The next big title to
hit the Fighting Game Community is the much anticipated Street Fighter 5, and
this weekend marks phase two for those lucky enough to get in on the closed
beta. But how does it play and what impressions are we getting for the final
product? Well if you didn’t manage to get any hands on time, don’t worry, we’ve
got you covered!
Initially, all
characters in phase 1 of the beta were to be left out. Upon starting this
article though, news broke that as a ‘Thank you’, they’ll be unlocking them as
I write this. As well as this, we’re gifted with six new ones – Mika, Ken,
Vega, Karin, and newcomers to the series, Rashid and Necalli. The new stage for
Karin was also available, and at the same time not — but let’s explain this a
bit later. Capcom have said that SFV will be an on-going service, not too
dissimilar to what F2P models do. As more characters and content is added via
DLC you can use money to buy it outright or it can be earned simply by playing
the game.
Currently you earn FM
(fight money) when playing and Karin’s stage needed 2000 FM to unlock. If we
won a match we’d get 50 FM, as opposed to 10 FM for a loss, so you’d need to
win 40 games in order to unlock a stage. It’s a mystery at this point what will
be locked upon release or if they’ll continue to tinker with the reward system
further. My thoughts are, it’s a beta. Expect changes.
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