"Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement, Pre-, & Post-Release Discussion Thread

[FortuneSSJ]

Talking about the intro, I love how they give us Ultimate Gohan vs Goku Black. As much as I loved the arc, that matchup would be more interesting than Good Goku vs Evil Goku again.

Late to the party, but I would just like to say that the opening for me was very disappointing, not the animation, visually it's very good (though, I think they should've put Gogeta and Vegetto), but the music...

I agree. Both the visuals and music are great, but they cleary don't fit together. Wish they had hired Kageyama to sing something new

[Mr Baggins]

Don't mind me, just posting some goofy teams I came up with.

Super Saiyan Sentai:

Spoiler:

(I made a custom battle episode based on the Super Saiyan Sentai concept called "The Power Saiyans" and uploaded it online. The search ID is 1-747-698-971. Check it out if you're interested!)

Brainwashed Rivals:

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Gold & Silver:

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King of the Space Pirates:

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Demon Boiz:

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Don't talk to me or my son ever again:

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Ice Cold Family:

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Goku's Frienemies:

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Park Rangers:

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Instinct and Ego:

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Mean Green Machines:

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I'm having way too much fun creating a bunch of dumb what-if scenarios in this game and playing them out, lol.

[Koitsukai]

Not sure if it's true, but I've heard one of the DLCs might be a Martial Arts Pack... as in Dragonball characters.

[Bardock God of Time]

Hoping future DLCs add more to character story modes

They could add all the movie stories to Goku's story, have there be a diverging path from the first part of Goku's story leading to all of the movie's he's in. A movie DLC pack could add a few more movie henchmen too.

Gohan would probably be the other character to get movie stories because Bojack & Broly 2nd Coming

Speaking of, I think the DLC would be a good way to pad out other character's stories or add new characters like Krillin.

A Krillin DLC could add characters that Krillin faced throughout the series and some new what if's for Krillin: they could add Bacterian, maybe Kid Krillin beats Tamboruine in a what if, you could add Majora from the Tournament of Power

Not sure if it's true, but I've heard one of the DLCs might be a Martial Arts Pack... as in Dragonball characters.

"It comes with a steam product key, PS5 and Xbox code that when used, gives the Martial Arts pack that some people have been talking about. No, it's not an OG Dragon Ball dlc or anything of the sort. It merely gives early unlocks to Bardock, Future Gohan, Future Gohan SSJ, Bardock's Z costume and an ability item called "Super Sparking!". Here's a picture of what appeared in my main menu after using the code."

[Hellspawn28]

How to improve custom battles:

- Voice acting. It feels so boring not to hear characters speak their lines. Bandai Namco is too lazy to pay their voice actors.

- The capacity to connect fights to one another to tell larger stories and to connect them to other conflicts to provide a "what-if" atmosphere.

- The capacity to add clothing that any character can wear, rather than being limited to the preset clothing possibilities. For example, Piccolo can have Cell Games armor like Goku and Vegeta does.

- More cinematics to make battles feel more epic.

[SelfTrainedNamekian]

A random nitpick but Jiren's wish is incredibly disappointing as it doesn't make sense with the anime. He clearly stated he was looking for something beyond strength, and it was a wish he had *prior* to the ToP. I don't see why anime Jiren would ask for the other universes to be revived. He had no respect for most of the fighters. Vegeta had to earn it by defeating Toppo, who Jiren also lectured for losing. He didn't even care for the other Pride Troopers. His defeat against Goku/Frieza was what made him start to believe in others to begin with.

It's hard to blame them given how ridiculously ambiguous Toei was about it, as it was never stated and only hinted at by Toppo and 17, but it's still a shame they went the lazy route with what is supposed to be a what-if, specially compared to Vegeta and Gohan's.

Trunks thinking his Super version is an Android is unintentionally funny because of the different hair colors tho. Therr are some interesting dialogues, like Broly wanting to learn Ultra Instinct.

i'm probably not imagining that they use manga content on this game. regular zamasu has the move where he throws the katchin cube. that was a move that fused zamasu used only in the manga.

also, in the goku's stroy where goku black and zamasu mentioning they killed all the gods in all universes, this is something from the manga. it was not stated in the anime. so its a mixed version of the manga and anime

Uh, no? Black literally stated in the anime, that he killed all the Kaioshins in episode 61. He even explained it to the three main Saiyans. It just never got any reaction from them and was revealed eaŕlier in the manga. A proof of Toei's writing of the atc if you ask me.

you got me on this one. still the katchin attack happend only in the manga

[FiReFTW]

Anyone else frustrated with so many branching options in story mode and NO CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE F*** YOU DO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF BRANCHING OPTIONS???

I managed to finish Goku's story... then went through it again and managed to do all the 3 What If sub arcs aswell...

Well guess what, my story still has A TON of branching options and for 80% of them I have no friggin clue what to do to get them, like seriously what the F***??



All those red/blue are completed... and all those white dots are uncompleted, and mind you I did the WHOLE STORY and ALL 3 what if sub arcs....

[Trouser]

Well, the "what-ifs" are silly, I'm not a fan.

Mods are coming! Most of them are crap for now, but there's one that opens other maps for offline player vs player matches. If mods could do it, then it's just PURE LAZINESS on the developers part.

[FiReFTW]

Well, the "what-ifs" are silly, I'm not a fan.

Mods are coming! Most of them are crap for now, but there's one that opens other maps for offline player vs player matches. If mods could do it, then it's just PURE LAZINESS on the developers part.

Its not laziness its because of consoles... remember its on many different platforms, they didn't do it because of performance issues on those devices... because a complex stage requires more power... obviously its easy to do and I think the modders will implement it easily...

I hope they implement a different UI lol, for main menu for character select etc..

[Trouser]

Well, the "what-ifs" are silly, I'm not a fan.

Mods are coming! Most of them are crap for now, but there's one that opens other maps for offline player vs player matches. If mods could do it, then it's just PURE LAZINESS on the developers part.

Its not laziness its because of consoles... remember its on many different platforms, they didn't do it because of performance issues on those devices... because a complex stage requires more power... obviously its easy to do and I think the modders will implement it easily...

I hope they implement a different UI lol, for main menu for character select etc..

Offline matches requeire more power? Explain it to me, becuase other games could do it right and only SZ have issues on that part.

[Hellspawn28]

Does Garlic Jr have any special intros with the other characters like Zamasu?

[TechExpert2021]

Why is the name "Saibaman" still used? One user in another thread claims it was corrected to "Saibaiman". How come it was reverted back to "Saibaman" at the last minute?

[TechExpert2021]

The heavens have now broken!

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is released today worldwide!

[Koitsukai]

Don't mind me, just posting some goofy teams I came up with.

Super Saiyan Sentai:

Spoiler:

(I made a custom battle episode based on the Super Saiyan Sentai concept called "The Power Saiyans" and uploaded it online. The search ID is 1-747-698-971. Check it out if you're interested!)

Brainwashed Rivals:

Spoiler:

Gold & Silver:

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King of the Space Pirates:

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Demon Boiz:

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Don't talk to me or my son ever again:

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Ice Cold Family:

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Goku's Frienemies:

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Park Rangers:

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Instinct and Ego:

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Mean Green Machines:

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I'm having way too much fun creating a bunch of dumb what-if scenarios in this game and playing them out, lol.

Cool teams!

I'll go Versus Thread mode and throw in one that could beat each one:
SSS team: Beast Gohan
Brainwashed Rivals: SS4 Goku
G&S: SS Broly
King of Space Pirates: Janemba
Demon Boiz: Ultimate Gohan(barely) or Super Vegito
Don't talk to me or my son ever again: FPSS Broly
Ice Cold Family: SSG Goku
Son's Frenemies: Son Goku
Park Rangers: Saganbo Toppo
Instinct and Ego: BT3 Kid Buu
GMM: Gogeta Blue

I do have a question, I tried to do some Z Broly movie Custom Battle but I only have like 15 characters to choose from and none of them are from the movies, Z Broly is not on that list and he is already unlocked from the start. Is it because I haven't unlocked all the characters nor passed all the story modes?
Or are most of these teams not from CB mode and are from regular Battle mode?

Or is it my bad and the full roster isn't available for Custom Battles?

[Gt91]

DLC roadmap?

https://twitter.com/DbsHype/status/1844530170805236107

[FiReFTW]

Well, the "what-ifs" are silly, I'm not a fan.

Mods are coming! Most of them are crap for now, but there's one that opens other maps for offline player vs player matches. If mods could do it, then it's just PURE LAZINESS on the developers part.

Its not laziness its because of consoles... remember its on many different platforms, they didn't do it because of performance issues on those devices... because a complex stage requires more power... obviously its easy to do and I think the modders will implement it easily...

I hope they implement a different UI lol, for main menu for character select etc..

Offline matches requeire more power? Explain it to me, becuase other games could do it right and only SZ have issues on that part.

We have very detailed stages with destruction etc.... if its on one screen it means less performance requirement... if its on two screens for example split screen it means more performance required to run smooth.

Since Sparking Zero is released on many different consoles, they have to make sure it will run smooth without any frame issues or problems...

In this case I believe the problem is the Xbox S which would likely not run as smooth on all maps apart from very simple ones like hyperbolic time chamber if on split screen, hence why they only added this map for split screen.

You can thank Xbox S

[TobyS]

Anyone know where I can see a list of all the what ifs? As new content it's the only part that interests me.

[Mr Baggins]

Or is it my bad and the full roster isn't available for Custom Battles?

The full roster that you've unlocked should definitely be available for Custom Battle. Just make sure you choose "Normal Edit" for the mode, as I believe Simple Edit and Copy Edit are way more limited.

[Koitsukai]

Ohhhhh yes, yes, thanks, I was choosing Simple Edit. Saved my weekend, thank you.

[Rinsankajugin]

DLC roadmap?

https://twitter.com/DbsHype/status/1844530170805236107

Interesting, I thought for sure Superhero would be the one with two DLC packs. Though I guess this makes more sense, Daima is a series after all. I do wonder how the amount of characters will be distributed between the 3 packs, because I don't see the season pass exceeding 24 characters.