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    The Street Fighter V Thread

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    1 hour ago, Volta said:

    I'm curious, why would you buy a gaming PC over a PS5 right now? A PC that smoothly runs triple A games at 4k 60fps would set you back a lot more than $500, and you'd be missing out on all of the Playstation exclusives. 

    How much does online gaming on a console cost you monthly?   Even if it is only 5$ a month, that is $300 over the lifetime of the console.

     

    The Street Fighter V Thread

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    41 minutes ago, Hawkingbird said:

    I will never understand the SF players hatred for defensive mechanics. 

    Cause most defensive mechanics in SF have kinda sucked.  Alpha Counters in Alpha 2 were the last good defensive mechanic.  A bar of EX for a solid pop and a lot of space / stage control, with one exception, Rose.  ACs still had a few startup frames so it's possible to AC an AC if the first was done from a deep jump-in, for instance. You do it for the swag.  

     

    Then Alpha3 decided it hated ACs and gutted them.  Then SF3 parries, while a good idea, nullified the whole projectile game so completely it didn't feel like SF anymore since projectiles basically didn't exist.  Then SF4 had FADC but it's used is less defensive than to make bullshit offense safe.  SF4 had 8f (?) invincible backdashes which again was a fine idea but the iframes lasted too long, and once they ended the character was airborne so you couldn't really punish a backdash well even when you called it out.  Now V-Reversal is the new Alpha3 AC. 

     

    Hence, we hate defensive mechanics cause they've all been gross in one way or another since Alpha2. 

     

    The Street Fighter V Thread

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    1 hour ago, Mattatsu said:

    @Pair of Rooks you played really well. I kinda expected you to be a lot greener as I think you just started playing this (or maybe you played it a while ago)? We practically went toe to toe each match, but there a few things you were doing that were making it a bit easier on me:

     

    you seemed to throw a lot of fireballs. That’s probably a key part of sakura’s plan, but once you started throwing them, it seemed like you would throw them just a bit too often, and if Chun has super or VT2 lined up (or both) she can punish you fairly decently if you’re getting predictable with them.

     

    also, that crouching uppercut move (maybe cr.HP or cr.MP? Seems like her AA button) was being pressed a lot in neutral and it doesn’t seem to have much horizontal range. I’m pretty sure I whiff punished that a few times.

     

    other than that, you did really well. Honestly, I think you would have beaten me most of the time if it wasn’t for those things. And they only stick out because those were the areas where it felt easiest to crack your armor.

    Thank you for the kind words.  Yes, this is my first week of SFV.  However, I was expecting my past SF experience to transfer over a lot more than it did.  I seem to be having issue with just canceling Sak's normals into a DP or HK!?    And obviously most of the characters I've mained aren't really there anymore.  (Juri, Makoto, even Akuma and Karen feel alien.)

     

    Yeah the AA crouch fierce at distance was some old muscle memory from somewhere.  (Ryoko?)  It isn't the only issue with muscle memory I'm having.   

     

    I REALLY enjoyed playing the footsies game with your Chun.  Sak's pretty decent at that, and it isn't a playstyle I've usually went hard on in forever. Fireballs will always get jumped on (once one KNOWS that Chun can super through them), but I felt I kept up except for the punish game.  When you're hit-confirming into super on the regular, and I can't hardly combo a normal into a special... yeah.  But I think Sak needs fireballs vs Chun specifically, cause theoretically Chun can just out-box her. 

     

    Also GGs @FlyingVe.  Thanks especially for going random select so I could fraud out a round or two.  :)   I know one punish, with Ryu, and he punches harder than Sak.  

     

    The Street Fighter V Thread

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    17 minutes ago, Mattatsu said:

    Yeah, i should play more Mk11, 3S, or ST.

     

    I’m not playing PC games, so stuff like +R is out of the question. I’ll only play ST or 3S on it because i can still play it/lab on PS4, and only swap to PC once in a while to play spin or volt or whomever.

    Games, then?  I'm holding onto that Bronze rank currently. 

     

    The Street Fighter V Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Pair of Rooks

    4 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

    What's your CFN? Did you send it to my PS4 ID? Dark_Requiem is my PC CFN

    CFN: PairOfRooks

    Steam: pairofrooks

     

    Send me an invite.  :)  

     

    EDIT: I just tried all the things in your signature until the CFN agreed to one.  

     

     

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