Goddamn I hate this fucking business model.

KI gets a retail release

Sounds great right? Nope. Damn thing is only 20$ and includes just the basic 8 fighters from Season 1 and a code for TJ Combo. Instead of waiting for Season 2 to finish then get a retail release, they fucking jump the gun.

I have been campaigning for a retail release since I heard about this "free to download", "we're building a KI platform" shit. But this is not what I had in mind. It is reasonably priced, but the content still isn't there. Do people really want to pay for something that is cheap and lacks content? I've heard of "You get what you pay for." but damn...

Retail release starts September 23rd.

Well, if you want a retail version with ALL the content on it, then you have to wait until they actually finish all the content first. You can't expect them to release a retail version NOW with ALL the content they're not done making yet AND keep the low price.

Patience.

Reread the last sentence in the first paragraph under the link. If you did, you'll notice I said they should've finished Season 2 first THEN got a retail release. They did the shit backwards.

Oh, sorry, missed that part. >.<

Don't worry about it :)

It's like Microsoft intentinally trying patience of people to see how much bizzare bullshit they will able put out in regards to the new KI.
I wonder, what their "end game" at this...

Max explains the retail release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtSjHcpKgg

Iron Galaxy is conducting a survey on feedback for changes and improvements to the game, based on season 1 feedback. Killer Instinct Season 1 feedback.

Also not sure who frequented the older Double Helix/Killer instinct forum, if you aren't aware, Iron Galaxy has opened a new official forum for the game here: Killer Instinct Official Forum.

I find the new forum interesting, considering the fact that Iron galaxy doesn't even have an official forum for any of their previous games.

Iron Galaxy had a live stream where they showed all the new changes for the Season 1 characters. It was put on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFMssd1zOk

Alot of good stuff, imo. I love Orchid's new Shadow Ichi Ni San. ^^

Love the changes for KI season 2. Fulgore's going to take some getting used to and I wish Sabrewulf had received a new move, but overall I'm happy.

*raises hand* I did.

Yeah, me too. It seems like the Iron Galaxy KI forum is alot less active though. :/

Oh, man. The change list is amazing. It's almost perfect. Sadira... that bitch... that stupid fucking bitch no longer has that stupid fucking web glitch. Fuck me, so much good news.

As for my main? Glacius is definitely better now, but I still think he needs a decent wake-up option. He needed it WAY more than Sadira, but he'll be okay in the end. Increasing damage on pokes is going to help him so much in certain matchups.

Maya looks pretty awesome. Here gameplay isn't quite what I was expecting, but the amount of work that went into her is obvious. I'm really liking her stage and music along with her animation and voice acting.

Not sure how a feel about the next character. It looks like an original character, some kind of mummy?

Her stage looks beautiful. No complaints.

Maya looks awesome, but her movements seem a bit stiff. Hopefully they will fix that for her release. Otherwise, she looks very fun to play as. She's all over the place!

Mummy-guy looks rather dull though. His stage looks interesting, but his design is very basic. Hopefully they will change that as well.

Ign has some more of Maya's gameplay here: Killer Instinct Maya gameplay and new UI

She looks great. My only real complain is that some of her animations seem pretty slow in comparison to the rest of the cast.

The new UI doesn't look too bad, I know the way DH did it was more homage to the original games, but I just hope Iron Galaxy doesn't deviate too much and the game losses it's spirit and doesn't feel like KI any more.

Maya looks interesting. I'll definitely give her a look when she's available. She reminds me a little bit of Captain America with how her daggers work. Stage looks great, not crazy about the music. Seems too dance party but it does fit the setting.

And the new UI is 10x better than the current UI. Looks more modern and focused. I hate the current UI as it's bland as shit.

Still waiting on Cinder...

I feel just the opposite. The new UI looks really bland and boring. I much rather like the current UI.

While I agree about the UI looking more modern. My main concern is that the existing Season 1 UI felt very much like KI. This new version (at least from our brief glimpse of it) doesn't feel like the old KI to me. I think it will grow on me, but I just hope Iron Galaxy doesn't change the game so much that it doesn't feel like KI any more.

I'm just glad I won't have to scroll to find my characters anymore. God that shit was stupid. I mean, it worked because there were so few characters but still. That shit needs to go. And I'm glad the Red Dead style text is gone too.

All I can say is I just saw the new Maya trailer and it looked pretty good. Ever since they announced her with this brand new look instead of that old generic amazon look in KI2, I've been digging her more and more. I only wonder who is the character at the end of her trailer? Seems to be a like mummy but we shall see.

I see some people don't like the new select screen, and I guess it could use a little more jazz for sure, but it's definitely an improvement. The select screen needed to change. Hidden select wasn't even possible with the structure of the last select screen, and having the alt-costume portrait perpetually hovering above looked really bad, IMO.

It wasn't even all that true to the original UI. The selection rows should have been top and bottom, not side by side (though they didn't have enough characters to pull top-to-bottom off obviously). And honestly, even when I was a kid, I never thought the KI select screen had much going for it. It's main benefit was that it showed off the full front of the characters in hella good graphics, but that element has carried over to the new select screen, so there's really nothing worth salvaging, IMO.

I don't know why we can't get better portraits, though. It's as if in 2008, fighting game developers decided that all character portraits ever were going to look like shit.

Remember when they used to have backgrounds?

Man, those were the days...

KI portraits never had backgrounds. They always had black backgrounds.