Huge 2XKO News Roundup - EVO, Dev Interviews, and Much More!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Well everyone we got another 2XKO playtest at EVO, several Developer panels and breakdowns, Full live character guides from champ designers, Duos-with-the Devs (staring yours truly), updates for both Katarina and Jinx, AND even some post-EVO details to get into.
Some great stuff just before the BIG one that is Alpha lab just around the corner.
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EVO was an absolute blast once again, got to do some pretty cool stuff and meet a bunch of awesome people! But we also got some pretty solid info for 2XKO, and I should have even more Vids soon from my hands-on time I got with the game! Look out for those, and shortly after I plan on playing a TON of the Alpha Lab too. LMK how all you guys are feeling and what kind of videos you wanna see from Alpha Lab!
We love BruiserMinion updates, glad they got the GOAT on stream again! Looking forward to your Alpha Lab streams :)
Appreciate you brother, and I better see you up there next year! Counting the minutes to Alpha Lab already. haha
0:00 - intro
0:23 - skins
1:53 - kat and jinx
2:40 - anti cheat
3:17 - guides and gameplay
4:33 - alpha lab
Appreciate you. 😤
@@BruiserMinion np
Important little detail that Dynasty Ahri has a lot of meaning because it was Ahri's release skin to commemorate her release in Korea.
Just a nice touch.
I did not know that actual, that is a nice little detail for sure! Im genuinely very curious what regions this game is going to vibe with when it does eventually come out. Some new wave of Korean pro fighting game players outside of Tekken would be really cool to see.
@@BruiserMinionAlso, remember that Ahri is the most popular champion in Asia.
Did anyone else catch that during one of the livestreams Shaun said "we don't want people sitting full screen just throwing plasma at each other" Plasma huh? Interesting. I've got a feeling we'll be seeing Kai'Sa in that launch roster.
Love to hear that they will be encouraging some kind of grind, part of the reason fighting games are such a perfect match for the live service model imo is because it provides and external reward system alongside the inherent internal reward system in fighting games
Couldn't agree more! I think some sort of progression ouside just a straight-up ranked badge is HUGE. Just grinding ranked can be super daunting to a lot of people not to mention games like SF 6 right now even can feel like if you hit master, you're kinda done. This is great not only in the short term to help get people a little hooked, but also constantly have goals being added you can work at if you so choose is nice.
Was a nice surprise to see you on stream, so much great news too. Also pretty hype for EVO EU. Perfect Evo overall
Thanks boss, it was a ton of fun and I'm super thankful it happened! And yea even more EVO locations is a huge deal, hope all the EU homies have a blast. it's such a dope event to get to see in person and im sure the Nice one will have its own unique charms too.
That's really cool Riot invited you for that segment! Congratz Bruizzy! Hope to see you in the Alpha lab (Prayge)
Thanks man, it was a pretty dope experience.... still pretty wild to think back on already tbh. lol And indeed! Hope you get in and we can all finally get some real time in on the game!
it was hype seeing you in the live
Was such a wild but cool experience, I was hyped to be there! Thanks for watching and the support boss.
yeah right? Recognition to a small but passionate creator from Riot themselves is great to see!
Love that more and more stuff about the game gets talked about. The whole game experience being shown soon is really exciting, cant wait, looking forward to the streams during alpha lab!
Indeed! I am VERY curious about what all is gonna be in Alpha lab. Tom using the term "Full game" in the announcement video makes me feel like it can't just be online matchmaking.... hoping for at least custom lobbies, Training mode, and maybe some combo trials? Would be dope!
Was a great surprise seeing you on the main broadcast with the Riot crew! Couldn't make EVO this year so I've got to rely on some luck to nab the Alpha Lab invite, so its cool that you're planning to stream some games to watch if I can't make it in myself.
Yea it's still pretty surprising to me that it happened too ngl.... haha But for sure! GL getting in of course, but for those who don't make it in hopefully it'll still be a good time to catch some streams and get a ton of new footage!
Thank you mate for going out to EVO for this, it was good to see you on the live stream. Question for you that I don’t think the fighting game guys asked- is the announcer inside of the game a known character, like Lux? I was having a hard time placing the voice if it’s supposed to be. And if it is- does that mean we can buy other announcers? My first ask is for Draven, he would be an amazing one.
Glad to have done it, was a super cool experience! Appreciate you brother. As for the announcer I have not seen anything official about it being talked about. She does sound a bit familiar but I don't know if that's because she is supposed to be an existing character or maybe they just used an actor they have used before... hard to tell so far. But as for more announcers in the future that would be dope! For something like a sarcastic, League-of-Draven style commentator I would absolutely pay money for that. lol
Still very sad about the region locks for the alpha lab, especially since I have a very good connection to countries that are allowed in. Oh well.
Either way, I'm super curious what all the sweats are gonna manage to cook up during alpha lab. This is the first time the game will have been accessible by such a large group of people that aren't the devs continuously, and I'm sure we'll see people pull off some crazy stuff.
The confirmation of mastery chromas is another really hype thing, love having extra things to grind for and show off other than just my ranked icon.
Yea I'm sorry to hear it, I know a lot of folks are being left out this time around and it's lousy to see. I'm really hoping they jump right into another test shortly after this first one, and they will almost definitely open it up to more regions for following tests. Hope you get to play soon and at least there will be a lot of footage to help hold ppl a bit as well!
I was AFRAID that Katarina would get excluded from 2XKO. Sucks that she won't be part of the starting/base roster, BUT, at least she's still in.
For the additional skins, here's what we need: Different intros and outros, different element attributes (i.e. Snow Moon Ahri having ice elements to her special attacks), and new quotes.
If Miss Fortune gets in, she has to have the Secret Agent skin.
Indeed! Would have loved to see her make base roster but i'll take this, put the time in and make her perfect Riot! And agreed, I would love to see character intros and unique interactions! I wont if there will be new voicelines, effects, and the whole nine yards like some of the LoL skins. They really go all out for some of the more expensive ones. But I guess that's the other question, waiting to see pricing on here too guess we shall see soon!
I don't think animation skins are a bad thing because out of all almost gaming genres, you really feel it in fighting games since you see your character and there moves all the time. I just feel skins will be good and enjoyable for this game.
Personally, I don't think they would want to go so far as changing animations like character special moves! A huge part of high-level fighting games is learning moves, and move properties for pretty much everything in the game. legit drilling exact interactions and counterplay to all of them. Different animations could mess with the muscle memory you would be building, and add a huge level of additional stuff you would have to train to look out for. That being said! I think things like intro animations, Super move cutscenes and win poses could absolutely be changed with skins! That would be pretty cool to see and wouldn't change the balancing of the game.
Cant wait to dig into this one. Thanks for the content
Thanks for watching! 🤝
Congrats on getting noticed by Riot. I've always thought they were good about pushing creators in their community. Even though you are not massive, they gave you some personal time despite all the big FGC creators jumping into this game.
Thanks man! Yea I've gotta say it was pretty cool of them to do! I might seem biased in this particular circumstance of course but I've seen them be pretty cool with others around me too and I very much love that angle. They absolutely could have just gone for the Maximillians and Sajams of the world but it does seem like they are good even to us small fries.
YESSSSSSSSSS so cool u got to play that much at evo
Was wild for sure, and thanks man!
I haven't been this excited for a game since like SF4 or UMVC3 maybe
Yea it's up there with most anticipated games ever for me at this point, stoked we are finally getting close after all this time!
@@BruiserMinion fr dawg, my body is ready
hoping the community will find a way to put custom skins in the game like league, modding skins in fighting/moba games are really interesting for me and sometimes hope custom skin makers can land their skin in the game or at least inspired like Void Fizz in league
I think it's pretty likely they will! Other fighting games like DBFZ and GG Strive have some pretty insane mods, I would like to see what the community would cook up here
Excited for the alpha labs when available.
Counting down the days, we are so close!
Damn I am HELLA disappointed Katarina wont be base roster, she was the one I was looking forward to/hoping for the most...
It is a shame, I would have loved to have seen her in as well. Hopefully this means they are really pouring a lot into her design and making it excellent though, not just rushed out to meet launch type deal . i'll take it if it means a better design!
@@BruiserMinion hopefully thats what happens. She just has a lot of potential for a game like this.
I’m so upset my region (Oceania) isn’t part of the Alpha Lab. Been looking forward to this game since it’s initial announcement in 2019.
Yea I feel for you boss. Ive got a couple Oceania homies who are also super hyped for the game, feels bad not everyone gets to play this time around..... Fingers crossed you all get added on the next round soon!
we need to wait for the MMO
Damn, the vanguard addition was a punch in the gut. I was genuinly hyped for 2XKO but because of that, I simply don't want to touch it all and that's not because I'm a linux user, I have a windows partition installed, I just don't trust a driver running 24/7 on my PC (for reference, Easy Anti Cheat only runs when the game is open). I thought they would make an exception since anti-cheats in fighting games aren't very common, but nah
You can keep Vanguard off, and then restart your pc to re-enable it.
@@grimdagoblinmain The drivers being installed is still a security vulnerability. Albeit, it would be harder if it was off, but the problem still remains. I shouldn't have to fuck around with drivers to play a game, other anti-cheats function just fine without having to restart my PC. Plus, judging from the matches I have played before I decided ultimately to abandon Vanguard was the fact that cheaters are still infecting lobbies just fine through traditional methods without relying on kernel level cheats, so the extra security is useless.
@@anOkLAN if i must have my PC bricked, just so i can play the game SO FUCKING BE IT
@@lukasvavra2473 I don't think you know what bricked means my guy lel, did you mean compromised or vulnerable? Bricked means the the thing wont start, you know like a brick
Will definitely follow those streams once the alphalab drops since I can't play in it (sadge).
Appreciate it! I do genuinely hope they spread the love to other regions soon. It'll be a great day once EVERYONE who has wanted to try the game finally has a shot and we can all play together.
@@BruiserMinion I think that'll be around when Arcane 2 comes out to ride the hype and stuff. So November/December
@@007meef6 Oh yea! Arcane 2, AND LoL 15 Year anniversary already this year. If they do anything close to 10-year stuff, it's gonna be a massive event for Riot as a whole and I imagine with how close this game is getting to full launch it would be heavily involved!
😢 Miss Kat........so sad she's not gonna make it in alpha test phase.
Yea it's a bummer for sure, but I have to imagine she will be one of the first champs they add in after launch!
@@BruiserMinion yes inded...but Poor Darius. he s the only champion left without hometown partner (Piltover-Zaun:Ekko Jinx, Ionia: Yasuo Ahri, Fred-Bildge Braum Illaoi)
@@malfana07 Makes me curious if they will add another Noxian before launch! They definitely could... but who? Personally, my top pick if not Kat would be Samira
@@BruiserMinion I bet samira will came out to accompany Draven. both of these champ are FG-compatible.
@@malfana07 Good point! Draven would be a great choice too, even now actually! He is Darius's brother afterall so that would be a perfect fit.
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i love this game
Same. 🥰
Good day bruise, where can I find the illaoi guide with Caroline, I checked day 3 evo but still couldn't find it.
Good day indeed! It's on Day 1, starts about 26 minutes in ruclips.net/video/zeAxT8oYkgc/видео.html
2X looks sweet. Too bad about the vanguard thing
It's a great game, can confirm now after playing a few times! I know there is a lot of hesitation with Vangaurd but hopefully, they get it sorted as Riot starts pushing it into more and more games. People have been pretty vocal about disliking it so have to imagine Riot is listening
@@BruiserMinion yeah kernel level anticheat is really bad and it doesn't even work. Blizzard tried this shit and even then they still had cheaters. I'm not comfortable giving any games company level 0 access to my computer especially since anything they push to live could potentially brick it if it isn't tested well enough
@@Sarkhamy if i must have my PC bricked, just so i can play the game SO FUCKING BE IT
Question can 2xko surpass lol and attract the audience Riot expects?League is not attracting new audiences and the game is getting worse. Can 2xko change it?
I don't think it will surpass LoL but I definitely think it can bring in new people! Ive talked to plenty of people already who dont have much interest in LoL but are big on fighting games - or even got interested in the world by watching Arcane who are hyped for this game!
I feel like I’m the only person in the world that wants custom chromas but the whole earning thing is cool to me 👍🏾
Custom chromas would be WILD! I feel like a lot of games steer away from it these days though. People who try to make things as nude as they can in games like King of Fighters 13 ruin it for the rest of us, the Devs no longer trust! lol
@@BruiserMinion true, they could probably make a filter for too many of the same color being on a character even tho it would probably ruin my dreams of turning Bruam into colossus 🦸
@@Superspooks. That's true I'm sure they could find a way to make it work! And Colossus or Mecha Braum would go pretty hard ngl. lol
Not having Katarina done by launch when you started out with that character is insane to me. I understand they started out as a 1v1 game but damn let’s just throw her to the side because the bar is high. Shouldn’t the bar be high for all your characters? 👀👀 I mean what are they gonna say for other fan favorites that have way more complex kits like Akali, Irelia exc.. or are they just gonna not put those characters in at all. 👀👀 It’s very disappointing in my opinion.
It kind of feels like power creep in League in a lot of ways! There are so many old characters that get borderline invalidated over the years by new champs that go absolutely wild, so they have to rework the old ones. This game has been in Dev for like 7+ years so I'm sure there has been numerous champs on top of Kat that have been fully restarted and we just dont know about them. But yea overall im sure even riot is kicking themselves for showing her so long ago but not being able to get her across the finish line for launch.
@@BruiserMinion Yea your right. I just hope the coolest characters besides Katarina like Zed, Viego, Irelia, Fiora,Kayne and exc.. don’t run into the same problem. I hope they have some of those characters locked in for launch roster.
Man, the vanguard thing really killed my hype for the game
if i must have my PC bricked, just so i can play the game SO FUCKING BE IT
Wait there is DLc? I thought the game is f2p
It is free to play! I only meant Kat won't be base roster, she will be added later - and Jinx should be there at launch. They haven't described exactly how it works yet but did say champs are earnable you don't have to spend money on them. so should still be all good even when Kat is added later!
Does vanguard have a console version?
Yes but it's different version than the PC one
Where did you hear about that?
@@popocraft4677Valorant for console has vanguard and it's REALLY GOOD at detecting arduino and xim mnk inputs
If they release it for MacOS it will be flooded with scripters in a week, if they won't it still will have cheaters, because Vanguard is not working...
Yea I feel like I have heard about a ton of pushback people have for Vangaurd, but to be honest im pretty ignorant as to fully why it's so disliked. Is the gist of it that people don't think it works as well as it should?
@@BruiserMinion in general people don't like it because they are scared of "chinese spyware" or it just affects performance of their PCs, but also it doesn't work that well as Riot says, you can research the problem with cheats in high elo in LoL for example, the just don't have answers for that. And they didn't release Valorant to other OS then Windows because they can't make Vanguard work there...
@@N5O1 Gotcha, thanks for the breakdown man. Historically I haven't had nearly the bad luck with cheaters on Fighting Games as I have with shooters. But as a long-time Counterstrike player, I will say it's not something you wanna wait to properly implement. If cheating gets to the level that CS GO had - its too late and legit game-killing to me. Fingers crossed it's not an issue here because that would be a massive bummer to say the least.
@@BruiserMinion From my understanding of technical knowledge with is almost kind of zero, Kernel software is very dangerous to the computers in the sense that Kernel runs a level down of your operative system, for instance, Windows runs later after Vanguard. This obviously gives ton of power to the anti-cheat which I will not explain to you bc it will take me hours. This raises up the question, how this will even come to fruition? Well, to get Vanguard approved Riot had to get technical compliance from governments around the World, especially important in Europe who has one of the most strict data security laws over the World. To wrap it up, Vanguard must be legit in order to just get it working taking into account technical compliance, and despite being as powerful, it should be safe in your computer.
Last note, if Riot was not affiliated with Tencent, people would not be causing that commotion about it. But yeah.
@@elrubent Ahhhh okay gotcha, that makes a lot of sense. I do feel like I've seen a lot of people call it Maleware and not liking how much "control" they theoretically could have should things take a turn for the worse. Almost more worried what it COULD do over what it's actually doing as it stands. Appreciate the insight!
Do we really need a battle pass? We all know they aren’t worth it in these sort of games.
I don't hate it personally IF done correctly. As much as I didnt love Mortal Kombat 1 I kinda liked the battlepass there and the idea of being able to unlock some costumes and colors. It was a nice way to reward playing outside just having a ranked icon to chase. On the flip side, I feel like most of SF6s battle pass stuff has been super throw away and hardly even worth grinding out so I guess really we'll have to see if Riot put some solid stuff in and how much $$
Can you grind for skins?
From the way Shaun described it in that panel this first one will be part of a battlepass. So I imagine you buy like the 10-15 dollar pass and then progress the pass until the end to unlock her type deal. Then additionally can grind some way or another for a special color/ chroma too. that being said it's still going to be just an alpha so very much subject to change.
@@BruiserMinion ah fuck
damn, vanguard is such a turn off :(
Why?
@@foxmx125 it barely prevents cheaters, causes major performance loss even when outside of the game, and has caused computers to break (eg.: disabling keyboard drivers or straight up preventing bootup)
vanguard is garbage, its a worse piece of software than that hellish league client
@@luccabibar7033 damn I'm happy I haven't ran into any of those problems the couple years I've been playing val or my friends. Id imagine these problems are pretty rare.
@@luccabibar7033 if i must have my PC bricked, just so i can play the game SO FUCKING BE IT