On the Evo 2025 preventing sport match, Guilty Gear Strive developer Arc System Works revealed a primary take 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 Strive’s Season Move 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 in the gameplay trailer, under.
Time pauses as Lucy selects from quite a few Quickhacks, resembling Algorithm Malfunction, Optics Inhibition, and Power Siphon, utilizing Cyberdeck Ram in the identical restricted trend 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 shortly.
So, does Lucy mark the tip of DLC for Guilty Gear Stive? 4 years after its launch, it appears extra is to return. Arc System Works tweeted to say Guilty Gear Strive “will proceed… we look ahead to your continued assist.”
#GGST will proceed…
We look ahead to your continued assist.
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 Strive has had 3.5 million gamers since launch, and introduced Guilty Gear Strive 2.00, coming sooner or later in 2026. What meaning 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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