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New Ultra Street Fighter 4 Info

2 supers at the same time ?

Red focus ?

#GAMECHANGER

hearing this made me exited for 2014 SF community i can't count how many stratégies will be void now and there is still the matter of life and damage reduction /upgrades for everyone.

how will Gen players will react , now that they will be able to unleash 4 supers and maintain pressure with red focus ? how many possibilities ?
 
Do we know the new character yet?

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I don't want to dogpile on the theoryfighting seeing as we still need to play and see how loctests go, but Hakan legit scares me, not just because he's a bad matchup for gouken, he could be strong for real. That said everyone I'm thinking is gonig to be a whole lot more nuanced now. It's legit a new game now, there is going to be so much meta-fuckery/gimmicks/ and tech to be found for a long while after the games release, I think.
 
Along with the nerfs they already gave him, these changes just sealed Seth's death. RIP

Overall this seems like a really terrible idea. It completely changes the game.
 
I'm not happy with these changes either, but it's still being adjusted, based on fan feedback at location tests. Let's give it a chance.

Fan feedback must be inaccurate if he's gone this far. Maybe crowd source online forums where many professional theory groomers can provide invaluable input.
 
Did you see the paltry damage done? Let's take a breath.

I agree with your sentiments that we should wait, but damage is relative to the character and to the ultra bar. This could make for some devastating wakeup shenanigans/mind fuckery. All we can do is wait for the loc tests. Saying it's broken is very premature.
 
I love these ideas. And they'll for sure balance it. The Ultra's won't have the properties they currently have. They'll for surely be balanced just like how King of Fighters has multiple supers.
 
fucking rufus ultra did shit damage. If zangief u2 is just a tad more than that then its not even a worry. All it does is secure the win at the last bit of health.

I mean if zangief ultra 1/2 only does like 15/20% damage MAX. Then why should I care that much considering he is only going to get 1 max ultra majority of the time?

Let it rock and you can always tweak it later. Ultra won't be the last patch if shit is super broken.
 
Red Focus seems like it will only be useful for charge characters who lack projectiles (dictator, boxer). But I'm no pro so what do I know?
 
I like how people are immediately claiming grapplers will be OP while forgetting that there will be a damage reduction if the grappler choose to use both Ultras.

Without any substantial buffs to the characters themselves, Gief/Hawk/Hakan are gonna stay right where they are on everyone's tier lists.

Exactly, besides double ultra will probably be matchup specific more than anything else. Somehow an Ultra II Zangief being able to do 230 dmg via hard spd vs 304-450 ultra 2 dmg isn't broken yet being able to 230-343 ultra 1 vs 200-297 ultra 2 dmg is beyond broken and a surefire sign that he's going to be top tier.

Red Focus is probably a third button or something. Making it a motion would fuck up too many things for too many characters.

I'm hoping they would just make it hard + hard. Make select taunt if they have to, who gives a fuck if you can't taunt on an arcade machine.

All this worrying about gief but Chun counters gief... Chun for toppest of tiers?

Well the guy who leaked red focus and double ultra did say watch out for Oni, Ken, Chun and Yang....

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=86873713&postcount=85

I mean it was obvious with their buffs they would be strong, like when one of the SFIV players wrote in to Ayano and said Momochi switched to Ken from Cody after seeing the upcoming buffs.
 
The reason why grapplers are relatively weak will not be addressed just because they have access to both ultras.

I like these significant system mechanic changes, though.
 
Gief's Ultra 2 does 450 fully charged. Bear in mind this is less than his U1, which is 520.

At 66%, the new damage totals become 297 (U2) and 343 (U1). Remember that this is fully charged, which means that it will be doing even LESS damage if they decide to blow their load early.

People are truly worried that the sky is falling, but aren't taking the time to sit down and think rationally. Having access to both Ultras is nice, but it is by no means a rocket ship to Top Tier-land. Gief and the other grapplers aren't going anywhere on the tier list unless they get individual buffs (which Hawk and *maybe* Hakan need).
 
To make all these changes to the game this late is stupid.


I really hope combofiend is not all of a sudden a game developer and breaking shit.

Why is complacency better? We've been playing the same game for 5 years so let's keep it the same blemishes and all? This shakes things up a lot, let's see the changes in action before we collectively shit on it.
 
So the new character is a girl and seems to have an afro. The afro implies she might be black, so this is all telling me that Linn Kurosawa *might* not be in the game...


which means Simone from Cannon Spike has to be in! She's basically Linn anyways!
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Changes sound good and it'll get me to pick the game back up, which is nice! Also, this helps justify the price tag as it becomes more of a 3rd strike" kind of revision by changing some core gameplay functions.
 
If red focus is a legit #gamechanger they seriously need to address how some characters have excellent focus attacks compared to a lot who have shit ones. I remember Seth's commentary for Fei Wong Justin Vs Daigo Ryu @ Season's Beating that they gave the characters varying qualities of focus attacks depending on how strong they thought they were. (i.e, Fei's ass but we gave him a good focus attack!) Obviously that was either bullshit, they had no fucking idea how to properly judge how strong characters were or that concept was thrown out the window since they never adjusted anyone's focus attack in the following 3 revisions.

But the guy who leaked red focus and double ultras said that a level 2 red focus is an unblockable, characters like Fei and Evil Ryu will get a lot of mileage out of that compared to say Ken or Boxer etc.
 
I had heard about the dual Ultras already but the damage sacrifice means the grapplers won't be OP after all :(

the dream is dead
 
Gief's Ultra 2 does 450 fully charged. Bear in mind this is less than his U1, which is 520.

At 66%, the new damage totals become 297 (U2) and 343 (U1). Remember that this is fully charged, which means that it will be doing even LESS damage if they decide to blow their load early.

People are truly worried that the sky is falling, but aren't taking the time to sit down and think rationally. Having access to both Ultras is nice, but it is by no means a rocket ship to Top Tier-land. Gief and the other grapplers aren't going anywhere on the tier list unless they get individual buffs (which Hawk and *maybe* Hakan need).

do female characters still need to freak out?
 
Man, they're going all out with this version. No way will it be balanced on launch with all these new mechanics added though. I give it a patch or two.
 
What's the dmg on a fully charged ultra 2 (using double combo so 66%) c.lk, c.lk, ex legs ultra 2 for chunners?

To make all these changes to the game this late is stupid.

I agree, it should've been made earlier, even so it's still welcome, better late than never. It's silly that it took 4 revisions before we got any significant change outside of a second ultra to choose from and some characters getting wallbounces.
 
It's already hard enough to balance this game so they add more variables to it? This is going to turn into AE v1.

That's what I'm thinking. I don't feel too good about this, especially two Ultras. They were never designed to both be used at once, damage normalization or not.

Adding so many variable this late in the game is highly questionable to me.
 
No way this is coming out a more balanced game than now. So I just hope they don't break it, leave it a mess, and move on never to return.
 
At 66% damage, Ultra 1 is 340 and his Ultra 2 is 300 with a full meter. That's an ex-SPD and a st.M, not the 50% damage most of us expect when we get hit with a Gief Ultra.

Think we're overstating it somewhat.
 
No way this is coming out a more balanced game than now. So I just hope they don't break it, leave it a mess, and move on never to return.

It'll be a mess. You can't add this stuff to the game and expect it to be anywhere close to the balance in 2012. It'll take Ultra 2015 to get to the balance of 2012.
 
Anything that fucks Fuerte is good by me.

It'll be a mess. You can't add this stuff to the game and expect it to be anywhere close to the balance in 2012. It'll take Ultra 2015 to get to the balance of 2012.

Okay, but Super Turbo and Third Strike were nowhere near as well balanced as AE 2012 and people seem to love those games anyway.

Balance isn't everything.
 
It'll be a mess. You can't add this stuff to the game and expect it to be anywhere close to the balance in 2012. It'll take Ultra 2015 to get to the balance of 2012.

You might be right, but I think it's more interesting than playing the same exact game for another 5 years.
 
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