Xenesis13

I'm hiding from online as well, but I'm a special case because I'm like spectacularly, mind-meltingly bad at this game. I lose to the computer all the time... on *ahem* all difficulties. I'm not brand new to fighting games, I know a decent amount about fighters and even knew some combos in CSEX, but I spend the overwhelming majority of games in "ok.... wtf do I do now?" mode, I tend to panic and just mash. Of course this is against computers, I'd probably just seize up in the face of the unbridled terror of PvP lol Also I used to get crazy bad ladder anxiety in Starcraft, so I'm thinking its pretty much the same thing here. Still hoping tho, that someday I will be able to go lose without fear online!

Ah ok, lame. Thanks for the info!

I just got my physical copy today in the mail after ordering on Friday. It didn't even come with a Terumi code though. Did I have to buy it day 1? Maybe I should have gone digital. Got mine through PlayAsia and had it delivered by Fedex. Disappointed, though I guess it could be worse since I don't really plan on maining Terumi.

Hey all, quick update on where I'm at; Just got CS:EX this weekend, so now I'm up to date and everything. Think I'm improving a little bit, my footsies has advanced from spamming all the buttons to spamming some of the buttons. Actually memorizing pieces of combos, although there's some spots where the number goes blue. I'm assuming that's bad across the board? Also hit-confirming... ummm so lets say I'm doing Noel's 5A > 6A > 6C > 6D > 236A > 66C > j.D > d.6B > d.6C > d.5D > d.5C > d.236D combo ( the 6C->6D part of that seems to always let them escape, they can air roll long before they fall enough to get hit by the low 6d so if any Noel players can clear that one up...). So I'm fighting and I throw out a 5A randomly, it seems like i need to know whether to go into the combo the instant that attack hits/is blocked which just seems inhumanly fast to me. Any tips or tricks on that front? Throwing out an extra 5A before deciding makes it almost manageable but doesn't that hurt my combo damage? Anyway, thanks for the continued help. I'm having fun failing slightly less miserably than a week ago :P

Oh wow, a lot of great links and info here, and so soon :D First off I had a vague idea about punishes from street fighter, but I thought high attacks were waaay more prevalent than they apparently actually are. I would kind of randomly guess stand or crouch block and get punched long before I could think about using a punish myself. Perhaps some kind of drill where I only attack the ai immediately after a block would help with that. Additionally I like the 2 combos idea better than 60 haha. Particularly once they're broken down further. I guess I'll pick out a couple from the wiki page (thanks for that, its much less terrifying than the combo thread) that look doable and start practicing. As for when to combo, I can do it to punish, but does going on offense get into hit confirming? At the moment I just kind of start "comboing" as soon as I'm in range of the bad guy. The 5a 5a from challenge 4 looks kind of like a hit confirm, but my brain works nowhere near that speed lol. Should I just focus on punishing and worry about developing light speed reactions later? I have seen P4A, surprised to hear its *less* complex. I might pick it up just to play with, but I really like Blazblue, and with CP coming out someday, my hope is to be familiar enough with Blazblue by that point that I can kind of jump in on release. Thanks so much everyone for all the responses, kind of makes me feel dumb for not just asking sooner, but I had to beat my head against the wall at least a little. :P

Hi all, Newbie here, having a bit of trouble learning fighting games so I thought maybe I'd stop trying to struggle through everything on my own and ask a question or two of people who actually know what they're doing. So obligatory brief self-introduction- Only fighting game I ever played before January of this year was Dragonball Z Budokai 3. I was decent, could beat my friends, but looking back I mostly just mashed buttons. I got fairly into competitive gaming last year which eventually lead me to fighting games early this year. I started with DOA5 and SF4. I like DoA but I can't seem to get my head around 3d fighters. SF4 I really enjoyed which lead me to Darkstalkers and Skullgirls. In my wanderings on the net I had heard of Blazblue a little bit and decided to pick up CT for like $5 for my PSP. I really loved the art and character designs, even though the psp d-pad made it kind of tough, so recently I got CS (not extend, apparently i need to go shopping again :P). As with CT I've chosen to main Noel, cuz I like her. I did all the tutorials and did her first 3 challenges (and the 1st combo of the 4th challenge ( was crazy, pretty happy I finally got it)) along with playing through her arcade (on the easiest difficulty >.<). So anyway, I'm a little overwhelmed by some of this fighting game craziness: So it seems this game is a lot about combos, challenge 4 was tough but I think it was like 10 moves tops... People seem to throw around 20 move combos like they're nothing around here, I looked up Noel's combos and.... wow... I didn't count but it looks like 60+ different combos, granted there's some overlap but... damn. So do I need to memorize all that to be competent? At the moment I really just dash around avoiding stuff and then jump in and try to follow the chain revolver combo ( D>A>B>C>D ) but there's just so much stuff I don't know how to react to. I don't know how to get to the point where I really think about the game like a fighting game player, rather than just seeing it as a 2player platformer where you can punch and kick. I suppose mostly I'm just having trouble with the difficulty curve of the whole thing, it seems like once you know what the buttons do the next step is to be chaining 20 move combos into each other in the air and knowing how to do it different for each character. Perhaps a little guidance on the in-between would be helpful :D Thanks for listening to me ramble, and hopefully this is the right place for this thread. I usually just lurk forums, but I'm enjoying learning what little I've managed to learn about fighting games and Blazblue in particular so I thought I'd reach out to you guys and see what help or advice you can provide.