Killer Instinct Discussion Thread

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FutureGuy wrote: »

The first character for Season 3 has been revealed!!!

Get hype????

It's one of the battletoads with a comedy move set. No. Won't get hype. Get slightly embarrassed

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Lol! I'm hype!

D4RK ONION

Looks awesome

Macal

Haha, brilliant! Great choice by Rareware and Iron Galaxy.

I can only imagine how Conker would fit as a KI character now...

K.O.Kiki

NOW I'm looking forward to the PC port!

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Rash Movelist



Battlemaniac Beat ‘Em Up Combos
Rash can automatically perform combos by mashing Light Punch or Light Kick. He even automatically recaptures the opponent if they are airborne! How cool is that?!

Rash Bash – Back + HP
Rash bashes opponent with an overhead attack, leaving them with a severe headache!

RUN! – > > (Hold)
Rash is always ready for a fight and runs towards his enemies.

Wicked Tongue – All 3 Punch Buttons or LB on the Xbox One controller
Rash can zipline in any direction when his tongue makes contact with a wall or opponent. Wicked Tongue can also be used to eat most projectiles and gain Shadow Meter. Om nom nom nom!

Big Bad Boot – QCF + Any Kick
Rash kicks the opponent in the face with a spiked big boot. Respect the Boot!

Wrecking Ball – QCB + Any Kick
Rash morphs into a wrecking ball and swings across the stage. Causes a wall splat against grounded opponents, and a hard knockdown when the opponent is airborne. Has 1 point of armor because he’s one tough dude!

Battering Ram – QCF + Any Punch
Rash sprouts ram horns and charges towards his opponent.

Turbo Tunnel (Activate Instinct Mode with HP + HK)
Summons a Speeder Bike from out of nowhere! Damages the opponent on impact. Wreck your Speederbike? No problem! Rash can summon another one by pressing HP+HK again while in Instinct.



Killer Instinct Season 2 OST

The track list is in the description of the video. Mick Gordon does it again, this OST is epic!

Macal

Killer Instinct Season 2 OST

The track list is in the description of the video. Mick Gordon does it again, this OST is epic![/QUOTE]

I heard today that Mick is now gone as the OST composer for KI (he's now working on the DOOM OST). Whoever is the composer role for Season 3 has some big shoes to fill.

KI easily has the best OST of any current gen FGs.

2gen

Rash Trailer and Character (Beta) Breakdown

The teaser at the end hints at the return of the KI2 character Kim Wu, the "female Bruce Lee" who uses nunchucks.



(I never liked her, hopefully her redesign will be as good as Maya's one).

Sajam does another excellent character breakdown explaining the ins and outs of Rash. The character isn't complete yet so there are a few things missing.

Macal wrote: »

I heard today that Mick is now gone as the OST composer for KI (he's now working on the DOOM OST). Whoever is the composer role for Season 3 has some big shoes to fill.

KI easily has the best OST of any current gen FGs.

I was pretty disappointed when I found out the news as are many other fans of his music. Adam Isgreen (creative director at MS) posted this interview with the new guys who will be filling the spot... don't know how they'll do.

http://www.ultra-combo.com/introducing-atlas-plus-celldweller-composers-for-season-3/

Scavenger XIII

No more Mick Gordon is devastating, I'd love to hear him work bits of the classic Doom OST into some new material (which I hope he's going to do) but not at the expense of the rest of the KI music.

I feel like Celldweller could definitely do a decent job with it but it's never good to change the artist halfway through the piece.

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Recent KI Online Tournaments

125 players entered the 8BitBeatdown last weekend for the chance to win $300.

http://www.twitch.tv/ogty/v/10232311

The Japanese player OTGY also hosts online events for his growing seen. The above link is the archive footage of their last tournament.

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8Bit BeatDown 16/8

The tournament will go live at 11pm here http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq

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8Bit BeatDown (23/8) Top 16 for $1000

http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq/v/12449437

http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq/v/12457512

http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq/v/12459079

http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq/v/12461275

This week the 8BB had 120 entrants competing for $1000. Top 16 was shown in full and you can watch the archives in the above links.

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8Bit BeatDown (20/9) Top 16 for $1000

Top 16 will start at 11pm here: http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq

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Killer Instinct at SCR 2015

If anyone would like to check out some KI at SCR, here is the schedule.

Pools A-B: 6pm - 8pm
Pools C-D: 8pm - 10pm
Top 8: 4am - 6am

http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive

Not too many players entered but the standard of play should be high.

EDIT: looks like only Top 8 is being streamed *FailFish

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8-Bit Beatdown Top 16 for $1000 (18/10)

The latest in the 8BB online tournament series.

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Kombo Klash Japan 2015



Japan just had their first KI event where the Japanese scene competed for a spot at the KI World Cup this coming January in two back to back tournaments.

Tournament 1: http://www.twitch.tv/ultraarcade/v/22332210

Tournament 2: http://www.twitch.tv/ultraarcade/v/22346862

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The 8Bit Beatdown 1/11/15

Top 8 from the last 8BB.

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Top 32 Killers Tournament #6



In KI ranked mode, players compete to make it into the Top 32 on the leaderboards. When the top 32 is finalised, community member "CrazyLCD" sends out an invite to the players to compete in 32 man, double elimination tournament to determine who is the best of the best of that month.

http://www.twitch.tv/killerinstinct/v/24602720

The above link is from the most recent "Killers Tournament" where the players competed for $300. The matches start at 00:14:00

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The latest 8Bit Beatdown is about to start in a few minutes. From a tournament of 152 players only 16 are left to win some money from the $3000 prize pot and a chance to get a hold of the latest KI figurines.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU_2Ow5VEAADc9U.jpg

Click here for the live stream http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq

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Shadow Jago

The official Shadow Jago trailer

Another excellent breakdown video by Sajam who explains everything you need to know about "Shago".

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Killer Instinct Top 8 at NEC 16

Winners:
UA|Bass (Spinal)
Pink Diamond (Maya)
F3|Sleep (ARIA/Kan Ra)
Nicky NS (Fulgore)

Losers:
cR|Cupcake (Sabrewulf)
LetalisVanator (Aganos)
RM|JagoBlake (Jago)
Gunz (Jago)

This was from NEC 16 which was just last weekend. Great character variety within this top 8.

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Top 32 tournament for December



The last tournament before the Killer Instinct World Cup at the end of this month. For anyone interested in watching click the link below. It will be pretty late for us, starts around 1am.

http://www.twitch.tv/killerinstinct

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Japanese Omen

Came across this video on thought I'd leave it here since I've mentioned this player before during casuals. Osomatsu is considered one of the best players in the japanese community and probably the best Omen in the world atm. Here he faces off against Bass who's considered the best Spinal having won a few majors. This match took place a few months ago during the Japanese "Kombo Klash" tournament.


Tokido and KI

Starts 56:50

Apparently Tokido is getting into KI and was talking about it to Momochi and Mago in the last Topanga stream. Someone from www.ultra-combo.com did a brief translation of their conversation which is an interesting read if you're a fan of these players.

"//SUMMARY//

The three of them are discussing at some point what they are playing these days. Tokido talks about him trying out KI. Apparently, he also introduced KI to Mago (at some point) and is showing him some stuff as well. Even though Mago is less fond of KI than Tokido at this moment.

Tokido starts off the conversation saying that to play KI there are some hurdles for Japanese players to overcome. He cannot 100% recommend KI from an availability/accessibility point of view as he has to mention that it is currently only on one single platform: XB1, and that the XB1 is still quite pricey in Japan. Even up until this day both the PS4 and XB1 remain at a high price level in JPN, they lament. Mago, on the far left, asks if it is on PS4. Tokido explains not on PS4 and not on Steam. Only XB1.

They ask Tokido how KI works. So he gives an example of a common SFIV combo, but doesn't name the character. But it's likely a combo for Akuma from what I understand. Tokido then says that this wouldn't work in KI as you would get your combo broken. (Mago yells "c-C-Combo breaker" at this point. And Momochi (guy in the middle ) is surprised that it makes such a sound...

Tokido goes on to explain the different strengths of your special move and the opponent's breaker strengths and how that determines if the combo breaker will be successful or not. Btw, he is using street fighter terms and examples to explain it. He explains that linking various moves and specials together is how KI creates longer combos. Tokido then briefly goes into shadow moves and their purpose. They refer to EX moves as something similar in SF but only with more (5-)hits. 'Bursts' are sort of compared to Counter Breakers. Lockouts is another topic as Tokido goes through the basics.

After some gameplay mechanics discussion, Tokido gives his opinion about what he likes about KI. Interestingly, Tokido likes both the game system (breakers, etc.) and character design. Tokido mentions that he is trying out Spinal at the moment.

Mago thinks the characters are evident of a more western (non Japanese) type of game and perhaps not very appealing to Japanese players. He mentions a Marvel character, who was hugely requested in the west but in Japan raises eyebrows. Further comparisons with Marvel and MK in respect to visuals are made by the three guys. Mago feels the realism or style is not very popular and a bit too dark for Japanese taste, while he understands why they are popular elsewhere in the world. Mago feels growing up in different cultures and countries from a young age impacts your tastes and that strongly affects what you like and dislike. They all agree on this last point, but still Tokido emphasizes again that HE likes the art style.

As for the gameplay system, Mago thinks the moves are very easy to understand and execute but the combo breaker system turns him off. They all discuss the hard work of setting up and executing combos and then only for it to go to waste (interesting) when your opponent does a combo breaker. Especially Mago seems to see this as a negative aspect towards KI getting more popular. Tokido seems to find the 'back and forth' interesting and intriguing. Both Mago and Momochi continue to ask questions on mechanics. Momochi is mostly soaking it all up as he has never tried the game, while Mago tells about his brief experience. They briefly recall how Rico won EVO last year...

Tokido talks about online play. He tells the others how smooth it is. Unfortunately, few players online in Japan and after a while you will be paired up with overseas players, who are of course better and kick your a s s. Inviting friends (to get similar levels) is the way to go he advises Japanese players. Probably this stream was done last year, because Tokido shares with the others that next year (2016) PC version is to be released. Mago notes that this will be a cheaper option for Japanese FG players. (I couldn't quite hear clearly but I think Tokido anticipates the increase of KI players with a PC release and therefore wanted to start earlier, hence the reason that he bought an XB1).

Tokido says he wants the two guys to try KI (or try KI more in Mago's case). He also is looking for ways to train. He says how he currently only does short combos and his avg. damage output is about 20%-ish while his opponents usually get more than avg. of 30% on him. Apparently he is keen on playing more. Tokido complains to the guys how he likes to use medium linkers and medium ADs and that he gets punished by combo breakers constantly for doing so.

(this summary covers mainly 56min to 1hr10min mark)

/// END ///

I stopped watching here as they changed subject and the vid is quite long. But they mention KI a few more times afterwards here and there. I haven't heard the part about Tokido playing KI with EVO in mind but it is probably me that missed that part. Will add new stuff later this weekend but only if it's significant and interesting."

I doubt that any of them will get into the game seriously but as a fan of KI I always find it interesting to hear what big names from other communities think of the game.

K.O.Kiki

This is Tokido.

Once he discovers the cheap stuff, he'll make Top 8 at any tournament.

D4RK ONION

Kiki, don't post in Ben's thread. How rude!

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K.O.Kiki wrote: »

This is Tokido.

Once he discovers the cheap stuff, he'll make Top 8 at any tournament.

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Kiki, don't post in Ben's thread. How rude!

Sairus

We were so close to a full page ;_;

D4RK ONION

In fairness, you broke it last time :P

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Killer Instinct World Cup

So the KI World Cup is happening this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and will be the biggest event for KI so far. This will be the grand finale of the KI competitive series (inspired by The Capcom Cup) where players travelled to events to earn seeding points and to qualify in this top 32 showdown.

Some of the commentators that will be taking part will include

Keits https://twitter.com/TheKeits
Sajam https://twitter.com/Sajam
James Chen https://twitter.com/jchensor

The schedule can be seen below. It's taking place in San Antonio Texas so it's +6 hours for Irish time (starts 4pm Irish Time).



The event will be streamed on Max's channel (oh no, I hate that guy :pac:) http://www.twitch.tv/maximilian_Dood

For more info on the event you can watch this archive from Ultrahentv last night where James and David discuss what's coming up with Sajam. They go over the schedule, players, character and match breakdowns, Tokido training for Evo this year and even discuss how James prepared for commentating in the upcoming event.

So if you're a fan of KI or not, watch it all the time or barely give it a glimpse, think it's a fun game or just a broken mess because it isn't Street Fighter I recommend you check out this community driven event. It should be hype.

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Fergie-Chan Character Revealed

soooo kawaiiiii desu ne?!

Break down starts at the 3:00 minute mark. So she has a bit of Fei Long, Rose, Chun-Li and Maxi (Soul Calibur).

They also left us this teaser during the event for the next character...

spriral

IG did a full preview of the patch notes breaking down all the Season 3 changes (with crowd reactions)


Part 1: General mechanics & Season 1 character changes:

Part 2: Season 2 character changes: