Luke Cage Beta v0.5 By Arkady

[Madmanbeyond]

Thanks, time to check it out 

[Mach25]

Further thoughts:
Playing it a bit more, a lot of the kicks are very KB style, so change those definitely. Like his HK, it is a very martial arts style, flashy kick. Most street moves are simple and low profile. Also more grapple. I'm not saying make a Zangief/Haggar but a few new throw specials would be good, IMO.

Boxing would be a decent base for his punches...but I think it would be best to stick with the way his arms look now, and make boxing animations for the Sagat base, rather than use Dudley's. But it doesn't make too much of a difference.

Balrog (or M. Bison) seems to fit the bill quite nicely.

[CleanCheeks]

Too bad thug swagger cant be sprited in.

[warecus]

thought i might donate a sprite and hope it's useful



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[HyperVoiceActing]

That an idea for a new stance? I like it actually

[warecus]

that is what i hoped they would use it for...just to distance it more from sagat.  it needs the hyper acey arkady magic refining of course

[HyperVoiceActing]

It's mainly Nicotinefist and Arkady

[warecus]

well i hope they use it, nothing different from the rest of the sprites just chopped him up and put him back together with magneto and ortega from slammasters and balrog

[Arkady]

I do like it but if was animated I'd say yes, as I it is, most probably no, reason I like original stance is that he isn't showing any fear, and dukes up suggests that he needs to defend himself, being that he has unbreakable skin he really don't that think he needs dukes up, if you wanna change it come up with something that has that no fear stance about him, ( and remember sagat is all dukes up)

[warecus]

maybe hands on his hips?

but you can have for whatever you need

[mugenaddict34]

One hand in his pocket and the other teasing the enemy like saying: come on, give me one reason to fight against you, little brat. Just wandering 

[Arkady]

I know what you mean, similar to fatal fury Yamazaki, but I think hand on chain belt instead on pocket would be the gist, I still not sure if he should have the other hand out constantly taunt the opponent, maybe it would be good just to use that as an animation for the counter move I suggested earlier

good ideas nonetheless guys keep em coming, but unfortunately the avx release of him will be out soon, (real soon) so these ideas will be forthcoming for more updates in future, but probably not for his next update, cheers

[Megabyte]

Having his hand at the ready stance is fine. He is a melee fighter, so he would take a defensive stance even with his abilities. Though having a stance that changes to him standing nonchalantly then back to a defensive stance after a couple sec. would be a good addition. So, yes, the 'dukes up' stance of Sagat is wrong...Luke isn't  a Tai fighter...though he does know some martial arts, it's mostly street fighting. I guess his style would be similar to Cody's...no particular martial arts style, but kind of just basic fighting skills with some random martial arts moves thrown in. In fact, I would say look to Cody for some stance inspiration. I think Luke would have a stance fairly similar to Cody. Someone else may be a little more familiar with Luke Cage than I am and may correct me here, but that's just some stuff that comes to mind from what I know about him...

[warecus]

i think mega has it right or said what i was trying to convey.  I could play with this stance some more it's pretty fun to experiment.  but eventually he would have to put his dukes up the throw a punch if he's going to throw any at all.  he is resistance to injury, but look who he is battling colossus the thing even magneto and wolverine...yeah put those dukes up.   But with that said I think a great idea would be if it can be coded which i'm sure it would is three stances.  so versus black widow his hand in his pockets, versus night crawler or wolverine his hand at his side, versuses thing hulk or namor the ready stance

and maybe you can do that with all chars you see fit in mugen what kinda of stance would he adopt for mega man