Here you go guys its our SOTG with Steve Horvath himself enjoy also check out the 3rd interview with Steve is up as well .

State of the Game Podcast

So what does it say...my computer keeps timing out when I try to load the podcast.

Deck dont matter said:

You should be able to listen to it through the quick time player FFG uses I just tried and it worked . If you are still having issues right click on the here link and just down load the MP3.

I'm about halfway through and no SOTG yet if anyone that just wants to listen to that and skip ahead.

(there are a lot of good spoilers though, so listen to the whole thing when you get the chance)

Uh, the SOTG is the entire thing. It explains what Tekken will have, etc.

Fine, here it is.

Tekken is good. Nina will be there. No bears or pandas for now, but eventually they'll get to everyone's character. Tekken 6 will almost obviously be Set 13 ("We're going to be very aggressive", he says. Then when asked if Tekken would be Set 13, he says "Could be... that would be very aggressive, don't you think?") He did not confirm this lol, but he also said that he doesn't want to give out too many details for set 13, since he wants to hype set 12 for now. More details next month.

Set 12 will be 8 characters. Which means that base sets will be 8 characters. Expansions will be 5. Each character will have 18 support cards. Forever and ever. Means less characters pulled, more support and actually being able to build a deck with a single character. About 6 attacks, 6 or 7 foundations and 4 support cards (which could be 1 action and 3 assets, 2 and 2 or 3 and 1 or so) PER character.

Shadowar apparently has OMGWTF awesome art.

Character creation contest with Shadowar. You write background and stuff. If you win, you help design. Winner gets some of the card ahead of time, too. You don't get all the copies, like you do if you win a card, but some ahead of time. More details later.

No bans or erratas for February at the moment. They're still deciding. As of when this was recorded, though. He will type the bans or erratas, if any, in the written version that he will post today or tomorrow.

Promos will be released with the sets.

Less character promos. I mean why release gajillions of characters only to have them be ignored?

Promos for a set will probably not be released before their respective sets. No clue why.

There's a bunch of stuff for the impatient.

Mark of the Beast and Martial Arts Champion are being reprinted.

I could care less about MAC, but Mark is great since it has all symbols with White Magic.

guitalex2008 said:

Should I....?? *evil grin*

guitalex2008 said:

ABOUT **** TIME. but, well, i sort of stopped collecting so.

not the impatient, I only had a few minutes before I had to go to work and I wanted to have the time to mull over stuff (like the character creation

quarzark said:

Thats cool man glad you guys liked it so far listening to our show means a lot all of us .

Just a little constructive criticism about your Podcast style...

Please try to control the interruptions. You've got 3, 4 people in a room at one time, just try to control how many people speak over one another, because I can tell a lot of people have some cool things to say, but don't because they get interrupted and then don't speak.

less characters, finally!

I wonder, though, if 8/5 characters per set might be choking down a little too much? I mean, there are going to be licenses that only see 5 characters released in an entire year. (plus promos, but they're cutting down on those too) Of course I agree that 16/11 was way overboard, but why not something like 10/7 in sets, 14 cards each?

Feedback:

• It was way too long. If I wasn't staying home from work sick, and completely brain dead... there was no way I'd normally have the time to listen to the entire thing. The audio music at the start was way too long, and completely unneeded.
• I'll echo Shinji's comments from above: too many cooks in the kitchen. Cut down the interviewers to two.
• Work on the audio levels. It was too difficult to hear a great deal of the comments outside of Mr. Kovaz
• If Steve is there to talk - let him talk. Too often you guys were interrupting him, in what just sounded like something out of Bevis and Butthead "Yeah... heh heh... yeah... that's great!"

Just my two cents.

Cetonis said:

Here's the neat thing - they can try the 8/5 for a year, and if it's too few, then the following year they can alter it.

So im to understand that theres no bans or erratas as of yet but when the SOTG is actually written theres a chance for em? Well thats cool, and yay for big MAC comin back, we could use some old school anti draw.

So when Steve said 8 chracter does he mean 4 in the packs and 4 in the Starter decks?

InsanoFlex said:

Well when you hear the tone in his voice about bans/erratas it was an open thing so its possible we could see some he just couldn't say last week. Just stay tuned for his written one tomarrow to see what happens.

I gotta point something out. There already is a ninja without Evil, Galford.

Also, Shadowar Create-a-character? JOYGASM! I don't even care about the card (well I do), I mainly just want to get my creative juices flowing.

Writer. Senses. Tingling! I've already got most of the details worked out for my first entry into this (assuming we can have more than one entry), I just need to sort out the appearance then I'm onto the next one.

Antigoth said:

^- what he said.

It's not even so much too many cooks in the kitchen, just make sure everyone has their voice. I'm sure you have a set list of questions, make sure everyone has their questions worked out and when steve finishes answering one, you move onto the next, same with comments. The actual conversations need to be a bit more organized or like they said, less people. We don't want to get bored listening to only a few people. And don't interrupt him with silly comments.

however, I enjoyed it a lot now that I've gotten to listen to the whole thing. Good job and thanks for doing it

Cascade said:

He did until the block 3 legal Galford was released. Who would have thought that guy would end up with the evil symbol.

Did steve not say that there would be character box toppers. Im shocked and amazed that people didnt kick down doors and pop corks when he mentioned that. No more BRTs!

guitalex2008 said:

I remember distinctly saying this would definitely tie the players to ShadoWar were they to do a contest like this. I was also exclaiming that those of us with a creative itch could not really find our niche in the community.

Well, we have our outlet now.

I've been working on SW style character for the last 2 months, ever since Steve gave a wink and a nod to the CC contest suggestion.

Bring it.

Nyobari said:

I thought he shot that down. Anyway, whomever wins, we'll likely be happy. Except for Shinji, 'cause he always hatin'.

Hey Scott (Scott Gaines), be prepared to give me an uber card as I will be getting my bitter revenge at LEGACY WORLDS... And I will probably Pilot Ibuki... Suzaku for the wins?