I saw those rumors as well, but it only came from files in-game and changing the aleister black entrance template to his name; I wouldn't call that a lot to go on. It could be them simply laying groundwork while working on 2K26. I would certainly like for that to be the case however.
Correction: It's not just the phoenix 630, its all diving moves that aren't splashes. That bug again, back. Save for a couple outliers, including the new moonstomp.
I can't imagine they'd want to go through the effort of animating a chain weapon just for his entrance, especially considering it's probably a one and done for Abyss in the game; probably a lot of effort if I remember certain classes I took way back in the day correctly. Can't really blame em if that's the reason.
This has started happening to this specific CAWs alternate attire since the last patch, and I cannot for the life of me figure out whats triggering it.
Just realized the audio edit I made never actually went through. Most moves that had bad sound effects have been fixed, minus one or two that seem to have gotten skipped; still awesome to see. Hopefully a lot of the slow motion moves are next.