Skull Girls discussion thread

Sairus · 05-07-2013 3:12am

My laptop can just barely run it with all the graphics setting turned down to nothing... and then it's still in slow motion!

New laptop time methinks.

Squigly's story mode is awesome.

Yreval · 06-07-2013 7:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxn6N0J9aHo

Sairus · 07-07-2013 1:23am

As he mentioned in the above thing, Squigly's not balanced yet so her combos/hitstun and some of the properties on her moves are likely to change dramatically before release. The Beta has actually been updated twice since launch with fixes and tweaks already. (The part where Squigly misses with the charged ground snake move was a bug that's now fixed for instance)

Another couple of additions to the beta are Squigly got a load of new voice samples last night and the River King Casino now has some unfinished music added.

Also, Lab Zero had a panel at Anime Expo where they showed the first extremely early Big Band footage, complete with parry demo. In the final game Band won't be able to parry projectiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEr65o2Bh0

Not sure I'm a fan of his sax blocking the lifebars.

K.O.Kiki · 07-07-2013 12:50pm

Squigly looks good, she has BIOHAZADO ARM.

Scavenger XIII · 07-07-2013 3:46pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Squigly looks good, she has BIOHAZADO ARM.

Oh gawd.

j.C x INFINITY

K.O.Kiki · 10-07-2013 2:41pm

K.O.Kiki · 12-07-2013 12:44pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVD_aWIc_H8

Earthworm Jim skin?

BEST. CHARACTER. EVER.

Yreval · 12-07-2013 9:06pm

As announced on the Evo stream, the PC version will be released on the 22nd of August.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=621471

Sairus · 13-07-2013 2:41pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Earthworm Jim skin?

BEST. CHARACTER. EVER.

I hate that palette. It's a clever idea, but it looks terrible.

There's a limited edition Eighty Sixed shirt available for the EVO weekend and it gives out first glimpse of Robo Fortune:

Sairus · 02-08-2013 5:34pm

Anyone who wants free access to the Beta and has been a member of CheapAssGamer for more than 90 days can get a code over here:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/index.php?app=codes

Yreval · 13-08-2013 12:17pm

http://shoryuken.com/2013/08/12/skullgirls-beta-gameplay-and-character-changes-82-812-lobbies-all-play-and-more/

Along with a number of interesting balance changes and a radical change to the way Double’s dash works, this batch of updates brings the integration of something fans have been requesting for quite a while now: online lobbies. Skullgirls’ online lobbies feature All-Play, a brand new piece of Lab Zero tech that, essentially, let’s everyone in the lobby play at once. So if six people are all chilling in one lobby, you’ll have three matches going on, instead of one match with four spectators.

chopperbyrne · 13-08-2013 12:22pm

Sounds ****. How does it handle rotation?

Sairus · 16-08-2013 2:44am

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Sounds ****. How does it handle rotation?

After every game you get sent back to the lobby. When everyone has finished their games you can toggle your status to Ready. After a countdown, everyone who is set to ready will be paired up against someone they haven't played before (or failing that, someone they haven't played recently).
At the moment there's no option for King of the Hill like in SF4 lobbies.

One neat feature is that if there's only 2 players in a lobby it lets you rematch the opponent at the end of a game instead of going back to the lobby.

Sairus · 23-08-2013 4:49am

This released on Steam last night and is shockingly stable considering how rough some of the beta updates were looking. (Though it was accidentally completely free to download for a few minutes)
The sweeping balance changes they made to the game over the last few months is totally nuts. MikeZ has totally revamped the Infinite Prevention System so it now has a second limiter to further shorten combos and most of the character have been completely retuned, some with new moves or virtually new moves because they've been altered so much. Notable extreme examples of balancing:

Painwheel had one of her regular specials upgraded to a level 3 super attack and her previous level 3 has become a level 2.
Double's dash has been reassigned as a command dash and she now has Parasoul and Squigly's dashes for her forward and back dashes respectively.
Ms Fortune got a brand new normal while she has her head on and her inputs and move properties were all changed depending on if you've got her head on or not.
Valentine's poisons can now be stacked from Lvl 1 - 3 before you throw them, resulting in different properties when fully charged.
Peacock has a taunt that you input using Hsien Ko's TenRaiHa super input. This locks her next normally random level 3 item drop to be TenRaiHa.

Squigly also launched alongside the game so if you buy the full game now you can buy her for $0. Her price will be bumped to $5 in a few months, so get her while she's hot. Also included with Squigly is her story mode and character tutorial plus 3 new stages.

There's still some stuff missing from the build that is planned to be added before the console update for Squigly is finalized (including my NPC), which won't be released for 4-6 weeks.

chopperbyrne · 23-08-2013 10:35am

How much is this on Steam?

Kanped · 23-08-2013 10:43am

£12, probably 15 euro?

UberPrinny_Baal · 23-08-2013 11:15am

Sairus wrote: »

There's still some stuff missing from the build that is planned to be added before the console update for Squigly is finalized (including my NPC), which won't be released for 4-6 weeks.

Are you being released on consoles?

Sairus · 23-08-2013 11:32am

Yep. They're still finalizing the last of the NPCs and still trying to see if they can get them animated or not. Right now time and money wise they can only have static character sprites because there's 80 fully detailed NPCs but they're maaaaaaybe looking at crowdsourcing the animations.

And by that I mean getting random volunteers to animate them for free, not give LabZero money.

SG takes poverty fighter to whole new heights.

UberPrinny_Baal · 23-08-2013 11:54am

Sairus wrote: »

they're maaaaaaybe looking at crowdsourcing the animations

Offer to animate yourself.

Get your name in the credits multiple times!

Sairus · 28-08-2013 5:10am

This is on sale for $7.49 on PSN from today until September 2nd. $3.75 for PlayStation Plus members.

Sairus · 06-09-2013 4:29pm

Here's some Big Band stuff:

He's got a bunch of normals now (most without hitboxes) and he is still as ****ing crazy gigantic as always. He's shaping up to have some fairly unique stuff with his attacks, most obviously with his s.MP:
He pulls out a trumpet and you can follow that MP with any sequence of buttons. Each button is a different musical note and also register as hits, so you can play a tune while comboing the opponent. Mike mentions that they're going to add in secret musical commands down the line that will only activate if you play the right tune.

Other random updates:
Stage select now shows a preview of each stage instead of just a title. Each stage also has a button combination attached to it so you can quickly select your favorite stage without scrolling if you remember its combination.

Spectator mode is nearing deployment on PC.

The console version is being submitted for certification and testing on Monday.

UberPrinny_Baal · 06-09-2013 4:32pm

Sairus wrote: »

He pulls out a trumpet and you can follow that MP with any sequence of buttons. Each button is a different musical note and also register as hits, so you can play a tune while comboing the opponent. Mike mentions that they're going to add in secret musical commands down the line that will only activate if you play the right tune.

My new main confirmed then, that sounds awesome.

Will I be able to play this guy on ExBawks eventually, or do I need to buy the steam version too?

Sairus · 06-09-2013 4:50pm

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Will I be able to play this guy on ExBawks eventually, or do I need to buy the steam version too?

Same deal as with Squigly. He'll deploy a few weeks early on PC, then come to consoles after certification.
All the DLC characters will be free for 3 months from the date they land on their respective systems.

K.O.Kiki · 06-09-2013 10:16pm

So I heard a rumour that the Under Night In-Birth devs are asking MikeZ if they can borrow a Skullgirls character...

Sairus · 07-09-2013 6:14am

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

So I heard a rumour that the Under Night In-Birth devs are asking MikeZ if they can borrow a Skullgirls character...

Aye, Mike mentioned that Melty Bread had spoken to them about that a while back but refused to answer more on the subject. Mysteeeerious.

Sairus · 08-09-2013 7:49am

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Offer to animate yourself.

So after an hour tinkering I now know how to animate in Photoshop. How about that?

TheMikenyan · 17-09-2013 11:40am

Is there any indicator as to when Squiggly is being released on consoles?

Sairus · 17-09-2013 2:32pm

TheMikenyan wrote: »

Is there any indicator as to when Squiggly is being released on consoles?

She went in for testing last week, so after a couple of weeks of certification she should drop on consoles. 2-3 weeks on the outside I imagine.

In PC version news, Spectator Mode was just added to the Beta tonight.

Sairus · 04-10-2013 1:41pm

So MikeZ is back from his wedding and there was a bunch of updates tonight, namely one I've been wanting to post for a while!

Tomorrow's build of SG will finally add a bunch of the guest NPCs and that delightful gent up there will be hanging out in the River King Casino for the forseeable. :pac: (I animated him too by the way! It was my first of many and it's awful now that I actually know how to y'know, animate. ;_; )

There's a video roundup of all the interesting stuff and an early look at the 30 or so NPCs being added tomorrow in this video:
(Skip to 8 minutes in if you want to bypass Mike showing off his Killer Instinct jacket and explaining that the patch is delayed on consoles (world shocked))

Things of note:
Console patch is basically ready to go but it turns out Lab Zero can't actually submit it. They need Konami to do it and they haven't had any responses to their emails in 2 weeks.
NPCs are added. To cope with the volume of NPCs being added the game now picks one of 5 version of the Casino when the level is selected. Each version only has 6 NPCs. Side note: MikeZ mixes up which NPC I am in the video. I can now understand why he was so confused when asking me if my NPC was supposed to look like me earlier.
Big Band has some new moves including a DP that causes a giant tambourine to sprout out of his coat. If you shake the stick while this is active it does more hits.
The patch tomorrow also adds 3 new palettes - the first of the IndieGoGo fan created palettes. Valentine, Squigly and Ms Fortune get colors based on Someone from Disgaea 3, Gum from Jet Set Radio and Orchid from Killer Instinct respectively. All the IGG palettes are free.

Also, over the last couple of weeks the Steam version was given spectator mode, all play lobbies and queen of the hill lobbies.

deathrider · 05-10-2013 3:04pm

I'm actually working on a SkullGirls review of the PC version at the moment. I'd only ever really played the demo previously, back when it first hit xbox Live, and I didn't think much of it. I've gotta say though, getting to mill into this full game is an absolute treat. It's fantastic stuff.

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