A question regarding version 0.5

[Soniti254]

Heya, Fusion Team and fans.  I've been following this project for a long time now and I'm loving what you guys have done with it so far.  Keep up the good work. 

Now that that's out of the way, I have a question regarding version 0.5: I recall reading on the other board that certain characters would have new gameplay changes and rebalancing occurring.  Will those be implemented in version 0.5?

[Aura]

Simon is completely changed and Arthur has a few differences.  Ryu is a much more complete character.  This is what you will have in .5

Later Sonic, Tails and Link have some changes in store.

[Hopalongtom]

Speaking of questions about 0.5... has there been any more progress in externalising player art?

There's still a few projectiles out there, as well as Wario's speech that are holding back skinners!

[Keiang]

Also, the airborne fireball firing sprites for Mario and Luigi is the same as the swimming sprites, which caused a few issues back when I was trying to skin stuff.

[TheomanZero]

Skinnable projectiles would be nice, as it would allow for Thunder Luigi.

[Sacorguy79]

Ryu has basically been completed as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), and so has Simon (same as before). Arthur has been given new sprites, and Megaman has been added.

[Warcheeso]

and not to mention the Basaddery that is Meta-knight. I'm gonna be having some fun with this thing 

[Soniti254]

Thanks for the replies, guys.  I'll be looking forward to v.5 when that comes around.

How much progress has been done on the other characters so far (both the incomplete ones and the changed ones), if I may ask?  Also, are the alt/clone characters still going be selectable in the same way (pressing the Fire key over the respective character) or will they all be present in the character select screen?

[Hopalongtom]

I'm unsure if this made it in or not... but there was talk about a new easier to manage character select screen that held all of them!

While not as cute as a walking goomba... it'd be alot easier to deal with, and less time consuming to select someone other than mario! 

[Warcheeso]

also to add to that, they DID say a while ago there would be 2 Slots for skins, which could be selected with the new easy to manage menu, though no word that I am aware of that that system will be in 0.5 .

[Divadale]

i have a question about meta knight : is he done for 0.5 because some people said he is not done yet. he looks really cool

[Del]

Meta Knight is already complete and playable, he will be in 0.5, but not Kirby, Sho hasn't had time to finish him so far.

[ghost2258]

Is Samus still a planed character?

[Keiang]

Yes, she's just kind of complicated, so it'll take a while to make her.

[TheomanZero]

I may be completely misunderstanding things here, but it seems to me that the overhaul and cleanup of the objects will probably make Samus easier to code, as most aspects of her gameplay already exist somewhere in the game (Screw Attack -- Sonic's Spin Jump, Ice Beam -- Ice Kirby, etc.).  The Morph Ball will probably still take some work, though . . .