The Official Killer Instinct Thread

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Koing

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I never really got in to the KI games. I was much more of a SF, then MK and then Tekken fan

Koing
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
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so they showed shadow jago off today on stream. looks to pretty much be a pallette swap, not exciting at all.
 

smackababy

Lifer
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so they showed shadow jago off today on stream. looks to pretty much be a pallette swap, not exciting at all.

It would make such little sense to try and be a competitive fighter and then offer a one time only DLC character that is different. Imagine if SF did that? "Akuma is only available as a preroder bonus for some non SF4 product and nobody will ever get him again".
 

purbeast0

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It would make such little sense to try and be a competitive fighter and then offer a one time only DLC character that is different. Imagine if SF did that? "Akuma is only available as a preroder bonus for some non SF4 product and nobody will ever get him again".

supposedly he is going to be joining the cast in february or so as a regular, which is why the day1 xbl card says "exclusive until february" on it or something.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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supposedly he is going to be joining the cast in february or so as a regular, which is why the day1 xbl card says "exclusive until february" on it or something.

I remember reading something like "may be available elsewhere at a later date"
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
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i'm really really starting to doubt that i'm going to have my TE2 by friday

i tweeted madcatz this weekend and they tweeted me back saying preorders would start shipping out as early as today, but i don't have anything yet and my cc hasnt been charged. and i had fedex ground shipping, and i contacted them earlier today and they told me that i can't even change shipping, nor do they have any idea when they will ship out.

looks like amazon and gamestop won't have em by launch either, so that kinda blows. i won't really dig into ki too much until i have a joystick though. if i don't have one by this weekend, i might go out and buy a pad and just try to wire up my own. someone on srk is already looking at the schematics of the x1 controller.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
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Yeah, I'll just tough it out until I get a stick. I'll play casually with a couple friends but until I have a stick I don't think I'll dive in too deep. It's ok though as I will be very busy with PS4 games as well as Forza. In a way it sucks because I think the stick looks excellent and I wanted to see it in person but it's something that will show up at my door at some point and I'll just have to wait.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
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also, sounds like the online mode at launch is going to not have lobbies either. sucks we won't be able to get a room going from people on here and just play winner stays on. looks like its just going to be 1v1 ranked or exhibition matches until the lobby stuff is ready.

filthierich did say this week they will give us all the info about online mode though, which is cool. hopefully they will talk about when the lobby portion will be ready.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
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also, sounds like the online mode at launch is going to not have lobbies either. sucks we won't be able to get a room going from people on here and just play winner stays on. looks like its just going to be 1v1 ranked or exhibition matches until the lobby stuff is ready.

filthierich did say this week they will give us all the info about online mode though, which is cool. hopefully they will talk about when the lobby portion will be ready.

The reviews did touch on the lack of lobbies as well. It's just that they had to rush this game out. Had they waited until a later date I'm sure all this stuff would be in place day one.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
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The reviews did touch on the lack of lobbies as well. It's just that they had to rush this game out. Had they waited until a later date I'm sure all this stuff would be in place day one.

yup, but ms forced them to have as much ready by launch as possible so they went this route. and to be honest, i personally would much rather be able to play it in november in it's current state than have to wait until march or so to get my hands on it, so i have no problem with it. but i do know, the multiplayer menu does have a LOBBY option in it, it's just grayed out, so it's definitely in the works.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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yup, but ms forced them to have as much ready by launch as possible so they went this route. and to be honest, i personally would much rather be able to play it in november in it's current state than have to wait until march or so to get my hands on it, so i have no problem with it. but i do know, the multiplayer menu does have a LOBBY option in it, it's just grayed out, so it's definitely in the works.

I hear ya...it's like how Watch Dogs is now. Can't play until around June and it was slated to be a launch game until recently.
 

smackababy

Lifer
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yup, but ms forced them to have as much ready by launch as possible so they went this route. and to be honest, i personally would much rather be able to play it in november in it's current state than have to wait until march or so to get my hands on it, so i have no problem with it. but i do know, the multiplayer menu does have a LOBBY option in it, it's just grayed out, so it's definitely in the works.

I have no doubt they will patch it in, but if the game does very well, it will set the bar for "unfinished but enough to launch" to a new low. I'll admit, I will be "part of the problem" and will by giving them money for it, but I am still upset about it.

If this had been for anything bigger (like Madden or CoD or something similar) people would be in an outrage. KI kind of skates under the radar because it is a F2P game AND not a massively popular IP.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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just got shipment information from madcatz about my TE2 preorder! nothing showing up in fedex tracking yet, but i really doubt i'll get it by friday since i did fedex ground

although, when talking to the guys at gamestop, they told me their shipments of the joysticks come from texas, so i'm not sure if there is where madcatz actually ships their products from, or if it's from cali. and i'm in md...
 

smackababy

Lifer
Oct 30, 2008
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just got shipment information from madcatz about my TE2 preorder! nothing showing up in fedex tracking yet, but i really doubt i'll get it by friday since i did fedex ground

although, when talking to the guys at gamestop, they told me their shipments of the joysticks come from texas, so i'm not sure if there is where madcatz actually ships their products from, or if it's from cali. and i'm in md...

FedEX ground from Houston zip code is still 3 days in MD, according to their map. I'd imagine you'll get it on Friday.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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just got shipment information from madcatz about my TE2 preorder! nothing showing up in fedex tracking yet, but i really doubt i'll get it by friday since i did fedex ground

although, when talking to the guys at gamestop, they told me their shipments of the joysticks come from texas, so i'm not sure if there is where madcatz actually ships their products from, or if it's from cali. and i'm in md...

Texas is the home base for GameStop.
 

smackababy

Lifer
Oct 30, 2008
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yah but if they ship from cali ...

Does it say where the shipping label originated from yet? If not, check in a couple hours and eventually it wall say what location is expecting to receive the items.

Also, the shipping isn't real time by any means. It is usually at least an hour behind.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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Does it say where the shipping label originated from yet? If not, check in a couple hours and eventually it wall say what location is expecting to receive the items.

Also, the shipping isn't real time by any means. It is usually at least an hour behind.

nope it doesn't say yet. what i'm wondering though, is even if it is to be delivered on monday, maybe it will arrive at facility on friday and i could go grab it friday. this wait for killer instinct has been so long and it's so close, and man it would be such a tease to have the game for the whole weekend but have to play with a pad lol.
 
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