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[The Lone Dragon]

Training mode. Story and Survival are not worth a damn because the A.I. is garbage. If you're interested in a character; go into training, look up their moves, mess around for a bit. Then go to Youtube and find an actual tutorial.

That's not true at all.

Playing against a moving opponent (even if it's the AI) can teach you some things at a very basic level.

It can teach you how to perform moves in a real fight setting, it can teach you how to block, it can teach you other character's moves, it can teach you YOUR character's moves...

 

[Revven]

Where is the combo training mode?

Next month.

 

[jett]

Training mode. Story and Survival are not worth a damn because the A.I. is garbage. If you're interested in a character; go into training, look up their moves, mess around for a bit. Then go to Youtube and find an actual tutorial.

Thats allot of fighting so on 1 character, thats 10fights+30+50+100? to unlock colours on 1 costume for 1 toon.

But we all know we will have the option to buy those in their online store. Now i know why they make it painfully long boring and make it hard at the end so you die, then give up, then say to yourself fuck it, im just going to buy it on the store 1 month from now....

Just realized survival mode is shit-designed on purpose. Obviously. They want you to end up feeling frustrated and fed up so that you spend real money on the colors. $60 to be treated like you're playing some F2P trash.

 

[Scotia]

5 out of 6 of the DLC characters new appearances:

Spoiler

I love how we haven't seen a hint of Urien and the Illuminati. Keep that shit a surprise.

 

[ElTopo]

I went into training mode and tried out all the moves but that's like....it.

I don't know what else to do in there

You learn combos, blockstrings, what's safe, what's punishable, discover new tech, etc. That's training mode in a nutshell...

Yeah it's pretty bare bones.

Just realized survival mode is shit-designed on purpose. Obviously. They want you to end up feeling frustrated and fed up so that you spend real money on the colors. $60 to be treated like you're playing some F2P trash.

See, the A.I. in story mode is absolutely horrible too. It's so short that you wonder why it's even there. At least have challenging A.I. And what's weird is that beta's had challenging A.I. at level 8 (maximum level) sure it read your inputs but it was still a challenge and you might learn a little bit about character matchups.

 

[SAC]

You're right. The graphics are not great in the shadows department (and backgrounds as well)

wow..... that's pretty disappointing, imo. to me, usfiv on ps4 is looking better visually than this game. at least that game looks clean and doesn't have scratchiness around the characters.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Survival mode is just shit. Fighting scrubs with zero difficulty and zero fun for 15-20 minutes, until level 29. Why? Why is this shit this way?

The way the buffs work is shit. Health regain should be automatic like in literally every survival mode ever made. Having to choose health regain just makes that shit useless.

Really fills like they just wanted to have something to artificially extend the longevity of the on-disc content, which I think was a mistake tbh. Looking forward to the servers being working though as I love the gameplay.

 

[The Lone Dragon]

You learn combos, blockstrings, what's safe, what's punishable, discover new tech, etc. That's training mode in a nutshell...

Yeah it's pretty bare bones.

If there's one thing that ISN'T barebones, it's the SF5 training mode.

It's the best training mode ever in a SF game.

Survival mode is just shit. Fighting scrubs with zero difficulty and zero fun for 15-20 minutes, until level 29. Why? Why is this shit this way?
The way the buffs work is shit. Health regain should be automatic like in literally every survival mode ever made. Having to choose health regain just makes that shit useless.

Really fills like they just wanted to have something to artificially extend the longevity of the on-disc content, which I think was a mistake tbh. Looking forward to the servers being working though as I love the gameplay.

Y'all are talking like you've never played a survival mode before.

That's EXACTLY what it is lol. This is no worse or better than any other survival mode in the history of fighting games. Actually no, it's a little better because of the mild stat altering choices.

 

[MissCauthon]

Survival mode is just shit. Fighting scrubs with zero difficulty and zero fun for 15-20 minutes, until level 29. Why? Why is this shit this way?

The way the buffs work is shit. Health regain should be automatic like in literally every survival mode ever made. Having to choose health regain just makes that shit useless.

IMO i think it's all just done on purpose, they won't change it, there is to much cash to be made on the online store they have coming up in 1 month. This is their strategy to get you spending, make it easy, then get close to the end and BAM they give it to you in the ***. Just to make you go, hmmm maybe i should just buy it with $ instead. Yes i will get baraged with the GIT GOOD or learn not to suck messages, but oh well.

 

[Durden77]

I think I'm going to go insane if I play survival anymore. I've tried like 6 times with Nash and each time I get around the 30s.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Cinematic story mode is coming in June.

Is this going to be basically arcade mode (as in picking a character and fighting through the roster of characters and getting an ending)? Story mode currently is such a joke. Not because of the story bits, but because there are way too few fights and offers no challenge even to a button mashing scrub like me.

 

[bananafactory]

You learn combos, blockstrings, what's safe, what's punishable, discover new tech, etc. That's training mode in a nutshell...

Yeah it's pretty bare bones.

Sorry maybe I'm dumb but I don't see anything regarding combos or whatever blockstrings are? It's just me and a dummy AI and the menu has a list of basic commands

 

[Zen_Arcade]

So basically, it's good but it's best to wait til the summer to get it?

If any significant amount of your interest in the game is in single player stuff I'd say at least wait until June.

If there's one thing that ISN'T barebones, it's the SF5 training mode.

It's the best training mode ever in a SF game.






Y'all are talking like you've never played a survival mode before.

That's EXACTLY what it is lol. This is no worse or better than any other survival mode in the history of fighting games. Actually no, it's a little better because of the mild stat altering choices.

It's a bad Survival Mode because it doesn't ramp up the difficulty. It's 26 matches that are so easy that you could win with one hand to 4 matches that actually require at least a little skill. It's boring as shit for about 80% of the time you're playing it.

 

[Azalean]

Wait, this shit is having online problems despite all the betas? Capcom should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

 

[Shadow_Lord]

Can someone enlighten me how to cancel Cr.HP to Shoryu with Ryu without getting a super?

 

[ACE 1991]

Anyone having any success consistently finding matches? Wondering if it's worth my time to get in the queue or if I should just play XCOM 2.

 

[Revven]

Is this going to be basically arcade mode (as in picking a character and fighting through the roster of characters and getting an ending)? Story mode currently is such a joke. Not because of the story bits, but because there are way too few fights and offers no challenge even to a button mashing scrub like me.

No it's going to be like MKX where you're playing different characters with in-game animated cutscenes between.

Anyone having any success consistently finding matches? Wondering if it's worth my time to get in the queue or if I should just play XCOM 2.

Just go play XCOM 2 they're taking the servers down in like 10 minutes to apply a potential fix and they won't be back up until 1 AM EST.

 

[ElTopo]

Sorry maybe I'm dumb but I don't see anything regarding combos or whatever blockstrings are? It's just me and a dummy AI and the menu has a list of basic commands

There's a thing called Google.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=blockstring

 

[Deleted member 752119]

If any significant amount of your interest in the game is in single player stuff I'd say at least wait until June.

This.

And if you're mainly into online mp, give it a week it two for them to get the servers fixed.

 

[Sarakin]

Is this going to be basically arcade mode (as in picking a character and fighting through the roster of characters and getting an ending)? Story mode currently is such a joke. Not because of the story bits, but because there are way too few fights and offers no challenge even to a button mashing scrub like me.

From what I've read it sounds like the story mode coming in June will have actual cutscenes instead of the comic style stuff in the current story. But I assume yes it will be a series of fights because what else would they do? Just a lot more neat in between stuff hopefully.

They've said it will be "over an hour long" which is... a little worrying because I was definitely hoping for something reasonably long. Maybe that's just a conservative estimate on their part though.

 

[entremet]

Sorry maybe I'm dumb but I don't see anything regarding combos or whatever blockstrings are? It's just me and a dummy AI and the menu has a list of basic commands

There's nothing about combos in training mode.

The poster sounds a like an experienced player and he's talking about experimenting with in training mode.

That said if you're still learning the fundamentals, it is useless on its own.

 

[emag]

Can someone enlighten me how to cancel Cr.HP to Shoryu with Ryu without getting a super?

Don't mash. A single DP motion (ending in down-towards) won't get you the super.

 

[Nerd_Incognito]

Way to kill all my goddamn hype, Capcom. Can't connect to anyone. Can't create a lobby to even play against my friends. What's the point.

 

[Skilletor]

Is this going to be basically arcade mode (as in picking a character and fighting through the roster of characters and getting an ending)? Story mode currently is such a joke. Not because of the story bits, but because there are way too few fights and offers no challenge even to a button mashing scrub like me.

Not sure of the structure. I'm expecting something like MK where you play different characters throughout the events.

They have "extra battle" coming next month that has you fighting random characters and NPCs leading up to Shin Bison. But, also don't know if that's the normal Arcade mode format.

 

[Emitan]

Wait, this shit is having online problems despite all the betas? Capcom should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Betas aren't designed to get the game working launch day. Launch day for any online centric game is going to be shit because you're never going to have so many people connecting at once outside of it.

 

[kobu]

man survival mode is some nonsense

 

[fluffydelusions]

Is survival mode online? Like since servers are going down in a couple minutes will I still get FM?

 

[Past]

So server maintenance in 5 minutes, is it going to kick everyone out of what they're doing? Because I'm in the middle of survivor right now.

 

[Zophar]

Going on 24 hours now and I have yet to see a single online match. I've had fight request on for as long as I've been connected.

 

[Ferrio]

Betas aren't designed to get the game working launch day. Launch day for any online centric game is going to be shit because you're never going to have so many people connecting at once outside of it.

That is some grade A bullshit you're spinning.

 

[Sigmaah]

I give them a week tops to fix this shit, I believe a couple days it'll be gucci but a week tops.

Anymore than that and oh my fucking god. I mean it's already shitty we can't play but might as well do survival mode for them colors in the meantime.

Fuck.

Damn servers going down in 5 guess no survival lmao.

 

[Caim]

Just got a notice in-game saying that maintenance is starting in five minutes.

 

[Norwegian_Imposter]

Quick question, I set my region to Norway because thats where I live but does that mean I can only play with norwegian players?

 

[Deleted member 752119]

Just had a message pop up saying server maintenance in 5 minutes.

 

[Garlador]

Betas aren't designed to get the game working launch day. Launch day for any online centric game is going to be shit because you're never going to have so many people connecting at once outside of it.

I don't recall any of the Betas working that well, even with far fewer people either.

Still funny that we had FOUR Betas and the launch is still pretty awful.

... Reminds me of when PSN went down years ago right when Mortal Kombat came out... but THAT game came with hours of story mode, Arcade ladder, a huge challenge tower, and hundreds of unlockables to keep me busy until online was up and running.

 

[Akibared]

Nice of them to tell me before they boot me.

 

[howdyjacker]

Got my Amazon order CE after all and on time.


But it didn't matter any way cuz I bought on pc.

Which PC looks leagues better I might add.

 

[Sapientas]

Gameplay is very solid and all characters feel tight, it's a shame that the launch was such a mess, a lot of people didn't manage to get a single match online (myself included).

Had some fun completing the Story mode, despite being very short and having horrible AI so right now I'm just anxious to play online.

 

[OsirisBlack]

Burned through bison Laura Ken Ryu and Rashid survival modes easy normal and hard for all characters only 1 death total but 7 disconnects just about made me quit. I have no idea who I'll main (probably bison or Urien)the entire cast is fucking amazing.

 

[Hustler]

Just had a message pop up saying server maintenance in 5 minutes.

Me too.... For how long???

 

[Past]

8 rounds of survivor left, I won't be able to beat it before the maintenance start fuckkkk.

 

[mreddie]

If any significant amount of your interest in the game is in single player stuff I'd say at least wait until June.

I want to do online as well but the OT has been people getting mad over the servers. I don't think Black Ops 3 or FIFA were this bad. This almost parallels Driveclub's first days.

 

[Emitan]

That is some grade A bullshit you're spinning.

?????

I'm speaking from experience. So many games have a bad launch and then work fine a few days latter.

 

[M_A_C]

For anyone having trouble getting their PS3 sticks to work, get JoyToKey and set it up to mimic the keyboard defaults like this:

My old PS3 TE stick works perfect in this and any other PC game. Also, don't forget to run JoyToKey as admin.

 

[Durden77]

Yeah I'm ready to dig into online. Sucks it's not working. I've had request on all day but nothing.

Sever maintenance is about to start too. Shit. Hopefully they fix it.

 

[Zombegoast]

If there's one thing that ISN'T barebones, it's the SF5 training mode.

It's the best training mode ever in a SF game.

No, SF4's is because my settings are saved when I exit the game.

 

[deadeyekiwi]

Quick question, I set my region to Norway because thats where I live but does that mean I can only play with norwegian players?

I might be wrong but that means if you set the connection requirements to 4-5 or 5 only you can only fight people in your region. This was supposedly true during the beta so i think that the case now. Otherwise you should be able to play internationally.

 

[ElTopo]

Betas aren't designed to get the game working launch day. Launch day for any online centric game is going to be shit because you're never going to have so many people connecting at once outside of it.

Yeah, I'm calling you out on your bullshit. They had multiple Beta's and they had the same exact issue multiple times over. They knew they were going to be dealing with a shitload of people on launch day. This is just a bumbled launch no matter how you spin it.

 

[Ragnaros]

There's a thing called Google.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=blockstring

Wow. Fighting game communities really do bring the jerks in bunches.

 

[KZXcellent]

Just finished Survival Mode on Normal with Ken. Not gonna lie after getting smashed AND disconnected a couple times at 25-27 this victory felt great. I popped off like I won Grand Finals or something.

edit ~ and as I post this the servers died. I am SO glad I finished in time.