-New playable characters: Hibiki Kohaku and Naoto Kurogane (from Bloodedge Experience novels).
-Loke test on July 19 and 20th.

-New character select art by Katou Yuuki (CS artist).

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxXGVJSINHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxXGVJSINHk

This question crossed my mind a little while ago when I was introducing my friend to BBTag (his background being from FighterZ) and he asked who the high damage characters are. Made me stop and consider: How much damage is "high damage?"

In BBTag you have so many resources to play with at any given moment, and pretty much anyone can get some nasty numbers off those resources (cross combo with 2 meter stocked can feel like a death sentence), but many characters make a lot more happen. Big boys like Susan and Azrael get some disgusting damage off even basic conversions, that's a given, but where's a good place to draw the line?

The aforementioned Susan can hit 7k damage pretty easily from a 5A starter without resources, which I'd consider a great yardstick for the top end of damage. Characters like Adachi, Blitztank (in the corner), Carmine, or really any character with a strong loop can reach this threshold, and I'd definitely consider them High Damage™.

But where would I put someone like Ragna?

Ragna has good damage, but I feel like most of it is contained in his supers and cross-combo Hell's Fang loops. If you're caught with no meter in the tank and no cross gauge, you're only getting about 6.3k off of a good starter (thanks to Belial Edge scaling). 6.3k is still good in my books, but is it High Damage™? Does he become High Damage™ with resources? If so, how many resources should we consider when deciding High Damage™?

What do you all think? If you were to introduce the game to a new player who wanted to play a "high damage" character, who would you recommend for them?

(And to those wondering who my friend ended up playing, he settled on Ragna and Tank)

"The collision is inevitable. The impact will be unavoidable."

Info so far...

-Released in JP May 26th, 2018, in the US (and Steam worldwide) on June 5th, 2018 and in EU/PAL regions June 22nd, 2018. Confirmed platforms are PS4, Switch and Steam. Playtested at various events around the world before. This will also be Arc Systems newly US branch first release.

Prices will vary physically/digitally, $20 for the DLC character bundle (Digital Deluxe is now $50 for Game+All Characters), Character Packs 1-6 are $5 each and will give you 3 characters in each pack. Character Pack 7 is $10 and will include 4 characters. (Char. Pack 7 is free if you either, in 3 outcomes, ought the DLC character bundle, the Digital Deluxe, or have bought all 6 DLC packs individually.) The game also has Dual Audio and that includes the entire roster even. (UNIST's cast's first dub and Heart Aino's as well. Also vocal languages can be set individually per character.) (For prices in other regions, check your local regional retailer.) Version 2.0 will be out on Nov. 21st 2019, with the "Special Edition" out on the same day. The 2.0 content pack is $25 and will include 9 additional DLC characters, 4 extra colors for all characters, and an additional episode mode route ("Episode Extra"). Special Edition is a physical/digital (re)release that will bundle the game and all of its DLC so far.

-The game does have various Limited Editions depending on region, though they'll differ what contents in which LE you buy, prices will vary.

-2 on 2 battle system similar to the VS series, with its own unique mechanics, of course. Notes mentioned by SKD/SuperKawaiiDesu of DL (credited) here: Part 1/Part 2/Part 3

-Characters announced from 7 different titles (Blazblue CentralFiction, Persona 4 Arena+Ultimax, Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st], RWBY, Arcana Heart 3: LMSS, Senran Kagura: Estival Versus, Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Asuf.Achse), 20 characters in the base roster and another 33 as DLC (53 total).

BB (Base): , , , , , , , , , Es. BB (DLC):  , Jubei, , Nine, , Mai, Kurogane, , Susano-O

P4A/U (Base): , , , . P4A/U (DLC): , , , , , , , ,   / UNIST (Base): , , , . UNIST (DLC), , , , , Mika, ,  / RWBY: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Neo Politan. (Both Blake/Yang are permanently free DLC.) / Arcana Heart: Heart Aino / Senran Kagura: Yumi / Akatsuki Blitzkampf: , Blitztank

The demo is available to try out at your region's PS Store and Nintendo E-Shop.

Character Select Screen!

Out of nowhere

This isn't something that occurs in GGXrd Rev2... or even the Steam versions of the games.

I'm not sure if it's a problem on my end or what...

Sounds like some kind of Legal Snafu with Japanese voice actors or something... (Bandai Namco does this practice too, but why only PS4?)

IMPORTANT EDIT: Apparently as I rebooted my PS4 I was able to record videos again... just... what the heck why!?

http://www.blazblue.jp/bbdw/

While perhaps not always in the form we might expect, it seems as though the fears of Blazblue being a dead franchise after Central Fiction are unwarranted.

Bullet:
I modified bullet's attacks so they link up more and has more options. Some examples are "Flechette: Engage" (623D) launches oppenent straight up like in chronophantasma, "Lock On" (5D,6D,2D) is as quick as it was in chronophantasma, and her 6A move combos with 5C again so you can pressure them out. I also sped up 6A slightly. 3C is also quicker allowing 5C > 3C to be 100% possible.

Here is her modded .pac file:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3e8ror5mik7gn8b/char_bl_scr_(Bullet_Fixes).pac

Here is video demonstrating bullets changes performed into a combo:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sliyga6ocagkk8l/BlazBlue_Centralfiction_06.27.2017_-_05.35.54.01.mp4

Kagura:

I checked to see the frames it took to pull off some of his moves and the moves that are slower have been matched with chronophantasma and the ones made faster in Central Fiction are the same. Forgot what its called, but I modified the  move where you hold down and then up with C so that it sticks the player to the wall like in Chronophantasma. This open up more options to combo. Other than that, no big differences other than small adjustments everywhere.

Here is his modded .pac file: 
http://www.mediafire.com/file/e16lm1m5bkk58ei/char_kg_scr_(Kagura_Fixes).pac

Here is video showing the move now sticking player to wall:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/xwxy0ycyirruqfj/BlazBlue_Centralfiction_06.28.2017_-_23.11.37.08.mp4 

To install just rename the files according to this format "char_xx_scr.pac" and replace the ones within (Game Folder)/data/Char/
you might want to make backup before installing.

I found these characters to have been nerfed way to much and now I think they are a little better now.

 

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Have fun.

Where?

• This will be in the North America 1 server. In case beginner players want to play with other beginners, Ibukido Room 1 will be for them.
• Advanced/intermediate players will be using Ibukido 5. If the room gets too full, overflow will be Room 6 and so on.
• I am going to split the skill level for now and if this works, I'll keep it this way for the next meetup. If it's too confusing, I'll split the skill levels into two separate nights (one for beginners, one for whatever else) or just have a free for all.

Some general rules:

1.) Join discord! It's fun and you get to give feedback to whoever you are playing with. It's win win really!

2.) To make everyone's experience easier, please choose netplay safe stages like Altar, Colosseum Silent, or Old Gate.

3.) If you are outside of NA, you can either attempt to join us (beware of lag) or organize a meet-up for yourselves (same goes for Steam CPEX players).

I made this doc for fun to analyze the skills you learn/excel at when playing certain characters a lot in this game. If any of these need corrections/additions/deletions just tell me. Or just say what you generally think of this doc.

But its already gone! That game isnt even that old what the heck?

Come one, come all and use this thread for your general discussion on Blazblue!

Remember: keep it civil, keep the discussions on real/sensical topics concerning the state of the of the game and it's community.

http://www.siliconera.com/2016/09/29/blazblue-central-fiction-collaborates-toukiden-2-dlc-items/

Is a Central Fiction Extend likely in your opinion? Wouldd you hold on buying CF if CFE was announced?

I recently started playing BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, and it is my first fighting game ever, so I had some trouble learning it, but one thing that I can't solve, even after 30 hours, is using the dash.

As far as I understand, you have to input the same direction twice (either 44 or 66), and then your character performs a character-specific dash. The difficulty I'm having is that I can't consistently do that.

I'm using a 360 controller, and I use the left stick for character movement, but I can't perform a dash on it, almost at all. I can 50%-50% dash on the d-pad. My questions are:

-Should I use the d-pad for movement? (really uncomfortable)

-Should I use the d-pad especially for dashing? (having to switch is really sluggish)

As far as I'm aware, the dash should be used as a quick movement option, for dodging or engaging.

-Is there any trick to quickly and reliably perform a dash? (Using a 360 controller)

I was thinking about making a 4 input, and then "flicking" the stick to 1 and then to 4 again, but I can't get that to work, either.

Thanks for the help in advance!

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Well, I´ll try to go first:

I have to admit am myself in such a situation, since I have promises tied to the ps3 version, so I´m looking for someone who would share.

Greets,

Juraya