ElvenShadow

I plan to enter the official tourney this weekend. I haven't been able to play ranked matches for 2 weeks because I accidently registered my card on a loketest machine so it no longer works with the current version. I was told by staff that it would auto reset after the loketest ended but that didn't happen. I'm hoping that when the upgraded version drops that my card will work again. My win rate is frozen for now. I really hope I don't have to start over.

Found out something new while playing casuals yesterday. While you are in vulnerable state after getting countered by a BS, you can try to BS while still in that state. I always thought when that happened that people were just attacking late, but I am almost 100% positive that you can try to counter BS at any time. So, if you successfully land a BS on someone who also has 25% meter, it creates a whole other mind game of if you go for the combo after you land your counter, wait and see if they try to counter BS and then punish the whiff, or go for a throw which would be non BSable. Interesting. I think this is good in a way because some people were thinking BS is too good and this makes it much less abuse able.

Hellfire does seem to enhance damage on supers. Overall I don't mind hellfire mode Danger time is random on ANY clash. I heard from someone it has a 1/16 chance of happening. It is pretty rare but as I stated in that interview, I would prefer if they change how it works. It is my least favorite new thing about Xrd. However, it's not bad enough to ruin the game or anything like that.

Did anyone happen to save the footage of the casuals I was playing on stream before the tournament or know if it is archived anywhere? I'd like to review the matches to learn stuff, especially the ones vs Bedman. Edit: nevermind, here it is http://www.twitch.tv/joniosan/b/509201290

Thanks. I think Bedman is a solid character. His pressure is really strong. I wasn't really sure where the gaps were and how to block everything well yet. Pretty nasty crossups too. Was also falling for tick throws too much. I definitely want to fight more good Bedman players. Mario, check the Xrd video thread. The tournament footage is posted in there.

I don't know. I didn't ask him. A lot of the people who are still playing +R a lot are the ones who don't have their character in Xrd yet. There was like 4 cabs of +R casuals going on during the Xrd tournament and its funny because you look at them playing and the matches feature almost all characters not in Xrd lol. I am sure some people just still like +R a lot too (I still like it but I am just focusing on Xrd now. It's not like I will never play +R again)

310 is not Satou. Satou was there but he was just playing +R casuals.

I like the new system. I think once you all play it you will find that you don't really miss FRCs.

I will be running both Xrd and +R tournaments at Frosty Faustings VII. I like both games! More GG is not a bad thing!

Here's how it works.... Each move has different YRC windows. Some you can YRC on active frames, some only on startup frames. It all depends on the move. The only thing that determines if a YRC ends up red is if the opponent is in hit or block stun. The only thing that makes it purple is if they aren't and you cancel after YRC window. To answer Mario's question, yes you can but it depends on the move and your distance to the opponent and it would only HIT them after the YRC if it was a projectile. For other moves, once you cancel, the hit box is already gone. You could have projectiles YRC right before hit, but you would just need to be at the right distance from the opponent. If you try it and you are too far, you will get purple because you would have to wait too long for the projectile to reach them. Regarding IK combos, one thing to keep in mind is that they have to have flashing health. If you do a huge combo on them that puts them below the percentage of life bar that causes flashing (say 15% or whatever it actually is), their health won't stop flashing until AFTER the combo is finished. So, you can't do a huge combo on someone into IK unless they were already flashing BEFORE you started the combo. Honestly it doesn't seem so bad.

By the way, does anyone know exactly how Risk Rating is calculated?

I never had problems doing FRCs... It's just that Faust didn't really have that many useful ones (aside from FRC pogo in XX which was godlike). Sure, FRCs to make his teleports safe were good, but his bomb bag one was pretty useless and the FRC after his scalpel super was rarely used and was also super easy. I can see how a lot of people will miss them, but having YRCs work with almost anything really opens up so many options.

No idea, but I sure hope so!

Also, Reaver, the new RC system is really fun. It makes the game feel a lot more free. I don't miss FRCs to be honest. Trust me, the game is really fun. I understand people being upset about their character not being in the game but that will get fixed over time. Is it overall a better game than AC or +R? It is way too early to say yet, but I am having tons of fun playing it!

He can do it to every item! I found this out last night. If you do the version of item throw where you hold the button, the items are thrown right in front of Faust. Each item falls at a different speed and some are really hard to hit. Fastest: candy, bomb, hammer, weight pretty fast: poison, donut medium: black hole, spring board delayed: oil slow: mini Faust, balloon Can't hit: meteors You can also hit them in 2 ways depending on where it hits your bat. One way goes really fast and sorta straight out. Items that normally hit physically will knock down the opponent on impact. Items that don't hit or miss the opponent will fly off screen. The other way you can hit is kinda slower and doesn't go as far. Most items will land on screen and if they hit the opponent they won't knock down. This tactic is pretty useless generally in matches unless you are full screen and have all day to set it up. You can also hit most items if you throw them normally without the button hold but you need to YRC to get to them in time, with the exception of mini Faust which really seems like the only one generally worth doing it to. Random Item Baseball is now my favorite thing to do in Sparring Mode now when I am waiting for someone to challenge me in VS mode. See how many items I can hit in a row without missing. Mini games! Someone should throw tournaments just for this! Side tournament at Frosty Faustings VII?!

From my experience, whenever I tried to BS on wakeup it didn't come out and I got hit. I watched that Bedman fight in the Mikado singles vid and I dunno what to tell you. Maybe Ky did the 6HS too late. I'm going to Game Platon to play all night in a few hours. I will try to BS on wakeup more and test it out better.

I think you can't.... I'll have to reconfirm though

This is a very good question. Little eddie is strange. Hitting him with a normal allows you to cancel into specials but if your try to RC the move you used to hit him, the game still registers Zato as not being in hit stun (unless u hit both of them at the same time) so you can't red RC the move you used to kill little eddie but you can YRC! In the case of most DP moves like VV, you can't ever YRC so therefore the answer to your question is no!

I'm gonna man up and ride my bike to game Platon which should take over an hour. No car access tonight. Hopefully someone is there! I'll try to check some things people asked about more.

I don't recall seeing grabs teched either. Might not be in the game.

Bloodcrave, that's a good Q. I wish training mode let you record the dummy. I'll keep an eye out

The RC freeze threw me off at first too but I'm already used to it. It's really not that bad. You guys will all adjust to it like in Week 1

http://iplaywinner.com/news/2014/2/25/elvenshadow-talks-guilty-gear-xrd-release-the-games-future.html

Hmm... yea, it seems that she got about half of the meter used to execute the BS when it landed (so about 12.5% meter). It is easy to tell because she was at full bar when she did it. I haven't really noticed this before. I will keep an eye out for it from now on. Also, yes one frame jump (I think) and FD canceling dash momentum are in the game and seem to feel the same to me

Yea... there aren't that many Bedman players in general yet but I think he will get better once people figure out how to use him more. It is still pretty early. I have only fought Bedman a hand full of times. You can see a few matches of me fighting some Bedman players here from the Mikado stream footage right before the 3 on 3 from Saturday. http://www.twitch.tv/joniosan/b/505362387 My matches start around 4:31:00. I had a bunch more matches that didn't get recorded. Had a good win streak going but then people stopped playing me and I lost to MOM mode right before the tournament started LOL