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Theres actually quite a few of us in the Cypress area that play P4.

Happy new years Austin peeps. GGs at Ikkicon Scottie, was fun getting to play against you.

In regards to ppl at PZ, your best bet is thursday since SSF4 AE weeklies are going on then and theres usually blaz players there then. Every other day is pretty random though. Gatherings elsewhere are just as random and tend to be last minute.

We must have gotten there after you left tonight lol. Oh well, we spent most the time trying to beat unlimited mars mode...

We mostly arrange Arcana meetups through facebook or on homingcancel.com (houston thread). They happen somewhat randomly since there aren't very many active players (around 5 consistant players and about 7 others that randomly play but used to when PZ had the machine). Also, the AH3 board died at PZ around september and hasn't been replaced since. If you're interested in getting into the arcana meetups, send a PM and I'll give you more information.

sadly pop'n died at AM... had a fatal accident.

We have a small community in Houston for Arcana. Meet ups are usually spontanious or posted on the facebook page. There are a few other places you can check out for games, Weekly events: Monster’s Arcade 13626 Veterans Memorial Drive Houston, TX 77014-1053 (281) 397-8511 – Scrub Tuesday: Starting at 8:00pm. $6 per night to enter, or $20 a month. They also hold ranbats there! Basically it's a console based arcade that has pretty much all the main fighters and other games available. Super Street Fighter 4 and MvC3 are mainly played there but people get together there for other games aswell. Smiley’s Sports Bar 9903 S Highway 6 Sugar Land, TX 77498 (281) 495-3590 – Wednesday night casuals: Starting at 8:00pm. $5 per night to enter or $3 if you bring a setup. Make arrangements to bring setups in advance! Whole lot of games played here too. Weekly meetups done by ABK, also console based but it's getting a lot of people on Wednesdays. Planet Zero 11920 Westheimer Road Houston, TX 77077 (281) 531-9376 - Thursday night weeklies: SSF4 AE: Starting at 8:30. Entry is $5 cash or $10 on your Planet Zero card. Format is single game,double elimination. Pay per play. - Friday night weeklies: MvC3: Sign up at 8pm. Entry is $10. It's on console so the 10 gets a wrist band to for play all day, can be played any day they're open. This is actually a Japanese style arcade, most the newer games are there on arcade cabinets. Blazblue CS2, SSF4AE, KOF13, and a bunch of other games. Other than that, meet up with people at places, get to know them and start going to gatherings to get to know the community here. If you're interested in arcana, you can PM me and get you in on those meetups aswell.

Hakumen can spam yukikaze motion through the whole loop. When the reset happens, it will most likely (3/4 the time while i was playing) catch either nirvana (best case) or carl. Hakumen's yukikaze slash hitbox is very small now so its extremely easy to avoid if nirvana activates it. Bang's ashura can be thrown out aswell, but I was able to block on reaction right before the ub. Tagers that I've fought have tried all manner if 720 mashing against the loop. None worked, using j.b to make the ub gives you a chance to either jc if they block first into a backdash or buffer allegretto. Truth be told though, you can just repeatedly do j2c>j.b until you get board against tager regardless of whether its hitting or not. They must spend bar to counter assault or use a burst. We tested that a bit, if tager attemps to mash out anything, he gets counterhit right back into the loop. He can magntecwheel but theres time to rapid or just barrier. All in all, it feels somewhat ct'ish but not as stupid. Carl just doesn't feel like he needs nirvana as much in cs2 to get damage. Atleast thats my take on things after playing cs2 a month.

Been playing cs2 for a little over a week and all I gotta say is he feels a lot better than cs. My only complaint though is that the difficulty of his new loops are pretty low. [J.2c>j.b]x5, ub., is really easy to land and execute. 5b>6b(3d)>j.a>j.c ub setup opens up a lot of extra damage. 5c feels like a strong poke, expecially if you land a CH.5.c, you can go directly into almost any combo. J.a and 6a have alot better priority too, 6a can actually antiair pretty safely. Anyway, thats my opinions.

Punishment's damage intake is very noticable at times (mainly when you whiff an EF combo and get touched, you're gonna eat almost double the normal damage). Otherwise, not so much, just doesn't have a lot of mobility compared to the other arcanas in my opinion. Basically, use what ever you want with Elsa, but she does have optimal arcana's that really help her mix up abilities. Wind and Luck come to mind.

Ya anyways, Jan mentioned that to me a long while back and then ya, the board broke on us that same day. Kira may be a grappler but stone's right on that, she is most certainly not a conventional grappler. She has a fairly solid rush down and decent tick throw set ups. The main thing to remember though is that movement is just as important as offense and defense in this game. Kira is fairly good at it, saw a lot of her in japan but she has a lot of problems against quick moving characters. Eko is a fairly good character too, but relies on clash frames and long active frame attacks. Plus, the arcana used with her has some importance. Really fun character though. Should be interesting regardless though, we have a site for arcana btw, homingcancel.com, I started a Houston thread a lil while ago so most of the information about get togethers will be there.

I didn't once say I expect you to dick ride me or anything, screw that, I don't want anyone doing that in the first place. But often enough when I did mention stuff to you, you kinda don't respond. That's where it feels like you are just disregarding advice. I see you learn stuff, but not what I mention, so that's where that comes from. People at pz dick riding us? Since when? If you call asking for advice or just making jokes dick riding, then whatever. I don't have a single problem with you, but if you think all that was an attempt to make you dick ride me or someone else? Then we'll definitely have problems. To be honest, even though I do see you got your out of curse combos down and your 100% curses, you still need the REAL CURSE LOOP. If you work on it, you can get it and step your arakune up by a lot. Because as it is, your ara is only scary up until you get curse. Also, I don't know why your bringing hori into this man. We were just trying to enjoy ourselves there, and the reason he asked what character to play? He doesn't have a main character anymore and quit BB months before that tourney. So unless you know the full story behind that stuff, don't bother mentioning it. PS: Yes, hori has an ego the size of texas. We know that, and in all reality, I have no idea what his problem with you is. I stopped trying to get the BB scene grow before I even met you man, there's no high horse to get off of and never was. You want to talk to me about a scene I wanna grow, get to me about arcana. I talked to the guys at monsters about Arcana meet ups and I'm setting them up on Tuesdays the week after it is released. If you want help with that, it's not a problem. Just please have an idea of what character you intend to use, it'll make things much easier and much faster to get you adjusted to the game. Monsters and midnight are both about hour from where I live man, the few times I went to monsters for bb casuals, there was hardly anyone there. If you want actual practice, grab your stick and come by my place or antoine's. My cell has been out for quite awhile and around the time I met you, my service provider was delivering about 10% of any inbound or outbound text messages, so any messages you sent were likely either not received or my reply never was sent out. That's my fault, can't really do anything about that at the moment due to bills and school. You want to get in contact with me for sure, use FB.

Arcana has been broken since around August. If you want help in BB, you either need to stop shit talking the players willing to help you or stop looking like you just don't care man. I don't mind getting games in with you at monsters and shit but when I keep telling you that you need to learn the real Ara loops, atleast pretend to hear what I'm saying? All I ever see you do is an extremely bad version of the loop and often enough, you drop it. So many times I've seen you do an impractical version when it could have been 8k - 10k, if you need help with it, you just have to ask. But if you aren't asking for it, then of course its going to seem like people won't help you.

Sorry, can't stay silent on that one. Scharlachrot may be an ackward character to play but she is not low-end on the tiers. She is more than likely A to A+ at the moment and she really isn't all that hard to find on some of the ranbats in ikkebukuro (Gamerhino) or the 2v2 matches on Nico. She is a heavy zoning character that can use her zoning tools to be aggressive, can do some heavy damage but can't take damage.

Punishment's ability to make fully charged 5.E and 2.E not wallbounce/launch seemed to be pretty deadly in Japan with some characters. (Zenia, Lilica, and Akane come to mind here... >.> ps: it hurt...a lot) In particular, while in Extend Force, the charged 5.E and 2.E resets the hit counter due to the amount of hit stun and the reduced recovery from being in Extend Force. Generally leading towards a 75% -> 100% Extend force combo. Only saw a few Zenia, 1 Akane (friend of mine in japan) and another Lilica other than myself, do that while I was there. Didn't see a lot of luck arcana usage while I was there, mostly Lightning and Space/Time.

I need a guilty gear fix... Looking at you darren lol.

haven't heard from you in a long time bboy. Been pretty busy with stuff lately. dunno what happened to sass, haven't seen him on aim in quite sometime.

cool, thanks silda

So many petra o.O Oh well, least I'm not gonna be the only Lilica there. Do you have a link to where Akira got that list from? Tougeki's site isn't updated for some of the blocks.

Nah thats not hori. Good times at UFO. Rachel is still too fun though.

The kune player was Ed (hori) probably. FD: still got your money sitting here, waiting lol...

Ah true, forgot about that one.

Scharlachrot is a bit awkward in comparison to other characters, once you get over that it's pretty easy. Or atleast that's what I'm told by our schar player. Pros: long range can cover large areas of the screen easily can set trap orbs up in corners to create good mixups long hit stun off of chain explosions fast overheads off of j.a, j.b cons: can be difficult to get away from fast characters that manage to stay on you.

Dunno how'd you go about it or what specifically you'd want. But I do know it'd finally give me a place to refer people at the arcade to when they ask "Is there a site online I can go to for AH3 stuff?" that isn't a mass of people talking and random game strats all over the place.

I tend to play it on a daily basis at the arcade in houston (ver 3.01). mainly due to the fact that I need to get ready for sbo. Luck is a pretty fun arcane, has some nice setups and a very random annoyance factor in that you can get very random counter hit status attacks for normal hits. also, on a few occasions it has saved the game for me on the last hit. There is a small chance that the killing blow dealt to you may not do any damage.