greatfernman Report post Posted May 28, 2015 https://twitter.com/arcsystemworksu sock-puppet retweet (didn't finish the story but i think that doesn't hint at bridget.) Also, there's a new retweet hint at their twitter today ^_^ these aren't hints. they're just retweeting people who are guessing and/or poking fun at it. pls Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Poultrygeist Report post Posted May 28, 2015 http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2015/05/28/87975.html Either I'm reading this wrong or it seems like the Famitsu followup will give more details on the mystery newcomer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TekkamanArk Report post Posted May 28, 2015 When would this followup be? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Antaiseito Report post Posted May 28, 2015 these aren't hints. they're just retweeting people who are guessing and/or poking fun at it. pls wanna bet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greatfernman Report post Posted May 28, 2015 "KULA DIAMOND CONFIRMED FOR XRD" "That's just another costume for Johnny, obviously." are also retweeted. you really think it's a sock puppet holding character that is secretly kula diamond who is secretly angelia avallone who is secretly johnny in an alt costume? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kosmos badgirl Report post Posted May 28, 2015 http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2015/05/28/87975.html Either I'm reading this wrong or it seems like the Famitsu followup will give more details on the mystery newcomer. So maybe next week on the magazine, this week famitsu magazine has nothing about Xrd I believe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SoWL Report post Posted May 28, 2015 "KULA DIAMOND CONFIRMED FOR XRD""That's just another costume for Johnny, obviously."are also retweeted.you really think it's a sock puppet holding character that is secretly kula diamond who is secretly angelia avallone who is secretly johnny in an alt costume?Still makes more sense than Bedman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Antaiseito Report post Posted May 28, 2015 "KULA DIAMOND CONFIRMED FOR XRD" "That's just another costume for Johnny, obviously." are also retweeted. you really think it's a sock puppet holding character that is secretly kula diamond who is secretly angelia avallone who is secretly johnny in an alt costume? uhoh, didn't actually consider the ridiculous non-image retweets... But i bet on the sock-puppet sleep-related (like in related by blood?) character anyway, can't turn that back now ^_^" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jakestation Report post Posted May 28, 2015 If its a sock, then its mankind the wrestler? http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Mr-socko-puppet.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zouf Report post Posted May 28, 2015 "KULA DIAMOND CONFIRMED FOR XRD" "That's just another costume for Johnny, obviously." are also retweeted. you really think it's a sock puppet holding character that is secretly kula diamond who is secretly angelia avallone who is secretly johnny in an alt costume? plausible Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kosmos badgirl Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Maybe something worth translating?. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sourenga Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Ishiwatari just spoke during the ArcLive that Johnny's model from Story Mode couldn't simply be turned into playable character, but they had to pretty much re-create that model from a scratch in order to make him playable for Revelator. So, it has pretty much taken half a year to create Johnny... Also, balance isn't apparently changing much because people have really loved 1.10 balance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mumm-Ra Report post Posted May 28, 2015 So I guess that means that a character having a model doesn't automatically confirm them playable after all. RIP Dr. Paradigm . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tokkan Report post Posted May 28, 2015 It probably should be mentioned, when Ishiwatari was asked what "Revelator" means, he avoided the question and just said the change in name is for story reasons (I KNEW IT). And apparently Mori thinks it's a "sugoi chuuni" sounding name, that being brought up by Pachi caused Ishiwatari to talk about Mori having an amazing naming sense and that "Chronophantasma" is a really cool name. This was all before he made the statement about Johnny being a completely new model and not the one used in story mode. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Badgerine Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Damn, really? I wonder why that is? Is it to do with the rig? Or how the textures worked? With this new revelation, it seems more likely that Johnny and Mystery Silhouette Waifu are the only 2 additional characters we're gonna get. Anyway, glad to hear that 1.1 is proving popular enough that they're not changing too much balance-wise. And that reasoning for the name change means that I'm most certainly looking forward to more Story Mode chapters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LockedAndClush Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Looking at story mode models, there's not much of this "imperfect bones moving" that was mentioned in the artstyle talk. Story mode models are, for the most part, static. Even when action happens, it's noticeably less dynamic than actual gameplay (it actually looks 3D for the most part). I guess that they have to rework the rig for Johnny to include more movable points, to create this "real 2D sprite" feel. Also, considering all animations are 100% handmade key frames, this is a lot of work even if the model would be ready. I'm glad 1.1 stays (for the most part). It gets my hopes up for Johnny and the new character potentially being just a DLC addon released quite soon after arcades. Better not get to excited though... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vulcan422 Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Also, balance isn't apparently changing much because people have really loved 1.10 balance. Thanks be to based Daisuke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zouf Report post Posted May 28, 2015 If they don't change the balance, that means we won't have to pay for it, right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
White Man Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Some minor balance tweaking I don't mind, but I'm overjoyed they're not taking the Team Blue approach and randomly changing a whole bunch of stuff for no reason other than to make the game different for the sake of it being different. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youcanwonder Report post Posted May 28, 2015 I'm just hoping it's a dlc update. If we gotta pay for the chars, whatever not a big deal. But if they are putting 4 to 6 new chars (which would be nice) it's def gonna be a new disc (sf iv did it 5xs lol). So my eyes depending on what they are doing they will prolly have more announcements if it's a new disc based update. Look how they did xrd at 1st. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SoWL Report post Posted May 28, 2015 So I guess that means that a character having a model doesn't automatically confirm them playable after all.RIP Dr. Paradigm .Them having the story mode models never meant anything, since a lot of work has to be done with gameplay design even if the model is usable, and it never was. However, them being featured in the story mode does mean that they're currently more important than, say, Zappa or Anji, so they have better chances of becoming playable simply thanks to that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ballermachine Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Looking at story mode models, there's not much of this "imperfect bones moving" that was mentioned in the artstyle talk. Story mode models are, for the most part, static. Even when action happens, it's noticeably less dynamic than actual gameplay (it actually looks 3D for the most part). I guess that they have to rework the rig for Johnny to include more movable points, to create this "real 2D sprite" feel. Also, considering all animations are 100% handmade key frames, this is a lot of work even if the model would be ready. I'm glad 1.1 stays (for the most part). It gets my hopes up for Johnny and the new character potentially being just a DLC addon released quite soon after arcades. Better not get to excited though... A lot of Johnny's model looks geometrically identical to the story mode one, except for the higher definition face and some decals here and there, so I'm thinking you're right about the rig. UE3 doesn't support bone scaling, so it's a real pain to create deformation "helpers" (these scale parts of the model in X, Y and Z space) on top of the regular bones (which govern rotation and position) manually. It's a lot more complex technically, but I really don't feel like digging up the 3D models and reverse engineering them again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jocelot Report post Posted May 28, 2015 Plus Johnny has words written on his belt now so he's officially an Xrd character Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Layer Report post Posted May 28, 2015 I thought "By Your Side" and "The Midnight Carnival" were pretty cool subtitles. Sign and Revelator are just kinda.... japanese.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tokkan Report post Posted May 28, 2015 I thought "By Your Side" and "The Midnight Carnival" were pretty cool subtitles. Sign and Revelator are just kinda.... japanese.... Revelator's actually a rather obscure word that means "one who reveals, especially one who reveals the will of God". I think it's actually pretty cool. With regards to Sign, I agree with you. There's also a few songs out there that have "Revelator" as part of title or as the whole title. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
