ZioSerpe

Remember when we had the Strive beta?

Good times.

5 hours ago, EvilCanadian said:

purple rc also effects hitstun like blue does

although maybe not to the same effect? You can get new combos but they seemed harder to me but i duno that coulda been just in the moment confirmation bias

 

in the end prc also allows for new links

They seem to be pretty much the same, I had a corner switch combo that used PRC and a corner carry route that used BRC, but essentially they were the same. The difference was purple came after a special recover, while blue was off an air dash cancel in the air.

9 hours ago, Pair of Rooks said:

In Strive, if you RC and get the clock slowdown on someone, and immediately RC again for another clock, do the clocktimes stack?  @EvilCanadian?

 

If you've one bar, clock someone, can you basically get a free gold burst and effectively end with all bars?  

 

If you input RC during RC you cancel the RC, so no.

May in Xrd had all the setplay shit with dolphins and that's what he liked, actually when he picked up +R he didn't play May because she didn't have that and instead tried something different and landed on A.B.A

I got this friend that is an Xrd May player and hates Strive and hates how May got "changed".

I'm like, do you understand she's way more similar to any other GG game outside of Xrd?

9 hours ago, GetTheTables said:

So I managed to sneak in a little more beta time thanks to the extension. This time I went to the EU tower lobby to try to force some longer distance connections. Hard to tell where everyone is of course but assuming everyone is actually in Europe (the one guy had a German tag line so that one is 70% likely) things ran really well. A few of the matches had some noticeable minor rollbacks but nothing disruptive. Seems like you can cast a pretty wide net with this game.

 

Additional lobby impressions:

• The "parks" are a good idea since they let anyone play anyone and theoretically its sort of like an endless lobby, so long as you can keep matching up with people. However due to the game velcro-ing you to a few given spots for matchmaking everyone just kinda clumps up in the middle which can make squaring up with who you want to way harder than it needs to be. 
• In general it would be nice if there were either more anchor points, or if you somehow got an indication where you were going to stick to when you readied up. Out of all the times I've done it, maybe twice have I landed in the spot I thought I would. Every other time I ended up bampf'ing across the lobby and running back.
• Speaking of runbacks, I'm not sure if this is due to the tower lobbies auto-moving you to another level after a game but I never got to play someone more than once. I seriously doubt that after every game they either got demoted or promoted so I'm assuming they just bolted. A mandatory Bo3 in this game seems like a no brainer. 
• Also a no brainer because of how long it takes you to get back into a match after you've finished up. Back to the lobby. Both avatars animate. Then someone can finally ready up again, then you can play. I get that some of that is likely to hide server exchanges/load times/whatever but its just kind of a drag especially in a game that can have as much momentum in matches as this. Bo3 in ranked and some ability to quick rematch in general, even if they put a hard limit on it or whatever, would be tremendously appreciated.

Overall the game is really fuckin' fun. Helps that I enjoy Ram quite a bit. I'm sure the launch version is going to change things up from what we saw here so we'll see how it is then, but the game has good bones to build off of. At least for me.

 

Also managed to dig myself out of the 5th floor and get up to 7. Things are definitely starting to click though I have a shitload to work on when the full game drops.

I'd say pretty much anything under 250 ping is smooth sailing.

I did play a couple of 300+ ping people and you could see the rollbacks, but really the only time it got "unplayable" was when I played a guy in South Africa and we had a ping of 430+

To qualify that "unplayable": The game was playable but it was in slow motion, also I don't think there were any rollbacks, so like, if you wanna just fuck about with a friend that is very far I suppose there's worst.

Like the distance between us was 12.000km, and according to google, "The longest distance between any two places on earth is 7,926 miles (12,756 km)" turns out this is absolute bullshit and the longest distance between 2 cities on earth is Rosario, Argentina to Xinghua, China: 19,996 km (12,425 mi)
The first number was considering going through earth, not around it.
So I would say the netcode holds up?

1 hour ago, Mattatsu said:

@Volt in the SFV lounge thread, you recommended that woolie versus video series to teach me about GG lore, but do you know of anything else?

 

The way this guy addresses it is confusing as hell (mixes up terms, uses acronyms not yet introduced, introduced the POST-war administration board, during a time while war seems ongoing, but he doesn’t clarify, etc)

don't listen to these people

this is the best lore video

5 hours ago, Volt said:

Bro, people are malding out there. Literally every channel in the Hub Discord got 4 or 5 people looking like deer in headlights talking about how Pot is destroying them.

 

It got so bad that the Pot players are actually bracing for nerfs and theoryfighting with potential nerf notes. 🤣

I have not found too much of a problem with it after playing a few, but he's definitively good because of how Strive system is, and greed.

Hammerfall needs to be instant blocked to be punished properly, which is something the average joe struggles with and Megafist is pretty fast so you need to react properly, and I've been hit plenty because I am greedy and always try to 2H Pot when he leaves the ground.

That said, if I do instant block hammerfall... 

I played so much strive today O_O

45 minutes ago, Volt said:

Did you manage to play anyone of the Lounge Crew?

I'll be able to play in about 4 hours from now, if the server stop shitting the bed that is.

On 2/18/2021 at 9:50 PM, Volt said:

That's fair enough.

 

Shame you ain't got a PS4 to run rollback tests with the NA crew. Depending on how much fixing my work notebook overheating costs, I might pre-order Strive.  I take you seen how much tech I stole on the Lounge Discord, right? 

 

I'm still mad at how ArcSys got me by the balls with the Shill Pass. Extra Story content man. I had better luck blocking a Zato blockstring than that. 🤣

I borrowed a PS4 just for the beta.

Will play in the weekend.

For real though, Iori and Joe not being teammates kinda made me sad, I was looking forward to some lore BS explaination.

On the ther hand, Sacred treasures is back in business.

I was expecting more Rose, Dan and v-shift talk in here. I listen to the EH podcast so I don't understand how you can  discuss anything else.

Still ain't gonna discuss GGST in a thread about SFV, hell I'ma v-shift out of that!

LET
SFV
DIE

Praise STRIVE, new king regent of Rollbackia

7 hours ago, Volt said:

If any of you get in the beta tomorrow, could you please check if you can manually set some delay frames before the rollback kicks in like +R and 02UM?

You cannot.

I've only heard good about netcode.

The best would be hearing SonixFox's opinion on it since he's got plenty of SG experience, and afaik SG is still the best netcode of any FG.
Sadly in 5 hours he only played long sets with 3 people: Hook, Doto and Kizzie, which are all in the US and the worst connection was 80+ms which basically means it would be fine even in delay based.

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Well that really isn't accurate at all. SNK straight up lied about the PC release of the game. They said the PC release wasn't going to be exclusive. Then they went radio silent put on Stadia version and then they put the game out a year late on the Epic store exclusively. So honestly they got what they deserve. Showing up late after lying to your customer base isn't exactly a way to garner sales. 

They didn't get what they deserve, the game had made the money back before it even launched on console. So the only people that truly got shafted are the PC players

10 hours ago, Hecatom said:

I think that a huge reason of why Samsho is a desert on PC is because is on the Epic store exclussively at the moment, and a lot of PC beggers are either waiting for the Steam release, or already gave up on the game and consider not buying it even if it comes to steam because they feel insulted that they had to buy anywhere else besides steam XD

 

 

Edit

 

Could it be that your account on the Epic store has USA as its country and that is why your game thinks you are on USA?

Yeah being on the Epic store and coming to PC over a friggin' year after the console release were quite the one two combo.

As per why the game thinks I am in the USA, it is a well known bug that fucked over day one buyers on EGS, a lot of people all over the world got it.

Fixing it clearly wasn't as important as releasing Warden and Gongsun Li. To this day I Tweet at KrispyKaiser to annoy him about it daily.

You don't even need to have the game if we use Parsec, let alone a good PC xD

3 hours ago, Mattatsu said:

It’s a fun game, ain’t it?

 

what’s the playerbase/matchmaking like on PC? Not that i have a PC that can run this, but just curious

Yeah I have always had a soft spot for SamSho, but V special has none of the characters I really like.

As per the PC matchmaking

It doesn't help that the connection indicator is absolutely fucked and that for some reason the game thinks I'm in the USA instead of Asia

I managed to play quite a few ranked matches today, that felt good.

Time to scout Youtube for breakdown videos on him, because ain't no damn way I'm getting this season pass yet.

I finally managed to play the goddamn game (last time was week 1) thanks to parsec.

If anyone doesn't own the game but wants to play on PC I'll be happy to host it.

Love that piece of false advertising yet not false.

Same netcode as +R!
so somebody will surely think they mean GGPO when they just mean rollback which we still don't know where it will fall in the spectrum of rollback where Skullgirls is at the top and Kagemusha is at the bot

I wanna believe that Haohmaru is probably still the default 1st character for someone getting in the game.

23 hours ago, Reticently said:

Cham Cham's monkey in 2 is to this day one of the best examples of story telling through game mechanics in a fighting game.  So aside from any cutesy waifu stuff the character gets a lot of love from me, just because someone way back when was clever AF when they were story boarding that character concept.

what's this about? I am not familiar with the extended lore of SamSho