Iron Galaxy is working on the next season of Killer Instinct an while that mostly means tweaks and new systems it also means more characters. At the end of a recent tournament we verified by Microsoft creative director Adam Isgreen that Tusk and Kim Wu will be joining the cast . The two will be available at launch in season 3 with retro customs but Adam went to discuss more in a recent pod cast about what they are working on in the game.
“Eyedol’s tough, Maya was tough, and we figured Maya out and made her look great, in my opinion, compared to what she looked like in the old game. But Eyedol is tough. It’s like this weird Harryhausen monster with satyr legs and a giant club and he had like two moves and he was super cheap.We were able to test Rash because of how the pre-production schedule was created for this season. We built him really, really early. And now that we’re moving into real production, it’s become harder to get working because we’re building all of the features and elements for season 3 right now.The issue of doing a beta right now is the systems. We have a ton of new systems and engine work that’s being done this season. The old and the new cast won’t really function correctly if we don’t have all of the features done when we put them in. We’ve changed a lot, and if we were to put out a beta, the character would either be half of the character or they wouldn’t be where we want them to be to show them, even visually. So, I don’t believe that we’re going to be able to do another beta of another character. The ‘rework’ thing is that we’re actually fundamentally changing some of the way that the character plays, or how they go about doing their damage or getting their meter. Two of the characters in the game are getting that treatment.It’s really more just because we felt the characters that we did this to weren’t necessarily having to work for all of their ‘things’ as hard as the other characters, in terms of being successful with that character. It made the characters feel a little flat to us
Article:http://shoryuken.com/2016/01/03/tusk-confirmed-for-killer-instinct-season-3/
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