Blade

This is the big question: how do you get your opponent scared to do anything against someone like Ragna? Litchi, Tager (in some cases), Rachel (in some cases), Bang (in many cases), and Jin (in many cases)...but characters like Ragna don't seem as scary as they should or are supposed to be. Maybe it's due to matchup abuse (i.e. people are used to fighting him), or it has to do with the balance changes, or the fact you have to be constantly thinking of new ways to mess with your opponent's blocking...or something else...I'm not sure, and because I'm not sure, I get stuck in predictable pressure patterns with him, which eventually get caught and punished.

Track 2-3: "Heartwarming Death and Wish" Millia 「I...what happened..?...That's right..I was beaten by those sold..iers..」 *Rattling of chains* Millia 「I'm chained up...which means I was..caught...if I'm in this much pain, it means I'm still alive...」 Millia 「My hair can't move...this is a high level magic sealing prison.....but...why are they keeping me alive? If I'm kept in constant pain and isolation eventually I'll...die...freezing...in the cold...and then they'll eventually kill me afterwards...」 Zato 「（Come to me, Millia...）」 Millia 「Stop it!!」 Zato 「（The way of an Assassin is more than one path, you know...）」 Millia 「No!! Why do you keep calling for me even now!?」 Zato 「（You want to live happily...don't you?）」 Millia 「What I want...What I want!?...These chains have bound me to this frigid world to die--I don't want this anymore!!!」 *Door Opens**Creeeaaak* Millia 「!!」 Slayer 「Pardon me, Mademoiselle. I was held up, and you?」 Millia 「Haah...You are...Slayer...」 *Millia is weak with her response* Slayer 「Peeping at a woman's sleeping face is not one of my hobbies...The jailer's shift relief will begin soon...」 Millia 「What do you want? Intel for the Organization? Or could it be...you came to fondle a captive doll?」 Slayer 「Hmm~...the latter would be amusing, but honestly, it is your future I am concerned with.」 Millia 「Future?」 Slayer 「Indeed, your future...」 *Slayer draws a dagger* Slayer 「This is...my treasured dagger that I prepared for you. A Legendary OutRage: a blade forged by the greatest magic arts in the world.* It is capable of killing even Forbidden Beasts.」 (*OMGOMG Slayer's got his hands on an OutRage!! Though it doesn't say which one! It could be one of the 2 Nameless!!*) Millia 「So then, you plan to kill me?」 Slayer 「I could do that...Your exquisite neck slashed open, an outpouring spray of ruby-red blood...such a satisfying display would not be bad at all.」 Millia 「I don't mind it, even if it's in bad taste, but this might be my fate, though.」 Slayer 「However...that is not its purpose; This dagger will inelegantly sever your golden hair bound to these chains, thus granting you freedom.」 Millia 「Compensation?」 Slayer 「Everyone seems to think that...but it's not needed. For the rubble and earth-darkened wings of a fallen golden angel to take flight...this is what I MYSELF wish to see.」 Millia 「Freedom...or death...or the disgrace of living a wretched remaining life in prison...」 Slayer 「Then choose: You must proceed down the path of your own desires. If you choose to die; or mankind will torture or try to coldheartedly murder you until your oblivion*.」 Millia 「But if I were to die, what will disappear?*」 (*They use the term "nakunaro" which is like pain till death or "to fade away"*) Slayer 「Hmm...At the very least ONE future will be lost. Whether it is a good future or a bad future...」 Millia 「You won't have my gratitude, Slayer. To grant this kind of freedom to a woman is a disgrace* to her.」 Slayer 「How rude of me.」 (*She's referring to a man forcibly cutting a woman's hair, a "woman's pride".*) Millia 「Cut it...My hair...the chains that bind me to this destiny...my fight is not over yet.」 Slayer 「You'll be forced to return to the world's maelstrom of bloodshed and conspiracy...」 Millia 「Yes, yes, but...this time will be different. This time: I act on my volition.」 *Slayer uses the OutRage to cut her hair, severing the chains.* Slayer 「As you wish! Stand, Millia! Stand and your desires shall take root!」 *Thunder strikes as Millia stands* Millia 「Heading out then. Until we meet again, 'Eccentric Dandy'.」 *Klak-klak**Klak-klak**Klak-klak**Klak-klak*

I hope to god he's not a model swap...can you imagine a guy breaking somebody's kneck with his thighs and kneeing them in the nuts? EWWWWWW.....

It's Cammy...whoever said it was Akuma is blind. :E

How would I do that with Ragna, Haku-men, Tager, and Arakune (characters I use most)?

I would think by now people would realize that Ragna's pressure is designed to break guards, but some people still use Barrier anyway and get hurt a lot worse than they should against him. That's hindsight, however. Barrier is an anti-pressure tool, so you should use it, but just realize it is an option if you do know they're going for guard break. Throw Breaking is one of my weakest points when it comes to dealing with applied pressure because: 1. I don't know exactly when the throw is coming but I know it will (because that's how Jin players play online...sigh), I'm only nebulously conscious of when a throw will happen simply because they're right in my face attempting lows and overheads or varying their pressure so that they do two of the same normal because I happen to be guarding (i.e. Ragna's 2B...2B 6B mess). 2. Even if I break the throw there are tricks post-throw-break that add on the pressure (example: if Bang uses his jumping command throw on Tager and Tager breaks it, Bang can do an airdashing j.C , which most Tager's I've played are either unprepared for when they hit the ground, or just have no solid answer to (not yet anyway), short of blocking again. Especially bad in the corner. I know a few things to use after throw-break, but they only work in certain situations (particularly for Ragna, but not many others). 3. Throw breaking involves timing and awareness, and if I'm constantly breaking throws, it's a constant timing game, and I mess up eventually (especially online), Throw Reject Miss just adds to the frustration. I don't know anyone who has a perfectly trained eye for throw breaking when that's all an opponent is going for (particularly tick-throws, wake-up throws post emergency tech, airthrows and such). So usually my problem is keeping them away from me so that they don't get in to throw (especially a problem when using Haku-men). 4. I don't barrier enough when on defensive, and the moment I think to barrier is usually when I'm thrown.

Sigfried = Captain Basch lol

I have something of a releated question, though it's more defense-oriented. What's the best way to handle mixups you've never seen before? In a lot of instances I come across mess from high level players that I'm not used to in the least and I end up doing jump-blocking to deal with certain overheads or do barrier only to get thrown or airthrown over and over.

So far the highest I've gotten is 132 hits with Dante/Ryu/Wolverine: Starting with Dante: LMH 6HHHHH (cancel into rapid jabs) S > Gunfire Cancel (H x N) > Sword Cancel (S) > j.H > j.236H > Land > 236MH > after Jackpot > 214MH (Ryu's Shinku Tatsumaki, time it so that it's close to the ground when he does it) > After 100 hits or so > 623MH (Weapon X) Best I've done, and I'm a beginner so....

One day left until the announcement or a release? Wow people get hyped easily.

This being the caveat.

By "official" I mean, 100% damage combos that actually K.O. (i.e. knock out limitation) and don't just empty the bar and basically as many hits as possible. Emphasis on hit count.

What's considered the "biggest" official combo right now (by hits/damage/setup)?

Here's a question: Why does Arakune's Astral work online like... 90% of the time? I've had people BURST trying to get rid of it.

I'd say using Dormammu's Dark Hole and 3H trap is just as satisfying.

@Kyosuke: NO. @FormerlyUnknown: Euro-Pop/J-Pop isn't the same as Techno/Eurobeat/House/Trance, man. Honestly I liked She-Hulk's theme a bit, and while X-23's was okay as well, as was Sentinel's, as was Amaterasu's, Shuma Gorath's reminds me of a shmup boss, loving da Gouki remix, Wesker's theme is as top-tier as he is, Magneto speak'n'spell is just fun, and Nathan Spencer's theme reminds me of MGS, Crimson Viper's vocoder remix was epic, and I *especially* dig Trish's revamped version of Lock N' Load (which came in second for me), I'm gonna say that "The Battle for Earth: Phase 3" is my favorite track.

I'm not sure what you mean by "keeping it under the radar"...honestly that's like saying you like something because it ISN'T well-known or popular and just an underground comic, which was never the point or quality of the manga in the first place. BlazBlue is pretty popular if you consider that even Hentai doujinshi has been released for it under other release groups (and if Hentai is the only BlazBlue release people have read, that's kinda sad). Thing is this: mangafox has the benefit of a manga-reader, a browser-based web application specifically for reading manga scans, no unzipping, no photobucket slowdown, no mediafire/rapidshare/megaupload/whatever, and in some cases on various sites besides mangafox, no image compression/size reduction/quality loss. And even in mangafox's case, the quality is usually really good. As for "losing credit", that's why you only distribute to trustworthy sites (you do research based on what manga-releases knows currently, and pick and choose who gets it). The worst I've seen is people trying to auction scans off for money under their name, which is completely illegal and pretty much spotted on-sight by most in the manga-reading community. Most readers I know keep track of the major releases like Naruto and Bleach and such, and they know who releases them and are grateful (as am I). And if you're still worried about losing credit, you can always slap a small watermark on each and every page in certain parts of the scan. The only other thing I can think of, is if you know java-script, installing a manga-reader app for yourself somewhere on some site, if that's how you want to do things....but honestly I don't think that's fair to BlazBlue fans who don't know this manga exists (and I know they're out there, I've had people ask me on occasion where certain images come from). And lastly, the MAIN reason I brought this topic up in the first place, is because CC isn't the only manga people were working on...I've seen new stuff for Phase 0 and besides that there's a lot of untouched Guilty Gear raws that need doing (despite it already having been translated). If we were to set something up, it would be exclusive to us and we could take our time with it and do whatever, and the same thing applies to GG manga as it does to BB, some people don't know it exists, so they have no idea.

Well, I kinda figured you weren't up for anyone else working on it, and the expectation wasn't so much for anything like timely work like normal scanlators do (i.e. a scan comes out and you release quickly, I'm not trying to pressure or anything like that), besides that, CC is irregularly released anyway. No, what I'm trying to do is get enough of a credits page and/or organization so that we can at least distribute the existing scanlations with your names on em. Most release sites won't let you upload scans unless there's a group that's doing the releases (in other words a group name that you release UNDER). It doesn't have to be a regular release, and it can just be you two guys and you can do things the way you've been doing them. All I really need is a name that you guys collectively would call yourselves and a list of names of who does what, etc etc. I'm not expecting much more than that. And when you guys release something, we slap a credits page in the release with your names under (insert group here) and that's all there is to it. No timing, no pressure. I hope there isn't any misunderstanding.

If that's the case, prove me wrong with some SUPERIOR techno (also I didn't care too much for TvC last I listened to it).

I'm not even going to speculate. I just want my create-a-character with improvements.

No, in your case you're just a techno-hater.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot...you philestines like RAP MUSIC. And dare I say it....COUNTRY.

Clearly the concept of "remix" is wasted on you guys...I bet you didn't even listen to War Machine's original theme and compared it. There's nothing wrong with techno, house, or eurobeat, you guys are just metal and symphonic junkies with a disposition for indie music from the trailer parks.

I happen to like Iron Man's intro, and in general these songs aren't as bad as you guys are saying.

For now we're still discussing set-up, I'm new at this too, so please understand and be patient, I'll see what Emma and CC want to do as soon as I can.