Street Fighter V's Arcade Edition Patch Is a Big One

Meaty

by Robert Ramsey Mon 15th Jan 2018

Just a quick heads up on that Arcade Edition update that's coming to Street Fighter V this week: it's going to take up a small chunk of your PlayStation 4's hard drive. The update, which brings all of the Arcade Edition content to the base game for those who already own it, weighs in at a rather hefty 21GB.

It'll reportedly be available to download either tomorrow or the next day, depending on when Capcom decides to wheel it out. Meanwhile, the standalone Arcade Edition launches on the 19th January.

Will you be busting some skulls in Street Fighter V this week? Land a perfect crush counter in the comments section below.

[source twitter.com]

Robert (or Rob if you're lazy) is an assistant editor of Push Square, and has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Persona, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Trails, Tales — he's played 'em all. A little too much, some might say.

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get2sammyb
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Ouch, but I guess it is a big update so understandable. Do we know if they're adding Trophies at all?

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Bread-Not-Toast
Mon 15th Jan 2018

That's gonna take a long time to download with my internet XD
Here's hoping some more trophies

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get2sammyb
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@JoeBlogs Undecided what we're going to do with it. Probably no new review, though.

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shonenjump86
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Big update alright, I’ll download it as soon as I can.

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gmxs
Mon 15th Jan 2018

21GB? My poor bandwidth..

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Deadlyblack
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Reminds me of when the Witcher 3 had that massive update.

Welp, looks like if I start downloading it now, it should be done by early Thursday, if I'm lucky.

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sinalefa
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Aw c'mon, Dissidia is still downloading.

@get2sammyb

A DLC review or at least some impressions article would be nice.

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Dange
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Post launch reviews I like the sounds of that. Games change so much over time. I'd love to see one for other games with hefty updates. No Man's Sky would be a good one.

Wouldn't like it to replace the original review or score but supplement it.

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Shinobi1Kenoby
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Can’t believe the arcade mode wasn’t included from day one over the pointless and annoying story mode. Loose story based arcade mode like street fighter II is all street fighter ever needs offline.

JUST finished for general story mode on Extra difficulty yesterday - phew.

If you haven’t, do it now as That’s 50,000 fight money bonus that will disappear after the update

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WanderingBullet
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@KingSandyRavage Did the 50,000 fight money show up in the message blog for you? I've completed it just now but the reward didn't pop up at the end and it's not listed in the message blog either.

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Shinobi1Kenoby
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@WanderingBullet it popped in the bottom corner when I finished the final ryu vs Ken fight.

You have to be logged in to the CFN whilst playing it.

Also go back through all the fights. All of the “character vs character” boxes will have a blue flag for being completed on easy and a second brown flag for those completed on Extra. Check you have a brown flag against all fight boxes.

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WanderingBullet
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@KingSandyRavage Alright, I'll double check the matches again after the Survival Mode that I'm currently trying right now.

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Tasuki
Mon 15th Jan 2018

So they are adding this a year after the game was released when it should have been there from the start? Epic fail Capcom, epic fail.

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WanderingBullet
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@WanderingBullet Haven't individually check each fight, yet but it shows 100% (blue and gold flags) for all five Acts. I think it could be bug that the notifications didn't pop up.

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Ryno
Mon 15th Jan 2018

My physical copy of Arcade Edition is scheduled to be delivered today. I am hyped.
Is it a 21GB update for everyone or just those going from standard to A.E.?

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AdamNovice
Mon 15th Jan 2018

@Tasuki Yes we know, you've said it a million times already, at least their doing something a bit different with this arcade mode compared to most.

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Nei
Mon 15th Jan 2018

Wow that IS pretty big. Can't wait though. It will probably end up weighting around 15 GB or something for current and active users since every patch they make overwrite some of the old ones usually.

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WanderingBullet
Mon 15th Jan 2018

I wonder if the disc is basically just the vanilla game repackaged as SFV:AE since the the season passes are not in the disc but on vouchers instead.

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Flaming_Kaiser
Mon 15th Jan 2018

I sold SF5 i wont be getting it again i have Injustice 2 now.

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KitsuneNight
Tue 16th Jan 2018

I might be getting jaded after GTA V's ridicilous 3 day download, at 80 gig.
Or Doom 4's 77 gig.
But I didn't bat an eye at this 21 gig update.

What I am more interested in knowing is, when they will roll the damn thing out.

Cause the psn blog is so delightfully vauge, with: " The Street Fighter V servers will be going down for maintenance in the early morning (Pacific Time) of January 16. The SFV: Arcade Edition patch and server maintenance will then be completed in the afternoon on the same day"

So tomorrow then.

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Kiloman74
Tue 16th Jan 2018

@get2sammyb was going to say Mr sammy, its the update that should have been in the game from day one! can the bosses be used in sf2? is it the champion edition?