Gespenst Ritter

About damn time we got a Reborn! rep. Somewhat disappointed that's it's anime-era, though. Guess we won't be getting Vongola Gear. Didn't the Superstars series use the manga timelines?

People are going to hate netplay Ragnas even more now that he insults them with every D move.

People would probably miss less stuff if the default posts per page was 50 instead of 10, so they didn't have to click through as many pages during a posting boom.

Nu's just pretty much spamming 5C and Act Parser all day. I'd say that it's a nice reference to the tactics of beginning Nu players, but that would be giving this show too much credit.

Probably because it isn't even from Jump.

Was there any indication of how this move performed in terms of frame advantage, blockstun, and/or damage? Any super-good properties to justify it requiring a charge?

Glad to see Activate is a special move. I was worried that you'd always have to use Activate to get rid of your existing Graviton if you wanted to set up a new one. The Flame Cage -> Graviton effect looks amazing. Finally another real zoner in BB.

Heh. Someone's playing Super Robot Wars in the background. Having to do split-screen for the local multiplayer in these types of games is always a pain. I'm also not too keen on how you're forced to have an active teammate at all times. I can see it now, with the CPU rushing in to attack the guy you're already comboing and ruining everything. Game needs more Tsuna.

So does Kagura not have a 2D? That's kind of weird. Do we know what type of state the stance puts him in? Is it a continuous stance hold like Serpent's Benediction, or does he just flash for a split second and you have to input the followup immediately like Nu/Lambda 214D~C?

Well, ideally, I would like to find enjoyment in participating in a forum dedicated to a game that I love very dearly, but I know that's not what you were really asking. I don't care enough about Kokonoe enough to join a dedicated group for her. This was just about how in general, mods here herd discussions into "approved" directions. At which point it stops being a conversation and starts being a script. Natural discussion often gets chaotic, but in my experience it always falls into order naturally without outside prodding.

It's not about Kokonoe specifically. It's about how no one can say anything anywhere on Dustloop without having to look over their shoulder and make sure that what they're saying keeps the thread clean and presentable to whatever imaginary audience is viewing this site. (Seriously, who are we trying to impress?) I think the fact that you deemed a naturally-evolving human conversation to be "useless" says a lot. As if a discussion is supposed to be some crafted project that we all contribute to with a designated end goal. There's no reason to crack down on people for not posting strictly gameplay news when there's already a thread for strictly gameplay news. On-topic, Terumi sure can gain meter. How about that!

So is this supposed to be a discussion thread or a hard news thread? Because it can't be both. You can't have a thread for natural human conversation and have it always be on-topic, because normal human conversation drifts off-topic by nature. Maybe it's move that can destroy the active bit immediately, to let you set up a new Graviton without having to wait for your original one to drain.

And here I was hoping that she could have more than one Graviton out at a time. I'm also kind of wondering how she can change bit positions if all of her D moves can changed to Activate once a bit is out. Other than just letting the Graviton burn out. Oh well. She seems like a space control character, and BB needs more of those. People need to chill with the hatred.

Is there some higher-res image of the Famitsu scan floating around that I'm not aware of? The ones in the thread aren't big enough for me to clearly see this Graviton meter and the stage details everyone's going on about.

I'm gonna laugh if it turns out that while everyone is pissing themselves over Terumi, Kagura's the one who ends up super broken.

Well he is some ghost-thingy, after all.

It sure would have been nice if they displayed the effects of Terumi's meter-stealing Drive on a character that doesn't constantly gain meter for doing nothing. Also, that meter gain. I was actually expecting Terumi to have a 150-meter super bar or something instead of combos that get 75% in less than 10 hits.

It's because they need to be in the ring for him to life drain, and many of Hazama's combo tools/enders (chains, 214D~B, Jayoku, Coils) either knock the opponent away from the ring or hit outside of it anyway. Hazama OD's real strength is that it pretty much lets Hazama ignore SMP and gives him infinite Ouroboros for corner mixups.

It's not at Hakumen levels, but it's pretty decent. And it more than makes up for it with the huge amounts of health regen. Tack on a Distortion at the end and you can easily make up over a third of your health.

Why are BB characters being compared to food?

That would be me. I just don't see any reason for all the doom and gloom given that the BB team has balanced similarly "sounds broken on paper" Drives fairly well since CS2. I mean, let's just think about this for a moment. Terumi's probably going to have 4 Drive normals like most people. Based on the trailer, it doesn't look like you can combo out of 2D, and 5D is most likely the Jabaki lookalike that's probably not getting much combo-extending usage outside of corner juggles. These give me the impression that his D moves are more along the lines of combo enders, so he's not going to be putting a bunch of them into all of his combos like Ragna does with Soul Eater. On top of that, none of his Distortions so far drain meter, and he has less special moves than most of the cast, so I'm guessing he has maybe two or three of these, and not all of them are guaranteed to be Force Eater moves. So, no, I'm not really expecting a GNT4 Kisame situation.

Force Eater drains heat? Well, it's not my birthday yet, Arc, but thank you for granting my wish. Terumi's totally not going to be super-broke, people. Honestly, I think the supreme movement Drives are still more threatening than Force Eater.

So I'm still not quite getting how Black Gale works. You use D to go into various stances and then do some other moves out of those stances? Kind of like having multiple Serpent's Benedictions?

Possibly no charge time for his moves, like Ash Crimson's Sans Culotte.

Because I want people to actually play it.