Guilty Gear Strive Producer On Lucy, Upcoming Balance Changes, and Strive 2.00 | Evo 2025

More than 4 years aft it's release, Guilty Gear Strive is inactive going strong, with possibly its astir prolific DLC quality yet, Lucy from Cyberpunk, releasing connected August 21 arsenic the last portion of Character Pass 4. But that's not the lone breathtaking happening going connected successful the satellite of Guilty Gear. During the finals of Strive astatine Evo, determination was a trailer announcing a mysterious caller section called Guilty Gear Strive 2.00, with 2 silhouhettes of characters that intelligibly bespeak that longtime favorites Robo-Ky and Jam Kuradoberi are going to beryllium making their mode into Strive's ever increasing roster.

To get immoderate details connected Strive's future, I caught up with Ken Miyauchi astatine the amusement truthful I could prime his encephalon connected each of these points and more.

So astatine finals for EVO 2025, you guys revealed Guilty Gear Strive 2.00. Can you archer america a small spot astir what's going to beryllium successful that version?

Ken Miyauchi, Producer connected Guilty Gear Strive: Yes, we conscionable announced a teaser trailer of thing showing the mentation 2.00. We are not truly peculiarly explaining what's successful 2.00, but there's a crushed down wherefore we amusement the fig 2.00. We privation to supply new, much breathtaking contented toward Guilty Gear Strive and I'm expecting to amusement much details successful the adjacent future.

We besides saw 2 silhouettes of characters that are going to beryllium coming to Guilty Gear Strive 2.00. It seems similar it's going to beryllium Jam and Robo-Ky. Can you speech a small spot astir those 2 characters?

Miyauchi: So yeah, we are showing that we are inactive moving connected processing much further characters. Of course, Lucy is coming retired successful August 21st, but we are inactive continuing processing much quality updates and those are going to beryllium the 2 characters that we are presently moving on. So delight enactment tuned.

What tin you archer america astir Lucy and what her play benignant is going to be? Obviously she uses strings from Cyberpunk, but tin you springiness america a small sensation of what she is going to beryllium similar successful Strive?

Miyauchi: Yeah, I deliberation radical are watching the trailers and trying to find retired what she's doing and 1 of the biggest halfway mechanics that a batch of players mightiness beryllium precise excited to spot is her Quickhack move, which is truly straight inspired from the Cyberpunk 2077 crippled mechanic. So we made it visually look precise similar the Cyberpunk 2077 Quickhack. And she has very, precise unsocial moves that spell on with that Quickhack. So the mode she fights is going to beryllium precise unique, adjacent compared to the full Guilty Gear Strive cast. So yeah, I anticipation everyone enjoys her erstwhile she's out.

Another happening that's coming to Guilty Gear Strive is going to beryllium the ranked mode. What tin you archer america astir however the ranked mode volition beryllium successful Guilty Gear Strive and however it's going to beryllium antithetic from the regular operation format?

Miyauchi: So yeah, I explained this successful our ain website column, Developer's Backyard. So if you privation to find retired much details astir the rules of however you gain points and however you get ranks and what benignant of assortment of ranks you have, you tin cheque that out. And truthful it's beauteous overmuch a regular modular fertile lucifer strategy that we've been besides doing, and I deliberation each different warring games were besides doing. We person conflict points that you ascent up unneurotic whenever you triumph a lucifer and depending connected your conflict points, you volition person higher ranks, and you get to the top, which is the fertile called Vanquisher. You'll get into a standing match, astir similar a maestro fertile benignant of, a standing match. So radical who are playing truly competitively tin support grinding to vie successful the standing ranking and effort to purpose to the apical of the ranking. And determination is of people rewards to it. So I anticipation everyone who plays regularly volition bask playing this mode.

In Ranked Match we besides person respective features that radical would beryllium excited. I mean, I anticipation they admit is that we besides person the Wi-Fi indicator and besides if there's a atrocious ping match-up goals, you volition beryllium capable to ballot a nary contest. So those kinds of features volition besides beryllium included. So I anticipation you find retired however you tin usage those features.

So you're besides looking to marque adjustments to things similar RISC, Wild Assault, and I judge Guard Crush is different thing. Can you archer america a small spot astir specifically what benignant of changes you're looking to marque astir those mechanics?

Miyauchi: So yeah, we besides announced that we are moving connected the conflict equilibrium spot and that's besides coming retired on with the Lucy quality update. And truthful we are benignant of trying to spot the crippled equilibrium and trying to incorporated a batch of player's feedback regarding however Guilty Gear Strive is presently playing. And we deliberation determination needs to beryllium immoderate code downs connected several, however bash I say… the crippled mechanics, wide crippled mechanics, the tools that everyone has entree to.

And truthful determination are tons of toning downs, but astatine the aforesaid clip we besides privation to absorption connected the quality uniqueness and making definite that characters tin play however they would similar to beryllium played. And I deliberation we had a batch of feedback from players that the existent mentation of Guilty Gear Strive is successful favour of those characters who person much entree to those crippled mechanics. So not excessively overmuch relying into the crippled mechanics and that's the absorption of however we are balancing retired for this patch.

So Arc System Works precocious announced Marvel Tokon, and I deliberation a batch of radical are wondering, is determination anyone from the Strive squad that moved implicit to Marvel Tokon, oregon what is Strive's narration with that game?

Miyauchi: Well, I privation I tin accidental thing astir Marvel Tokon, but unluckily I don't person a close to, and I honestly don't cognize overmuch astir Marvel Tokon due to the fact that that's truly a high-end unafraid task that's besides internally successful Arc System Works.

So nary cognition of Strive developers moving connected Marvel Tokon then?

Miyauchi: Well, we bash have, it's a tiny company, truthful we bash person a chat oregon treatment going connected betwixt teams. But yeah, that's everything that I tin say.

Fair enough. So with each caller update of Guilty Gear Strive, it feels similar you're benignant of going down a database and conscionable benignant of knocking disconnected antithetic features from 3v3 to present ranked mode. Are determination immoderate different benignant of features that you privation to adhd to Strive that are inactive connected the list?

Miyauchi: So we person a batch of things that we would similar to do, which is besides thing that a batch of players has been asking for and I can't stock immoderate details astir it for now, but I'm hoping if I volition beryllium capable to amusement that disconnected successful the adjacent mentation of 2.00.

Do you ever spot Guilty Gear changing absorption from being a warring crippled bid oregon adjacent conscionable a spin-off to bash thing different than warring games? Obviously Guilty Gear 2: Overture was an enactment adventure. Is determination immoderate benignant of aboriginal for Guilty Gear that's not a 2D fighter, bash you think?

Miyauchi: Well, I don't person immoderate projected program oregon thing that I tin stock for now, but arsenic a shaper I'm ever funny to grow Guilty Gear arsenic an IP to unfastened to antithetic genres truthful that radical who are not warring games would besides get into the IP. So yeah, if I person a accidental I would similar to effort connected immoderate antithetic benignant of genre. But yeah, I don't person thing to stock close now.

Mitchell Saltzman is an editorial shaper astatine IGN. You tin find him connected twitter @JurassicRabbit