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2 hours ago, Hawkingbird said:

I need to know how to properly defend in this game. Just blocking will just get you killed. FG just isn't enough for some situations. I tend to fall back on yellow RC when I have it as imo the best defensive mechanic the game gives you. It sucks when you use it at the wrong time. 

Yellow RC seems extremely important.  You can use it as a sort of Vreversal in order to save the Burst for later.  

My issue is getting a blue RC when I want a yellow, and getting a purple when I want a red lol.

1 hour ago, Jocelot said:

I am struggling with Anji ngl. But I think it's mainly still getting used to the Strive stuff. Purging old Guilty Gear habits has been.... difficult. 

 

I think my biggest issue is the butterfly. It's just FEELS so damn gimped compared to old games. I feel Millia got dealt a similar hand with her hula hoop but she at least got some new tools to make it work for the game she is trying to play, but Anji? I honestly feel they shoulda just deleted the move completely if they're just gonna make it feel so "fair".

 

I dunno, just venting. Despite the issues I'm having I'm still having fun. I just can't shake this feeling I could, I dunno, be having more fun? Fuggin' weird feeling.

 

Edit: also not saying the Butterfly needs to be exactly the same as old games to be good. It's just that it was such an important cornerstone of Anji in old games, but it feels like just another special move in this game. 

Yeah, never played +R myself but from what I gather he was all about the  butterfly oki.  In this game you're really only getting butterfly stuff off hard knockdowns from sweep and throw.

I really wish far slash comboed into Fuujin because that's a great button.  

2 hours ago, Reticently said:

Leo is like Guile and Alex did the fusion dance, and then went back to SFxT to learn a stance change from a Tekken character.

 

But I think I'm actually going to main Anji after all.  He only looks basic until you find out that his combo routes are fucking nuts.

Anji is fun but my initial thoughts are that he's a bit gimmicky compared to the other characters. My day 1 guess is that he's low tier - I haven't seen many top players using him.  I'll probably keep grinding with him though.   I found a combo that does 70% in the corner but you need to land a cr.HP starter and I haven't managed to do it once in a real match lol.  

I'm dying 🤣

22 minutes ago, TWINBLADES_SRK said:

I’m so torn on who I want to play. I’m scared of committing so Giovanna seems more my speed but Sol look super sexy and Ram looks fun too. They simplified her so I might be able to mess with her more than I did in Xrd. I was wondering about Ino but I don’t know.... her hover dash game plan was never interesting to me. Nago looks so sick aesthetically but I know my bitch ass would die in two seconds using this nigga. Ky is dry ass bread tier I’m probably never touching him. So it’s most likely Sol/Gio unless they add that super hot aryan hoe from Xrd that was never playable lmao.

 

@EvilCanadianthanks for the vid fam.

We all know you'll end up picking Millia.  

1 hour ago, KYNeo said:

That's not good,

 

.Though still hyped for this game! Anyone know size of it? I got the basic Ps4 version, so I don't even pre-load till tomorrow

That's good you can turn off some stages.  I'll just stick to the ones with no NPC's in the background.  This is probably a non-issue on PS5 (just wish I could get my hands on one).  

4 hours ago, Skort said:

So what characters are you fine people planning to learn ?  

 

I will be going for I-No and Millia.

Anji because he is the closest thing to Alpha 3 Karin.  Nago, Gio and Millia all look cool to me as well.  

1 hour ago, Skort said:

3 Days ?  isn't it on the 11th ?

 

EDIT : nevermind , i just saw you get early access if you preorder. 

You have to buy the deluxe or ultimate editions to get the game 3 days early.  Really not a fan of this - especially for fighting games where everyone wants to be playing Day 1.

Anyone know if you can switch the in-game BGM?  Love the +R soundtrack and was hoping to listen to that in-game.  

2 hours ago, BornWinner said:

Sad to hear, but it’s expected. 

Unfortunate.  Probably the game I'm most looking forward to  - but in the end it's probably for the best.  Wondering if the reason for the delay is the netcode, since SNK hasn't really worked with rollback before.  

7 hours ago, N-Tactix said:

Same. I just need Maxima, Duo Lon, Vanessa and Yamazaki back. 

Yamazaki needs to be in this for me to get really hype.  

2 hours ago, Sonero said:

Sony auto-renewed my PS+ For no reason.

 

Feel like a Belmont right now. Yesterday I was thinking to myself: this is gonna run out soon and I'll be free from this game for a bit. Now Dracula is back and I'll go into the SF5 castle like a drone.

 

😭

Yeah that auto renew thing is bullshit.  But on the bright side you get to keep playing SFV online 🤣

2 hours ago, Sonero said:

Twitter Clown Car is the best:

 

You get one mechanic you can hard bait and suddenly the game is hella defensive?

 

Bruh, this man would not have survived vanilla SF4 or SF4 Rose.

 

Just can't please twitter.   SFV now too defensive lol.  That's the first time anyone's ever said that.  

14 minutes ago, JustBrowsing said:

Kumite was far better than I thought it'd be, I was excited at first for an offline event, then wondered about no crowd. Think they did a superb job at getting the commentators and competitors being the crowd, really, really enjoyed it.

Redbull always puts on great events.  Crazy they still pulled it off during Covid.  

Hurricane qualified for top 8 with 'nerfed' Cammy and he beat Tokido.  

Cheering for Bonchan or Luffy.  Bonchan's Karin is S tier, and as a Karin player he's probably my favourite to watch - but you just gotta love his Sagat.  Luffy would be nice as well since he's proving a lot of people wrong that vshift killed Mika.  

Red Bull Kumite Groups:

A

Tokido

Hurricane

VegaPatch

Bonchan

B

Problem X

Takamura

Luffy

Jones

C

Kawano

Smug

Phenom

Punk

D

iDom

Mister Crimson

Boltstrike

Gachikun

2 qualify from each group to form top 8.

I guess this is exciting if you're a VF5 fan but I was hoping for a whole new game. 

Another great vid from HiFight summarizing all the changes:

3 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

At least they tried with Cody VT1. Kolin VT1 and Juri VT2 wish they got that amount of effort.

Yeah, they're going to have to do something much more drastic to get players to pick it though.  Or if they nerf VT2 by making it 3 bars but that might kill the character.  

Sad they took away Dan's infinite BUT the way they buffed it with the random ex fireball is pretty clever.  Like how he goes, "NANI?" when it comes out lol.

Capcom has literally buffed Cody's VT1 every patch like someday players will pick over it over VT2.   Note to Capcom, slightly extending the range of his normals and giving him a plus on block special does not equal access to a command grab, one of the best projectiles in the game, the ability to reflect projectiles, plus crazy advantageous knockdown setups and corner/midscreen damage buffs.

Old game good, new game bad.  

This reminds me of the time I was watching omito stream the strive beta and the chat was trying to get him to say how bad the game was compared to +R.  And he was like "Strive is way better than +R".  This wasn't the response they were looking for lol.

1 hour ago, delete_me said:

I place her at "takes 80% more effort and mental energy than the average SFV character" tier.

I feel the same for Menat which is why I think play for these characters tends to drop off the worse they are.  People aren't going to put time into a hard-to-play technical character that is mid tier when they can just pick Cammy or Bison.  

7 hours ago, delete_me said:

 

He did really well with Rose but it's just too easy to overwhelm her once you get that one, momentum-swinging jump-in or knockdown.

 

I wonder why they didn't give her a side-switching V-Reversal. Maybe to avoid some feature overlap with VT1, but she'd need it so much. 

The fact he made top 8 with a relatively new character while apparently not taking the game all that seriously points to Rose being pretty good.  I doubt she's bad, most likely at least midtier.   Filipinoman said he thinks she is underrated by the community.  

CPT North America West Top 8 going down.

8 hours ago, Flackaveli said:

I hope someone wins with Cammy this weekends CPT. The twitter reaction will be gold lmao 

For some odd reason.  I actually want this to happen....