And here I was hoping we would have an announcement trailer for RE6 by now. The rumor mill was running hot, but now it seems to be cooling down. As an anime character so poignantly said, “what a drag”.
But enough about the future, what about now? I have 5 previews today. 2 are out of necessity due to an oversight on my end, and the other 3 are my gift to you guys who slug it out every week in league play. I didn’t receive any comment cards this week, so please, keep sending them! I really enjoy taking time away from my desk to read through your comments, even if they are nothing but constructive criticism!
For the first two previews, I will show you the actual card, and then what it should be. I am working on coming up with a way to get the corrected one into everyones hands, so bear with us for now.
Here is the first 2 previews. The actual cards you will receive will look like this:
And the cards should look like this:
Due to this issue, I have pushed a great many of my duties to others in the department. Instead of testing with proxies, I am reprinting and using these cards each time a new version comes across my desk, as well as having an additional 3 people looking over everything. I apologize deeply for this issue, and hope that it does not affect your gaming in any regard. I am looking into possibly printing promotional versions of these for people to replace their old cards with, but will know more in the future. No amount of words can excuse this error, and I have been dreading this post since I found this error in our marketing samples we received, but I want everyone to know everything about the product before making a determined purchase. No words can express how apologetic I am over this, and if this causes you to lose faith in the game, then we understand.
These two cards were designed with the larger inventory play style that Nightmare uses in mind. Lonewolf turns a weapon into a mini flamethrower of sorts, while RCPD allows you re-arm yourself with a partially controllable weapon in your deck, while at the same time filling your discard pile to use an effect such as lonewolf on top of it. These two cards work very well together and could be looked upon as a strategy of sorts.
Now that thats out of the way, we have a few characters who were, ahem, “missing” from our Outbreak set. I’m sure you all have been waiting, but here is the “ladies of Outbreak” for your league play pleasure!
Yoko Suzuki: Yoko functions very much like her actual character does in Outbreak, swapping cards back and forth with her level 1 “backpack” effect, as well as being able to never lose a turn due to death at level 2. Yoko is very much made to reflect her Outbreak abilities, much as the majority of the characters are.
Alyssa Ashcroft: I was never truly fond of the special abilities this character had, but was told that she could really expedite a game with her lockpicking abilities. Her first effect is a reflection of the critical aiming she shares with Kevin in the game, allowing her to boost her damage if need be, while the second level ability reflects her lockpicking and allows you to search more rooms if you have a firm grasp on whats in your inventory.
Cindy Lennox: Time for another story: Every game of Outbreak I initially played was me as Jim, friend A as Kevin, and friend B as Cindy. Friend A grabs every gun, friend B grabs every herb, while I am left to do my whiny little play dead and coin flipping shenanigans to maximize what little ammo I had. I didn’t mind it, since it instantly put me in hard mode no matter what I did. Eventually I switched to George since I noticed friend B never picking up the red herbs. Besides that, Cindy allows a player to maximize their buys, especially with the “herbgrade” method of play that we have in the office, by getting +1 Buy with her first effect. The second effect is just icing on the cake. If Cindy has died a couple of times, its no biggie, as her damage will increase as long as shes at full health.
All 3 of these characters are being shipped out today to your local store for league play. I would expect to receive it by next week at the earliest. What do you think about these promos? How about the other two cards (the corrected versions)?
Well, on the card errors… thankfully RPD is still easy enough, just pretend theres a 0 on that 2. Lonewolf might take some memory, since its not that simple, given that it says 1 where it needs to be 20. As for the Outbreak Girls, nice to have them, and Cindy is gonna be scary with George or Alliance Claire. Hopefully we see the manual sometime soon (and maybe the promo Wesker too! :3).
Lookin’ good!
Thrilled to have that classic shot of the RCPD on a card, finally!
Funny enough, it was actually in Set 1 for Ominous Battle! It was changed at the last moment to the current picture, but I’ve had a secret place for that image in my heart all along.
Awesome cards !!
The actions are quite useful, and now i’ve some new ideas for playing it. I would like to see some events too.
For the design of the Outbreak ladies i must say that is really really cool and accurate…..
I would like to have Alyssa but i can’t have it because the league or the promos aren’t in my country….. it’s a shame T_T
I keep getting this comment a lot, and trust me, we want to expand. We are looking for distributors in other countries. So if you have a game shop you enjoy going to, have them ask their distributor about the game and how they can get their hands on it. If the word spreads enough, they’ll come to us!
they look alsome hope for some more S.T.A.R.S. people in thier s.t.a.r.s. suits. in this set. to go with the outbreak people.
The actions are extremly perfect! I Really like at all!
And the characters are interesting too, I guess they will increase much more kind of playing.
Keep it up!
And…What about making characters from Alpha and Bravo Team?
If I can find some high res images made by capcom I would love that. Forest Speyer ftw!
I nthink it’s no big deal. I mean, I’m sure you haven’t even noticed the first aid spray makes a hommage to the Joker by sayin “heath” instead of “heaLth”. I already got used to the erratas in this game (the rocket launcher, melee instead of submission, berserker instead of zombie A…), so don’t worry about that.
As for the promos, do you think they will ever be available here in Mexico? I don’t really like to play with proxies, but in this case I don’t have another choice.
I’m not sure yet, but I know we are looking to expand into other countries, its finding the destributor thats the issue.
what will be the starting inventories with the 3 new characters?
I appreciate the apology for the error. More often than not that is something you would see after the fact. It’s nice to see some of the more unique character abilities reflected in the new promos.
Will you include characters from the movies… eventually?
I hope not. The movies only had the names of characters and monsters. They were not that good… Now there will be new games. I would love to see if they do something with Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. I can see a new “monster” being the military. If you are on one side, they help you, on the other side they fight you.
I just found about this game Dec 31 and after getting the Alliance set that day, I fell in love with the game. Yesterday (Jan 4th) I for the first main set and Outbreak as well. Just today I also got the Nightmare set and found that all of the hard work I put into making dividers was a little wasted ^_^; As well it is a good game and I wish I knew in time to get the promo cards I missed out on. T_T