How long took you to unlock all characters?

[oktchau]

I've played the game for 13 hours and got Fight Money enough to unlock just a single character (100k).

I've won 35 of 50 ranked matches, completed the story mode, 3 characters story, 2 trials and won a lot of those begginers achievements.

Is it supposed to be THIS hard to unlock the characters without paying real money (which I refuse)?

[IITWLLII -ES-]

Multiplayer FM gain is neglible.

Play all single player modes (story/survival/challenges) up to normal difficulty with all characters + weekly challenges instead.

It's not difficult to earn 600.000 FM, everything above requires regular playing, at least 3 times a week if you want to go the fight money only route. At some point after ~1.000.000++ FM you will probably consider buying a character season pass (if you don't want to "grind" hard/extreme survival).

[Providence 777]

It doesn't take very long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94iC2pIvHw

[oktchau]

Thanks for the tips! I was afraid that by completing the Story Mode I had earned the bulk of the "easy fight money" and from then on it would be extra slow to grind it.

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by oktchau:

Thanks for the tips! I was afraid that by completing the Story Mode I had earned the bulk of the "easy fight money" and from then on it would be extra slow to grind it.

Don't forget to complete story mode on "extra" difficulty (I think that's what they call it).
That returns a lot of fight money.

[Skiptro]

i made 350 000 fm in 15 hours, that's enough for 3 chars, but the thing is you don't have to unlock every single character. Each character you unlock gives you the ability to generate another 60k of easy fm, so it is possible to unlock them all, but not needed.

[Zeiad]

Out of interest, how much time does it take to get those 600K FM?

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by Sumirei:

Originally posted by Have a Nice Day:

Out of interest, how much time does it take to get those 600K FM?

about 20 minutes

Is that accurate? That seems way too fast, you know he said 600,000 right?

[IITWLLII -ES-]

Please elaborate your calculation, e.g. which modes did you consider, cinematic story mode alone is some hours long, if you don't skip the cutscenes.

[Brandon]

Well for each character you can get 31,500 FM from doing their story, trials, and both easy and normal survival. Even if I'm generous and it takes you 45 minutes for the trials, 15 minutes for easy survival, and 45 minute for normal, that's 1.75 hours for 31.5K. Do that 3 times and you have 94.5k FM in 5.25 hours. Power through the story mode in 10 minutes and you've got a character in less that 5.5 hours.

And don't forget those figures are extremely generous. I'd be surprised if you didn't get a character sooner. And they don't include whatever you accumulate from weeklies and leveling up online.

[SaltyOneOne]

Complete:

Story mode
Character stories
Survival easy and normal with every character

That should give you enough to unlock a couple of characters. If you did all the above and still have characters you want locked. Then buy them, don't even think about "grinding" for them.

They give around 6000 per week on weekly challenge, you'll need around 4 months completing every weekly challenge just to get enough for 1 character. Feels too much like work for something that's supposed to entertain you, not worth it, but that's just me.

[IITWLLII -ES-]

Originally posted by Have a Nice Day:

Out of interest, how much time does it take to get those 600K FM?

Calculation for all 16 base game characters (generous calculation):

• Character Stories ~6,5 minutes per character on average (without skipping the cut scenes).
  16x 6,5 min = 104 min / 60 = ~1,73 hours total
  
  
• Cinematic Story Mode (without skipping the cut scenes):
  ~3-4 hours x 2 difficulty settings = ~6-8 hours total
  
  
• Survival Mode (~10 seconds added to each round to select powerups):
  1. Easy: 10 rounds x 40 sec x 16 characters = ~1,78 hours
  2. Normal: 30 rounds x 50 sec x 16 characters = ~6,67 hours (no real challenge until round 25/28)
  
  3. Hard: 50 rounds x 50 sec x 16 characters = 11,11 hours (minimum / unlikely not to fail here and there)
  4. Extreme: 100 rounds x50 sec x 16 characters = 20,33 hours (minimum / you will fail / replay a lot)
  
  
• Demonstrations: ~30-40 mins total (if you don't skip the reading) / else, a few minutes
  
  
• Trials: very hard to tell the time, depends from your skill level, the fastest you can go is ~2 mins per character, without any fails = 16 x2 = ~32 mins minimum.

So in total you can unlock the easiest portion of the fightmoney in ~20 hours, if you are efficient and don't fail in normal survival at all, else add 10-20 hours for 2-4 fails in normal survival with each character. Don't bother with hard/extreme survival, unless you want to cheese through these tedious 50/100 rounds, by exploiting the AI input readings.

DLC 2016+2017 characters times are not included above.
Each character levelup and each unlocked DLC character gives access to more fightmoney.

Here is a fight money overview which Punymeyer posted some time ago, it is a little outdated but still pretty accurate:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/895976-street-fighter-v/73944270

[Zeiad]

^ This is good info. Thank you.

[DJukor]

Originally posted by GungZA:

i made 350 000 fm in 15 hours, that's enough for 3 chars, but the thing is you don't have to unlock every single character. Each character you unlock gives you the ability to generate another 60k of easy fm, so it is possible to unlock them all, but not needed.

More like 30k of easy FM. The other 30 k is if you beat hard and extreme survival.