ForteGS

Hey guys, I've been meaning to do a post about this for awhile now, but have been too lazy recently haha. Anyways I just wanted to give a small breakdown of the gundam scene in Australia - mainly for posterity, so that future gundam players can look at this post and see that we did/do have people who love the game and play it. Events Firstly, our most recent event was at a LAN held in Monash University in Melbourne 1 month ago: We had 6 setups, so that 2 can rotate off and change controls etc (also we just don't have that many people unfortunately). It was a great event which consisted mainly of casuals and a few veterans mingling and just having fun. We ran a Shuffle and a Team Hold tourney, although they weren't that high level. However, it was interesting to see how some of our veterans tried to play and carry their weaker team mates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9q6Hl6x0R8 -one of the closer matches between V + 1.75 vs Sin + Travis Winners received Gunplas for their efforts! This was our first ever proper 2v2 LAN event, and I can say that it was a great success. The amount of work required and preparation and backup plans we had in place all came together and just allowed the event to run smoothly. We weren't too ambitious with what we wanted to have going and I think that helped a lot. I'd like to personally thank Sin and rdmx who helped to transport players, equipment etc. Scene At the moment we have two groups. A Chinese speaking group and an English group (I'd love to find some Japanese players who play this game, but unfortunately the ones I know do not play any more or have returned to Japan, if anyone can help that'd be great). In total I'd estimate around 30 players at most, some on and off. The Chinese group based on QQ plays rather religiously, having lobbies almost every night and such. Our English group is based in Skype and we've recently had a few casuals together after a long time where people were busy or were not too interested in playing. Level of play: Our english group is still very new and casual, we basically just play whatever we want, and not every person is interested in improving or playing the game seriously, which often leads to hilarious moments, and fast games from overcosts. Fun! QQ group is a lot more advanced, where even shuffles are a lot more disciplined which results in some very fun and intense games. Team hold unfortunately has stagnated, due to some internal issues (drama). I'd say watching streams and games from last year we were definitely not too bad skillwise, but now that NA has really gotten down to playing team hold, they are probably far above us now. We had some players who went to Japan and also got rekt, and played online with CN/HK players such as King of Heartszz, Crossbonexp etc. Hopefully we'll get better! Future: To be honest right now our community has been fractured and I kinda feel sad about that. Partly due to different modes of communication but also due to personal drama and etc. However with the new patch coming out, I believe that a revived interest in the game will keep it going for at least a bit more. In terms of competitive play, I am working on hosting an online tourney, and maybe introducing a points system for placings, to encourage participation and high level play. In summary: it's hard to say. However, I do know that some people love the game and the franchise and will always continue to play the game. Media: Steam community (English): http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GundamEXVSAustraliaNewZealand Skype Group contact (English): rdmx88 QQ Group (Chinese): 153363431 I created a channel for our scene: https://www.youtube.com/user/ForteAusEXVSFB/videos - Here people such as ultimaelvez, rdmx, and I have started to upload vids of our gameplay. Hopefully when we run our online tourneys, we can get some real serious gameplay onto there, but until then most uploads are fairly average and nothing special haha https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjO5pMm2MbeGEIq4 - is k8u's channel, he uploads some of his games onto there. Shoutouts: Firstly, shoutouts to weuk8u for running the QQ group and in general being friendly and fun to play with, you've done some great work. Secondly, to rdmx who although is very timid and nervous, still goes through things when I really want him to. You're awesome dude. Lastly shoutouts to my m8 and Ultimaelvez who taught me how to play, and never quits or rages on me LOL keep at it /no1 Most of all, thanks for reading this guys! Any questions and I'd love to answer them! ~ForteFM

This is awesome, looking forward to this! Hopefully in the future there will be more collaboration stuff

Thanks for the clarification, my explanation is kinda difficult to understand as eng not my 1st language, but yeah I was told that this was a relatively new thing that jp?(unsure who exactly) players discovered, so the true extent of its usefulness has not exactly been verified yet. However I've heard that unicorn would probably be one of the best users of this amekyan. Hopefully some gameplay vids showing players use it come out soon.

Okay, wasn't sure what it was called, after finding those vids google translates it to shield amekyan, 盾アメキャン

Yeah, I'm aware that it has something to do with that, however what I'm trying to get is that if you hold back instead of up from the shield, it pushes you back while you're firing the assist and the BR while keeping you on angle Edit: Okay found a vid http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22990710 Also for other suits http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22985847

not sure if I can find a vid, but try this, hold shield and double tap AC then BR - it should push you forward (because you were holding up) and then drop you down

Something that I learned today was that for suits that have AC as their assist, they can block then hold a direction and double tap AC to get the cancel off - something that's useful for Unicorn because his assist and BR both cause vernier when used out of angle. Edit - this could go in the general techniques/amekyans list