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Yea that's fair, makes a lot of sense. She also still looks really solid and I like her new kit too, it was just a bit of a surprise to see just how much they changed her with this - but I shall reserve judgment until I actually get to play the new version

Appreciate you boss. And that is a VERY good point! Syndra in the vein of the previous Ahri makes a ton of sense, I love this idea. Good stuff!

From what they have said you can invite one other person with you even if only you got accepted! Which is super cool imo, and does make a ton of sense considering how much they are pushing 2 v 2s for this game. Quote from Website FAQs - "Players who are selected to participate will receive a shareable referral link that grants Alpha Lab access to one friend. Players will only get one friend referral link, and each link can only be redeemed once. If you’re referred to Alpha Lab through a friend, you won’t receive your own referral link to share."

Yeaaaaa I may have talked over some of the sauce here, after re-watching a few times im pretty interested in seeing how she plays when the test drops. lol I think she'll still have some cool stuff, just done a touch differently than before.

@@BruiserMinion Yeah absolutely, I think they lowered her floor but maintained a high ceiling, but we'll only know once we see her at EVO. I wanna see more sauce

@@dointoomuchsometimes Agreed! Seems to have been the approach for several things they have been doing with these recent changes and I'm good with that as long as there is always crazy high-level stuff to learn as well - and so, there certainly looks to be. Counting the days till evo.... the perfect party starter right before this huge playtest.

Good luck to all and fingers crossed! Hyped either way though, should be a super cool time to see the game pop off for a little while.

Yea... I know it man. Feels bad to see a pretty good chunk of ppl are still going to miss out but hopefully, there will be other tests for other regions shortly after this alpha. Either way at least we will all will be eating good with footage and news!

Well shoot, sorry if youll have to miss out on some of the fun this time around boss but hey at least there will be a ton of new footage and info one either way! But yea, it's time! Bring out the Kat or Jinx!

@@BruiserMinion Looking forward to new footage and characters.

Maaan if it’s Sett or Blitzcrank they add as the 6th I’ll be over the moon.

Hope they do bro I've been waiting for them to introduce another bruiser grappler that ain't illaoi

Nvm brother rooflemonger just quoted a 2xko tweet and it was a sc of katarina from one of the earlier builds of the game, so its probably katarina next lol

@@RealBigMitch Foreal?? so she DOES still exist! Lets gooo!!

Yeah yeah check his twitter if you havent already it sorta caught me off guard tbh

Solid list! I agree pretty much every of these would be a solid inclusion and number is about right too.

Feast or Famine type list. I would grind the Gwen and Lux matchups just to make them change character.

Agreed!

Try to check your spam and trash folders in your email! I feel like the survey showed up a bit weird for me too

One of the devs on Twitter said new accounts can take up to 24h

Dang… sorry to hear it. I’m sure this will be first of many though, hopefully they branch out to the other regions not too long after this first test.

AGREED. Ngl Blitz is one of my top picks, he could be such a fun choice!

YANK 🥊

It really is man. Part of me is in disbelief, and assumes I just won’t get a key because that would be too good to be true. lol Fingers crossed and good luck to you too my dude!

Fingers crossed for another beta soon in your region brother I feel for you. 😔

@@BruiserMinion and when that happened, i will be there no matter what, now i need to see you play someone from France lol, i'll be watching your stream when the playtest dropped brother

@@terrybohart appreciate you boss, seeya there.

It’s almost surreal to see how soon this playtest actually is after all this time. Very, very hyped indeed my friend!

@@BruiserMinion I was really expecting play-tests to be around November. Now I've just gotta hope the character at EVO is Jinx !

@@Aeroezz if they STILL don’t show her again this time around they really must be intentionally holding out for Arcane hype! Jinx trailer right before or after Arcane 2 would be pretty sick. Or better yet Jinx AND Vi!

@@BruiserMinion Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they did that, and even tho jinx is the character I'm most exciting for I feel like seeing a character we have already seen again might not bring as much hype as someone completely new

I intend to yes! Might be fun to at least give it a shot, never really have before.

It's actually recorded within Leagues replay system! You can rewatch your matches and move the camera around.

Would be pretty rad. Minimum I hope they have the demo build on the show floor or something like that, but if nothing at SGF I imagine it will be at EVO again in mid-July at the very least! so more stuff soon one way or another.

Eh, the more I hear it the less it bothers me.

Glad to hear it's good for ppl who aren't into traditional fighters, that's a big deal! Smash is a really solid option for a ton of fun with friends, especially 4 at a time. I feel like the 2 v 2 is a huge selling point here for similar reasons

I know it boss, it disappoints me too... lol But yea! Fingers crossed for big news at Summer Games fest or EVO!

Very true! It could very well be they drop some bomb completely outside of 2XKO at SGF. But as far as November goes you might just be spot on. A beta right around Season 2 of arcane would be dope and like you said seems like a huge time for league and Riot as a whole

@@BruiserMinion yeah, November is pretty much Riot's month, and since we know that the 2XKO devs always hammer home this "at home playtests later this year" I think it's almost a certainty that's it's gonna happen in the late October-November time window, I don't say this just because of November being their month, but also cuz of the "later this year" key words, and since we're already pretty much halfway through the year, I see no better time to drop the playtest. I'm just so excited already, I think their servers are probably gonna crash in the first 30 minutes cuz of the massive amount of people who are gonna hop in all at once😂 can't fcking wait😍

@@YourBishMariaTeresa Can't wait! And we are already in JUNE somehow now so really not that long at all anymore. But yeah, especially after seeing Multiversus doing some pretty solid numbers for its relaunch I'm confident this game is going to be HUGE for a fighting game if it's an open beta and when it first drops. It is and will continue to be a really exciting time for fighting games thats for sure

@@BruiserMinion yeah right? It's already June, it feels like it should have been only about two months since the start of the year, but it's already been half a year, INSANE😂. And yeah dude, this game is guaranteed to be the biggest fighting game ever, and I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that: 1. It's free to play 2. It's the League of Legends IP we're talking about. To give a better understanding of what that means, 120+ million active monthly players, more than 600 million matches being played each and every single month, most watched game on twitch, most total hours watched of all time and it's not even close, best esport and it's not even close, a BANGER Tv show, billions of dollars of revenue and much much more. Other fighting games simply cannot compete against the sheer power that the League IP holds. To make you understand even better, I've never played a fighting ever in my life, 2XKO is gonna be my first, and it's gonna be a lot of people's first ever fighting game, and that says A LOT

Yea it's wild... but for this year I'm fine with it going quick for once to play the video game sooner. haha And couldn't agree more! Free to play, League IP, 2v2 to make it easier for the non-hardcore to hop in, and the game has been super well received by the hardcore as well so far! Going to be HUGE.

Agreed! If not SGF, EVO has to have at least a new champ! and MAYBE..... dare I say... actual Beta talk. Seemed like SF6 and Tekken 8 had several online tests, so if this game really is coming out next year it's getting to be about that time.

Yea it feels close to time for some big reveals tbh. It's crazy to think this, but we are at a point where the game should be dropping in like 6-12 months. We still only have a few characters announced and almost nothing about the actual game features so If not SGF, EVO has to have some stuff im thinking. and thanks brother!

@@BruiserMinion same, Online is still really vague mainly because we never got to see how it's actually works, progression system is also haven't been shown at all and that's worrying, maybe they're going with KOF XV approach for character reveal, where they put out character trailers weekly leading into the game release date, i just hope the method for getting characters aren't super grindy like in League or Valorant, and maybe when the game came out we can do some testing for the netcode since i live in Southeast Asia lol.

@@terrybohart Totally agree brother. Some sort of progression system outside of just grinding ranked matches would be dope. Need reasons for more casual players to stick around, not to mention even I don't want to ONLY grind ranked all the time so the more ways to play and things to earn, the better. But yea definitely not looking to drop 20- 30s hours just to get one new character either, need to find balance in all these things.

@@BruiserMinion This year is also Riot's 15th anniversary, we might get the big reveals there

@@Xarathos_1 IVery good point, if it's anything like the 10th there will probably be some really cool stuff. Would love to see more 2XKO of course, but if they even talk about MMO or that ARPG game that would also be dope

Appreciate you brother, and I did indeed! CB is such a dope event, highly recommend it.

Summer Games Fest or even CEO are my best bets, both of which are quite soon! I've been wrong before though boss so take it with a grain of salt.

Fingers crossed! Summer Games Fest is already so soon, would be dope to get at least 1 new character shown if they do actually have a showing for it there.

in case you didn't know they said ARCANE will be talked about at Annecy Festival 2024 june 12th, So i don't think they will do it in SFG. there are only two current games riot working on in their beta-alpha phase which are Valorant mobile and 2XKO so it is 50/50 but i would love to see that 50 goes to 2XKO

@@liqiye3611 Oh dang! no I did not know that, you might be right then about no SGF if that's the case. Good looking out and appreciate the heads up boss

Yea I feel that. It was funny too because I had a hunch they would at least have the cabs here - but I definitely expected some sort of heads up for it. Honestly if they confirmed it was going to be at CEO and summer games fest I would be extremely tempted to go to both. lol

Sorry boss, hopefully you get to play soon! I think after it showed at Worlds last year will probably happen again. And in terms of Summer Games fest it would be dope, especially with how soon it is already

The FORBIDDEN content... lol But thanks as always boss! I'm excited to get my hands on playing Illaoi, shes looking pretty sick now.

@@BruiserMinion that's nice to hear. Btw do you have a discord server and/or twitch, I mean the game is still far off but I'm assuming when it drops, you'd also be streamin

@@McJethroPovTee I do have the twitch setup and plan on streaming when the game drops! www.twitch.tv/bruiserminion No Discord quite yet but that'll probably happen around launch too.

Yeah when they revealed the name and official social channels that's kind of where I thought they were headed. Much more dev vids, and like a champ trailer every month would be excellent but seems like we still aren't there yet after all.

Fair enough! I wouldn't want the whole cast to have one, or straight up be a system mechanic like SF6 but personally, I don't mind the idea of a character or two having it if done right

@@BruiserMinion yeah I understand I just got worried because of stuff like GranBlue where everyone has a dash attack that almost always converts into a full combo and many characters have dashing specials that are really quick, with the freedom of tag fighters I'd be worried about a neutral skip touch of death lol

@@inksword6029 Oh yea totally agree, wasn't a big fan of that in Granblue either. The PTSD is real man! haha

Yea the game is super clean at this point imo. And it looks SOOOO sick in 4k or in person too, hard to imagine it's only gonna get better - but man im here for it.

Agreed.

Sett brothers for sure. He's one of my top picks, and man he just fits so well that I can't imagine he wouldn't make it. and thanks!

Yea it feels like it's been so long since we had a huge blowout of news, and especially they have been slow rolling actual character announcements. One of these days I have to imagine we get to the point of a new champ trailer every month if the game is a year away

Thanks boss! Appreciate that.

That would be dope!

Same brother, same.

Hey man, been a minute - And yessir - im here for the long haul. On the playtest I have that exact thought too, as much as I really want the thing ASAP I do hope it doesn't get cracked like SF. That would kinda suck imo.

That is VERY good news. One of the most important things for the hardcore scene for sure. Fingers crossed we get the replay take over from Tekken 8 and Guilty Gear +R that would be amazing.

@@BruiserMinion Replay take over is one of the best things in tekken!!

@@Aeroezz It really is! So extremely helpful and convenient for learning situations quick

Would be beyond stoked. Hard to believe after all this time should finally be happening sometime this year

Oh hey man! For sure, good eye. I've enjoyed your theories and callouts, you've got a knack for detail.