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9 minutes ago, Illwill88 said:

Managed to scrub my way to floor 8. Probably just gonna play casual for awhile I need to get better at doing  Kara 6k stuff on the p2 side or I'm not going to get anywhere. 

 

Finally played a may who I'm pretty sure was a Smurf account since they were only like level 5 and got absolutely shit on lol.  I- no,ky, and ram seem to be my hardest matchups right now

You playing Pot?  James Chen has the same problem doing Kara Pot buster on P2 side.  He was raging against Ultradavid's Axl yesterday lol.  

46 minutes ago, Volta said:

I'm on pad right now and timing the upward diagonal and then doing the 236 is a pain in the ass mid-combo. Granted, my execution sucks, but you better be willing to grind training mode a lot if you want to pull it off consistently. 

TK bomber is fun to do.  I was messing around with it in training mode.  I'm on stick and found the best method to do up+forward and then a fast quarter circle forward.  One of those things that I imagine would be piss easy on hitbox but is kind of a pain on other controllers.  

I want Elphelt as well.  Basically I want to play someone with a gun because these characters don't exist in SF games.  

So I guess we're getting a character this month.  Really hoping it's 

I've had trouble finding a main character in Strive - which is a rare problem for me.  Don't think it's a problem with the game - just haven't found a character I really click with yet.

1 hour ago, PussyStuffer said:

i hear this game has gdlk netcode...but a shitty roster.  opinions on its roster?

Indeed, the netcode is amazing.  The roster to me is just ok.  I think they played it safe with their inclusions.  There are a lot of cool characters that are missing from previous games but that just means there's more to look forward to with the DLC.  

Rog lives and dies by his light dash punch.  You don't really need to resort to neutral jumping all the time.  Figure out a good -4 punish in training mode.  Some characters like Sakura have it easier than others but I'm sure Rose has something.  

5 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

Funny enough I’m having the opposite experience. I’ve played like an hour this past week and I honestly haven’t missed it all that much. 
 

Idk what it is but so far every time I play I just feel like something is missing.The game is really good in so many aspects, but I haven’t found that thing that makes me excited to play. That one really cool combo or abusable tool.

Every character I’ve used so far feels so fair and it’s boring me.

 

Edit: I also straight up hate the gatlings. I swear every character has the same exact paths.

It seems the people that aren't really taking to the game are Xrd and +R players.  I'm thinking because they're missing some mechanic or gatling route from the older games.  

On the other hand the people really digging the game are strangely SF players or people who are completely new to fighting games.   Maybe that was ASW's intent 🤷‍♂️

I mean I'll take it over playing the Grid over and over.  

The way they're presenting things, I'm guessing they're going to release Oro and Akira at the same time.  

1 minute ago, Mattatsu said:

It’s all good. The info is widely out there, EC even did a video on it. I’ve just been trying my best to avoid it… I like the guessing game as anticipation

This is why I don't really like the silhouette thing.  They try to keep it a secret but it ends up getting leaked anyway.  Just tell us up front.  

3 minutes ago, Mattatsu said:

Spoiler please? 

 

Edit: not that I wasn’t expecting them but was trying to avoid that leak

My bad.  Edited my comment.  I assumed that shit was out there already.  Wasn't thinking.

2 minutes ago, Reticently said:

Yeah, Anji has some good shit but his buttons just can't get much started against other characters' buttons.  So a lot of Anji is trying to play chicken with spins, and you can only do as much of that as your opponent chooses to let you.

No joke,  I fought a decent Nago and couldn't even press a button without hearing COUNTER.  Wasn't even hitting heavy buttons.  After that I was twirling like the tasmanian devil trying to get in.    

44 minutes ago, Jocelot said:

Honestly I pretty much stopped using Anji myself. I'm going through a character crisis right now. I thought I'd be having more fun with him I guess? 

 

Ehh whatever. Maybe I'll be a Happy Chaos main if he ever drops. The dude pretty much carried story mode for me. 

Think I'm going to make the switch from Anji to Gio.  Anji just seems like he has some holes in his game, and his grounded normals aren't great for whatever reason.  The character just lacks sauce.  Gio is a bit more tilted to rushdown than I'm used to - but this game is unga and she seems great at it.  With Anji, I don't know wtf I'm supposed to be doing half the time while Gio has a clear game plan - get into the opponents face and abuse throws/plus frames.  

10 minutes ago, Maravilla said:

What happened with samsho? Gbvs?mk11? Did they ever take off? 

Can't speak for MK11 but Samsho and GBVS both have underwater netcode. And that definitely doesn't help the scene when offline isn't an option.  Both are fun games though.  

Eventhubs thinks it's a good idea to do 4 balance patches a year......

What happened to letting games breathe.   Once a year at most for me is the correct number.  

8 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

And i still hate it, both in gameplay and everything else, outside graphics.

Hell, i would even say that i hate a lot of redesigns since they lost the Metal/Fantasy blend the series had in order to be palatable to westerners that dont like Anime and GG.

What if they add your favourite waifu?

9 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

I haven’t gotten any one and fines like that but I got a couple rage plug pulls tonight. One Sol and one Ky that had connection issues the instant they lost lol

I haven't gotten any ragequits which has been nice.  The beginning of SFV was nuts in comparison.

I like how one and doneing someone makes you look like a bitch in this game.  Fast exit out of the rematch screen then literally running away.  

Thanks @Mattatsu.    Wanted to show this.  Ram's swords can actually fly in the wrong direction sometimes lol.  

How do you embed tweets on this site?

Not sure if it's universal (works with Gio and Anji)  but I've been using HS D jump cancel K S HS D D as my post dust combo.   

10 hours ago, Serpent said:

I wonder how Strive will affect SFV going forward, and how much Strive can maintain as well. Have we already or will we see the peak in the next week or so, or will we see growth for awhile and a real revival of FGs? It's been a looooong time since FGs were legit a major genre. It feels like everything else has gotten more moments to shine in the sun.

 

I haven't jumped on Strive but I might in the next couple of months. I just want to see if people are still playing it in 3 months.

If you're interested in Strive, I'd jump in now while everyone is still learning.  The first two months are the honeymoon phase before the population begins to taper off.  Strive will hang around longer than most though because the netcode is godlike.