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I have a pretty good grasp of when I should do what versus what, I just like..completely forget about it when I actually get knocked down and usually end up mashing back tech, which gets me hurt by mu/haku/tager/lamda/hazama. Backwards tech is very risky against certain characters but useful if they're commiting too much to just 2a'ing you right there. Many characters seem to have a hard time punishing it, but it does move you away from corner and they can probably run up and have a nice dashing attack if they're doing stuff on reaction. Neutral tech for the win. You can just stick with that and be fine if they're not mixup heavy. Forward tech is mostly useful if they're blindly running at your body to be close for both neutral and backwards teching, and if they're not landing something meaty enough to hurt that hits around their body, since the roll goes past them. Useful in the corner, too. Vulnerable to lots of things, but beats what will be good against both neutral and back techs. Quick tech is if you're some sort of fucking hero and you're like "NICE PERFECTLY TIME'D MEATY! IM 360ing/AUTOGUARDING IT!" Late techs are for when you're a dick and want to make them react to how you tech, but if you take too long(17 frames?) hits stop counting as part of the last combo and you eat shit. Very useful for beating some tech traps(and really, necessary so that some aren't broken) and very useful for stopping muscle memory meaties, but it gives them more setup time and is risky. It's really matchup/positioning based. I should pay more attention to it in matches. jesus christ these games have so much shit to be good at, i love it

make her play mu/carl or several reminiscient characters in gg ;p what FG would you start her off with..? I actually started with GG some...a friend of mine mentioned blazblue and i was like "I don't care about 2d fighters." I didn't really care about astrals which he showed me, but when I watched an actual match, I got excited and looked at a bunch of BB, GG, and MB footage and decided to check out #Reload. Played Chipp and Bridget. Had quite a bit of fun, but some stuff didn't feel as natural so I stuck with BB more when I played that. BB's tech roll system has always felt weird though..I feel like recoveries shouldn't be delayable if you have multiple directions, and should just be you hold the direction that matches the way you want to tech, no button mashing. No fake combos then either, rofl. I should figure out the best way to punish back rolls as bang(if any) without losing much..maybe I could just react and dash? Hm... The buttons-for-movement one, right? :O Edit: Meetup info Friday, 17th: Confirmed: Me Probably: Danni Transient James(UTD James, not aloha james) Maybe: Ronin Boombox Aloha Saturday, 18th: Confirmed: Me Probably: Transient Cheebz Boombox Maybe: Oso Still haven't heard back: Frigid, Zreb, Supaa, Johnny, Dances and Rave though i guess i haven't asked him yet

btw the combo was one of chipp's, not venom's. and it was on the same character when I recorded it and when I had it replayed.. projectile was chipp's gamma blade. :D i'll take that as a compliment in this instance. sweet. i'm curious, what genre(if any) does your girlfriend mainly play? Will do.

Frigid, I assume you won't host either day this weekend? If not, like I said, I'm hosting friday and saturday, 2:30-8:30. Please post if you haven't already regarding if you can attend either. BE THERE AND BE HYPE. Ronin, Jet, Cheebz, I'm going to play Chipp instead of Venom. Back to the first character I really played in a fighting game. I just hated venom's normals. Chipp's normals are comfy, and having his rekka and teleport makes me feel right at home. ..question, though. Why can't many(all?) of his normals special cancel into his projectile when they special cancel into other stuff? The only other time I can remember a character having moves that are special cancellable but have an exception for something is tager with certain moves and 360, so that he doesn't just have this huge pointless purple throw window. Also, I found something strange..so I did a combo, c.s 5.s(far) 2s 5h 236s 236s RC dash c.s 5.s 2s 5h 236s 236s. No idea if it's optimal or anything, but it's certainly flashy and decent and I noticed something strange about it: I training-recorded myself doing the combo and then had the game play the combo back..and often, the last 236s 236s wouldn't connect, especially if I was closer to the corner! So strange... Pushback..variation....??? The blocking thing made me think..I want blocking practice. I could tell someone like supaa to prepare a bunch of blockstring ideas ahead of time. He comes to the meetup, after some matches, I sit there and block and let him do all his mixup. 1)Attacker gets to get some good blockstrings in muscle memory instead of going for the same old thing that sometimes lands and is all the person remembers when they get to attack. 2)Defender gets to become familiar with the ways that the enemy's blockstring can very, and improves their defensive reactions. 3)Attacker gets to learn how to hit confirm better. 4)Defender, more comfortable with blocking, becomes more aware and exploitive of options like counterassault, IBing, etc. Anyone interested in doing some of this at meetups? Ah, yeah, I definitely fit the "know crap" part about this game. plat must defeat shen long dad stop!!! 1)it's day..5? now. Hazama took some time for people to get used to him at all, let alone figure out his combos well and have decent abare. 2)I totally disagree. Shadow shows she has great potential. Her corner damage is great, she carries to corner well, and she has a lot more legit tools for mixup etc than Tsubaki and Noel in CS1 did. Almost all of her items look great. The bombs look like they're great if used correctly to get in, cat missiles(especially with that vertical stagger) are fantastic for zoning/pressure/getting in, fan helps her comboability a ton, catstick is just insane speed and reach and mixup even if it doesnt lead into combos, and while I dunno how hammer on ground, the crossup it gives is godlike. It takes two fucking primers! AN AMBIGUOUS CROSSUP THAT TAKES TWO PRIMERS. That is a big deal in CS2. Lastly, bat gives her a sick reversal. That little thing she can float on to do a quick j.a which will combo into ground stuff, or feint and go for a low, is fast and godlike by itself, and her dashing command grab is legit as fuck, definitely fast enough. 3)Tsubaki didn't have her mixup, strength in neutral situations, approach, flexibility, and tsubaki had to fucking sacrifice pressure to have damage and decent options. Noel is more of a complex specimen to compare to, but yeah. Anyway, platina will be fine at the very least. Even if she ends up low tier(and it looks like everybody is stronger than CS1 tsubaki/noel, so "low tier" doesn't mean too much..), if Bang does as well, you and I can be low tier heroes and blow everyone the fuck up. Bet on it. Also, interesting video for those somewhat familiar with Starcraft 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9mCj9jFMSU#t=9m40s Starcraft 2 footsies, basically. lasts like 6 minutes.

Asked this before, asking again once more:Does anyone have IMsY/Outlaw's number? You know, the donut guy, played hazama. He hasn't checked dustloop for a while apparently...maybe he has a SRK account we could contact? So, until Frigid says he can host, I will be hosting this friday and saturday. GET HYPE. Both at 2:30-8:30, though saturday may start at 3 instead. Lastly, is there a cheap, easy way to record offline matches? I'd like to use that to help everyone(especially myself ;p) learn about mistakes they may not realize they're making. At the same time, you were mostly fighting poor old tager chan... also: spoilers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWeFfNMFE8#t=7m25s SLIDEHEAD CONFIRMED FOR PLATINA platina looks sick. i'm going to enjoy watching her gameplay develop over the next month or so. someone said she seems weak in a tsubaki esque way, but she has a lot more ways to get damage than tsubaki, lol, especially with more range and much more mixup.

You up for hosting either friday or saturday? Also, i won't be able to host the 24th/25th for obvious reasons, soo...and then there will be 31st/1st, and jan 7/8. Also, NGBC is sweet. I'm much more willing to play that than CVS2/3s, so if you play that significantly, tell me and I'll load it up a few times on 360 again to brush up my Yuki/Mai team.

also SHOUTOUTS TO ZREB'S WONDERFUL SHIRT SHOUTOUTS TO RAVE DOING MUCH BETTER THAN HIS FIRST FEW MEETUPS shoutouts to frigid's cats SHOUTOUTS TO FRIGID'S CLASSY HATS AND SHOUTOUTS TO THAT FUCKING AMAZING SCREAMING NOISE ON WOW WHEN FRIGID WAS PLAYING HIS WARLOCK and this thread is almost 2k posts and 30k views. i'm so proud <3

also, yeah im double posting, http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ipwcoopa edit: oh it's off now apparently :1 double edit: Also, fuck day 3 tier lists, and no disrespect for stunedge, but fuck basing our expectations of tiers based on a single player's impressions.

HYPE AS FUCK MEETUP SHOUTOUTS TO DOING 5K DAMAGE TO TAGER WITH STEEL RAIN SHOUTOUTS TO RONIN PARRYING 2-3 HITS OF STEEL RAIN AND THEN nope you're not daigo SHOUTOUTS TO CONSTANTLY RAGEBURSTING LAMDA'S GRAVITY WELL and then finally bursting smarter SHOUTOUTS TO LITCHI MIXUP SHOUTOUTS TO BEING SLIGHTLY OUT OF RANGE FOR 5b[E] AFTER TK 236c SDFSDKLF SHOUTOUTS TO RIOT STOMP SHOUTOUTS TO HYPE CS2 FOOTAGE, DAT TSUBAKI, DAT PLATINA SHOUTOUTS TO VALK J.C DOUBLE JUMP J.C SHOUTOUTS TO PEOPLE GETTING TAGER'D shoutouts to mai's fun shit being gone/trash in cvs2 SHOUTOUTS TO REPPUKEN WARS SHOUTOUTS TO RANDOM WOW TALK WHICH I SORT OF UNDERSTOOD SHOUTOUTS TO HYPE YELLING (lmao i hope i didnt bother your apartmentmates frigid) SHOUTOUTS TO KNOWING A BURST IS COMING AND BLOCKING IT LIKE 6 TIMES but never quite punishing them.. i guess dash 5b is too slow or im just too slow about registering what i'm subconsciously doing Like, we pool money and someone orders 4 copies of AH3 for 4 people so that we dont pay 4 separate shipping costs.

Jet, Tomato, others, do you want to bundle an AH3 order in a few days to save on shipping? Zreb should pick me up soon for the meatdown

Yeah, was gonna post: Checked my mail, the stuff was there. Pick it up whenever, or I'll bring it to frigid's if you want. Xpadder is WONDERFUL for pads but I don't think I got it to read arcade sticks. I'll try again later. Zerb also made the suggestion of checking device management.

also everyone at the meetup today had facial hair beardcon 09

relatively small meetup, ended 30 minutes early, but whatev SHOUTOUTS TO TAGER MIRRORS SHOUTOUTS TO BANG MIRRORS BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO DONT PLAY BANG SHOUTOUTS TO LITCHI MIRRORS WITH SUPAA SHOUTOUTS TO JURI'S ULTRA BEATING KEN/RYU'S DP ULTRAS SHOUTOUTS TO SUPAA LANDING LEGIT FULL LITCHI COMBOS INTO DAISHARIN CORNER PRESSURE just learn to capitalize on the mixup more and you'll be golden :3 SHOUTOUTS TO BANG SLIDING FOR HOME SHOUTOUTS TO TWO TAGERS WHIFFING 720 TOO FAR AWAY FROM EACH OTHER SHOUTOUTS TO J.4b/2A TICK THROW Will probably go to tomorrow's meetup at frigid's. Also..Near the end, I tried to set up GG or Vsav to play with Supaa, but...I couldn't get anything, emulator or joy2key to recognize both arcade sticks simultaneously. help? I'd like to get that to work for when umineko comes around.

not much point to starting at 2:30 if nobody arrives at 2:30 maybe..some day..people will actually do that...

shoutouts to anime games where people are constantly yelling <3

No offense, but you're talking to a guy who wants to play arcana heart even though he thinks the designs are largely boring. :P Also someone who will play a strategy game with barebones graphics. Though, I do enjoy doing shit in that like "GREECE RECREATES THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE," and "PRUSSIA SIDES WITH THE CONFEDERACY," lmao. Still, I'm someone who usually puts style last, though I do really, really enjoy characters like Sol, Litchi, Slayer, Gato, etc. Sol/OS's thumbs down is awesome. Yeah, I fucking love ragna's voice.

Ishiwatari needs to voice someone in BB.

gameplay > badass is all i'm sayin. Venom might be better than anyone in BB, tho.

Litchi, Carl, Hazama, Rachel and FRKZ disagree ;o

I'm sorry, not even sol is better than a goddamn anime shark. ps are you gonna be here today at 2:30