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So for the couple of weeks I've been floating around the 1700LP mark, incapable of moving past it. A combination of rage quits and genuinely terrible losing streaks due to my lack of patience and genuine inability against certain match ups.

Ever since last Friday though, I've been on fire. I think the adjustment from SFIV to SFV is complete, and I've got the basics locked down, with my habits from the IV series pretty much gone. Currently sitting at 2863LP and climbing. I really want to hit Ultra Silver/Gold to what the top tier players are saying.
 
hey_it's_that_dog said:
Did you almost lose a bunch of times?

It seems like on hard mode at around stage 40 the CPU will start seriously punishing your DPs after blocking and by the time you get to 44 (Mika) she'll grab the shit out of you at will. Is the secret to just keep DPing no matter what or do you have to adapt on the fly and play for real when they stop you?
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Once or twice after stage 70 I came close to losing and accepted a Ranked Match request (I had it set to Ask rather than Auto). I didn't have to change things up, though; Just constant, constant medium punch shoryuken. The only character who tended to punish it on block was Chun Li. I did occasionally mix things up, more from boredom than anything else. It often didn't work out well.

Characters like Laura, Vega and Ken I'd crouch block to start and wait for them to try jump in so I could land the initial mp.srk then just dash in twice and do it again. And again. Forever.
 
Deps said:
No, its one of the best. Lets him punish stuff no one else can.
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Vega doesn't need that tool. He needs a way to escape pressure, and his V-Reversal is a pretty poor way of doing that.

It's true that he gets extra punishes on random moves, but Vega would be a better character if he just had a regular knockdown reversal.
 
ElFly said:
Everybody loves Gief.

Not everybody plays him.
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I have to have combos and strings. Gief in SF4 made sense to me on paper. Here? It's all spam jabs and SPDs. I'm not a fan of this version of him.

I 100% agree that I love him as a character though in general. It's mad hype to watch SnakeEyez play him.
 
thecoolFNF said:
Hey guys so I've been trying to play games with a friend but we can't join each other's battle lounges. Since launch we've been hit with the "failed to join battle lounge" message when we tried to join each other's room. Seriously pissing us off. He's on PC but I'm on PS4, so is this a crossplay issue? Hoping someone here would know whats up.
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It's not a cross play issue. I had that problem until the network maintenance, whenever that was. It's been mostly fine for me since. If you have twitter, hit up SFVServer.

ElFly said:
Everybody loves Gief.

Not everybody plays him.
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You mean the "It gives me comfort to know that he's there on the character select screen" argument?
 
joffocakes said:
Once or twice after stage 70 I came close to losing and accepted a Ranked Match request (I had it set to Ask rather than Auto). I didn't have to change things up, though; Just constant, constant medium punch shoryuken. The only character who tended to punish it on block was Chun Li. I did occasionally mix things up, more from boredom than anything else. It often didn't work out well.

Characters like Laura, Vega and Ken I'd crouch block to start and wait for them to try jump in so I could land the initial mp.srk then just dash in twice and do it again. And again. Forever.
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Guess I'll try this shit again. Thanks for the info!
 
TheLegendaryDarkKnight said:
I wish Casual matches had a rematch feature. I need my salty runbacks.
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I wish Capcom would listen to the community and patch the game on casual and ranked to be best 2/3.

Also, I find it awkward to watch Excellent Adventures now in SF5. They have to commit to a character pre hand? Ugh. Who was complaining about character select screen? I'm fine with that ish being there.

I think Mike and Ryan are going to have to hope that battle lounge is their answer to keep doing the show the way they've done so for years. Can leave it open, let people find it, have character select available. If they want best 2/3 they can set it up that way, or get the run back since the guy is in the lobby.
 
Grakl said:
I'm not sure why the site doesn't just crawl all current players and instead relies on people basically asking for information in order for it to populate its datasets. Who even made this?
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https://twitter.com/mpaulweeks

Maybe it was a hassle to crawl through every single player? I now see he has a tab for match ups, that will be interesting to see when we start breaking it down via Leagues (only show gold etc)
 
GootecksShimmy said:
I wish Capcom would listen to the community and patch the game on casual and ranked to be best 2/3.

Also, I find it awkward to watch Excellent Adventures now in SF5. They have to commit to a character pre hand? Ugh. Who was complaining about character select screen? I'm fine with that ish being there.

I think Mike and Ryan are going to have to hope that battle lounge is their answer to keep doing the show the way they've done so for years. Can leave it open, let people find it, have character select available. If they want best 2/3 they can set it up that way, or get the run back since the guy is in the lobby.
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Well then this is the one place I hope Capcom turns a deaf ear to the community...
I can't tell you how many times I've snuck a match of SFV in while my wife was still getting ready to go out...make up, hair, etc.

But if she had to sit around and wait for best 2 of 3 matches to go on date night? Well I'm sure I wouldn't need to worry about my LP, because I'd be dead.
 
Nephtes said:
Well then this is the one place I hope Capcom turns a deaf ear to the community...
I can't tell you how many times I've snuck a match of SFV in while my wife was still getting ready to go out...make up, hair, etc.

But if she had to sit around and wait for best 2 of 3 matches to go on date night? Well I'm sure I wouldn't need to worry about my LP, because I'd be dead.
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They should leave it the way it is for casual then.

Ranked should be showcasing who the better player is, adapts, etc. Especially since it's tied to CPT now for the leader boards. If the ranked system doesn't even use the tournament standard their tour has...what's the point?
 
qcf x2 said:
It's not a cross play issue. I had that problem until the network maintenance, whenever that was. It's been mostly fine for me since. If you have twitter, hit up SFVServer.



You mean the "It gives me comfort to know that he's there on the character select screen" argument?
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Aight I'll hit em up later then. Thanks man.
 
Finally got into super bronze today, yay!

Immediately got bodied by the scrubbiest flowchart Ken ever. He literally did nothing but spam specials, sweeps and throws. Made mee feel like a complete idiot for losing.

kirblar said:
Gief's never been a high-popularity play % character because of the SPD input and patient playstyle.
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Funny, these are the reasons why he's my main character.
 
sixteen-bit said:
the character lock has to be related to load times, right?
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That was my assumption, loads were just way too long so this was a bandage solution that somewhat lowered the time to fight. im also convinced they picked a long prefight jingle to mask the load times
 
Any update on an actual date for the update. I've beat all the story modes and easy survival with Ken and Karin but have no where else to go cause there is no Vs. CPU, no challenges yet, and I don't really play online.
 
Neonep said:
Any update on an actual date for the update. I've beat all the story modes and easy survival with Ken and Karin but have no where else to go cause there is no Vs. CPU, no challenges yet, and I don't really play online.
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No date.

Finish off the Easy survivals for easy FM if that is something you'd want to do.
 
Xeteh said:
No date.

Finish off the Easy survivals for easy FM if that is something you'd want to do.
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Yeah I want to save those for later so when I may easy FM they will be right there. I do wish survival mode wasn't built in the dumbest way possible.
 
qcf x2 said:
You mean the "It gives me comfort to know that he's there on the character select screen" argument?
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He is harder to play than in SFIV.

But even then he has not always been used much because of how he plays.

Doesn't mean he is not popular.

joe2187 said:
Besides....everybody loves gief

but they'll play T Hawk instead.
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I think in 4 I saw as many Hawks as Giefs online. Maybe slightly more Giefs. Anecdotal tho. Google says Gief was more used in tourneys.


edit: http://www.eventhubs.com/stats/sf4/

everybody loves gief...more than those other grapplers at least.


GootecksShimmy said:
I have to have combos and strings. Gief in SF4 made sense to me on paper. Here? It's all spam jabs and SPDs. I'm not a fan of this version of him.

I 100% agree that I love him as a character though in general. It's mad hype to watch SnakeEyez play him.
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I think they went a little overboard in removing his combo options. Main problem is not being able to combo Lariat on crouched opponents, except from really close Jab/MK, maaaybe from crossups. This leaves you mashing Jabs a lot of times, tho I think people will move onto frametrapping the SPD.
 
^ No idea yet, Ono said he'll announce something in a few days.

Anybody up for some battle lounge? CFN: RushdownTactics. Main is Ryu, might try to learn some Nash.
 
I hope when DLC characters get revealed they show off the premium costume at the same time/ Also has PC pricing been decided for the UK, i'm assuming 3 pound each atm
 
joe2187 said:
Besides....everybody loves gief

but they'll play T Hawk instead.
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I liked how you could condor dive across the screen with T Hawk.

SFV's Gief is just too slow for my Bison it seems online.

I need some Trials mode bad, I want to learn some combos for my Bison. I feel as though that is the next step in my development (I'm currently at 1000LP but cant get past 1100LP) so against decent players I cant punish combo them or counter them with a confirm combo and just cant take enough damage off my opponent.
 
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