Team 3 DLC Announced for The King of Fighters XV

A few weeks before The King of Fighters XV launched, we learned that there were already plans for the game to have four DLC teams for 12 additional characters total. We’ve seen the first two teams come out with Team Garou and Team South Town as well as a surprise announcement for Omega Rugal at the third Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable. Now we finally know that the next set of DLC will be Team Awakened Orochi. It consists of Orochi Yashiro, Orochi Shermie, and Orochi Chris.

If you’ve played The King of Fighters XV then you likely recognize these characters. They’re available as Team Orochi in the base game. However, it seems that similar to their debut in The King of Fighters ’97, they will now have separate versions based on their stronger Orochi-powered states. Their announcement trailer doesn’t show off any gameplay, but we do know that they’re expected to release in August. I’m typically not excited for different versions of the same character. That being said, I do really like their designs from the character art shown.

Accompanying this announcement is that The King of Fighters ’98: Ultimate Match Final Edition is now on PlayStation 4. It’s an updated version that was released on Steam back in 2014. The original game was the series’ first “dream match” game which was non-canon to the overall story and featured most of the characters from every entry before it. This latest version added all the previous characters, new modes, and game balance changes. Perhaps what’s best about it is that it received an update adding rollback netcode back in December and this new PlayStation 4 version also has it.

Given the huge abundance of characters and that Team Awakened Orochi is in it, it’s not too surprising that they would bring it over to a new platform as they announce the characters as DLC for The King of Fighters XV. My fingers are crossed that they may add the character Orochi as a boss character like they did with Omega Rugal. For now, I’m mostly interested in how these new characters will play and if they’ll feel totally different as they did in previous games.