LastStarSaviour

Might make it tomorrow, don't know yet, ride situation looks iffy.

Woz, why didn't you throw a marin karin in there? All combos are made better with marin karin. I might be at Game galaxy bright and early tomorrow depending on money. Edit: What time does GG open?

Grand Finals were type meh.

Glad you find that funny. Can still do a bit of entry-level stuff, but gaining access to my options at all times through the excessive charging just got killed. My combos are still in there though.

My PS3 controller just lost it's D-pad, no more P4U training for me, PPPPHHHHUUUCCCKKK!!

Always on, always looking to have matches. Get at me bro!

Lol, we have a spreadsheet now? Cool beans, we're really stepping up in the world. Digging the 2v2 tournament. Double the P4U action in one day, getting hype. @Trippfan: Why you think you no part of crew? We're kidnapping you son, you have no choice.

Just had my first run in with a decent yukiko. I would say that the match-up was frustrating, but aside from getting in, every time I touched her she died. With that said they still did a very good job of keeping me locked down, even in my maximum range with Mitsuru. @Milln/Grimstar: Yosuke damage be that good stuff. Requires a few counter-hits, but with the best buttons in the game he shouldn't have too much of a problem getting that. Gets about 3k into confusion oki, he's REALLY strong. @Woz: Fight meh Woz! No one on PSN is trying to today.

Scratch off Raiza and put Woz, Volpe. That still leaves two more slots open for tonight's games, maybe one if Tripp decides to fight. Edit: Jackie, you need to re-add me tonight.

The room opens up around 6. G-ram, give me your PSN, i'm trying to add you. Anyone else trying to get in shoot me a friend request. @Kyle: YES YES YES! WE NEED TO DO THIS! 5v5 will be so HYPE!

You know what, how about this; Hosting a room tonight (and for the next few nights as well). Anyone who wants to get better and have access to a PS3, GET ON!! Anyone who doesn't want to get better, stay in your little hole. We're climbing to the top of this game no matter what. Get yourselves in gear and i'll see those who do want to play online tonight. Woz, ready yourself, we battle tonight.

I'm votiong PS3, but that's just becuse i'll finally be able to donate a set-up, but whatever, i'll still probably bring it anyway. Also, i'm getting so much better with Mitsuru now. I'm actually punishing people full-screen for pressing the wrong buttons, you guys will never understand how satisfying that is coming from a character with absolutely no mid-screen/full-screen control to one who has the BEST. Ma god, this game is so legit! Teddie, you want to throw items...WRONG!!! Elizabeth, you feel like playing around with Thanatos...WRONG!!! Akihiko, you trying to get in...NIGGA NO!! Yukiko, chucking fans? You ain't Mai, CUT THAT SHIT OUT! Mitsuru, the true full-screen goddess!

Been to busy in the lab to talk. Edit: Just got back from getting teeth stuff done, my mouth feels like I went ten rounds with Mike Tyson at the moment. Anyway, this game is amazing. Sorry i couldn't make it to FIght Night. I'll definitely be at the next one. So far, i'm maining Mitsuru (I love how she plays) and I guess you could call Yosuke a second main/sub (you'll be seeing a lot of me using him). Other than that, I plan on subbing everyone else in the game, they're all too legit.

Don't even question your life Tad. There are people like me out the there who look up to what you do and how you do it. Mad love, man.

Alright man, if you really think it's theory fighter. Edit: I was just going to leave it at that, but I wouldn't feel comfortable doing so. So instead, i'm going to simply say this, I haven't tested Furin Bang on all characters, at most i've tried him out against Noel and Mu-12. But at the same time, i've used Haku-Men and i've used Lambda against a very strong Bang player, who was able to control Furin Bang very well. He managed to give me a lot of insight on Furin and honestly, that's how I came up with the conclusion that the problems you listed aren't as relevant as you peg them out to be. But go ahead, dismiss what I say as theory fighter, it's always so much easier to end a discussion that way.

This all sounds like problems that derive from bang players not being able to control Furin movement well, which if this was the case would make sense. With that said, I can't really see any of the above mentioned, except for Tao because well, she's Tao. I could perhaps see Rachel as one as well. Tager: I honestly would've bought your argument had you talked about his normals, but spark bolt? Bang has to worry about Spark Bolt in Furin? Just wow... Haku-Men: Did you just say, space with 4C, you're joking right? More times than not Haku-Men will not catch you, unless you're auto-piloting, with one of his C normals. They're much too slow and most outside of 5C don't even have a good enough hit-box, especially 4C. Hazama: The risk/reward for Hazama trying to lock you down in Furin with chains is awfully high. I mean, once his chains are half-way through the animation, he can't call them back, making a free whiff punish if you are able to predict when he'll throw them. Now getting in on him from the air is something I may have bought honestly, seeing as his anti-airs are just silly. Lambda: She suffers the same problem against Furin Bang, except her swords are almost twice as easy to bait. It's already bad enough she can't establish a good zoning ability against normal Bang but now she has to gamble with someone twice as fast and with more ability to get around? Mhm, that's really dangerous territory alright. Not only that, she has no solid reversals, and her normals when compared to Bang's are mediocre Platinum: The worst you might get out of her is getting out-poked, 6A too godlike. Other than that, I don't see a problem. Carl: How so?

I'd have to say the same about my own debate skills as well. I have to get better at making my arguments sound smarter. I'm told I have some good points, but they don't come across as intelligent due to grammar issues and what-not, thus getting written off. Astaroth, Tager players do have to work, don't ever think you don't. It's just not as much as the community makes it out to seem.

Furin is very easy to get, and activating it is somewhat just as easy. Bang doesn't have to spend meter for much of anything, his pressure and combos just don't require it. Also, Furin does net the best damage in-game (via counter and non-counter hit), where you're getting he doesn't I don't know. He doesn't require 100 heat to get more than 5K in Furin either, you've been wasting your meter if you do spend this much. You're guaranteed a good 4K off any hit that manages to connect in Furin, regardless of positioning. Do you understand how good this is? Being in a state where your speed and ability to return to neutral/safe positioning anytime you want to is unmatched. You say he needs 5B to get damage, bang's 5B is not that slow. Only 10 frames and it's jump-cancelable on block (combined with the distance Furin sends you in a dash, that's pretty good).Not many characters can punish his back-dashes, like you said they need really good, long-ranged pokes, which most characters DO NOT HAVE! The fact that once Bang enters Furin, that turns the entire match afterwards into a horribly laid out guessing game for your opponent (so blocking on reaction and punishing on reaction is difficult). Maybe you could try and block Furin mix-up, but the fact of the matter is, most times you won't be able to block everything (and in most character's cases, you're going to have to mash in order to get out of situations). Topped with the fact that his D nails give him automatic ability to get in, no matter where he is on screen and you have to respect it is amazing. I could go on and on about how great that move is, but the fact of the matter is, against many characters in the game the reward he gains off Furin outways the risk. Edit: I could understand why Furin isn't used against characters like Ragna, Litchi, and Mu-12. Everyone else you'd have to explain to me why not.

There's so much truth to this it's not even funny.

Not really broken, but it's hella good (broken) you have to admit. You net about 6K off of anything and the mobility on that thing is ridiculous. Chances are, someone who goes Furin will never get caught, it's not used much because it takes some actual skill to use, and in high-level matches people don't tend to stick their necks out for things that could ultimately back-fire if you don't know what you're doing. With that said, I do like Extend's Furin. Especially J.2C loop, I specifically learned how to do that with bang if nothing else.

Except CS2 Woz... I wish they would give Noel more than 2 new moves though. She really deserves a overhaul of moves this time around.

I really like how Bang has to use all four of his drives in order to get all four seals. I always thought he needed to work a bit harder to get something as broken as furin. @Woz: Nah, ignore half of my doom alerts for Noel. This has happened every iteration of the games' loketests. I hear terrible news, depression hits hard as hell, a ray of hope shines on release, then I find out she's still crappy as hell but can somehow deal with it.

I'm going to miss gold bursts, but I supposed overdrives will be hype. Apparently Noel's boosts her drives, HAHA! Sweet jesus, give niggas another reason to option select losses when they fight me why don't ya Aksytem. Also, the first loketest apparently spelled quite a bit of gloom and doom for Noel...again 6B>6C apparently no longer works. Plus combos from 22BxN and 22C no longer work. How the hell do we get damage mid-screen? Also, the new shotgun move gatlings off of 2C, but they're sent flying so far from the opponent that it's impossible to combo...da heck is this? It wallbounces/sticks in the corner but reports have said you can't combo off of it in corner, the same with her 22B and 22C stuff. Optic barrels A and C are gone? Okay, now this just doesn't make any sense at all. Heard the input for optic barrel C got replaced with the Shotgun. I like her new move after Revolver Blast though. Nerfs to 2D, people will still complain about that crap, and still get hit by it. My main thing is 4D no longer combo'ing. If this comes to fruition i'm done with BB forever.

Got some Chrono Phantasma information for those curious: - Gold bursts have been removed, they've been replaced with something called "overdrive" Builds up over time, grants character-specific benefits. Duration depends on health. Freezes the timer when used. - The guard primer/libra has been removed, each character now has certain moves that if you pay 25 heat and press A+B will break guard - Wallbounce has been changed, characters now wall-stick instead (i'm assuming like GG)

I really want to make it to Game Galaxy tomorrow, i'll see what I can do. Most likely i won't be able to make it though *sadface* As for get-togethers, tomorrow i'll be a Persona zombie, Wednesday I have to go to the dentist so i'll be in Clarksville all day. Thursday-Sunday is open at that point. Next tourney is on the 18th Woz. Hopefully we'll get a decent number of entrants.