Acceleration of SUGURI 2 Road Map v2

[PhleBuster]

It's been over a year since the first Acceleration of SUGURI 2 road map thread, so I wanted to make a new one to share some of our plans for the future.

The previous thread can be found here.

Over the past year, we've finished implementing most of the things listed: Spectator Mode, stats display, and a massive amount of bug and balance fixes. Other requested and consequently added features include the ability to use songs from the game's OSTs if you own them, and improved P1/P2 ring coloring.

In addition, you may be aware that Lalo/Alte (who you know from running the biweekly Accel Tournaments) has been nominated an official community ambassador! The tournaments they run are officially sponsored, and you should make sure to join them to show off your skills and win great prizes! We've also been getting them streamed on the official Fruitbat Factory YouTube channel (when able to from technical difficulties).

You can stay up to date on them most easily by joining the community Discord:
https://discord.gg/TKYtfuP

Or the Fruitbat Factory discord:
https://discord.gg/fruitbatfactory

We are currently working on a major update which will include the following:

A Progression System

The work is underway to add a progression system to Acceleration of SUGURI 2, granting you an in-game currency as reward for playing, which you can use to unlock new Avatar customization options, Titles (which can also be unlocked in other ways) and maybe more!

Fixes/Balance

We aren't planning major balance changes for the next update, but will address some issues that the community has seen arise as result of the larger balance updates, and while small they may make a significant difference too.

There are also still a few things that can be categorized as bugs that we're looking to fix.

We're aiming to launch the update around October of this year.

Tournaments

You may have seen the announcement about CEOtaku and it's been awesome to see such a big community effort to get the game represented there. If you have a chance to attend, make sure to let the group organizers know!

We've also sponsored some smaller fighting game tournaments, and are looking forward to doing so even more! We'll have more news on our upcoming tournament plans later this year, so look forward to it! Also, if you have a chance to get Acceleration of SUGURI 2 featured in a local event you go to, don't hesitate to get in touch with us for ways we can help sponsor it.

Other requested things that won't be in the next update but we're considering for later:

• More lobby options
  
• More options for training mode

Is there anything else you'd like to see? Let us know!

[winter wave]

rework sham

[174 cm]

poggers

[winter wave]

srework sham

[Richard02]

Bots in online lobbies for people that are waiting for more players.

[RelentlessBackshotsTTV]

Originally posted by Richard02:

Bots in online lobbies for people that are waiting for more players.

This would be cool, tbh

[saturnalorbit]

I have way too many suggestions but I think my two main ones are a level system (which will probably happen but I'll put it here just in case) and more options in training/practice/whatever it's called in this game I forgot mode, which atm is pretty bare

[Blue Sora]

maybe a co-op mode? that would be like Sora, fighting robots or other enemies coming, or do like waves, that comes different enemies and bosses, or show how long the players can survive (guess this would take a long time to do)

[Rozark]

+1 to reworking Sham

[Sjamsjam]

saki voice when

[letcreate123]

I suggest giving the P2 color variants of each character their own icon on the HUD during gameplay to avoid potential confusion during matches where both players play as the same character.

[Person 404 the Lethargic]

As a small QoL change, I'd actually like to see the return of the A+B shield shortcut, but as an option present in the character select menu, similar to advanced hyper input, and defaulted to disabled. The reason being is that the shortcut actually allows an easier and more consistent way to shield option-select, so players can choose between having that or removing the chance of misinputs.

[Aphy]

Bots for waiting in lobbies would be nice yeah and +1 to reworking Sham.

[PhleBuster]

A little later than estimated, but the progression system is now live. Next bigger project we're planning is adding more training mode features.

[Bluflare1]

I may be the only one who thinks about this, but I'll have to say the only reason why I'm not playing this game (I used to play acceleration of suguri-x edition on ps3 when rockin android were the publishers) Is because the UI, and menu graphics, and stuff is really unappealing to my eyes. Unlike in Hono's other game Orange Juice I love it personally for it's sense of charm in menu's, and other fun colors.

This game feels like it follows the exact same trend from Sora, and suguri, and doesn't really seperate itself well between the two to make it it's own unique image. Only thing I would suggest is maybe a big design change to the font, menu's, and stuff the characters are fine just that everything else feels.....

Just bad.

And I'm not personally pooping on everyone's efforts, and how hard they work just that I was excited to play this game, but when I saw it I was like I felt bored of this all ready.

[|DI| AndyNPC]

A bunch of the titles can be used to communicate with players of other languages (I'm assuming the titles are translated). It'd be nice to have some sort of keyboard shortcut or other way to change your title mid-lobby for this reason. Unless there already is that feature and I just can't read.