New Online Features Detailed for DOA5U by Famitsu

Famitsu has released information on new Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate online features. It's a short list, but are some interesting ideas.

Four-player Tag Mode Online

Developed and integrated due to high demand from Dead or Alive fans around the world, players will now be able to form a tag team with a comrade and fight against another team online. Additionally, players can battle in ranked tag matches in order to become #1 in the world rankings. Separate from solo matches, in tag matches Grade Points (GP) are earned for both team members with each win counting as two toward unlockable costumes.

Prize Fighter

Four different ranks can be earned by winning consecutive ranked matches: Bronze Fighter, Silver Fighter, Gold Fighter and Platinum Fighter. Prize Fighters earn extra Grade Points with wins and those who defeat another Prize Fighter receive a GP bonus. Grade Points have been updated now allowing for players to earn up to Grade U from S+. Bonus GPs are rewarded when fighters move to the next grade level.

Ranked Mode now supports Tag Matches and other Online updates

Improvements made for online mode enhance gameplay, providing a smoother experience regardless of the player’s network connection, and cutting search times to find opponents for ranked matches and unranked throw downs.

Character Rankings

Displays a player’s skill level with each character. With the inclusion of the CP feature, players can check if their opponent is using their best character and even see where they place in the world ranking.
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Source: Famitsu

 

COOL!

 

I like how Team Momiji is playing Rachel and Team Rachel is playing Momiji. Team Ein and Team Hitomi have it right though.

 

Very happy about the tanked tag matches! love tag.

 

Man, to meet a 5 bar connection like each of those Team players have...

 

Pfff...whenever I run into 5 bar connections it's blatant lies.

 

i got a feeling four player tag will be laggy.

 

The S+ looks cooler than the U-*shot*

Ranked tag tho... ehhh they're really pushing tag aren't they. Guess I'll have to start learning some Akira/Ein, Ein/Hayate and Akira/Hayate tag combos.

Anyways, online 4p tag is awesome, improved netcode is a must and thse look like pretty good changes. Character ranking will be interesting, particularly who's on top with each character. (I WILL be the #1 Ein, KNOW that.)

Bring on 5U. Can't wait. Again really hoping the netcode lives up to all these other improvements

 

(I WILL be the #1 Ein, KNOW that.)

I would like to personally challenge you on that I plan on picking him up again too and I'd love to have a rival/mentor haha.

 

I would like to personally challenge you on that I plan on picking him up again too and I'd love to have a rival/mentor haha.

Bring it on man, we need more good Ein players. Hope to have some good matches with you.

 

Bah nothing really unknown except U rank... I like the sparkle they added to it. Hopefully you can unlock costumes by leveling up your character because I'm not spending a minute in single player

 

This is going to be interesting!

 

Don't care for tag, but not opposed to it either. The new rank is uh... Interesting? And this whole character leveling thing is making me think of Blazblue lol.

 

There's already a ton of annoying players that shout at one another about being the best _____ player, so character rankings won't change much.

That said...CO-OP TAG IS BACK! YEAHAHAAAAA! I remember my life revolving around tag back in DOA4, and the fun we used to have pairing up with random people (or people we knew) and just having the time of our lives.

Me and Chaosghost (Now Shakuganchaos) actually practiced out tag juggles together, and we had some pretty awesome juggles with Helena/Lei

 

Nothing too spectacular announced here. Having tag mode back and having it be ranked and having 4 player isn't really a big deal for me, but I know a lot of others have been wanting it so w/e.

Prize fighter it just about receiving more points when on a win streak? You already got extra points when on a win streak so unless the amount of bonus points you get is different than that's not new at all.

As for character rankings, so you just get separate points for using and winning with a certain character it seems. I wonder though what happens when you lose with a character. Would you lose points for losing with a character or would you just receive fewer points compared to winning and can you receive more points for dominating someone 3 rounds straight with a character or is there just a base amount for using/winning/losing?

As for the new U rank, I hope it requires a huge amount of points just for the sake of not letting very many people have it. The harder it is to achieve rank U, the more meaningful the rank will be.

 

If the netcode is garbage then these new online features means nothing but man co-op tag just had me all hype up again! I hope they improve the netcode so I can have fun with Brute and don't have to deal with his annoying 1 bar connection.

Sept. 3 is just around the corner, can't fucking wait.

 

I hope they improve the netcode so I can have fun with Brute and don't have to deal with his annoying 1 bar connection.

Not my fault TN's netcode has no idea what it's doing.

 

Prize fighter it just about receiving more points when on a win streak? You already got extra points when on a win streak so unless the amount of bonus points you get is different than that's not new at all.

As for character rankings, so you just get separate points for using and winning with a certain character it seems. I wonder though what happens when you lose with a character. Would you lose points for losing with a character or would you just receive fewer points compared to winning and can you receive more points for dominating someone 3 rounds straight with a character or is there just a base amount for using/winning/losing?

As for the new U rank, I hope it requires a huge amount of points just for the sake of not letting very many people have it. The harder it is to achieve rank U, the more meaningful the rank will be.

That Ayane image said 6600 GP on it and it looked like she was on a 68 streak. I'm guessing the number just goes higher and higher, it currently caps at around 235+ GP a win I think for S+es. Not sure but it seems like that would be a bit broken for people on streaks around 100 or so, it would be really easy to hit the highest rank by boosting. Disconnecting better kill your streak.

For character ranking you probably lose points when you lose and gain them when you win same as regular ranked. Specially considering there's a character leaderboard. Rounds won/lost probably won't be a factor, though you'll probably get more or less point depending on how many rounds the match was set to.

Also S+ is currently pitifully easy to get, like... 63k GP? U should be at least 100k. It's something only the highest ranked players should get.

 

I miss DOA4's ranking system, where every lobby match affected your grade, and instead of being able to lock yourself into one grade permanently, you were always at risk of going back down or gaining a new one.

 

I never really cared about ranks. Still don't.

 

I miss DOA4's ranking system, where every lobby match affected your grade, and instead of being able to lock yourself into one grade permanently, you were always at risk of going back down or gaining a new one.

Yes!! I liked how you started at C, which was the middle grade, and you went up or down depending on how good you are