Nobus3r1

@4r5 Might as well ask here but do we have a date for the September monthly yet? I couldn't make August.

@4r5 Q: Isn't the venue fee for the cookout events usually a bit higher than normal with additional tiers for a more robust menu?

Is Xanadu going to be open tomorrow (8/11) or are too many people going to Smash Con?

I think I might be able to make this one as well. That said, @4r5 you may wish to check with Jason as I seem to remember at the last monthly that I went to that Xanadu had switched to PS4 for USF4.

Sort of. Do we have a date for the November monthly? Do we have a November monthly?

Just eyeballing things I'm guessing that 3HS also low profiles a ton of his stuff. Also his jump and air dash are floaty and slow respectively so I could envision him having trouble against airborne servants.

I didn't initially believe a couple of blurbs that I saw on the Hori Fighting Commander 4 that claimed that Hori had improved the rubber membranes used in the pad from the ones used in the HFC3 but it does feel like they have so there's that. Also worth noting is that a company called Brook Accessory (as detailed here <-SRK discussion) has released a lot of converters that allow for a variety of older controllers to be used on the PS4 with my personal preference being the PS1/2 to PS4 converter as I feel like controllers/PCBs from those consoles are so ubiquitous that it made the most sense, at least for me, to pick that one up. It's also worth noting that the PS1/2 to PS4 converter lacks a lot of the "features" that may lead to tournament bannings for some of the companies other products.

We should also probably tell him that it's not a good idea to use his arcade stick as a stool as that is, in all likelihood, a contributing factor for him breaking so many cases.

This may be kind of obvious but having just binge watched the Jack-O video thread it seems like a really good idea if one is playing against her to pick a color for your character that's as different from hers as possible so that you don't blend into a mob of servants.

Do we have a date for the September monthly? Attending for reals this time...probably.

Is there actually a monthly going down tomorrow?

Do we have a date for a July monthly or is the next one of those going to be in August?

So...um...is there a date for the May monthly yet?

Actually after watching the streams for the last few majors it really seems, as much as it pains me to say this, that the game that emphasizes solid neutral play (at least at the start of the match) is UMvC3 because that game has largely evolved into first person to fuck up loses. This results in a heavy focus on clean movement combined with a very cautious probing style of play at least until X-Factor enters the equation... I'm pretty sure you can never more than double your chance for hitting your link; i.e. 2 chances to hit a one frame link. You can either plink which will result in getting the higher priority of your inputs on consecutive frames, you can blink (back/select button plink) which is basically a more reliable and versatile plink resulting from a "hilarious" programming error where you'll get whatever button was pressed in conjunction with the back button on consecutive frames or you can double tap in which case you basically get input, nothing then input again over a three frame time period. Also SFIV links are nothing resembling static as you a) may need to be able to (depending on the characters involved) instantly diagnose if the character you where hitting was standing or crouching in order to do the correct combo AND b) recognize instantly when counter-hits occur due to the way that they change the frame advantage on hit which varies by the strength of the move that counter-hit but which isn't always the same for all characters AND c) knowledge of character specific links which has gotten much, much worse with USFIV. So no, I wouldn't call how links function within USFIV particularly static or hell, depending on the situation, even particularly consistent. I guess my last point on links with USFIV vs. GGXrd is that if you don't want to deal with links in Xrd you can probably either find a character that doesn't have to deal with them or a character which has fairly lenient links. There is not a single character in USFIV that isn't reliant on links for their combos. There are even a few characters in USFIV whose most basic hit-confirmable combos involve multiple 1f links. I have seen people complain about a 2f reversal window. I am personally fine with a small reversal window. I am also thankful that relative to the meter investment that there aren't any invincible reversals in Xrd (at least none that come to mind) that on their own represent a high percentage output relative to the characters BnBs; e.g. in USFIV Decapre's BnB does ~200 damage but her best reversal does 160 damage or ~80% of the damage she gets for actually hit confirming. Combine that with the lenient reversal window in that game and...yeah...

At this point I'd be fairly happy if the entire East Coast didn't try to cram itself into one lobby.