You saw Arbiter’s stage in the teaser and they confirmed it’s in the KI engine.
Man, the real world is going to hit you pretty hard some day if that’s true.
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Let me again add… we have 18 incredible, gorgeous stages. 2 more coming… While I am disappointed there won’t be one for everyone let’s compare to other fighting games. Look at SF5 that just came out. It has what… 10? And they’re generic as hell. Street 1, Street 2, Street at night, Restaurant 1, Restaurant 2. KI set its own bar so high with the stages… And that has worked against it today.
OK. I wasn’t able to read down far enough - I’ve been flitting all over the thread trying to find the original post (this one) that talked about the stages/dynamic music etc.
I partially retract what I said earlier - in terms of the question as to whether there’ll be more than 3 stages after launch as that has already been confirmed. However, I have to say that I’m disappointed. Not in the least because I do fear the worst about each character having their full dynamic music as usual with no stage to accompany it. I put to you a scenario as a result of this concept that has been voiced at other points in this thread.
Players are allowed to pick their own choice of music. One player picks, say, Tiger’s laire and the other picks, Crash site. Does the game then do a 50-50 like IGAU did with the stage selection?
It would be good to get a post clarifying the trade offs and what we can expect, to in the least partially abait the negativity of this proverbial backlash. It would be interesting, as some have said as well, to see how the budget has been rashened out in order that we can make our own deductions as to whether things were worth the investment etc.
Whilst I respect that what we’ve been given as news is just that, I can’t help but thinking this might turn people off of the game if they’ve been looking into it before, as well as make it harder to explain and pitch to people who are unfamiliar - “season one and two had a stage for each character, but season 3 didn’t.” other person says “why not?” and then you have to explain it with whatever reasoning comes to light later if any…
I wish the team the best of luck and hope that Season 3 is worth the wait, regardless of the sacrifices that are being made stage wise.
Thanks for taking the time to write the post I’ve replied to.
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First of all, absolutely fantastic job on the new lighting changes! You can actually see all the little fine details on the stages now and its gorgeous! And characters pop out so much more now. So happy with this!
What I’m not happy about is the 3 stage thing. Didnt Keits say in the KI World Cup stream something about “Wait 'til you see Rash’s stage”? If he did and Im not just hearing things, that would mean the 3 stages are for Kim, Arby and Rash which is INCREDIBLY disappointing in my opinion.
Ah well, only time will tell whether this is a good decision or a bad decision. Lets hope IG has some amazing stuff up their sleeves to compensate for this.
I do think they went out of their way to pretty the game up for the PC launch… I just hope the PC launch isn’t a major reason we’re missing 5 new stages.
I doubt it. The PC launch is probably Microsoft’s doing, IG wouldn’t take out of their budget, substituting stages to make a PC port.
They’ve said it over and over. S3 will bring 3 and just 3 new stages. No more than that.
Well have 20 stages(1 of which is a night version of jagos).
Double the amount of sf5. But stages to me were as important as a character. Maybe they’ll being cycles to the stages. Kims at night would be awesome with all the neon lighting.
But we’ll see. I’ve got the same feeling now that I had when they revealed 6 characters at launch instead of a full game.
It looks like the game is wrapping up. I’d say this is the last season unless they plan packs like sf5 in future. Hopefully we’ll find out this week.
I feel like either Tusk or Gargos will get a stage since Kim and Arbiters are pretty much locked. Tusk could easily make sense to get one because Gargos is not even from this dimension and I think he could just visit the stages of other chars. I also think Tusk fits easily into Agano’s stage though…(it could easily be his home).
Lol, think of it as traumatization!
Keepin’ it real here:
I’m an artist who specializes in background design and am a huge fan of IG’s art direction. For me, this news was one of the first things ever to come from this studio that was a legitimate stab to the heart.
Based on the screenshots, the colors of the stages look much more vibrant than before and I’m particularly interested in seeing how it applies to Thunder’s stage — but I would not have traded work on new lighting for work on new stages since I’d always thought the lighting was just fine as it was apart from the occasional bug here and there.
To the dev’s credit though, I know “trading” is not necessarily the case — since they would have essentially had to retune the graphics to make the game work cross-platform, let alone, PC accessible anyways.
Still though - ■■■■. Just…■■■■.
Stab to the heart, man.
I’m thankful, regardless, that they cared enough to share the news now and felt the article was a good way to ease us into it.
I still look forward to seeing how they fully compensate for this but I hope the window for adding new stages later on is left open. (And, this may be something of a pipe dream, but: If there’s anything I could do to help…
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On top of that, I was one of the people who adamantly thought the devs were being coy in their wording about Shadow Jago being the only one with an ultimate in the game.
I’m still holding out hope that this was carefully-worded trollbait given how much they’d avoided clarifying it soon after it was stated, but now…it’s lookin’ bad.
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19 Stages…
Where do the 21 come from.
We have 16 individual Stages right now that are playable in vs.
Shadow Jago Stage is just Jago Stage with tadaaaa different lightning. Just because it has its own select slot doesnt mean its a unique Stage. If so than you can simply do 15 + 3 s3 more Shadow Versions from every other Stage and claim we have 38 Stages.
In reality we end up with 19 individual Stages which is ok but not overwhelming. And tbh it feels messed up that 19 Characters have their unique Stages and 5 dont. Shago and Omen have Jagos Stage.
It just feels wrong imo.
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First of all, Hi to everyone. I was here on the already ancient boards but since the change i was lazy to make an account. But here i am, in the possibly more polemic thread of the season 3. But I’m not here to bash Iron Galaxy or something like that. I’m here to bash YOU.
Let’s think for a moment and remember our first days. When KI was first announced we were like in heaven, after all these years, nearly 20 years before, we at least were having a new KI game! It sold me an xbox one at the instant it was anounced. We were really happy to have a new KI, even if it was a low budget game with only 6 characters at launch and 6 stages, with no Spinal, no Fulgore, no Riptor, no Cinder… We were launched with Jago, Sabrewulf, Glacius, Thunder, Orchid and that new freaky girl called Sadira. We didn’t even have an story or arcade mode and the press critisised a lot.
Then, Double Helix was forced to quit the development and Microsoft could have give us the middle finger and say to all of us a big ■■■■ you. But no, instead, they hired Iron Galaxy to finish the job. At first we were a bit scared about the change (who isn’afraid of changes when something is good?) but they finish and delivered what we were expecting.
But not only that, they anounced a new season with mostly all of the classic KI characters returning just to make us all happy after all these years! Not only that, they improved the graphics, they improved the resolutiom, they added new mechanincs to the game, new physics, constant feedback based rebalances more stages, more music, new characters, new lore… New of everything. They made a low bugdet game into a game that made lot of “complete” fighting games to turn red into shame.
Not only that. We asked for figurines; they are giving us figurines and merchandising. We asked for Shago real boy edition, the give it to us. They are always around here, communicating with us.
And here we are, at the door of the season 3, with more new mechanics,even more improved graphics, nearly all of the original KI cast inside (sorry Eyedol, we will miss you), cast characters like a real high budget game and… you are upset for only having 3 stages in season 3? Really? They even give us the PC PORT, ■■■■ it.
We have an excellent game with a really diverse cast with an awesome community. We have one of the best (even if not THE best) fighting game internet coding for fighting online, one the most entertaing combat systems, and we even have more content than something so big as SFV.
I understand all of you that you are thinking “only 3 stages? What a shame!!”. But remember the old days. Never forget our story.
Thanks Iron Galaxy. Thanks Microsoft. Thanks Rare. Thanks to whoever told to not give up. Even if i’m no one, i want to contrast and tell to all of you that i trust in you because i already trust in our story .
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Reading My original post Tusk (Agano’s Stage looks good for him) / Gargos(not even from the dimension so he visits others stages) may not need a stage, bring on Rash’s or whoever’s stage.
before is much better. l think the game is losing its personality.making everything hd is poor idea,we need fog and grey colours,please don’t burn the game.i hope it will be better when we play it.
Medusa / type character - will share Sadira’s stage
Kim Wu- Her Stage
Arbiter - No stage
Rash - No stage
Gargos - New stage or shares all stages
Tusk - New stage or share Maya’s
Vampire - New stage or share Sabrewulf’s
No Eyedol in Season 3
Joanna Dark - will share Orchids
New guest characters - will have to have more new characters if there is only 3 new stages.
New guest character or Eagle as mentioned in previous post
New guest character or Orchid Shadow character
Guessing 12 characters all together
I think people need to stop attacking those who feel upset. For me, and most others, it isn’t because “waaaa we only have 20 stages instead of 25, waaaaa”
1- Part of KI’s appeal and personality is that every character has their own stage… KI 1, KI 2, Season 1, Season 2. That it just part of the game that is ingrained and it feels wrong if this is changed for season 3.
2- It will be strange to introduce new characters without a home or stage( the stage is part of their personality and identity ). Can you imagine a new Medusa character that uses TJ Combo’s stage? Or the vampire that hangs out in Chinatown? Doesn’t feel right and it makes the new characters seem less important than the others.
3- It leads to speculation that there is more being kept secret. Maybe there’s 3 old characters and the rest are all guests ( explaining why they have no stage); maybe there’s 3 old, 3 guest and the rest are new but the new characters all have direct relation to existing characters( Maya’s sisters shares a stage with her, Eagle shares a stage with Thunder etc). Basically, the new characters won’t be as elaborate and exciting as expected ( if new at all).
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I do not understand how it is possible that they have made good S2 with money earned from s1, and fail to do internships for everyone with the money earned by S1 and S2 together.
not counting all iguadagni that will be for the s3 and the PC version.
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Its okay to be upset. As they have said though they wanted to get this news out because all the rest of the news is positive and they want us to be able to enjoy that news knowing we know the only more good is coming. Also I agree context is key when it comes to where each char will call home or if they will have a stage home. I look @ games like Dead or Alive where fighters mostly don’t fight @ home but on the way to there ultimate destination or Street Fighter V where fighters who are affiliated by lore share stages in sometimes. I think Adam Isgreen will make sure it all makes sense though as he takes the lore seriously.
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You… I like you. Seriously.
Rukizzel - Would you be able to provide some positive news like…if we’re going to have more than nine characters in season 3? Or maybe some concept art of something? Anything?
Just a request.