Shakunetsu

Seeing random people mention Evil Canadian will never stop being weird/hype.
 

Highland video explaining the system mechanics:
 
 

Bold of you to think I know or pay attention to anything.
 
All I do is push random buttons and arbitrarily DP/flash kick...and it breaks people.
 
🙂
 
I don't see why anyone would complain about the crack, especially people who have been in the scene a long time.
 
Are people just forgetting how Japan got many games up to a YEAR earlier than the US?  During the SF4 days all of North America had to rely on a few cabs in SoCal and like 4 cabs in NYC.  Japan basically played for an entire year before the US even got a chance to play the console release.  For older games the time and knowledge gap was even worse since there wasn't nearly as much easily accessible and reliable info on the internet, and sometimes the US never even got games at all.
 
Shit will sort itself out in two months after release anyway.  These days people learn and share tech so fast any knowledge gap closes very quickly.
 
People are losing their minds but let's be real - FG competitive scene has never been 'fair' and it doesn't even matter.  The only people who will be able to rise to the top will be the ones who grind a ton anyway, with or without a head start.

video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Csju0weJM5x/

Gief has almost SF2 level SPD damage. I still remember in SF2:WW, two Fierce SPDs would KO you. In SF6 it's  only takes three. Itazan, Kichipa-Mu and Snake Eyes gonna eat well. 

At least he still has this guy
 

Too real lmao

Ryu has a throw loop, he was the closest thing to a grappler this beta. 🤣
 
As for my impressions...
 
First things first. The netcode is good.
 
I played pretty much everyone, the matches were playable, and I honestly suspect that my setup is what made it laggy for me. Misterbee actually called me out because I was talking about it and he was like "It's 1f delay with 150 ping, wtf are you complaining about?" For a Rio-NYC connection, that's actually kind of absurd. The only one that I didn't have a good connection with was @Counterstrike
 
The game itself is really nice, I pretty much hate most of the Drive mechanics, especially Drive Impact because it's so damn unintuitive to counter now that I haven't played SF4 for over a damn decade now. No armor break specials suuuuuuuuuck.
 
I played Ken and Ryu. 
 
Ryu feels the best he's been in a loooong time. It's actually unsettling to actually have offensive options with him after SFV. They did take out a lot of stuff I used with him though, playing him felt like writing with my left hand. Throw loops are life. I'm 100% not playing him if I can help it tho.
 
Ken feels weird and is kind of a regression compared to SFV when it comes to his specials. Vhozite plays a lot better than me so he can get into better detail why like he did in another post. The Tatsu regression is probably the worst IMO. His new specials are alright, but I'll need some practice to get them down, EX Dragon Lash is great.
St. HK is damn near useless. St. MK covers the exact same range but it's a lot safer in general. I can't cancel Cr. MK into Jinrai to save my life, Lost a bunch of matches trying to stuff Impact with Jinrai and it got bonked too. There's definitely something I gotta iron out in my setup. His lv. 1 is kind of a bust. The range is just too short, he kicks too high, I hate it.
 
The cool thing about both of them is that they're clearly going to be wildly different from Akuma. Ken's new Shippu Kicks are great to differentiate him on offense, though the EX follow-up shouldn't have been locked to EX.
 
I like that they did not have any Grapplers in this beta. That means they won't be nerfed before release. 
 
The cabs need a little more streamlining. Having to manually spectate every match sucks. Training mode is absurdly good, you even got presets for AA practicing and everything. Can't wait to get my hands on the full cast, but I'll have to since I only get paid on the 10th 🤣
 
The character creator is overwhelming, that thing is C R A Z Y.  I had a good time with the game in general.
 

Hawkingbird on 6/2/23

Here's some important bits:







Tried to get as clear as possible but you can see many characters and alts,

First pic: Damn'd and what looks like Retsu Alt at the bottom left. Guile and Manon Alts in the middle left.

Second pic: AKI, JP, and Akuma alts are visible. JP in trench coat and traditional Nayshall outfit.

Third: Another Akuma Alt is seen and the bottom half of Rashid.

Yoooo Marisa alt outfits. Urien suit and Greek hoplite helmet hair. And double boob window pog.
 

Red Bull wants some of that Street Fighter SEX spotlight!

I figured at the end of the quiz you'd get this....

I'll catch up on the SF6 comic later. I finally got my hands on the Sagat graphic novel.
 
I will admit I was skeptical on what the quality was going to be given how Udon is typically WAY more of a miss than a hit the last decade and change, but WOW this book was stellar! Apart from clearly paying more attention to providing a narrative that fit Sagat's background, they did  their homework when it came to Thailand's political situation and used that to provide an avenue to how Sagat became Bison's right hand man, even having the book double as a Shadaloo origin story detailing Bison's early years as a weapons merchant and using his psycho power to free Sagat from prison (SF2V homage) and even influence him subtlely to explain why Sagat has no pupils?
 
The way they present Nuakhan was also impressive, making him the Akuma to Sagat's Ryu as a despotic village tyrant  that later became a pawn of the corrupt Thai regime which Shadaloo helped bring down and thus inspire the loyalty of the people when making Thailand their base of operations. The pre-SF1 tournament featuring famous old people/mentors/teachers like Zeku and Arroyo was also fun, and I especially liked how they presented Sheng Long as a braggart who takes credit for other people's accomplishments like Ace from The Quick & the Dead.
 
Overall a MUCH better outing for Udon than their Unlimited series and the Akuma origins. 8/10!

Hong Kong flag censored in the SF6 beta SSF2T machine....
Capcom is doing it since 1993...
 
 

MK8 was supposed to happen then it took a turn and became MKvDC. People were calling it MK8 for a while.

 

I'm missing something here.
If MK9 to MK11 is the reboot trilogy, and MK1 (not the new one, the old one) to MK7 (Armageddon) is the original series, where is MK8?
 
Do they count the MKvsDC one as a main game of the series?

This isn’t completely accurate because Fire God Liu Kang originates from the second timeline. His existence in the third new timeline by default makes it a continuation. For all other characters it is a new universe, but for him it is the sequel. 

I had a tendency to wear a lot of black polo shirts when I was younger. People started thinking I was security at the club. So you know what I did? Stopped wearing black polo shirts to the club. I was decent sized dude with a resting scowl on my face, so I could understand the mistake. I didn't put on a vest or some other dumb shit over the black polo. I just wore a different color to club.