Some general /gbfg/ news.
First of all. Sandalphon was announced as the first character for the next group of 5 DLC fighters for GBFVS:Rising. His gimmick is having an extended moveset through element switching. This update also comes with a rebalance to the whole cast and extra rewards for character XP, though the full nature of these changes hasn't been shown yet. One change that is known so far is a universal change to DPs where hitting a character falling after a whiffed/blocked DP counts as an anti-air counterhit. Brave counter is also no longer plus, thus preventing the dumb brave counter wars that would sometimes occur after a jab gets BC'd. This update will be arriving late February. Alongside this, Beelzebub is getting a paid DLC costume and summer Zooey was announced for the next battlepass.
In actual gacha news, there's a Collab with Magister Negi Magi going on right now. There's also a lot of big updates coming in February, namely Siero training is getting expanded (so more free shit) and The Eternals are all getting buffed and reworked. These buffs are mainly to bring them up a bit and to fix some of the severely lacking ones like Anre and make them much more worth the investment. Also, one of the old Robomi events is getting added to side stories permanently.
Oh, and the Water guild war just ended. I don't play the gacha myself but I heard this one was intentionally made a step up compared to other recent guild wars due to how strong water element is nowadays. It would be better to hear firsthand takes though, so if any of you guys from the 8chan guilds are still around, or anyone else actively playing the gacha, I'd love to see some war stories about this past guild war.