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The King Of Fighters XIII + Steam Edition |OT| Now on Steam with Improved Netcode!
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Terareflection
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They're growing though.
Phoenixazure
Member
Id Say Chin.I have Ralf as a main and my gameplay revolves around his amazing pokes and just fustrate the player constantly by poking him out of everything with a sC, CD, cC, sD, jA,jB, jCD. and then zone with his ground pound and gut punch specials.
Anyways current team: EX Iori, Ralf, Mr. Karate
Working on: Iori, EX Kyo
Chin and Karate, with a side of Leona and Takuma!
Chin: Ability to cancel normals into stances, for pressure and combos, very specific distances on counter followups, and strick timing and spacing needed to maxamize combos.
Mr. Karate: Jump cancels. This isn't totally vital to his game, but making use of them for quick jumps out of resets, or just basic weak attack -> Air Hienshippukyaku stuff is pretty awkward.
Leona: Her difficult execution for HD and stuff actually holds her back. If her moves had simple-style "anyone can do this!" inputs like Shen (plus a few frames more safety/advantage), she'd probably be almost as strong an anchor as him.
Takuma: I've seen so much "lame" play from him now, but in the days of arcade, watching him start up his long, involved combo strings was always one of the more interesting aspects, as it was open at every point to a screw up of timing or HSK failure. I think it takes technical dedication to be able to take him from "fireball spammer", to his full potential.
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My Current team is generally Chin, Karate, Leona XD Swap Chin with Hwa, and Karate with Maxima, and that'd be my original team. Almost everyone else in the cast is a standby, past that... Leona is generally a permanent fixture.
Takuma, Chin and Duolon.
Duo Lon is probably one of the more challenging characters to use as well, as he is only as effective as how fast and tricky you can be.
Like SAB said the Takuma play we see these days is a joke compared to what the Japanese players did in the arcade. He probably has the best damage output in the game (say hello to almost 70% damage with just one drive bar) but ppl can't take him to his full potential because of the exection barrier. Basically in the arcade you would barely ever see anyone go HD with him because he simply didn't need it.
Chin.... well, he's just awesome.
I'd probably plug in Joe as well with his stun combos.
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My current team is sort of most of the cast, I couldn't choose so I just started learning everyone.
CadetMahoney
Member
Pretty much. You can actually see beginners going for the big damage combos but they drop it at the light punch bit. Character is too dangerous in the right hands.
Ultimately this game isn't about full HD meter, when characters like Chin, Kyo, Billy can do long combos for similar damage and rebuild meter whilst doing so. . . that's what this game is turning into now. Chin especially is pretty lame I think, just waiting for that EX roll. I really hate how he can cancel his overhead into a throw. Someone was using it with autofire on me, lame!
Korean 3v3 featuring players like Poongko, Vash and GUTS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VXwQ3Letuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VXwQ3Letuo
Terareflection
Member
Online today was a lot better than yesterday, I found a grand total of zero people to play then.
Augemitbutter
Member
any streams going tonight?
took a few days break and online seems pretty bleak now. people leaving after one game don't make things better either.
took a few days break and online seems pretty bleak now. people leaving after one game don't make things better either.
Terareflection
Member
I don't think there will be much until Final Round.
If online is too empty, there's always GGPO.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
It's not about GGPO. It's the fact that we need to unify around one KOF game from SNK instead of being fractured chunks of countries where some in Europe cling to 95, China clings to 97, Mexico clings to 98 and 2002, Japan hanging onto 2002, Taiwan hanging onto 98 and so on. We need to get them all playing 13 and having us all unified for the first time.
Terareflection
Member
I don't know where this came from. I suggested GGPO because that's the only other way to get better at KOF if you don't have any offline comp.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
Each KOF plays different though. When you say "get better at KOF" what do you mean exactly? Play KOF 95 which is the last of the old school fighting game styles? Play 97 which was pretty good with the new system or 98 which was the pinnacle of the Extra/Advance system of play. Or 2002 which started the Max mode? Or XI which is the tag team of KOF with saving guard and all that other stuff?
What we need is people to unify WITH KOF 13 to get better at that ONE game where most people are at ground zero with it rather then years behind on it.
Terareflection
Member
They aren't so different that you cannot learn KOF's fundamentals.
Phoenixazure
Member
Found this randomly in a 4ch thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9itQ4LFEM
Goes well with the FGC drama over at CrossAssault
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9itQ4LFEM
Goes well with the FGC drama over at CrossAssault
Augemitbutter
Member
that's the previous version, right? i seriously don't want to play that.
Holy Order Sol
Member
http://fr.twitch.tv/signedbyr
A shitload of matches were added recently. Really good stuff too, including some great Takuma play.
A shitload of matches were added recently. Really good stuff too, including some great Takuma play.
How can I watch those twitch vids on iPad? I open the app and searched for that username, nothing pops up.
You can't watch archives on the app.
Im still having issues with comboing HCBF command grabs like Shen's or Elisabeth. >_<
Terareflection
Member
Sparkster(Frosty Fausting IV winner) also posted a nice little anti-benimaru guide.
http://logicfighter.com/2012/02/26/maxmode_001/
http://logicfighter.com/2012/02/26/maxmode_001/
try rotating to up-forward? This game has some weird funky ways of differentiating between inputs- 98's controls were much more logical to me.
Terareflection
Member
I think it's just not registering the back input, I usually get the throw if I let my thumb linger on the back button then go to forward(or do the whole motion), if I the do the motion too fast I get the DP.
SolarKnight
Member
That's most likely it, I had the same problem until I realized that my stick wasn't actually hitting back before going forward, I stopped at down-back and wasn't doing an actual HCB, so obviously the command grab was never going to come out.
Terareflection
Member
Still don't understand where you are getting this from.
FindMyFarms
Member
Won a KoF tourney last weekend, pretty good turnout, about 20+ people. Highlight was making someone slam their stick down, pause, unplug, then walk off in the middle of a match lol.
Ah, that works for me, I tend to get DPs instead of half-circles if I don't move the stick to uf.
Terareflection
Member
Nice, I think I see you around the Dallas threads at SRK, right? Doesn't Dark Geese show up around there on occasion?
FindMyFarms
Member
Are you from Dallas? We have a Facebook group actually that's very active, no one really uses the SRK thread, you're welcome to PM me if you want an invite.
And yes, Dark Geese does show up on occasion, but he has a pretty stacked schedule with his job.
Terareflection
Member
I live over in Oklahoma, but thanks for the invite.
Augemitbutter
Member
got 30-40 games in tonight. hasn't been this good in a while.
most matches were great.
most matches were great.
Terareflection
Member
Max mode isn't very pure.
just curious, which platform do u game on? i am very interested in beating you
max mode just buffs your attack and makes you supers go maximum.
that shit is way more honest than things like HD mode for example
No way, HD is way more expensive and actually requires skill/execution.
Augemitbutter
Member
just curious, which platform do u game on? i am very interested in beating you
sure, if you are anywhere near me. i'm on PS3 and in europe.
Execution doesn't make anything honest. HD being expensive- it's really not that expensive for the damage you get.
I prefer OG 98 style myself.
Blowing your entire HD gauge with a big chance of messing up in a long combo isn't much more expensive compared to simply blowing one power bar to get a power boost? Okay.
Execution, which would mean actually doing something to get any benefit, in this case I find far more honest.
Terareflection
Member
A max mode combo into super does probably a little less than an HD combo.
It isn't the worst thing about 98, though.
It isn't the worst thing about 98, though.
CadetMahoney
Member
Bristol Sodium Showdown 7 results and write up:
http://orochinagi.com/2012/02/sodium-showdown-7-results double OCV from one of London worse players? heh.
http://orochinagi.com/2012/02/sodium-showdown-7-results double OCV from one of London worse players? heh.
good players wont drop combos, especially considering most of them are easy. the fact that you can confirm before using the meter alone puts it in the realm of new school, hit confirm into big damage. theres really no risk involved. in og98 you just raw activate and put a time limit on your damage boost, which the opponent can see and run away from until the time is up. not only that but its difficult to convert into huge damage off hits in 98, much harder than doing any non-combovid hd combo in 13. goes double since there is a time limit.