Pair of Rooks

Well, he was top tier in dark stalkers... 😱

10 hours ago, Sonero said:

Anyways, if you guys wanted to hear the stupidest shit in a video for a hot min:

 

 

Give it like 20 seconds from where that time stamp starts. God we need SRK so we can convince people like this to STFU. This is embarrassingly bad.

His best YouTube comment was simply, "we have gekkosquirrel at home" cause it's eerily on point.

But hey he's a HC main so whaddya expect.

6 hours ago, Sonero said:

Y'all got a thread tittle change suggestion?

Akuma is coming and you can't fix him either 😂

Well, despite the thread title, I do think Aki is fixed.  Her jab....  😄 

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.

47 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

This minor fixes patch has a few legit changes in them.

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.

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1. Improve characters that could not fully express their individual potential.

Most of these adjustments focused on Jamie and Ryu

How many Lily mains are cursing Hibikis name right now though 😂

3 hours ago, purbeast said:

Can't believe I watched SF6 for 7 hours straight yesterday.

 

Good stuff 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!

1 hour ago, HeavensCloud said:

Oh yeah, he makes a lot of mistakes but I like his passion and usually David is there to correct him.  

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.

41 minutes ago, purbeast said:

Pool F was boring as shit and dumb to watch.

 

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. 

4 hours ago, HeavensCloud said:

Capcom poll about renewing old IP's:

 

Could not have voted harder for Rival Schools, Darkstalkers and Breath of Fire.  

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

4 hours ago, Sonero said:

My character was great then she got hammered a bunch of times for no reason because ASW is dumb as shit. Its legit like looking at the top 10 characters of SF5 and going "yeah fuck cammy actually, she's the problem" and leaving JP and Luke untouched.

 

One of the things Strive beat me over the head was that ASW loves their fucking gimmicks about their game making any type of sense. They aren't going to let a character breath per say. They are going to hamfisted adjust shit so the character "does the thing" to their liking. So you had some characters like Nagoriyuki that got buffs while being at the top so they could do their dumb shit harder for no discernible reason. But what was the reason? They want him to worry less about managing blood and do the dumb shit more.

 

Honestly its just they way they design things is actually trash and then the player base is out here justifying garbage. "Oh no, you just have to be smarter and " yeah fuck it, put the whole thing up your ass. At least they finally figured out they shouldn't nerf bottom tier characters so that's a start. But they also design like they don't remember shit was a bad idea. Zato in older GGs use to have Eddie come back super fast after he got hit and they inevitably change it because it ends up being dumb. What happens in strive? he'd do a bunch of shit with eddie, bar is spent, 3 seconds later eddie was back. Even when you hit him he was back fast as hell. So what do they do? They end up changing that. Brother in FUCKING fighting games, you already know this motherfucker shouldn't be coming back quickly if he gets hit, so why did you release him that way?

 

I could probably go on for days about how random so much of this stuff is at times. It'd be fine if they didn't position this series as being well thought out and designed. Like no, its been gibberish. I can play some gibberish ass games so long as we aren't pretending they are stalwarts of game design. I'm thinking about learning HNK because its meme; I loved playing BBTag because the game set out to do one thing, succeeded, and the whole game is admittedly nonsense and they aren't pretending it isn't. But maybe that's the issue. You get a game full of questionable shit and then they go "You know we feel this went a bit too far" while equally preposterous shit stays in the game. We are either playing horseshit or we aren't. If we are playing horseshit then fine. But don't pretend you know what you're doing when you got a character that can whiff buttons and then randomly throw a disjointed hitbox around it that might save him on whiff but also give him a combo because you tried to whiff punish him. If that's whats happening, don't say shit about my character.

 

But I mean...its an anime game. Some of the stupidest....Look, I had a motherfucker tell me my character was broken because she had a DP and could anti air. Its not even Commando assists level of cutting off vertical space. This dude was mad because if I could figure out where the fuck Millia was going, I could maybe try to DP her out of the air.

 

This shit isn't serious.

 

Edit: I'm not trolling. Mad that I could anti air at all. Bro this shit is broken you got a DP that anti airs? Bitch this is a street fighter 2 basic featuer of what in the fuck are you trying to tell me that just hitting a mofo out of the air with a DP is gamebreakginaposdrfepofgndfpoqiwruq3jr5r5wrgfbv;kljsdfn;kj

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. 

21 hours ago, Volta said:

Anyone else tired of SF6? I don't dislike the game and I think it's a big improvement over V, I just don't feel like playing it anymore for some reason.

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. 

6 hours ago, Sonero said:

After the latest changes to Strive...

 

Holy shit should devs take more time to shit up a game with wack mechanics because it gives them belly laughs. It honestly makes me think less of devs when they put insanely questionable stuff in their games.

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.

5 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@CESTUS IIIThat entire sequence was just full of hype moments. And that was in a movie full of cool ass scenes. Chun Li vs Vega was the best fight in the movie.

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.