Umbrella Playable Alpha Announced for Skullgirls 2nd Encore

<p>Skullgirls 2nd Encore&&num;8217&semi;s Season Pass kicked off pretty strongly with the release of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;skullgirls-2nd-encore-annie-of-the-stars-dlc-release-window-announced&sol;">Annie<&sol;a>&comma; and its rather regular update schedule for the game&period; For those that aren&&num;8217&semi;t aware&comma; Annie is the first of four new DLC characters coming out between this year and next year&comma; and she&&num;8217&semi;s out now for all users on PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam&period; So&comma; where&&num;8217&semi;s the next character&comma; exactly&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; that comes in the form of Umbrella&comma; sister to base game character Parasoul&period; Umbrella is slated for a Winter 2021 release&comma; which is nice&period; And what&&num;8217&semi;s more&comma; she also has a playable alpha coming soon&comma; too&period; To top it off&comma; she also has a new trailer released today&comma;  which you can view below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"eMu28caSDao" title&equals;"Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Umbrella Alpha Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;eMu28caSDao"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;eMu28caSDao&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Umbrella Alpha Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">What&&num;8217&semi;s Contained Within The Alpha<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Contained within this playable Alpha is a fully functioning&comma; playable build of Umbrella&comma; albeit&comma; with some unrendered animations and potential balance changes leading up to the full release&period; Steam players can access this beta by owning Season Pass 1&comma; similar to Annie&comma; and the beta build of the game gets updated pretty regularly in this state&period; The only things playable alphas lack in this case are some unlockable character colors&comma; her story mode&comma; and any related tutorial missions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Umbrella&&num;8217&semi;s playable Alpha&comma; again&comma; will be releasing later this month&comma; presumably at the end of it&comma; exclusively on PC&period; PlayStation and Nintendo Switch owners unfortunately will have to wait until the full release later in the year to experience this new character&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll update when Umbrella&&num;8217&semi;s Alpha build will release&comma; and furthermore&comma; when the official DLC is actually out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Skullgirls 2nd Encore is out now on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;product&sol;UP2032-CUSA01606&lowbar;00-SG2NDENCORE00000&sol;">PlayStation 4<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;com&sol;games&sol;detail&sol;skullgirls-2nd-encore-switch&sol;">Nintendo Switch<&sol;a>&comma; and PC via <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;245170&sol;Skullgirls&lowbar;2nd&lowbar;Encore&sol;">Steam<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What did you think about the Umbrella playable Alpha announcement&quest; Are you looking forward to the new update&quest; Do you plan on playing Umbrella when she releases&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;