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Soulcalibur V |OT| Go home and be a salary man!
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Freshmaker
I am Korean.
They're THAT manly.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Wow, wtf happened to the netcode? Anyone else having shit games? Fucking getting run over by scrubs because what I thought was a 5 bar connection shows up has 2 or 3 in match."
I had this happen once today with a dude that had himself placed in Cuba. Said 4 bar connection, got in match, 1 bar.
I had this happen once today with a dude that had himself placed in Cuba. Said 4 bar connection, got in match, 1 bar.
I have air control set to random, and I picked Elysium's heaven/cloud stage. My opponent is Algol as CPU.
I do 4B3B, then proceed to time out B's to juggle. It doesn't work everytime, so I'm assuming it works only if they pick 1 or 2 air options that it will catch them, and then after that they can't get out of it.
If anyone has some time to help test this and/or record it, it'd be much appreciated.
I might change mine to that. Fucking online is making me so pissed. Getting taunted after I ring myself out to prevent playing some 3 bar mess is garbage. Looks like it's "scrub smash day". I'm gonna go out of my way to fuck up every noob Kilik, Nightmare, and any other of the standard easy characters that make people think they're good.
Shit, I AVOID using Natsu's 4A+B has much as I can. Not today! Oh no. Game wants to give me 3 bars with people who taunt? Fine by me.
Fuck...ok, maybe it's time for me to go back to SF4...or just turn everything off.
Face-off for anyone that cares:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-soulcalibur5-face-off
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-soulcalibur5-face-off
I use a stick but actually think pads are better for SC. BUT, it always depends on what you like.
Teknopathetic
Member
I actually don't get salty/mad at this game at all. Even when I was getting bodied the other day, not really all that upset. That said, I'm mostly playing in Collosseo and doing the occasional ranked match and that one deceptive connection match was the only one I've had like that.
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
I went online last night. It was worse than the previous days for some reason. More matches underwater, more connection failures. I kept getting network connection errors when trying yo join matches in the city rooms as well. La and sf specifically.
We should should assign one of the city rooms nobody uses as the gaf room, hehe.
We should should assign one of the city rooms nobody uses as the gaf room, hehe.
Teknopathetic
Member
That's actually not a bad idea. A lot of those Collosseo cities are ghost towns. Pick something like Jacksonville or one of the other cities whose names I can't remember.
Maybe GAF should commandeer one of the Colosseos nobody uses.
Doesn't really matter.
Hrmm. I guess since I played IV with a controller I'll probably do better with that.
Yeah, same with me starting last night and continuing this morning. I'm totally down with the making some random city room a GAF room.
Not any other SC fighters yet, just Seung Mina since she was my go-to. I did do Lei-Fang from DoA (don't have picture handy). That was much easier since there are pretty much perfect matches for her black outfit.
Yeah, I'd buy DLC with her style in a second. Unfortunately, the pseudo-Kilik was the closest thing. Always preferred her to Kilik
It seems so. I did have to make some adjustments due to some weird overlap/intersection glitches I'd see.
Viola is Amy! I guess Raphael comes back after Nightmare "dies" or whatever in Story Mode. Kind of like how both Nightmare and Siegfried were playable in SC1.
GrayFoxPL
Member
I sort of feel the same way, but I think they ultimately went in the wrong direction. It feels like they had time to either give all of the characters brief, narrated intros and endings OR work on this new story mode. They had to choose one or the other, and based on public demand, they definitely picked the wrong option. Many people are complaining that the new characters have no explanation as to who they are or what they want.
I'd have preferred everybody have a 30 second intro + 30 second ending, and maybe a little mission mode, over the story they decided to give us. It was still a tough decision to make (from their POV), so I don't judge them for it.
Don't make me pick him up in a day and show you how stupid it feels to fight him
Do it, that'll be fun!
You can make Makoto easily enough in CAS
QisTopTier is not a liar!
Turns out the required timing changes on the opponent. For some you need to wait until they stand, but Elysium will own you if you do that so put the orb on her meaty and she'll fold.
The stuff I was doing with Xiba seems a lot easier to grasp over the Viola thing I couldn't get to work at all.
Just keep doing 6B+K, and a few things will happen. The AI will either block it and get pushed back a little, meaning you can just do it again. If they run at you and attack, they'll get counter hit which will hit them to the ground and put them in range to just do it on their wakeup again. If they run up and block, side step and throw, or do a critical edge if you have the meter and see a move coming out. If the throw works, they're pushed back. If they tech it, they also get pushed back in range again.
This destroyed Kilik, Siegfried, and Cervantes for me on the first shot. Nightmare gave me some issues before I started sidestepping. Elysium and Algol take it pretty easily. Elysium sidestepped the attack a lot but ran up and while she countered, the move tracks a little bit and would hit her anyway.
The only big issue was Edgemaster, who is an extremely fast asshole. He has a quick lunge slash that hits you from the maximum range of 8B+K, so you pretty much have to sidestep every time he blocks even at max range. I got by him with pretty much all throws from the back after sidestepping his attacks. At times he would block my attack, we would both sidestep and be staring at eachother, which is a good time to use 1B to get back at range and possibly avoid an attack, but he's so fast it might beat it.
RaySpencer
Member
Wheres my Proof!? Im pretty pissed about her style not being in this game, SCIV was the first game I hadnt just played as Maxi all the time in, and now shes gone, so its back to Maxi all day every day
Ive tried getting into ZWEI and Alpha Pat, they seem pretty cool, but it hasnt worked out very well so far.
Might try Tira again, or Sieg, I liked him quite a bit in the past.
It's been described as 8A+B, wait till stand, B+K, but it's really more like 8A+B, wait till stand, B+K to 8A+B(2 hit blockstring followed by hit), wait till stand, B+K to 8A+B, and so on.
Is B+K the orb coming from their back? I didn't try to combo those, so that's probably it...never touched Viola before I tried that either. Oh well, I got Xiba to work for me.
First AE, and now SC5. What gives, Markman?
GrayFoxPL
Member
Because LOSER is a loser.
Only if you suck.
Then I suck. Oh well.
I can hold 60% win ratios in SF4 and MvC3, but here I'm about 20%. Trying to outfootsie, out priortize, mix up, etc isn't getting me anywhere when guys just mash shit and I get bopped and can't punish it. I've had about 50 fights now, and I can count on one hand the opponents who I know are good at the game i.e do combos, combo into their Critical Edges instead of just doing them.
I'm investing the time to learn, but I feel like if I get matched up against anyone who is just doing mad ambiguous 2 moves back and forth that are fast and have crazy range, then I'm fucked. I try to back off, side step and punish, etc and constantly get blown up. Seems the worst thing you can do against these people is block, because then you get caught in a loop of some sort you can't get out of without a just guard, which I haven't done one of yet. :/
I have some slight guilt for playing Nightmare online now.
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
Yea, we should make one room the the "gaf city". It seems people are only in the major city rooms anyways.
What say you GAF? Which city? One of the Canada ones? I'll look tonight and see which rooms have nobody in them for the most part.
I had a weird situation occur that I sort of felt bad about (even though it wasn't my fault). A guy had handily bested me, and right as he was about to land the finishing blow in the last round, it said "connecting..." at the bottom for about 15 seconds, and we end up back in the lobby. He is still in the "winner" spot at the top, but I didn't get a loss and he didn't get a win.
15 ranked games and I've fought these characters:
Mitsurugi
Xiba
lol
2 rage quitters
Have you played SC before 5?
Mitsurugi
Xiba
lol
2 rage quitters
Have you played SC before 5?
Hours Left
Member
That's why they should let me put them in thongs.
The fact that Mitsurugi can only wear boxer shorts, long tights or bandages is really dumb. I hope there is more unlockable stuff that he, Z.W.E.I., Cerv, etc. can wear... :/
I've had tons of d/cs today. Idk what's causing them, but they all happen at random rounds, so it isn't rage quitters.
Also, I think the throw system in this game is the worst of any fighter. They do an absurd amount of damage, they have an absurd amount of range, and you can't throw someone crouching? Yeah pretty stupid.
Also, I think the throw system in this game is the worst of any fighter. They do an absurd amount of damage, they have an absurd amount of range, and you can't throw someone crouching? Yeah pretty stupid.
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
I hardly get ranked matches. I set it to N and S America and set it to 3+bars. I got nothing. I started doing any bars. It takes 5 minutes sometimes to find a match.
I don't know if it's my NAT settings. I don't have this problem with UMVC3 or AE though. Or maybe less people are playing Ranked in general, idk.
I don't know if it's my NAT settings. I don't have this problem with UMVC3 or AE though. Or maybe less people are playing Ranked in general, idk.
Jumped online for the first time tonight. Went as badly as I expected.
I seem to have an almost preternatural instinct to know *exactly* when to stop blocking so that my opponent can get a nice solid hit in.
I need to figure out what ZWEI's good buttons are. I hope Dickwin's playing him at tonight's LU:L tournament.
I seem to have an almost preternatural instinct to know *exactly* when to stop blocking so that my opponent can get a nice solid hit in.
I need to figure out what ZWEI's good buttons are. I hope Dickwin's playing him at tonight's LU:L tournament.
Teknopathetic
Member
Zlatko, it sounds like you're having problems adjusting to 3d fighting games.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Devil jin is top tier on a stage with no walls, and god tier on small stages.
Depends on the character, viola has garbage tier throw range. Actually the second hit of her BB will miss point blank on block for some of the cast as well. But this is how throws are in all 3d fighers