Looking Ahead towards the potential Expansion Pass 3. (and other DLC)

[Argroh]

So I'm gonna put a bit of a blurb (kinda) here for what is up ahead for the game.



First off, what I personally feel will be the last updates for the game. Which probably will finish up at the middle of 2024, maybe a smidge later.

Starting off, is Special Set 5 "Festival Booster 2023".
Pretty much a bunch of support for Lyrical Monasterio, adding the "Dress-up" semi-mechanic, two brand new Over Triggers, Two new Regalis Pieces, along with units that can cycle Over Triggers. That and also new regular Trigger Units that you can fit in with other decks.
It is unknown if we'll get this first for the next expansion pass... ...or maybe if we're damned lucky, this releases along with the Messiah deckset.


Now what would start the Expansion Pass 3, would bet Set 11 "Clash of the Heroes".
Adding in four additional ridelines. "Narukami", "Gold Paladin", "Silhouette co." and "Mythiarq" Along with additional support for the "Glitter" ridelines, Greedon getting a Masques unit, and a Blitz Order for Griphogila.

Next would be Set 12: "Evenfall Onslaught"
With a new rideline "Demon Beast Omina", Masques cards for Orfist, Nordlinger, and Magnolia, an OverDress for Trickmoon, the Brandt Gate grade 2 Wretch. and also the Jewel Beasts.

Then it's Set 13: "Flight of Chakrabarthi"
with a new rideline "Alden the Brave", the remaining Grade 2 Wretches, the Cycler Dragons, significant support for Lianorn, Nirvana Jheva, Drajeweled, Youthberk, and Griphogila's Ultimate Grade 11 form.

then it's Lyrical Set 4: "Trick or Trick"
With FIVE new ridelines. "Fenelle", "Charmout", "Siana", "Pacifica", and "Laborador". Along with Dress-Up support for Fortia and Hermina. Also the Jewel Beast and Cycler Dragon for Lyrical Monasterio.

and likely capping it off: Special Sets 9 and 10: "Stride Deckset: Shiranui" and "Stride Deckset; Luard"
Obviously including the Ridelines for "Shiranui" and "Luard". bringing with them the "Dominate" and "Ritual" mechanics from years ago. Along with a "Stealth" PG for anyone who wants to go full Stealth for Tamayura, Shojodoji, and Megalonozuchi.

Also if we're lucky, we may also get Special Set 11: "Triple Drive Booster".
It has been released in JP, so it is confirmed to include Two additional Ridelines "Leuhan" and "Zedlance", along with a new Regalis Piece.

While It MIGHT be likely, we might also get two more Promo Vanguards to have fun with. The Dinodragon Lord "Spinomarquis", and the Cosmo Dragon Knight "Halmverde"

If anything, Expansion Pass 3 will probably be the biggest content the game will likely get. With close to maybe 508 new cards to get in total.




Now here's the part where I Speculate on other DLCs and Updates.

Also while outside of it, I also somewhat expect Rare Card Sets for the above normal sets because, obviously.

For Character DLCs, while Michiru Hazama (Drajeweled) is still up in the air (blame Johnny's), We can maybe expect the likes of Halona Walker (Omina), Kazuma Shouji (Luard), Kazumi Onimaru (Shiranui), maybe also GUI (Griphogila Vartex}.

I could somewhat also expect the likes of Meguru Sentatsu (Silhouette) and Chiyo Kuranaga (Luruthzul) from the Youthquake manga.

Or if they wanted to go all out, mayhaps also the likes of Misaki Tokura (Minerva), Asaka Narumi (Luquier), Leon Souryuu (Maelstrom), Kourin Tatsunagi (Ezel), Naoki Ishida (Vermillion), and Emi Sendou (Pacifica).



Now some DLCs I would VERY MUCH like. Would probably be the less impactful of this list.

MORE SLEEVES AND PLAYMATS!

Well, more Playmat designs would be nice and all, but only having eleven of them can be a little boring...

Now for Sleeves, outside of the obviously guaranteed character sleeves we get with the character sets. Significantly more Sleeves would be VERY good. Such as Team and Ride Deck sleeves for Tir Na Nog Youth, Kyokura Anchor Bolt, and Uniformers (and Ride deck sleeves for the already existing teams). Along with that, an absolute truckload of unit sleeves, including some special sleeves with unique designs.

Not for one "big" update I could expect, is that every one of the CPU fighters you can face against could have a "Very Hard" difficulty, allowing them to use decks from MUCH later in the series (such as Yu-yu using Nirvana Jheva, Danji with "Viamance" Bruce, and Tohya with Bastion Accord) and the like.


another potentially ludicrous idea would be having EN audio be added in an update. Would definitely give Blue Water Studios a bit of a drive. Though it makes me wonder if they can get some of the Ocean Group team to voice the original characters... ...wonder who'd the likes of Richard Cox or Brad Swaile voice?


This has been Argroh Valdios and welcome to my SCF talk.

[♥IronAngel♥]

Honestly, I just hope they had enough support from people buying the game and dlcs to warrant a pass 3.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by ♥Midori♥:

Honestly, I just hope they had enough support from people buying the game and dlcs to warrant a pass 3.

i think there's plenty enough. plus they want it to be the definitive standard game, likely to last all of standard. there's still some things they need to do to optimize for longevity but i think they have enough support.

[Stj.Srex]

What i want is crossplay between Switch and PC so that i can play against my friends on PC. Second what would be smart thing to do if they want to have max sell for game and DLCs is to make tournaments within game and to make it official with official rewards and everything like in real life. That could boost sales by a lot for sure. This last one i know is impossible, but including at least cards from V era would be amazing. We can even have game within game where if you add V era card then you can have only V era cards to no mixing between V and D, with separate free duel mods like how it was in Stride to Victory.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Stj.Srex:

What i want is crossplay between Switch and PC so that i can play against my friends on PC. Second what would be smart thing to do if they want to have max sell for game and DLCs is to make tournaments within game and to make it official with official rewards and everything like in real life. That could boost sales by a lot for sure. This last one i know is impossible, but including at least cards from V era would be amazing. We can even have game within game where if you add V era card then you can have only V era cards to no mixing between V and D, with separate free duel mods like how it was in Stride to Victory.

speaking of, with zero dead what even is the V-era game with the most cards now? lol

[Stj.Srex]

Cardfight Vanguard EX but it is 4 years old. Its only for Switch and PS, it includes cards up to bt 06 with Mordred Phantom, Luquier and Btufas so rly old but still rly fan .

[Argroh]

Originally posted by mimizukari:

speaking of, with zero dead what even is the V-era game with the most cards now? lol

Allow me to explain that.

Vanguard technically has three different "Series" currently.

"Classic", "V", and "D".

Classic was when the game first launched 10 years or so ago. where instead of Nations, it was just Clans. Every "Arc" or so, which it counted at four, which I could state as "Original, Limit Break (Asia Circuit), Break Ride (Link Joker)", and then "Legion". Then after the Legion arc, they did a sorta soft reboot by adding in the "G-Unit" mechanic, from there, it added on more Arcs, specifically "G, GIRS Crisis, Stride Gate, G-Next", and then "G-Z". With that, each set added an increase in power creep till it got to ridiculous numbers with the adding of Ultimate Strides in one of the final sets.

From that, Bushiroad decided to just reboot the whole card game.

the major tell would be the card frames would be visually different, and that the corner of the card would have a "V" icon to tell it was part of the "V" series.

While the V-series tried to re-invision the card game as a whole, part of it kindof started to fray. One of the core mechanics of V-series were "Imaginary Gifts". which when you would ride a grade 3 Vanguard, dependant on the clan you were playing, you would get an Imaginary gift applied to you. the effect varies on the type.
"Force" would be placed on a VG or RG circle, and the unit on that circle would get +10000 power, and you could stack them.
"Accel" gave you an additional front row RG circle, and the unit on said circle would get +10000 power, and you could get more.
"Protect" gave you a card you could add to your hand, which served as a PG, an early prototype for Blitz Orders.

Later, after the first season, they would add in alternate versions of said Gifts.

"Force II" Allowed you to set a VG or RG circle, when a Force II would be placed, the unit on that circle would have it's default Critical get +1.

"Accel II" was similar to before but only gave +5000 Power. to off set it, you would draw a card once placed.

"Protect II" would be placed on a RG circle. The unit on the circle would be able to Intercept, and when Intercepting, would get an additional +10000 Shield.

the thing is that you could only pick one type of gift or the other, unless specified.

This further compounded when next season, they introduced "Astral Poets". a sub-group of Genesis that focused on getting as many Force Markers as possible for it's big play. being able to call a GRADE 5 unit!

For the last "Season", they had a one last major change. Starting Vanguards blanket got a new ability.
[AUTO]: When you ride over this unit, if you went second, add a Quick Shield Ticket to your hand.
Orders were just introduced. Most orders had no clan requirement, and had very light power.

But by that time, the power creep has gone to significantly exponential levels. Probably capping off with "Heal Guardians". Grade 3 Heal Triggers which very large shield values.

But yeah, the frustrations with the players, and ESPECIALLY the "Luard" indecent.

It lead to Bushiroad fully rebooting the game AGAIN!

and now we have D-series, aka "Standard".

[Argroh]

sorta giving this 'ere topic a bump, but the recently announcements kinda have it set in my mind that this game will end with maybe up to Triple Drive booster. I'll make a topic relating to this.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Argroh:

sorta giving this 'ere topic a bump, but the recently announcements kinda have it set in my mind that this game will end with maybe up to Triple Drive booster. I'll make a topic relating to this.

what recent announcements? neither en or jp site have anything past bt10 listed right now

[Argroh]

Originally posted by mimizukari:

what recent announcements? neither en or jp site have anything past bt10 listed right now

It relates to the physical game which was just announced an hour or two ago.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Argroh:

Originally posted by mimizukari:

what recent announcements? neither en or jp site have anything past bt10 listed right now

It relates to the physical game which was just announced an hour or two ago.

any source link on what specifically was said or something? are they rebooting again after standard or something after that point?

[Dratspider]

Originally posted by mimizukari:

Originally posted by Argroh:

It relates to the physical game which was just announced an hour or two ago.

any source link on what specifically was said or something? are they rebooting again after standard or something after that point?

They aren't rebooting but they are continueing standard with DivineZ with updated deck building and a new energy crest in the ride deck.