Many fans believe that SNK will show The King Of Fighters XV at either TGS Online ( during tencent or sony) or during that time. As such it is not surprised that we have a new rumor talking about what the game will show. This is a rumor so keep that in mind.
Basically the animation will be samsho but upgraded with anime cell shading. This change in graphics in upscaling has been reflected in moves which only makes sense since we are doing the models again.
The story and roaster is where this falls apart as Goro is no where to be found and with some off pairings we also have to deal with the Oriochi. Yes according to the rumor Oriochi is the big evil as all the people that Verse brought back are trying to revive his ultimate form which doesn’t make sense since he was sealed again at the end of XIV and half the people don’t want to revive him. As you will see.
—KOF 15 will release a mini trailer at Tokyo Game Show (September 26) after the presentation of Tencent (Tencent will present two games and then KOF 15 mini trailer, 30 seconds)
—a proper trailer that features the gameplay and some features will be uploaded on SNK’s official youtube page and twitter pages tentatively on November or early December of this year. The video runs about 2 minutes and in that same video will have an announcement of the game’s availability next year around summer in time for EVO 2021 (this plan had been held off, seems like EVO is not sure to go forward next year, tentative plan)
—the reason of the delay of release is not because of production issues, but because KOF 15 is going to be released with netcode delay on its release. The application of rollback netcode on KOF 2002 and garou mark of the wolves is experiment in order to adjust the system to have rollback upon its release. (samsho will have to have to wait for rollback sadly, as it was created before rollback was implemented, a lot needs to be adjusted for rollback….its easier to add rollback when you implement it from the start of development) The roster and the game mechanics had been finished way before EVO 2020.
—KOF14 models had been transferred and modified for unreal engine, fixed proportions, shading, UV wrapping and facial structures for a more semi realistic/anime look. The real work was to redo all the moveset because mr. oda thought the movement of the characters feels robotic. The rigging/animation department did their best to make animations more fluid than before, especially the clothing animations. Don’t be surprised that this game will have a large roster, they already the models, just needed to tweak it. They also revamped the moveset so most characters have the same button commands (there would still be charged and motion input characters but its easier to learn characters now as they decided to group characters in archetypes such as charged zoning characters, motion input zoners, charged rushdown, motion input rushdown, grapplers and defensive characters)
—the artstyle is similar to samurai shodown although the models for KOF 15 are taller in terms of scaling. The shading is completely different from samsho though as the shading is more cel-shaded and in style of a manga coloring. Refer to a full colored manga cover for the coloring and shading style. If you compare to guilty gear, guilty gear looks much smoother while the style of shading for KOF 15 had been applied with more texture.
—the game is 3 vs 3 as usual and will employ a new system which would be called as “yin-yang system” as a nod to the main character of the saga, Shun’ei and kyo and iori
The first bar which is the red bar is the bar for ex moves, instant guard crush/power up mode, armor mode and juggle combo mode (probably will be called max mode)…max 5 bars when you reach your final member. Of course you need to be smart using this as all these modes use a full bar (ex moves use half a bar, instant guard crush mode is just used once for a full bar and armor and juggle mode uses a full bar for a timed amount)the blue bar at the bottom is your desperation move, the first bar is activated on your first member, two bars on your second member and third bar activated on your third member. This was designed as a comeback mechanic for your last character. The last character also will be able to use unlimited desperation moves on 10% health (you will know as the life bar blinks), if you have a bar, you will be able to use an ex version of your desperation move and if you have you have a full red bar or have your juggle mode activated, you would be able to use the cinematic desperation move. Dream cancel is back.one red bar, one blue bar and health down to 10%…trust me its worth it. Its rare but its worth it.
—yes, there would be cinematic desperation moves, the story mode are also now voiced cutscenes using the same models, the ending of each teams are full anime.
—the story of KOF 15 starts with the final scene of team china beating verse from KOF 14, in which shun’ei receives a new invitation that was delivered by a falcon, it is from the new boss of the game. Mizuchi, yes, from Samurai Shodown, she was revived by Verse and brought to the present time. Mizuchi is the ancestor of one of the members of Hakkeshu, who were also revived. Cant wait for you guys to see how awesome the stages are in this game because its going to be a tournament that Kyo and others were forced to participate.
—all the characters that verse revived have one goal in mind: to revive the ultimate form of Orochi, the Hakkeshu, Those from the past and NESTS…as well as Geese Howard. Although all of them have different intention of helping Mizuchi.
—Geese howard obviously wanted to acquire the power of Orochi, Those from the Past intend to control orochi once revived and NESTS figured that verse’s ability granted the ability to travel time and intended to revive Igniz. Only hakkeshu are the only ones who wants to revive orochi in reality.
—Haohmaru, Nakoruru and Genjuro will appear in the story but unplayable, it will just be revealed that Kyo, Iori and Chizuru are descendants of them. Mizuchi will also not be the final boss, she is unplayable, she will be able to revive the real orochi and will be the final boss. Orochi’s appearance is different.
—Shun’ei will not be able to control his ability and release the other version of verse, mizuchi and the hakkeshu will use this other verse to completely awaken orochi using mizuchi itself. mizuchi is also controlling gaidel, aoi kusanagi, angel and rock howard who will turn evil at the end of the game.
—each team will have a different mid boss, all team will fight final boss orochi. Upon the defeat of orochi, rugal will appear and steal orochi’s power.
—Kukri is connected to those from the past and heavily connected to Mukai, some information about him will be revealed this game.
ROSTER:
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Shun’ei, Meitenkun and Li Xhang Yi (disciple of Tung Fu Rue with same ability)
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Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, Chizuru Kagura
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Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, Joe Higashi
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Ryo Sakazaki, Robert Garcia, Yuri Sakazaki
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Saysiu Kusanagi, Jeff Bogard, Takuma Sakazaki
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K’, Kula Diamond, Maxima
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Heidern, Whip, Adelheid Bernstein
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Leona Heidern, Ralf, Clark
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Kim, Luong, Jhun Hoon
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Athena, Kensou, Bao
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Geese Howard, Billy Kane, Hein
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Nelson, Gran Aldo (a Mexican capoeira fighter, he replaces zarina), Valentine (a masked matador fighter)
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Ash, Elizabeth Blantorche, Kukri
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Goenitz, Gaidel, Ryuji Yamazaki
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Rock Howard, Blue Mary, Alice
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Zero, Krizalid, Angel (Ramon is out due to being attacked by a corrupted Angel)
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Yashiro, Shermie, Chris
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Mukai, Botan, Shroom
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Mai, King, Najd
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Vanessa, Seth, Oswald
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Chen Fenchang (a perverted old mafia man who is supposedly the original boss of Chang and Choi during their crime days, he is full of tattoo and uses a jitte, he is small but got a long reach, really really cheap character) Chang Koehan, Choi Bounge,
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Aoi Kusanagi (Kyo’s cousin), Benimaru Nikaido, Shingo Yabuki
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Lin, Duo Lon, Xiao Lon (Ron will appear)
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FINAL BOSS: Orochi
—additional details: KOF 15 will be multi-platformed including PS4, PS5, Xbox, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, Steam and PC Version (PC version will take some time after the release)
—DLC plans: Antonov, Mian, Sylvie Paula Paula, Bonnet Jenet, Duck King, Raiden, Lee Pai Long, Kain Heinlein, Makoto Mizoguchi, Kim Dong Hwan, Kim Jae Hoon, Wang Koh San, Gai Tendo and a new character called that is unnamed but is a baseball player similar to Shoma Sawamura as a representative of “Baseball All Stars” an old SNK game. (all are tentative, no models yet)
Hope you are all excited, thanks all!
Now there is one thing i think might be possible here and that is the animation. The animation that is being described here might be a thing. I am using might as we are talking about rumor. But as I said with my last post on the subject the with these rumors we might be getting hints of truth as this animation is something fans would love if they can pull it off.
Think about it. We loved the animation in KOF XIII but the models is where things went down hill as well as the netcode. If SNK have figured these elements out they will have a big hit on there hands. But let me know what you think as we wait and hope to see KOF XV at TGS, Games Japan Live
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I don’t think the roster looks that off; a bit big but not bad at all, they actually remembered to put new characters(which all but one other forgot to do.) Occasionally a regular missing does happen(Joe has missed XI, Andy was gone for most of Ash saga, Kensou had missed 2k3, Chin missed 2k3 and XI, Robert sat out of XI Arcade, even Mai missed XII), so I wouldn’t write it off from that. As for the story…I admit while this looks wild, if you told me that at the end of XIV there would be an alien that exploded and spit out all the souls of the dead fighters I’d have called BS big time, but that’s what happened…heh.
Still taking it all with healthy pinches of salt like I do any leaks, for me at least this one has new characters which is usually a big red flag(when the lists lack them.)-at least it’ll be easy to confirm or deny if we see a trailer at TGS or not!
Very true as some character main stays were missing during most of Ash saga. (Which made weird and interesting at the same time) The story is still odd to me as they will focus on the ultimate Oriochi while Verse is still out there? Still TGS online is where we find out if it is true if not sooner.
Yeah Ash saga was indeed interesting like that, I can definitely see why the Ash saga people are listed in that list up there since a lot of those people coming back could end up with people connected to them returning which has been somewhat speculated(Ash himself with Ash team, Adelheid returning to deal with Rugal, Duo Lon and Xiao Lon returning makes sense if Ron gets involved and so on.) As for the Verse thing it might be just a big ol’ mess of the world if he’s still around AND Orochi ends up possibly coming back, lots of bad to deal with…
i admit i hope this is the one that is true since this i think has looked the best of the leaks so far in terms of everything(rollback, roster, etc, also if anything it has been the most well thought out and put together leak, true or not they get points for effort.) Guess we will know in about 2 weeks…
Taking that into account I hope we do get the look they describing. The anime look from XIII (look not models) really worked well for the series and figuring out how to do with unreal engine would allow them to get more out of it,
Coming back to this like 4 months later, and goddang it like half of it was correct already and the rest we don’t know yet. They called:
-2k2 rollback(they talk about it as if it happened, 3 weeks before it happened)
-While the contents of the trailers were off and TGS didn’t happen, that could be attributed to covid schedule slip. Because we certainly DID get videos dropped on SNK’s official Twitter and Youtube, late Nov/early Dec, exactly how and when they said would happen. We got a 30 sec teaser in one of those trailers. Given they said the contents were kinda tentative I’d say this is creepily close to accurate since we did get the social media videos dropped properly.
-The anime stuff? While that still seems weird about full endings, we are certainly officially now getting a KOF anime short done by Masami Obari. No one could have predicted that. This is like, shockingly weird since this is a thing on this I’d have not believed but here you go. We’d have to see how far the anime stuff goes.
-The graphics in terms of look(whether or not the models are imported and heavily redone, or new), are basically exact, 1 for 1. Manga-cover style coloring, shading, Samsho like look, with taller proportions, redone animations/better clothing animations. This is basically just like, exact look.
That’s just the stuff that lines up super well. The roster certainly looks ‘expectation shattering’ and ‘different than XIV'(only five teams line up with XIV’s teams and they’re fairly common teams), the red bar and blue bar system looks, uhh, shockingly like it does on the official website here, AND that lines up with the new logo(red/blue clear split like a yin/yang and they seem to be very much pushing this aspect.) https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/games/kof-xv
Story is wild but after seeing the way the manga ends(which IIRC wasn’t very widespread knowledge yet), it…surprisingly matches up(Krizalid, Goenitz, etc were seen in the manga.) This is impossible to tell until later but it at least is *possible* to keep holding water.
While I still think this needs to be taken with a dose of salt like any leak until proven, it’s sorta ridiculous how much they’ve gotten straight up right, or extremely close so far. Enough stuff, and enough things, that I think would be EXTREMELY unlikely to guess.
With all the rumors we got some stuff was bound to be true. Lets hope we learn more soon with the trailer coming this week. Thanks for coming by.
No problem! Indeed, it often ends up that way it seems. If there is anything I learned, out of the explosion of fakes about any game, one of them many times ends up being ‘the right one’, it just gets buried with the rest. (I’m reminded of red dead 2, of one insanely detailed leak tossed aside along with a bunch of fakes…ended up being indeed the right one.)
We’ll see over the next 2-3 weeks if the rest of this one pans out, I reckon. If we get news on the system and if it’s as close to this as the website design/logo/color scheme of XV is making it look, it may be The One.
Ye lets see what SNK will reveal about it next. 🙂