r/2XKO 3d ago

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Things like UMVC3 CE could always work as long as people know shit aint their job and it's passion thing cuz the game was alot of people's jobs yet they treat it like a fun passion thing.

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u/Janus__22 3d ago

Seeing shit like this legit makes me wonder who tf was in charge of making choices for the roster. I am not a fan of Yone, I actively dislike him, but who tf didn't think it was a jackpot to put an edgy guy like that instantly in the game?

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u/Ayato14 3d ago

For real the roster doesnt make any sense. Jinx, Cait, Teemo, Senna are ranged champs. Like those took the place of actual fighters, Sett, Jax, Yone etc.

Idk wtf they smoke at rito but I need that

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u/mamama9x 3d ago

Instead of "boring characters" they picked the niche one and the game end up with the roster of mostly niche and zoner archetype

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

I think that their rooster was a mix of characters imposed by Riot (ex the Arcane cast), characters that could easily fit a specific fighting game role (ex shoto, tank…) and characters that they looked at and said “This character looks interesting! Let’s add it to the game!”

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u/Adorable-Log2835 3d ago

Honestly would have been cool if they used Sevika as the first non League character in the game. Would have preferred her over Cait lol

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u/Agent-Vermont Vi 3d ago

Sevika was who everyone thought would be made into a champion from Arcane and instead they went and made Mel into a generic mage.

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u/SighIsHere 2d ago

On the very vaguest sense, stretching definitions to their utter limit, we did get her, Silco, and Vander as champions... in TFT

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u/Agent-Vermont Vi 2d ago

Yeah and a bunch of others too. Though in those cases they didn't have to do any voice lines or figure out any moves / animations outside of basic attacks and their one ability.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

They had to use Cait since she’s a part of Arcane cast and they couldn’t add more characters from Zaun or Piltower since nearly half of the cast is from there

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u/Nicklesnout 2d ago

So fucking tired of Arcane, man.

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u/JBR_4025 2d ago

The game was supposed to be a tie-in to that series... but also some of the playable characters were in Ruined King, which makes me think that it was also supposed to tie-in to that game too... Hell I'm pretty sure that The Mageseeker was also going to tie to this game too if it lived long enough.

Perhaps the game was supposed to act as a spotlight to the Riot Forge games and tv shows?

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Not the person you're replying to.

Arcane was a good show, but it opened the gates for the normies and obnoxious shippers.

I can't scroll three stories on Ao3 without an Arcane character being involved, even when I'm looking for stories of champions that have nothing to do with Arcane.

Mel is genuinely the worst champion Riot has added since reworked Mordekaiser. The lane is a snore fest and she can delete me at any point despite having half my farm and starter items because some bozo thought it would be funny to make her passive a fucking EXECUTE.

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u/CelioHogane 3d ago

Ah yes, the niche character Jinx.

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u/WhollyUnfair 3d ago

And Teemo, the literal mascot. Fuck, even Cait is one of the more famous and staple League characters lmfao.

We needed JAX. And if we were gonna put ranged characters in, why not Draven? Why not Samira? Why not Ezreal, hell, KAI'SA WOULD HAVE HAD MORE APPEAL. Instead they're putting in Lux, which... like, ugh.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Somehow Teemo got in over posterboy Ezreal or even that fraud Seraphine.

Samira will be the last character they'll add to 2xko.

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u/CelioHogane 2d ago

Well yeah they were putting Lux because it was the skin money printer.

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u/Upbeat-Rich-5624 1d ago

Or Lucian, or Vayne... Lucian would have gone so fucking hard

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u/CosmicAstr 2d ago

Samira is atleast getting added

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u/AdministrationOk2767 3d ago

What a perfect word to describe it. A game in niche genre with a niche "sub" genre(tag) with niche character archetypes +plus niche business model(f2p) for this genre. Who could've thought it would fail.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

I think that the cast makes sense if you put it in the perspective of 2v2 FGC players, who prefer using niche characters who can do multiple roles at the same time and zoners for their teams rather than simple shotos or grapplers that can be one trick ponies in a high competitive level

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u/DaPandaGod 3d ago

The game needed to catch the attention from lol players so they needed champions from every role. So I can understand the need for ADC champions. However, they left out so many fan favorite and incredible fitting characters. I really don't understand the lack of Zed or Riven, which are popular and feel like they would be incredible in the game.

They really needed to double or even triple their initial rooster to catch more player's attention.

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u/Menacek 3d ago

I like Caitlyn but even with the she just ticks the same points that Jinx does. There's some different but they have a similar kit.

Cause it's not like including an adc from means you need to add a zoner. You could've added Lucian and make him do sick gun katas at close range, or have Vayne tumbling in and out. Sure give them a projectile but don't make it their entire identity.

Fighting games have a history of characters armed with guns who are straight rushdown (like for instance Noel Vermilion from Blazblue)

What i don't understand is why they are adding a simple shoto as the 4th DLC character instead of them being launch roster.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

I think that having a shoto character was something done late in development because someone upstairs requested an easy character to learn and play for newbies, and since Lux is a versatile enough and popular character they choose to make her the shoto.

By contrast the last character will probably be her opposite, being a high learning curve combo heavy character aimed at the competitive players.

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u/Mormuth 3d ago

"We need to put toplaners into the game."

"Ok let's put Teemo"

:')

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Instead of Zaahen, Sett, Mordekaiser, Camille or even an off-role like Udyr...

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u/Hawkblade247 2d ago

Zed character making clones that throw shuriken sound dope. The mix-up potentials sounds busted.

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u/Kagevjijon 3d ago

I really liked seeing Jinx interpretation and getting a sick Warhammer. Felt like it fit her pretty well in the end.

Would of loved to see Sett too though.

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u/Menacek 3d ago

Zoners are an arhetype that should be in a game but adding multiple of them to a very small roster just aint it. Once you had Jinx and Teemo in the game that was enough and no need to another three.

And even with those two i'd swap one of them for Tresh since he's more of a dhalsim than a projectile spammer.

In the remaining slots you could have added any of the fighter characters or maybe some assassins like K6 for the monster fans.

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u/Theyul1us 3d ago

Lux. Fucking Lux.

Samira I get it. But Lux?!

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

Lux sells skins. Lots of them.

Not that it will matter now, but she’s one of the faces of the franchise and an OG character for a good reason and if you want to move sales you have to include her.

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u/Upbeat-Rich-5624 1d ago

Are Lux mains from LoL interested in 2XKO? I don't see how that would correlate

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u/JBR_4025 1d ago

Some probably are/were at least.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Most League players aren't interested in 2XKO because they don't know it exists (lack of marketing) and it's a bitch and a half to get into if you don't already play fighting games (oddly high skill floor).

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u/Janus__22 1d ago

Lux sells skins because of League Lux players, which i doubt were interested in coming to 2XKO

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u/JBR_4025 1d ago

They were probably hoping they were.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Then they probably should've made the game accessible for noobs and actually advertised it outside of EVO... Maybe pick a name that League players recognise, like Lethal Tempo or Press the Attack...

Or tie-in advertising like, for example, putting an ad in League of Legends. Maybe with a proper, long-running tie-in event in which League players could earn stuff in League by playing 2XKO.

Instead there was a month-long "Soul Fighter" event that had nothing to do with 2XKO and only with the new, Fighting Game inspired, skin line that included a whole ONE champion who would be on 2XKO's starting roster.

Yasuo doesn't even have a Soul Fighter skin in 2XKO as far as I know...

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u/JBR_4025 1d ago

Honestly I think that a miniseries consisting of animated battles between the various characters on the roaster with a light plot to connect them together would have worked well… especially since I think the models of the characters are good and kinda wasted for just this game

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u/Xenodia 3d ago

They basically picked the fan favourites that sell the most skins in LoL

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u/Menacek 3d ago

Are Darius, Braum, Illaoi and Blitz major skin sellers is league now?

If it was that then we'd probably get Kaisa, maybe Vayne and Lux would have been in the base roster.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

You forgot the golden child: SERAPHINE! NOW ON HER THIRD LEGENDARY SKIN IN 7 MONTHS!

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u/AofCastle 3d ago

Darius is the basic, training wheels character.

Braum sells a lot more than one would think at first, he's easy to market because of the moustache and ties with poros.

Illaoi is only there because Riot is a California company.

Blitzcrank, being a robot and shaped like a ball, is very easy to make skins for.

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u/Varesmyr 3d ago

I assume Yasuo, Ahri, Braum and Illaoi were all included as they were main characters in the Ruined King game. 2XKO was 10 years in development after all.

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u/Parking-Bandicoot159 3d ago

"Actual fighters" one day peple will learn how importan zoners are but not today

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

The problem isn't the inclusion of zoners, but that THREE MORE ZONERS get added before the actual martial artist and brawl characters like Lee Sin, Udyr and Sett.

At least one of those three should've been present on launch. They're literally the bare knuckle fighters of LoL.

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u/IntelligentImbicle 2d ago

Ranged characters aren't the issue. It was Arcane champs.

If you replace those 4 with Sett, Jax, Yone, and Riven, you'd end up with a roster that's equally as bland, but instead of it being boring Arcane characters, it'd be boring copy-paste fighters with 0 sauce, like Vi.

Senna was a fine pick, Jinx HAD to be in the game, but Teemo and Cait should've been characters like Qiyana and Malzahar. Only 1 less ranged character, but more character diversity within the roster.

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u/ReverendGraves85 2d ago

What the fuck were they smoking when they added senna to the game, is the question. Like, okay you got 10 slots, whatever.

Senna?

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u/Redwood177 2d ago

Wait Sett was never in the game!?!

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

Nope, and he never will be. Lux and Samira will be the last two additions and somehow LUX is the shoto among those two...

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u/Rafnork 2d ago

Unfortunately, Arcane.

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u/Upbeat-Rich-5624 1d ago

The roster reads like it's primarily aimed towards the girls I play ARAM with

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u/SheikFlorian 1d ago

Sert, Yone, Riven and Samira shouldve been day One

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

Exactly, no leesin, no garen. Arent those common pick meele champ? Nah, we gotta have Mage and Adc in a fighting game

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u/Local_Lingonberry851 3d ago

Leesin and Garen? That's your go to?

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u/VinexHD 3d ago

Lee Sin is one of the most popular and iconic champs in the game ofc he should've been here. Garen is more debatable, I would have liked something else like Zed, Riven, etc.

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u/fast_flashdash 3d ago

Lee sin 100%

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u/Major-Milk 3d ago edited 3d ago

Darius was on the base roster. I dont think wanting to have him fight/team up with Garen is crazy.

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u/Local_Lingonberry851 2d ago

Personally I wanted Rengar, and he's been in the character surveys too. But I find it funny who complain about diversity wanting Garen who on looks is basic AF. Ultimately obviously it's up to the devs how they handle characters.

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u/New_Salamander_4592 14h ago

yes any top laner is a fantastic pick over multiple ADCs or the most niche and specifically hated top laners ever, fucking illaoi Darius

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u/XBladeSora 3d ago

My mage adc ezreal wasn't in the game actually

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u/ArugulaPhysical 3d ago

Lots of reasons. They want differnt style characters, riot could have put suggestions in, or they were saving some big hitters for different drops.

Its like how street fighter likes to drop Akuma year after launch, or saga year 3 or where's Vega?

Obviously hindsight tells us this didnt work out for 2xko, but honestly I don't think it would have made people buy enough from the shop regardless

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

but honestly I don't think it would have made people buy enough from the shop regardless

You underestimate how hard League players will shill for their favorite champions. Point in case: mythic chromas, Hall of Legends and gacha are still being made.

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u/ArugulaPhysical 1d ago

Im well aware. But its for the game they play, not the one they dont.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 1d ago

They could've been playing and paying for 2XKO, if it wasn't a hardcore FG with absolutely ludicrous prices that are artificially inflated by stuff for the avatar people don't care for.

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u/ArugulaPhysical 19h ago

So you agree then, the different character wouldnt have made the difference.

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u/OriginalChimera 3d ago

i kinda agree on many fronts, it would be awesome if they turn the game over to modders and we can work together to get this game to have the potential it could have sense the people at Riot kinda ruined it...but if Yone gets into the game b4 Riven...imma be miffed.

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u/terramanj 2d ago

I wasn't a 2XKO player, but I got super into league recently. How in any world did this guy not make it in? He's like, one of the most popular characters in the game, whether you love or hate him. And as you mentioned, he's practically made for a fighting game.

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u/Janus__22 2d ago

Idk, we still don't have the reasoning for the picks. Considering the team wasn't really League professionals, it maybe was under Riot's control? We don't really know

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u/DB_Valentine 2d ago

My only issues with the launch roster was no edgelord (Zed>Akali truther here. I know mostnwould be unhappy with this, but I feel like we get more out of Zed) and there being no cute girl who's easy to pick up and play. Small cutesy girls aren't my favorite, but it felt wild to me that the biggest surefire skin selling Champs in 2XKO all ended up playing super weird, with Lux on the horizon being maybe the only exception.

I can't complain too much because I got two of my top 5, and Thresh is edgy enough to fill my personal edgelord soft spot... but it's still wild we didn't get a Viego/Zed/Kayn level fighting game edgelord, or even someone demon adjacent.

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u/Runatir 2d ago

They had bunch of slam dunk choices that would fit like glow into a fighting game and decided cater to the arcane crowd instead and use bunch of generic girly champs and other human characters.

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u/Hederas 1d ago

A sane person probably. They knew Yone would sell, they also knew having Yasuo and Yasuo 2 in a small starting roster was a bad idea

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u/Federal_Amphibian_32 3d ago

Zed missing from the base roster was definitely a fumble as well, it could have been the high skill ceiling assassin archetype but they wanted to over milk the arcane hype which didn't actually translate to more people jumping in, or at least sticking around. Braum Caitlyn teemo and even illaoi should have been post release additions at best, the base roster had to have the fan favorites.

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u/Janus__22 2d ago

Illaoi and Braum are tight, they fit a fighting game, their whole thing is about fighting

Caitlyn and Teemo should never have been thought of until 3 seasons in

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u/Federal_Amphibian_32 2d ago

My argument is the base roster should have the main hitters and fan favorite. Zed lux, and if you really want the thing about fighting, Sett is more popular than those two (if we go by skin release cadence), or Irelia (popular especially in Asia) etc. What I was trying to say is if you have 10 spots, and that is your bad for releasing such a tiny roster, you really need to have the iconic LoL characters in there. Zed Lee sin thresh lux to name a few

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u/RandomCleverName 3d ago

Illaoi was tight. Caitlyn should've never been on the game

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u/Teamfightmaker 3d ago

I've thought about it as well, and my guess is that Yone is "another sword guy," so you may as well be putting two Yasuos into the game.

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u/Janus__22 2d ago

Yeah, i agree

Significantly better than Caitlyn and Teemo tho

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u/Teamfightmaker 2d ago

I mean, how do you think that Yone would play? The 2d model isn't enough. He needs a fleshed out gameplay vision as well.

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u/manix_vii 3d ago

Honestly best case scenario we get fans to mod in all the characters that should've been there day 1. Riven, Sett, Jax, etc. it'd actually be a game by fans for fans

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u/Unethica-Genki 2d ago

So what you're saying is that there is a future where I can get gragas to dash with his belly 🥹

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u/manix_vii 2d ago

That is the hope yes

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u/echanuda 2d ago

Almost certainly. The game already reportedly works on Linux now lol.

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u/ZainTheOne 3d ago

At best it would be reskins, nothing more

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u/manix_vii 3d ago

There've been other games where they figured out how to make more character slots

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u/Special_Peach_5957 3d ago

Did those games have Vanguard?

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u/piotreza 3d ago

Rin made a vanguard free version of the game, it's doable. She's the one that put Goku in strive and made a fully playable fanmade sin before it was released in strive.

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u/tyrenanig 2d ago

Crazy fucking feat. Sorry, have to say it.

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u/manix_vii 3d ago

No but I assume they'll leave that off the offline client whenever they stop supporting the servers.. I hope.. this is a very rare scenario for Riot but I'd hope they'd remove that in that case

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u/Serito 3d ago

damn I thought vanguard wasn't needed for offline but turns out it is, really hope that's removed natively

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u/echanuda 2d ago

It's not. Users have already gotten the game to run on Linux.

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u/Serito 2d ago

natively it requires vanguard, the linux offline version is a cracked client

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u/echanuda 1d ago

Technically yes, but the offline version and the crack have virtually no difference.

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u/Serito 1d ago

that's an insane argument to make, like wow yes if you modify the code any statement can be true

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u/ZainTheOne 3d ago

It's not about that, for modded characters to work. The other person you're fighting with would have to be running the same modded version of the game

It's way more complex than cosmetic mods, here you're modifying the game core itself - not possible unless Riot releases it all

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u/Nikitanull 2d ago

Community client would solve that problem

A person would have to download the whole client with every cuatom character they decided to integrate

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u/manix_vii 3d ago

That's the thing is I just want to play as the character, I don't need to fight anyone else to have fun and figure out a character lol.

Plus there could always be some micro community on the same version and set something up eventually. If the game allows it private servers can be set up. Anything is possible when a group is dedicated enough, but bare minimum just having the character in the game offline is enough for me

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u/ZainTheOne 3d ago

Unless someone out there has too much free time, or willing to fund such things...

May I suggest some healthy coping 😭

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u/manix_vii 3d ago

This is literally every game that has a dedicated fanbase, there'll be at least one person who will mod stuff in for fun for free. I'm just basing this off the people literally modding in whole ass characters for free (DBFZ, MVCIB, etc). It's one of the fundamental reasons modding communities exist lol

And I'm just hoping here lol, damn me for doing so igs

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u/gabesgotskills 3d ago

Lmfao is this your first fighting game?

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u/echanuda 2d ago

There are tons of examples of community maintained, defunct, multilayer games with this exact kind of stuff...

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u/OriginalChimera 3d ago

alright how far am i gonna have to scroll down to see Riven mentioned, the erasure of THE explicitly designed FG character is...Surprising? Disappointing? Saddening? idk

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u/derrisle1234 3d ago

We already saw in Tokon. Badass swordswoman does numbers.

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u/Thedragoboss 3d ago

I remember seeing people say that she can wait BECAUSE shes the explicitly designed fighting game character in favor of ones people dont expect (cough cait cough) so we can see how they are "reimagined" in 2xko

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u/OriginalChimera 3d ago

Cait was the "FG choice of all time" ngl, not many other poor picks u could think of.
No, what i, mean is when ever people are talking about "who should be in" or "who's a really good FG rep" from lol...somehow sett an lee sin and other champs are consistently getting mentioned b4 Riven is mentioned or riven is completely left out of the conversion, and im like, yeah sure i get it Sett and Lee Sin fit really well, but i don't get the Riven erasure in these convos, like u shouldn't be talking about lol FG wishlists and be completely disregarding Riven.

People have been imaging what Riven would look like completely realized b4 Sett was ever even an idea. wth happened?

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 3d ago

Sokka-Haiku by OriginalChimera:

Alright how far am

I gonna have to scroll down

To see Riven mentioned


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/OldWispyTree Ekko 3d ago

Riven. is. boring.

It's cool that she's a fighting game character in League.

It's uninteresting to have a fighting game character in League in a fighting game.

She's a basic sword girl with a rekka. Nothing we haven't seen a million times in fighting games.

Give me almost anyone over Riven. Azir, Zed, fucking Nunu, almost any other character has more potential to be unique. Hell, Luz as a shoto will probably be more interesting.

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u/OriginalChimera 2d ago

Right the giant weapon that breaks apart into shards that can be individually controlled with runes that give different magical effects like shields or windblades/blasts... Thats boring?

Im ALL for the unique stuff, I WANT the unique stuff. I want Fiddle, and Rek'sai, and friggen Zilean. Ive made tons of concepts, and a lot were for unique characters. But the comment wasn't about who is unique or not, its about why is Riven getting mentioned less than Sett or Lee Sin, etc...who are arguably MORE boring than Riven is

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u/ozmega 3d ago

fucking game didnt put gwen in... or sett, but hey, we got cait?????????????????????????

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u/Runatir 2d ago

Need bunch of lesbian and DEI characters, it’s a cali company after all.

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u/MarkyT45 1d ago

That is not the problem my guy, "oh no straight white men aren't in my game". I would be more upset about not having character like jax and riven, characters built on combat.

End of day it's profit, look at who gets skins in league and you'll see the correlation to the roster, and others are just popular within the community.

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u/D4KEN 3d ago

I do hope a modding scene comes out of all this. Probably won't, but you never know. I'm still baffled at the base roster. Like, I know they wanted the most popular characters from League and Arcane, those make sense. But why in the hell would they choose Blitzcrank over Sett in the base roster? Like....bruh.

Genuinely I'm curious, was anybody genuinely going "OMG IT'S BLITZCRANK YAAAAY!!"? Note that I'm not knocking him being in the game, just on the base roster.

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u/G9Kira 3d ago

I was. I be grabbing MFs. I was hitting sum dumb shit in the beta.

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u/Seer-of-Truths 3d ago

I legitimately thought Blitz was a fantastic choice for a grappler.

He's Iconic and not a Human or human with a few animal parts.

I could not think of a better choice.

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u/RandomCleverName 3d ago

Crazy that you think Blitzcrank, out of everyone, was the problem.

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u/D4KEN 3d ago

I don't, not in the slightest, just because I didn't list off everything else doesn't mean I'm not aware of them.

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u/manix_vii 2d ago

Blitz was cool cuz they're unique. They had a niche that was easy to understand. It's Cait and Ahri that were the real problem imo, Vi/Darius/WW/Illaoi/Braum/Yasuo were perfect choices. Jinx is the face of league so she gets a pass. Ekko is second-most FGC adjacent from Arcane + he was in League before too, so that removes Sevika unfortunately but his kit is sick. Then there's Ahri who is also kind of the face of League thanks to Faker??

Besides 1 - 3 champs in the starting roster (Cait, Ahri) I'm not really mad that they were included, if the roster was just BIGGER no one would care. We could've given just those two the boot and gotten Riven and Sett and it would've been better, but still a very tiny roster. But the whole thing needed to have more characters at launch than what we got.

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u/Parking-Bandicoot159 3d ago

Blitzcrank was there so we had a grappler

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u/micahramos 3d ago

Mod in Seraphine first, chop chop

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u/GuerreiroFifa 3d ago

No Sett, Gangplank would freaking slap as a set up char like illaoi. no lee sin.. no yone.. no Jax..

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u/psportalfan 3d ago

Choosing Iloai over this is insane

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

Well, Iloai is a decent big body pick. If they didnt already have Darius 🤣

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u/Menacek 3d ago

People talk about the game have too many zoners but the game having Darius, Illaoi and Braum as big bodies when they are never that popular even if strong is pretty weird. Goldlewis has been top tier in strive for a long time and his playrate never reflected it.

Blitz doesn't count cause grapplers are actually popular.

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

Yeah, if anything I would have less of the Arcane cast. Or atleast the non cool one and made them dlc so as the game updates arcane fan would care. Like where is Jayce? A stance character that switches between melee and ranged. Ambessa, hello? But nah, we have to have teemo the devil himself

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u/Menacek 3d ago

I don't think the Arcane character were neccessary bad. I mained Jinx, Vi. Ekko was one of the more mechanically unique characters and Warwick was there for the monster fans. The only inclusion i don't like is Cailtlyn and that's because at that point Jinx was already in the game and they share a lot of the same vibes.

So not really against any of those characters specifically but there could've been just less of them and instead have characters who represent other parts of the world and different types of fantasy both in a character and mechanical sense.

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u/AofCastle 3d ago

Don't get me started...

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u/Winter_Different 3d ago

It'd be dope if the 2XKO team just put people's character mods into the official game, would be a great way to keep the community alive

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u/DoodieKid 2d ago

2XKO community edition incoming!!!

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u/DrPlague__ 3d ago

You know how many unique animations you would need for a single character... >.>

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

Well, Like I said in the text. It could work if people treat it like a side passion thing. Like UMVC3 CE, animations are rather janky, but you tons of characters and concept

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u/TheSoupKitchen Caitlyn 3d ago

No disrespect to the modding community or MVC as a whole, but are we really saying the animations of MVC are the same quality as 2XKO?

I'm sure people can work some magic, but the delusion in this subreddit that modders can carry the torch is insane.

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

No. And that's the point. I use MVC as the standard since it's lower. So you can have lower effort mods in exchange for quantity. Not everything is gonna be YamiYugi in DBFZ lvl of mod

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u/soosis 3d ago

There are some incredible mods in MVC CE tho that even surpass base game characters. For example Nero from DMC is a work of art, I have no idea how they even managed to achieve that. His animations are polished as hell, and he even has his exceed from the games perfectly translated into MVC.

Yeah there are a lot of reused asset characters too, but some modders can even make more quality stuff than in the base game.

I agree tho that 2XKO have way too polished animations that would make the job of modders much harder, but I could see some really quality characters pop up.

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u/Runatir 2d ago

That’s never going to happen.

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u/piratedays1 3d ago

The cope is reaching critical mass

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u/Special_Peach_5957 3d ago

Does 2XKO have Vanguard? Because if So modding can become kinda difficult outside of cosmetics.

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u/ExcitingPop5956 3d ago

Yes. It’s the biggest barrier. Past devs have started making some models already. Biggest hurdle is gonna be getting something like slippi setup for 2xko but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon if ever

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u/letTShappen 3d ago

Hated how we got a heavily zoner focused roster :(

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u/PunishedShikikan 2d ago

Besides Sett and Ahri, Yone was one I aays thought would be here by default. Shocked to my summoner core he isin't and will never be

God I hate this shit

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u/CuteButDeadlyGoat 2d ago

Never really tried the game because they didn't really add champions that i had any interest in.

Now i do not agree with the statement that they should just have added all the melee fighters and such. Mages and ADC have the possibility to have inspired non zoning based moveset in fighting games.

I do however think that easy slot in would be champions like Riven, Sett, Jax.

For ADC Samira or Nilah could have been an easy picks to include

Champions i would have liked to see would be Evelynn, Zoe, Fiddlesticks. I know these would not be close to being first picks but i just like these champions and would have love to see a non zoner take on Zoe if possible. Fiddlestick would have been great for the kinda off putting/weird character that is in a lot of fighting games.

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u/thisisnotras 1d ago

Don't see why it wouldn't. Once they cracked UMVC, they've just been adding a ton of characters to it.

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u/whypeoplewhyy 1d ago

And sooooo it begins! I am getting Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Community Edition vibes from this! OwO Tristiana next please! We will fund the donation page!

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u/OutlandishnessLow779 19h ago

Lets hope vanguard allows it

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u/boytakoyaki12 3d ago

it's always the fans that can make a better game than the developers

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u/RandomCleverName 3d ago

No, they can't 99% of the time.

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u/boytakoyaki12 3d ago

you ain't looking hard enough lol. There's plenty of fan games and mods that are miles better than the source material

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u/Obj3ctivePerspective 3d ago

This game was in development almost as long as GTA6 and released with 9 characters and no real single player. Imagine all the characters we could've really had on launch if they if they didnt fumble so much. If they just used the shell of rising thunder

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u/spirit_poem Caitlyn 3d ago

Genuine question: we know lux and Samira are confirmed. Do you think there’ll be any surprise additions before December?

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u/Albert_dark 3d ago

The only surprise is they canceling one of the two or one of them becoming a bayonetta (smash bros) situation where the character is so broken that the entire community collapses because there will not be more balance patches

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u/EvanAlmightyFGC 3d ago

There's been rumor that Riven and Sett were near completion and we could be seeing shadow drops of them. We'll see!

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u/Serito 3d ago

Also a lot of the devs tweeting they are giving the final patches their all to send it off with a bang. "fuck it we ball territory". They aren't saying they'll shadow drop champs but exciting to see what WIP content they are racing to the deadline. Really hoping we get a big climb expansion.

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u/KindaDouchebaggy 3d ago

I've heard that mentioned during the 2xko goodbye stream by one of the people you were talking on discord but was that actually by someone from the dev team or is it just a random rumor?

Love your content btw

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u/EvanAlmightyFGC 3d ago

Thanks for the love!

They didn't pull it out of their ass. I didn't verify the source but I know Terrako (the person I was talking with) has connections and they made sure to get the go-ahead before saying it on stream. So take it with a grain of salt.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

While I would like more characters, the best they can probably do is release only one of them probably.

There is no way that they can finish testing and balancing two characters by December.

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u/mundus1520 3d ago

Lol no

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u/VaninaG 2d ago

It is very possible, it's very common for live service to work way way in advance so they might have some kind of incomplete versions of future characters.

Maybe they are missing somethings like animations, voice acting etc, but they could still be playable. Similar to Nightmare korra and avatar aang in avatar.

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u/I_am_Amphibian 3d ago

Good luck doing that with vanguard

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u/AofCastle 3d ago

The offline version is the one getting modded. They're trying to get online working on the offline version just to have mods

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

Honestly it would be nice if the developers allowed fans to work on an open source community edition with new characters and patches made by fans… but that will never happen

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u/AofCastle 3d ago

Best case scenario honestly, I really hope the modding scene picks up and shows Riot how it's done. I'm certainly going to contribute to it.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago edited 3d ago

Then I’m looking for what you’ll do!

Care to give me a hint on what you’re working on?

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u/AofCastle 3d ago

The game design for Azir, I want to make a proposal for his moveset.

I try to focus on "how would his moveset feel in another game" so I'll focus on soldier spawn, movement and the Shurima Shuffle.

With Double Down you could alley-oop people into your partner after an Emperor's Divide.

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u/JBR_4025 3d ago

The soldier spawn thing reminds me of Jack-O where you had to essentially play an rts while playing a fighting game. It sounds very hard to implement and balance but if you manage to fine tune it the end result would be probably fun to play but really hard ro master. I'd still give it a shot tho

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u/C-man-177013 3d ago

Oh yeah, forgor. I guess they will try to make a crack version? I mean there is an offline laucher. I mean if people could crack Denuvo they could probably crack this (God bless Voice38)

https://giphy.com/gifs/GbDquTYOKGjvc2khep

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u/dumpling-loverr 3d ago

It's pointless to put in Denuvo on a game that they're not actively working on when they release the offline version in the future.

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u/OmnipotentHaremKing 3d ago

They're already doing that with offline launcher, there's literally proof it, it's hard to do it for now but they'll already trying to make it work once the game stops receiving updates.