Back in July 2012, I reached out to the community seeking volunteers for Character Specialists. I'm now pleased to announce that this effort has been revived and is ready to roll out under the new branding of Content Manager.

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A New Name

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The main reason behind renaming "Character Specialist" to "Content Manager" was that the term specialist carried with it an unwanted meaning or status. Most dedicated players want to consider themselves as a specialist of sorts, so it didn't make sense to label certain individuals who were managing VFDC content for a character as a specialist. Afterall, one doesn't have to be an expert with their character in order to do an effective job of soliciting, collating and recording the great info that's out there already posted, or in people's heads. Strictly speaking, this person will be responsible for managing character content within official VFDC resources, so "Content Manager" describes the role perfectly.

Phase 1 - Combo Lists

The first phase in rolling out Content Managers involves enabling them to update the VFDC Combo Lists for Final Showdown (Ver.A). A lot of great work has already been undertaken in the combo department, found scattered in many character specific threads. It is hoped that these can be consolidated into the VFDC Combo Lists, making it easier for everyone to reference in future.

Combo List Updates

In preparation for the above, I've made a couple of updates to the Combo List that are worth a quick mention. Firstly, the Filter system has been revamped and introduces a new option to filter for combos Versus a specific (or all) characters:


Selecting "All" will show combos that work against all characters - making it ideal to find those basic combos that just work on everyone. Selecting a specific character will show all combos that work on that character. By using this filter, then clicking on the Damage column to sort, you can easily find maximum damage combos for a particular character.

The remaining updates to the Combo List are purely cosmetic. Firstly, the button icons have been cleaned up (long overdue, believe me!) and here's a quick comparison.

Before:


After:


And finally, I've changed the colour code for the Normal Hit indicator from Orange to Green. Without getting too much into the psychology of colours, I felt that the Normal Hit colour needed to be cooler than the Counter Hit colour.

Before:


After:

Who are the Content Managers?

The Content Managers have already been selected, and will be announced over the next couple of days. Given that it's been a number of months since the final selection was made, I will go through a process of privately engaging with each person to see if they're still interested in the role.

Going forward, you'll be able to identify Content Managers with an appropriately named banner appearing under their avatar.

Wiki (Preview)

After re-writing hundreds of lines of code for the Combo Lists (for the geeks out there, the majority of it re-written in Object Oriented) I can now turn my attention back to the Wiki. The intent is to allow the Content Managers to also maintain the Character pages in the wiki, but before that can happen, some more work needs to be done.

For now, here's a preview of some of the Wiki work that has been completed to date:


This is the System section of the wiki, now divided into unique sections. Below is a preview of the Throw Escapes section:

Final Word

That about wraps up this announcement. Remember, the Content Managers will be announced over the next few days and hopefully we'll start seeing the Combo Lists come to life! Thanks for your patience, and I look forward to sharing more cool things with you soon!