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Street Fighter V Beta 2 Thread: Welcome, future 21007s! Now on PC!
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Yeah, I can deal with an excessively large empty space in front of a character's foot doing damage. I can't abide a character throwing a punch but the elbow to the shoulder being the only area that does damage.
Wow, that's really him?
I seriously thought it was him when they showed him sitting next to Combo but didn't think he was a Capcom employee so brushed it off.
Too bad we won't get to see him play SFV in tournament then.
Yea, him wearing an SFV shirt during Xrd top 8 makes a lot more sense now lol.
Valle is playing right now.
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Ragnorok64
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Is this a rebroadcast?
ShaperofStories
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Well shit... now I'm salty that I can't play.
Stone Ocean
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Preordering on Steam gets you the Chun costume. No idea how PC players can get the other ones
LeMaximilian
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I can actually see them doing that for the preorder costumes, strangely.
I think, maybe in a year or so, those would be the only costumes we could unlock with fight money.
kinaesthete
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Anyone here have experience preordering the PC version from GreenManGaming? The GMG page mentions getting beta access but doesn't offer details and I'm curious how that works, since they usually don't send keys out until days before games actually release.
Sent me out a key instantly.
I successfully refunded after the last beta. At first it was denied and then I sent a support ticket on steam and it was refunded. That's with 10 hours played in the last beta. The only reason I refunded it in the first place was to see if it was possible.
kinaesthete
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Cool, just ordered and got it immediately. Thanks!
Martylepiaf
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It will be ppretty much the same as USF IV
You think so? SF5 is launching into a world where esports are significantly bigger than what SF4 launched into.
Martylepiaf
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USF IV players will play SF V for the most part (+ some new players I guess) and Capcom will still stream all CPT (just with more money this time)
It will be bigger I guess, but not much
Given that Capcom seemingly wanted to tone down input complexity in SFV, the audience could significantly widen.
I think SFV will be bigger than SFIV, but I sincerely doubt that it will compete with the big guns of esports. Fighting games are always going to have a tremendous barrier of entry. As much as they are trying to lower that, it is never going to be something that you can just jump into.
ACH1LL3US
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Nope, I got a refund after 18 hours of the first PC beta.
Bought the game again though, because I'm an idiot.
SFV will be way bigger than SF4 unless they reaaaally fuck something up at the last minute. Better business model + unified userbase with day 1 PC + worldwide release free of region favoratism + FGC being the biggest it's ever been = will be significantly more successful than its predecessor. If they're smart and offer a F2P version later down the line, game could really blow up.
Can't blame your loss on teammates either. As sad as that is, I think that mentality keeps people playing Mobas instead of getting frustrated and leaving.
direct_quote
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Well some people also like being more support roles, then always expecting to be on point. This is more towards team FPSes like TF2.
This isn't a necessity. All it needs to do well as an esport is be exciting and dynamic. Just look at any real sport for evidence of this. MMA is probably the fastest growing sport in the world but i'm sure the vast majority of fans will never compete or understand the nuances of what is happening in high level competition. Doesn't stop it from being exciting or entertaining to watch.
Illuminati
Max, your current Avatar never ceases to get a laugh out of me .
Looking forward to playing some SFV again this week ! Hopefully I can play a little smarter this time.
i dont really think its gonna have a larger player base than sfiv. that game came at a perfect time when everybody was waxing nostalgic about street fighter and drew in ton of casual folks. i think sfv would be more of the same to those people.
DryEyeRelief
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if anything competitive fighting games ride on that idea more than esports does. Open tournaments but unless you actually dedicate a huge portion of your life into this, you won't be in the money for fighters.
Look at Capcom's own confidence. The total money prize given to SF5 next year is the same as this year.
This^
Well doesn't explain Hearthstone popularity. Is it because card games are much more simple or random ? I have no idea, never played any.
i dont play card games either but i figured hearthstone blew up based on the fact it had the blizzard name behind it. everything they touch seems to get absurd amounts of attention regardless of genre.
i bet if they made a fg that shit would blow the fuck up.
Card games don't require a lot of rote memorization and practice, and are not real time so you can take your time making decisions (I know HS has a time limit, but it's a pretty generous one). Those elements make it a lot more bearable to grind and practice imo.
It also helps that you can literally play it anywhere so long as you have a PC or phone.... not so much with fighters
Card games are really popular. RNG lets bad players win a baseline % of games and lets them blame RNG for their bad play. (just like MOBAs let them blame teammates.) Blizzard games are really popular/polished. And its a game people can play on the shitter.
That last part is surprisingly important.
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