BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle had an open beta this weekend, and it appears that unannounced DLC characters for the game have been leaked from dataminers through the Nintendo Switch version of the beta. [Thanks, @OtherEhm.]
[Note: Since the data-mined info is likely be legit, I recommend those who don’t want to be spoiled on the game’s roster to skip this article.]
Now that you’ve been warned, here we go:
According to Twitter user Ehm who data-mined the Switch version of the open beta, all characters have a menu portrait, and the blank ones you see above are for characters that Arc System Works has yet to announce.
He provided a full character list from the text file in the game that confirms that the given IDs are correct:
The following are on the full character list with the data-mined characters in bold:
BlazBlue
- Ragna the Bloodedge
- Jin Kisaragi
- Noel Vermillion
- Rachel Alucard
- Iron Tager
- Hakumen
- ν-No.13-
- Hazama
- Makoto Nanaya
- Platinum the Trinity
- Izayoi
- Azrael
- Nine the Phantom
- Es
- Mai Natsume
- Jubei
Persona 4 Arena
- Yu Narukami
- Yosuke Hanamura
- Chie Satonaka
- Yukiko Amagi
- Kanji Tatsumi
- Naoto Shirogane
- Mitsuru Kirijo
- Akihiko Sanada
- Aegis
- Labrys
RWBY
- Ruby Rose
- Weiss Schnee
- Blake Belladonna
- Yang Xiao Long
- Not Shown
Under Night In-Birth
- Hyde
- Linne
- Waldstein
- Carmine
- Orie
- Gordeau
- Merkava
- Vatista
- Yuzuriha
- Mika
The Twitter user Ehm also added that those who wish to confirm for themselves can do so at: “*\data\dcc\eng\dcc_text1.pac\string.atf”
There hasn’t been any official word from Arc System Works so we’ll take it with a grain of salt, but these things tend to be pretty accurate for the most part, as we’ve recently seen with Dragon Ball FighterZ.
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle releases for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in Japan and Asia on May 31, 2018. The game releases in North America on June 5 and in Europe in Summer 2018. In case you missed it, check out its flashy opening animation in our previous report.
