Mightfo

combo rate has very little to do *by itself* with how good a chara's combos are, combo rate is usually relative to a chara's combo tools and damage per hit as opposed to some indicator of absolute combo strength. tager still has a very low combo rate but has fucking insane combos in bbcse for example. carl and human valk do way more than fine without a run. haku has done fine without it in most games and will continue to. ultimately, you cant simplify neutral/pressure/combos with "do they have a run" and "is their combo rate high" (although yes, part of why haku pressure isnt good is due to lack of a run). those aren't really the primary questions to wonder about. nobody knows shit about how their combos are going to be until like months after launch, so unless his neutral gets nerfed significantly or pressure gets gimped completely(i could see the throw range nerf that was in one of the location tests for everyone doing that...so pay attention to if throw range is still nerfed in the "final" version!) nobody really has the capacity to speculate *meaningfully* about his tier iirc some of her key combo stuff was removed in ct->cs1(related to sweep?) in one of the location tests and iirc many players freaked the fuck out but then she ended up being absurdly strong combo wise in cs1

this game seems fun not sure who i like most seems like asuma 2c and kuon 236B are + on block, reminds me of arcana in good ways(some nice convenient + frame moves but also nice defensive tools, guard cancel in AH vs pushback in this game) gonna be a while before i'm "used" to neutral lol but i suspect ill like it more than arcana neutral

Either sunfish or I will host this saturday. Im thinking like 1:30 PM till like 1 AM. We will have a certain cool game almost none of us have gotten to play yet- Got a flash drive? Also, GG/BB of course and possibly TTT2 depending on who's there. Sad thing about BB at TBF, especially since BB has gotten more attendants than MK9 recently and yet MK9 doesnt get cut but BB does. I understand cutting games because there's so much stuff and there's limited venue space, but 1-2 of the games that werent cut seem questionable to me. I doubt there will be a BYOC area. TBF is a fairly packed event relative to venue size, there's just not space for stuff. I guess I wont go since no gg/bb=nothing for me to play really, but I might be up for having people at my place then.(probably not due to finals and stuff)

at least you'll soon be able to learn some general things about how the game is different(like how overdrives generally are or how pressure may be generally different or something)(lol if that throw range nerf stays)

i hope arakune mains get really salty at izayoi's zoning

didnt info early on say that DS is always + when dash cancelled?

i dont know if that is actually true. in the ragna vs bullet video i looked at it frame by frame, and dead spike had about 12 active frames and ragna was about +6 on block after bullet instant blocked it at max range. that would suggest being between -3 and +9 depending on range, without dash cancel.

negative penalty better be fucking hard to get if they're going to make it so much more punishing

i remember when arakune mains got dramatically upset and worried at loketests(every. single. one) and when makoto mains got worried as fuck about cs2 loketests and etc etc etc etc etc you dont know shit about how she's going to end up or if the info presented is even accurate("CS1 Bang 6c hits crouchers?? Cool!" "oh..that wasnt true at all" etc etc) so hedge your worries heavily as if makoto is the pinnacle of visual character design

Sup! People play it here. Sunfish, eric, qpunch, me, and possibly others I forgot about played it recently before AB, and others who have PS3s like jet, tomato, cookie, others i forget want to play(most of whom have slight exp with the PS2 version) but are still waiting on the ps3 release. So yeah. We play P4/BB/GG all in decent amounts now, and sometimes melty or random 3d fighters or kof or whatever. Sunfish and I are the ones who usually host meetups, sometimes jet, and maybe breadface will be awesome and host again at some point. We're all around plano or richardson or whatever, north dallas sort of area. Meetups are usually saturday, starting at either noon or about 3pm and ending around midnight or maybe more like 10pm, just depends. We're not sure what's going on this weekend currently. Some of us are gonna go to austin it seems, but others may just have a meetup. PM me your phone number and I can text you updates on meetups 1-2 times a week if you dont wanna check the thread. There were a bunch of guys who played GG at AB and expressed interest in these meetups.. I remember a potemkin(who had a camera and stuff) and a faust(who plays VF iirc), but you seem like a testament player so I assume you're someone else. Anyway, I hope to see you at meetups, i am very interested in fighting testament. also ignore that pony

again, loketests are tests, not partial stages of a patch, and im sure we dont know close to everything about what changed. did we even know from cs2->cse how her hitboxes got nerfed from loketests? stuff like that easily goes under the radar of what people report. it is difficult to judge how good or bad things will end up. dont put much weight into early judgments, just wait.

the game is very different in bbcp and it is extremely likely that we only have like 30% of relevant information or something, or some changes just wont stick because they always do weird shit that doesnt stick in location tests, or at least the meaning of the changes are different in the context of other changes not saying she cant end up bad, arcsys is obviously imperfect, but it seems to me that loketests dont correlate very solidly with how strong a character ends up, especially when there's huge overall changes

shoutouts to some great casual matches in GG and BB shoutouts to messy play shoutouts to losing both ah3 and my remote shoutouts to jumonji shoutouts to transient for trying to get 4v4 to work out and stuff shoutouts to SA jin and BAKERYLORD for being cool and taking me back to my apartment shoutouts to sunfish and ro for giving me rides shoutouts to korean food and ROBOT VAGINA shoutouts to pfhor and sa jin for being the the embodiments of anger and confusion shoutouts to being kind of stupid shoutouts to how axl vs potemkin is like pulling teeth shoutouts to landing frcs a decent amount of the time shoutouts to fucking up litchi oki so much shoutouts to getting to see everybody and have a great time! there's other stuff i could talk about but im tired and im sure there's tons of stuff forever forgotten but whatever ilu guys even if im a turkey let's go to one more burst next saturday. also, will anyone be able to do meetups the week after? (thanksgiving week)

all 3 of the new characters are hot as fuck so i dont give a fuck about bullet being "oversexed" yeah i dont think that part is done very much beyond boring cliche quality

also i couldnt find my copy of ah3 which i brought, please alert me if you find it...so surprised, i have everything else and never brought ah3 out but it is gone, not in my stuff or at my place...

today was amazing despite issues with 4v4. awesome gg/bb casuals. aquapazza is kind of fun nooooo!!! we need to do BB casuals!!!!

well absolute battle(tomorrow lol) may end up being that but it hasnt happened for two years so i dont know if itll actually be bigger than UCC next UCC("Upper Cut Championship" or whatever) is probably next march. there's also texas bar fights which happen every...2-3 months? but those are one day events so not quite as efficient to come out of state for i forget what big events happen further south even though that's where houston/austin are which are stronger scenes.. i guess there's texas showdown, but lol but yeah, AB is every november and UCC varies but i think itll be march next year. UCC is a 3 day event, AB is a 2 day event.

today there will be a meetup of sorts at sunfish's with the austinchans at about 8pm

yeah we can at least make do with that 4v4 and change it to 5v5 if possible

Well, we can do a 4v4 or we can add a houston player if there are any or SA jin and call it north vs south texas.

danke is also going iirc. i assume you include "scottie" with "us"?

or maybe if kid viper is coming or whoever we could just make it south texas vs north texas

well we include people who arent technically in dallas in our team andddd fuck it san antonio is now "close enough" to austin so you can be on their team i guess woof could leave the team and make it 4v4 since he's not been hungry recently. or maybe chickzama or cookie..not sure

fucccck that's disappointing maybe we could do a 4v4 somehow?? anyone not on the team who is coming?

ill be at my place (probably with ro) for anime games whenever tomorrow night i guess(might have to do something tomorrow night and not be able to do stuff till AB, will let you know later. maybe someone else can "host" for gaming tho) what time will you karaoke exactly, sunfish? i wonder if itll be a few hours after they actually arrive. anime then karaoke then anime?