Once a mascot for a botanical garden. He doesn’t have many ways of attacking, so he should be easy to beat.
Plant Man is a robot masquerading as a plant, masquerading as a man. Or vice versa. And as a plant-themed Robot Master, Plant Man pays due homage to Wood Man of Mega Man 2. You’ll notice a number of reminiscent elements in Plant Man’s stage, from its tree-laden backdrop to the perhaps out-of-place ape adversaries.
And indeed, like Wood Man before him, Plant Man wields a shield weapon which he can generate around his body and then launch at Mega Man as a projectile. Simply jump over the launched Plant Barrier and retaliate with gunfire to turn Plant Man into mulch. You can use the Blizzard Attack to speed up the process.
Victory will allow Mega Man to equip the Plant Barrier himself for added protection and bragging rights.
But go find out for yourself! The Mega Man Legacy Collection is out now for PS4, Xbox One, and PC! Grab it!
As a lot of you may have known, we’ve recently been holding regional server stress tests and have experienced minimal issues. Due to the promising results received, we are now moving forward with our worldwide beta test.
The worldwide beta test will begin on August 28 th at 4pm PST (August 29 th 12:00am BST/ 8:00am JST), and will continue for five days and end on September 2 nd at 7am PST (3:00pm BST/11:00pm JST). Outside of the servers being shut down for periodic maintenance, we expect everything to run continuously throughout the entire five day beta period.
Although we want you all to experience the awesomeness that is Street Fighter V during this time, please note that this is a beta and users may run into connectivity issues. This data is extremely helpful to us, as it will ensure that the final product will have the most optimal net code. In case there are issues, be sure to follow @SFVServer on Twitter for the latest updates on the status of the server.
Lastly, to help ensure that those that log into the beta have the best possible experience, we recommend the following:
Wired internet connections provide more stable speeds than Wi-Fi, so use a wired connection if you can.
Avoid downloading files in the background while playing, as it takes up bandwidth and slows your connection.
Make sure to bring your A game. The world is waiting!
Hey Street Fighter fans, BAIT, GAEMS, Mad Catz and Capcom are all teaming up to bring you a night of fun, fashion and Street Fighter V .
The fun begins at 8pm on August 29th and goes til 12am at the BAIT clothing store in Seattle. Attendees can expect to enter tournaments, where winners will receive fashionable prizes, provided by BAIT!
As this will be the perfect time to see the latest build of Street Fighter V and check the latest Street Fighter inspired fashions that BAIT has to offer, be sure to make it out if you can.
PAX is just around the corner, and if that’s got you in the mood for some good old-fashioned gaming, be sure to head over to the North American PlayStation Store for their ” PAX Retro Sale ,” in progress now. Plenty of Capcom deals, which you can check after the jump.
Designed with a medieval knight motif. His strong shield can block most attacks. Only the weapon that plays on his weakness can pierce it!
Happy launch day!
Knight Man, true to his name, is a chivalrous knight-bot who fights with a spiked flail. He also has a mohawk.
There’s something so expressive to me about Knight Man’s valiant jumping sprite. You can’t help but feel like he’s fighting by some noble code. Were it not for a slight twist of fate, we might have been allies, Knight Man.
Use Yamato Man’s spear to run Knight Man through and steal his flail.
David Oxford (The Mega Man Network) Knight Man’s design — and his weapon — are very striking. What’s more, it brings to mind the question of why it took six games for one of these guys to finally be given a more traditional shield (yours doesn’t count, Proto Man — besides, I shot right through it in Mega Man 3).
Funny thing about the NES’s limitations, though, is that the Knight Crush wasn’t able to be rendered in full detail — not easily, at least. Instead of swinging around on a chain, the spiked ball at the end just seems to move through the air almost independently. What makes it funny is that by this point in the series, I doubt anyone even batted an eye at a spiked mace flying around by itself!
One of the two Robot Masters to be created by a North American Mega Man fan, you can find out more about how that all went down in TMMN’s interview with Knight Man’s creator.
Adam “Heat Man” Anania, formerly of The Mega Man Network Back with Quick Man, I talked about the “cool” Robot Masters of Mega Man. To be honest, with how the designs got increasingly detailed after Mega Man 4, it gets harder to distinguish who that “cool” guy is in the later games. But for Mega Man 6, I think it could Knight Man. But cool in more of a stoic sense.
Here’s a Robot Master modeled after, well, a traditional, valiant knight. Carrying both a weapon and a shield, he seems more prepared for battle than the rest of his companions. And that shield makes him a bit tricky to face head on, unless you have his weakness weapon of course. Then he gets pretty easy.
Want to know something embarrassing? For years and years, I had no idea Knight Crusher was multi-directional! I didn’t know until I saw it on YouTube!
Get your 8-bit fix with not one, not two, but SIX classic Mega Man games out now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC! Grab the digital version of the Legacy Collection today and come by our launch day stream today at 4pm Pacific.
I also put together (with stream friend Harrison’s help) a quick look at MM 1~6 to catch people up with the series OR perhaps highlight what y’all like about the games in the first place.
To recap, the game includes gorgeous versions of Mega Man 1~6, plus a Challenge Mode with online leaderboards. It also features detailed museums, music players and enemy databases for all six games.
And as you may know, a Nintendo 3DS version (along with physical versions of all aforementioned platforms) will release in early 2016.
Just your friendly reminder to tune in to twitch.tv/capcomunity today at 4pm (Pacific) to watch and play Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate with us, and hear first hand about our PAX Prime presence. =)
An old-fashioned robot that generates heat energy. If you try to dodge the flame pillars by watching for them, it will already be too late. Try to memorize the timing.
Like Fire Man and Heat Man before him, Flame Man harnesses the power of flame for evil, thanks to the meddlesome reprograming of Dr….um, “Mr. X.” Flame Man also bears the distinction of being the only Robot Master with a mustache. Such style!
Flame Man will use his arm-mounted flamethrower to shoot straight flame projectiles, and can also raise deadly columns of flame from the floor that are so evenly spaced apart, they could only be the work of an obsessed psychotic. Put out those flames and put Flame Man out of his misery with the Wind Storm.
Victory will award you with the Flame Blast, allowing you to create flame columns of your own. Blizzard Man is doomed.
David Oxford (The Mega Man Network) Flame Man’s design is fascinating to me, not for any of the various Middle Eastern flourishes put into his design, but rather for one element which I only learned about many years after first facing him on the NES. Apparently, one of his quirks is that he enjoys taking care of his mustache (the GBA version of Mega Man & Bass says “beard”), which seems to imply that the odd black detail beneath his eyes isn’t just the empty space behind some sort of pointy Guts Man-ish robotic jaw as I’d once thought, but is actually facial hair! Or something equivalent, anyway. Weird.
We’re mere hours away from the digital launch of Mega Man Legacy Collection, which will bring six 8-bit classics to PS4, Xbox One and PC for the first time. To celebrate the occasion we’re gonna stream the game at 4pm Pacific, and have Digital Eclipse’s own Frank Cifaldi along as a guest!
Pop by our Twitch channel to watch the game, chat with Frank and possibly even win a game code…
If you’re heading to PAX this weekend, we’ll also have a fun contest for proficient players on Saturday and Sunday. More on that soon, but in the meantime, get ready for MMLC’s release!
After successful SFV online stress tests in both Europe and Asia, we are happy to announce that the North and South America stress tests will be taking place at the following times:
8/25 (TUE) 4pm~midnight PT
8/26 (WED) 4pm~midnight PT
Once we have successfully completed the North and South America tests, we will announce the dates and times of the official five-day global beta test.
Please note that although we anticipate these tests to run smoother than before, there may still be issues experienced by some users. All data received during each of the stress tests will help us improve the online experience moving forward, and we appreciate your understanding and support. Please make sure to follow @SFVServer on Twitter, as we will be posting updates regarding the online server status there if any issues arise.
Additionally, we recommend following the two pointers below to achieve the best online experience:
Wired internet connections provide more stable speeds than Wi-Fi, so use a wired connection if you can.
Avoid downloading files in the background while playing, as it takes up bandwidth and slows your connection.
Arguably the coolest contest we’ve ever run in this company (at least I think so!), the #HowDoYouHunt contest finally has a winner!
First of all, I want to thank everyone for participating (including Gaijinhunter, who was not even eligible to win!). And I must say it was incredibly hard to narrow the lenghty list of awesome entries down to just a Top 10; never mind selecting a winner. This was harder than any G Rank I’ve ever had to do!
I even recruited help from people from various departments here, making sure they had worked on and played at least 2 Monster Hunter titles. They also complained it was extremely hard to pick winner!
So much energy!!! And yes, anyone who updgrades an Ancient Shard weapon all the way deserves a Patience badge of sorts.
So that’s 7 entries so far, in no particular order, and I hope you can agree with me that any of these could have taken the top prize… however, these next few entries netted out with the most votes from our internal panel of judges; so here’s our Top 3, including the winner:
“IT’S JUST MATH!” Sorry, can’t argue with math. =]
Well played, sir; you win a life-size replica of the Dual Dragons “Angst”!
Again, thanks to everyone who participated and made this an awesome contest! I definitely had a lot of fun reviewing each individual entry and I’ve actually read a lot of entrants say they had fun making their video entries. So there: the contest is over, but if you feel like making your own video telling everyone #HowDoYouHunt, why not?
