Monday, February 7, 2022

Idols and Love Combine in Rockman X DiVE's 2nd Valentine's Day Event

Just a few hours ago we were talking about the Global's Version first Valentine's Day event. Now it's time to talk about the Asian's version second Valentine's Day event, which brings Valentines Day RiCO and Valentines Day iCO to the game.

Find all the details after the break!


Starting this Wednesday through the next two weeks, the "Idol! Music! Valentine's Day!" event stage will be available to celebrate Valentine's Day. Byte will be the event boss.

The Sweet Valentine's Day gacha banner includes Valentines Day RiCO, Valentines Day iCO and the S rank weapon Lover's Gaze.


Valentines Day RiCO's first active skill is Ribbon Link. Basically, you can use a ribbon to link yourself to the target and deal instant damage. If the target survives the initial hit, it appears the link will continue to deal damage.

It also looks like you can become invulnerable and deal interference status to the target. It's difficult to tell how the skill really works in this trailer, however.

Her second active skill is Fan Service which releases an Information Window, damaging enemies along its path. This skill can heal RiCO as a passive skill too. 


Valentines Day iCO's first active skill is Ribbon Link. It's the same as Valentines Day RiCO but will cause continues damage or make the target immobile depending on the distance.

Her second active skill is Fan Service. iCO rushes forward, dealing damage to the target in front, and leaves behind information windows that cause continuous damage. Further, these windows render targets immobile. 

It's difficult to grasp the technicalities of the Ribbon Link skill from the brief info in the trailer. Nevertheless it seems to be quite interesting and powerful.

I don't know if Idols is the first thing that crosses my mind when I think about Valentine's Day, but I'll take it! Both girls looks great! Let us know what you think in the comments!

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  1. "Fan Service"

    Atleast they are self-aware.

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  2. Like I said in twitter about FAN SERVICE SKILLS, they're no longer shy to admit it, it's like the success they got recently for the game made them think this is what will people like since they already liked it,i don't hate or have a problem with the alts but i myself like everyone prefer the OG characters, it's not fair for some fans to wait so much for their favourite characters to shows up while others enjoy their favourite and their favourite's alts

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  3. Dunno if I want them or not, considering that I got Zinogre Iris recently.

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  4. I miss when Mega Man was about Mega Man.

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    2. We arent allowed to critisize, only consume in this, the darkest timeline.

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    3. Honestly, we have the whole community for this, might as well consider Mega Man X Corrupted as a canonical entry and move on, I'm way more hyped for fangames than whatever Capcom can make nowadays.
      It's now our responsability to make the Megaman canon ourselves.

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    4. Y'all are just overdramatising at this point.

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    5. @Anon
      XCorrupted can't be considered a canonical entry if it stays in devhell forever
      it's better than XDive, though

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    7. @Sprite Recreator

      As much as I hate to admit it, its true, it will take some time, but I'm pretty sure Corrupted will be out before anything related to a real Megaman game comes out. By real game, I mean not a gacha crap.

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    8. You'd rather have something like Fully Charged? Ya know, the ONLY media that came out in the darkest hour of the series?

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    9. @Austin Reed

      Mind you, the only media that came out in AMERICA in the darkest hours.
      Japan was filled with pure merchandising and VR games, I honestly would have loved that instead of receiving virtual drugs.

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  5. RiCO be lookin' like Sayaka Maizono.

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  6. "Her second active skill is Fan Service […]"

    Looking at those short skirts, it seems like their passive skills are Fan Service, too. Haw haw haw haw– I'm sorry.

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  7. This title should be called Rockman FAP!!

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  8. ...ok, this is now bothersome.

    I get that's the target audience, but MAN this just... doesn't feel like megaman anymore.

    You could argue they are designed based on, like, the zx saga but.. these idols barely feels like they belong on a megaman game at all.

    I know i used to say that it wasn't so bad but now i'm raising eyebrows (although tbf i was already raising eyebrows with how much "sexualized" are all the classic roll variants.


    Capcom, please do tell me if this will ever result on an actual new game for the franchise in general? I'm not even asking for an x9, just... something.

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    1. The more people that realize Gacha is bad, not just for Mega Man but in general, the better.

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    3. Why in this day and age are we still acting like all creative teams within a company are one and the same? The team working on X Dive has nothing to do with the main series. That they are still bothering with this tiresome fanservice is one thing, but it has nothing to do with the main series being idle as of now.

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    4. Any dev team working on something like this is not working on something better.

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    6. The main issue here is that, even if it was a side thing, it would be awesome to have, however we have this "side" things that mostly appeals to corporate mass profits, and ludopath breeders rather than an actual game.

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  9. Yeesh this is starting to get more and more cringey! I try my best not to complain on here but...
    wow, this really does feel like a "fall from grace" moment. Could we at least compensate by getting
    Sigma in a speedo? That would make things feel a tad more "balanced" in my opinion.

    Sure, there have been small moments of "fan service" from older games - but they were never so
    in your face like how things look now.

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    1. If they don't make Swimsuit Sigma and Swimsuit Zero this summer, I won't play the game anymore.

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    2. I am a Sigma aficionado but I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe if it's like boxers or something. Nothing ridiculous.

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  10. How about some male fan service? Where is my swimsuit X? This wouldn't bother me so much if the blatant fan service in this game were equal between male and female characters. It's 2022, get with the times, Capcom.

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    1. Please no, I would much rather Capcom not get with the times in this regard.

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    2. So, it's okay for female characters to be nothing but fan service, but not a male character?

      They do need to get with the times. Either they stop with the blatant fan service or do it for the males, cuz no matter how you slice it it's unfair.

      It's 2022. Sexualization of female characters should've been done with ages ago.

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    3. I'll take the stop blatant fan service option please.

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    4. Honestly, yeah. I'm a male and this girl fanserivce is getting boring. Lets see X and Zero in swimsuit or better yet, Sigma in bikini. That would be one hell of a banner to pull on.

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    5. There are worse things to me than being "boring", Sigma in a bikini is one of them, I don't need to be shock by weirdo "progressive" modern headline banners, the internet is essentially nothing but that nowadays. I can find that anywhere else.

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    6. to the comment above, I was joking. I couldnt careless about Sigma in bikini. It would be hilarious but I dont really care either way. I've stopped playing this game for a while and probably will never touch it again so whatever.

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  11. Sure do enjoy watching the people of this site freak out everytime there's Xdive news. Lol without this game or smash, Megaman would fade into history. Some series don't even have a mobile game lol.

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    1. Yeah, ok.

      If your given a plate of poo to eat, the better choice is to eat nothing. It's ultimately better for you.

      Its equally interesting watching every random consumer pop on and try to defend this thing as though its somehow progress.

      You'll learn. Sooner or later.

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    3. Just got an Asus ROG G15 motherboard and case with an i7-11700KF then an off the shelf Gigabyte OC edition 3060ti both at and below MSRP, came with 16gigs of 3200MHz ram which I upgraded to 32gigs. It cost about 1200$ in total.

      So I am good for now, PC gaming is great and I think where the future of games are headed. That said, it is not practical for most people at this moment in time, at least for a decent setup+.

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    5. Yeah that is a big point of contention with the 3060, memory interface at 192-bit makes it so it could never take advantage of its 12gigs of V-RAM among other things (like the drastically reduced Cores).

      The 3060ti is on spec with the 3070, with marginally less Cuda Cores 3070 at 5888 and 60ti at 4864, my particular model of 3060ti even operates at a higher clock speed than a founders edition 3070. Point is the have the same memory interface at 256-bit 8gigs at GDDR6.

      The 3060ti also outperforms and is higher spec than the entire 20 series line save for 2080ti(the peak) with the same max V-RAM and type, more CUDA Cores (by a good margin), better clocks speeds, equivalent memory interface and bandwidth and most importantly better real environment testing performance at lower energy draw. It also has more modern ray tracing cores, tensor cores, and architecture (Ampere) along with better DLSS and other game changing AI performance enhancing tech. Point is I did my research before buying and it definitely isn't a slouch and is more than capable of handling the vast majority of modern gaming needs (and wants)(1440p high settings). It is essentially the perfect baseline for today's high end games especially since devs are aiming for that baseline due to the current situation. The 3070 is a little extra (1440p, ultra light), ti a little more so than that (light 4k), 3080 is premium (ultra mid 4k), ti is deluxe (same but slightly better performance) and 3090 straight up a halo card not even really meant for consuming and gaming.

      All that is to say I will eventually like you upgrade to a 3080 but nowhere near what it is currently going for in the current market right now, and I am fine with that because my GPU is fine. Others won't be so lucky though cause the 3060ti goes for 800+ generally right now (which is definitely not ideal) especially if you still have to factor in other components to buy along with it. But then again like you said some others are that lucky, it just depends.

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    7. Yeah I will check out the links, and like you I do not own 4k and above displays but also I don't feel the need to since I am not a resolution junkie. That said future proofing is trickier now due to the shift to the emerging prominence of software acceleration, don't get me wrong hardware will still be a thing but the implementation of compatible software will also be more of a thing. This is why I believe AMD is making a mistake in pushing raw hardware technical specs and Intel and Nvidia are innovating where the tech will go moving forward. AMD now realizes this but is now playing catchup and is trying to implement backwards compatible software not specifically tailored to the device on a hardware level.

      All this is to say, I have no idea what breakthroughs will happen in the innovation department, so future proofing is not as simple now as more cores, or clock speeds, etc it's more like what you alluded to, the type of cores and such.

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  12. Obviously this is now a dying discussion until the next XDive article but…honestly I was joking about the “Sigma in a Speedo” remark - I don’t want ANY character, male or female, in that kind of outfit. That being said, I really do wish we would get more swim ware for the guys. Seriously, are you telling me the only characters that want to hit the waves are Roll, Alia, Pallette and Layer? Unless they did cover the guys and I just missed it?

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