On the Evo 2025 combating recreation event, Guilty Gear Strive developer Arc System Works revealed a primary have a look at Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and confirmed an August 21 launch date for the DLC visitor character.
Lucy is the ultimate playable character from Attempt’s Season Go 4, and is lifted from the vastly in style Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Netflix anime that adopted the discharge of CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. And anybody who’s performed the sport will immediately acknowledge the hacking mechanic we see within the gameplay trailer, under.
Time pauses as Lucy selects from plenty of Quickhacks, corresponding to Algorithm Malfunction, Optics Inhibition, and Power Siphon, utilizing Cyberdeck Ram in the identical restricted vogue you do in Cyberpunk 2077.
We then see Lucy’s opponent troubled with the hacking debuffs by way of icons that show above their character. These icons are the identical from Cyberpunk 2077, and seem to clear fairly rapidly.
So, does Lucy mark the tip of DLC for Responsible Gear Stive? 4 years after its launch, it appears extra is to come back. Arc System Works tweeted to say Responsible Gear Attempt “will proceed… we look ahead to your continued help.”
#GGST will proceed…
We look ahead to your continued help.
皆様の応援を引き続きよろしくお願いします！#ギルティギア #GuiltyGearStrive pic.twitter.com/lQKiDyIEV3— GUILTY GEAR OFFICIAL (@GUILTYGEAR_PR) August 3, 2025
That message got here alongside a video that exposed Attempt has had 3.5 million gamers since launch, and introduced Responsible Gear Attempt 2.00, coming in some unspecified time in the future in 2026. What which means for gameplay is anybody’s guess proper now. Maybe of extra curiosity, the video teased two new characters, which followers are speculating are Robo-Ky and Jam Kuradoberi.
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