Thursday, December 17, 2020

Rockman X DiVE - Christmas Event Preview

Earlier today, Famitsu gave us a pretty extensive preview of next week's Rockman X DiVE Christmas event through an hour-long stream. The first character of the event, a new skin, the new main menu and the event stage were shown. Check out all the details after the break!




"Christmas Leviathan" will be the star of next week's banner. She is a rank S character, obtainable through the gacha system. She comes equipped with the Ice Javelin skill which launches a shock wave as you perform attacks with the javelin and the Ice Ring which spins the javelin creating ice crystal to damage enemies.


Next, we have a new skin for Ferham. They didn't reveal if the skin is going to be obtainable with regular EM or paid EM, so we will have to wait and see. As a reminder, the last skin "Iris SE DiVE ver." was only obtainable with paid EM. The community was not very happy about it so perhaps they will go back to regular EM. If that's the case, the price will most likely be 1200 EM as she is a S rank character.



Lastly, we have a a brief look at the new menu screen decorated with a snow backdrop and some iconic items from the X series like the "life up" item, a bolt, a Mettaur or even some Ball De Voux as decorations of a Christmas tree.

They also showcased the Christmas event stage which takes place in a snowy forest with a village in the background and populated with enemies dressed for the occasion. The stage also has a very Christmas-y remix of the Blizzard Buffalo Stage theme. 

And that's pretty much it. The only thing left to reveal is the boss of the event and the character that will accompany "Christmas Leviathan" in the banner. You can watch everything discussed above in the video below. Let us know what you think in the comments!


26 comments:

  1. Really? This is how we're doing the first Christmas event? With oversexualized content? I'm beginning to think Rockman X dive is not a good game.

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    1. Imagine being this close minded. Fan service in a game that prides itself on pleasing fans is a bad game?

      How does this make it a bad game? The gameplay isn't affected by this.

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    2. A reminder that the Summer festival had the similarity with Iris, Layer, & Alia.

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    3. It isn't a good game, but not because of the fan service, that's why people keep playing. it's fanservice, the game, and not just the sexy kind of fan service, all kinds of fan service, like SE iris.

      The reason it's a bad game though is it's focus on PVP, the fact that it's a freemium game, and the never ending bugs.

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    4. @ADLZ

      Well, the game is bad. With bad management. They'd rather release character than to fix the game instead. No wonder there's no one to play in rank and coop anymore because a lot have quitted already. They keep releasing S characters and weapons. Because they are striving too hard for money. Imagine paying 20$ for only a skin? Do you see how they manage and pissed the fan base?

      And yes. It started with the summer swimsuit festival where everyone got mad about the over sexualized and over fan service-y characters. You know? You gotta have EM.

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    5. Honestly, the skins don't bother me at all. The over predatory pricing model and thus the games very existence, however, does.

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    6. I don't mind the fanservice. Heck, being able to wild with stuff just that could'nt go in a mainline console game or would'nt even make sense in canon, just to serve the fans, is kinda the whole point of making a mobile game like this.
      It's like Erik the Red said, though. This game has many issues with balance, PvP, bugs and Pricing, and might even need a retool, but that

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    7. @ADLZ Okay, I'll answer your question. I like fanservice, and I like Christmas. But I want them to stay as far away from each other as much as possible.

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    8. @Micheal keep in mind, christmas for east asia is very different from christmas in the occident. There, it's basically our valentine's day, which means it's a more romantic holiday there, so it really makes sense to mix fan service with christmas for them. They just need cake and fried chicken skills or something.

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    9. @Julianx34
      and on the topic of valentine's day, and their christmas being basically that, sexualization happened for white day. we got a very bouncy white day alia, and the fanbase wasn't pissed off.

      The fanbase more likely left because of the focus on PVP and not a mega man game. A LOT of us were hoping for mega man on mobile, and I for one was excited that they included options to play more traditionally, but playing traditionally put you at a major disadvantage in PVP,and every other mode in the game if you actually wanted stuff.

      Mega Man has always been a single player focused game, and just like in MM7, pvp feels very tacked on and not all that fun. Not only did the game go more and more PVP focused, but it's so buggy and laggy, that pvp just isn't fun at all. the fanservice, sexual and non-sexual is the little that kept people playing.

      I personally wish they could use the assets they made for this game to make a full fledge single player experience version that plays like traditional mega man games with unique abilities for each character like X8 did between X, Axl and Zero, rather than having the same character with 2 unique attacks. it could even be on mobile and I'd be ecstatic!

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    10. @Erik
      I agree. I've said it before and will again, use these assets to re-make X2-6. And a remix of X1 wouldn't be a bad thing either though a very low priority.X-7 needs to be re-tooled from the ground up do please do that too. This gacha is a waste of good graphics.

      X4-7 are in dire need of revision. They need to have split stages merged into a single no gap stages. The end game stages need to be made a little longer. Alia needs a mute button. X6 needs MASSIVE debug and X7, nuff said. And everything post X5 needs canon correction.

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  2. Man, I really want a Christmas X or something just because of the pun. And really hope the other character is not another Zero. This Leviathan looks pretty nice, same with Ferham.

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  3. they are grasping so hard to waifu this game up with irrelevant characters, no one gives a crap about ferham from command mission
    just tired of these waifu characters because mega man is the one game series where like its 99 percent men so they are clearly grasping for straws and its so obvious.
    just give me black zero
    protoman without helmet
    would be good. Just please dont turn this series into a big fanservice direction because although there was sexy characters(and i dont mind them at all) turning this into a generic anime series would kinda lose the point and charm of the series.
    Again no disrespect to any of the women in the series they are really cool usually but what made them cool was they were characters first and eyecandy second.
    Leviathan's costume atleast looks adorable so i love that.

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    1. Some people like Ferham and Command Mission just fine. I have personally only played the main numbered entries, but does'nt mean they cannot give variants to character from other games.
      There are still a couple character not added yet, even if the X serie does have a large majority of guys. And that's not getting into the other series.
      Also Black Zero is already in.
      It's the holliday event, the whole point is characters in pretty event costumes. The regular characters can be added anytime. (Though i still hope there will also be a Male X-mas character, Halloween Vile was cool.)
      November gave us copy X, Omega, Bass.exd and Proto.exe, it's not like they are not also adding the cool male characters.

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  4. I had guessed Ferham would be one of the characters to get a skin of variation in the XMas event, since they where probably going to pick a character who was'nt featured in a previous event, and does'nt have many (or any) variation in canon.
    Now, i hope the second (or third) character will be Axl.
    I think the boss will be a X-mas bit. They like theses kind of references.

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  5. Winter Leviathan is pretty cute.
    With how diferent from her base design Ferham is, i first thought she was a character rather than a skin. Anyway, as long as they don't do that paid EM thing, it's fine.
    I would have liked if they added a skin in halloween, so that thoses who did'nt manage to get the chararcters could get something.
    If they do it like with the summer event (1 skin, three characters), then two other characters could be revealed.

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  6. This would have been a neat oportunity for the reindeer costume X from puzzle fighter.
    Then again, there are like 6 X and 3 X-skins already with more to come since we need all his armors, so letting other character get the spotlight for the holliday might b a good idea.

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    1. There was this new year illustration (i forgot who was the artist) with various Capcom vilains where Sigma was wearing a nifty suit. I hope that suit Sigma is a character for this event second week. (Or new year if it is a separate event).

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    2. I'm all in favor of Suit Sigma. It would be cool, plus it is one of the few choice that would'nt enrage too many peoples right now.

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  7. I don't play game on mt phone. (Heck, my old phone would probably not be able to run this game), but we get some cool artworks and fanarts out of this.

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  8. Okay. Have to say, the DiVE team sometimes hits it out of the ballpark.
    That Leviathan skin is absolutely lovely and fits the event well!

    Not so hot about the Ferham skin, though.

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  9. I hate how most of the skins so far have been skimpy outfits.

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  10. This game just needs to sto with the fanservice and fix the dam bugs because we just need characters that people asked for,no fanservice, just give us a christmas Axl or protoman

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    1. Except there are people who enjoy the fanservice. I don't care, you don't like it, others do. The game can't focus only on ONE type of player.
      The only holliday variants i was personally interested in where Vile and Aile, does'nt mean they should'nt have made the rest. I'm not interested in theses characters (even though i love Leviathan in general)? Fine, that give me a week to farm EM for when Omega comes back or when Axl gets a variant.
      Meanwhile, let's hope the second week of the event brings in a male character.
      The damn bugs DOES need to be fixed, however. And some characters needs buffs.

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  11. While i don't mind some fanservice in non-canon game (and while it's your right to like it or not, i think people needs to chill out), i can't say i'm too fond of Ferham new skin.
    It's Like AR_Megaman said on twitter, it makes her looks less distinctive. I would have kept some rapace features to fit with her usual theme, for example. Like a custom version of her usual helmet.

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  12. I don't mind fanservice, so just personal taste, but i think a long evening dress would have suited ferham better. Sometime less is more (or in this case, more is less...no more? ...Whatever). Rather than showing more skin, a outfit that give a air of classe and elegance would have been fitting with that Domme theme she has.

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