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Let's put it this way, Superchargers is more cash friendly than Trap Team.

That's not correct as it is.

SuperChargers is most likely cheaper if you want to get everything.
Otherwise the price for new characters, Racing Action Packs and vehicles isn't that different from Trap Team, it's actually pricier.

That's

That's what I meant Drek.

Hight Volt's backstory:

Ok now that adds up a LOT of plot. High Volt alone did more than half the cast already. And wow, we actually have a bit of geography confirmed now that the Outlands are actually part of the story again: Underworld for the far depths, Skyhighlands for the far top, Skylands for the regular center, Outlands for the ends of it.

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Ok now that adds up a LOT of plot. High Volt alone did more than half the cast already.

Comic spoilers:

Damn I like what High Volt's story talks about. It expands the Skylanders universe quite a lot.

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That's

That's what I meant Drek.

Then yes you are right and you are also right about SuperChargers requirement to get 100% that's undeniable.

Unless you also consider the SuperCharger Quests as 100% material, of course...

Anyway regarding High Volt's backstory:

I just imagine the Skylanders wondering why the heck did this high-ranking guard need an excuse to join them when he could've just asked in a normal day.

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I just imagine the Skylanders wondering why the heck did this high-ranking guard need an excuse to join them when he could've just asked in a normal day.

Reveal Spoiler

Drobot recruited himself as well,Drek.

Absolutely removed that, somehow.

At least this is even more, canon, proof that David A. Rodriguez got the lore. In SF it really felt unfamiliar and just adding new things; but now even new things just tie into something without feeling shoehorned. As I said before, it really only takes him being given something he can work properly with for this game's story to go places.

Whoa! High Volt is awesome!

Why do Tech skylanders recruit themselves?



Um how did he get Thrillipede?

He looks not to bad! Kinda cool!

Can you link the instagram vid?

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Um how did he get Thrillipede?

He looks not to bad! Kinda cool!

Can you link the instagram vid?

No since its a private message. And he doesn't have him, it was an ad

Ohhh sorry.

I'm really dumb sometimes

Anyway he looks pretty good.

His eyes are piercing my SOOOOUUUUUL

He looks a bit too short for a bulky character; that might end up with some weird animations. I guess they were trying to set him apart from Slam Bam but they might've gone overboard.

No tweets from David or Ron Marz about the comic. So close to delicious plot and continuity yet so far.

Something that's been hilarious is that there's something odd about Eruptor. I know what it is, this video will explain what the issue is.

How much do you wanna bet the website will be updated with the full roster after the game comes out?

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How much do you wanna bet the website will be updated with the full roster after the game comes out?

Me!!!

I also would like to see some gameplsy of the knockback phsyics in SuperChargers
I'm still skeptical VV can make lightning strike twice

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How much do you wanna bet the website will be updated with the full roster after the game comes out?

Me!!!

I also would like to see some gameplsy of the knockback phsyics in SuperChargers
I'm still skeptical VV can make lightning strike twice

Knock mechanics from SF are back in SSC.

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Anyone know what a vehicle looks like when two players are riding in it? Have we seen that?

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I don't think two people ride it. 1 person drives and the other person shoots.

Actually now that I think of it, 2 people probably do ride! Hmmm

One player drives the other shoots. It's been mentioned in a few videos where tey talk about SuperChargers

SF's Knock Mechanics (dammit people stop calling them knock back physics) are back. I've seen gameplay of Bowser that definitely had them (from one of the hammer moves I think) and I swear I've seen Spitfire cause flinch. Can't remember what attacks did it, though- it's so hard to find good on-foot gameplay that I haven't bothered analysing KMs.

Plus, same graphics as SF- it's safe to assume they just reused the engine and thus all the physics from that and the damage numbers and such.

I heard they removed flinch on initial hit, which would kinda irk me since some characters loved that, but we'll see how it ends up. All the on-foot gameplay seems to be from old builds anyway, so KMs might not have been completely polished.

AoA, now that you educated me about knock back last year (or maybe year before last)...riddle me this: what's "flinch?"

It's just part of KMs. Makes the enemy flail around for about a second.

Example: Wind-Up's secondary attack when not fully wound.

I should really make a chart or something of what I mean when I say flinch, minor knockback, huge knockup, etc. XD I'm kinda inconsistent with it already.

When you hit an enemy for the first time since their last attack animation the will get stunned and undergo a secondary animation. Very useful to SF's strategy
If they removed it in this game I think I'll cry

Yep, flinch is gone I think
That was one of two problems with TT and now SuperChargers is screwed up too. I hate everything

As long as can go back to scooping the majority of enemies like he did in Swap Force, then I can forgive the games' mechanics. I do feel sorry for though as he may never be as good as he was in Swap Force.

I made my poster look better and not with a huge watermark. Feel free to share it, please do not remove the watermarks! Would also appreciate it if you credit me but it's not necessary if you don't want to as long as you don't remove the watermarks.

Link:http://dottyroxy.deviantart.co...eted2-557936329 (If you open it up and it comes up with a risk warning, just close it and reopen it. DeviantART somehow has something on the website that triggers as a virus on most security things but it isn't a virus so don't worry)

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i made a lil' something.

Zap!!, this looks great. I need to print this out at work on the color laser, should look amazing!

Actually I don't think they used SWAP Force's graphics.
They are actually much better and look like a seemingly perfect cross between SWAP Force's and Trap Team's.

The style is still V.V.'s (even if they managed to improve it too) but at least we don't have the same claymation feel as before, there are multiple types of metal and different textures are used for different materials.

Definitely an improvement from their last game.

Wait a second what is this knock mechanics you are talking about? how is gonna affect dune bug?

I hate claymation looks. I think that's why I didnt like SWAP Force too much, one of the reasons anyway. The SueprChargers Trailer both the first one ad the second one, I love how the characters are in the real world! Can't wait for games to be like that! Maybe even use the Oculus rift to play Skylanders sounds awesome.

I can barely notice a difference between SF and SC's graphics. If anything, SC's seems to have less colourful lighting but more polished models, though it definitely doesn't look like the result of a game engine change. Either way, I'm not picky about graphics.

I just hope KMs are still important. That they removed flinch makes me a bit worried they wanted to make it less important. That would be a huge mistake to me, because KMs are my favourite part of SF and after analysing them, encouraged me to critique games (which gave me another appreciation for the medium). They've got a special place in my heart, because of how they influenced me and how much time I've spent and still spend messing around with them.

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Wait a second what is this knock mechanics you are talking about? how is gonna affect dune bug?

SF's fighting physics.

IDK how it'll affect Dune Bug since I don't use him tbh (he's one of those characters I really wish was better).

The TFB games have their own fighting physics with different knockback, but they're much more limited in that there are less types of knockback and the way those games are balanced (enemies it doesn't affect are more frequent and there are less knockback options in general), knockback is near-useless for the majority of characters.

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I can barely notice a difference between SF and SC's graphics. If anything, SC's seems to have less colourful lighting but more polished models, though it definitely doesn't look like the result of a game engine change. Either way, I'm not picky about graphics.

I just hope KMs are still important. That they removed flinch makes me a bit worried they wanted to make it less important. That would be a huge mistake to me, because KMs are my favourite part of SF and after analysing them, encouraged me to critique games (which gave me another appreciation for the medium). They've got a special place in my heart, because of how they influenced me and how much time I've spent and still spend messing around with them.

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Wait a second what is this knock mechanics you are talking about? how is gonna affect dune bug?

SF's fighting physics.

IDK how it'll affect Dune Bug since I don't use him tbh (he's one of those characters I really wish was better).

The TFB games have their own fighting physics with different knockback, but they're much more limited in that there are less types of knockback and the way those games are balanced (enemies it doesn't affect are more frequent and there are less knockback options in general), knockback is near-useless for the majority of characters.

I looked back at pre-release SF stuff and that didn't have noticable knock mechanics so maybe they are back?

I just think they're not fully polished and implimented in the builds they've shown at this point.

Either way, I'm just glad they're still back in some form (like I said, I've DEFINITELY seen it with Bowser) and besides that, this still looks a lot better than the TFB games to me.

I guess they had too many technical issues supporting Google OS / Tablets?

In app purchases? Are they going with the notion that all of your characters can all be instant? Slippery slope...I can see customers demanding this for the console games...

Now we just need gameplay of Splat, (Thrillipede), Astroblast, High Volt & Smash Hit. As well as the story of Astroblast and screenshots of Thrillipede, Astroblast, High Volt & Smash Hit (regular) so that we can get the Superchargers emojis.

With the new Splat and Pop Fizz screenshots(news thread,but PLEASE KEEP DISCUSSION ABOUT THEM HERE), Bone Chompies are confirmed to be back! With new awesome-looking helmets and goggles.

You can also see a sideways chest with a skull and a dynamite symbol - you could say it's a treasure chest but it looks nothing like the ones we've seen.

About the new pics, I think that the Bone Chompies looks more... realistic.
Also, I'm the only one who see Splat's Challenge in one of the pics?

Why did they wait so long to release the Ipad starter pack image! Theres nothing new..

I agree Will!

Unlike other Skylanders Games theres SO. MUCH. TO. DO! Racing, Other stuff, Supercharged Challenges. They give a reasons to try to get everyone

Honestly, I'm really looking forward to this game. To me it's the most promising out of all the entries, and its done enough to actually get me hyped for it. In the aftermath of me playing Trap Team, I thought that if Skylanders 5 didn't look promising enough, I would just ditch it. Thankfully that's not the case, since I'm definitely going to be buying the Wii U starter pack(plus a loose Spitfire + Hot Streak if possible), though I'll most likely wait for a while since the games tend to go on sale for decent discounts not long after the game is released from what I've seen.

Definately looking foward to this as well. I can talk bad about VV all day,but I genuinely want them to learn from SF's mistakes and do a great game most people can enjoy. This series has so much potential and with the level spoilers they really seem to be attempting something big with the lore; bad decisions or not I'd rather see the series improve more and more no matter the devs.

An article on the Skymiibo has some pretty info on the idea and what other characters were considered!

http://www.thehdroom.com/gamin...nsidered-92454/

Considering how I've been going on about KMs here I think my feelings about this game are pretty obvious >w> There's a couple things I'm worried about but overall I'm still pretty excited for this game, especially since this year has nothing else I'm really excited about outside of Xeno and after the disappointment that was TT (I like it, but it was a step back for the series). I'm also replaying SF and I appreciate it more now, even the story (although I've pretty much learned to expect the story will never quite be what I want, especially with the comics which I don't like becoming canon and tying in with everything more, so I'm really not going to nitpick it like I used to even though I do appreciate the extra effort this time).

Well,on SF's story, I put my thoughts on the top of the page. If anything, David Rodriguez learned from the childish stuff and actually knows how to do serious but child-friendly now. We just need Rift into Overdrive (which is out,but physical only) now to have an idea of the mood before release - the previews seem to be going for foreboding but still lighthearted,but that's before the disaster.

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Well,on SF's story, I put my thoughts on the top of the page. If anything, David Rodriguez learned from the childish stuff and actually knows how to do serious but child-friendly now. We just need Rift into Overdrive (which is out,but physical only) now to have an idea of the mood before release - the previews seem to be going for foreboding but still lighthearted,but that's before the disaster.

From what I can tell David is an experienced writer, but when he wrote for SF, he thought it had to be childish all the time. Clearly (Maybe by Acti, VV or Tf he was told "Oh you can make it darker and more serious. That's what we want, so it can appeal to everyone." And as a result, decided to make it that way. SSC is very promising and with David writing the comics and them being written surprisingly well (Like, pretty damn great) I'm sure it'll be awesome!

Princess Peach as a skylander that would've been hilarious, but still better than DK

http://canadianonlinegamers.co...argers-release/

Magic superchargers' IRL figures and vehicles!Also some info about their attacks - Splat can summon goats.
...Is Splat grabbing that paint? It looks kinda weird.

Deer god (sorryihadto), Splat's figure looks beautiful. Both vehicle figures look great too, shame though that their Supercharged versions are kinda meh (I like the paint idea with Splat's, but the vent thingy sticking in front of the driver's face looks dumb and Soda Skimmer is pretty good except for the fur that creeps me out).

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Definately looking foward to this as well. I can talk bad about VV all day,but I genuinely want them to learn from SF's mistakes and do a great game most people can enjoy. This series has so much potential and with the level spoilers they really seem to be attempting something big with the lore; bad decisions or not I'd rather see the series improve more and more no matter the devs.

Likewise, I want TfB to learn from THEIR mistakes--more like a lack of progress. I agree the franchise has a ton of potential and they look too afraid to re-invent themselves...but it's time.