Street Fighter V Summer Update: New Characters

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Today&comma; Capcom had presented a live stream on their Twitch and YouTube channels for their highly-anticipated Summer Update for Street Fighter V&colon; Champion Edition&period; Let’s break down what’s been revealed at today’s showing&comma; as well as when the new update releases&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">We’ll be breaking down each piece of the reveal&period; As of now&comma; the characters revealed this season are Dan&comma; Rose&comma; Oro&comma; and Akira &lpar;from Rival Schools&comma; another Capcom IP&rpar;&period; A release roadmap was also revealed&comma; and we’ll take a look into that&comma; too&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Season 5’s Summer Update<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In today’s live stream&comma; Street Fighter 5 Director Takayuki Nakayama and producer Shuhei Matsumoto had revealed that Dan Hibiki&comma; a popular character from the Street Fighter Alpha games&comma; will be the first character to be released in Season 5&period; In addition&comma; some early development footage of Dan was also released &lpar;video credit&colon; PlayStation on YouTube&rpar;&comma; which you can watch below&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"Jp988bDOpxA" title&equals;"Street Fighter V - Season V&colon; Dan Hibiki Developer Footage &vert; PS4"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;Jp988bDOpxA"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Jp988bDOpxA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Street Fighter V - Season V&colon; Dan Hibiki Developer Footage &vert; PS4"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&period;After the Dan reveal&comma; and an advertisement for the upcoming new season of Street Fighter League&comma; is another character reveal&comma; done by AEW wrestler Kenny Omega&period; From his stream spot&comma; he reveals that Rose is the next DLC character&comma; and the stream pans back to Nakayama and Matsumoto&comma; who explain part of why they chose her&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">This would follow suit for the next two announced characters&comma; being Oro &lpar;from Street Fighter III&rpar;&comma; and Akira Kazama &lpar;from Rival Schools&rpar;&period; In addition to the reveals for these characters&comma; the developers released a content roadmap&comma; which can be seen below&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161641" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;05174313&sol;SF5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Street Fighter V" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">From the roadmap shown&comma; it details the release order of the Season 5 DLC&comma; including release windows and balance patches&period; Dan looks to be releasing in Winter 2020 &lpar;around November-December&rpar;&period; This roadmap goes up until Fall 2021&comma; with the release of the final DLC character for Season 5 &lpar;currently unannounced&comma; as of now&rpar;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Street Fighter V is available now on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;product&sol;UP0102-CUSA01200&lowbar;00-SF5FULLGAME00000&quest;emcid&equals;se-pi-239770">PlayStation 4<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;310950&sol;Street&lowbar;Fighter&lowbar;V&sol;">Steam<&sol;a>&period; As of the time of writing&comma; there’s currently a sale for purchasing Street Fighter V&comma; with the base game being up to 60&percnt; off&comma; and Champion Edition &lpar;the latest version&rpar; being up to 25&percnt; off the normal price&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think of the Street Fighter V Summer Update&quest; Are you looking forward to the content announced&quest; Is there a character that you want to be added to the game&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>If you like new fighting game character reveals&comma; be sure to read our article about Guilty Gear Strive&&num;8217&semi;s Leo Whitefang and Nagoriyuki <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;guilty-gear-strive-update-leo-whitefang-nagoriyuki-and-release-info&sol;">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;