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What annoys me is that if you press it a millisecond too early it won't come out. 
 
I get about 300 with one bar after B3, 2, Rising Ice amp (no mid-air punch), B2 xx Ice Ball, Jump 2, B1, 4, 3 xx slide. You can amplify the slide for another 30 damage. Pretty puny damage for two bars, actually.

I hear you.
 
one thing that messes me up about the rising ice itself, is depending on the string/move you cancel from, it varies when you press the amplify button after doing the special input, so you can’t use the button taps to get a rhythm for the mid-air 2. I’m trying to figure out when you have to press the button and it seems like it’s right before the peak of the jump, but still trying to figure that out.
 
there are less damaging options though, that are apparently easier (like dash 2, or B321 xx slide x depending in the combo), but I’m trying to get that mid-air 2 solidified

The timing on that stupid punch during Rising Ice makes me want to pull my hair out. I can get it about one in five tries. 

That's Arctic Trap. Ground Ice traps you in an ice puddle.

With Geras I can't decide which move to use in my kustom variation, as he's got such a plethora of great moves. With Sub, his only good move (except Polar Axe) is banned.

As much as i love Mileena (and i really do) it irks me that i’m not playing Sub. He’s been my main in every game since MK1.
 
I really didn’t like his tournament variations though, and thought his combos were really boring, which was a huge change from his MKX Cryomancer variation.
 
Anyways, I’m going to play around with Rising Ice a bit and see if I can have fun playing him again.
 

Scorpion is so goddamn annoying in this game, he seems to get a 350 combo off of everything and every other hit is a krushing blow.

I'm pretty sure GBVS also had a 3 game thing before you could generally go online, though I think their games were against actual people. I never even did that so if they magicked rollback or something into that game tomorrow I'd still have lag time on getting online. 🙂
 
Seems like a thing now, which I can kinda get. Try to curate that very first online experience (or semi-simulate it in MK11) to lessen the odds of someone's first game being a complete shitshow. Of course once you get out of the kiddie pool you get to deal with D4rkL0rd420 and his full screen teleport punches followed by teabagging and RQ'ing if you get ahead.
 
The SFV experience should just be 3 matches against CPU that error out right before you are about to win.

You mean something like a limited amount of projectiles that you can throw per round or anti-fireball tools? If it's the latter, almost every character in MK11 has either a teleport or some other strong anti-zoning tool. 
 
Despite that, MK players are still complaining about zoning in a game where just about everyone can nullify it. Not a day goes by that someone doesn't complain about my zoning Shang. The scrub mentality in that community is unbelievable, even good players unabashedly whine about certain playing styles and seem to lack any self-reflection whatsoever. The only difference between MK players and Smashers is that the former occasionally take a shower.

Hello all, been busy lately but got some spare time now. Hope you all doing fine.
 
I also been spending time learning better renders and poses in Blender and ofc used those skills to do some stuff with Juri.To achieve proper light and shadow can be really tough but i looked quite a lot into scene creation and hdri renders. I think it's starting to pay off. I am happy with my progress so far. 
 
Enjoy some Juri renders and poses i made 🙂
 



 
@AriesWarlock hope you see this bro

You know what pisses me off? When a game is loading and the loading bar is consistently progressing, and then it hits 100% and you have to wait another 10-15 seconds.

Shadaloo Gorilla is gonna be the first character revealed for SF6 and they don't want those whores to steal his shine so they're getting BURKA'D.COM. 

also ill be the best SF6 content creator person for free everyone else might as well give up

I'm considering a troll build with the molotov cocktail and the eye laser. That should be quite annoying against characters with no teleport.

Everyone is interested in FGs until they get to the first real hurdle.
 
My best friend loves MK and he used to wash me like 19-1 in X. I got into the series in 11, which he also has. Last time we played earlier this year I think and I was dunking on him even after being like a year out of practice. I don’t mean that as a flex, but my fundamentals were just that much better than his, and it was clear he wasn’t having fun so we played something else. 
 
Mind you this dude is hardcore at every other game he/we play. I was watching his COD sniping montage and it looked like he was aim botting on a controller. But for some reason he won’t make the leap for FGs. It’s frustrating because I know he’d be a killer. 
 
But nah it just plays out the same way. You try to get someone into a game or help them level up and they never put in the effort. Wish I could figure out the solution so I could have irl friends to play my favorite games with. 
 
Edit: Niggas will develop whole strategies for fucking Among Us but won’t lab 2 mins to to beat jump>sweep.

Why not right? More SKUs = more $$$. And if you're going to get a FG green lit, more $$$ sure is gonna help that pitch.
 
My understanding always was that SFV only ended up exclusive because Sony ponied up for it. If they didn't feel like doing that this time, or hell maybe even if MS came back waggling money saying "keep it multiplat plz", no reason not to release it on everything.
 
More FGs need to come out on more platforms anyways, with crossplay support. The genre is already niche enough to not have it be siloed off further.

https://twitter.com/GameLeaksRumors/status/1329036093254201346
 
Looks like Capcom wants to release SF6 on every console. Interesting. 

NRS seems to want some characters to be higher on the tier list. I don't think they’re striving for perfect balance on purpose

And once again, Geras escapes the nerf hammer. I'm starting to think he really is invincible. On the other hand, Kitana and Shang have been hit pretty hard.

After the MK11 update you're required to play a couple of matches against the AI that "simulate the online experience" to get to grips with the game if you're new.
 
Sure enough, the AI picks Scorpion - saw that coming. I let him beat me, fully expecting to be teabagged in order to get acquainted with the online experience. Didn't happen. This tutorial sucks balls.

Was reading through the Twitter thread that has Katsuya Akitomo (former Capcom artist) giving the origins of the Vs series.
 
 
Very interesting things here. If you have the time, give it a read.
 
Also this in particular:
 
 
I remember reading this issue some time back. I had no idea some of Doom's attacks were lifted straight from this battle:
 

 

 

 

 
He used it against Iron Man as well:
 

 
Even Doom's Marvel Super Heroes artwork is from the end of ASM #349.
 


 
It's always nice reading about the work that went into these characters that we all know and love today. 

Did anyone catch the Australian online CPT? 
 
Our very own HighlandFireball placed 9th! And that is freaking fantastic! 
 
9. Totalsagat (Sagat)

It seems like Spider-Man: Miles Morales is already making users choose between 60fps or having raytracing.  Demon's Souls makes you choose between 4k/30fps or 1440p/60fps.
 
I'd give up your hopes of all the new stuff being a guaranteed 60fps on console.  It's only gonna get worse from here on out. 😩

Oh yeah, my bad, I forgot that got a makeover. Still won't make me play Tekken, though.

Oh yeah, my bad, I forgot that got a makeover. Still won't make me play Tekken, though.