The Samurai Shodown Thread

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T02:55:27Z

BRUH @Mattatsu

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T02:55:51Z

Bathroom break. Keep rematching until you can’t

edit: taking a loner timeout to bathe my cat so i dont have to do it later

Edited yesterday at 03:02 AM by Mattatsu

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T03:09:42Z

K, i’m back

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T03:18:49Z

I was thinking Kazuki looked a lot like a Dragon Ball character... that SSM confirms it lol

Edited yesterday at 03:19 AM by Mattatsu

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T03:21:40Z

worth a shot

BornWinner · 2021-01-24T03:25:17Z

@KingTubbDon’t forget to make use of Jubei’s counters. They are huge against Earthquake’s jumping H

BornWinner · 2021-01-24T03:30:26Z

I have to leave guys. It’s been fun.

Some tips since everyone is relearning stuff.

A blocked or whiffed WFT can be punished with an SSM. Be careful when using them.

You can rage burst after a guard break/throw. I felt this needed pointing out since @KingTubb almost died after getting thrown.

Shiki’s SSM has the distinction of tracking someone. Be careful to not throw a projectile full screen against her.

If you have the blood setting on, you can tell when Basara throws a clone since that would have no blood on it.

Don’t be afraid to go in on Basara. He can’t set up his game if you’re too close.

@Mattatsu You can get an easy WFT confirm with Haoh with 66B into it.

Edited yesterday at 03:51 AM by BornWinner

Hecatom · 2021-01-24T03:31:04Z

Man, hopefully you will still be playing when i get home

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T03:40:56Z

That was nearly the shittiest thing I’ve ever done to you @Mattatsu

Hawkingbird · 2021-01-24T03:47:57Z

55 minutes ago, KingTubb said:

Galford is stupid

He was worse pre-patch

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T04:23:30Z

@KingTubbi hope you can hear me.. i’d feel like an idiot if you couldnt lol

DoctaMario · 2021-01-24T04:26:03Z

58 minutes ago, BornWinner said:

If you have the blood setting on, you can tell when Basara throws a clone since that would have no blood on it.

Don’t be afraid to go in on Basara. He can’t set up his game if you’re too close.

This man giving away all my secrets... Everyone turn your blood off, think of the children!

Sorry it tagged you Mattatsu, it won't let me delete the tag. Maybe @misterBee can fix it?

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T04:56:15Z

Darli is stupid too

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T04:56:23Z

THat sledge hammer move from darli Dagger is ridiculous

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T05:02:21Z

Last one

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T05:06:08Z

Ggs homie. Darli is cool might try to lab her this week

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T05:06:56Z

GGs everyone! The connections seemed better tonight. I don’t recall a single desync.

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T05:07:08Z

43 minutes ago, Mattatsu said:

i hope you can hear me.. i’d feel like an idiot if you couldnt lol

Definitely couldn’t hahaha

sorry, didn’t know you wanted to VC

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T05:07:39Z

Just now, KingTubb said:

Ggs homie. Darli is cool might try to lab her this week

Yeah, i think she was your better character tbh.

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T05:08:52Z

1 minute ago, KingTubb said:

Definitely couldn’t hahaha

sorry, didn’t know you wanted to VC

No, it’s all good. My wife bought me a headset for christmas and i havent tried it on ps4 yet and was curious about it because of the voice chat icon on the screen. not sure why it wasn’t working hough because the icon would change when i talked.

Edited yesterday at 05:09 AM by Mattatsu

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T05:10:02Z

Hecatom when do you think you'll be around? I can wait for a bit but not if its too long

edit: sorry, i’m going to call it a night after all. My wife has to wake up early, so i might as well take this time to crawl into bed while she's still awake

Edited yesterday at 05:21 AM by Mattatsu

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T05:50:23Z

2 hours ago, BornWinner said:

You can get an easy WFT confirm with Haoh with 66B into it.

Yeah, i just don't like 66B because its so negative on block, even with a recoil cancel. i think it’s -35 without it and -11 with it.

i appreciate those other tips though, i didn’t notice them while playing but i’ll take note. Thanks

Hawkingbird · 2021-01-24T06:07:50Z

1 hour ago, KingTubb said:

Darli is stupid too

Hecatom · 2021-01-24T06:33:09Z

Well, unfortunately i got free until now, so it would be another day.

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T13:41:29Z

The connections last night were surprisingly fine.

i really hate myself for getting into this game so late. I’m really loving it so far.

DoctaMario · 2021-01-24T15:25:01Z

10 hours ago, KingTubb said:

Ggs homie. Darli is cool might try to lab her this week

Darli is a good counter pick to Shizumaru. Her jump C moves really put a dent in his air shenanigans

DoctaMario · 2021-01-24T15:32:50Z

1 hour ago, Mattatsu said:

The connections last night were surprisingly fine.

i really hate myself for getting into this game so late. I’m really loving it so far.

I think it's typical delay netcode stuff, location, quality of connection, etc. I have historically had a really good experience with the netcode in this game even connecting to Japan and Europe although but I can see how it's pretty idiosyncratic.

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T16:55:49Z

I went through some of our matches last night and put my eight favourite ones into a video, if anyone is interested.

These are more for me, but the clips i picked were mostly because there were a couple cool interactions in there, or I made some mistakes and want to review. I don’t win all of these. Also, sorry KingTubb, i forgot to save the footage from our last matches so I don't have anything with Tam Tam or Darli.

DoctaMario · 2021-01-24T18:01:33Z

1 hour ago, Mattatsu said:

I went through some of our matches last night and put my eight favourite ones into a video, if anyone is interested.

These are more for me, but the clips i picked were mostly because there were a couple cool interactions in there, or I made some mistakes and want to review. I don’t win all of these. Also, sorry KingTubb, i forgot to save the footage from our last matches so I don't have anything with Tam Tam or Darli.

That bit in our match where you did a backhit A slash into WFT was nice. Backhit combos are a big part of advanced SamShoIV and 5 Special but I haven't investigated them at all in this game and you reminded me about them with that bit.

KingTubb · 2021-01-24T19:22:49Z

2 hours ago, Mattatsu said:

I went through some of our matches last night and put my eight favourite ones into a video

Ooooh man, this has my saltiest moment of the night in it. I high parried your jump in HS but I was like 2 frames too early.

fuck outta here, I made a good read, goddammit

Hecatom · 2021-01-24T20:03:06Z

6 hours ago, Mattatsu said:

The connections last night were surprisingly fine.

i really hate myself for getting into this game so late. I’m really loving it so far.

I think many people got scared by the talks about the netcode.

Like i said before, many people assume by default that not having rollback immediately means the netcode is garbage, and while the netcode of the game does indeed have its deficiencies, when it works is more than serviceable.

It has room to improve, of course, but i think people should be more willing to give the game a try, since networking issues are not as black and white as they like to think.

Btw, not saying it was your case, but is something that it has been for a lot of people.

Mattatsu · 2021-01-24T20:40:38Z

43 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

not saying it was your case, but is something that it has been for a lot of people.

I’ll admit I was in that camp tbh. I was worried the netcode was going to be awful so I didn’t want to buy it at launch.

At the time, having a solid rollback and a large playerbase were the most important things I looked for, even above gameplay.

that’s stupid I know, and I don’t think the same way now, but I did a year and a half ago.

Edited 21 hours ago by Mattatsu

DoctaMario · 2021-01-24T20:46:48Z

People blow everything out of proportion online. Netcode that isn't perfect is the worst netcode ever, any company that doesn't give them exactly what they want when they want it "doesn't care about the fans" etc etc.

Mattatsu · 2021-01-25T00:52:40Z

Anyone up for games? I only have like an hour though

Edited 17 hours ago by Mattatsu

Hecatom · 2021-01-25T01:58:15Z

Sadly, not at least into an hour from now

Mattatsu · 2021-01-25T02:03:27Z

4 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

Sadly, not at least into an hour from now

No worries, another time then

Mattatsu · 2021-01-25T02:23:13Z

Btw, I played my first ranked set... that was brutal lol. I had the connections set to any rank and got matched up with a guy with somewhere around 10,000 ranked matches lol

Learned a lot though.

KingTubb · 2021-01-25T02:32:14Z

5 hours ago, Mattatsu said:

I’ll admit I was in that camp tbh. I was worried the netcode was going to be awful so I didn’t want to buy it at launch.

Judging by your points last night and that the ranked is completely dead, you haven’t played many if any randoms online.

this game’s netcode is trash. 1 outta 3 ranked matches were serviceable, most were unplayable

Edit:just saw that you played your first rank set. I tried earlier this week and couldn’t get a bite. But I stand by what I said above, the netcode sucked butt when I was playing this when it dropped.

I’m not trying to say “delay bad!” But this game’s netcode didn’t work for me the majority of the time. BBTAG and DBFZ had better net play experiences

Edited 15 hours ago by KingTubb

Mattatsu · 2021-01-25T03:26:01Z

So, i set my options wide open, just to see what ranked matchmaking was like while i was in training: i set opponent’s rank to “any” and region “all”. My only filter was the connection had to be 3 and up, as I figured the only level 3 connections would be somewhat close anyway.

anyways, i got matched up, like instantly, against a “Samurai God” rank from the US, and the connection seemed great.

i may have gotten lucky, but next time i will change my opponent’s rank to “similar” (or whatever the option is), just to see how long it takes to find anyone.

Edited 3 hours ago by Mattatsu