Ultra Street Fighter IV Lets You Swap Character Versions

Oh man, this is freakin' nuts! Glad to hear it's an offline thing only, and I expect that (rightly) we won't see it in tournament play, but that's a really neat feature to throw in there for the hardcore fanbase to mess around with.

This is absolutely my secret most-anticipated game of this year (not my 'official' pick as it's an update rather than a completely new release, but the hype is very real).

I'm just excited to finally play as Hugo in an SFIV engine. I'ma grab the hell out of fools.

This sounds crazy fun, while it isn't the most "serious" mode, it is a very cool feature that harkens back to Hyper Street Fighter 2 (not to be confused with SF2: Hyper Fighting). I'm glad it isn't in the main online mode, but hopefully it can become a separate playlist later on.

Preorder for DLC costumes.

As if the mere existence of this game wasn't gross enough.

Yeah, they announced this at Sol Cal Regional 2014, the biggest FGC major on the West Coast. The FGC pros were going crazy, now that many of them can pick their vanilla characters before they were changed for the worst.

For example: Original Akuma, who can stun most low health characters with a single string combo.

Edit: Mortal Kombat 10 was also confirmed for the future. And the mysterious 5th SSFIV: Ultra character will finally be announced at Final Round, one of the big majors on the East Coast in Atlanta during the month of March.

Vanilla gief ex green hand knockdown, dear god the world can't contain me.

The crowd at SCR went nuts over this. If you don't play fighting games you might not get it, but this is going to be great for exhibitions. Don't except it in tourney's, nor do I want it there. I'd, personally, rather not have my newly buffed Ultra Chun-Li up against vanilla Sagat.

does that mean ryu will kick ass now?

this is gonna be nightmarish for setting tiers now. then again, pokemon can tier their 721, so about effectively 150 characters shouldnt be too hard.

This is offline only according to Capcom Japan, which is a shame, but I understand.

That being said, Super Adon!

This is confirmed for Offline only sadly.

Holy shit this is CRAZY. This may seem like nothing, but this literally changes EVERYTHING.

For example: here's what I myself get out of this. I played the shit out of Abel in Vanilla. What I liked most about Abel in that iteration was his Ultra (It would be Ultra 1 now) and how it worked way back then. Back then, Abel used to go about 3/4 of the screen in the direction you faced during the Ultra (he would do a dashing punch). Nowadays, Abel barely goes half-screen with it, making it hardly viable to fight against projectiles. There's also way more changes to frame data on his standard attacks. The frame data changes apply to all the other characters in the game as well, and that may sound like nothing, but it is actually really significant.

This is probably the most interesting, coolest change to Street Fighter that Capcom has made in a while. I'm actually interested in Street Fighter again.

This is just a for funsies side mode, guys.

No way this is for ranked mode / tournaments etc.

Finally, I can play vanilla without never updating.

...there's gotta be more to it, right? Otherwise...are they just admitting their own balance patches are pointless??

Edit: Asked and answered: apparently it applies ONLY to offline games.

@julius: @ohdearaudreyThis should put your (and my) fears to rest.

How can this work o_o

How

O. Sagat everywhere.

I think I'm going to finally come back into this (haven't played since the original came out.)

Huh.

Worth noting since they showed this last night they've said it's offline only and only for the consoles, not arcade.

That sounds SUPER nuts, and I don't even know what a Streetfighter does!

Super Street Fighter IV Guile! Awesome.

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