

The King of Fighters has become a major business, generating huge profits and numerous spin-off tournments worldwide. One of them is making the KOF series, and they barely had enough staff to make XIV. SNK has a lot of development teams especially in the mobile/smartphone side of things, but they only have two studios. To save production time and budget, he allowed for three characters to obscure their faces so they would not require facial animations.
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Using the Unrel Engine but decided not to because SNK didn't feel confident after overviewing the potential risks and budget at that time.
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On April 12, 2018, the 3.00 update is released along with another 4 additional DLC characters and 1 new stage.Īfter considering the current market and the future, the staff agreed that things would be best if they challenged 3D right now and started building up experience, knowledge and libraries in their company.
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On April 5, 2017, the 2.00 update is released along with 4 additional DLC characters and 2 free classic stages.
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Oda hopes to cater to fans of KOF '98, KOF 2002 and KOF XIII with this game's mechanics and improve the online matchmaking for this entry.Ī graphical patch (Ver 1.10) to boost the game's visuals is released on January 11, 2017. He thinks it's difficult to properly convey the KOF cast's charm in 3D but expects the models to continue improving from its initial revealing. According to him, the two major reasons for making the transition to 3D is to adapt to high-end machines and give 3D experience to SNK so they can compete in the console market again. Oda said in an interview with 4Gamer that the main goal for this title is to make it "the easiest to play" of the series. Garou: Mark of the Wolves battle designer, Yasuyuki Oda, is the director. The game is the first chapter of another canonical saga for the series. It was first announced during the SCEJA Press Conference 2015. The King of Fighters XIV is the fourteenth and latest installment of The King of Fighters series. Main visual, showing Kyo, Iori, Shun'ei, Mai and Nakoruru.
