Street Fighter 6's New PS5, PS4 Battle Pass Paves the Way for Rashid

Another full-priced game, another battlepass... sigh

@KAIRU Cool your boots. There’s enough game in SF6 to keep anyone busy for an age with or without a sigh battlepass.

Also, that subheading sounds like me after Taco Tuesdays…

Got through the last battle pass relatively quickly, not nearly as grindy as other games, and I can get this one with the credits from the last one. Such a great idea.

Tbh at £4 I'd be more than happy to pay again, the game is incredible. World Tour is a bit of a slog tbh, but can't take away from the whole package.

@DrClayman The tour isn't perfect - but imo it is more fun than any other single player experience on a fighter to date.

I wish they'd allow these passes to last a month instead of every two weeks. They aren't hard - I just like to casually complete them.

Uuuugh Battle pass🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@Cashews Yeah, it's not terrible or anything, I actually quite like the setup/idea of it, I just think it's a bit too long, only want to finish it now because I'm close to the end and want the trophy lol, but would have preferred if it was closer to 8-10 hours instead of 20, it's overstayed its welcome just a little bit.

Yeah wouldn't mind it being a month for the battle pass, and would also be nice to get other daily challenge kudos, like ranked for example, seems to always be Battle Hub wins.

Minor gripes though, I've only played for an hour or two most nights since launch and still managed to get through it in good time.

Every game is going to start getting a battlepass ugh.

I haven't played a street fighter since they first introduced Cammy and the now defunct Fei Long, but I see all of the good things about this game, and it makes me want to jump in. I heard the accessibility options are incredible for people who struggle with the combinations. I'm a masochist though, I just play games until I get good and I usually start somewhere between terrible and god awful.

Also, What's wrong with a battle pass? It sounds like an expansion; you pay for more game and its optional. The concept behind the rewards sounds pretty cool, actually, especially if the rewards are worthwhile. It's a simple if you don't want to, you don't opt in. It's just paid DLC.

@KAIRU Its only £4 and you earn that back what can go towards the next one.

The first battle pass was very unnecessary but really, really easy to complete. I upgraded form the free pass just when I had already completed all the steps and so I immediately got my 250 coins back…I will use those for all passes.

@Cordyceps you should hop in. I'm too trash to pull off the complicated inputs for the super cool moves. The game makes shortcuts for those super accessible. Is it really that different than high end arcade sticks where you made input macros? No.

Pros will still wipe the floor with scrubs in the footsies game. But for people like me I can concentrate on the fight rather than worrying about whether I got the first down motion right or not.

Great game. Best fighter.

@DrClayman Dude, World Tour mode is fun! I've been grinding a character to level 76 so far and crushing dudes in avatar battles in the battle hub. That was incentive enough for me to play through World Tour mode and beyond!

Ah Rashid, cool character introduced in V but I didn’t use him that much. Will definitely try him out once released though.

I appreciate Capcom continuing to display why most consumers should wait for a complete edition of fighting games or at least severe price drops to make up the difference.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap Haha, more power to you man, glad you're enjoying it! 76 is impressive, can't see myself sticking with it that much, think I'm around 40? It is a good way to get outfits though if you grind the scrap yard minigame, although not sure if that has any effect on leveling.

@Uncharted2007 Capcom sold their AAA fighter at $10 less than the going rate on day 1. So I guess get on your knees and thank them.

@Uncharted2007 i respect your opinion mostly because of the cool Drake picture but "most consumers" only buy fighting games to play it some weeks as a novelty and then drop them. There's no complete editions in fighting games unless you wait for the game's last year of life. It has been this way for more than 10 years (the first one I remember was SoulCalibur IV in 2008) and by that time most consumers wouldn't buy the game because it would be already "dead".

I loved the World Tour mode, wish it could’ve lasted longer. Easily my favourite part of the game.

@DrClayman ya grinding money in Scrap 2 doesn't affect your level unfortunately. Thankfully it doesn't take too long to grind the currency needed to buy all the gifts each character likes. Easy peasy getting all the Outfit 2's.

I already have over 130 hours logged into this game. 😵‍💫

I love it though. Easily my personal GOTY and I will gladly get this pass as well especially since I already maxed out the previous one. Just a fantastic game!

Not into fighting games... but can see how this can keep it fresh.

Complain about 1 game having a battle pass, and then gloss over the other one that has $55 worth of it. Thankfully publishers seem to realize the market likes these refresh if done right.

There has been so much new content in general, great to see.

@Cashews I bow to no person, group or company.

@GymratAmarillo You're not wrong. I suppose in my middle age, I've learned patience gets you a great deal more for your money.

If I still enjoy a game I paid full price for after a year, I'll definitely spend some money for it's bp or something to show my support. Or in Hades case, buying the PS5 physical copy after playing the heck out of it on steam.

Also, happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

Rashid looks super good in game. Really excited for him to drop in August since he probably is dropping around EVO. Also think these little mini battle passes are better than what most game have because of how in the background they are and not super intrusive imo

I wish these passes were a little bit longer. I'd consider buying in it I had the time to possibly reach the fighter coins, but 3 weeks is too short for the amount of time I have to play.

@Uncharted2007 You would have waited five years for a “complete” version of SFV, but I guess someone needs to be there to lock up and turn out the lights while everyone moves on to SF6. The “smarter to wait” argument is a sound one for games that have one or two big content drops over their lifetime, but not so much for a constantly evolving juggernaut like SF6. The good news is that whenever you decide to jump in, you’re going to get a great game.

@Amnesiac As an example, I'm more into Mortal Kombat. The 11th game released in April 2019. I didn't buy it until December last year when the Komplete version was on sale for half off. So 3.5 years or more is what I waited.

The best feature of this battle pass is (in my opinion, of course) that it's worthless. I say that as someone who primarily plays ranked matches on a consistent basis. You would think they would make the battle pass enticing to a player like me. Instead the rewards from the battle pass are mostly cosmetics for your single player charater/lobby avatar. Maybe we'll get to the point where they include costumes for the actual characters, and at that point they might have my interest.

@Uncharted2007 Actually, I waited for a sale before grabbing the last MK. I pretty much stick to the single player stuff with Mortal Kombat though, so it doesn’t seem like I missed much. SF is one of the rare games that I play online, so it feels worthwhile to get in at the ground floor while everyone is still figuring things out. It’s a lot of fun (and sometimes aggravating) to see how people approach new characters and techniques.

@GymratAmarillo that might be correct for most fighters - but you are 100% dead wrong about Street Fighter. SF doesn't die until the next one is released. People play it for years and nothing else. The only other fighter that can say this today is Smash Brothers.

@Uncharted2007 MK has no competitive scene. Ppl play it more for the single player and fatalities. You miss years of SF competitiveness you may as well not even play. It's apples and oranges to me. No one cares about someone who waits for a sale in fighters. They exist as a komplete afterthought and should be ignored kompletely. they are.

@Cashews You're welcome to ignore me at any time.

I like how things worked out with the last battle pass so will get this one. I play the game a lot so it's enough to complete.

@Uncharted2007 - And you’re welcome to change your outlook at any time just saying.
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I don’t have much experience with battle passes in games, but so far these ones have been okay, though admittedly that’s mostly down to being able to earn back the coins you used to get it. But still, currently they seem to serve as a string of small rewards you get as you play, which to me at least doesn’t seem too bad (The only outstanding issue I’d have is that, by being seasonal, they are limited in when you can get them, but even then, the content you get from these isn’t anything too crazy, so you’re prob not missing out on too much if you do happen to miss some).

@FullMetalWesker No, I'm good. I can appreciate the Resident Evil reference in your name though.

I love how almost everyone is now situated in the pro microtransactions camp.

You payed full whack at release, and are happy to pay more. I was considering picking up sf6 when I have some time off at the end of the month, honestly this mobile gaming bs leaves me cold. It just leads to predatory monetary practices within full price games.