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PSN ID: BrokenStar96 State/Province: Ohio Main: Noel Vermillion Sub: Rachel Alucard Availability: After 3:00 on weekdays, pretty much all day on weekends.

If you want a character that excels with trapping and zoneing, go with Rachel. If you want a character who does well with frame traps, go with Makoto.

At first, I heavily mained Rachel because i thought her gameplay was pretty cool, but I've always sucked at actually executing combos and getting out of pressure. Then I started expermenting with other characters such as Lambda, Makoto, Carl, Tsubaki, etc. But in the end, I settled with Noel. Something about her gameplay feels natural to me, her actual combos look awesome. I also like the combination of normals with Chain Revolver for some devistating gameplay. At first I didn't like Noel so much, but as time when on, she's really grown on me. Now Noel's probably my favorite character.

• PSN ID/XBL GT: BrokenStar96 • Location: Cleveland Ohio • Open to FR's: Yes

Wait... Didn't Terumi say he didn't need a life link because Ragna's hate (And presumably everyone else's) was enough to hold him in existence...

Eitherway, there's now way this incarnation of Rachel will be as sucky as CS Rachel... -.-

I can't help but get so hyped for CP! Makoto looks really good this time around, (I don't care about tiers, all the characters can be dangerous in their own way) Watching some videos, Makoto kicked Bullet's and Amane's ass. CS2 Makoto, prepare to step off stage and let CP Makoto take the spotlight!

Ragna kills people, but he does so out survival instead of blood lust. The main reason he's going after the NOL is because of Terumi. Terumi took everything away from him, and now he has strong footing in the world government ( not to mention that Terumi is a psycho son-of-a-bitch) Kinda makes the NOL Ragna's enemy. It's also been established that not a whole lot of people are fond of the NOL, but don't dare to rebel because of their power. In a way, it brings to mind The Hunger Games and how Katniss started a rebellion against pitting kids in a fight to the death. Ragna is rebelling against a government that oppresses people, and is run by a sadistic killer, and his possibly brain-washed sister. Either way, some of Ragna's reasons are justifiable.

I think I know what you're talking about. And I think that was because she was with Nu, another Murakumo Unit. And Noel (In a sort of a Mu mindset) reacted like she did to her pressence and Bolverk is a limiter on Noel's emotions, which might be why she didn't take Mu's form. Izayoi, on the other hand, was an Armagus that came before the Nox Nyctores. It's possible that Izayoi was sort of prototype for the Prime Field Devices. Sort like how it was the original weapon before the Nox Nyctores.

Most of the characters are getting nerfs of some for or another, wheather it be Makoto's Dash, nerfs to Noel's Chain Revolver, nerfs to Rachel's Frog special, or the nerfs to Nirvana's durability when playing with Carl. Either way, you can't expect everything to last. Eitherway, we have to take the good with the bad. Honestly, I don't think CP Makoto sounds to bad, yeah we got hit with nerfs, but we didn't get bludgened as severely as we did from CS2 to CSX, and some characters were murdered with the Nerf Bat in CP. I guess I'm saying it's a little bad, but it could be worse.

Maybe The Izayoi corrupts Tsubaki like Terumi did to Noel at the end of her story. (Like when He smelted Noel in the couldron to reborn as Mu and made her believe that the world hated her and that it was filled with nothing but lies.)

Chain Revolver Abusers give Noel a bad name, I hope we don't get tons of those in CP.

A command Grab you can combo into, that sounds really useful. I'm so going to use Bullet, her gameplay looks fun and awesome. I'm also glad that Noel looks like she has potential for this game. (Noel!) Does anyone know if there's some decent footage for Makoto or Rachel?

Arakune looks pretty tough, he made mince meat of Bullet. He's probably not as strong as his CT self though.

Just watched some footage of CP Noel, her design looks great and it looks like she has a lot potential. (Chamber Shot looks like it will be very useful.) Anyway, I think Noel has a lot of potential in this game. (She lost in the match, but it was against Ragna, and she has a disadvantage against him. So....)

I think though that they prevented Takamahara from Observing/Looping time when Terumi used The Izayoi to keep them from observing and attacked them with that virus. (And Saya said that the world is now a world of perminant death or something like that)

I think they just kept if from observing, and Takamahara (Or however you spell it) From looping time over and over using Terumi and the Izayoi.

Amane is probably going to an interesting fighter, he looks like a rushdown/zoner character like Hazama. (But I might be wrong)

It also looks like while doing a mission for Sector seven, Makoto bans together with Noel to help save Tsubaki. (Or something like that, my computor isn't all that great at translating) It also said something about Makoto having a mission from Sector Seven.

I'm still kinda new at this sorta thing, but since i'm kind of an optimist. I think some of those chages are good. (It's a new game, so it's only natural that old combos would die and new combos would would be born.) Either way, I'll use Noel Reguardless! (Her new design looks sweet!)

Sector Seven would probably revolve around Tager, Kokonoe (NPC currently) Makoto, and Bullet The Free Lancer group would probably be Carl, Ragna, Noel, Jin, Rachel, Amane, Tao, Bang, Platinum, Hakumen, and Valkenhayn NOL will most likely focus on Azreal, Litchi, Tsubaki, Relius, Hazama, Arakuna (Currently being held captive) and Nu.

To those worrying about Makoto's nerfs (Myself included) Almost every character thread that has discussed characters in CP has started out with a pattern. People getting all excited about the characters strengths and them being hard to beat in this game, and then after awhile, the nerfs become apparent and they start going into a doom and gloom state. It's to early to tell anything, not a lot of combos have been tested, no one has actually had the time to sit down for awhile and actually play around with Makoto (Or any other characters who supossedly got nerfed.) It's just to early to tell anything, the best we can do is wait for the Arcade release to get clear footage and ideas from there. Bitching about nerfs and cons to Makoto is going to do very little Arcsys's plans for Makoto and any other character. In other words. Don't worry until we need to start worrying.

Maybe it will be devided by affiliation Like Sector Seven, Free Lancers, and NOL.

Yeah, it's to early to tell anything just yet. Makoto could be really strong once all of the combos are figured out!

Either way, i'll still use Makoto. The few characters that are getting strengthened, Like Carl or Noel, are kind of hard to use without a lot of practice. I'm just curious about how well she'll do against Amane, Bullet, and Azreal.