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I was not at all expecting to get outta trials and get to Diamond 1 on day 1 of ranked. That's better than the progress I made in SF5, since it pretty much took the life of the game to make it there or beat a Master JP with Ryu 2-1, nonetheless. I think I might have some fun with ranked in SF6! 
 
By the way, I know Denjin Charge isn't the best install, buuuut even though I'm giving up oki, I get some nice combo opportunities! OD Hashogeki on hit crumples, so whatever I can think of before and after Hashogeki can (and has) led into solid damage.
 
Thanks for the advice and the encouragement to go into ranked!!

All this talk of hit confirms makes me yearn for the Zbattle days where I won most of my matches because of my reaction speed. That's just as well, because my execution was garbage. Now, 20+ years later, my reaction speed is gone and my execution is still garbage.

All this talk of hit confirms makes me yearn for the Zbattle days where I won most of my matches because of my reaction speed. That's just as well, because my execution was garbage. Now, 20+ years later, my reaction speed is gone and my execution is still garbage.

IDAGF.
 
I boot up to play SF to play people. Wifi or not Wifi we playing.
 
I come to this thread to shame my opponents on the wifi though. 👀

I beginning to really hate the start up 1 frame slow down that DR creates. I don’t like that I can predict when someone is about to DR but the game makes me stick the ground. This is especially egregious for characters like Marisa and Juri that have full screen DR oki after fucking everything. 

There shouldn't be a damn universal parry in the game in the first place.

The D-pad reminds me of the old Saturn one. Ah, the memories...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...The memories of being to poor to afford a Saturn, so I slaved away delivering newspapers for pennies while some rich kid prick was playing Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon and Daytona USA. Goddamnit. 

Yesterday would've been PianoDensetsu's 30th Birthday. Happy Heavenly Birthday.

On the flip side, can we take a second to appreciate how much better hitbox are in SF6 compared to SFV? In 5 JP’s cane would be missing a hitbox for half/the entire stick and Chun’s arm would have maybe 2 pixels of forward disjointed hitbox.

There shouldn't be a damn universal parry in the game in the first place.

There shouldn't be a damn universal parry in the game in the first place.

There shouldn't be a damn universal parry in the game in the first place.

Not really, Saudi Arabia is trying to diversify their investments. Their wealth is all tied up in oil. They know having their wealth tied solely to oil will be their downfall at some point. So they are using the dollars they have to get involved in as many industries as possible. They know that clock is going to strike twelve on them at some point. Saudi Arabia is devoid of natural resources of value except for oil.

The D-pad reminds me of the old Saturn one. Ah, the memories...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...The memories of being to poor to afford a Saturn, so I slaved away delivering newspapers for pennies while some rich kid prick was playing Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon and Daytona USA. Goddamnit. 

DI is more annoying because you get hit by it every now and then for big damage, but DR is pretty much mandatory if you want to compete at the Master level online, let alone offline. The people who think DI is stronger are probably the same people who have no clue about frame data.

The hipocrisy is still annoying. American fgc is doing all these pushes towards diversity, more women, conde of conduct, cancelling those who use slurs etc, and try to stand behind the principles, but as soon as esports money is added to the equation - sorry the cash is more important 

Man this Saudi tournament fucking sucks. One hour of talking for 5 minutes of actual fighting game action. All this oil money production value for an event that puts you to sleep 

I remember saving up to buy a Saturn off someone who didn't want it anymore. It was really an amazing console with lots of great ports and hidden gems. The Saturn and Dreamcast that got me hooked on fighting games!
 
There is a weird old Saturn game that I loved as a kid called Mr. Bones. The live action cutscenes are worth it alone.
 
 
 
 

The D-pad reminds me of the old Saturn one. Ah, the memories...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...The memories of being to poor to afford a Saturn, so I slaved away delivering newspapers for pennies while some rich kid prick was playing Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon and Daytona USA. Goddamnit. 

The D-pad reminds me of the old Saturn one. Ah, the memories...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...The memories of being to poor to afford a Saturn, so I slaved away delivering newspapers for pennies while some rich kid prick was playing Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon and Daytona USA. Goddamnit. 

I play on stick but I play sf6 on Series X|S. I think it's kind of underrated to play on.

I played SF6 on a Series X today and I have to say that the d-pad on that controller is so much better than the immovable brick on that absolute piece of dogshit controller that is the Dualshock 4. Just so you know.

Never played SF6 on a DS5 but I heard it's indeed even worse than the DS4. 
 
I can remember a time when you could get a MadCatz fight stick with full Sanwa components for just 150...

I’ll be honest I don’t even know how to do DR lol. 
But you’re absolutely right about DR being needed at high level. I’m almost at Diamond 4 and realizing the entire system is needed and being aware of when and where to use it. 
 
I don’t really use drive gauge for anything besides OD moves and combo extensions. But the fact that parry just blocks mixups for you reminds me to use it more. I just know my meter management is ass so I try to be frugal with it lol.