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Anyone planning to begin playing Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls the moment it arrives may want to reconsider their schedule.
What time does Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls release?Can you play Marvel Tōkon early?What platforms is Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on?Arc System Works’ Marvel fighter is not receiving a rolling midnight release. Instead, it will unlock simultaneously around the world, so that works out at 8am PDT, 11am EDT and 4pm BST on Thursday, August 6, depending on where you are when you look out of your window.
In other words, staying awake until midnight on Wednesday will not accomplish much beyond making you sleepy before the game actually launches, so get to bed.
What time does Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls release?Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls releases at 11am EDT on August 6 for players on the US East Coast. Those on the West Coast can begin playing three hours earlier at 8am PDT. UK players will need to wait until 4pm BST to get cracking..
Here is the full regional schedule:
RegionMarvel Tōkon release timeUS Pacific – PDT8am, August 6US Mountain – MDT9am, August 6US Central – CDT10am, August 6US Eastern – EDT11am, August 6Brazil – BRT12pm, August 6United Kingdom – BST4pm, August 6Central Europe – CEST5pm, August 6South Africa – SAST5pm, August 6India – IST8:30pm, August 6Singapore – SGT11pm, August 6Japan – JST12am, August 7South Korea – KST12am, August 7Australia East – AEST1am, August 7New Zealand – NZST3am, August 7The August 7 date shown for Japan, South Korea, eastern Australia and New Zealand does not indicate a delayed launch. The game releases at the same moment worldwide, but the international date line and regional time differences push it into Friday morning in those countries.
Can you play Marvel Tōkon early?There is no advertised early-access period for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls.
All three editions are due to unlock together, so purchasing the Digital Deluxe or Ultimate Edition will not let players begin fighting ahead of the Standard Edition crowd.
The premium versions provide additional content instead. The Digital Deluxe Edition includes the Year 1 Characters and Stage Pass, containing four post-launch characters and one stage, alongside Howard the Duck and Cosmo lobby cosmetics.
The Ultimate Edition includes that content along with five additional costumes and an animated Chromatic color option for the game’s 20 launch characters.
What platforms is Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on?Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls launches for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. The PC version will be sold through Steam, while no Xbox Series X|S or Nintendo Switch edition has been announced.
The game comes from Arc System Works, the studio behind Guilty Gear Strive and Dragon Ball FighterZ, and swaps the traditional one-on-one setup for 4v4 tag-team battles.
Its launch roster contains 20 Marvel heroes and villains divided into five teams, with Spider-Man, Wolverine, Storm, Iron Man, Doctor Doom, Deadpool, Loki and Ghost Rider among the available characters.
Alongside local and online fights, Marvel Tōkon includes a single-player Episode Mode presented through fully voiced motion comics. Its online lobbies can also hold up to 64 players, who can meet, customise avatars and arrange matches.
Just do not expect to start any of that at midnight. Unless you live in Japan, Korea or parts of Australia, in which case midnight is almost exactly when the fight begins.
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