The character would be the same, just moveset different. I mean they could always spin it as his move set before he interacted with soul edge. Also, the reason I thought wave swords would work was because he already incorporates them a little with his arm moves.
Well...ok, fair point! But there are some caveats in that instance: for all intents and purposes in SCV, Viola was a separate character--amongst hardcore fans the possibility they were one in the same person was a pretty popular theory, but know one knew for sure and the average casual fan probably never had a clue. In fact, her switch in style was kind of required as part of the method for keeping Viola's identity in question. You're not wrong that this counter-example alluded me when I made that comment, but I'd still argue that it's a very different case from Algol giving up the Soul weapons (which don't just define his moveset, but also his story ark) in order to horn in on Revenant's territory.
In general that's how I look at it; or at least, it's the variety and qualities of the movesets that is most important to me, regardless of what is otherwise judged to be the defining aspect of a "character". On the other hand, Algol does have the most malleable of all styles, short Azwel and Necrid. It could theoretically work to revisit his moveset a little to keep the general overall style, but have elements of moves from other characters mixed in. sort of a half-way point between 'I Xeroxed their moves' pastiche style of Necrid/Azwel and the kind of T-2000 morpho-blades Azwel has now. I can't imagine there's a lot of motivation amongst PS to do much reconfiguration of that style, but it's theoretically possible they might mix his moves up somehow, and that's one way.
Clipping and hitbox issues are CAS problems in general (see Astaroth). Algol's style (and Ezio's as well) is usable by CAS back in SCV via hex editing. I did that myself and it doesn't have any issues visually or technically. It works fine just like any other CASable fighting style. The giant claw came out of the character's chest just like how it would come out of Algol's.
That's definitely welcome news, whatever that content ends up being, but I can't help but wonder what it really is: those placeholders would be awfully early for a fourth season, unless they had a lot of that content in development for some time, and that seems unlikely for a few reasons. Despite the number of items, I suspect that this free content of some sort. But it's definitely one of those situations where I will be pretty thrilled to end up being wrong.
Recently, Murray commented about how much he wanted to give more free content (since there's a huge demand), but the company can't afford such things that often. Then maybe is not free content...
Ezio’s style worked fine for me too, but I never got Algol’s to function properly. All the attacks would deal no damage. I figured it was just broken and unusable. It was never a huge focus, though, so admittedly I didn’t try that hard to fix it, it just didn’t work across the three characters I tried it on and I was just kind of like oh well I guess. I was a lot more focused on my unrealized dream that was having Pyrrha as Pyrrha Omega but with her normal face and style, and I never got that to work either. It wouldn’t have been strictly necessary to hex edit this if they’d given us Pyrrha Omega boots to go with the rest of her CaS parts, and I’ll probably begrudge them for that forever.
Yeah, that's definitely a valid argument, but it's also possible that each of those five items is something distinct enough to get its own itemization in the release list, to be dropped at different dates, but still be something relatively trivial that doesn't demand much budget. But I'll admit, it's intriguing, and it's certainly not impossible it represents a new season. If that happens, it will definetly buoy my expectations for SCVI:S3
Wait...I thought that sword was a larval Soul Edge? Are we talking about the opening cinematic or one of the backstory comic-book style scenes?
Hopefully SC6 gets more stages. I neeeeeeeeeeeeds more l0l
Money Pit, Valentine Mansion, The Adrian, Clock Tower, and many more to recreate.
Algol fans like him because of his style.
I'm pretty sure by "The moveste is the character" Foot meant you can't separate the character from the moveset. Function meme really does not apply here.
I'm on about the opening cinematic, I don't know anything about the comic.
I'm not making the case that it's for the best, I'm talking purely from a selfish position.
