Soul crystals worry me...

[Cinder]

i hope this isnt some gatcha or pay to win feature. we all saw what happened with street fighter x tekken.

[Boss Jimbei]

its honestly my biggest concern right now also, i really hope they are pointless at least.

[Sharogen]

They look more likely to be something related to the story mode rather than an online booster.

[Ü]

they look like potara/z-items in tenkaichi 3 to me

[UkiOhRah]

japanee site says they are items to boost the character stats. I think its interesting, especially if I feel I want to balance a character a certain way (lets say I want Yamamoto with more attack pwr to make him feel OP like the anime).
This isnt street fighter so Im not looking for balance. imagine how out of place it would be if Kon or orihime can beat Yamamoto... as for if the items are applied for online use, nobody knows, but it would not be logical that they are applied.

[LouisKM124]

I feel like there're two possibilities. First one is those stats gained from the crystals are only in offline matches and story mode. Second is that there are two type of online matches. One is both side using upgraded characters and the other type is only default stats characters.

[Persona]

It's most likely for the story mode

[Mokona]

A worry for sure, its why you dont pre-order games because they can pull any kind of bull even in a game that looks like its going to be the best game of the century. Hoping its only for skins and finishing moves that still do the same damage but look different. My guess they wont tell us until the game is released because its something bad

[Boss Jimbei]

Originally posted by Mokona:

A worry for sure, its why you dont pre-order games because they can pull any kind of bull even in a game that looks like its going to be the best game of the century. Hoping its only for skins and finishing moves that still do the same damage but look different. My guess they wont tell us until the game is released because its something bad

exactly game will fail if they add stupid money grabbing crap to it, lets hope for some solid gameplay and non stupid predatory business practices.

[Sharogen]

Originally posted by Boss Jimbei:

Originally posted by Mokona:

A worry for sure, its why you dont pre-order games because they can pull any kind of bull even in a game that looks like its going to be the best game of the century. Hoping its only for skins and finishing moves that still do the same damage but look different. My guess they wont tell us until the game is released because its something bad

exactly game will fail if they add stupid money grabbing crap to it, lets hope for some solid gameplay and non stupid predatory business practices.

They do look very similar to the Brave Souls version of Soul Crystals, which were one-time use consumables. If that's the case they could be more interesting than permanent capsules, providing a one time buff vs your opponent (if they're usable online).

[UkiOhRah]

I hope they're permanent lol, paid full price to get a few characters, costumes and hopefully actually hard to get stat buffing items.
It lets the player re calibrate the game how it sees fit, i think its genius

[Wolfy]

I hope that it's just for the storymode and nothing too important.

[Kevisnotin]

Yeah we def need more info on the soul crystals

[Ondore]

Originally posted by Sharogen:

They look more likely to be something related to the story mode rather than an online booster.

Their latest video confirmed it is for Online, not any other mode.

[Sharogen]

Originally posted by Ondore:

Originally posted by Sharogen:

They look more likely to be something related to the story mode rather than an online booster.

Their latest video confirmed it is for Online, not any other mode.

Yeah, they certainly seemed to be online heavy in that video, but I could still see them being usefull in things like the mission mode and such. We'll just have to wait and see if they're usable in the online ranked (I would say "if we get ranked" but we all know that's gonna be there) or if the ranked mode turns items like that off. I hope it's the later because it could affect balancing pretty drastically depending on how the crystals work.

[R.Emres77]

I think it's for that survival/challenge mode thing? Like the 3/3 fights shown