Fighting Games Weekly |8/10-16| Gods(Beard) Among Us

Isn't every fighter nowadays FGC-created in some sense? I mean it makes sense to poach talent from the FGC when making fighting games. Like we can attribute a lot of how SF4 and SF5 do/will play thanks to Seth and Combofiend. Why wouldn't those count? Sirlin headed up HD Remix and even Sakurai in his youth was a big Street Fighter head. Hasn't the Tekken and MK teams also tapped into the FGC for development help or has that only been bug/balance testing and community support?

Also, what is Fantasy Strike?
 
SKD's BBCPEX tier list, cause the AFGC were all making tier lists. It's pretty easy to say SKD is the most advanced BB player in NA, and beats the top JP players who come over. I don't always agree with how he goes about things, but I'd trust his observations about games.

What's wrong with Lambda that she's -that- garbage?
 
I'll let him know. He went 0-2 at EVO for the first time ever (bad matchups) so he was pretty salty about the whole trip, but at least some good came out of it haha

aw man, after I lost to Velociraptor in the first round of pools (won the first 3 rounds ;_;), I was just praying that I didn't go 0-beef.

What's funny is that the guy I had to play in losers I thought was the same Hugo player from your room, so when I saw him I was like gaaaaaaaaaaaaadamnit but then I noticed he had a UK accent and he had no idea who I was lol.

Dude I had to play in losers was terrible tho, right when he started the match with Ryu, he jumped backwards 3 times, put himself into the corner then threw a fireball. *dasitmane.gif*

..im just gonna talk about my Evo matches since I have time

2nd match in losers was against a Rufus player that lost to Velociraptor. He hit me with the *WewasallrootingforyouTyraBanks.gif against Velociraptor (few people in my pool wanted me to win that match :mjcry:) ANYWAY, I started off the match eating every dive kick in the book. I was getting absolutely bopped. *sentinel j.S gif*, In the first round of the match, I had no health, already healed once and no meter. On his side he had almost full health and 3 ex Messiah kicks in the bank.

my anti rufus tech dawg
the blackule factor dawg

What I noticed was that when Rufus has no meter and is on the defense he's pretty much just a giant chicken waiting to get plucked. Bait out a few ex messiah kicks and I'm in there.. as long as I don't get knocked down and stay clean with my Anti-airs
or jump back HP
. but yea, dude got washed. I hate that matchup with a passion, but it feels good for practice to pay off in certain matchups.

3rd loser's match was against a Vega player. dude bodied me in like 40 seconds flat all together in the first match. He hit me with every single Vega gimmick in the book. I sat back and tried to understand what just happened, my cousin who was watching the match pretty much just told me "You're just sitting there and letting him do all the offense, I gotta pressure him back instead of hanging back and taking it"

shiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.gif I got offense for days b. I don't like to have to go Kangaroo mode but when I noticed that dude didn't know how to anti-air Elena's jump ins.. *dasitmane.gif*

40 high/low mixups later and that was a wrap.

tbh, I really don't mind the Vega matchup. I've played Zeus online a bit and won convincingly (online tho) and another really good Vega online who I went back and forth with.. and Noel Brown if that counts lol. So I'm confident enough in the matchup, but dude went straight Wolverine on me in the first match sheesh.

Then I had to play Crizzle a Viper player from LA (I think). First match came down to the wire, but I lost it. Second match wasn't even close. I noticed that I have no idea what to do against Viper's burn kick on wakeup. I know what to do now, but I really don't know much about that matchup. Probably should've went to Deejay tbh.
 
First and last time you'll ever hear someone say this.

Probably. I just feel a lot more comfortable in certain matches as Deejay since I've been using him for so long. The Viper matchup with Deejay is probably just 5-5, but I have ex. Sobat vs Seismo's and upkicks vs burnkicks.

She has below average health, so it looks like Deejay actually does damage too.
 
If I wanted to learn more about 3s and super turbo, what would be the best resources?

Play 'Em ;) Find someone else who wants to learn at the same level as you and Play 'Em. Did this with 3S during EVO with a friend and had a great time.
Also I'm pretty sure SRK has a 3S wiki. It also probably has good info in the actual forums.
 
Vulva, I'm gonna try go to A&C tonight if you want to get some games in. Not sure what time I'll end up getting there but I'm trynna press some buttons
 
Isn't every fighter nowadays FGC-created in some sense? I mean it makes sense to poach talent from the FGC when making fighting games. Like we can attribute a lot of how SF4 and SF5 do/will play thanks to Seth and Combofiend. Why wouldn't those count? Sirlin headed up HD Remix and even Sakurai in his youth was a big Street Fighter head. Hasn't the Tekken and MK teams also tapped into the FGC for development help or has that only been bug/balance testing and community support?

Also, what is Fantasy Strike?

Sirlin's Yomi characters in his own fighting game. I don't know much about it since he's hid it behind a fairly expensive Patreon firewall, but it's designed to be more like Pocket Rumble than Street Fighter.

Probably. I just feel a lot more comfortable in certain matches as Deejay since I've been using him for so long. The Viper matchup with Deejay is probably just 5-5, but I have ex. Sobat vs Seismo's and upkicks vs burnkicks.

She has below average health, so it looks like Deejay actually does damage too.

Dee Jay does have a few really good matchups, like vs Honda.
 
SKD's BBCPEX tier list, cause the AFGC were all making tier lists. It's pretty easy to say SKD is the most advanced BB player in NA, and beats the top JP players who come over. I don't always agree with how he goes about things, but I'd trust his observations about games.
I never thought I would see Tager above so many characters.

Also, it's hilarious that they couldn't keep Litchi's boob out of her face portrait.
 
SKD's BBCPEX tier list, cause the AFGC were all making tier lists. It's pretty easy to say SKD is the most advanced BB player in NA, and beats the top JP players who come over. I don't always agree with how he goes about things, but I'd trust his observations about games.

Damn, Azrael and Kokonoe really fell. What's wrong with them in this version? Haven't gotten to play it much yet.

Also Mu being so low makes me sad D:
 
SKD notes Mu and Makoto might have room to go up.

Lambda just like doesn't do anything. The character is just outright terrible.

I don't know his reasoning, but AZ and KO are still pretty good. It seems like the upper tier characters are just better at creating situations in their favor and capitalizing off hits. For BBCP that makes sense to me at least, being able to contain situations and get good damage/conversions out of it is a sticking point.

-Hakumen, Kagura, Tsubaki have upwards wiggle room.
-Mu, Makoto can move up maaaybe.
-Lambda is ASS.

Azrael lost invuln on Growler and had unfavorable changes to his rekkas, 2C, j.D, and probably a couple of other things too. Lost Sentinel Dump oki from midscreen rekkas. j.D increased knockback means 2D is the only midscreen air ender that keeps them at a reasonable distance. Reduced access to upper weakpoint = reduced threat from overheads = worse mixup.

Kokonoe gravitons got severely limited, on a stock system. Placing costs a stock, activating costs a stock. She can't control the screen nearly as well as before.

That covers the main nerfs, yeah.

Again, whenever I talk about tier lists I do my best to interpret them from what I know. SKD responds to people and is American(read speaks English, is accessible) so you can always ask him for more detail.
 
Damn, Azrael and Kokonoe really fell. What's wrong with them in this version? Haven't gotten to play it much yet.

Also Mu being so low makes me sad D:

Azrael lost invuln on Growler and had unfavorable changes to his rekkas, 2C, j.D, and probably a couple of other things too. Lost Sentinel Dump oki from midscreen rekkas. j.D increased knockback means 2D is the only midscreen air ender that keeps them at a reasonable distance. Reduced access to upper weakpoint = reduced threat from overheads = worse mixup.

Kokonoe gravitons got severely limited, on a stock system. Placing costs a stock, activating costs a stock. She can't control the screen nearly as well as before.
 
Azrael lost invuln on Growler and had unfavorable changes to his rekkas, 2C, j.D, and probably a couple of other things too. Lost Sentinel Dump oki from midscreen rekkas. j.D increased knockback means 2D is the only midscreen air ender that keeps them at a reasonable distance. Reduced access to upper weakpoint = reduced threat from overheads = worse mixup.

Kokonoe gravitons got severely limited, on a stock system. Placing costs a stock, activating costs a stock. She can't control the screen nearly as well as before.

Sounds like an Arc Sys nerf. When they nerf you, you become fucking useless. :E
 
SKD's BBCPEX tier list, cause the AFGC were all making tier lists. It's pretty easy to say SKD is the most advanced BB player in NA, and beats the top JP players who come over. I don't always agree with how he goes about things, but I'd trust his observations about games.

Good for Tager fans, if I played BB I would main him. Arcsys needs to work on buffing Pot too.
 
If I wanted to learn more about 3s and super turbo, what would be the best resources?
Here's a vid about the 3s juggle system by Bafael.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPHqWxxc2F4&feature=youtu.be&a=&app=desktop
Bafael has a lot of knowledge in general about the game. You can go through all his 3s vids and pick something up about the game.
This channel has all the secret stuff. And a pretty good video on charge partitioning
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo0wQKb0_pyDr6PWb4RFemA?app=desktop
 
Why is it that when I beat someone with my main, that they immediately try and rematch my by playing my main...only to lose?

This happened like 10 times today.
 
SKD's BBCPEX tier list, cause the AFGC were all making tier lists. It's pretty easy to say SKD is the most advanced BB player in NA, and beats the top JP players who come over. I don't always agree with how he goes about things, but I'd trust his observations about games.

Valk is always going to be amazing with how he's designed isn't he?

Also what happened to Rachel and especially Tao to be that low? Just curious.
 
I miss Volnutt...

Volnutt was one of the best partner characters for folks due to his ability to keep folks out and be annoying as shit. He was a great stance switch character with a lot of meter stuff. Great DHC guy to have around. Saw some pretty nasty Volnutt/Ryu teams back in the day. He also paired REALLY well with Tekkaman because the lariat assist could actually catch folks and extend the combo after a super. This meant that to get damage you could generally just spend 2 bars instead of ending combos with wall bounce into lvl 3.

Alex was on another level in TvC though. He could pretty well divekick pressure with the way he worked and with this grabs and damage he just kept the pressure on with any competent assist. Considering his health and damage output its no wonder Marn flopped from Tekkaman Blade to Alex.
 
I missed Ken Borgard's stream. He mentioned a tournament last week end played on PS4 (Uk maybe ?) that had some problems ? Anyone has details ? Was it the PS4 versions at fault or other exterior problems ?
 
Valk is always going to be amazing with how he's designed isn't he?

Also what happened to Rachel and especially Tao to be that low? Just curious.

Tao is top 10, she's really strong. Not low at all.

Rachel had the wind nerf. She can't control neutral and force situations the same, and she has to be far more conservative on mix up and conversions.
 
I missed Ken Borgard's stream. He mentioned a tournament last week end played on PS4 (Uk maybe ?) that had some problems ? Anyone has details ? Was it the PS4 versions at fault or other exterior problems ?

VSFighting was this weekend and on PS4 iirc. I'd read that they were allowing CronusMax devices so maybe that complaints were about that?
 
VSFighting was this weekend and on PS4 iirc. I'd read that they were allowing CronusMax devices so maybe that complaints were about that?

Just a guess, but it was probably the fact that the CronusMax cuts out after a few mins, so it has to be unplugged after every game. But at VSF5 everyone kept forgetting so you would get a disconnect pause mid round every couple of matches. I do not think anyone was penalised for it, it was just really annoying that no one was paying enough attention to remind people they had to reset. I think they were more on the ball on the Sunday, but certainly delayed everything on the Saturday
 
There was also a French tournament during VS.

They were using the ChonusMax at VS fighting. People just need to upgrade.

Well I believe they announced the switch to PS4 at VS only a little bit before, like two weeks or something?

Just a guess, but it was probably the fact that the CronusMax cuts out after a few mins, so it has to be unplugged after every game. But at VSF5 everyone kept forgetting so you would get a disconnect pause mid round every couple of matches. I do not think anyone was penalised for it, it was just really annoying that no one was paying enough attention to remind people they had to reset. I think they were more on the ball on the Sunday, but certainly delayed everything on the Saturday

Yeah those things just cause more hassle than they are worth. I was trying to buy a Titan One to check out how they act in Tournament Mode but the manufacturer just raised the price from $60 to $100 so they'll stay banned locally until I can test them out.
 
Does anyone know if there are armor breaking moves in SFV? I know that super armor is in the game but so far it only seems multi-hit moves break the armor.
 
Does anyone know if there are armor breaking moves in SFV? I know that super armor is in the game but so far it only seems multi-hit moves break the armor.

I doubt that there are armor breaking moves. Armor breakers are in SFIV due to the Force Attack system. TvC also had armor breakers but that's another thing.
 
The switch was official after EVO, so 3 weeks, I think. Still, I think the Chronus Max was a poor option.

Ya I agree. But I think the situation for arcade sticks is a little rough in Europe so I can't get too mad at not getting one in time. Next tournament, no excuse really.
 
Does anyone know if there are armor breaking moves in SFV? I know that super armor is in the game but so far it only seems multi-hit moves break the armor.

Well technically any kind of command like throw or move can stop armor, not necessarily break it. Like Poison's "Love Me Tender"
 
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