Ok, enough of this arguing about Verbergen's safety. It's off topic and useless to boot.
Considering what I've heard, asking Verbergen for more info probably won't hurt anyone directly working with Namco. Thing is, just because someone has access to info doesn't mean they have unlimited info to disperse.
Vergeben himself has mentioned prior that he has heard things but cannot confirm them at potential risk to his sources. If you'd like to wade through the pages of irrelevant bickering to find it, knock yourselves out.
But this argument ends immediately. Take it to PMs.
Just like Marginal and WindupSkeleton said, I know some other things that I have yet to share but was advised not to, so I can't say anything about that until I'm given the clear to. Aside from that, I don't know EVERYTHING. I don't know the entire roster as of this moment for instance.
I've said that before too. I only know what I'm told.
Otherwise, I'm in the same boat as you and having to wait and see things play out with the things I have been told and divulged.
Plus what I was not aware of being revealed too. So it's just as exciting and interesting to see things get revealed, despite me knowing things.
The only difference for me personally is that things I know being revealed feels more validating in the excitement to see it be revealed.
It's not like I can't be surprised or excited though. Far from it.
I don't know all the details like what characters look like before they're revealed, or many gameplay details about specific characters aside from Grøh so far, which was a special case in general that I was informed so much about him ahead of time about him using the weapon that he does and how it works, him being edgelordy, an assassin, and Kilik's rival. I knew about both voice actors voicing him too.
I had no idea what his design actually looked like until he was revealed, or that he had that Soul Charge transformation. The info I was told were like bullet points to the whole of the character itself.
Like I know about Grøh's dad, and that Grøh has issues with him, but not much else aside from something I can't share yet. So I'll be as surprised as you are when he gets revealed.
Of course I knew about Soul Charge being a V-Trigger like mechanic this time around too, but not what every character I know's does.
When it comes to this game, I just happened to be fortunate enough to know a good deal about the new game in a series I'm very passionate about like you.
I know you want Talim to be officially confirmed by Namco, but Vergeben has provided lots of info for the game.
Here is Timeline on SCVI Leaks
1.) TGA 2017 or PSX 2017
2.) Multi moveset idea & V - Trigger mechanic = Soul Charge Mode
Soul Charge Mode is where characters get enhanced moves, changed moves, or transformations.
2a.) An Example of Enhanced Moves - Mitsu's Soul Charge Mode 22_88BB ~ SS A:AB.
Mitsu's 66A+B becomes a Guard Break in Soul Charge Mode.
2b.) An Example for Changed Moves - The 3rd Hit of Xianghua's AAB becomes her old 4B in Soul Charge Mode. It's the SCVI version of AA[BE]. In past games Xianghua's AA4BB wasn't useful, until her replacement Leixia can do this via AA[BE] where 4 out of 5 hits connected on CH with the 5th
hit safe on block.
In SCVI, Xianghua's AABB in Soul Charge Mode is AA[BE] in SCV, but all 5 hits are a NCC without the aid of a stun.
2c.) An Example of Transformations - Kilik becomes Malfested Kilik with his health draining and getting a 2nd CE. Malfested Kilik is tied to the story of SCVI because of the Evil Seed(An event when Siegfried became Soul Edge's new host and became Nightmare.)
3.) Kilik would be his own character again, not a mimic, & have a new rival.
I think Nicovideo does sometimes block non-Japanese IPs for certain videos, although it's not very common and I can't imagine they'd bother blocking a video game event stream. It's easy enough to watch it anyway even if they did though.
I think Nicovideo does sometimes block non-Japanese IPs for certain videos, although it's not very common and I can't imagine they'd bother blocking a video game event stream. It's easy enough to watch it anyway even if they did though.
I still don't understand Japan's love for Niconico. It's garbage and low quality a lot of the time too. And then chat comments flood the screen OVER THE VIDEO itself because somehow that's a good idea. Plus most text on screen is people shitposting the same exact thing over and over in Japanese.
Then you of course have the issue of the blocking thing happening sometimes. Having to sign up and "take a ticket" to watch a stream and hope you don't get booted from it randomly, as both things are put in place to try and encourage people to get premium accounts.
How and why Japanese people haven't completely abandoned Niconico and stick solely with Youtube and or Twitch for things like that I will never understand. It's one of those "we stick with it because it's Japanese and we're stubborn and force ourselves to believe it's better even though it isn't because it's Japanese."
I'm done ranting, but I'll end this by saying thay the decision to still use Niconico in 2018 when it's proven to be inferior and with far less reach of visibility will never make sense to me.
I still don't understand Japan's love for Niconico. It's garbage and low quality a lot of the time too. And then chat comments flood the screen OVER THE VIDEO itself because somehow that's a good idea. Plus most text on screen is people shitposting the same exact thing over and over in Japanese.
Then you of course have the issue of the blocking thing happening sometimes. Having to sign up and "take a ticket" to watch a stream and hope you don't get booted from it randomly, as both things are put in place to try and encourage people to get premium accounts.
How and why Japanese people haven't completely abandoned Niconico and stick solely with Youtube and or Twitch for things like that I will never understand. It's one of those "we stick with it because it's Japanese and we're stubborn and force ourselves to believe it's better even though it isn't because it's Japanese."
I'm done ranting, but I'll end this by saying thay the decision to still use Niconico in 2018 when it's proven to be inferior and with far less reach of visibility will never make sense to me.
We've been trying to figure out how or why Namco does what they do for at least 12 years. Even more so since 2008. The things they could've done for SCIV and SCV could've been amazing. But they chose to either do nothing or do the exact wrong thing. The decisions they've made have had no rhyme or reason and seems to be the antithesis of what was needed to make this series grow or succeed. I could go into it for hours (and have) but just know that this is nothing new. The best way to deal with what Namco does is take a wait and see approach. I mean honestly the approach they've taken this time around seems to be pretty fresh for them. We get an announcement with two character reveals, a month or so later we get 4 more characters with a more in depth look into the mechanics, and they're letting people play the game a lot more (regardless if it's here in NA or around the world) a lot more than they did with the last game so we get even more information out there. So yeah while it may be confusing I counsel patience and just know that it could be so much worse.
Also after reading the tweets, it seems that they're going to start playing around 11a.m. Tokyo time. That means for us here in the States that's 9p.m. EST 8p.m. CST 7p.m. MST and 6p.m. PST on Saturday.
