.
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Arbiter get his own stage. But maybe we will see Rash’s stage for next week?
If there’s only 3 stages, do new characters still get dynamic themes? If so, do certain characters share a stage for their theme to play?