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First look at Alex in Street Fighter 5 - March update detailed
Posted by Nicholas 'MajinTenshinhan' Taylor • March 10, 2016 at 8:34 a.m. PST
Though we know that Alex is set to drop sometime this month, a concrete date has not yet been revealed. In the meantime, Capcom has released a fresh batch of screenshots showing the returning warrior in action, provided information on his V-Moves, and listed the content we can expect to see in the March update.
Alex has been one of the most fan requested characters for Street Fighter V and we’ve put in a lot of work to make him appeal to old school and new players alike. Having made his first appearance in Street Fighter III back in 1997, Alex is a brash grappler whose bold attitude tends to get him in trouble. His parents died while he was still young, so he was raised by his father’s friend, Tom, who taught him everything he knows about fighting.
In Street Fighter V, Alex returns as a powerful grappler that can inflict big damage with his close range Power Bomb command grab and his long limbs to fight from midrange distances. The threat doesn’t end there however, as Alex has a variety of special attacks that can cover a large portion of the screen for those times when the opponent keeps him out. Players looking for a methodical grappler who can do big burst damage up close, yet still do well at midrange, will find themselves perfectly at home with Alex.
Alex Details
V-Skill: Overhaul
Alex stretches and gets ready to hit extra hard. After doing this, Alex's next move will damage the opponent as if it were a counter hit. If the attack misses or gets blocked, the effect vanishes.
Alex lets loose with a clothesline attack. The attack can be charged, and allows parrying of one attack during its charge time. If fully charged, Alex will break the guard of a blocking opponent, allowing for a followup attack.
Alex hits the opponent with a very powerful chop that knocks them around. He then grabs them and holds them up high in a crucifix hold, and then drops them down to the ground with intense speed.
Other Patch Additions
Challenge Mode
Demonstrations: Learn the ins and outs of Street Fighter V through helpful demonstration and tutorial content. Contains content for each of the 16 characters, as well as advice geared towards players of all skill levels:
Beginner Tutorials: 12 lessons covering, movement, normal attacks, special attacks, V-System, throws, counter hits, chip/recoverable damage, etc.
Intermediate Tutorials: 11 lessons covering projectiles, invincibility frames, armor and armor break, recovery, cross-up attacks, anti-air options, etc.
Advanced Tutorials: 4 lessons covering back dashing, frame advantage/disadvantage, combo potential, button priority, etc.
Character Tutorials: 16 lessons covering each individual character.
Trials: Put your skills to the ultimate test with combo trials for all 16 characters, ranging from basic to pro combos. Completing Trials will also earn you some extra Fight Money.
In-Game Shop
Fight Money Expenditure: Spend your hard earned Fight Money to purchase extra game content, such as DLC characters and the Story Mode Costumes.
Online Rematch Option
Salty from a close loss online? Want revenge? Players can now play a 2/3 set in Ranked Match, provided both players accept the rematch.
Battle Lounge Improvements
Enjoy up to 8 person lobbies, complete with match spectating.
Bug Fixes
Bug: Sometimes you don’t get EXP from casual matches
Bug: On a rare occurrence, if you restart the game after you unlock colors, the colors you unlocked will disappear
Vega:
If you hit V-Trigger Bloody Kiss (anti-air) in certain situations, Vega will no longer continue to rise off the top of the screen.
M. Bison:
If M. Bison is interrupted by an opponent’s V-Trigger or Critical Art during his invisible frames of Double Knee Press in V-Trigger mode, M. Bison will no longer remain invisible until his next move.
Rashid:
Rashid will no longer float in the air for a moment if you perform his V-Trigger after he touches the ground upon a missed Eagle Spike.
Chun-Li:
During V-Trigger activation, the hit stop and block stop has been made the same for multi-hitting moves (medium or heavy attacks for both normal and special moves).
She was previously able to perform option selects involving standing HP into Houyokusen, so this has been removed.
Vertical and Back Jump Frames:
All characters except Birdie and Zangief: Vertical jump and back jump frames have changed from 3f->4f.
Birdie: Vertical jump and back jump frames have changed from 4f->5f.
Zangief: No changes to jump frames.
These changes reduce the effectiveness of throw tech option selects involving jumping (also known as “jump grab”). Changing forward jump frames would affect the game balance too much so those remain unchanged.
Throw Escape Change:
If you push buttons during the normal throw delayed tech window you are unable to escape throws for 2 frames.
Prevents using light attacks to option select with throw escapes.
If you execute specific special moves during the normal throw delayed tech window you are unable to immediately escape throws. Each characters V-skills, V-triggers, V-reversals, critical arts, and moves have been set individually.
Prevents throw escape option selects involving specific moves such as Shoryuken, etc.
Source: Capcom Unity.
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Comments
OhYouDontSayThat
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:13 a.m.
YESSSS, been refreshing EH for days for this!!!
LuckyKoopa
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:14 a.m.
After reading about them V-Abilities, Alex is going to be a freaking hard-hitting truck. This is gonna be good!
FoShizzle93
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:14 a.m.
Oh wow, he looks great! I didn't play SF3 that much, but I think I'm gonna try him out this time around. Can't wait for the trailer!
BluegrassNutmeg
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:14 a.m.
Um, release date? Kind of the most important bit of info.
TemoteJiku
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:15 a.m.
So THAT'S what it was! (There was some random "dirty guy", no further comments...)
real_MAHVEL_god
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:18 a.m.
he is a fu*king monster hahah... i thought they were going to make him smaller because he is younger. he looks amazing and i definitely wanna play him. gonna read notes now XD
DarkRyu94
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:18 a.m.
No release yet?
Cmon guys stop dicking around. You show us some screenshots and tell us how he will play rather than launching a trailer. You tell us what will be in the March update without then even giving us the launch except later this month?
Props on the update, the ranked match rematch option is pretty good... Be even better if you brought back character select...
BluegrassNutmeg
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:18 a.m.
Happy to see rematch in ranked. This needs to be standard in all fight games. Thank you KI for bringing it!
Hakansoilbarrel
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:19 a.m.
(FINALLY PLZ DONT HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS OR GET NERFED ALOT LIKE R MIKA)
ThaiSenpai
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:19 a.m.
- :') cmon survival colors need a re-due I need pink Necalli
XxAngelChunLixX
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:19 a.m.
He's hot..
A piece of me is glad they didn't do any huge patch, but that other piece of me that hates Bison is a little disappointed. However, I definitely prefer it this way especially since the game is only a little under a month old.
I'm panicking though because I see no changes to Survival or buying the colors in the store!!! Come onnnn!!! D:
triplefierce
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:19 a.m.
My guess is that the trailer will be shown after Final Round GF/ awards ceremony, then Alex being available right after.
TemoteJiku
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:20 a.m.
Dat V-skill! But... But what about "his theme"? I'm really worried about that as well! I guess we must wait for it even more... (Trailer won't have an actual character theme music yet again? Or? Hmm.)
Firemadeprime
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:21 a.m.
no trailer? after all this time is just disappoint.
LuckyKoopa
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:22 a.m.
And I see Alex gets to use the "Razor's Edge" as a critical art.
Good move to pick up. Nobody beats this bad guy, loosah.
TheFeistyOne
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:23 a.m.
"Online Rematch Option
Salty from a close loss online? Want revenge? Players can now play a 2/3 set in Ranked Match, provided both players accept the rematch."
probably the best part ...
more counters to option select? totally buying it...
Alex looks really nice
BlackOnyxThunder
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:24 a.m.
Alex's splash effect looks like a bunch of fruit roll-ups. :P
Hypermarth
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:25 a.m.
Glad I hadn't gotten around to practicing that plink throw-tech OS lol.
StarBuster
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:25 a.m.
His face is ugly but I still will main him, f it I don't care I've been waiting too long
Kairosbland
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:25 a.m.
Should be like KI and 2/3 default in higher ranks.
But whatever I'll take it.
RebornOdin
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:27 a.m.
I wonder if you beat them in 2/3 if you get more points for winning or if you get the same amount.
stardust99
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:28 a.m.
The short hair is cool, but the sideburns don't make any sense...He needs a new hair cut urgently.
ShiroiKaze
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.
no Hyper Bomb... no Stun Gun Headbutt... and Hugo's clothesline as his V-trigger?! WTF?!
Tactix555
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.
The 2/3 format should be enforced once you reach a specific tier.
In KI, when you are "Killer" tier and you face off with another "Killer" tier player then the rank match is automatically 2/3.
I hope that in SFV they will implement something similar where two Gold rank or higher tiered players have to play a 2/3 so the win is not a fluke.
Unknown_Unknown
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.
About freaking time!!! He looks like a monster! I'm excited.
Dapolice
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:31 a.m.
The only sad thing that will come from this is the infamous rager and scrub who plagued 3rd strike online forever is gonna bring his scrub ass BS to this game. We've tried to get rid of him for years. Good luck. His CFN ID is FrankBooth and RickiOh but his name in 3s was Louiscipher, Alexisdabomb, etc. Hilarious wiki page about his crap:
Hakansoilbarrel
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:31 a.m.
(Hm he doesn't look all that different. Looks very 80s, like David Bowie or Anime Villain.
Also he's bleeping huge.
But I'm glad he'll be a more balanced/neutral and hopefully less nerfed character than R. Mika - honestly it sounds like he'll be my main
I am scared of his parry tho....parrying seems hard :(
)
RougeMephilesClone
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:32 a.m.
Holy cow, that Challenge suite should have been in the game at launch.
Also, hey Alex. How's it going?
But a real tutorial, though! Darn it! I love Street Fighter 5, but we really did get a fifth beta at release! Capcom, this screwup probably cost you a lot of money!
Anyways, I really hope that we see a spike in sales once this update drops. This is the sort of stuff that new players need to start training effectively.
Cascadian1106
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:33 a.m.
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unseenpotential01
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:35 a.m.
Does this mean Chun can't Os whiffed throw AA, stand short anymore?
At least it'll be harder for players to escape my junk. That was annoying lol
PainKiller
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:36 a.m.
Thank goodness they removed this crouch tech, it was stupid...
real_MAHVEL_god
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:37 a.m.
OS parries haha. i am glad just because i never use them. i dont know how to because i never learned.
AzreInfinity
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:42 a.m.
I hope he still makes that "Oooowaaah!" sound when he command grabs lol
ThaiSenpai
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:42 a.m.
- why are we calling it option select hate? Option selects were never intended in the game, so they need to be removed period.
pewny
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:43 a.m.
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41sun
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:43 a.m.
Rematch is excellent, though on the flip side I would like to see some way of blacklisting laggy players that the matchmaking is recognizing as a "5" connection in order to avoid being pitted against them in the future. I understand that could be abused but somehow I keep running into situations where I get the same poor connection opponent 3 or 4 times in a row. Frustrating and discouraging, probably for us both. [east coast USA, no problems finding smooth matches in ultra]
Shintakuma
said
on March 10, 2016 at 8:44 a.m.
Now as I break into this game, all these changes drop O_O! I do like the jump throw feature, nice touch there Capcom. Now the game is more like 35% completed...
Alex looks bad*** but why his face looks like a bit of T.Hawk in one of those pics?
I miss Guy!....
