CESTUS III

On 3/4/2024 at 9:05 AM, CESTUS III said:

Little discovery i just noticed, with Ed patch seems they expanded the number of fighters they use for Metro City arena tournaments... now you can fight also Azam and some of the fighters that were in the Nayshall tournament quest

 

There's not much to gain, none of them give you rewards you can't already find in WTM, but they help bit add variety to the experience (even if Azam is the only "unique" fighter)

Expanding it a bit, just found out that not only some Nayshall tournament fighters have been added, but also other NPC that we have meet in other missions

Too bad they still spam shitty white plastic clones

Funny thing wanted to give credits to this fucking guy in particular

Like many other SF chars that got their wannabe look alike, Dan got this dude called Sai Kyo

Back to the Nayshall mission i think focused mostly just on wreck him, now in MC arena took my time to let him fight and got fuckton of moves compared to usual NPC, risk to be the one that got most unique stuff lol:

-Ryu's normals moveset (but different idle stance) and L Shoryuken (personally i would have used Luke's srk, much more similar looking)

- Special kick identical to Retsu's

- Evolution of that kick with a second kick that make it look like a M Dankukyaku

-A Gadoken

-A roll (both forward and backward)

-A taunt (generic one, but still)

-A fucking super combo wich looks like Hissho Buraiken

Here vid of him

Guess that's same template they may use on NPC Dan when in future patches Metro City will upgrade and Dan's gym will open

...would be awesome if we can pay for lessons at his dojo and learn shit NPC moves... as if he's a Master like playable cast, but not quite same level 😁

Add NPC moves would help me A LOT create unique looking chars 🤔

Fun thing is when we meet him (Sai Kyo) in Nayshall he's training group of clones at karate punches, wich wink hard at SFV Dan dream lol

13 hours ago, bakfromon said:

They should have more unique fighter experiences.

Part that piss me off most, is that while i can understand create unique moves like for Retsu or DamnD (the most simple, who just got 1 unique special)  eat resources and i can understand  it be limited to boss-like NPCs or cameos of former playable characters...

But would take literally zero new contents just use same tool we have to mix moves on NPCs and create at least for "most evolved" NPCs (example all those allowed to enter MC/Nayshall arena tournaments) unique movesets made by mixing different characters moves

Like as random example with tool we have i can do a "speedy mexican luchador" type of NPC movest in 1 minute:

-Rashid moves

-Kimberly run special

- Kimberly air to air suplex

-Zangief HCB suplex/siberian express

I keept it super basic too, not even filling all motion slots like usually do on my own stuff, just to show how quickly and low effort could have been done, and yet would offer the illusion of being it's own character (specially considering they can mix these also with existing NPC-only moves)

If we want give it one Super Art just to make it  feel bit more legit

Lv2 Cammy

Would be really THAT easy and would make experience much more fun, but the team seems blind on some stuff

And if we expand it to creation they even done the effort to ADD  limitations that basic NPC don't have lol

13 hours ago, bakfromon said:

The fact that there are unique fighters like Azam  and even Carlos who have their own unique move sets means they probably could do a Falke or Balrog for Ed's inclusion (There was even a bootleg Balrog when Rashid was included for crying out loud!)  

Falke would be super easy thanks to JP, they can literally slap his basic moveset (and SA1?) on her and for decent effect just give her unique special where she hold the stick like a rifle and shot psycho shit 😁

Rog may take bit more work, but tbh would be still doable without crazy effort give him justice considering would be just npc cameo... even if personally give him 50/50 chance to sneak into SF6 as main char

@Darc_Requiem

Idk if you're on PC, i'm on PS5 and wish i could do this shit lol

For my Sagat and Hugo (and some other stuff) wish we got at least 20/30 more points for max height... specially since yesterday fought Azam in the tournaments and got fresh reminder Capcom allow itself to cheat with the editor height lmao

And tbh also minimal height is'nt that short

I understand why they did, at current max height you still see bizzarre animations (like throws with victim floating 50cm from the ground) or even basic mechanics break (example vs small chars normals whiffing above opponent's head)... but tbh can't give less fucks, avatar battles balancement/legitimacy is zero anyway, let us have creative fun lol 😆

Little discovery i just noticed, with Ed patch seems they expanded the number of fighters they use for Metro City arena tournaments... now you can fight also Azam and some of the fighters that were in the Nayshall tournament quest

There's not much to gain, none of them give you rewards you can't already find in WTM, but they help bit add variety to the experience (even if Azam is the only "unique" fighter)

Considering how Mega Man is popular thought to post it here too

 I gave it a try, works surprising well ingame, had easier time find the right moveset than when i'm working on more "SF style" characters 😁

Added shit to the vanilla helmet to make it bit closer to MMX wich had proportions bit more SF like

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 I gave it a try, works surprising well ingame, had easier time find the right moveset than when i'm working on more "SF style" characters 😁

Added shit to the vanilla helmet to make it bit closer to MMX wich had proportions bit more SF like

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On 3/1/2024 at 11:33 PM, Chun-Li_Forever said:

"We have Mega Man at home"

I gave it a try, works surprising well ingame, had easier time find the right moveset than when i'm working on more "SF style" characters 😁

Added shit to the vanilla helmet to make it bit closer to MMX wich had proportions bit more SF like

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On 3/1/2024 at 10:55 PM, Dragonfave723 said:

I think this basically confirms Ruined Lab is in the Arctic, and there's a good chance it'll be in World Tour after all.

 

Thanks cool info

Guess we can consider it's safe assume is NOT the SFV ASF one, as we seen also external area and did'nt looked like Arctic

Wich make guess who brought Bison's hat there...

We know FANG touched the hat after ASF, as he got the emblem as necklace

4 hours ago, Dragonfave723 said:

You know where they found these images?

Same group where thy showed short hair Bosch maybe?

damn trailer char is terrible lol

3 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Are there any missions in the update given by someone besides Ed? He sent me to Nayshall to find info on Falke and I completed that quest. He is bond and style are maxed. Heck I maxed his style as soon as I met him. That how much XP I had left over from all the other masters 😂You are going to have to tell the rest of us how yo got that Dudley DLC 😉You better be posting this excellence elsewhere man. Don't make send in an Eventhubs suggestion 😅

😁

Not sure of title since i have it in italian, but have two most recent side-missions that are

"Leader of Neo Shadaloo?" Metro city -> basically no reward

Can't find a vid, try check your Metro City map to see if somewhere there's the side-quest mark... if does'nt try switch to night (or day)

"Psycho Power experiment" -> Nayshall -> give you shadaloo upper-body uniform

30 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

That's exactly where I went.....😞

There are 2 side missions in the update, one in MC one in Nayshall, maybe you have to do these if you're missing one

Or maybe maximize Ed style and bond?

Idk but once you unlock her it's hard to miss, showing dat ass in the middle of the terrace, took a pic

On 3/1/2024 at 5:09 AM, Darc_Requiem said:

I've done the Ed missions. I don't see the NPC

During day-time rise same steps this guy does in first 10 seconds
 

but don't make a left-turn inside the building like he does at 0:11, just keep rise straight up the steps.

You will reach a wide terrace with view of the arena

On that terrace you should see an NPC dressed like this

You can fight her to win kinda easily the helmet

The challenge is "defeat without lose health" wich sound hard but it's actually easy as she des'nt have that much life nor she's strong/smart/aggressive... just set your moveset on fireballs shit and shoot her dead from distance

Got helmet in my first run, but i've read people say she does'nt ever offer it as reward, so guess may take more than one try

Should post it in Avatar thread, but nobody goes there beside me Darc, but maybe others may like it

3 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

I was disappointed the Shadaloo Lab stage didn't factor into WT mode at all.

 

Hard to get excited about these new stages if we aren't even going to visit them.

i think it will in future, but unlikely before S2 world expansion... after the minimal effort crap that has been AKI/Ed updates, i don't expect anything for Akuma update either

Akuma will get stage too, but very possible WTM wise we just end up get him as Master somewhere in Nayshall, maybe in the cave area (but hope i'm wrong, REALLY need him to get merchant that sell that damn karate hand-stripes item)

7 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

So did anyone ask Nakayama who Goliath's father was? Am I going to have to risk it all with Maury gif of which he probably won't get the reference?

19 minutes ago, sagatryu said:

With a name like that I'm guessing the Dolphin is female.

yeah and baby male

3 hours ago, bakfromon said:

Nakayama had made a comment to a fan a few years ago regarding him wanting Ed to have  a group of friends. He hinted that the naming convention of the friends would follow some sort of Alphabet pattern. 
 

 

The first Neo Shadaloo members were the first in the Alphabet series, and now we have the rest.  (The Dolphin Amrita is “A” and Goliath is “G”)

 

That's cool

Still think would be awesome if Necro and Effie will join them (despite not being ex Shadaloos they still have perfect background for that), but "E" is taken by Ed lol

38 minutes ago, Lord_Vega said:

Design wise Ed psycho-dodged lot of bullets lol

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I was pretty disapponted by that. No Falke or any of the other NS members... Although we had that badass stage, 5 months to only have Ed kinda let me down....

Tbh i was disappointed too, but at same time story explanation they gave (NS members splitting an keeping search victims to save around the world) make sense and open the door for future development... Ed seems key piece of future of Shadaloo in SF6, so i guess when we will get proper world updates (next in S2 i think) there's chance we may see his story progress and meet his comrades

19 minutes ago, Dragonfave723 said:

The Neo Shadaloo dolphin is named Amrita and the baby is Goliath.

Thanks!🙏

- Amrita (just googled it) seems an hindu female name that mean "immortality"... wonder if may be hint she got that Bison gift

- Goliath without google it's a famous giant in the Bible, funny the smallest NS member got name of a giant lol

Done also for others:

- Cypher link to secret code messages used by spies, so guess in the org he play the spy role wich fit him considering he's slick guy that can fucking teleport lol

- Mwalimu in swahili apparently mean teacher/master, wich guess make sense considering his big brain

- Dobermann is of course the german dog, wich while don't fit much fat version, may fit a lot the super lean and fast muscular transformation

- Falke is german word for hawk

- Ed felt strange (i thought Rog wanted something easy/quick to say to call him, skipping his full codename) and while i was wrong is indeed is funny case, according to the wiki

"According to Takayuki Nakayama, Ed's name actually comes from the word "ED", a term used in anime production to refer to ending scenes and music.^[10] Nakayama referred to him as "The ED Boy" in a note, which was misinterpreted by the designer as being his name. Nakayama liked the name, and kept it. "

I'm curious what would have been his original "codename" if this did'nt happened

8 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

We won't know for sure until his teeth start coming in 

One giant teeth above and one below, SF4 style 😆

10 minutes ago, Dracu said:

The robot girl sucks. Keep that crap in Tekken.

 

I like the hawaian girl and am fine with a fat chick, but her design is a bit too simple. Needs a bit more flair to make it memorable.

Not a fan of robot girl either, both for the robot thing but also for her look. But i can see japan pull that given their taste

My reasoning was i doubt they would invest DLC money for fat girl, is more the type of char that have hope to sneak into vanilla cast rather than DLC

Every DLC female they will release is going to have some waifu fanbase potential, be it new char or returning... non conventional beauty is unlikely to grab rare female slot imho (AKI already push a bit the limits in that sense), specially with many easy to sell beautiful female vets still waiting to join

4 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

I'll be honest...ALL of Neo Shadaloo suck.

 

Ed and Falke are boring, and the rest are fucking corny.

I love them for circus value, bring me back to absurd anime vibes rather than tryhard urban bullshit

Ideal scenario to me would have been Neo Shadaloo HQ stage with all freaks watching the fight and cheering for Ed i don't need them to do much more

But i don't NEED* any of them playable (they would make fun special NPC to fight against in WTM though, hope to see that)

*would still welcome if good pick and well made. My problem is i have higher need of cover important martial arts still missing... have no personal issue against crazy shit like the gorilla, but at same time SF6 as we speak have no Muay Thai rep from Thailand, that's the kind of shit where my priority goes

I'm legit super curious about Season 2 picks, specially if they pull another 4-char bullshit

4 hours ago, Dracu said:

Yeah, screw Doberman. If you want to give Ed his playable 3 Kings, go with Cypher and Baba all the way.

Tbh i will be fine with Cypher and Baba who will offer great variety*, to me is Falke that would be fucking redundant... she was'nt that charismatic/popular, too visually repetition of Ed and we have a la canne user with psycho powers already lol

Indeed something that surprised me is no other female beside Falke, specially considering Falke was kinda mediocre addition and generated no fanbase, Neo Shadaloo in theory give them lot of creative freedom.

There was the robot girl in SFV

but in SF6 there's no hint of her

There was also the fat hawaian girl that despite being someway interesting/curious choice (i even made her in creation) have no chance in hell to be DLC material, just don't fit audience's waifu needs

*Cypher as pure knife user would be new (and cool for character creation), and teleport as power seems something that would make sense for a vicious opponent

Wish they give him stronger cultural theme (i don't care they race-changed him, but previous one had caucasus area/cossack vibes wich gave him bit of direction, would like they build bit something for the new one too)

Baba i know would be loved or hated kind of thing, personally would not have problem with it and would fill the "giant" slot, even if i would still prefer Hugo to fill it

5 hours ago, Chun-Li_Forever said:

Still wondering WHOSE BABY DIS IS???

No reason to believe he "must" have parents playing a role, he could be just a baby that Shadaloo was experimenting on and now that got rescued by Neo Shadaloo they're taking special care of him because despite special powers (seem PP telekinesis based on other artwork) he's still just a baby that needs people, so we see Falke behaving motherly and Baba looking like an happy uncle lol

One fun thing would be if baby will end up be one of Bison bodies (like SF2, SFA or SF4/V) that got pulled out from the growth capsule before growing, dark hair and tanned skin kinda match (of course may be by coincidence lol)

This would make him a potential easy host if Ed indeed grew strong enough to prevent being possessed, wonder how Ed/NS would react if the threat come from the baby they adopted

5 hours ago, Chun-Li_Forever said:

 

Baba Mwalimu is essentially Overwatch's Winston. But the monkey, if I'm not mistaken, is Kiki, Santamu's (former Shadaloo doll) pet money. I think I remembered Kiki following Ed and Balrog post-ASF. So I was wondering if it grew up to be the gorilla of Neo-Shadaloo or not. But Kiki is still alive and well and looks like serving Ed and his crew nicely.

 

You're correct it's same monkey that once was Santamu's pet

It's a golden lion tamarin, no idea if adult already or not but will never grow much more than that, pretty small animal.

Baba is a gorilla, considering Ed describe him as larger than Zangief (and old SFV old artwork had it fucking gigantic in a size comparision piece*) would say the largest subspecies, eastern lowland gorilla

*

5 hours ago, Chun-Li_Forever said:

 And Doberman looks a little too... babyfaced? For a lack of a better word.  Maybe the "gentle giant" of the crew?

Dobberman have "another face" as he can compress his own body changing look (and abilities)... these two are same guy

Guess would be Zeku-like character (as have two different forms to switch) if ever become playable(idoubt)

11 hours ago, Lord_Vega said:

 

Cool thing of that thumbnail pic is that you can see in Ed Rog's pose 😄

30 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Edit: Ryu actually got a decent little list of buffs. They shrank the hurtbox on his Hadoken and Shinku Hadoken. Also the changed the type of hit for his OD Shoryuken. If I'm reading that correctly, it seems like it has more juggle potential.

Thanks dude

Btw considering they touched Solar Plexus i wish they made it cool again, with meterless shit 🥲