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6 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@GetTheTables Just take the shortcut and watch what Idom and Shakz do. I think that V-Skill combo and the longer duration VT1 are going help Laura out. Especially with Cammy nerfs and Guile Sonic Boom nerfs.

Oh I definitely will. Idom is my spirit guide anymore ever since 801 Strider bounced on the char middle or so of this year.

Idom was already messing around with using VSkill as an ender for Twist Barrage. The buffed V meter gain should help that out too so Laura may be able to feed herself V meter in a couple of decent ways now. Definitely looking forward to seeing how this stuff gets applied. There was a guy, Rocwell I think it is, from the Laura discord who was already working VT2 last season.

Kolin is also really well off now too. Gonna keep plugging away with her though that may take a backseat to enjoying the bonita buffs for the now. 😄 

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

How good do you think Matsuda sway will be? Target Combo into V-Skill seems sweet plus they buffed the duration of VT1. The three characters I've used most Kolin, Alex, and Laura have made out fine.

Matsuda Sway is always going to be a little funky because it has the same callout factor of any "big" defense thing in this game - Ryu VT2, Kolin's counters, Karin VT2, Vega VT2 as a counter - combined with the fact that it isn't a "catch". You have to dodge whatever you thought was coming and then be able to time the follow up to grab them correctly. I don't think that is good or bad - its harder to do but it has a pretty good payoff and its a relatively potent defensive mechanic to give a grappler. 

All that said it now only having effectively 2 frames of start up is probably a really nice swing in its utility. You can dodge through a lot of common blockstrings with that and it makes it that much easier to last second dodge twitch attacks.

I think the biggest thing is how much they buffed the grab range. One of the problems I had with that VT is that even if you were on point with your dodges the range on the grab was so pitifully short that you couldn't realistically use it as a counter attack. If it has enough range now to actually dodge and grab some attacks, great. Then it would still require a good bit of training to be able to use reliably (though broadly you can twitch through stuff you'd normally be stuck blocking) but it could be worth it defensively, especially in some match ups. I'm gonna check the grab range later today.

The buff to VT1 timer is hilarious. It lasts legit like 50 seconds now.

TC into VSkill seems like it could be kinda good for VT1. You can confirm HP CC xx Avante, TC xx VSkill. It is less damage and stun than an alternative but the KD on the VSkill in that situation still seems to give good oki and you net a little over 2/3 of a V meter from it. Do that once or twice and you can probably hit VT1 early enough in the match where that enhanced timer is going to come into play. Also could be an interesting distinction between the VT - VT1 incentivizes going for the V gauge whereas with VT2 you can probably just go for the damage.

I'm legit excited to see if they reverted her st.MP to 3.0. That was a godly AA button. Also the line about giving Bolt Charge input priority over Thunder Clap is really interesting to me: it may mean that you can use HP Bolt against cross-up attempts (where it would work decently well considering they are usually more shallow hits). Previously if you tried to cross-cut HP Bolt you would get Clap but it just might work now. Another thing I need to check later today.

Overall Laura got some good tuning up. Nothing crazy but I think between those buffs and the general meta changes she'll be in an alright spot for the 3 or so months of 4.0. We will see how 4.5 treats her. 😉 

Fucking Kage

For as much as I didn't want to see a character like that its a good audience play by Capcom. E. Ryu was and is popular so even "totally not E. Ryu" E. Ryu is going to get some people excited. Plus he looks like a training mode monster which is something your average player loves.

Laura and Kolin came out in pretty dang good shape following the S4 patch notes. Keeping my head down until 4.5 but it should be a fun couple of months until then at least.

Hopefully we'll get more general S4 character news soon.

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@GetTheTables How's Tekken treating you? Hope you are getting the enjoyment from it that I can't.

Been having fun with it. 😄

Haven't played online since the matches with MisterBee but those were fun and I've hit training mode a bit since then. I want to try and hop online when I can to plug along with this game, but thats all about juggling time. Even if I just play with Bee it'll still be a good time.

I will say, I enjoy it a lot more now than when I first tried it out 6 or so months ago. Even if I'm still super bad at it there are little things about the game that I appreciate.

41 minutes ago, Angel said:

Sundered is probably not for everyone lol

 

Game is hard, like oppressively hard.   They had to keep adding stuff to it to make it easier XD

 

I love it though, one of my favs along with Risk of Rain and Wizard of Legend

Hell yeah, difficult games are my jam. That may have bumped it up a few spots. 🙂 

I remember watching the GB quick look/unfinished for Sundered what now seems like forever ago. The art in that game is fucking-a-mazing.

In an effort to stay current with the bleeding edge of gaming trends, I am just now playing through Nier: Automata. Finished route A so far. The combat is a bit mushier than I would like but the story and world building are pretty solid so far.

Well for what it is worth I had a lot of fun playing @misterBee yesterday. 😄

There is a level of reward in this game that I like. I'm gonna keep plunking away at training when I can to try and build more and better muscle memory. And just continue to get a feel for the game in general.

May try out some other chars too. I really like Josie but no reason not to hit up other candidates and see how they feel.

Thanks to @Darc_Requiem's significant generosity, I now have Tekken 7.

Time to *really* feel like a scrub.  🙃

Far off can be very good.

I feel like KOFXIV ended up succeeding despite itself, or at least in spite of its original version. If they need to take a couple of years to polish and refine, so be it.

I'll buy unless they ratfuck the game to a crazy degree because I really like SNK's fighting games and I am a shameless shill.

Hopefully the online is better this time around. I never had much luck with KOFXIV when I tried to play.

I just realized you can do a lot with this idea you have

2 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

I'm disappointed you. I was expecting you to say. "DARC! GET THE TEKKEN!" 😧

Damn man I failed. 😞

If I had it in me I would make good by creating a modified animated gif of the Boyz 3D'ing someone through a giant PS4 Tekken 7 box.

Fuck now I really want that to be a thing

44 minutes ago, misterBee said:

Yes yesssss...

 

Gonna drag @GetTheTables into another game...

Heh, thank SFV for getting me into actually trying to learn to play FGs and Aris for helping me to understand it better mechanically. Not that I can do anything other than flail in T7.

27 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

I still have the unopened of  copy that came with my Obsidian laying around somewhere if you need it. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Works for me, I've been fighting off buying a copy for the past day or two. 😉

Shoot me a PM and we can work out the details.

If you understood them you would fear them. 😉

I keep wanting to get into a 3D fighter. T7 may end up being it. DOA just isn't my jam and SC6 didn't grab me the way I thought it would.

The sucky part is that I traded in the copy I got with my Obsidian so I'd need to buy it again. 😄 And no season stuff but thankfully I'd probably get my main from the core cast.  We'll see what comes out of inevitable end of year sales.

Would Tour GF were awesome and the S2 cast is pretty dang cool. I still don't care about Neegan but the other 5 are solid re-adds.

The Kolin Ada costume is pure fire. I actually really like all the RE costumes, though I only bought the Kolin one.

I also really like dirtbag Santa for Cody for some reason. Next year Sagat better get the Santa treatment. They could even put antlers on his tiger.

EDIT: I forgot something that dawned on me when I was practicing with Kolin in the Ada costume. If you pick Color 5 and then pop her into her alt outfit she kinda sorta looks like B. Jenet.

Actually another thing that dawned on me because that outfit has no sleeves is that Kolin is fucking cut. She has better arms than most of the men in the cast.

1 hour ago, misterBee said:

FUCK I'VE BEEN DISCOVERED.

 

But no there's a very specific reason I'm doing this.

 

Sigh...if you guys want to play some time this week let me know.  😢

 

I feel dirty.

Haha I figured it was for a pet project. Didn't mean to blow up your spot. I didn't even go looking for it; PS4 was just like "HEY THIS GUY YOU KNOW IS PLAYING THIS GAME YOU PLAY CHECK IT OUT". 

I'll be around this week in general. Visiting my parents tomorrow for the holiday but not a lot after that. I'm bound and determined to dust off UNIST sometime soon too.

12 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@GetTheTables What would you say if I told you I am developing a Nadeshiko concept that combines both her Face (Yamato) and Heel (Yasha) into one character?

I would say that I respect your moxy and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 👍

I finally get internet again and did my eyes decieve me or did @misterBee pick up SFV on PS4? 😄

10 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Sorry to hear about your marriage man. 

Thanks. It's all weird. Probably better in the long run, but now is less great.

I wish I could take it out on random online scrubs but I'm still waiting for FiOS to set my shit up.

I guess right now SC6 matchmaking is as good for me as everyone else. 🙃

5 hours ago, misterBee said:

I hear a lot of people are actually playing this on PC.  Maybe I should get the game there?  @Darc_Requiem you actually PLAYING this game? What about you @GetTheTables?

I have almost pulled the trigger on it a bunch of times but every time I do I hear a bunch of anecdotes about how the online isn't very good. Plus right now I'm broke AF due to my marriage dissolving.

So right now I'm holding out for the online to get tweaked and/or a particularly sexy sale to roll through.

3 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

I remembered that she had two CFN cards. Yamato Nadeshikko is Mika's friend and tag partner. Yasha Nadeshiko despises Mika.

 

Good pull. I always forget how many character cards they put out and how deep they went with it sometimes.

Damn, @Darc_Requiem putting in the serious work! Great job man. 🙂 Love the heel version.

4 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

The belt was a pain in the buttt. I had to create it on my own. The best existing belt just floated around her waist.

You put more time into fixing modelling issues than SFV's team did. 😉

On 11/10/2018 at 3:56 PM, Darc_Requiem said:

@GetTheTables I didn't forget about you fam

 

Great work! ⚡ 🇧🇷 ⚡

Fucking a-men.

With the caveat that I respect the mechanical complications, fighting games are so damn niche already and it really sucks to further silo players per platform. Spend somea that waifu money on crossplay!

Also still haven't picked this up yet. Real life complications. But I'm still planning on grabbing it. Hopefully by the time things settle back down for me I can snatch it up in a holiday sale or something.