Mega Man X DiVE

Mega Man X DiVE
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Game Information
Developer(s):	Capcom Taiwan
Publisher(s):	Capcom
Producer(s):	Yoda Hideto
Artist(s):	Keisuke Mizuno
Composers(s):	Yuko Komiyama
Platform(s):	Android, iOS
Release date(s):	March 24, 2020
Genre(s):	Action RPG/platformer
Mode(s):	Single player Co-op multiplayer Versus multiplayer Challenge
Media:	Digital download
Input:	Touch controls with gamepad support
Wi-Fi Compatible:	Yes

Rockman X DiVE is an action-platforming video game in the Mega Man X series developed by Capcom Taiwan for iOS and Android. While mainly focusing on the X series, DiVE features elements from across the franchise including characters, stages, enemies and abilities as the player helps RiCO and ViA fix the Deep Log.

A closed beta test was held from September 12-16, 2019, before the full game was released in Asia countries (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, & Cambodia) on March 24, 2020. . The game is confirmed to be coming to North America.

The game has been confirmed to launch on October 26, 2020 for Japan release with a new server that will be published by Capcom Mobile JP.

Story

The story occurs within the cyberspace in a place called "Deep Log", which contains game data information and the memories of the players having fun with the games. There is a Deep Log for each game and player in the world, and they have been stored and managed for decades. After all this time, corruption and other problems may cause some program errors.

The Deep Log from the Mega Man X series, administrated by RiCO, is having unknown errors that are causing data corruption. It is the job of the "Player" to repair the data and get rid of the errors in order to protect the Deep Log, using Hunter Programs to get rid of the Irregular Data.

Characters

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Some of the characters in Rockman X DiVE.

The game features a wide array of heroes and villains from the X series as well several other characters from across the franchise. At launch, longtime playable characters X, Zero, and Axl from the mainline games are joined by Alia and Pallette, previously playable in Mega Man X8, Vile, previously playable in Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, and Cinnamon, Steel Massimo, Marino and Ferham from Mega Man X: Command Mission; Cinnamon, Massimo, and Marino debuting in their first side-scrolling game and Ferham making her first playable appearance. Later, additional characters were included, such as Layer, Sigma, and Iris. Characters also have variations and skins available, such as X using different armors.

The game also included characters from other series: The original Mega Man series characters Mega Man, Proto Man, Roll, and Super Mega Man, the Mega Man Zero characters Zero (Z), Leviathan, and Ciel, the Mega Man ZX characters Aile and Pandora, and the Mega Man Legends characters Mega Man Volnutt and Tron Bonne.

Supporting characters include the Player, RiCO, ViA, and Eddie.

Gameplay

DiVE is a 2D action-platformer made with a modified engine from Mega Man Maverick Hunter X. While the gameplay is largely similar to that of a typical side-scrolling Mega Man game, certain aspects are changed in that the player can attack enemies from all angles with an optional automatic aim system (similar to that of Mega Man X7), enemies don't drop any recovery items, and rather than a character using their own primary weapons along with Maverick/Robot Master Special Weapons, one has a primary weapon and a secondary weapon, ranging from busters, close combat weapons, rifles, mortars, and sprayers. A single-stage from a mainline game is split up into five different levels with a boss at the end of each of them, i.e., the Highway Stage from Mega Man X is split up into five chapters. Each level completion will reward players' stars, which have special requirements to achieve. Additional rewards can be earned when the player managed to get a specific number of stars on each stage.

Stages

Story Stages

• Stage 1: Highway
• Stage 2: Gallery
• Stage 3: Factory
• Stage 4: Air Force
• Stage 5: Sky
• Stage 6: Floating Ruins
• Stage 7: Area Forest
• Stage 8: Military Train
• Stage 9: Cyberspace
• Stage 10: Volcano
• Stage 11: Oil Field

Co-op Stages

• Stage 1: Floating Ruins
• Stage 2: Cyberspace
• Stage 3: Area Forest
• Stage 4: Military Train
• Stage 5: Gallery
• Stage 6: Oil Field
• Stage 7: Factory
• Stage 8: Bio Laboratory
• Stage 9: Sky

Miscellaneous

• Jakob Orbital Elevator (Jabok Orbital Elevator Challenge Mode)
• Gateway (Boss Rush Event)
• Area H (3v3 only, removed before release)

Items

Rank	Lv	Material	Uses	Release Date
File:D.png	1	Trial Production	Research Lab 1 Unlock Skill 1 Analyze Lv1	March 24, 2020
File:C.png	2	Prototype	Research Lab 2 Unlock Skill 2 Analyze Lv1/2	March 24, 2020
File:C.png	3	Basic	Research Lab 2 Unlock Skill 3 Analyze Lv2/3 Backup	March 24, 2020
File:B.png	4	Modified	Research Lab 3 Unlock Skill 4 Analyze Lv3/4 Backup	March 24, 2020
File:B.png	5	Smart	Research Lab 3 Unlock Skill 5 Analyze Lv4/5 Backup	March 24, 2020
File:A.png	6	Precision	Research Lab 4 Unlock Skill 6 Analyze Lv5 Backup	March 24, 2020 Obtainable: May 14, 2020
File:A.png	7	High Performance	Research Lab 5 Backup	July 10, 2020
File:A.png	8	Evolved	Research Lab 6 Backup	September 22, 2020

Cards

Rank	Lv	Material	Uses	Release Date
File:C.png	1	Ore	Research Lab 4 Research Lab 5 Research Lab 6	October 14, 2020
File:B.png	2	Crystal	Research Lab 6	October 14, 2020 Obtainable: TBA

Weapons

Multiple weapons are available for Hunter Programs, which are divided into five categories: Busters, Close Range Weapons (mainly Sabers), Machine Guns, Sprayers, and Cannons.

Chips

Some bosses and sub-bosses have Chips that can be equipped on a weapon to allow it to use a skill from the boss alongside the weapon's attack.

Rank	Boss	Chip	Applicable weapons	Release Date
File:B.png	Maoh the Giant	Iron Ball Impact	Ranged weapons	March 24, 2020
File:B.png	Mega Scorpio	Electric Current Spiral Blade	Close Range Weapons	March 24, 2020
File:B.png	Gigantic Mechaniloid CF-0	Steel Armor	All weapons	March 24, 2020
File:A.png	Chill Penguin	Shotgun Ice	Busters	March 24, 2020
File:A.png	Overdrive Ostrich	Sonic Slicer	Machine Guns	March 24, 2020
File:A.png	Sting Chameleon	Transparency	All weapons	May 7, 2020
File:A.png	Mad Nautilus	Electronic Virus	Sprayers	June 11, 2020
File:A.png	Storm Eagle	Storm Tornado	Cannons	April 23, 2020 Obtainable: TBA
File:A.png	Boomerang Kuwanger	Boomerang Cutter	All weapons	June 18, 2020 Obtainable: TBA
File:A.png	Bit	Bind Ring	Busters	July 10, 2020
File:A.png	Toxic Seahorse	Corrosion	Machine Guns	August 6, 2020
File:A.png	Magma Dragoon	Flame round	Launchers	September 22, 2020

Voice Cast

This section requires expansion.

X DiVE uses voice clips recycled from previous Rockman X games and features no new lines for returning voice actors, the only characters so far with new voice actors in their voice lines are: RiCO, Iris and Ciel.

Lines recycled are from:

• X7: Axl, Alia, Zero, Black Zero, Awakened Zero
• X8: Axl, Alia, Layer, Pallette, X, Zero, Black Zero, Vile (Goliath Boss), Awakened Zero
• Command Mission: X, Massimo, Marino, Ferham, Cinnamon, Ultimate Armor X (CM), Awakened Zero, Third Armor X
• Maverick Hunter X: X, Vile, Sigma
• Powered Up: Roll, Proto Man
• 11: Mega Man
• Zero: Leviathan
• Zero 3: Omega (Boss)
• Zero 4: Zero
• ZX: Aile, Pandora

Soundtrack

Like the voice cast, X DiVE borrows most of its soundtrack from other Mega Man games.

See also

• Rockman X DiVE/Translations
• Rockman X DiVE/Script
• Rockman X DiVE/Cards

Trivia

• DiVE’s story of the player going into a digital world as avatars of characters from the series to combat a threat that uses settings and enemies from older games is similar to Mega Man Xtreme’s story, where X sends an avatar of himself into the Mother Computer’s network to stop an unknown enemy from resurrecting old Mavericks.
• So far Rockman X DiVE is the franchise's game with the most "Meta" storyline. The game itself recognizes Mega Man as a game franchise, and RiCO and ViA often talks directly to the player, breaking the fourth wall.
• Although considered part of the Mega Man X/Rockman X series, Rockman X DiVE incorporates elements from other series as well.
  • Examples include Area A from Mega Man ZX and the Floating Ruins from Mega Man ZX Advent.
  • Additionally, before the game's release, it was possible to spot a screenshot of Impact Man's stage from Mega Man 11 during RiCO's introductory trailer.. The player can also see this screenshot while booting up the game for the first time. As of May 21, Classic Mega Man, Proto Man, and Roll are added to the game as well.
• Iris and Ciel are the only playable characters introduced in Rockman X DiVE thus far who do not use recycled audio.
  • Although Iris was implemented as a playable character on June 11th 2020, the plan to record new dialogue for her was delayed by complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Yūko Mizutani, Iris's original voice actress, passed away on May 17th 2016, necessitating a recast. The update notes that recorded dialogue for Iris wil be implemented at a later date. Ciel also lacks a voice as of being implemented as a playable character on August 26th 2020, with her voice recordings scheduled to be implemented at a later date.
    • The new voice actress for Iris' voice in Rockman X DiVE is from Aya Endō, being added to the game on July 9, 2020.
• Among the action/platform genre titles in the Mega Man franchise, Rockman X DiVE offers the largest roster of playable characters, with 17 characters (27 including exclusive variations of existing characters). Prior to this game, Mega Man Powered Up had the largest roster, with 11 playable characters.
• Certain English words are censored in the chat due to their offensive nature. The system will also censor some parts of the words which also results Massimo's name being censored.
• X DiVE is the first game to have several characters, such as Ferham, Iris, and Pandora, as playable characters.
  • This is also the first time Cinnamon, Massimo and Marino are playable in a 2D action-platform game.
• This is the first Mega Man X game to include characters from the classic series outside of Dr. Light and Dr. Wily.

External Links

• Rockman X DiVE official Capcom Taiwan site
• Rockman X DiVE official Facebook page
• Rockman X DiVE official Twitter (Taiwan)
• Rockman X DiVE official Capcom Japan site
• Rockman X DiVE official Twitter (Japan)

References

Mega Man X DiVE

Characters Main character The Player Supporting cast RiCO • ViA • iCO • Droitclair • Angepitoyeir • Eratoeir Other characters Eddie • Rush • Beat • Treble • Cyber-elves • Model X • Model Z • Lan Hikari • Eugene Chaud • Mayl Sakurai Hunter Programs X • Zero • Alia • Black Zero • Massimo • Axl • Ferham • Ultimate Armor X • Vile • Cinnamon Marino • Pallette • Layer • Mega Man • Proto Man • Super Mega Man • Roll • Iris • Zero (Z) • Leviathan Awakened Zero • Sigma • Ciel • Aile • Pandora • MegaMan Volnutt • Tron Bonne • Copy X • MegaMan.EXE • ProtoMan.EXE Bass.EXE • Omega • Magma Dragoon • Bass GS • Harpuia • RiCO • MegaMan Volnutt Alt. • Servbot • Roll Caskett Colonel • Iris -another- • Bass • Vile MK-II • Zero Nightmare • Rathalos Armor X • Dark MegaMan.EXE • Super Bass • Χ -kai- • DiVE Armor X Star Force Mega Man • Harp Note • Rogue • RYU • CHUN-LI • AKUMA • iCO • Dynamo • Bass XX • Roll.EXE • Fourth Armor X • Droitclair • Angepitoyeir • Gate • ViA • Gaea Armor X • Eratoeir • Nana • Bass Cross MegaMan • Dr. Light the Martial Artist Gameplay Deep Log • Cards • Deep Element • Irregular Data • Items • Script • Schedule • Stages • Weapons