MarcoPulleaux said:
Besides, who the Hell is Astrid ?
Funny you should ask...
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/UFS/ShadoWar%20Bios/Astrid%20bio.pdf
Wikipedia's at it again
Well there goes some of my spoilers for next week. I have no idea how this leaked but you can be sure I will out. Oh well still plenty left to spoil. for now I will tell you this, these are the best versions of Ivy and Siegfried yet (OK I know that is not saying much:) but they re both very cool and should make people happy.
As for ShadoWar Astrid's bio is now up in the support section, the story of her first fight with Ragnar will be posted there as well in the next few days along with the bios for Ragnar and my favorite Twilight Witch.
My YI Shan, Zi Mei, Astrid, and Tira decks should be tuned and ready to fight at the invitational next month. The test cases arrived last week for us to approve and after we went through everything James and I started building decks.
See you in the arena,
Steve
MarcoPulleaux said:
Oh Wikipedia, there you go again revealing spoilers because you know none of us read you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Fighting_System
For those who for whatever reason can't read it, I'll give you the simple version
SC4
Starters: Cervantes, Ivy, Nightmare, Siegfried
Pack: Algol, Astaroth, Hilde, Tira
ShadoWar
Starters: Astrid, Ragnar, Yi Shan, Zi Mei
Pack: Lu Chen, Rashotep, Temujin, Zhao Daiyu
Well, Astafruit fans got their wish. I'm mostly excited for starter Zi Mei, sweet Christ >_>. Also, if they could make Ivy good this time, that'd be lovely <3
Steve, I give you a lot of credit for being willing to admit how subpar the versions of Ivy and Siggy we have have been so far. Kudos sir. And thanks for the confirmations.
WHYYYYY steve TToTT you made a Tira deck before me ;o; ....... how is she *w*
Cascade said:
EDIT: WHY ASTAROTH!?!? That makes six Astaroth's now, whereas we still only have 3 Xianghua, 3 Seong Mi-Na, 3 Maxi grumble grumble stupid walking vase grumble grumble.
Because he's one of the guys that got a major makeover in the last game as opposed to a palette swap? Because people actually care about the big guy? Because he fit the mechanics the developer wanted to put in better? Because seriously, XIANGHUA AND MAXI!? Hell you on son? Because we just saw Seong Mi-Na in Set 10 and seriously we do not need to see her again that fast?
Select, apply.
Also, last Siegfried was actually pretty good.
Homme Chapeau said:
Cascade said:
EDIT: WHY ASTAROTH!?!? That makes six Astaroth's now, whereas we still only have 3 Xianghua, 3 Seong Mi-Na, 3 Maxi grumble grumble stupid walking vase grumble grumble.
Because he's one of the guys that got a major makeover in the last game as opposed to a palette swap? - Alright I'll give you that one.
Because people actually care about the big guy? - I don't.
Because he fit the mechanics the developer wanted to put in better? - We don't know that.
Because seriously, XIANGHUA AND MAXI!? - I like Xianghua, don't really care about Maxi but he is one of the remaining characters with just 3 versions. I could've said Rock.
Hell you on son? - Superglue mostly.
Because we just saw Seong Mi-Na in Set 10 and seriously we do not need to see her again that fast? - *cough*Siegfried*cough*
Select, apply.
Also, last Siegfried was actually pretty good. - So was Seong Mi-Na but we didn't get her again.
Cascade said:
Because he's one of the guys that got a major makeover in the last game as opposed to a palette swap? - Alright I'll give you that one.
Yeah, that one was my best. The rest were just crap.
That last comment about "last Sieg was good" was more in answer to people saying no Siegfried was good.
Also, Sieg is more important to storyline blah blah blah MAY have been a request from NamcoBandai. New Maxi would be swell as well, same with new Rock, honestly.
Amazing, oh yea she plays awesome too:) Sorry couldn't resist. The decks you can make with her a lot of fun and she will absolutely be competitive.
See you in the arena,
Steve
Solstice said:
WHYYYYY steve TToTT you made a Tira deck before me ;o; ....... how is she *w*
Homme Chapeau said:
Cascade said:
EDIT: WHY ASTAROTH!?!? That makes six Astaroth's now, whereas we still only have 3 Xianghua, 3 Seong Mi-Na, 3 Maxi grumble grumble stupid walking vase grumble grumble.
Because he's one of the guys that got a major makeover in the last game as opposed to a palette swap? Because people actually care about the big guy? Because he fit the mechanics the developer wanted to put in better? Because seriously, XIANGHUA AND MAXI!? Hell you on son?
Select, apply.
I'll agree Astaroth got a major overhaul and probably fits the mechanics well, BUT, he's certainly of less importance to the story than both Xianghua and Maxi (who kills him once =D).
I'm sure, come next SC, it'll be somewhat a Blades of Fury reunion between YS Maxi and Xiang.
We're all interested in Tira. I think we all agree ***Tira*** is a shining example of what characters need to be like. She wasn't broken, but she had no true counters, and with the existence of Tag Along, would be even more balanced these days.
FFGSteve said:
Amazing, oh yea she plays awesome too:) Sorry couldn't resist. The decks you can make with her a lot of fun and she will absolutely be competitive.
See you in the arena,
Steve
Solstice said:
WHYYYYY steve TToTT you made a Tira deck before me ;o; ....... how is she *w*
Does she have fire? >:3
oh is it april yet ><
FFGSteve said:
Amazing, oh yea she plays awesome too:) Sorry couldn't resist. The decks you can make with her a lot of fun and she will absolutely be competitive.
See you in the arena,
Steve
Solstice said:
WHYYYYY steve TToTT you made a Tira deck before me ;o; ....... how is she *w*
ultimo said:
FFGSteve said:
Amazing, oh yea she plays awesome too:) Sorry couldn't resist. The decks you can make with her a lot of fun and she will absolutely be competitive.
See you in the arena,
Steve
Solstice said:
WHYYYYY steve TToTT you made a Tira deck before me ;o; ....... how is she *w*
Does she have fire? >:3
Depends on if they made her utilizing UFS' symbol continuity.
So far, Tira has had the following symbols
Air
Chaos
Death
Evil
Fire
Water
leaving
All
Earth
Good
Life
Order
Void
I'm gonna go with Void. Void repersentes Emptiness (or obviously, a void), and Tira is certainly an emotional void of emptiness and insanity.
Im going with life. Its the opposite of death and it really needs some help. Life atm is no where on the map.
Tira with Life is just weird though. Life stands for beginning or creation, which has nothing to do with Tira (who is quite the opposite, since Tira has an obsessive urge of killing). The only thing that's even remotely Life about Tira is that she didn't start off being bad; quite the opposite, really. She just kinda slipped a gear.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but my predictions for resource trends amongst theme decks are Life and Evil for Soul Calibur. We don't have enough information persay on ShadoWar, but I'm sure its two symbols will be Earth and Fire.
Siegfried and Ivy both have Life, Nightmare and Cervantes both have Evil.
Again, not sure on ShadoWar, but Ragnar has Earth and I'm guessing Yi Shan does, and Zi Mei has Fire and I'm guessing Astrid does.
It took 4 Talims for her to get Wind. She's a Wind Priestess. We can't really go by canon when deciding symbols.
I'd like to state, at this time: every version of Kyo lacks Fire. So yeah.
Thank you.
Cascade - At least Talim's first 3 symbols (Chaos, Water, Life) all made sense! which leads me to...
Vagabond - Ugh, dude, I can't agree with you more. I seriously don't understand why they're waiting. Maybe it's because they realize that, if they ever want to make a Fire Kyo, he actually has to be GOOD this time? XD
bloodocean said:
Im going with life. Its the opposite of death and it really needs some help. Life atm is no where on the map.
There's no real reason for Tira to have Life when Ivy is in the set (All Ivy's have always had life).
edit: Except the first promo. But let's ignore that one like everyone else did.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Life and would like more support, but there's no reason for it from what I can gather.
guitalex2008 said:
bloodocean said:
Im going with life. Its the opposite of death and it really needs some help. Life atm is no where on the map.
There's no real reason for Tira to have Life when Ivy is in the set (All Ivy's have always had life.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Life and would like more support, but there's no reason for it from what I can gather.
Original Promo Ivy didn't have Life, but I understand, we don't talk about her.
The new Ivy will more than likely have Life, so I don't see Tira having it either. However, as long as Tira has Wind I don't really care about her other symbols.
Cascade said:
guitalex2008 said:
bloodocean said:
Im going with life. Its the opposite of death and it really needs some help. Life atm is no where on the map.
There's no real reason for Tira to have Life when Ivy is in the set (All Ivy's have always had life.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Life and would like more support, but there's no reason for it from what I can gather.
Original Promo Ivy didn't have Life, but I understand, we don't talk about her.
The new Ivy will more than likely have Life, so I don't see Tira having it either. However, as long as Tira has Wind I don't really care about her other symbols.
If Tira doesn't have Air, we'll have a lot of angry people storming into FFG offices.
Screw it-stamp Promo Tira from back in the day. 
I kid, of course.
I think she will have wind and death as it is a trend with her. Besides it makes sense she's a Misguided angel of death =D . Life would certaintly make me go o.O but I wouldnt complain. We also have to think about all the third symbols she has had. Evil, water, fire, I think its safe to say that those wont be on her. Whatever she may have I still cant wait to get my hands on her *w*