Street Fighter 4 Costume Packs, DLC Detailed

February 5, 2009 10:22 AM

Capcom today unveiled its plans for post-release Street Fighter 4 content, as the company will offer a steady stream of costume packs as well as a Championship Mode Expansion Pack.

The Championship Mode expansion will be a free download, but no release date was mentioned. When it arrives, the downloadable content will bring with it:

Replay Mode - Record, upload, and download top matches to share with the Street Fighter IV community. Players can analyze top tiered fighters matches, leave voter feedback for others, and share their own triumphant victories.

New Points System - Two new points systems to measure your skill (Championship and Tournament Points)

Enhanced Tournament Matching System - Skill level matching system offers improved tournament match making for beginners and mid-level players. Competitors earn Grade Points (GP) to earn entry into more advanced tournaments.

Meanwhile, five costume packs containing alternative outfits for five characters will release weekly for 320 MS points on the Xbox Live Marketplace and $3.99 in the PlayStation store. The release schedule follows

2/17 - Brawler Pack DLC Pack will include alternate costumes for: Zangeif, E.Honda, Rufus, El Furete, and Abel.

2/24 - Femme Fatale Pack will include alternate costumes for: Chun-Li, Cammy, Sakura, Rose, and C.Viper.

3/3 - Shoruken Pack will include alternate costumes for: Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Gouken, and Dan.

3/10 - Shadowloo Pack will include alternate costumes for: Seth, M.Bison, Sagat, Balrog, and Vega.

3/17 - Classic Pack will include alternate costumes for: Guile, Dhalsim, Fei-Long, Blanka, and Gen.

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Digital.zin

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February 5, 2009 10:29 AM

Haha, I had a feeling they were going to charge for the extra costume options. Makes me wonder if and when you download any of these costume packs will everyone get to see them or just the ones that downloaded that particular costume pack.

Looking over them though, at least they tired to be reasonable with which costumes come in which pack. Like most of the girls are in one pack, all the Ryu/ken variation players are in one, etc. They didn't do the evil bastard thing and put one of your favs in each of the packs just to make it so you'd go and buy each of them.
- AroundTheFur1380
  
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  February 5, 2009 10:32 AM
  
  true... and at the very least, they are making cool changes in an expansion pack, and not calling it a new game like they usually do.
- pyrogen
  
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  February 5, 2009 10:36 AM
  
  The costumes are on the disc from what I've read so I'm sure everyone will be able to see them.
  - dahanese
    
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    February 5, 2009 11:03 AM
    
    you can tell if you costumes are on disc, usually, by download size, speed, etc. if you are paying for them, it is relatively unlikely they are on the disc. i don't know the game in particular, but i don't believe they'd be on disc.
    - NeoChaosX
      
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      February 5, 2009 11:28 AM
      
      I think they'd be on the disc, otherwise, you'd have to segregate online players between who has what costume packs, kinda like what happens to Halo 3 players and those who don't have the various map packs for that game.
    - pyrogen
      
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      February 5, 2009 11:38 AM
      
      Supposedly the DLC is 108kb which means it is on the disc. We'll see, I guess.
  - monchipeters
    
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    February 5, 2009 9:29 PM
    
    Even if they weren't, a quick game update could add them in so that you could see other characters with them but would only unlock them when you purchase the DLC.
    Kind of like Fable 2 Knothole Expansion, if you got the new items, others could see you wear it, but to own it they had to purchase the expansion.
    Except on a smaller scale, of course. Costumes should only be a small size to download. ^_^