The MBoard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-p20Gddfk

For a mobile game it actually looks somewhat interesting.  It's made by Capcom of Taiwan.

Also *Skips towards Rico like a happy chao*

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqtTIuAoI_4/XVaHMifwy8I/AAAAAAAAA10/Q4nKtE4-fsMM5-x6lZWIssilpEEJ039UwCLcBGAs/s1600/story-deco2.jpg)

i want a console port, they could probably make that work

It still has mobile design, so it wouldn't matter if it was on a console.

But it IS nice to see some X8 characters in a normal X style and not that horrid X8 style.

Also Rico a cute.

I do wonder why so many Reploids need abdominal ventilation.

I mean, she's hot. It's not like she needs boobs either, but apparently her boobs are so hot that she needs ventilation for them.

Yeah, she looks cool. It's just she reminds me of Lana from Hyrule Warriors.

Some sort of blue haired no-name-but-given-a-random-name character.

Actually I just looked back at a picture of Lana and she has that same sideways ponytail. Is that just some common Japanese trope, or am I sensing a pattern where there isn't one?

I came in ready to hate on new characters but that Rico is an excellent design.

Actually I just looked back at a picture of Lana and she has that same sideways ponytail. Is that just some common Japanese trope, or am I sensing a pattern where there isn't one?

Never thought about it but side-ways ponytail does seem to happen a lot in japanese character design, whereas in the west it went out with the 80's.

Were there any new characters apart from Rico though?

Aside from playable Marino, Alia, Pallete, and Vile, no.

Playable Iris when?

It's legitimately insane that Iris hasn't been playable yet.

i want a console port, they could probably make that work

Not if it's a direct port.  It needs to have a graphics and control overhaul.

Seeing as that one Asus phone will run the game at like 4k resolution and is designed to use the Not-Joy Cons configuration of controller from the getgo for this game per advertisements, a console port might not be out of the question. I mean we've got stuff nowadays like FFXV Mobile on eShop / XBLA / PSN, and it's just the phone version of FFXV ported over, while Nintendo and Microsoft have allowed phone titles in as freeware garbage on their systems.

I'm interested to see how the upcoming beta turns out this month and to see how the online works. I've noticed quite a bit has been recycled from Rockman Online's scrapped content, and seeing MM8 / MM11 footage in the background of one of the trailers makes me think we're going down a pretty big rabbit hole sooner than later with this one.

: LCrazy11  31 August 2019, 10:21:20

i want a console port, they could probably make that work

Not if it's a direct port.  It needs to have a graphics and control overhaul.

Control overhaul won't fix it, it's been designed as a mobile game with all the tropes and fail that mobile game design uses.  I don't recall if it's been revealed if it's free to play, but if it is, it's DoA.  Cool downs.  Microtransactions.  These games are built around being BARELY playable to get you to buy your way to more playing or making EVERYTHING have to be bought (weapons, costumes, colors, etc).  The game itself was ##### before it was even announced.  The ONLY good thing we'll get out of it is Rico, some nice 3D models, and maybe some remixes.

Megaman Gacha with different character grades and weapons, though it has Delta's long missing remix for the password screen from MHX sitting in as the shop music. I'm trying to get my DS4 to work with the game at the moment, but otherwise Rez hit the hammer on the head about all the negativity involving the fallacies of F2P titles, such as energy to restrict access and the like.

Update: 2% chance to roll Ultimate Armor X, and my DS4 keeps aiming to the left, making it near unplayable.

No one should be surprised about this.  It's mobile #####.  It's LITERALLY what mobile games do and how they are.  No one should have expected an actual game.

##### it.  I'm just here for any new artwork or remixes.  Keisuke Mizuno is #####ing on point.

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Speaking of remixes, it appears there is 1 new remix so far.  Jakob's Elevator from X8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlqQMTYQVQ

Other than that there is MHX renditions of Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth, Armored Armadillo, Original Storm Owl, Original X8 Stage Clear, and Remix X2 Stage Clear.

My understanding is they're reusing a lot of Maverick Hunter X stuff, and I was not a big fan of most of those remixes.

Yeah that's #####ing lazy on Capcom of Taiwan's part.

I mean, I guess we're lucky they didn't just reuse MHX and MM8 3D models.  But yeah, the only good thing to come out of this are some nice 3D models, some new key artwork, Rico, and maybe some new remixes.

I read that it's just a tweaked MHX engine (hence it runs on potato phones), which explains a lot of the early chop work being focused on X1 elements and sounds. The only actual maverick in the CBT seems to be Chill Penguin, while the rest are just various mechaniloids that yet again mostly stem from X1, save for Maoh and the X7 Scorpion.

I'll give them props for making yet another Xero recolor after nearly 15 years, though.

New artwork of Cinny, 2nd armor X, Steel Massimo, and Black Zero just popped up.

And here it is!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EETf0C7UEAM1V64.jpg)

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More music uncovered as well.

Old:  Cyber Peacock, Slash Beast, Desert Base (Command Mission), Central Highway (MHX), Storm Eagle (MHX), Armored Armadillo (MHX), Flame Mammoth (MHX), Boss Intro (MHX), Boss (MHX), Boss (X4), Stage Clear (X8), Loading (X8)

Original:  Main Theme, Event Theme

Remixes:  Jakob (X8), Bubble Crab/Duff McWhalen (X2/X5), Password (Shop/X1), Stage Clear (X2), In The Wind (Floating Ruins/ZXA), Danger Attraction (Purprill The Mandroid/ZX), Wood Man >:] (MM2)

At this point it looks like we're getting everyone EXCEPT Iris... :(

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The remix for MMX Password SUCKS.  It's so freaking slowed down and muted.  In other words I could have seen it in MHX.  It's just as disappointing as the other remixes in that game.

If anyone is interested in the music, here's a playlist on youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL36eVi0cSDZE8oaHiQvb-MJSDyDTtlTj

Jakob & Bubble Crab are based as #####.

Good to see some ZX love in there too and Wood Man's theme is great.

Some of those might be actual new remixes, unless they're reused from something I haven't seen before.  But most are actual music from MHX and X4.  Granted X4 has a bitch'n soundtrack, but it's a really odd choice of things to mix and match from.

Only new remixes are Bubble Crab, Jakob, Danger Attraction, Wood Man, and In The Wind as far as I know.  I checked ZX Tunes and the Gigamix and they didn't match.

Hopefully more will be added after the beta.  Shame about the password though.

I did God's work by asking on the survey for beating the CBT that they consider adding Iris / Nana / Ciel and even Green Biker Dude to their roster. If Capcom can meme a Megaman gacha into existence, I at least want to have some fun with it at their expense. I also asked that the characters come with their default weapons, since Axl without his pistols or Alia without her buster is lame, and also asked that they have buster characters use those instead of lugging bazookas and stuff around GTA style with X and company.

CBT was pretty fun until the very end, where you're rewarded with the ability to skip stage replays if you have enough energy and 3 star them, making the experience suddenly shift to a modern mobile game into overgrinding for materials on the hamster wheel of powering up things. I'd give it an X7/10 at this point, where it only has up to go with better controller support and optimization alongside QoL updates.

It's fun, honestly, despite the free to play BS and such.

At first I was kinda annoyed at having to roll for characters, but you can apparently use the currency you get from rolling the same characters or weapons to buy the characters or weapons you don't have. So at least technically you can eventually get what you want for free.

And I agree with the default weapons thing for characters. It's kinda odd to see someone like Axl spawn in with his pistols and then they disappear and he pulls out another weapon.

Overall, I do find it a fun little time waster, but if it gets ridiculous and starts demanding I pay to win I'll just drop it like most other gacha games.

but if it gets ridiculous and starts demanding I pay to win I'll just drop it like most other gacha games.

...seriously?  It's not "if" it's "when".  That's LITERALLY the type of game it is.

Fair enough. I was being hopelessly optimistic.

More music uncovered

Remixes of Sigma X2 Form 1 & Sigma X4 Form 2.  Both sound pretty nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVHF0ywoD6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqH7D11Usg

Interesting mixes.  Not too bad.

Datamine uncovered Iris skill icon.

DO #####ING WANT.

GIVE HER TO US CAPCOM!

GIVE HER TO US!!!!!1!!!shift+oneoneone

I'mma need a source for that, since it's not over on Protodude's blog along with all the other datamined items.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe1aBdrtNo

at 10:00 mark.  May not mean she's playable but it would be #####ing dumb for her not to be since Capcom knows how popular she is.

That kind of game is made for just adding new models/characters and charging $5 each for them.  If they start adding new characters, Iris is surely towards the top of the list.

Exactly, just falls under the umbrella of every generic mobile game. There's pretty much nothing they could add that would make me want to play this.

Oh, no, nothing would get me to play this piece of ##### mobile game.  Nothing about it appeals to me in a mobile game design.  The only thing it gives us is some fairly nice 3D models to rip.  And I'd love to have an official 3D render of Iris!

This isn't Mega Man X Dive related, but I just can't help but admire Keisuke Mizuno's style of the X series.  Here is art of X's 3rd armor by the guy.  If this guy draws every character & enemy in the X series, I'd buy a whole #####ing art book of his work.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF60xwgXkAEuP6U.jpg)

Some of the best MMX art in a while.

THIS is what X should look like. Not that X8 #####.  I just want new key art for Iris by this guy.  And a 3D model.

It's crazy how you can really tell when an artist GETS it with Megaman. So much content out that MM-esque missed the mark.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMAX33dWoAAVdVF.jpg:large)

New artwork my Mizuno, including a rendition of Classic Mega Man (who by the way is the next announced playable character for Mega Man X Dive)

Also where the ##### is Iris?

No Iris, no holiday.

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So the beta is open now, is Iris playable or not?

Yes.

I will now download your game.

(https://static.zerochan.net/Iris.%28Mega.Man.X%29.full.2854333.png)

She's not been officially announced as playable, just added to the artwork with ALL THE OTHER PLAYABLE characters.  I thought given they've show her art and the new header art that has her was pretty much a solid confirmation and that when it launched she'd be there.  But she isn't.

I was never going to play this Free to Play mobile ##### anyway, I just wanted the art assets (key art, first official 3D model) and what not that could be reused in other actual good fan projects.  The 3D models are surprisingly good.  Way too good for this type of horse ##### gatcha free to play garbage.

Same boat Rez.  Also want to hear any new remixed music.  Its ##### that they are reusing music when they are also completely remixing music as well.

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Looks like they have new art for special costumes.  Lab Scientist Zero, Kitty Cinnamon, and Motherly Alia

*Skips towards Alia like a happy chao*
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET4dSi5UMAc9LuG?format=jpg&name=large)

Didn't take long for the fan service...

So, been playing it on and off just to see what else there was beyond the beta content... and the difficulty spikes up immediately and gets worse from then on. Add cheap stage design that just involves "spam the bouncy spikeball enemy from X1" every 5 seconds" so that you die a lot. But that's to be expected in a mobile free to play game.

...also touch screen controls are still garbage.

At least the art and 3D Models are nice. The new remixes are good too. The reused tracks feel really out of place though.

Seriously, why would anyone expect this to be a good game?  It's designed purely to get you to pay money for unlocks just like every other mobile f2p moba in existence.  You will never get solid balanced gameplay/level design out of that because it would defeat the purpose of the game.

The fact they've done so much on original art (and art that looks amazing and not horrid like a certain other Capcom gatcha), original 3D models, and original music remixes is almost baffling given the overall ##### actual game play.  I'll take the assets though.  I just hope we eventually get HQ versions of the stills.

Looks like this game took a real Megaman X Dive.

(get it, it's like Megaman X Over but instead--  Yeah, you get it.)

This is basically what the future of "gaming" will be.  All digital, all f2p/moba/gatcha garbage.

At least the art is nice. Even if it's fan service that's a great Alia design, a character I feel is criminally underused.

Oh, the art and art assets are the ONLY good thing about this, definitely.

Hit the nail on the head Rez.  I just want more art.  Give us Iris already so we can have more art of her!

I want her official 3D Model.  The extra Key are is just a bonus.  Once she's out it just bonus outfits for her.  I think they've hit most all the female X cast, and I don't have any real interest in anything Zero/ZX since the style clashes so badly with X if you put them together, and classic has all of like 4 female characters, and one doesn't have legs.

Here's your full artwork of Iris

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/3/35/Rockman_X_DiVE_Hunter_Iris.png/revision/latest?cb=20200521201843)

That is, uh, some HQ stuff there... yep.

If that's the best we get out of the game files or website, that's going to suck.

SHE'S IN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSJj6C51ECk&t=482s

She's only available for one week.  Everything about this "game" aside from the amazing new art assets created for the characters is about the worst gatcha mobile ##### I've ever seen.

New artwork of characters.  Bit, Toxic Seahorse, Giant Metall

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/b/b8/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Toxic_Seahorse.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20200716015445)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/6/67/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Bit.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20200716015437)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/b/b8/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Mettaur_Gigant.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20200716015352)

Yeah, these are real nice. Very clean.

It's nice having so much across different games in the same consistent art style.

Hopefully they keep supporting it and we get alot more nice artwork like this. 

The artwork is pretty much the only merit of supporting it.

And the 3D models.  But yeah, basically the art assets.

The Hero Garden from SA2 is now playing in your head manually.

With Roll and Layer.  Sadly no Iris swimsuit.  But Layer's is evidently pretty spicy and not the same one from Legacy Collection.

I was hoping for Swimsuit X, Zero, Axl just for #####s and giggles.

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It is.  Not even sure if I can even post it here.  So have Roll instead.

Layer's suit isn't THAT spicy.  It's not even a string bikini or anything.  It's pretty tame really.  No idea why Shadowrock made such a big deal of it.

And the blue check marks sperging out over Roll's swimsuit are the biggest joke out there right now.

Yeah.  People are way too sensitive nowadays. 

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New bosses are Bospider and Magma Dragoon.  New remixes are Crystal Snail and Volt Catfish.  Also more X4 music and the boss intro from X3 PSX version.  Will post art and music later

Evidently there's one more character as well.  Here's hoping for swimsuit Iris!

Crystal Snail [NEW REMIX] https://clyp.it/jcvhm2zc?token=54ef727909deb81a189963e3ccb33f31
Volt Catfish [NEW REMIX] https://clyp.it/rrywabes?token=2c975e4f57201ca5cb70a8822b4e18ef
Boss Intro X2 [NEW REMIX] https://clyp.it/inqzqvdt?token=ea3e050722182c9fe1fe0f13e8a9a47d
X2 Stage Clear [NEW REMIX]  https://clyp.it/yhcwedby?token=f9c5a7177af018d79adc61cb9c727320

Originals:  Split Mushroom, Magma Dragoon, Zero's Death (MHX), Boss (MM5), Boss Intro X3 (PSX),  Boss Battle X4, Sigma 1 (MHX), Sigma 2 (MHX)
 

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(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/d/db/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Bospider.png/revision/latest?cb=20200806093348)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/0/05/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Magma_Dragoon.png/revision/latest?cb=20200806093733)

Art of Bospider & Magma Dragoon

I hope we get high quality versions of the art for this at some point.

Evidently there's one more character as well.  Here's hoping for swimsuit Iris!

Wish granted.  Post image later

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfI0gPjX0AEzCA5?format=jpg&name=small)

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There you go Rez!  23 years in the making!

Is that official or fan art?  She doesn't appear to have the same doll joints/seams Alia and Layer have.

It's official.  Wait for high quality art to tell.  But she appears to have the joints as well.

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Here is a high quality image.  I'm guessing this was captured as a moving image so the eyes tend to blink but she has the same outlines as Alia/Layer.

Dat hair though. 

Yeah, I saw some higher resolution art for her.  It's pretty nice, though I'm never a fan of the frills on swimsuits.  Hides too much of the eye candy.

I think it looks really cute on her.  Keeps that sweet innocent look.

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Apparently, the next characters are Ciel, Alie, and Pandora.  More Zero/ZX love.  Sigma is another boss, what form is unknown at the time.

Aile is cool, but the rest are trash.  Not a fan of Zero/ZX at all, but I won't say no to more cute girls.

Omega Zero is hinted to be another boss for the next Zero/ZX event which comes with Ciel, Alie, and Pandora.

Actually, if it's Alie or Model X Alie will make the difference.  Base Alie would be awesome, but Model X Alie is just fem X and doesn't look particularly good.

Wolf Sigma is a boss coming this week. 

X1 final boss.  Gonna be awkward if you're playing as Sigma.

Artwork of Wolf Sigma

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgQiiZRWoAAf-Ue?format=jpg&name=large)

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Some new tidbits from dataminers.

Characters:  Festival Zero (Zero wearing some kind of male Kimono), 4th Armor X
Stages:  Frost Walrus (Not 100% but stage assets were uncovered)
Bosses:  Drill Man MM4, Byte from X3, Sigma X4 (All of his forms), Festival D-Rex 2000

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Another boss I forgot to mention.  Genjibo & Shuriken (The Miniboss from Blast Hornet's Stage)

I'm sure everyone has been waiting for that one.

Next Character is festival Zero for a fireworks night event or something.

It's funny, X, Zero, Alia, Layer, Iris get a lot of skins & alts but Pallete gets jack.  I almost feel sorry for her. 

Pallete is an awful character.  And most characters get nothing for alts.

Lol.  Pallete finally got something.  Post art later.

They should have skipped swimsuit Iris and done festival kimono Zero and Iris for this one.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiGtea7XsAEDwR8?format=jpg&name=medium)

Here's Pallete.  X is supposed to get something non armorish apparently.  Not sure when.

The stockings look really weird.  It's like her legs are just black with a cleft toe.  I think just normal stockings would have looked better, and I'm just going to pretend that it's slightly see thru and you can just see the joints on her legs through the stockings.

Looks like Legends content is coming.  Voulnett & Tronn Bonne are going to be characters somewhere down the line along with 3rd armor X  Not sure when.

Honestly can't think of too many Legends characters outside the main trio that  I'd even want to see.  And even then Tron doesn't really work well game wise without her mech, so it's be like playing the stage as Vile in his.

New art

Genjibo & Shuriuken

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/a/a5/Rockman_X_DiVE_Boss_Shurikein.png/revision/latest?cb=20200923031904)

Byte

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DC9PQ94c_JU/X2ntE9kGcEI/AAAAAAAAEeE/KYgMYuUkW2s26AM5rGQje3Jnjox7crdnwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/BB.jpg)

I think this is the only Genjibo itself got actual artwork.

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Here are head profiles for the Legends characters.  Voulnett, Tronn, and Servebots. 

Pretty much what I expected.

More datamined crap

Characters:  3rd armor X, Halloween Alie, Halloween Marino, Halloween Vile(?)
Stages. Frost Walrus, Volt Catfish, Spark Mandrill, Areanet(?)
Bosses: X4 Sigma, Flame Mammoth

Halloween Marino could be super sexy... let's hope.

Also, we're the only two people posting here.

Yeah, but it gives me an excuse to boost my post count/post rad artwork.

Anyways, more possible datamined stuff.

Characters:  Copy X
Bosses:  Chop Register (X2), Radar Killer (X2), Cyber Peacock (X4).  I'll post art of the Halloween characters later.  Halloween Vile looks rad and Alie is adorable.

Aile's costume was cute, but it's all about sexy for the alt costumes!  I was rather disappointed.  Marino's was kind of half assed though since they kept her forearm and lower leg armor exactly the same and put her in a thong and crop top.  They could have at least made the armor bits orange with green gems.  I mean it was still sexy, but it was lazy sexy.

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/f/f6/Rockman_X_DiVE_Hunter_Program_Halloween_Vile.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20201028203439)

Here's Vile.  I guess this is Vile MK 4 or something.  Looks nice.

It's hard to say with a broken image link.

Fug.  Let's try this again.

Finally, page 3.  He's ok.  I'm really only in it for the sexy girls though.

I'm sure there will be more sexy girls in the future.  I'm hoping for Christmas Iris ^_^

Anyways, here is artwork of Flame Mammoth.  It looks like the Maverick insignia is missing but it's being obscured.  Mammoth's original art had him facing left but here he is facing right.

The more characters we get in this excellent consistent style the better.

Here is artwork of Cyber Peacock. 

Christmas stuff has leaked.
Characters:  Unknown (Has Ice Mine as an attack, possibly Leviathan?), Iris Christmas version *Fidgets with glee*
Bosses:  Bat##### Insane Christmas Bit (Yes they actually referenced the X3 manga), New Year's Eagle (Storm Eagle Recolor)

Bosses still down the pipeline:  Drill Man, Radar Killer, Spark Mandrill (?), Frost Walrus (?), Sigma 2nd Phase X4 (All forms)

Also what happened to being able to do spoilers? 

They know Iris is top tier popular.  Shame we don't get more sexy outfits for her though.

Spoilers are only one thing that's needing to be patched back up.  Hopefully Abe will have some holiday time to redecorate.

We got the reveal of an Iris skin today! Was the one you spoke of or is there a festive Iris this month as well?

I'm guessing this is the one I was referring to.  It looks to be a recolor of her Xtreme 2 outfit.  And Welcome to Mega Man Matrix!  Good to see some new blood here.

So basically we're all agreed now that this game only exists for the nice jpegs like League Of Legends.

That was always the point.

So basically we're all agreed now that this game only exists for the nice jpegs like League Of Legends.

That's all this ever was.  The game play is #####, the gatcha is #####.  Only the fabulous new art and 3D models are any good. 

I just think it's funny anyone even bothered to play it and talk about the gameplay in this thread in the first place.

Christmas stuff.

Leviathan in a Christmas Sweater really cute.
Ferham has a christmas theme as well.
And NEW #####ING REMIX OF BLIZZARD BUFFALO!!!! 

They aren't even trying to hide Ferham's just in lingerie for her outfit.  Not that I'm complaining.  Though I'd have liked Iris in the outfit myself.

Iris always reminded me of that one girl at school who was always nice and super popular and eventually married her childhood sweetheart and lived a good life with friends and family.  Ferham fits the look so much better. 

Bit is going to be another playable character apparently.  Where is Double, Where is Dynamo?  I want nice new clean artwork of Dynamo.

More stuff

New Year's Cinnamon (Trailer just dropped), Sigma X4 version, and Magma Dragoon are the next set of characters to be playable
Also new remix of Storm Eagle based on New Year's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9qLCKu6HY

Edit:  Rather then spam posts I'll update information here (do people get notified if we update a post?)

New bosses:  Drill Man (Nice!) & Radar Killer
New Stage:  Frost Walrus (Alot of X4 love here, can't complain, X4 was a good game)
New enemies:  Mega Nest(X4)

Yeah, odd they keep doing Mavericks and skip Dynamo.  He should be playable.  And the fact X4 is so big in X-Dive is another big plus for it.  Even though it's still garbage gatcha and mobile.

Artwork of Drill Man, Radar Killer

Edit:  Some more stuff
More Enemies:  Ice De Voux(X3), Knot Beret S (X4), E-AT(X4)
New....well not really boss:  Bit (But he has a shield!!!!  A Shield you guys!)
New Skin:  Legacy Collection Ultimate Armor (X Challenge)

...

X4 Sigma revealed as next character.  Look at this chad.  X4 Sigma is best sigma and you can't tell me otherwise.

X1 Sigma is the best design by an orbital elevator.  But I do like X4's Sigma design.

His shoulder pads seem way larger than they were originally, or I don't remember it very well.

White Day is approaching.  Iris and Ciel are getting alts apparently.  Also Via (the oc donut steal)  May either be a boss or character.  Yellow devil is also a boss.

More Iris alts! More Iris alts!  More Iris alts!

They are teasing Magma Dragoon as the next character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pR7C5dWw1Q

If this guy draws every character & enemy in the X series, I'd buy a whole #####ing art book of his work

WELL WHAT DO YOU #####ING KNOW!!!

http://www.rockman-corner.com/2021/01/mega-man-x-maverick-hunter-field-guide.html

If that book does have art by the XDive guy for EVERY character I will buy the ##### out of that book.

Capcom's mobile earnings report show an 80%  increase of revenue largely in part to X Dive.  Turns out that if you actually put some effort into a mobile game, people will actually want to play it.  Who knew.  Still not playing X dive though :^)

I think it has more to do with the overall quality of the visuals and all new art that's made for it to be consistent.  The game itself is your typical mobile ##### game play designed around constant gambling for new ##### to let you gamble more/faster for more ##### in an endless loop.  The 2.5D on it is also on the more awful looking side of the scale.

But when you rake in money like that, it just shows you don't have to make real, good games.  And more and more, developers aren't.

This is almost hypocritical in its timing, but Capcom doesn't like lootboxes and gacha in it's games.  But I think it's referring to it's main console games so I think Mega Man will be alright.

https://www.windowscentral.com/capcom-pushes-back-loot-boxes-2020-annual-report

Considering that X dive is a mobile game I don't think it applies to this.  That said, I'm glad that X Dive is doing well if only for the fact that we get more high quality artwork and maybe some banger remixes from Mizuno and Komiyama respectively.

Edit:  More possible leaks.

Characters:  White Day Iris, White Day Ciel, Absolute Zero (Command Mission), Colonel (Maybe)
Bosses:  Yellow Devil, Via (Possibly), Colonel (Either boss or playable), Armored Iris (Possibly)

All mobile "gaming" is is free to play/gatcha/lootbox #####.

The maverick hunter field guide went up for preorder.  Ordered it along with the robot master field guide.

There is a teaser art of Snipe Anteater new art from Mizuno.  This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for. 

It would be nice to have every character done in the same style by the same artist.  And have that artist NOT be ##### or use a ##### style.

Artwork of Absolute Zero.

More Leaks (With better clarity)

Characters:  Valentine's Day Iris, Valentine's Day Ciel, Valentine's Day Axl (Finally he gets a #####ing skin), Bass.EXE w/ Gospel Arm
Character or Boss:  Colonel (His icon was leaked, though it makes total sense to make him character), Via (The OC donut steel)
Boss:  Yellow Devil

Edit:  Artwork of Iris, Ciel, and Colonel leaked.  Apparently Final Sigma W (X5) is a boss as well.

Axl can suck fumes.  He deserves nothing except to be forgotten in the pit of hot garbage characters.

Iris is cute, as always, but I was still hoping for something sexy.

Ceil a #####.

Colonel is cool.

Still waiting on Dynamo and Rico to be playable.

Dynamo, Double are who I want just for that nice artwork.  Seeing the amount of love X4 is getting Double's chances are solid.

Yeah, given the heavy X4 bent, I'd say Double and even General are likely.

Final Sigma W revealed as next raid boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrHEoluzHg&feature=emb_title
It's not a Jpeg for once.  They actually animated him completely.  Respect to the X dive team for that.

He was a real mid tier Sigma.

Looks like Harpuia is the next playable character.  Meh.  Yellow devil is still coming as a boss.  Bass.EXE w/ Gospel arm was revealed today (where the ##### is regular bass?)

Or Nana and Dynamo.  Two solid X characters.  Finish the X roster before you move on to the other series.

White Day Axl Leaked  Here is image.

I really like the one bubble that says “white day”.

Oh boy an Axl alt, said no one ever.  At least everyone can save their currency for a good character.

Here is Halpuria. 

*yawn* Zero/ZX/SF stuff is such a waste.  BN isn't all that good either in context of X-Dive.  Legends doesn't have much to offer.  Finish off X stuff, then you can do some Classic.  Still quite a few X folks that you could do that aren't animal mavericks.

The main characters I want, would like to see.
Classic:  Bass, Duo
X:  Double, Dynamo, Colonel
Zero:  Fafnir, Phantom, Kraft, Weil
ZX:  Prometheus

Classic needs Bass.  Duo, maybe.  Past that not much to work with except maybe Plum or Kalinka, unless you make the Doctors themselves playable.

X needs Nana and Dynamo.  You could say Berkana or Double or Colonel I guess.  Past that you're really down to support characters like Douglas and Lifesaver or the mavericks themselves, which I think should come after all the  normal characters if they go there.

Legends I wouldn't mind seeing Roll since we have Tron and Trigger.  Not much apart from that except maybe Glyde or Sera/Yuna and NPCs.

The rest can go shove off.  Especially Zero, ZX, and Starforce.  BN can stay home too.  Maybe Roll.exe since we got Mega Man, Protoman, and Bass.

Another Classic Series boss.  Yellow Devil.  Art revealed

Yellow Devil is class.

Classic needs Bass.  Duo, maybe.  Past that not much to work with except maybe Plum or Kalinka, unless you make the Doctors themselves playable.

X needs Nana and Dynamo.  You could say Berkana or Double or Colonel I guess.  Past that you're really down to support characters like Douglas and Lifesaver or the mavericks themselves, which I think should come after all the  normal characters if they go there.

Legends I wouldn't mind seeing Roll since we have Tron and Trigger.  Not much apart from that except maybe Glyde or Sera/Yuna and NPCs.

The rest can go shove off.  Especially Zero, ZX, and Starforce.  BN can stay home too.  Maybe Roll.exe since we got Mega Man, Protoman, and Bass.

Kalinka can pull moves from Tundra Man and Skull Man or any of the other MM4 robot masters.  As for Nana, I don't think they can make her a playable character.  They need to pull a move set from somewhere and she is neither a playable character or a boss.  For Iris, they pulled her attacks from her boss fight with X4.  Hopefully the X dive team can be creative and come up some moves. Maybe around Force Metal?

Nana can jump and shoot like any other character.  All they did for Alia was literally give her X's move set.  Same with Layer and Palette for Zero and Axl.  Nana doesn't have to have a unique "style".  She can literally shoot and stab with the weapons the game has.

Welp, looks like Rico is going to be the next character apparently.  So if they can come up with a bull##### moveset for her, there is no reason they can't create a bull##### moveset for Nana.

Getting a model for Rico is something I've been hoping for since the start.  That's excellent.

Not sure where you're getting so huffy about move sets.  Like I said Alia has a "bulls#it" move set since she just sits in a chair.  Same for Layer and Palette.  None of the characters really have "move sets".  They jump, climb, and dash and shoot a gun or swing a sword.  Characters that haven't been playable before only need a gun or a sword.  This isn't a fighting game.  And even then, I've seen some really creative stuff for those (MvC3 Phoenix Wright) that works really well.

So turn that frown upside down and get happy our s#itty mobile gatcha free to play abortion has another wifu that you won't be able to pull during the 3 days she available!

I'm being facetious.    I'm just observing that special abilities of each character is doable because they were either playable, or a boss character.  That's why I don't expect to see NPC characters like Signas, Douglas, Isoc, Chief R, etc.  But characters like Serges, Agile, Double, Dynamo, Spider, etc have material to pull from.

 Eh, not really.  Other than making one of their bullets look like a shot they did for a move that doesn't work when you're a boss vs playable.  A lot of NPCs are far more desirable than bosses.

As I said, Rico is indeed the next character. and Via is a boss fight.  Also there is a new alt for X.  Rising Fire X. 

Special Weapon Xs are at the same time bottom of the barrel and totally logical.  But still mostly bottom of the barrel.

More characters leaked. 

Voulnutt (Dark armor)
Servebot
Roll Caskett

Roll drives her support van like Tron rides her Gustov mech.

Looks like Colonel will be a playable character after all along with Falcon Armor X.  And Dark Voulnet has his can involved.  Maybe kicking the can is one of his moves LOL.

His super is reading the dirty magazine.

Here's your Dark Mega Man Volnutt bro.

He walks in on Roll on PURPOSE.

One of his attacks is kicking a #####ing vending machine at you which recovers his health.

Edit:  Video was removed so have Roll Casket instead

Full Artwork of Roll Casket

Leak stuff we know.

Characters:  Falcon Armor X, Colonel, Roll Casket, Yet another #####ing Iris (Actually callled "Another Iris".  It looks like Iris in Colonel's armor XD), Mega Man Classic (Thunder Beam)
Boss:  General (Raid boss perhaps?)

Where the ##### is Double, Bass, Duo, or Dynamo? 

Are you REALLY complaining about Iris?  And Bass and Dynamo are over due.  Duo wouldn't be bad, would round out the classic cast.  But Double is pretty dumb.  Quite a few X folks we need before him.

I am quite pleased with how many Irises we're getting though.  Now we need Nana, Berkana, and Mertei, if you're feeling spicy.

Are you REALLY complaining about Iris?  And Bass and Dynamo are over due.  Duo wouldn't be bad, would round out the classic cast.  But Double is pretty dumb.  Quite a few X folks we need before him.

I am quite pleased with how many Irises we're getting though.  Now we need Nana, Berkana, and Mertei, if you're feeling spicy.

No I was joking.  We can never have enough Iris.  Come on Rez, you know me of all people loves Iris.  *Skips towards Iris like a happy chao and rubs eyes into hair*
*Fidgets with glee*

Mega Man (Thunder Beam Version) is basically Rising Fire X but with Classic Mega Man and with Electricity instead of Fire.
Another Iris is basically a fusion of Zero & Iris in some way. 

Even More Leaks: 
Characters:  Falcon Armor X, Mega Man Thunder Beam Ver, Colonel, Bass (Finally!), Geo Stellar, Harp Note/Sonia, Another Iris
Bosses:  General

Iris and Colonel?  Nothing on Another Iris looks like Zero, just Colonel.

My mistake.  It was more of a fusion of Iris and Colonel, but holy hell does she look hot. 
Also here is Falcon Armor X artwork.  He might be revealed today.

There are plenty of places to go if we want... fusions of Iris and Zero.  If you know what I mean. 8)

Full artwork of General.  Looks good.

Colonel is indeed the next playable character and General is the next boss.  Also new stage:  Spiral Pegasus (or The Skiver).  New weapon is based on Frost Walrus.

Now we just have to wait for Another Iris.

You think she might be a tease for a Maverick Hunter X4 or X9?

We'd need Maverick Hunter X2 and X3 first, and I wasn't fond of Maverick Hunter X.

I have NO faith in X9.  They'd need to give it a full on MM11 style soft reboot.  Totally ignore the Zero series plot #####hole and build a solid game with X, and maybe Zero as an alt character.  Game design from X7 and X8 was bogged down in 3 playable characters and no solid level design because of it.  Plus the horrible lore alley they've shoehorned themselves into has influenced the actual game more than it should.

I don't think they can make a good X game at all.  Just let it stay dead or let fans make good ones.  Though the latter has yet to happen either.

We'd need Maverick Hunter X2 and X3 first, and I wasn't fond of Maverick Hunter X.

I have NO faith in X9.  They'd need to give it a full on MM11 style soft reboot.  Totally ignore the Zero series plot #####hole and build a solid game with X, and maybe Zero as an alt character.  Game design from X7 and X8 was bogged down in 3 playable characters and no solid level design because of it.  Plus the horrible lore alley they've shoehorned themselves into has influenced the actual game more than it should.

I don't think they can make a good X game at all.  Just let it stay dead or let fans make good ones.  Though the latter has yet to happen either.

Just wait for Mega Man X Corrupted, that should come out in what?  5 to 6 years :D

Edit:  Some tidbits

General has his usual attack set plus new moves.  He's actually a lot more threatening.  He can grab you, shoot lasers and aim his fists at you.  Another Iris actually takes the lore into account and incorporates the "Original reploid" Program that was split into Colonel & Iris.  She seems more confidant and outspoken too.  I hate that this is a mobile game but Capcom of Taiwan is doing a really good job with it as far as fanservice goes.  Hopefully one day all this content will be incorporated into an actual game and fine tuned so it plays like an actual game. (Minus the #####ty gacha bull##### and monetization of course)

I found Another Iris to be unlikable.  Colonel is generally polite, she seems rude and overly violent.  She doesn't seem to be like Colonel much at all, and there's NOTHING of Iris in her behavior at all.  The only connection to Iris is her general appearance.  I still like the design, but so far, the characterization is flatly poorly done as a combo.

And apart from the sprite work and what I've heard of the soundtrack, I'm not a fan of Corrupted.

Yeah she is a bit of a bitch isn't she.  Dont like it either. 

Maybe she just needs more screen time, but she seemed like just a really extreme Colonel with nothing of Iris' personality.  And even Colonel isn't that rude or violent.  I don't see how it's suppose to be a combination of them since it's not like EITHER of them at all.  It's like mixing black and white and getting Orange.

Maybe it takes time for the personalities to mesh properly.  Then she should mellow out.  Either that or she's like Vegitto/Gogeta in personality when they fuse or some #####.  I don't know.  I just prefer the sweet innocent Iris

Here you go Rez!  Full artwork of Colonelris!

I ain't even into robo-chicks and this is doing things to me.

As it should.

Mega Man Iris would be a weird spinoff.

It's like Spider-Gwen but with baggage.

Except after hundreds of issues you'd think there'd be a lot less faith in an 801 or whatever issue of Spider-Man we're at, spinoff or otherwise, than in an 11th X game.
Guess which X game I'm not counting when I say 11th.

Mega Man Iris would be a weird spinoff.

It's like Spider-Gwen but with baggage.

Except after hundreds of issues you'd think there'd be a lot less faith in an 801 or whatever issue of Spider-Man we're at, spinoff or otherwise, than in an 11th X game.
Guess which X game I'm not counting when I say 11th.

Maverick Hunter X4 bonus character or something, if we even get a Maverick Hunter X4 let alone X2 or X3

I'd actually be happy about another Maverick Hunter X game instead of an X9. However I don't see the need for it to follow any established timeline or remake any existing game.

Some X games have direct correlations with others but it could easily be left to fans (who care about that sort of thing) to argue where something places in a timeline than have this need to specify everything or even suggest in any way that any two games have any causal connection at all.

Zelda gave up on numbering their games early on and I really think that was the right choice. They even acknowledge in Hyrule Historia which has a published timeline that it is subject to future reinterpretation.

Something like that would be useful for the X series because then you could focus each plot in each game on developing one specific character.

Potentially there would be one for X, one for Zero, one for Vile, etc, and that character in question would be the second playable character in each game.

So theoretically you could have a playable Iris that resolves at the end of her arc with her splitting into two entities or whatever other lore you might want to make up for her character.

I really do think it's possible to have lore in these games without making the plot incomprehensible. It seems like the real problem is in forcing everything to tie together.

The problem is that they trapped the plot in a corner that they can't get out of unless they retcon the ##### out of everything post X4.

That's just fine with me, though.

They can reboot MHX itself and start over completely for all I care.

I don't think we need remakes at all.

As to retconning, off the top of my head it seemed like the only real direct sequels to any previous entry were X2 and X6, anyway. The connections are so tenuous to me that I could have easily argued that there never was a linear plot if the entries weren't numbered.

I don't even think I believe that the numbers should inherently indicate anything other than their chronological order of release.

I just want X & Co to live in a future where the Elf Wars is not canon.  X needs a happy ending.  He's a suffering boy.

Just watch Logan and pretend Wolverine is X then, I guess.

That's probably the happiest ending any serialized character could hope for.

The alternative is either limbo or hell.

Looks like Classic Bass and Vile MK2 with his X3 Ride Armor are the next characters.

Update:

Here is what I know is coming based on leaks/datamines
Characters:  Bass, Vile MK2, Geo Stellar, Sonia Strumm, June Bride Ciel (I'm not kidding, it's Ciel in a wedding dress), June Bride Layer (Same thing)
Nothing on bosses or stages yet.  But alot of good stuff apparetly coming which makes me seethe since it's for a mobile game.

Here is a profile pic of Bass if anyone cares.  Also apparently Mizuno isn't doing the art, but he's trained several people to imitate his style.  It's good to know Capcom has a good team of artists working for them. 

The problem is that they trapped the plot in a corner that they can't get out of unless they retcon the ##### out of everything post X4.

I don't see the problem there.

I just want X & Co to live in a future where the Elf Wars is not canon.

They do, as far as I'm concerned.

June Bride Ciel (I'm not kidding, it's Ciel in a wedding dress), June Bride Layer (Same thing)

I'd have MUCH prefered Iris to get a wedding dress alt than the Iris -Another we got...

She'll most likely get one.  I would hope.

Bass and Mega Man (Thunder Beam Ver) are the next characters.  Weapon is just a generic assault rifle not sure if based on anything.  Bass does NOT merge with treble (which means they are going to release that as his own character because this is a gacha game so of course they will. 

Edit:  New boss leaked.  Neo Sigma Virus X2  (Raid boss perhaps?)
Edit 2:  Another boss leaked.  Hell Crusher from X3 Tunnel Rhino Miniboss

Here is artwork of Sigma Virus X2.

Here is what is leaked so far

Characters:  Vile MK2, Geo Stellar, Sonia Strumm, Bride Layer, Bride Alia(?)
Bosses:  Hell Crusher, Illumina(?)

(?) denotes need confirmation, just hearsay at the moment.

Bride Iris is literally the only one that makes sense.  But apart from that I'm still waiting for them to get to Nana.  I can't believe Rico was playable before Nana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6lUXHKxf1Q

Vile MK2 is next character.  Did a good job referencing him from X3. 

Also looks like Nightmare Zero is another datamined character.  Can we get Dynamo first plz?

Every 4th or 5th character they're required to add in another X or Zero.

Nightmare Zero is indeed the next character, but I think Taicom made a mistake and uploaded the video by mistake, maybe we were supposed to get the starforce characters this week?

Anyways his skills are Buster Storm and Genmu Zero Kai, both taken from X6.

This sham of a game can keep going just as long as we get new art and models for the rest of the X girls.  Though I think that's just down to Nana and Berkana at this point.  Though if they're tossing in made up stuff like Iris -Another- then I wouldn't mind seeing Martei from the X manga tossed in for good measure.

Update on stuff in general

Characters:  Bride Alia, Bride Layer, Geo Stellar, Sonia Strumm, Flower Girl Ciel(?)
Bosses:  Illumina, Hell Crusher

Edit:  Here is art of Vile MK3

Update 2:  Yet more leaked characters.

Dark Mega Man.EXE, Monster Hunter Collab (Rathalos Armor X, Hunter R, Hunter V)

I guess they got tired of doing Robot Master Weapon Mega Mans so they went for the Dark .exe.  That will fill their color swap on model "new" character for another batch I guess.

Updates with bosses and stuff

Characters:  Geo Stellar, Sonia Strum, Bride Alia, Bride Layer, Rathalos Armor X, Hunter V, Hunter R, Dark Mega Man.EXE
Bosses:  Illumina, Hell Crusher, Byte (With Gravity Gear), Pallete (She must be jealous of Alia & Layer LOL)

Edit:  ARtwork of Hell Crusher & Illumina

So this is not Megaman X Diners, Drive-ins and Dives?

Not yet, but give it enough time and I'm sure the DLC will get you there.

Based Capcom

So they're marrying each other? I didn't even know they were a thing. You know what? I bet it's for tax purposes.

Honestly, though, those are some cute costumes. However, I still have no idea what any of this is and I refuse to find out more.

And my, those are some gigantic roses in the background. GMOs, man.

Robots sure have big boobies in the future, huh?

How else do you think they would convince 'physical media is the only media that counts in a true collection' people like Rez to submit to the robot overlords?

Improve the quality of the physical media.

They can make the boobs as big as they want and they're pissing in the wind to an ass man.

When the ass man testifies...

Even an ass man can be swayed by Helen of Troy's ship-launching boobies.

Boobs?  Did you mean chest ass?

I love how they acknowledge the fact that no one really likes Pallete by making her the boss of the vent
*Jealous of Alia & Layer getting alts upon alts
*Only get a skin in an event*
*Meanwhile Massimo has gotten jack ##### but he's ok with it*

No one likes you Pallete.  Go away.

I love how they acknowledge the fact that no one really likes Pallete by making her the boss of the vent
*Jealous of Alia & Layer getting alts upon alts
*Only get a skin in an event*
*Meanwhile Massimo has gotten jack ##### but he's ok with it*

No one likes you Pallete.  Go away.

It's actually very reassuring that after all these years, your likes and dislikes have stayed exactly the same.

Palette really is awful, though. Have they ever established why she was built with such bizarre, bizzare hair?

I suspect many of us have changed very little.

That checks out.

I joined as a 10 year old flower fancier and I am currently a 30 year old flower fancier. Oh and I still have the same sense of dread and anxiety of getting the ban hammer whenever I post lunacy.

Good to see your instincts haven't dulled.

That checks out.

I joined as a 10 year old flower fancier and I am currently a 30 year old flower fancier. Oh and I still have the same sense of dread and anxiety of getting the ban hammer whenever I post lunacy.

As long as you're not a complete asshat or a bot you'll be fine.  You're not a bot are you? 

: Snare   9 June 2021, 17:00:11

That checks out.

I joined as a 10 year old flower fancier and I am currently a 30 year old flower fancier. Oh and I still have the same sense of dread and anxiety of getting the ban hammer whenever I post lunacy.

As long as you're not a complete asshat or a bot you'll be fine.  You're not a bot are you? 

O-of course not!

*waits until no one is around* ... _beep.

(do you not remember me, xero? it's me, everyone's favorite little planty ;-;)

Xero only remembers Chaos, Snare.  Just leave him be in his garden.

I know who Snare is. Here the Snare have a throphy.

Xero only remembers Chaos, Snare.  Just leave him be in his garden.

I couldn't blame him. The chao were the best thing ever implemented by Sonic Team. My brother and I spent so many hours being obsessed with chao.

I know who Snare is. Here the Snare have a throphy.

That fills me with joy. I used to take these daily trophies for granted, I should have recognized them for the treasures they were. Also, H*R has aged like fine wine, it's so good.

Still not sure what this game is but apparently I already looked it up on MMKB ages ago.

It's just another trash mobile free to play gatcha.  The ONLY good thing to come of it is the key art and the new 3D models.  Assets that can be ripped and used for far better games down the line.

Mm, nothing like money sinks that can literally just disappear at any time in the future when the folks in charge no longer wish to support the title. I'd only consider supporting it if they had X in a French maid outfit like that whole Tom and Jerry fiasco from a few months back.

Give it enough time Snare, and you'll get it.

I don't care for Gatcha games, but I have do admire the decent effort put into X Dive, it's better than it has any right to be.  Additional the art and models are good and people are having fun with the models (Someone modded Iris's head into a Metool and we have Metool Iris!)  Anyways there is a Monster Hunter collab this week so we'll be getting Rathalos X and the X-Hunters(?), not sure about the 2nd one but we are getting Monster Hunter stuff.

The game itself is pretty trash, the 2.5D has some of the most severe perspective rot I've seen.  The new art assets though, are amazing and better than some of the main line titles though.  That's a damn shame too.

Here's your X9 armor bro

Better than the backwards collar trash fire we got in X8.

What's coming down the pipeline

Characters:  Dark Megaman.EXE
Bosses:  Illumina, X6 Sigma 2nd Form (RAid Boss?)

Sounds like a big lul in content.  Granted there aren't many new characters left to get excited for outside Nana and Dynamo.  Unless they bring in some Manga stuff like Mertei.  Or give sexy outfits to the existing girls.

I'm sure they've got stuff hidden away as it looks like they are cracking down on data leaks.  But stuff still gets leaked out anyways.

Split Mushroom is another Boss, that's 3 X4 bosses so far.  Dragoon, Peacock and now Mushroom.  More X4 is always welcome.

Mushroom is one of my favorite mavericks. Rosered is still the greatest, though.

In fact, Spike Rosered is probably responsible for the course my life took. He (along with Togemon from digimon) sparked my obsession with plant characters/creatures in video games, which then translated into an appreciation for plants in real life which was compounded when I tripped down a ravine and came across what I thought at the time to be the most alien looking blue flower (turned out to be Centauria montana).

Fast forward, I went to school to study plants and I now work with them as well as some floral design. I even started making my own flowers out of crepe paper, which I sell as a mini side business. (https://i.imgur.com/L76iLka.jpg)

That's awesome. 

You're starting to sound a lot like Bushroot.

Finally we are back!

So alot of ##### dropped, I'm not going over that stuff, but here is what is coming down the pipeline now

Characters:  Xmas Ciel, Xmas Rico, OC Character 1, New Years Iris, 4th Armor X (this one is in limbo)

They haven't already done 4th Armor X?  That's a surprise given how X4 heavy Dive is.

Will they be adding Hannakah Douglas or Kwanzaa Signas?

Or Festivas Metal Man?

No but the next stage in chapter mode is Shade Man's stage with Magna Centipede as a boss.  Can't wait for that new sweet artwork.

Update

Looks like there will be a new remix of Shade Man's theme as well, either that or they'll just do Wood Man again :P  Also it seems another new boss will be either Frost Walrus or Izard (the mini boss for Frost Walrus).  We'll find out tomorrow.

Rudolf Flame Stag would have been better.

Maybe for the Xmas event.  They did replace Cyber Peacock with Life Virus R for the Battle Network event.

Maybe for the Xmas event.  They did replace Cyber Peacock with Life Virus R for the Battle Network event.

And that was a MAJOR downgrade.

Minor update.  Another new boss:  Manga Quartz & Savor Moon R is the mini boss for Old Castle.  Here is remix for Shade Man's stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVpuxZUnX8

No but the next stage in chapter mode is Shade Man's stage with Magna Centipede as a boss.  Can't wait for that new sweet artwork.

Shade Man so close to Xmas is an interesting choice that I can get behind. We should all do a Creepy Christmas this year.

Here is artwork of Original The Character #4 (1 is Rico, 2 is Via, 3 is Ico)  This is Doritclair

The font made it look like her name was don'tclair, like don't care.  I found that funny.  Her color scheme is horrid.  And really, only her and RiCO are new.  Via is just blue zero, and Ico is just cosplay RiCO.  The other two silhouettes look like they may be original though.  But who knows, it could just be orange Auto or plaid Protoman.

Yeah that's a very loud color scheme. I don't know, she looks incredibly anime and also gives me clowny/cirque de soliel vibes. She looks like Tira from Soul Calibur, really.

Definitely more of a fan of characters like Alia and Layer that actually show signs of being robots.

Oh well, I'm sure we'll get some nice Rule 34 at least.  Take your victories where you can get them.

I hate that her hair and eye colours match each other but then her outfit colours do not got with them at all.

Doesn't really matter in the end because this looks more like Honkai Impact fanart than Megaman. But nothing in this looks good to me in the first place.

Here is Magna Centipede's Artwork

oh he'll yeah!!!

And here is Manga Centipede's Artwork!

LOL

Anyways Christmas Rico & Ciel just dropped

Wow, RiCO has a very nice pair there.

So it's time for some fanon spitballing between some chums but how early on in the development and creation of reploids did full human tiddies start appearing?

I like to think that reploids have civilian forms they can opt to use if they so choose to do so.  I really want to see a Civilian X, Zero, Axl form. 

Also Nebulajoy #####ed up and leaked a new boss.  Incentas from Command Mission

So it's time for some fanon spitballing between some chums but how early on in the development and creation of reploids did full human tiddies start appearing?

Ever since the beginning. Even Sigma has them.

So it's time for some fanon spitballing between some chums but how early on in the development and creation of reploids did full human tiddies start appearing?

As soon as Dr. Cain got the sponsorship from RedTube20XX.

Wow, the art direction in this game is the complete embodiment of "I can't draw girls"

Really, because I thought the art was fantastic.  It looks like Mega Man, not some awful, pretentious style that they use for a lot of projects and spin off (or X8).

I think Magna Centipede looks like Mega Man. That looks great to me. Even Manga Centipede looks good.

Christmas Rico and Ciel don't look totally in theme to me but more importantly I just don't like how they're drawn. Rico has a broken ankle and Ciel's lower body is too small. I quickly put this together, though it's a little tough to see, but the proportions are off from her normal X Dive art.

It's because she had some ribs surgically removed so she could... ahem. you know.

The artwork aside from Zero & ZX is spot on.  It looks how it should looke. 

The artwork aside from Zero & ZX is spot on.  It looks how it should looke. 

Agreed for the most part.

It's Zero/ZX designs in actual Mega Man style, and makes them look even MORE ridiculous. 

And here is the co-op boss for the snow level.  Frost Walrus

X1 or X4 were the best places to draw from, nice to see they're still going strong.

Here is the next Sonic style OC and New Years Iris

I guess for equality's sake we have to get a generic anime little boy #1 after being generously gifted characters such as generic anime little girl #1.

I think that's a girl.....

WARNING!
WARNING!
WARNING!

I'd be a little more embarrassed if this were a real person we were talking about. I don't think I'm going to lose any points for misgendering an androgynous looking anime person, will I?

I mean I have sooo many good-boy points that I could stand to lose just a few. To make things fair.

Dammit, Snare, Reploids are people too.  Don't treat them like some kind of 20xx robot.  This is the 21xxs, why don't you join us here?

So I'm guessing Rico is going to remain the only well designed original character for this. Though I guess after the Zero recolor the bar is already pretty low...

We got Rico and consistent art for a HUGE swath of X characters.  I call it a win.

Here is what is coming down the pipeline

Characters:  4th Armor X (allegedly), Monster Hunter Zero, Monster Hunter Iris (-Another- form likely), Doritclair (OC character), Angie (OC Character), Valentine's Ico, 'Valentine's RICO, Nana (allegedly), ZXA Alie (allegedly)
Boss:  Incentas

Nana is the last one I'm waiting on.  Other than maybe Mertei from the comics.  Then X is done as far as I'm concerned (We'll never get X5 ending female hunter or MHX navigator).

4th Armor has a trailer today with a release around the 6th, so I hope that list stays true so I can Duff McWhalen my wallet at a few of those upcoming characters.

Oh ##### SB out of nowhere!  Welcome back!

I'm surprised Double hasn't been in yet for this long.  Waiting for him and Duo.

Hey SB!  Hope you're doing well!

Oh ##### SB out of nowhere!  Welcome back!

I'm surprised Double hasn't been in yet for this long.  Waiting for him and Duo.

I'd forgotten all about Double... I wonder if he'll get key art for both forms?  Still, unless the next piece of news you report is for Nana being announced, I'm afraid you'll have to wait in the mauling tent.

SB I sent you a PM out of sheer MMM being back hysteria a while ago but then I realized I couldn't actually read your response and come to think of it you probably weren't even able to read my initial PM anyway. Yo

DM/IM are not working.  Abe promised they'd be back up by the end of 2027 at the latest.

Here is 4th Armor X's full artwork

I dislike the blast effects covering up the actual character art in these renders.

I know there is sometimes art without the aura and ##### so if I can find that I'll post it here.

Here is full artwork of original the character Doritclar.  Not too keen on the design.

The colors are what put me off.

Some minor leaks

Boss:  Sting Chameleon (Monster Hunter Variant), Sigma X3 Form 1 (Raidboss?)

Here's your X9 Zero & Iris bro

Rico did her hair.

Oh cool is Iris part earwig now? That's pretty badass.

*Skips towards Iris like a hap-*is brutally eviscerated and carved for materials*

If it's any consolation, Xero, earwigs are some of the, if not, the most maternal of all insects. So your innards are being used to support a mommy. : )

Steam is going to host the TW version for NA and another region tomorrow from what all the hub bub is about in various circles, so get your disk space ready.

If you fine Matricians have a guild in the TW version, I'd be interested in joining if there's room.

@Xero & @Rez Thank you for the warm welcome back. DiVE and my recent collection of all the English CWs in hardback form is about all I've been doing Mega-related. Thinking of buying that Kotobukiya or however it's spelt Armor collection on the side, since there's never been a Second Armor figure before, but I'm not sure if I can justify the space for it.

@Snare I broke the broken site and seen your "Tehehe, you're browsing MMM" message by doing something with the email link from what I recall when it was a new message. I sent you back a fun message for the future.

Edit - I see Valtrax Zero and Azuros Iris were posted, and I guess Sting Chamelos is going to be added in two weeks time as well in the next event. Wondering if either of them will be worth using, or if I should go all in for Rathalos X for raiding purposes.

Still waiting for the Legends Legacy Collection or the Battle Network Legacy Collection.  And I swear to GOD they better use the original GBA music and not the horrible DS remixes.

If you fine Matricians have a guild in the TW version, I'd be interested in joining if there's room.

Sorry ESSBEE, but I have no interest or intention at all to play X Dive just on the basis that it's a money cash grab, albeit a pretty decent looking one at that.  That is the hill I will die on.  I'm just here for the models and the art.  That said, I hope you are enjoying the game.  It seems to be doing really well for Capcom and hopefully they won't have the #####ing nerve to push this gacha ##### onto a mainline game.

I still have the TW version but I haven't really done anything aside from log in and occasionally pull free pulls every so often... I might try it again on Steam until I get tired of it again.


EDIT: Added profile screenshot from game if anyone playing it wanted to add me.

I'm just here for the models and the art

The same.  Though the 3D stages and what not do look rather ugly.  Typical #####ty 2.5D.  The character models looks pretty decent though.  Would work better in a 3D game or RPG.  The 2D key art is amazing though.  Consistent style, they LOOK like Mega Man X characters.  Very nice.

Here is everything that is apparently coming down the pipeline

Characters:  Nana, ZXA Alie, Valentine's Rico, Valentine's ICO, Angie (OC character), Gate, Tron Bonne (Lab coat outfit)

Bosses:  Sigma X3 Form 1 (Raid Boss most likely), Gate, Incentas

Also artwork

Rico and Ico look like they're from Gal Gun.  And #####ing FINALLY, Nana.

Nana's been leaked eons ago along with ZXA Alie, Halloween Sigma & Incentas.  It will still be YEARS before she's officially revealed.

...

A bunch of stuff leaked.  Plus new artwork

Characters:  Tron (Lab Coat), Gate, Gaea Armor X, Nana + Command Mission Event, Masked Zero, Earto, ZXA Alie
Bosses:  Incentas

New tiddy monster incoming.

Next story mode dropped.  Grenade man stage.  No remix.
No new bosses either, but it looks like tiddy monster is revealed and Dynamo is a boss.

Shame.  A Grenade Man remix would have been nice.

Next character is Xero (VIA) & Gaea Armor X apparently.  Here is my artwork

They stole your OC!  Sue them!

They got the friggin armor color wrong! And too many boobs lights all over. White hair, though...

New boss for Co-Op stage 16:  Volt Catfish.  Will post artwork later

Edit:  Here is temp artwork to tide over until hi-res artwork pops up

Making a water reploid be elec type was never a smart move.

Quake Catfish might've been a neat alternative. Ties in with Japan's mythos of giant catfish causing earthquakes and such.

I'm still holding my breath for artwork for Sponge, Rosered and Sunflower. I can't say I'm as excited for Tonion, the lowliest of all botanical reploids.

I forgot about Optic Sunflower.

I don't even remember if his explosion was beautiful.

Nothing about X8 was beautiful. 

Not even Layer? 

Did I stutter?

Here is artwork of Gaea armor X

I'm sure there are non backgrounded images.  It's just a matter of if we'll ever see them.

Here is what is coming down the pipeline

Characters:  Easter Roll, Erato, Nana, Chibi X, Chibi Zero, ZXA Alie
Bosses:  Volt Catfish (already happened), Incentas

Here is Easter Roll

That's a pretty good Easter Roll.  And Nana can't come soon enough.

Here is full artwork of whose name I can't pronounce and Nana

FINALLY Nana Nana Nana Nana!!!

At least her art is clean, I really hate all the extra effect ##### and backgrounds the newer characters get added in. 

Some more new leaks of what is coming down the pipeline

Characters:  MMPU 2nd Armor X, MMPU Zero, Dr. Light (Yes you read that right.  Dr. #####ing Light is a playable character, he will apparently be based on his GI attire from Mega Man X/MHX), Yet another Bass.EXE alt because we don't have enough of them already, ZXA Aile (Eventually)

If Hadoken Light doesn't one hit kill everything the game is #####.

Here is Dr. Light in all his glory, also some other characters coming down the pipeline.

Swimsuit Ciel, ZXA Alie (Finally),  Forte Cross.EXE

We need SF Wily now too, in Ken Gi.  This is about the only one I accept the stupid effects over the art.  But I'd still like it with just the Hadoken ball in his hands minus the other bits.

I'd prefer Akuma Wily instead.

wtf dr light's not supposed to be hot

wtf dr light's not supposed to be hot

Haven't you heard? Silver Foxes and Dad Bods are in!

and that's the only thing salvageable about this god forsaken future.

Didn't you know Hadoken uses up body fat as fuel?  That's why fat people can fire off 30 or 40 at a time.  It's also how Ryu keeps that fit form while dining on hobo cuisine all the time.

Up next is Swimsuit ICO along with a new remix of Wave Man's theme from Mega Man 5.  Sounds really nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_FUSxoPdCY

The bounce is nice, but she's still covered in armor everywhere but the torso for the most part.  It's not a very good swimsuit.

Here is everything that is coming down the pipeline

Characters:  Shadow Armor X, ZXA Alie, Dive Armor Zero, Dive Armor Axl
Bosses:  Monster Hunter Rise Magma Dragoon, Incentas

Two swords is cool, but the armor is a bit busy.

Here is what is coming down the pipeline

Characters:  Shadow ARmor X, School Event Erato, Bancho Sigma (TF2 Scout looking SOB), MHR3 X, MHr3 ICO
Bosses:  Incentas, Bancho Colonel(?), MHR3 Magma Dragoon

BONK!

Update.  New bosses

Pararoid & Old Robot, Sigma (before he went maverick)

If X is blue and Zero is red, then Xero should be magenta.

It's a hard truth, but it needs to be said.

Gold is better.

If X is blue and Zero is red, then Xero should be magenta.

It's a hard truth, but it needs to be said.

Purple you fool.  Magenta is the print version of red.

Also, Xero isn't good at color theory.  Well, neither of you are, really.

I wasn't really talking about print but I suppose I could have been if I were talking about an artist's rendition of their colours merging or what that would look like rather than what pure red and pure blue light look like when placed together. I tend to think of colour in terms of light than in dyes or inks I suppose.

Admittedly I wasn't exactly sampling X and Zero's colour palettes for their exact shades and hues, either.

I'm under the impression that there are multiple different but valid theories/ideas about colour that we could apply here, but oh well!

I just wanted a magenta Xero.

10 minutes of relearning GIMP later....

It's literally just Purple Zero, but here's the purp for Rez.

So, Nightmare Zero then.

Iris is apparently getting a Dive Armor (I sweat to #####ing god capcom.  Just retcon X4 and let Iris live so I can #####ing play as her.)
Also Bass + Treble came out this week. 

No reason to retcon X4, just bring her back to life.  It's not hard.  Fix her chip in space, DNA data, etc.

Just have her say she hid herself while she repaired herself. Like Zero. Except she just took way longer.

Here is my-er...I mean Via's final form

They clearly stole your fan character.

Just have her say she hid herself while she repaired herself. Like Zero. Except she just took way longer.

Iris Virus.

New X Vs Zero Remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41MCWHv-jo

I wasn't fond of it.  It was far too arranged and added in too much extra and slowed the pace of the piece down far too much.  Remix is too slow.  I suppose they were trying to make it sound "epic" but they failed.  The original went hard and fast and was epic already.

It's kind of crazy that the game is going down on the 27th of this month and there is an offline version up now for sale. I lucked out and ended up being one of the earliest testers for the Taiwan version years ago and have been playing on their version since launch, later migrating to their Steam version for better controls.

Offline isn't the worst thing in the world due to having the option to play as 120 different characters with no gacha elements, but I think it's a bit overpriced for most people at the moment. $20 is the sweet spot I feel for what it offers, though obviously lower would be better on a sale as there's no guarantee someone would enjoy the skinnerbox elements as Offline still has micromanagement and such due to keeping the power scaling system in the game. Having to constantly stop to grind the core events every few levels for arbitrary systems such as armor equips / skills / chips / leveling / zenny or leveling up as well as having to upgrade every so often weapons just drags the experience down.

My advice to break the game for a casual player that doesn't mind power tripping to bypass a lot of bull is play as Black Zero early on with his rank pushed to around 4 stars for a shield on demand, grind through the story campaign until beating 10-6 to unlock the ability to buy S-Rank Hunter Zero, then max that mad lad out in rank as well as invest in the Nightmare Sword to make DiVE Offline learn to respect your time. For those that don't know, they kept in X4/X5 Zero dash cancelling speed running tech but made it where your character rolls around, so it's ideal to get a character with a shield ability and spam dash + melee to tear through enemy healthbars.

Also, I'll share a secret with all of you, since we're clearly the elder society by this point in time, but the data string after the ending can be translated with 1337 and talks about ViA.

I love the key art, but I utterly detest mobile style gameplay with cool downs and all that other #####.  And that's all been grafted onto usual Mega Man gameplay.  Also, the 2.5D is some of the worst I've ever seen.  All that said, if they do a physical cart for this I'll pick it up because it's Mega Man, but a digital buy would be a hard "never".

Seeing as they went for DiVE NFTs over any kind of console support when they made Offline a thing, I think your wallet is going to be safe for the long haul on this one.

Apparently there are models of 2 additional bosses in the offline data files that are used in the end credits.  Eregion from X4 and Violen from X2

Would have been cool to have all 3 X hunters

Those models show up in the ending credits made for the Offline version and glitch out compared to other models shown off since they were never implemented in the game. Prometheus from ZX(A) and someone else were in the data as incomplete playables.

Now that the Offline version has sold so well compared to what was expected by Capcom, the dev team is looking into DLC and other expansion content that I figured was coming when they stripped out DMC / Monster Hunter / Street Fighter collabs and what have you for the non-gacha version. We already have an X-Hunter event, but it uses a toy model skin for X called "X KAI" to explain it as a fourth member of their crew. I wouldn't mind seeing them get the proper crew together in the game, but due to the possibility of touch control players, they would likely dumb down the X Hunters AI for fights.

I mean the game was built to be touch screen controlled from the start so it never had a chance gameplay wise.  Add in some of the worst 2.5D I've seen and general mobile style gameplay (cooldowns/gear/etc) and it's just typical mobile garbage with a Mega Man skin. But man, it was a GOOD LOOKING skin at lest.

There is still so much potential for characters.  Duo, Double, Fefnir, Phantom, Red, Lumine, Enker, Punk, Quint, Ballade, ##### Robot Masters, Mavericks, pseudoroids, Mythos Reploids, Net Navi's are also possible.  We got Magma Dragoon.

And is there proof that X Dive offline sold better than expected?

It was an off-hand comment from someone on Reddit I suppose in regards to what one of the post-service dev interviews stated in regards to possible DLC. Outside of that, there's now an art book with unused concepts like Blonde Iris-Another and now people are modding things into the game that were incomplete like Prometheus from ZX(A) as a functional character along with the removed DLC characters as well as entire game systems that were gutted from Offline.

Edit - Seems Capcom just put out a survey for X DiVE asking people who say they bought it if we want it ported to consoles like Switch, so we might be in bizarro world where it gets a physical release all the sudden.

The artbook has images for Violen, Eregion, Eyezard (mini boss from X4), Incentas, and Mosquitos (Miniboss in X3)

It would be nice if Udon or some other company handles translating it like the other books in the series, as the artwork was stellar for X DiVE, even if the entire purpose was to sell JPEGs for Capcom yacht money. I'd love to learn a bit more about the game's development side and how they came up with certain choices or designs.