The Japan Fighting Game Publisher’s Roundtable livestream that premiered last night dropped tons of news, including a brand new announcement forStreet Fighter V. According to the stream, there will be a two week free trial starting on August 5th. The trial will feature all 40 playable fightersfrom theChampion Edition:

And just to reiterate, a newStreet Fighter Vstream willÂpremiere this coming Wednesday(Aug. 5th) at 10 AM PT. The livestream, according to the previous Twitter status update, will reveal the future ofSFV. This includes esports news, Season V character reveals and news, and more. Hopefully we’ll get some really juicy news.

Street Fighter V: Champion Editionlaunched earlier this yearon February 14th. TheChampion Editionincluded 40 characters, 34 stages, over 200 costumes, and all the modes released so far for the title. In addition, Gill — the main villain ofStreet Fighter 3– was added to the roster either through theChampion Editionin February 2020. Seth fromStreet Fighter IValsomade his debutwith a complete redesign.

However, poor netcode continues to be a long running issue among players. Back in January a subredditor by the name ofAltimortook to fixing it on the PC side, showing that it could bedone in two days. Unfortunately the code did not work for PS4 and broke crossplay between the console and PC. Then on February 12th,Street Fighter VExecutive Producer Yoshinori Ono announced on Twitter that Capcom wasworking on a netcode adjustmentfor a later release. Six days later, that patch came out and the results have been muddled, to say the least.

Thelast big announcementforStreet Fighter Vinvolved three new fighters being added to the game: E. Honda, Lucia, and Poison. The same news also involved anapology from Valve as they accidentally leaked said characters before they could be revealed properly at EVO 2019.