Avid data miner reports new details about potential Street Fighter 5 Arcade Mode
X-Kira shows mock up for Arcade ladder featuring two bonus stages, 'true boss' and more
Last month, consistent data miner X-Kira reported that we would finally be seeing Street Fighter 5's long awaited Arcade Mode released in January 2018. Today, the PC savvy player returns with more potential details.
Based on his latest findings, X-Kira brings us what he claims is a mock up of Street Fighter 5's Arcade ladder.
In this new video, we see a ladder with 22 icons on it. Two of these are reserved for bonus stages, which X-Kira says are a car mini-game (one having to do with Abigail) and the classic barrels.
The rest are divided up into sections which determine what characters from what Street Fighter series you'll be fighting. For example, the first two icons show Street Fighter Alpha characters, the next six are from Super Street Fighter 2, after that it's Street Fighter 3 characters, and so on.
Because of the way they are organized, and the fact that X-Kira notes that there will be 14 battles in arcade mode, we believe that players might be able to select which of the two opponents they want to face, similar to Street Fighter 3 Third Strike's Arcade Mode.
We also see that the final four icons before the two boss fights -- one labeled boss and the other "true boss (secret)" -- is reserved for the four original kings of Shadaloo (including Sagat).
X-Kira goes on to show file names for "Arcade Mode Challenges." Though we are unsure what these are exactly, my best guess would be specific challenges that players can complete throughout their arcade run that reward with Fight Money.
If X-Kira's findings are correct, we could be seeing a robust Arcade Mode hit Street Fighter 5 early next year.
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Thanks to Chris Bahn for sending this our way.
