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The King of Fighters XIV |OT| ¡VIVA REY DE DINOSAURIOS!
- Thread starter Tizoc
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I double dipped because I lack patience. Mian is so cool. Zarina is way better in-game than she looked in the reveal, they really did a heck of a job with her. Just messing around in training mode for now but I love how unique the characters manage to be despite the roster size. There's no evil Terry, Terry with a diff name, etc.
Specific to KoF:
Heidern's wife and daughter from before the Leona adoption - apparently killed by Rugal
Rugal
Leona's parents (the father, Gaidel, has orochi ancestry)
Mature & Vice
Maki Kagura - Chizuru's sister, killed by Goenitz; considering the Vice & Mature situation, it may be worth noting that Chizuru listen to her dead sister speak to her in the women's team ending of KoF97
Goenitz
Yashiro, Shermie & Chris
K's sister whom Whip is supposed to be a clone of?
The guy that built Maxima's cyborg body?
(original?) Krizalid - there's that other one with Original Zero in 2001, but clones... damn NESTS was weird...
Vanessa's husband
didn't Ron from the Hizoku had some people in that clan killed or something?...
Zero (clone and original), likely
Igniz?
Mukai - by Saiki's hands
Magaki - by Shion's spear
Saiki - disembodied
Other series represented in KoF:
Jeff Bogard - foster parent to Terry and Andy, apprentice to Tung, killed by Geese
Ronnet Sakazaki - wife to Takuma, mother to Ryo and Yuri
Marie Heilein - wife to Geese and mother to Rock (now this would be an odd way to give closure to Rock's Garou ending...)
Butch - Mary's former boyfriend
Suo Tatsumi - Mary's grandfather, teacher and murder victim to Geese
Heidern's wife and daughter from before the Leona adoption - apparently killed by Rugal
Rugal
Leona's parents (the father, Gaidel, has orochi ancestry)
Mature & Vice
Maki Kagura - Chizuru's sister, killed by Goenitz; considering the Vice & Mature situation, it may be worth noting that Chizuru listen to her dead sister speak to her in the women's team ending of KoF97
Goenitz
Yashiro, Shermie & Chris
K's sister whom Whip is supposed to be a clone of?
The guy that built Maxima's cyborg body?
(original?) Krizalid - there's that other one with Original Zero in 2001, but clones... damn NESTS was weird...
Vanessa's husband
didn't Ron from the Hizoku had some people in that clan killed or something?...
Zero (clone and original), likely
Igniz?
Mukai - by Saiki's hands
Magaki - by Shion's spear
Saiki - disembodied
Other series represented in KoF:
Jeff Bogard - foster parent to Terry and Andy, apprentice to Tung, killed by Geese
Ronnet Sakazaki - wife to Takuma, mother to Ryo and Yuri
Marie Heilein - wife to Geese and mother to Rock (now this would be an odd way to give closure to Rock's Garou ending...)
Butch - Mary's former boyfriend
Suo Tatsumi - Mary's grandfather, teacher and murder victim to Geese
Karsticles
Member
I am thinking about running:
Geese
Mai
Kukri
I am not entirely sure on which order to run them in, though. I'm also not really sure what Geese's gameplan is. This is my first KoF game.
How do you unlock the two hidden characters?
Geese
Mai
Kukri
I am not entirely sure on which order to run them in, though. I'm also not really sure what Geese's gameplan is. This is my first KoF game.
How do you unlock the two hidden characters?
Rollback should be the norm by now tho. A shame. Been hard to find local sustained play in this series since it left arcades.
I got home from work and found the Burn to Fight Premium Edition waiting for me at my door. I was so excited I ripped the soundtrack and took it out on my run. What a great way to get hyped for the game! Now I'm cooking dinner and reading people's impressions and getting ready to play shortly. I love days like this!
I am thinking about running:
Geese
Mai
Kukri
I am not entirely sure on which order to run them in, though. I'm also not really sure what Geese's gameplan is. This is my first KoF game.
How do you unlock the two hidden characters?
Complete story mode once to unlock the characters.
All three of your choices are fairly flexible. All three can rush down and play a defensive game well. However, I think that Geese benefits the most out of being a late character because his counter super is so good and if he has enough meter to climax cancel out of it he can nearly kill a character.
Personally I like Mai later because she is my most practiced character and I find her BC cancel fairly easy. If this was my team I'd go Kukri first, Geese second and Mai last. As a new player I recommend not worrying much about the order and change the order often to make sure you are getting equal practice with all your characters. It happens often that the third character doesn't see play even between opponents that are evenly matched.
The Yo Tornado
Member
Welp, tried to play one of the main people I play with in every fighter and it was terrible. Connection was from Western New York to Boston, and was a 3 bar, and it was the worst kind of lag. Like a bad vanilla Marvel 3 connection but with a sideshow effect of skipping frames. I don't have amazing Internet by any means but I get good connections most of the time in other fighters so I don't think I'm exclusively the problem here. Super disappointing though and I hope they fix up the netcode soon.
ShinMaruku
Member
Indeed whip is a clone of K' sister
DR2K
Banned
Is it playable like DOA5:LR on some connections?
If so, I haven't had any yet. Just doing random ranked.
Going to play a friend I have a great connection with now.
This dude - https://www.twitch.tv/frionel26 - is playing a dude from Belgium from Morocco and says the netcode's good but there's a glitch where you get a garbage match against players but if you keep retrying eventually it'll be a smooth connection which will last for the entire session. Dunno if BS. UPS says it delivered my copy at the front door/porch but it isn't there and I'm fucking mad
Well, it's not BS as we could witness it. Things they were doing would be impossible with delay.
And Frionel is legit. He is a Top europe KoF player, and was playing against another Top Player, Kenpachi.
I'm watching his stream right now. So they just have to put up with some bad matches & it'll clear up? Obviously that's terrible, but seems like something fixable if that's the case?
EDIT: After a really laggy match, this next one is smooth like he predicted. I wonder how he can tell.
TheSpoiler
Member
Hot damn that might be the highest kill count not including mk. Good way to retcon stuff I guess.
...I want to buy but, this and a few other impressions scare me greatly.
Did you play SFV? Daimon's trials are irritating me. Canceling into HCB, F + PP from H is so damn tricky when I'm in the middle of a combo.
The Yo Tornado
Member
The game itself plays amazing but the netcode brings me back to pre-SF4 levels. I would've been satisfied with KOF XIII PC level netcode and this isn't even half of that, because at least I could tell when a connection would be bad.
TheSpoiler
Member
I hope they fix some of the design choices for the online as well. Fucking Jesus don't boot me because the lobby creator left.
dragonflys545
Member
It's hit or miss. out of the 10 matches I've had like 3-4 with lag.
If he is playing against Kenpachi, if it says 4 bars, it will lag. If it shows 3 bars, it's flawless.
Doesn't make sense, so it's more like a glitch.
TheSpoiler
Member
I'm still getting lag on randomly so fixing that glitch won't solve the netcode in full. But maybe it's linked? I dunno.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
The netcode is baaaaad
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
So is this any good?
I was thinking of getting it but I'm an offline fighting game guy from way back who sucks at fighting games. I've played previous KOF games but damned if I know what Im doing. I need more content than SFV.
I was thinking of getting it but I'm an offline fighting game guy from way back who sucks at fighting games. I've played previous KOF games but damned if I know what Im doing. I need more content than SFV.
Hellshingu
Member
It has an arcade mode and Vs. CPU. Mostly the same feature set as SFV aside from that.
Edit: Oh and a Time Trial mode.
dragonflys545
Member
Lol wtf there is like no one playing ranked...
lucebuce12
Member
Gunslinger
Member
So what's the verdict guy? Better than sfv or nah? mostly interested in the mechanics and netcode. Not a bait post either. Haven't payed much attention to this one. Not sure if I want to drop 60 dollars.
dragonflys545
Member
Gameplay yes, but online is below average compare to SF V... I just don't know how Capcom step up their game while SNK still stuck in the pass when it comes to online play. I wish they let Arc System work on their online mode.
Unfortunately I can never say no to KOF regardless of how bad the netcode is. Just hope they try to fix it.
Yeah, check the OP. 50 characters, story mode, gallery, trials. It's tons of fun.
The netcode is indeed bad, but if it's possible to predict which matches will be bad then that is a really encouraging sign that it's fixable.
Gunslinger
Member
Well for me since I play on wired connection I barely get laggy matches on sfv. Only time i get super laggy matches in sfv is when I play with people from Canada or outside USA. Is the netcode really bad for this game? Worse than kof 13? I recall 13 having really bad netcode.
DR2K
Banned
That's no beuno
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Mechanics are all personal preference. I'm more of a Capcom/ASW guy myself so I prefer the gameplay to those over this.
Netcode is bad. As in, you can play with someone within driving distance and still have delay bad.
Gunslinger
Member
Can't be as bad as kof 13 ? Or atleast not as bad as 12? 12 was unplayable.
dragonflys545
Member
I can't get a single ranked match going wtf...
I'm on Nat 2.
I'm on Nat 2.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I want to pick this up but if the online is bad that kind of defeats the purpose for me
When folks are saying its bad is it more "noticeably not like local play" or "legit unplayable"?
(legit unplayable meaning total stuttering bullshit with inputs not registering)
I have to ask because of hyperbole (though I trust it's actually just bad)
When folks are saying its bad is it more "noticeably not like local play" or "legit unplayable"?
(legit unplayable meaning total stuttering bullshit with inputs not registering)
I have to ask because of hyperbole (though I trust it's actually just bad)
ãInaba Residentã
Banned
Yeah, the online is super weird right now. I've had 2 good matches out of a lot. And when I say "good", I mean really good. Like very slight input lag. The rest have been slightly average and underwater. Connection bars aren't representative of match quality at all.
gundamkyoukai
Member
The block stun in this game is so fucking weird with some characters .
I have the computer rolling pass stuff i know they could not do in any other KOF .
Have to adjust with some of my characters .
I have the computer rolling pass stuff i know they could not do in any other KOF .
Have to adjust with some of my characters .
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
This game is tragic
That netcode. WEW.
That netcode. WEW.
J_Macgrady
Member
Same thing happened with me and a friend. It's weird.
The trials are a lot easier than 13, but still challenging. Vice's trial 5 with them double HCF supers was on some other shit.
Gunslinger
Member
Probably they changed up the frame data from previous games. Is there a frame table out for this game?
TheSpoiler
Member
Kukri's dialogue suggests that he frequents internet message boards quite often.