The King of Fighters XIII General Discussion Thread

[krazykone123]

Indeed we need a Game Mechanics/System's thread.

I'll whip one together sometime this week then (it'll be in the "Training Room" section by the way), anyway there's a blog update about the "alternate" colors and stuff

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xiii/blog/archives/2010/08/post_25.html

[Kane317]

EDIT:
Arcade Infinity - King of Fighters XIII Casuals 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgvw89xV_8

Arcade Infinity - King of Fighters XIII Casuals 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duo89a1l9v8

[Aion]

3rd one as well!

[THE ANSWER]

good stuff guys! Yo KANE seriously you need to teach me that CHIN!!!!!

[Moebius]

Arcade infinity vids were really good, it's nice to see Ralf and takuma.

On the KOF XIII blog update:

Are we getting a skeleton Benimaru or is that a new intro, taunt?

[XI]

Need some kickass video about Iori gameplay. It start to get tiring to see the same old K and Elisabeth dominate almost 70% of the match videos.

[MUSOLINI]

anybody know when the new arcadia and game mook will be out?

[Aion]

I know the Japanese have this really annoying habit of playing with the same few characters, it'll take them getting beat down by the unused cast before they start to wake-up :p

[KusoGaki]

anybody know when the new arcadia and game mook will be out?

September issue is already out, the mook should be out tomorrow in Japan.

[SHwoKing]

A match with Ogosho versus a random guy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJm0x0PaQM

Some very intesresing and very damaging combos with Rayden and Andy.
Rayden's one is shocking, 75% lifebar with only one EX.

[Kane317]

good stuff guys! Yo KANE seriously you need to teach me that CHIN!!!!!

Funny, teach me Kensou then!  Once I figure him out myself I'll teach ya.  lol Chin's a peculiar character, his stances all free cancel out into his specials, and his kick stance has like a billion follow ups (ok I exaggerate, but you'll see what I mean when you try him out) yet at the same time he has so many shortcomings like lack of range and general speed. Usually, small characters that do lack range benefit from being small enough to not get hit by certain attacks (like Robert's f.A but this isn't the case this year), so all the disadvantages but not advantages (except being a beast) =). He is vastly improved from XII though, and I liked him in XII.

A match with Ogosho versus a random guy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJm0x0PaQM

Some very intesresing and very damaging combos with Rayden and Andy.
Rayden's one is shocking, 75% lifebar with only one EX.

Poor random guy lol.  Did not know you can use his new Drop Kick in succession like that.  Very cool, must try him out now.

[Ace London]

A match with Ogosho versus a random guy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJm0x0PaQM

Some very intesresing and very damaging combos with Rayden and Andy.
Rayden's one is shocking, 75% lifebar with only one EX.

Great match. And I love Raiden's color palette. He looks like Venom lol

[HaxMurderer]

Diggin Duo Lon, rekkas into super seems so simple yet so flashy.

[Cibernetico]

Since you guys from AI have had the game longer, who would you say are the most used characters so far and the least used?

[Kane317]

Since you guys from AI have had the game longer, who would you say are the most used characters so far and the least used?

In no particular order most used: Kyo, Liz, Terry, Robert, Kula (I'm factoring in the random people that kinda try out the game etc...)  Those are the most common ones I've seen.

Least common: Hwa, Clark, Mai

Note:  The least common was an easy choice, the most common was hard as heck to think about coz we do have a pretty diverse crowd of characters.

---
From the Professor at mmcafe:

Guide is out.

Teamups with a special illustration after the credits
Already discovered:
Ash Kyo K'
Athena Yuri Kula
Elisabeth Mai King
Ash Duolong Shen

Not yet on Net:
Benimaru Robert Andy (Sub hero team)
Hwa Chin King (Booze team)
Goro Raiden Maxima (Giant men team) 



Alternate stage music
In the beginning of the match, hold on the start button until the fight begins. The music will change to the opponent team's theme from KOFXI. Exceptions are Kim's team (KOF96 theme) and Female team (KOF2003 theme) since there weren't teams for them in XI.



Last boss path
Achieve over 2.5 million points to get to Saiki, otherwise it's the bad ending.




Background characters
Appearances are random per character, 50%

France Stage
Shermie, Vanessa, Seth, Ramon

India Stage
Cheng Chinzan, Chang

Japan Stage
Todo Ryuhaku, Nakoruru, Shingo, Hinako

USA Stage
Duck King, Duck King's chick, Mr.Big (blimp print), Galford

UK Stage
B.Jenet, Chris, Yamazaki (poster)

China Stage
Xiangfei, Rin, Tung Fu Rue

Jungle Stage
ChamCham, Griffon Mask, Marco Rodriguez

Ritual Stage
Marco Rossi, Mars people, Fio Germi