How does it work?

[Scruxx]

Will it be an offline gatcha game? Or how do you get all the players later in the game (in the full version of course)?

[CocoRider]

this game most likely will be mainly offline , judging by the previous inazuma eleven game you can unlock all character by defeat them in the match , unlock skill by raising character mastery(it's not call mastery and i cant remember what it call) to get new skill or raising the bond between character to unlock combination shot

so if it's turn out to be a gatcha online game
i'm not gonna buy it

[Scruxx]

Well, theres a "Summon" Button in the Training Menue ^^

I would like to see an offline gatcha. Like the first yugioh games 20 years ago. Offline full price title but its random which 3 new cards you get after every battle. I like this little gambling as long as its offline and i can farm tickets offline as much as i want.

Of course there can be another mode where all cards are available from the beginning if anyone need this.

[Darts]

Given how long the game has been in development and how new ideas keep being introduced every other month, it's hard to say *exactly* how it'll work, but we already know a few things:

- It will NOT be a gacha game, that's been explicitly confirmed. All characters are available in the game and can be recruited as before.
- The "Summoning" menu has nothing to do with a gacha system. It allows you to synthesize a player's Spirit to obtain that character. Essentially, drop Spirits by playing matches, and summon the characters using these Spirits.
- Story Mode will have its own set of characters, and you'll need to finish the story to be able to use them in other modes.
- The rest of the characters will be found in a separate mode called Chronicle Mode. If you've played the original games, it works similarly to the Competition Routes, with a succession of matches featuring all the teams from past games. How we unlock the characters is still a bit unclear, but it should be a combination of defeating teams and dropping Spirits.
- All the single-player content (Story, Chronicle) can be played offline, the only online contents are multiplayer (Competition Mode? It's still unclear if that mode will be in the full game or if it was made just for the demo) and the Victory Road Online Tournaments.

So yeah, in short it's not an always online game, and it's not a gacha. You earn and unlock characters through normal gameplay, a bit differently than before, but still simply by playing the game and meeting the right conditions. I suggest reading the development blog on the game's official website, it explains the various systems in more detail.

[Scruxx]

Originally posted by Darts:

Given how long the game has been in development and how new ideas keep being introduced every other month, it's hard to say *exactly* how it'll work, but we already know a few things:

- It will NOT be a gacha game, that's been explicitly confirmed. All characters are available in the game and can be recruited as before.
- The "Summoning" menu has nothing to do with a gacha system. It allows you to synthesize a player's Spirit to obtain that character. Essentially, drop Spirits by playing matches, and summon the characters using these Spirits.
- Story Mode will have its own set of characters, and you'll need to finish the story to be able to use them in other modes.
- The rest of the characters will be found in a separate mode called Chronicle Mode. If you've played the original games, it works similarly to the Competition Routes, with a succession of matches featuring all the teams from past games. How we unlock the characters is still a bit unclear, but it should be a combination of defeating teams and dropping Spirits.
- All the single-player content (Story, Chronicle) can be played offline, the only online contents are multiplayer (Competition Mode? It's still unclear if that mode will be in the full game or if it was made just for the demo) and the Victory Road Online Tournaments.

So yeah, in short it's not an always online game, and it's not a gacha. You earn and unlock characters through normal gameplay, a bit differently than before, but still simply by playing the game and meeting the right conditions. I suggest reading the development blog on the game's official website, it explains the various systems in more detail.

Perfect, thanks for your effort.