Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

SpellcraftQuill said:
There’s five characters shown in that teaser. I slowed down to get Mitsurugi, Taki, Sophitia, and Siegfried. Who was the other one? Looked like Ivy to me.
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There's actually multiple characters shown in that teaser (in the eye of soul edge scene); Mitsurugi, Taki, Sophitia, Siegfried, Zasalamel, Groh (I didn't see this one but I'll take you on your word), and I think even Talim (the braided hair). It is quite possible that there are even more in the image than what we could see. A lot of the images blur together...it could have the entire cast in it for all we know.
 
I was just thinking something about the elf class. Wouldn't there ears go right through the hats amd helmets.
 
AMillionHP said:
I'm pretty sure what made Algol un-CASable was the fact that too much of his moveset appears from the body. Making things complicated for varying sizes and heights. None of that appears to be happening with this character, its pretty much no different from Viola. I think he should be CASable.

Brings me to a new point while i'm at it though. Not only does this character shit all over Algol's shot, its more so the case for Viola. At least Algol would be like a more Melee version of him. Comparing the two would be like comparing Sophitia and Casandra. But no way in hell will they now include a telekinetic cdystal ball while this guy floats around several weapons at varying sizes.
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Algol's moveset is fully functional for any character. I'm quite sure the blades increase/decrease in size proportional to the character's height. I believe the reason his moveset isn't available for customs is because of a certain Brave Edge combo that can be repeated multiple times in a row if you have enough meter, which normally isn't possible. Only small customs can do it. This does a ton of damage (essentially a death combo) and can lead to easy ring outs. It's too unbalanced so I think the developers decided to restrict the moveset to Algol only since his height can't be edited in Creation. Of course, you can still easily swap movesets via hex editing, but not too many people do that in my experience.

Noctis said:
I have on multiple occasions, but I'm operating off memory so forgive me if I'm foggy. Unless you had Algol's face code in the character somewhere, you'd lack weapon trails, so half the moves would be invisible. If you edited the moveset onto a character less than height 5, it would do no damage whatsoever. Of course it still functioned/loaded into the game, so it doesn't seem like it was an impossible feat for the dev team, just extra work. And we all know how SCV was shafted.
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Actually, the weapon trails are visible, but some of the weapons aren't (elbow blades, ankle blades and arm cannons). Putting Algol's face on a custom makes these weapons show up in battle. Soul Edge and Soul Calibur are always visible regardless of which face the character has. The aura underneath the legs is only visible when the custom is in Algol's slot location. The moves will always damage because I've seen it myself with large and small customs.
 
In the Libra of Souls trailer there's a scene where Azwel is seen spinning a staff in mid air. Does this not kind of resemble the same motion or is this just Kilik's fighting style?

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Now as know the wizard's name is Azwel, we know that the 4chan leaks (or least one of the posts) are correct. I decided to go down the rabbit hole and dig through the relevant 4chan threads.

I'll try my best to write a summary, but if people want the information verbatim, then here's all the information I copied and pasted which seemed relevant: https://pastebin.com/raw/7j2JJQnU (sorry, this is not super organized. I also included links to the relevant threads but note those links are not SFW as there's pictures of borderline pornography and some offensive language)

There were 3 threads which 2 different leakers posted in. The first guy didn't make many posts at all. He claimed the remaining characters (as of June) were:
  • Seung Mina
  • Talim
  • Tira
  • Voldo
  • Astaroth
  • Azwel
  • Cervantes
  • Raphael
  • Lizardman
  • Hwang
He later clarifies he's not sure if Hwang is in since he can't find any narrator strings for him. And he claims he's worked on localization for the game. He also says he thinks create-a-soul is back, and he notes that some characters fight a lot of generic enemies (Taki fights a lot of Fuma clan people, Sophitia fights Malfested enemies, Yoshimitsu and Voldo fight a lot of "mooks"). He also said he doesn't think Cassandra is in the game but she has a cameo during Sophitia's story mode.

And then there's guy number two who posted a LOT in two different threads. I initially thought this could be the same as the above guy, but looking through more posts, they definitely are not. The second guy mainly talked a lot about Libra of Souls mode (he never mentioned it by name, only as "the create a fighter adventure mode"). Here's a bunch of stuff he mentioned:
  • Lizardman is not playable, though you can make custom lizardmen.
  • Says he doesn't think Cassandra is in the game.
  • There's a create-a-soul adventure mode where you travel between different nodes doing quests and there's an item shop.
  • You get XP and money for doing side quests and some "fanservice cameo stuff."
  • At the start of the adventure mode, Zasalamel tells you that you're cursed by the Evil Seed and you must roam the world to close dimensional shifts created by Soul Edge.
  • You team up with Maxi and Mitsurugi early in the adventure mode.
  • There's one NPC who looks like they could be Talim's sister (looks much older than Talim).
  • You unlock Inferno by beating the story mode.
  • Says there's a new character who is an "evil wizard guy." (he said this as a reply to a random statement by someone describing the look of the "wizard guy" and that Inferno is a mimic, so I guess there's a third leaker amongst all of this? Or maybe he doubleposted.)
  • He lists the entire roster (this is the big list I posted some weeks ago), which is the same as the one Azwel guy posted except this one adds Inferno, and has no Lizardman or Hwang. And he mentions Azwel by name.
He said this as reply to someone asking if he was "that Azwel guy":
only time i spoke about the roster i said some new evil wizard guy because i couldnt remember his name, if someone else said azwel then they're in the know
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I should note that one of his earlier posts said that he doesn't think Seong Mi-na isn't in. But he also said he hadn't worked on the game for months so he couldn't remember all the character names (he said Cervantes, Astaroth, Raphael and some Chinese female character he couldn't remember the name of hadn't been announced yet), and he said he would look up the character names once he was able to at work so he could post about it (which eventually lead to that one big list he posted). I'm assuming the "Chinese" character he couldn't remember the name of was actually Seong Mi-na, and his original statement about Seong Mi-na probably not being in was an honest mistake.

Note that it's technically impossible to tell who is who in 4chan posts, so it's possible some random replies were fakes (though I only found one instance where someone had to go out of their way to say that a reply was someone impersonating him). And I wanna emphasize all of these posts were made back in June and July, that's before Azwel, Seong Mi-na, Astaroth, and other reveals. Both of these leakers haven't been wrong about any of the revealed characters so far (their lists are also nearly identical except for Hwang and Lizardman).

One interesting things is that both never talked about DLC ever. Both listed Tira, but they didn't seem to be aware she was DLC (at least they never mentioned it). And never they said anything about who the other DLC characters are.

There are two more posts I might as well mention, but I don't think these two posts were made by either of the above guys. Both of these posts were part of a reply chain where leaker #2 eventually started saying stuff.

Post 1:
Here is Day one Roster. New character is Groh's father. Hilde and Setsuka dlc.
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He included this picture: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/449840053049360388/483163790460846080/1532455597263.png

This mainly looks like a compilation of stuff said by Vergeben (and the first Azwel leaker), so I think this is just someone repeating information rather than someone who's actually leaking. Edit: This post is confirmed to have been done by a random guy, and not any of the leakers (the image originates from a post on 8wayrun).

Post 2:
Cassandra is not in the game as a playable character even with dlc . Sorry. She is in cutscenes for Sophitia's story mode. Maybe if a second season pass is done she will be in that.
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Leaker #2 replied to this message and said "he's right i'm afraid". But leaker #2 never said anything about ever knowing any DLC details, so it's possible he thought that message was right because he hasn't seen any details about her being part of the game, but he does know she's part of the Sophitia's story mode.

... Aaaaaaaand that's it! It's unfortunate it's impossible to verify who's who on 4chan as that makes it hard to trust every single post which looks to be by the same guy, and it makes it so much harder to parse all of this stuff. But I think it's extremely clear both of these guys are legit leakers. The first guy mentioned Azwel by name and he'd be the luckiest person in the world if he randomly guessed that name. The second guy mentions so many specific details about Libra of Souls mode which makes him even more believable (I should note what he said about Zasalamel being in the introduction of Libra of Souls mode matches up with one of the screenshots Namco released).
 
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