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I will be hosting on the north side Chicago on Thursday evening, primarily to get myself ready for AH3LM and DFC at NEC. UNIEL... well, I will just wing it there (not sure if I should of have pre-reg'd myself now that I think about it). Let me know if interested.

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I think assist should never be locked and be free for selection at all times, just like standard Arcana Heart rules. Locking them for the winner would make the tourney play less interesting + hurt the characters in B and C tiers, imo.

I'm assuming DFC is a side tournament. Would registration take place Friday at check in?

I actually would like inclusion of Arcana if possible, maybe once just to test waters out. Several people that never played the game before picked up LM and seems like more Marvel players other than Brightside and Leon may join in the future. I'm always inclined to be pragmatic over pushing my own preference, though. That being said, the reason why I think DFC would be a good inclusion is similar to UNIEL - the game's entry barrier is low (even lower than UNIEL) for anybody to jump in and try it out, even if they don't own the game yet.

DFC is OTG (one true game) I'm in support for option 1

What the heck exactly happened with P4U2 at GGA? Also, who wants to play DFC? :0

I'm considering going. Would be my first NEC since 2010. :D

Reposting from Facebook. Getting this out there early: Hit me up if you are interested in some AH3LM, P4U2 or UNIEL in north side Chicago on Thursday evening! Gathering will likely run from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. I own two Evo monitors but if anybody can bring a third that would be great. PM me if interested.

I shall read up on these. I pre-ordered the game a while ago but otherwise, pretty clueless.

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When my fart lag spikes the game mid-combo srs

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Color edit is not necessary. Even if it was in the XBLA version, it should just not be allowed in online play since there will always be idiots that make stuff like all-black color pallettes that makes it almost impossible to tell what the hell they are doing. I speak this from experience with NGBC for XBLA.

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Having played GG/BB/MB would definitely make it easier to pick up AH than those that haven't played those games, but it's still a different game of its own so I would approach it with a new attitude. The biggest learning curve, in my opinion, is how to effectively space and position yourself using homing. But this might actually not be as bad for AH3 since you get free homings from neutral state. The mind game involving clashing is pretty deep as well, since there are so many ways to initiate clashes as well as so many options to take after clashes. Also, on a vaguely related note, Valkenhayn's wolf cancels are somewhat similar to homing cancels in AH. At least for combo sequences like 236C > 9D and j.214B > 5D/9D. Yea, I actually kind of forgot about the jc'able 2E (I never mained anybody with Wind so forgive me). That is definitely great too, plus the quick fall and the boomerangs. Seems like it's the definitive Arcana for Schar, just like Kamui + Gier and Catherine + Wind. As for the Evil Arcana, the super teleport just doesn't seem to be as useful (or rather, cost-effective) in AH3 due to the fact that the Arcana guage and the Homing guage was consolidated into one. I still think it's great for characters that can incorporate 2[E] into their combos and the poison effect off EF for everybody, but I really dunno what to say about the super teleport either.

Saki was always about mix-ups. j.3c and Orna ([8]2x) give her great high-low and ambiguous cross-up options, while her ground charge kick has always been a great bait-and-punish move. In AH3, Shiro Aran often activates EF in middle of a block string for even crazier mix-ups. She literally looks like V.Akiha sometimes. She was always rather average on the damage scale, though. Also, Schar is definitely a strong character. She can keep a lot of characters at bay by poking all day long, and mix-up mines in there for additional threat. Wind is a amazing Arcana for her because not only does it make her a lot more mobile, push block helps her keep the opponents at the mid-range distance she exactly wants them to be at.

I only said it because most of videos in Niconico don't contain character tags, unless they are individual matches. You can search for character names if you want to, but that will only limit your results most of the times. It's better to simply search for Arcana Heart 3 vids and watch them through and see if they contain the characters you are looking for. There is actually a lot of Angelia footage out there, and same goes for Nazuna. It's not like we're talking about really unpopular characters like Dorothy.

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Most match vids on Niconico don't contain character names in the tags, as surprising that may be. IMO, it's good to get exposed to many different characters anyway.

Another thing that should be noted that those 5[e]/2[e] that are true unblockables deal damage. While for other 5[e]/2[e], damage is not dealt on the initial guard crush, but is still taken into account for the combo damage scaling.

Fun meter Arcana Heart 3 SSF4

You should also note that some 5[e]/2[e] cannot be shaken out of, though, like Fire/Halo/Sin (I might be missing something else?).

Arcana Heart 3 SSF4

Why the hell do you guys want to be 'snowflakes'? :scared: