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[Scotia]

I just parried an attack as Alex and I got a huge SF3 nostalgia hit haha

 

["God's Beard!"]

Are these actually blockstrings or frame-traps? If you opponent can get out any button it's not a block string, and invincible reversals will punish you hard.

You're right, I should call them frame traps to be more clear.

 

[Pompadour]

Yea this is a terrible design choice. One bad enough that it should be patched IMO. They should give you FM each outfit if that's the case.

Lol wow, I've always assumed you would get FM for alternate costumes. That's horrendous.

 

[mbpm1]

Are these actually blockstrings or frame-traps? If you opponent can get out any button it's not a block string, and invincible reversals will punish you hard.

They're still blockstrings, but not true, airtight ones.

 

[Mediking]

Why not actually cater to your user-base (THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BOUGHT AND ENJOY THE GAME) and make obtaining stuff from the Store incredibly easy and without stress?

Locking colors is already annoying but behind LEVELS?

Pushing us to do Survival Mode even though its a disaster?

 

[Scotia]

Set my BGM to Jazzy NYC 16

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Hmmm I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, trying to do Alex Challenge 1 and even tho I'm doing the quarter lP it's not counting?

 

["God's Beard!"]

Here's my Alex frame trap in a video

 

[Moaradin]

HOLY SHIT Alex Lariat is fucking amazing. Plus on block, crush counters, anti airs, and you get big damage off it.

 

[Hex]

Fortunately Survival Easy, and Normal are really easy with Ryu, Necalli, Cammy and Rashid.
Not looking forward to doing hard again but am at a point where I have a rhythm that seems to be ok.

 

[Producer]

damn now i actually feel compelled to do the SP stuff to get FM and buy up all the alts/colors etc even though im probably just gonna stick with my main anyways.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Lol wow, I've always assumed you would get FM for alternate costumes. That's horrendous.

Why would they give you ~1.5m FM for free? That would mean all 15 FM costumes would only cost 200k in total, because you would be getting 400k+ back after spending 600k

 

[El Sloth]

hp xx vtrigger activation, hp xx vtrigger lariat, power drop does hella stun. 302 damage and 525 stun.

Edit:can substitute the first hp for st.hk which has more range. Same damage and stun in the end.

 

[SSReborn]

Anyone with the guide can tell me what Alex's Slash Elbows are on block? Can't tell if he has advantage with mk. elbow on block or not.

Lk -3
MK -6
Hk -7
Ex -10

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Bought some stuff for my characters .
Then i remember i need to play that shit mode to unlock colors .
Man capcom really need to fix this crap .

 

[Jarekx]

Man. Having to work when my boy Alex drops is killing me.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Any confirmation of other difficulties being harder?

In my one attempt at hard with Ken, the CPU went berserk and shut me down much earlier than my normal low-mid 40s... strictly anecdotal though, as I only have that one data point.

Given SF3's story, he's probably not getting much of substance in SFV's story.

They wanted Survival to fill the role Arcade mode normally would, but they made it too harsh/punishing.

They could've still left colors to unlock after you've selected the character <x> amount of times like in SF4.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

They're still blockstrings, but not true, airtight ones.

"true, airtight ones" is what a blockstring is, keeping your opponent in stun so they can't do anything but block.
Anything else is not a blockstring.

 

[galvenize]

I hope someone plays Alex at NLBC today.

 

[mbpm1]

"true, airtight ones" is what a blockstring is, keeping your opponent in stun so they can't do anything but block.
Anything else is not a blockstring.

You and I came into the term differently then.

 

[MiniBossBattle]

Is Alex fun?

 

[RS4-]

Is Alex fun?

His stomp is pure shit.
The hitbox on s.mk is shit
His powerbomb range is embarrassing.

 

[Tik-Tok]

You and I came into the term differently then.

Then you aren't really using the term correctly.

 

[SneakersSO]

Alex is fantastic. Love playing as him. New main for sure.

Not surprised at the store being a bit shitty.

Love the 'Next Generation' title.

Oh survival, how I've not missed you.

Alex's character story is interesting, but it doesn't really answer any questions at all. It just makes things even more confusing.

I mean, Alex's story basically joins every other character's story in not really elaborating on whats going on in the plot. I've always figured the first 3 dlc character prior to the cinematic story mode releasing are featured in the plot in some way. We already know Guile is somewhat featured in nash's portion of the cinematic campaign.

The store seems fine to me though. I'm glad there is a low effort way to get new colors.

 

["God's Beard!"]

More efficient trade combo

 

[Shito]

Anyone has the startup frames for all of his CC moves?
I would need it to add him on a small video I've been working on...

 

[Grimsen]

Had so many losses today. Made it to silver, only to drop back to U.bronze.

One of the guys I kept facing, Heasus, was Ultra silver, after losing 2 or 3 times against him, I beat him and the turd just ragequit.

https://youtu.be/yHRW_tg5AKo

Time to decompress in training mode with Alex.

 

[mbpm1]

Then you aren't really using the term correctly.

Neither are a couple of people I see.

 

[SneakersSO]

Is Alex fun?

Yes. Very. He has a bit more risk than the speedier grapplers like R.Mika & Laura, but he's got some great tools.

 

[Nose Master]

Lol. Rashid's 11 is almost identical to his 10. The black is a little lighter. A+

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

More efficient trade combo

Nice, just becareful using this on srk mashers. Or Gief when he has CA.

 

[Rocky_Balboa]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";199638034]Alex info since I just started testing:

• All versions of non-ex slash are -4 on block, ex is safe
• sLK xx LP Slash is not a safe blockstring, slash gets stuffed by jabs
• cHP has some kind of anti-air priority, but maybe only during early frames? seems to trade more at range.
• sLP links into sMP with a v-trigger, but only on counterhit or charged from v-skill
• crossup bnb is jLK, LP, LP xx LP Slash xx Super

[/QUOTE]

Thanks!

 

[mbpm1]

Anyone with the guide can tell me what Alex's Slash Elbows are on block? Can't tell if he has advantage with mk. elbow on block or not.

Lk -3
MK -6
Hk -7
Ex -10

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";199638034]Alex info since I just started testing:

• All versions of non-ex slash are -4 on block, ex is safe

[/QUOTE]

Who do I trust

 

[Xeteh]

Anyone has the startup frames for all of his CC moves?
I would need it to add him on a small video I've been working on...

s.HK 17 frames startup
c.HK 11 frames
f.HP 10 frames

According to a quick check through the prima guide. If I'm missing anything lemme know.

 

[Shouta]

Well, this is going to suck since I like a lot of characters. =x

You should take the buy the costume then practice that character approach. That'll give you a chance to earn some FM by leveling them up and getting wins for the next costume.

 

[El Sloth]

Lk -3
MK -6
Hk -7
Ex -10

Thanks!

They're all unsafe, but mk and hk seems to push you back far enough that most buttons whiff creating frametrap-like situations.

For example, if Chun tries her 3 frame cr.lk after mk elbow it'll whiff and you can do st.mp xx lp chop which will either hit someone mashing buttons or make them block again.

 

[SSReborn]

Who do I trust

That what the guide says unless I'm understanding it wrong.

It says "on guard" then its followed by those numbers for each move.

 

["God's Beard!"]

anybody got a lobby going? nobody is joining me.

I'm HeebyGB, just invite me

Who do I trust

I just set the dummy to reversal with 3, 4 and 5 frame moves so that's where I got my info. Shrug.

 

[MisterLuffy]

They could've still left colors to unlock after you've selected the character <x> amount of times like in SF4.

I would rather have this option for unlocking colors than playing survival to unlock colors for all characters, even the alt ones. I'm even struggling with some characters in survival mode on normal, I can imagine how frustrating hard mode will be to get the last colors for each characters.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Nice, just becareful using this on srk mashers. Or Gief when he has CA.

I do know what frame traps are for, but thanks for the heads up.

I just call all my frame traps blockstrings because I never make any true blockstrings. There's not a lot of utility from that.

 

[Scotia]

I mean, Alex's story basically joins every other character's story in not really elaborating on whats going on in the plot. I've always figured the first 3 dlc character prior to the cinematic story mode releasing are featured in the plot in some way. We already know Guile is somewhat featured in nash's portion of the cinematic campaign.

The store seems fine to me though. I'm glad there is a low effort way to get new colors.

Yeah you're right about characters stories not making much sense haha. I agree that the first three DLC characters will be playable in the cinematic story mode.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";199644322]I do know what frame traps are for, but thanks for the heads up.[/QUOTE]

Sometimes you just get so happy with new tech that you forget the people that will mash everything for victory ;P

 

[Moaradin]

Alex seems like a stun monster from the little fooling around I did. He's gonna be super scary.

 

[El Sloth]

Who do I trust

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";199644188]anybody got a lobby going? nobody is joining me.

I'm HeebyGB, just invite me


I just set the dummy to reversal with 3, 4 and 5 frame moves so that's where I got my info. Shrug.[/QUOTE]
It's just a mix up in terminology. Alex's <> charged kick attack is called Slash Elbow. GB calls the quarter circle punch move 'slash' (because it's a god damn slash). That's all. I think his punch attack is called slash chop or something. Cant check atm

 

[Scotia]

I love how Dan does the descriptions of the costumes/characters.

 

[Kintaro]

You should take the buy the costume then practice that character approach. That'll give you a chance to earn some FM by leveling them up and getting wins for the next costume.

Not a bad idea.

Also, it seems I can get through all the trials per character except for one that gives me problems. For Alex, its #7. lol Linking MP > LP > Flash. Wrrrryyyy

 

[mbpm1]

It's just a mix up in terminology. Alex's <> charged kick attack is called Slash Elbow. GB calls the quarter circle punch move 'slash' (because it's a god damn slash). That's all. I think his punch attack is called slash chop or something. Cant check atm

Oh, so they're two different things.

 

[LegendX48]

so are the costumes available today strictly the story mode stuff?

 

[Big Brett]

UMMM the freeze frame on Cammy's Super KO'ing is LEWD as FUCK

**with the new costume^

 

[Mediking]

I do kinda agree that if you have pre ordered and got a Battle Costume for either Cammy, Ryu, Chun or Bison then you should get all the colors for that Battle Costume.

Heck, I got the Collector's Edition, Battle Costume Cammy, and the Season Pass.

Yeah the Season Pass has worth but I really just want all of Cammy's colors.