THE STORY OF CONTINUUM SHIFT PICKS UP WHERE CALAMITY TRIGGER LEAVES OFF:

AD2200/Jan

A few days have passed since the reported raid by "Ragna the Bloodedge", the SS-class Librarium traitor with the highest bounty in history, alias "Grim Reaper". The 13th Hierarchical City "Kagutsuchi" forgets to celebrate New Years, as his alleged involvement in the "Mysterious Bombing" and "Huge Pentacle Sightings" becomes the talk of the town.

With the Novus Orbis Librarium offering no official explanation, the citizens voice their own theories, exaggerating and spreading rumors like wildfire. The name "Ragna the Bloodedge" is engraved in the minds of the people.

Completely indifferent to the state of the city, the silver-haired Grim Reaper grips his massive sword and quietly bides his time—waiting for the chance to achieve his true objective.

And then, the enormous "power" that has ensnared the "Grim Reaper" begins to activate...

• At least 2 new characters
• Arcade version features a "Beginner" control scheme which simplifies the controls a great deal to make pulling off moves and combos easier for beginners.  This control scheme uses 4 buttons: Normal, Heavy, Special, and Throw.

• Stages from BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger will be reworked in various ways.
• Improved character animation
• New effects and voices
• New stages will be in the game.

 There will be many, many changes made to the gameplay in Continuum Shift. Thanks to Dustloop Forum for much of this information.

• All of the original 12 characters found in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger will be rebalanced in various ways.  New moves and changes to move properties and frame data.  For information on the enormous array of changes to each character, visit their compiled list of changes here.
• Rachel will get a new Distortion Drive
• Carl Clover will get a new projectile
• Arakune will get new ways to get curse
• Ragna will get a new dive attack
• V-13 (Nu) is now known as Lambda-11
• All Astral Heats are unlocked from the beginning
  
• New HUD

GUARD PRIMER SYSTEM REPLACES THE GUARD LIBRA SYSTEM

• Guard Primer length is different for different characters (each character has a specific amount of Guard Primer charges)
• Certain moves can break through the guard, causing the Guard Primer guage to lose charges.
  
• The Guard Primer will slowly recover over time
• Once all charges in the Guard Primer are lost, that character is put into a "Guard Broken" state
• Guard Primer charges: (10 - Tager/ 06 - Hakumen, Bang, Tsubaki, Hazama/ 05 - Jin, Noel, Litchi, Arakune/ 04 - Ragna, Rachel, Taokaka, Carl, A-11)

BARRIER BURST NOW REPLACED WITH BREAK BURST

• You can now have up to 2 bursts. 

• Each character begins with 1 Break Burst. You can gain an additional Break Burst after losing a round (you can only get one such bonus).
• Using bursts no longer have a damage penalty