Guilty Gear Strive Update 1.048/1.48 Punches Out With Lucy as New DLC Character
Arc System Works has released Guilty Gear Strive update 1.48/1.048. Owners of the game can now play as new DLC character, Lucy.
The developer has also added tons of new BGM to the game. Loads of new avatars and other items have also been added. Read on to see some of the changes down below.
Guilty Gear Strive New Update Adds Lucy
General/All Modes
・Added Lucy as a playable character.
*Lucy will be available after purchasing “GGST Season Pass 4” or the “Lucy” DLC item.
・Added the following BGM:
- Opening Credits (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Written and Produced By: Akira Yamaoka
- Run to the Edge (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Written and Produced By: Marcin Przybyłowicz & P.T. Adamczyk
- Cyberwildlife Park (Cyberpunk 2077)
Written and Produced By: Marcin Przybyłowicz
- Chippin’ in (Cyberpunk 2077)
Music by David Sandström, Kristofer Steen
Lyrics by David Sandström, Dennis Lyxzén Performed by Refused
- Never Fade Away (Cyberpunk 2077)
Music by David Sandström, Kristofer Steen, P.T. Adamczyk
Lyrics by David Sandström, Dennis Lyxzén
Performed by Refused
- I Really Want to Stay at Your House
Performed by Rosa Walton
Courtesy of Transgressive Records Limited. © 2025. All rights reserved
・Added two new skin colors for lobby avatars.
・The name of the lobby avatar parts “Chaos Color” has been changed to match the other colors.
・Added a GG WORLD entry for Lucy.
・Images have been added to the entries for the following characters in GG WORLD:
- Venom, Udo, Undine, Sharon, Striper, Dizzy, Necro, Robo-Ky, Bone Biter, and Unika.
・The following new dialogue lines have been added:(Updated: Aug. 21)
– Sol’s “Taunt/Respect” lines when facing Ky, Jack-O’, Sin, Asuka, and Unika
– Sol’s “Time Out Lose” lines when facing Ky, Axl, Jack-O’, Sin, Asuka, Elphelt, Slayer, Dizzy, Unika
– Sol’s “Round Lose” lines when facing Jack-O’ and Sin
– Sol’s “Match Lose” lines when facing Ky, Sin, and Asuka
– Axl’s “Introduction Sequence” lines when facing Asuka
– Axl’s “Round Victory” and “Match Victory” lines when facing Bedman?
– Asuka’s “Match Victory” lines when facing Jack-O’, Sin, and Unika
– Asuka’s “Round Victory” and “Round Lose” lines when facing Happy Chaos
– Asuka’s “Time Out Lose” and “Taunt/Respect” lines when facing Sol
・Changed the font displayed in certain language settings to improve visibility.
Digital Figure
・Added additional content for Unika.
*The new Digital Figure items can be accessed after obtaining them via “fishing.”
Other Specific Changes
・Changed the lighting settings for characters appearing in the battle stage “Council of Three.”
・In RANKING, the following rankings have been changed to display only players whose related records have been updated at least once a month.
- Total Win Count Ranking
- Character Level Ranking
Fixes for Issues
・Fixed an issue that caused some background characters to become immobile in the battle stage “New Dawn, A Future Unfolding.”
・Fixed an issue in the “Special Move Command” mission where Unika’s special moves would not count towards completion when activated with a quick input from “Mode: Arbalest.”
・Fixed an issue in Story Mode that caused unintended visuals in some scenes.
・Fixed an issue where an unnatural visual displayed for Venom when his “Command Normal 1 (→+P)” reduced the opponent’s health to 0.
・Fixed several incorrect descriptions within the a error in the description of some Unika’s Command List items for Unika for certain language settings.
・Fixed minor text and visual performance issues.
Battle-Related
・The battle version has been updated from Ver. 4.06 to Ver. 4.07.
・Please check the details of the changes below. Some character entries include bug fixes.
Be sure to check out our previous article that confirms more Guilty Gear Strive content is coming in 2026. In addition to that, the studio is also working on another game with Sony titled Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.
Keep it locked at MP1st for more GGS updates in the near future.
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