28 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

Ed pick is legitimately baffling to me. Even if we ignore the fact SFA and SF3 are unrepresented, SFV is overflowing with amazing original characters and top tier redesigns…and we get Ed. Shadaloo-at-home flavored generic white blonde guy. 
 

Even if I give Capcom the benefit of the doubt and assume they are saving the real SFV heavy hitters like Laura and Menat to drive sales in later seasons…you gonna sit here and tell me Ed is better than G? Kolin? Fem Seth? Zeku?

 

lol no 

I feel like they knew people would buy the season 1 pass with the game regardless of characters. The only super popular character is Akuma being the big seller at the end. 

Capcom is saving the good stuff but at only 4 characters a year I'm legit worried that some of my favourites aren't going to make it to 6. Thank god for Jamie but I would like to play another character at some point.

Jamie in the top ten at every rank in character usage despite being a bottom tier character.  Capcom you know who to buff next patch!

1 hour ago, Sonero said:

That was always going to happen regardless of population. You would need an...insane amount of players to make it so that the closer you get to Punk's rank the game won't match you.

 

The general FG playerbase being what it is, the only way to prevent that from happening is to basically lock people out. This is what's more or less happening now and dudes are hating it.

I was just comparing 5 to 6.  There's a shit ton of people playing 6 right now to where I'm only getting matched with people within 200-300 MR of myself.  With SFV's matchmaking I'd be fighting 2000+ MR Legends.  

17 hours ago, TWINBLADES said:

You could get to master in SFV with a 46% win rate. The reason why it was so fucking hard was because the ranks were super compressed due to lack of players. So being at 1400LP put you in the bracket of fighting everyone that was right on the cusp of Ultra Platinum all the way to fucking Warlord. Absolutely no one that wasn’t pushing 70% win rate was making any substantial gains. Because SF6 has way more people playing it and because the ranking system doesn’t go to shit till you hit legend 43% W/L is pretty viable for hitting Master. 

Yeah, the problem with SFV's rank system was lack of players at the higher ranks.  Hard to make consistent gains when one minute I'm fighting a wild Diamond Kage and then next match I'm fighting Punk.  It's like, what is this lol?  

6 hours ago, Sonero said:

 

I'm so sick of people asking for guest characters in SF6.  It has NEVER been a thing in SF.  There's so many awesome characters from the Street Fighter/Final Fight universe that aren't in the game.  There aren't even any alpha or 3rd strike characters in the game.  And yet people are still asking for fucking guest characters lol.  

6 hours ago, Jocelot said:

 

It used to be. Then after covid things got kinda muddy and delayed and now we have it in february. Which sucks I actually really liked it in december. 

Me too.  The best SFV moment was when they revealed Arcade Edition and then showed the entire season 3 roster after Capcom Cup.  Was like an early Christmas present.  

2 hours ago, TWINBLADES said:

Got like 200 points away from master and then it all went down hill. Lost over 800 points. I haven’t spiraled like this in a minute. I also have a new found seething hatred for anyone using modern controls. I first I was cool with it because I’m a woke ass nigga but these lazy little shit get to press one button for DP and super and it’s absolutely fraudulent. Having to change your entire fucking game plan because niggas got easy mode mapped button is so fucking gay. I fucking hate SF6!

Best way to deal with modern players is to never jump.  If they're playing a DP character they will AA every time.  I just stopped jumping entirely, even stopped divekicking and my success rate went way up.  Also at the end of the round they'll start moving back and forth doing nothing, baiting you to do something first so they can instant super.  Just chill and let them come to you.  

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Speaking of Street Fighter. I've been playing more of 6 lately. Been able to pull myself away from the BG3.

My playtime for BG3 is quickly closing in on my SF6 playtime despite getting SF6 in June and BG3 late September lol.  

Phenom kidnapped another top player.  

You know Ed is a dud character when even Capcom is skipping him and going right to promoting Akuma lol.  

1 hour ago, Jocelot said:

 

Word on the street is that Daigo was blinking out "help me, Ken is top 2" in morse code

I got that vibe as well 😂

Chris T posted his Ken hot take at the worst possible time.

FAV Cup Results

Street Fighter 6 — Results

1. NASR|AngryBird (Ken)
2. Rohto|Tokido (Ken)
3. GyoGun|Moke (Chun-Li)
4. TM|Oil King (Rashid)
5. BST|Daigo Umehara (Ken)
5. SR|NuckleDu (Guile)
7. Bandits|MenaRD (Luke, Blanka)
7. FAV|Sako (Chun-Li)

1 hour ago, DoctaMario said:

That should be the pack. Not sure if they offer it on other platforms but I'd imagine they do

Nice.  I already own the game on PS4 and wanted to get it on PC as well.  

53 minutes ago, Jocelot said:

When he got to the Luke cr.strong stuffing all her moves I felt that 

I mean, this move pretty much stuffs everything lol.

What's the pack that just gets you everything?

1 hour ago, JustBooming said:

Corner fanciness aside, Guile just feels too dry to me. SFV, particularly S2-S4 spoiled Guile mains. I'm sure there's more (and better) reasons for those better at the game than me, but that's how I feel about it right now - having way more fun with Cammy and Aki, even.

Yeah, he's really just classic Guile - amazing buttons, sonic boom and flash kick are godlike but he doesn't seem to have a lot of flashy stuff outside of SA2.  Maybe they could give him something in season 2 that would make him more interesting.  Even his SFV version had some more sauce.  

Remember when Guile was the undisputed king during the betas lol.  Now he's a rare character online (which is probably a good thing for me because he wrecks Jamie).  I have a feeling not a lot of people are picking him because Dee Jay exists.  Similar archetype but with more offensive firepower.  

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

On what I assure you is pure coincidence, I think I'm going to pick up Lily 👀 

Make sure to pick up her S tier costume. 

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

SFV already has rollback. We need GOOD roll back.

I always defended SFV's netcode because it wasn't nearly as bad as people made it out to be.  In Master rank in SF6, roughly 30% of my matches are wifi users, which to me at that rank-  is crazy high.  Like, how many of these peeps were blaming the netcode in SFV when it was probably just their connection.  

Ended up getting Jamie's outfit 3. Luckily, I had some leftover Fighter Coins so I didn't have to buy the same bundle twice.  

Ohhh Capcom. So I guess the costumes aren't too expensive at $6 a pop. However, you have to use in game currency aka Fighter Coins to buy them. The costumes cost 300 FC but you can only buy FC in bundles of 250. Kind of scummy lol.

56 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Honestly, no clue. After that TMNT fiasco, I have no idea what to expect. Before that I was thinking $3-4, $5 at the most. Now.....

I heard some people expecting like $10 a costume, which I think is crazy lol.  

How much do you guys think the Outfit 3 costumes are going to cost and do you think we'll be able to buy them separately?  I only want to get Jamie's and don't want to be forced to buy a bundle.  

Jamie's costume looks dope.  Can't believe they brought Blanka chan back.