It's now been 30 days since the dev team uploaded a QA build to the game's Steam app entry.
Should I start arranging a funeral for our hopes and dreams of a season 3?
Here we go! A huge collection of all the artwork in SC6 (dialogue portraits, story backgrounds, character select artwork, and museum artwork): https://mega.nz/file/BFcSkZiL#NF7hMmhwEQa5MY-YHh6foqpTz9qGNsVPNM-cOlC4-xg
I made a video podcast about the Hwang DLC and announcement:
I also did a little bit of quick datamining and I couldn't find anything. And if anyone's curious, the weird Star, Stone, Yell, etc codenames are still there with no changes. My theory is still that those were red herrings added in...
The plot thickens. They updated the article again!
https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/soulcalibur/news/hwang-will-be-back-soulcalibur-vi-december-2
... Kappa
1: I have a really hard time believing they switched what character it is late in development (that's especially crazy considering the pandemic), so there's kinda no way it could be anyone but Hwang.
2: I have no idea what I'm looking at with this silhouette. I feel like none of the shapes...
I feel this is a sign that Namco should do teases like this more often. We all know who the character is, but a bunch of people are still saying it could be Algol.
That's a good find. 0x0A as Arthur makes sense.
I'm too lazy to double-check this by looking at game's memory, but based on one list I think the boss variants of characters in Legendary Souls and Devil Jin are immediately after Kilik. So it could be something like this:
0x3D = Kilik (SC5)
0x3E...
I know they've used the same list of IDs since SC1, but I've never bothered to figure what the IDs are in Soul Edge. I'm too lazy to look through Soul Edge's memory, but I found a list online related to how weapons are saved for each character in the savegame, and the order for the characters...
I saw people babble about the SC character ID list I made a few years ago. Here's the most up-to-date version:
Combined for entire series:
0x01 = Mitsurugi
0x02 = Seong Mi-na
0x03 = Taki
0x04 = Maxi
0x05 = Voldo
0x06 = Sophitia
0x07 = Siegfried
0x08 = Rock
0x09 = Hwang
0x0B = Ivy
0x0C = Kilik...
That looks too high-poly to be an in-game model to me. That said, I'm willing to bet the in-game model is still much more detailed than anything in SC. Poor SC is always treated like the red-headed stepchild compared to Tekken.
I was initially weirded out by all of the magical stuff Cassandra does as I played her a lot in 3 and 4, but I've gotten more used to it and I do think it's in-character the way she uses her powers. First of all, if I recall, she gains the power by stealing Sophitia's weapons, right? But more...