Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

What kinds of buffs did Cervantes get? Is there a summary of the different buffs and nerfs somewhere?
I have them here.
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And as far as I’m concerned Cervantes didn’t really get buffed or nerfed. If anything he’s exactly the same as before. Just more consistent with less damage.
 
I'm no history buff but I don't think there was anything interesting going on in central/southern africa in the 15th Century (other than slavery), probably making it hard to tie into the story line.
I’ve had the idea of designing a character from the Caribbean that finds a shard of Soul Edge and uses it to escape captivity.
But that discussion is for another day…

Looking over the patch notes it seems weird to have so many changes at the end of the season. Despite some where alluding to, Talim’s health recovery is not as powerful as Elena from SF4. All of the tracking changes to verticals tell the devs went overboard with the corrections the first time and want some attacks to track a bit.
 
I’ve had the idea of designing a character from the Caribbean that finds a shard of Soul Edge and uses it to escape captivity.
But that discussion is for another day…

Looking over the patch notes it seems weird to have so many changes at the end of the season. Despite some where alluding to, Talim’s health recovery is not as powerful as Elena from SF4. All of the tracking changes to verticals tell the devs went overboard with the corrections the first time and want some attacks to track a bit.
That sounds like an interesting premise but unfortunately probably not anime enough (not to be THAT guy) given the direction of travel the franchise seems to be taking..
 
Setsuka's JF's should always matter. Vernal Reflection is going to adjusted in SCVI Season 3 to make all of Setsuka's JF do 15 more DMG on each hit.
I don't thinks it's necessary to make it so that any casual player is kinda subjected into playing an essentially neutered version of the character just because they don't necessarily want to spend that much time to master the character only to make make her moveset function properly. That's just I way see it, though. Why does she have to be a character of which 90% of her moveset is bad unless you fully commit to mastering all the just frame inputs (in most cases I've seen, the end result of even doing is only maybe slightly better than a character that doesn't have to do that)?
 
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I don't thinks it's necessary to make it so that any casual player is kinda subjected into playing an essentially neutered version of the character just because they don't necessarily want to spend that much time to master the character only to make make her moveset function properly. That's just I way see it, though. Why does she have to be a character of which 90% of her moveset is bad unless you fully commit to mastering all the just frame inputs (in most cases I've seen, the end result of even doing is only maybe slightly better than a character that doesn't have to do that)?

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The advantage of having another physical release of SC6 is that at some point the licence will run out for the guest characters making them impossible to play in the future. It's already happened to SC4 so it will happen with SC6. That is the only reason to get a physical copy, for historical as well as tournaments long into the future.
Well, for what it's worth, I don't think that is likely to occur often with guests in any fighting franchise: Star Wars characters represent a special case as IP as such cases are concerned because of the tight manner in which they are licensed and how the terms of those licenses are stringently enforced--SW being one of the most valuable and policed properties of the world's largest entertainment media conglomerate.

Also, a physical copy would no longer protect against that with today's technology and EULAs; even if the data is on the disc, they could easily disable access to it in an update if they wanted (though the publisher/developers would probably do everything in their power to avoid this until years after the game was past its heyday, and not at all if they could avoid--they are aware of the potential blowback on this actions, but their hands are sometimes tied if the owner of the licensed IP character decides to enforce the terms of the license and pull the character).

But again, I think that (thankfully) this kind of practice (pulling a character from the game, even years later) is likely to remain the extreme exception, rather than the rule. It's kind of a fluke that Star Wars characters got into SC in the first place: it was a cross promotion thing for The Force Unleashed (which the parties seem to have believed would be massive blockbuster) and even then it never would have happened if the IP had been owned by Disney at the time, but this was a still a few years before that.

And actually, to this day you can still play Star Wars characters on SCIV: any copy allows access to The Apprentice, and you can play Yoda on any XBOX copy/Vader on any PS4 version. And if you downloaded the DLC enabling file on either platform, you can still play all three characters. The only thing which has changed is that if you don't have a copy of that file on your physical drive, you can longer purchase/redownload it. Not that I'm by any means defending the practice: I think it sucks big time that a character can disappear like this (even if it Yoda, maybe the least-liked guest of all time), and I wish that the license had been negotiated differently to prevent this. I'm just underscoring that, unfortunately, these days, whether content stays is a less than ever a matter of how it distributed and more than ever about the license agreements.

Oh and welcome back. I thought you'd left this site like some of the other prominent users in recent months.
Ah, thanks man! I've been kinda-sorta around, but just lurking more than anything: work, home and other obligations have really crowded in during recent months. I was active for a bit weeks back, but all my time for the forum ended up being sucked into updating my gallery thread in the CaS subforum. But with Hwang out, I'll probably be at least a little more engaged for the next little bit. :) By the way, where is Dissidia in all of this? Surely he's not absent at this of all SC moments??
 
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