Arc System Works has announced that the next Guilty Gear Strive DLC character and stage, initially planned for a March 2023 release, have now been delayed to “early April” for additional refinement and polishing.
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Important Notice:
The release of Additional Character #8 and Additional Stage #3, originally planned for March, will be delayed to early April in order to provide the best quality possible.
We apologize to everyone looking forward to the release. Thank you for your understanding. pic.twitter.com/YeO3oqyCLF— ArcSystemWorks (@ArcSystemWorksU) February 9, 2023
Since Guilty Gear Strive first launched in June 2021, seven additional characters and two additional stages have been added to the game as DLC. The previous new stage “White House Reborn” dropped in March last year, while the game’s seventh DLC character Sin Kiske returned to Guilty Gear Strive in November.
The game’s Season 2 roadmap released during EVO 2022 in August revealed two new characters and stages planned for 2023, but Arc System Works has now announced that both the first 2023 character and stage are being delayed from a March release to an “early April” window. The developer attributes this delay to wanting to “provide the best quality possible” with the new content. It has not revealed whether the rest of the 2023 content roadmap will be affected or not.
Guilty Gear Strive is available now on PC, PS5, and PS4, and is slated for an Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S release in Q2 2023.