Thwack, the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta is underway, and, pow, Phoenix Cyclops is coming as a post-launch DLC fighter

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' pre-launch unfastened beta has opened its doors today, July 24th. It's acceptable to tally until July 27th, truthful offers a accidental to extremity your week with immoderate superhero graps anterior to the game's afloat motorboat aboriginal adjacent month. Meanwhile, Arc System Works person revealed the archetypal combatant acceptable to get arsenic portion of Fighting Souls twelvemonth 1 batch of post-launch DLC successful autumn. It's Phoenix Cyclops.

July 24th 8AM BST / 12AM PT / 3AM ET until July 26th astatine 11:59PM PT and July 27th astatine 7:59AM BST / 2:59AM ET are the commencement and extremity times for the 72 hour-long beta, arsenic outlined by Arc System Works connected Steam. You don't request to registry oregon person a PlayStation Plus subscription to play the beta, however, you volition request an net transportation and a PlayStation account. The latter's been a talking constituent successful the tally up the game's release, since it's astir apt down the lengthy database of countries the Steam mentation of it isn't disposable to bargain in.

If you bash delve into the beta, you tin expect scraps crossed six locations featuring 15 of the 20 fighters that'll beryllium connected connection astatine launch, including the likes of Blade, Iron Man, Black Panther, and Magneto. There's besides the enactment to chill successful the unfastened lobby, commencement disconnected with a grooming combat to guarantee you've gotten to grips with the controls, and play the 3 archetypal chapters of the narrative-driven Episode Mode's Amazing Guardians storyline.

Alongside the beta's launch, Arc System Works person revealed the archetypal caller combatant acceptable to get successful Fighting Souls post-launch via DLC. Phoenix Cyclops is 1 of 4 characters coming with a caller signifier arsenic portion of the 'year one' harvest of additions penned successful for autumn, that's autumn if you're from crossed the Atlantic, this year.

"This mentation of Cyclops draws inspiration from his Phoenix Five incarnation from Avengers vs. X-Men, sporting a bold caller look infused with the fiery cosmic powerfulness of the Phoenix Force," Arc System Works shaper Takeshi Yamanaka wrote of the fighter. "In summation to almighty Optic Blasts and exceptional hand-to-hand combat abilities that specify the character, this Cyclops besides possesses the Phoenix Force, truthful expect Scott Summers to bring the heat!"

You tin drawback the beta via Fighting Souls' Steam leafage by pressing the large greenish download button.