AOF3 is so weird and cool. Every stage is a different part of this tiny town that gives it a roadtrip feel. Characters get buffs if the Neo Geo clock is set to their birthdays. Nobody should have done that but they did it anyway.
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Damn, that’s a good team sigil. I am really liking the various new team configurations–one might have expected Antonov to team up with Sylvie and Mian–which would have been a weird/interesting Rugal parallel–but this also makes a ton of sense.
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the bitxh is back 
yesssss
Trailer in the first 10 minutes of this stream. 39 characters (but 52 slots on the character select screen?). February 17, 2022.
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52 is roughly in line with XIV right?
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KOF14 launched with 50 characters and 4 DLC characters, and then an additional 4 characters that came later. The trailer for KOF14 announced 39 characters with 52 character slots (17 teams and 1 single entry). The trailer mentions two DLC teams, which is still only 6 characters and brings the total “announced” characters to 45. So I dunno what’s going with their advertising vs the character select screen.
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YOOOOOO, THEY PUT GOOD TERRY IN!!!
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Also good Leona.
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Delay based netcode exclusive preorder bonus
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The new character designs really are just horribly busy when next to the classic roster huh?
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this girl has big ps2 energy
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Maximum Impact DLC team let’s go
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With KOF14 they mentioned the move to 3D allowed them to make more elaborate character designs, so I guess they’re just pushing farther in that direction. I’m curious to see what other new characters are in here and what they look like.
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The pared-down base roster has big KOF XI vibes, and I am here for it. I don’t expect the seven remaining slots (nine minus Heidern and Braids) to all go to brand-new characters, which suggests that XIV was in some ways compensating for the previous two games’ sameyness, rather than setting up a new (unsustainable) norm. And heck, I can respect that: I like that SNK can alternate between being conservative and throwing caution to the wind and adding every character they can think of–it keeps the series interesting.
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It was pretty revealing to me just how much SNK were stretching themselves to manage KoFXIV’s massive launch roster when I read a quote about how Kukri and Mian were specifically designed so that they wouldn’t have to animate their faces.
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