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Impossible to do, anyways. Best you'll ever get d0 with rollback, which still isn't as good as d0+no rollbacks. Even though jin's is a bit of troll post, I have to point out that any game with a true high level of play is only nominally accessible. It's not like you're gonna body a pro at some MOBA the first time you pick it up; they still have knowledge and skills that you don't. Games without skill requirements or knowledge requirements don't even -have- high level play. In short, any game worth playing competitively has to have some kind of barriers to getting better, and intentional barriers oppose accessibility.

so put smash on pc and make a bunch of rich white kids play it? brb, going to make a fortune

I use throw tech os unless someone is baiting it.

Putting up closed captions for other languages would expand the impact of an already useful series of videos. Closed captions aren't on by default, so that shouldn't clutter the video for people watching in English. I can't speak to the timing difficulty or your desire for precision in content (and I believe strongly in precision, since I graduated with a degree in philosophy and was trained in the analytic tradition), but I do believe the potential benefits could outweigh the risks. Some of the best players are already international (Shinjin, FAB), and if you even got one player interested who could get to that level by including subtitles in other languages, I'd say it'd be worth it.

I don't like using mics a whole lot, but it's more because I can't tell if they cause lag or not, and I haven't tested. Most of the time, if I'm on mic, I'm talking with friends, so I never have issues with douchebaggery and bigotry. (About the worst it gets is hilariously silly trash talk.)

This post here should be a pretty good explanation of what you can train and how to use training mode.

Maybe he should consider switching characters. You're making it sound like he's just not at home with Testament.

Like someone else said, just be supportive and constructive. Make sure he sees what he does wrong and knows how to train to fix it. There's not a whole lot you can do past that.

Indeed. This feels like the kind of "soon" where you take bets with your friends, not the kind of "soon" where you make sure you turn on your PS3 every day starting next week.

Not gonna lie, that's kind of offensive and short-sighted. Part of having a scene is having friends with common interests. If a bunch of people in a scene like anime, I don't know why it should be a problem if they're chatting about whatever came out this week, any more than it should be an issue if someone's chatting up how they just started watching Arrested Development. One could insist those provoke different reactions from the general populace, but there's no actual, legitimate basis for one driving off people. I'd rather just expect everyone to be open-minded. Shouldn't be a big deal if someone likes waffles or hates pancakes, or if someone wants to talk about the Steelers game or Attack on Titan. No one should care about that stuff. They -should- care about whether or not you're there to play games, and be welcoming.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814&p_id=9557&seq=1&format=2 It's not that expensive to wire yourself, and it's very worth it. Check your ping's stability (type "/ping google.com -t" in the command prompt, then watch for variance in your results) on wired and then on wireless: I guarantee a noticeable difference.

That may not be you, but I've seen that kind of person. The answer for that kind of person, at least, is exactly what Watches is saying: you let them in on what they're not seeing, so they can understand. If you think it's just embarrassing to lose, then here's my advice: go find a good player who doesn't mind helping people. It doesn't even have to be a person you know in your real-life scene. Ask them to play learning matches, one on one, when no one else is watching. Agree ahead of time that winning and losing is ignored in favor of gaining understanding. The learning player spends the learning matches trying things out, seeing what does and doesn't work, and asking whenever they don't understand something. Really, this -should- be any set of casuals with anyone, but I know plenty of players that don't understand that you have to play to learn some of the time so that you can play to win the rest of it, or don't feel comfortable playing to learn while other people watch. Those kinds of matches are one of the best ways you can improve, and make it so that you don't need to feel pressured.

I want to know what was up with our connection/the routing between us. I'm literally in VA, but I'm pretty sure I've had better games to Texas.

Most people take a beating without realizing they don't have the tools to win at that point in time. As a result, they feel like they should be able to win, and get pissed when they get bodied. Bad premises, bad conclusion. Basically, think of the guy that learned a bnb and thinks he can take on the world. He doesn't know shit about the myriad situations that can come up, but he doesn't realize that. He just sees that he can, in theory, hit you and kill you, and he's not doing it.

Comcast is about as bad as satellite. Got stuck with them for a year, couldn't do much of anything unless everyone in the surrounding block was gone. Ass ISP.

And, assuming you literally mean the kind of signal where I'd take meters to wires, etc., while I can't exactly say I've done that, every indication I have of the reliability of my connection tells me that it's more than adequate, at least in theory. My jitter is <2ms, pinging various places yields fine results, and I can play other games like Melty without issue. That just leads me to believe it's my connection to the other players. Might be an unnecessarily large amount of hops, etc.

The hell do you mean, "how strong is the signal?" It's wired. I'm connected through my router straight to the damn wall, and the PS3 is in the DMZ. My ping is consistent. Everything that matters is fine. I mean it's location as in, I likely have bad routing to everyone who still plays.

You think I don't play wired? Wireless is a disaster for gaming, no matter what the game. I think it's more the location than anything else, and also possibly the time (though I'd imagine Saturday night should be okay).

I don't think I've had a 3 connection to anyone who still plays Extend within the past year. EDIT: To be fair, I haven't exactly checked often.

Start saving replays and watching your matches. Look for things you don't know how to handle, or times you failed to execute something, or times you made a questionable decision. Train to fix those issues that you saw in the replay. Play with your new knowledge, save the replays of the matches after you've trained. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The improvement will be less pronounced, since the jump from anything 4 and above to 3 delay is like being able to breathe again, but getting 2 delay instead of 3 or 1 delay instead of 2 is still really good.

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@Nemesis: I don't really play this game anymore, and I'm not cracking open the case to play WC. You can just ask Toan and Errol how rusty I am. I'm as rusty as a nail that gave some guy lethal tetanus.

I'd rather complain about the occasional silly rollback and get tons more playable connections. Every experience I've had with rollback netcode has been sufficiently better than delay-based netcode to make me want it. Don't know if I've ever heard anyone say rollback is worse than delay-based stuff. Can't bitch about the internet, since it's kind enough to exist and let me play people I couldn't otherwise. Some motherfucker needs to make a teleporter, though. Would solve all our netplay problems forever.

This would honestly make me kinda salty in this game. Well, it'd make me salty in /any/ game, but it's especially bad in BB -- matchup knowledge is worth its weight in gold here, and it's possible to get your face wrecked because you don't know shit about the matchup, not because you don't play solidly.