Looks like there are no more Gougi Decks
Fighting EX Layer may have started out as a “April Fool’s Day joke”, but it has continued to evolve over the past few years with its next incarnation now known to the world.
Arika announced during the Japan Fighting Game Publisher roundtable that Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash will come to the Nintendo Switch later this year, which seems to rework many of the game’s core systems.
The Gougi Decks now have no gaming experience and have been replaced by a series of new EX moves / systems to give each character a little extra energy when they have a meter.
EX-Dash, EX-Arrow and EX-Illusion are ways to give players more defensive and offensive options, although that is not all that is changing. Battle balance adjustments are also coming for some characters / moves.
Some of these changes appear to be quite similar to what Arika showed earlier in the April Fools beta, although there is no word from Another Dash coming to other platforms now.
One thing the new port will not present at startup, however, is the rollback netcode that the other versions have received and will instead use what they are calling a background step interruption, which seems to hide the entry delay in variable frames.
If all goes well, however, 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 because of course it does. Maybe we’ll see more about that Death Prayer game that they sparked last year too.