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got a wedding or i might attend this. maybe next month?

Looking like next gathering at my (gbursines (toms river)) place is to be 7/13 (saturday during evo weekend) i'll make a normal post about it with rules and all that when i can, but that will prob be the date. let's call this your heads up if your too poor to evo this year (like i am :X)

rip all white 'ghost' platinum i very enjoyed that color most cp colors are agreeable... will prob use the zombie (what i call the goro-channn~~~ color) colors more often than others. brown, white, hazama, both blue, and color 12 all are pretty neat shrug?

GGs to everyone I got new confidence to learn my platinum combos. Maybe ill be better for next time im around in bb.

At least a lot of people play it in casuals while they are there. Thats a great thing to see at least. If i got there earlier and got to eat* before, i woulda entered :X

99% lemme just work out the math on cash needed for bridge n shit should arrive in time for all games i wanna play

this sat is tsb i believe. but money might keep me from going to that. so keep us posted mike ^^?

potential next gathering mid july just throwing that out there, if i get real details ill post em otherwise, how has everyone been? i dont want the return of classic jersey lol

hey jimmy, whens the next time you plan to have people over?

might come out. ill take ahmaad in gg biscuits you fool (if i show). might wear a name tag so people know who i am next time lol.

now if only i knew how to watch nico vids x.x thank you though

the level 2 j.2c tutorial was taken off youtube. was there a re upload or did someone archive it? :3?

the one you enjoy more bb is easier to start with if that matters bb xbl netplay has way more games than gg xbl netplay if that matters offline you can find players for both in jersey just try to talk it up in the jersey thread. i know you posted already, you just are pretty far from the bulk of us.

yea, i mean mostly TK swallow moon and command throw mixup. just the flow seems to make them harder to feel out just my observation and i say blue hammer/red hammer cuz i prefer it to cat hammer/pow hammer. just me trying to not be all cutesy and shit. Serious platinum business only.

in all the videos ive seen, plats damage is just a little bit lower than most the cast, but our mixup seems a little stronger since the game speed up overall and a lot of plats mixup was hard to react to already imo buffs to being able to combo off blue hammer and some other random item hits is nice too

yessir white boy with long hair playing gg most the time.

all these troll names might as well do that barcode shit from starcraft at this point -_- no fucking idea whos who

SOMEONE HAD A FUCKING PILLOW PET?! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME

its really just get a basic loop, from the basic starters, on as many characters as you can after u get that done, then you optimize into weird starters and more optimal loops. if you have anything doing 3+ SW's into BR, thats fine. work on doing the same from a different starter. the ones i listed are among the most common, and should give you a feel on what you need to know. basically, its understanding how each air normal moves the victim so you can position on the fly to ensure clean hit. then you can go wild. until then? basic loop, off basic starters, and as many people as you can. its that simple.

should be able to make it out for this. edit: should be there well before 2pm start, but if i am not, call me and see where im at! 732 644 2100

pick a character make sure you can do it off of: Gunflame FRC... Wild Throw... 2D, bandit revolver, RC... 6P, gunflame... (in the corner) Grand Viper clean hit... ... = fill in normals, if you need to. Its kinda free form to just get it working. 2s 2h j.s SW is reasonable for a pick up most the time straight jump into j.s SW is another important tool 5k 2h j.s SW also good (and should get you into SW loop on CH 5k if you wanna add that to your list) If you can do those 5 on a character, reasonably well, move on to the next character. Rinse repeat. that will be a good start point. If you dont wanna do all the characters, here's a shorter list i recommend. Anji, Eddie, Jam, Ky, HOS, Potemkin, RoboKy, Slayer, Sol, Testament Between those 10, that covers all the weight classes pretty much, and most of the hit box sizes too. That should give you a start point for 95% of the cast. (might be hard on johnny. never played sol vs johnny.) Hope that helps.

Okay, lets go in on a rant. A rant about Xrd, getting more people in GG, changing the bad parts about our scene, and just a bunch of shit thats always bugged me about the 'anime' scene. (Note: This is my experience. I was not big into BB, but this is what I observed. If this is wrong, feel free to discuss it... but if it felt like this to me, someone whos been into these games as long as I have, I cant be the only one to see things this way.) Xrd is in my mind the 4th big chance since i joined the scene to get people into our games. BBCT, BBCS2, and P4A being the other 3. We did good with P4, but did less good with the other 2. To understand the concerns I have, we gotta review why I think this happened. BBCT came out. It was shiny and new, a new IP, a fresh starting point, and it gave us something new to get hype about. My local guys were traveling an hour plus multiple times a week to play this shit in NYC/Philly arcades. Hunger was high. I never quite latched on the same, but I tried to reserve an important attitude about the subject. "This game just isnt for me." If i was with my old scene I knew well, I would joke, but to players I didnt know well, and to potential new blood, that's were I kept my opinions. This game had the potential to bring in new players. Balance aside, it gave the anime scene something new, something easier, and really just something less daunting to try and join. I was lucky I loved GG enough to 0-2 every tourney I entered for a long time and not mind it, but most new players cant handle that kinda door being shut in their face. We supported CT with a lot of community effort. Tons of tutorials, combo videos/guides, some match analysis vids even. It was nice. But flash forward a while to the future. Something changed. High end players focused more on the games faults than its successes. It seemed to boil into 4 schools of people. 1- Im a great player, and I play this game because I genuinely like it. 2- Im a great player, and I would drop this game until the next version if I wasnt placing high in tourneys right now. 3- Im a bad/average player, and I focus on the games problems more than improving my play. Vocally. 4- Im a bad/average player, and I want to improve to some degree. Schools 1 and 4 were the ones I saw the least. At least at an outsiders glance. I saw people not giving the help in person i expected from the response online. I saw near-toxic attitudes at tournaments when I listened to conversation about the game. I saw a lot of people 'waiting for the next version/game' instead of playing what they had now and enjoying it. Why would a new person want to join a scene when the guy who just won the tournament would tell him the game isnt hard, isnt balanced, or would immediately jump to the problems of a game, rather than the things they got hype for in the first place? * This shit needs to stop. * BBCS1 and CS2 were the next stops on the train to get more people into our stuff. As a permanent fixture, not a flash in the pan 'why not' kinda player base. The same attitude was carrying over, but admittedly we got some more people in it for the love. Character-love players, the severe CT problems were gone, combos were more swag (to me) so we had more 'flash' to our matches. It was nice to watch. This era, I wasnt into the game. I tried to get back into it to play with a local friend several times, but never kept it until the end of CS2. But i watched a lot. It was cool. Saw a lot of things I wish I could do, but saw myself not having the drive needed to learn it all. At the time anyway. We still had some of the old problems (and some of them were improving!), but we had a new problem added to the list at this point. We were content with our scene were it was. I saw less and less new people join. And I saw less and less people try to get new blood into it. It was like we made our anime cliche and that was fine enough. I disagree. We should never be 'fine' with the people we have. Constantly try to get new people into it. Try to play casuals in a spot where non-anime could see it. Try to talk the games up. Try to show people their misconceptions and how wrong they are. We dont need fucking pot bonuses to attract people to try our game. We just need a few things: 1- People excited about the game, spreading their excitement. 2- People teaching people how to improve, how to understand whats happening, how to understand anything they dont get about the game. 3- People to STOP being toxic about their main game. Next BB players or P4 player I hear say their game is bad (even if its with their own tourney scene with their own players) is getting strangled. 4- People to STOP being toxic about games THEY DONT EVEN PLAY. If you dont like a game, thats fine. I dont like everything. But dont spread your opinion negatively like that just to spread it. If there isnt a real point to saying something negative about a game, just say "It's not my thing, that's all." instead. Then P4A came. The game had some great design ideas to help with some of the problems listed above. Borrow a well known IP, good tutorials, easy to understand ranking system, easy to level PSR to give the bad-ass feeling about your ranked results, and system mechanics that are easy enough to grasp for most players. All while keeping a lot of the depth we expect from anime. And it got company backed support, so it got attention. This is a nice time for anime. I recently had a friend say he should learn P4, because everyone at ECT was playing it. That is the exact thing I wanna hear. A real reason to learn a game, even if the reason had little backing behind it, its a reason thats honest! When I watched ECTV P4 finals, I had some non-anime people ask questions to each other, and I was more than glad to help them understand it better. This is great to hear, and I was glad to do my part. But was there something about this time, with P4 being the main game for our scene, that was bad like the others? Sure was. People who didn't play the game making a LOT of comments about the game as a whole. A LOT of comments that the game wasnt legit, and thats why they didnt play it. Basically just a LOT of vocal activity where if I didnt play the game, I would hear it and say "Guess I was wrong when I thought this game was worth giving a look." This, like a lot of the problems mentioned, needs to stop. Phrase your compliants in a way that come across more that its your personal opinion. And make it sound intelligent. "I dont like the balance of this game because my character has bad matchups and the general system makes it easy to deal with her mixup." ...vs... "This game sucks becauses I cant do anything. I just get mashed when I try to do anything into oki vortex." Which sounds a LOT better if you were reading this comments as something who was thinking about giving the game a try, but went to read our forums first to see the public opinion. Exactly. So... looking forward... We have plenty of games coming out. +R whenever that hits consoles, BBCP, Xrd in the future, if they ever do a P4 update/sequel... and non-Arc games too. MB got that caster update, UNiB if it ever hits, Chaos code, Arcana 3's update, all sorts of games we can include in the anime scene. We need to be the staff to our fine hotel of fun times we call anime. Inviting, helpful if you want it, out of your way so you can just have a good time if you want that too. Stop talking down your own scene. Stop talking down your own games. Stop talking down netplay. Help people at tournaments that struggle (even if they dont ask, offer it). Act like you enjoy these games. If you really have problems, try to present them in an adult manner. Guh. Fuck. Just... stop being dumb. Imagine yourself as someone looking to get into this shit now, as an outsider. How do you think we really look most the time to the non-anime crowd? Really. Think about it. See if you think your personal actions are good for the scene as a whole. I'm done with this for now. Just hope this makes some people change their fucking attitude, or at least reflect on it.

blocking is relative to the opponent, not the projectile if it is, it would be gunflame, frc, jump over and be on the other side as it hits meaty the flames themselves arent what would make the crossup

what the? did we go in that hard? for reals?

a lot of the stuff shown in the video was of reload style anyway it could be just placeholder stuff depending on how early dev started. or we could be going back in on reload <333 really watch it again, and you'll see what i mean.