No more Gougi Decks, it seems
Fighting EX Layer may have started as an “April Fool’s joke,” but it has evolved over the years with the next incarnation the world now knows.
Arika announced at the Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable that Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, which appears to be reworking many of the game’s core systems.
Gougi Decks have now completely disappeared from the match experience and have now been replaced with some new EX moves / systems to give each character some extra juice when they have a meter.
EX-Dash, EX-Arrow, and EX-Illusion are ways to give players more defensive and offensive options, but that’s not all that changes. Battle balance adjustments also occur with some characters / moves.
Some of these changes are quite similar to what Arika previously showed in the April Fool’s Day beta, although there is no report at this point that Another Dash is coming to other platforms.
However, one thing the new port won’t have at launch is the rollback netcode the other versions received and instead use what they call backstep interrupt, which seems to hide input delay in variable frames.
However, if all goes well, Arika hopes to combine the two forms of netcode for the “best of both worlds”.
More information about Another Dash will come on April 1st of course. We might see more about that Prayer to Death game they teased last year as well.