Devdan

I had a feeling that's what the HD Heart Aino was leading to. AH is so underappreciated. Most people I know who have actually played it say good things about it. I hope this one has better music though.

Want to go to this (and or the next one), but the holiday adjacent timing is rough. Nobody is playing BB at NL at all on normal days, have to bring my own copy.

Thanks. I've been playing fighters less than ever lately though. My internet has been super unstable, though supposedly they fixed it the other day. It seems to be dropping less. Regardless, I don't have Revelator yet since I'm unemployed. They need to add Dizzy already...and her combos better not be stupidly hard. I just used Ky and Faust in Xrd 'cause everyone else I tried was too hard.

Well, he doesn't seem to be in that group at least, haha.

I don't want to go around dropping his name, since he already thinks I'm a weirdo (because I found his facebook page? I'm still not really clear on what I did and he refused to elaborate.). If you didn't live here, you're not him. I don't know if he's actually part of any scene, I just know he liked fighting games more than any of my friends did (enough to own arcade sticks anyway).

I'll be in Scranton starting tomorrow. Still not sure if I"m moving back for real or just staying for a couple months.

Ug, I can't win. I was super super into BB from CT to CSII. I still play it on and off, but not seriously. Mu is fun again in CF and the new characters are cool so maybe I'll get into it again. I gave up on getting anyone into any game I was into and settled for 3S (which I DO really like, but it's so old as to be an impossible uphill battle) a couple years ago because I met one person in college who was crazy good at it (vs no one who cared about anything other than Smash, MvC, Persona or Skullgirls). I'd like to think I've gotten good at it, but randoms online still murder me so whatever~. I beat Tominaga in casuals when he wasn't really trying a couple times. YSB too. Least I can say that. Anyway, I'm in Japan until April. After that it's up in the air if I'll move back to Scranton or not. I'll definitely come back for a little while at least. It seems like the only people in Scranton who like fighters are this one asian guy who hates me and his friends so I double gave up on Scranton. Hopefully you're not him or one of his friends. Also I don't have a car, and we have garbage public transportation. Might move to NYC, even though I kind of hate it there too.

Why are people so bad at calling Arcana Heart by its actual name, it is not hard. Almost any time I see someone who doesn't play it mention it, they call it Arcana Hearts. I've even see "Arcane Hearts" once or twice. This does not happen for other games.

None, don't kid yourself.

Tryig to play right now. Won't let me connect to the network. I'm signed onto PSN, was just playing 3rd Strike no problem. What gives? [edit] pfc it starts working again as soon as I post

I stopped playing this after a week due to a combination of "got a ps4" and it's winter break for me, and I'm incapable of keeping a reasonable sleep schedule and I don't want to bother the person in the next apartment with late night arcade stick clacking. Oops. I still feel like playing it sometimes, but I'd really rather not have to use dual shock.

Pre-CP Mu, for sure. Breaking guard primers was always fun, even if I usually didn't get much of a reward out of it. I miss the raw damage from the old 214D a lot too. CF seems like a definite improvement over the CPs at least. I had fun with CT Carl too. I could never really do the clap loop, but you could tell when your opponents were afraid of the threat of it. Everyone was so convinced he was garbage back then, I kind of liked the idea of a character who was mostly trash but had a ridiculous trump card (see ST T.Hawk). He just never felt right in CS, and he's too complicated for me to bother ever going back to unless the series gets discontinued. When I saw you couldn't even sandwich loop in CPEX, I was happy I hadn't bothered to use him in years. Of course, I've messed around with other characters too, only to have arcsys change the hell out of him. I spent like a week with Hakumen in CS before loctest news got out, and made me wonder why I was wasting my time. Stop overhauling characters for no reason, arcsys!

Oh wow, 5-gauge combo was deceptively simple with Ouka. Should've tried this first, but I didn't think it would hold for long enough so I wasted like 45 minutes trying other stuff. Infinite Blast > Variable Rush (all B) > j.A > j.B > j.C > 623B > (cancel) Another Blood > Aoi > 236236BC VR puts you in hover mode, but I don't think there's a notation for that. It's pretty self evident. Also, on a somewhat random note. That Japanese site doesn't mention you can do normal throw > 360 with Ouka. Pretty good to know, decent damage for being super simple even in lag. Thanks, guy in ranked who showed me that.

That was my guess too, but I can't figure out how to combo after variable rush. It seemed like everyone I tried either ended with popping them up into the air, or throwing them across the screen. Either way, I couldn't get much of a followup. Also, all my win and loss records were wiped again. I like that I get to keep my grade and LP, but everything else is gone. Doesn't seem like this is happening to anyone else judging by the records page. Just a bit frustrating. Makes me look suspicious too, being grade A with like 9 matches.

Does anybody know how to do a 5-gauge combo? It's the only trophy that I'm not able to figure out. Judging by how easy the rest were, there's something obvious that I'm missing because it doesn't seem possible.

Ranked has a strange setup. You have to pick your character / color / assists, then pick a person to fight. I can't figure out how to not be player 2. Also, people drop after the VS screen A LOT. Is this some kind of connectivity glitch, or do people just really hate fighting Ouka? Last night, I had 5 people in a row do it. Kind of annoying. Also also, my wins and losses reset after the first day, but my grade didn't. Today they were still there. Any idea why that happened?

Let this be a lesson to all english speaking people who oppose number pad notation. Also, what's with there only being like 5 combos for Al, isn't she popular? I prefer sites like that give you the "bnbs" first and foremost so you aren't lost in a sea of combos, but it still struck me as odd.

Bothered to learn a combo, and won like 7 matches in a row. Yay for first week. I played the arcade version so little, I can't compare the slowdown on the PS3 version. Next time I go, I need to pick Ouka, Dragon, and...bug girl, and see if the game grinds to a halt like it does on PS3. No crashes though, so I can deal. Also, that music thing was probably about to happen again. It just keeps playing the same BGM over and over, in menus and in matches, and eventually the music stops entirely. Is this really only happening to me? I think it started while I was playing Score Attack.

Hopped on ranked with Ouka without bothering to learn how to play the game. Still managed to win like 5 matches out of 20some. Some of the people I fought seemed really good. Some seemed really bad, but still won via knowing 8 minute long combos. No defense at all, and no neutral sense. Also, my first 4 matches were against 4 different Homuras, but it evened out a little after that. I think she tied with Ruli for most seen character. Wasn't expecting so much Ruli, I don't feel like I've seen people at the arcade using her much. Didn't see a single Saber, Ouka, or Sonico. Saber and Sonico are the only two characters in this game I'd even heard of beforehand, though they'd be more popular. (granted, Sonico is an oddball character, and they're never popular) 360s are so awkward in a game like this, I keep accidentally jumping when I don't want to. Had the same problem with Bullet in CF. While we're complaining about the PS3 version's inexplicable issues (c'mon, this game does NOT look like it should be struggling), has anyone had an audio glitch where the music stops completely? Happened to me on the character select screen for story mode. Started to hear periodic static noises, and I logged to the XMB out of fear something loud and unpleasant was about to happen. Also, one time Ouka's win screen was glitchy looking. Colors were all messed up.

Played a bit of her blind today. Didn't understand how to use her qcf or qcb specials at all. Spent a lot of time trying to figure out if I could get any cool followups off 2A > 5A > D (freeze), but all I could really get from it was A(or, B or C) > 6A(or, B or C) > jc > j.A(or, B or C) > qcbA. More air hits are definitely possibly, but a lot of the time the second one seemed to whiff. I'm bad, so there's that. I really wanted to be able to use the followup hits to generate and then use some kind of magic at the end of the combo, but the best I could do was use the seed, which I think forces the opponent to block when they land? I was fighting the CPU, so it's hard to say. I couldn't really figure out any decent combos ending in super. I remember getting something that involved fire, and then the laser, but a lot of the laser hits dropped, so it wasn't really worth it. She seemed like a lot of fun, and very unique compared to almost everyone post-CT. However, I'm worried she'll get boring fast because of how all of her normal buttons seem to function the same. On another note, some guy challenged me like 10 seconds into training mode (I'd played through arcade previously) and I was about to flip out, but he turned out to be really bad. The second round I practically got a perfect on him. I may not have had any real idea how to use Nine, but I know what to expect from a bad Ragna player, and Nine's normals seem 3S Chun-Li tier (but this is a completely different kind of game, I'm not trying to imply Nine will be Chun-Li tier...god willing). Dude couldn't get in.

So is there confirmed to be no combo challenges? They would be nice...

Haven't touched this in months, but have been contemplating getting the home version for lack of anything better to do with my time. Tried out Ouka today, can't tell if I like her or not. I could never figure out hover mechanic characters, and she's no different. This game seems too fast paced for it to have cross-up uses, and when you cancel into it it seems too slow to get any followups. Also, her dp super never ever hits. It goes so high, I don't know what it's for. Whatever her basic combo flow is supposed to be, it's less obvious compared to most of the cast. Her dp special seems really good though, and her counter might actually be useful; I theorize as someone with virtually no experience, but I was able to easily get the braindead CPU with it at least. Had trouble landing counters against BB's only slightly smarter CPU. Guess I should watch some videos.

Couldn't get this to work to save my life, but I suck. Is it supposed to be jump cancel > jump c, or is this one of those "jumping c, land, jumping c" deals? Either way, I couldn't even get the first one.

Just in case anybody here doesn't check the general thread: I'd file her C normals having no beam animation as an exceptionally easy to observe change. That's the only outfit I bought so far, so I don't know if that issue exists in any other colors. I assume it will get patched, whenever somebody who speaks Japanese notices. (it's Mu, so it might take a while)

Fun is subjective. I had fun with CT Carl, then they changed him. I had fun with CS1&2 Mu (barely played CSEX), and they changed her. I didn't get into X'rd as much as I'd hoped, everyone basically got left alone. Why do you hate me, ArcSys? :(