Pair of Rooks

ngl i've always found VF to be the most snore-inducing FG of all time, with characters that look like plastic mannequins with the dryest story imaginable. Any kind of reboot / art style rework is appreciated. Even if it's just for the esports

I remember breaking the 50 hit barrier with juri in SF4. Unsurprisingly, it's wildly unoptimal.

OK but that Rogue tho 👀

So basically the what top 6 got nerfed and bottom five got buffed, plus two characters with a bugfix. Man, juri is having her best week ever.

Yeah there's some impactful stuff in there. Gutting damage and meter gain off of Amnesia as well as worsening his #1 AA is pretty big. How many Lily mains are cursing Hibikis name right now though 😂

I tried but tapped out around top six. And that was with skipping Luke mirrors and all JP matches. Didn't help that the days leading up to it were also full of SF. Total overdose.

Please knuckledu do it for murica.. 🙏

I saw the tourney jabhim won to get here, shit was hype. Wish I could a seen the other tourneys. Or they would, ya know, put up the stats with what they won, when and where, to get here. Maybe even some replays. It would really help ground the proceedings here. Balance changes are hype!

I used to love ultrachen combo, but these past few years the constant mistakes and references to how old he is or how young the players seem to him grate on me. And then he rambles. Like I'm not big on st cola either, but I could really use some more sajam. And yipes ofc. Anyone else is just sorta there.

Press F to pay respects to the league of extraordinary gentlemen.

I'm perfectly fine on returning to a world without Capcom Cup, or the other dev-specific events. We have Evo, two in fact. I don't feel the dev-specific events add much, especially when they're done like that.

For SF4 I modified a bought stick, drilling new button holes to lie underneath my fingers. My thumb commanded 2 buttons without moving, one the tip and one the last knuckle. ngl it was pretty damn cool to be able to instantly press any of the six buttons or any combination instantly.

tfw I can find neither Strider nor "the link in the replies" 😞

Look old man, Strive has a loooot of players new to FGs, and most of them young. That's a good thing even if the discourse is gonna be... special sometimes. If you're having words with an anime avatar pic of squeakychan you know what you're gonna get. Balance ain't as great as SF but it's still a lot better than season 1 and a helluva lot better than most anime games ever get. Gio has less to complain about there than a lot of cast members, from Laust mains to Sol and Nago reminiscing about the good old days. The inability to whiff punish HC ain't any different than trying to keep out a character that can block while sliding forward -- most archetypes don't care while one of them cares a great fucking deal. Might as well complain that DPs are ass cause of air blocking. Tell your Milia it ain't even optimal. Rising a2a air gatling convert to grounded juggle into full stage carry and wall break. If you get DPed out of the sky eat the 60 damage and thank your lucky stars they didn't do a real punish.

I haven't played it in months, but not because I'm tired of it. I just have a lot of irl stuff going on so if I do get a couple hours I'll just stick with GGST which I already konw how to play. Also eyeing that new Prince metrovania...

They're all just adding Drive Rush, aren't they? Makes my character rise 2 tiers so I'm ok with that. 🙃 Re: balance, there's a law of diminishing returns on devs spending budget on balance. As long as balance is playable then there's no real benefit to spending the $$$ trying harder, and some benefit to allowing some things to be out of balance because it gives the playerbase something to look forward to - balance patch day. Patch day is a big day for players, and if your game somehow is perfectly balanced then a patch would only make it worse.

Now why would you say this about our Lord and savior Season 3? 😭

tfw "you have a drinking problem" means you don't drink enough 😂

Ed looks awful. And can pseudo teleport behind you like SFV Bison dash forward. Next.

The song that plays is "Ultra" by KMFDM. I bought the band's whole album cause of that scene.

I remember playing Evil Zone back when it was new. Mained the girl with a ghost in her. Controls were kinda fucked tho and the whole game was just too anime for me. All in all it was ok. I've played worse.

Ok what's with all the ragequitters all of a sudden? Like every 4 matches I'll get a ragequit. It's never been this bad before. EDIT also Defense Shield needs to die in a fire.

We knew when SamSho announced its rollback it wasn't gonna do well cause it would be after SF6 came out. We knew 6 was gonna suck all the air outta the room. Even Strive was a ghost town in that month after SF6 dropped. And you can hardly blame a community for not jumping on a game that's been dormant for a decade or so. Most gamers weren't even serious gamers last time a new samsho was around, and the existing samsho players are a lot older. Of course they're gonna fall off. Even me, if i had room for another game I'd probably check out granbloo first.

GGs. My connection to everyone has been poor lately. Last two times I played ended when I got unceremoniously dumped to the title screen. EDIT: 3 times. And it's on the 3rd game of a set when i get a good start-round read. Hmmm.

Has anyone tried it? Is it actually good rollback?