Goddamn, this game is 10 kinds of fucked in every conceivable way.
It seems like (at least on PSN), there is a noticable line in rank difference, except all the high rank players suck, but know how to abuse the games brokeness, whilst all the low rank ones just suck.
Some characters are just bullshit such as Chun-Li (invincible legs to all but hyper combos), Wolverine (infinite mixups and spam berserker barrage to keep you literally unable to move from blockstun and advancing guard doesn't work because it moves him forward), Dante (A billion moves and all people use are 3 of them), SENTINEL, Wesker (Teleport, shoot, teleport, shoot etc.) and even Amaterasu (and it hurts me to say that, because I really like Okami, but seeing every cheap team online use her like a $10 hooker really cheapens the character for me).
X-Factor is a shit game mechanic that completely breaks the game with some characters.
People still mash c. light in this game, but in this, they can get 70% damage on a character from it.
Easy as hell execution (You though Blazblue was easy? Hah. The hardest this game gets is a HCB)
No burst or breakaway mechanic (No it's fine, I love sitting in this corner trying to block 100 moves before I can throw out a well timed counter that will probably be stuffed due to the shit priority on all of my character's moves) (Crossover counter? They're probably mashing c. light when it comes in)
Completely broken netcode and matchmaking
No single player game to speak of despite being promised a good story mode.
Worst of all, though, Capcom's response to this is "Hey guys, who wants to buy some new characters and costumes? Only $5"
Fuck this game. 10 years of bullshit should have cemented in my mind this game would not be balanced (and fun to play), but I guess hype overrode that for that last couple of months.
Guess I'll go back to SF4. The worst I have to put up with there is a mashed out DP or random ultra here or there.