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Street Fighter V Beta Thread: Welcome, future '16ers! (Currently Inactive!)

Finally got to play. Controls for Cammy are a bit different from sfiv. Why can't you look at the command list? Anyway i got the controls down well enough.
 
Ended the night 11-4 before I have to get off to do other things with Birdie. I kinda of like him even though he isn't really the kind of archetype I usually play. Though I wonder one things about his specials.

His buffalo headbutt (the charge P then release) when are the i frames on it? I beat a Bison doing Psycho Inferno on my wakeup, I got it as a reversal and it went through it and killed him. But other times it seems to get beaten on startup. Did they add more iframes if it's a reversal?

Also his jump grab (qcb K) man I suck at using it as an anti-fireball. I always think the startup is faster than it is and I get hit at the beginning or I do it too early and get hit on my descent down.

One cool thing with Birdie is if you do his overhead (f.HK) as a meaty on their wakeup. You can link a cr.lp after and if you are close enough st.lp into dashing headbutt. Though a lot of times I'm a little further out that st.lp would miss, so in that case I just try to get a some cr.lp in after f.HK.

Also some weird thing but my level seems to fluctuate. Sometimes I get a level and the next match screen I look at it and it wasn't the level I was expecting. There doesn't seem to be an rank degradation, so maybe it miscalculates the points I receive sometimes.
 
Some matches are crazy laggy. Just had a match where my inputs were taking around 2 seconds to register. Pretty horrible. When it works well it's fantastic though.
 
Dat moment when you finally realized something important. I've gotten beaten kind of badly by similar skilled Chun players because I'm still playing them thinking they have hazanshu to nullify my fireballs. So I try to challenge them upclose and it's a disaster because Chun's normals own Ryu. But that move is gone now so I'm free to throw fireballs at will as long as I keep a look out for jumps and her Super. After 6 years of focus back dash and hazanshu in reaction to my fireballs, fuck you Chun. Now what you going to do about my fireballs? Jump? I'll be ready for that.
 
Dat moment when you finally realized something important. I've gotten beaten kind of badly by similar skilled Chun players because I'm still playing them thinking they have hazanshu to nullify my fireballs. So I try to challenge them upclose and it's a disaster because Chun's normals own Ryu. But that move is gone now so I'm free to throw fireballs at will as long as I keep a look out for jumps and her Super. After 6 years of focus back dash and hazanshu in reaction to my fireballs, fuck you Chun. Now what you going to do about my fireballs? Jump? I'll be ready for that.

Duh. That's why it's funny to see concerns about zoning viability. Zoning is actually better so far than in 4, even with the plethora of V-skills to nullify projectiles. None of them are as convenient as a focus attack.
 
Found a safe safe way to combo into Birdie's V-trigger that ALSO uses it as a combo extender. Haven't seen this anywhere else.

mp - ex. headbutt- (v-trigger first hit) - mp - headbutt.
 
The Rank system is kinda weird in this. So far I've seen:

Beta Test Beginner
Beta Test Fighter
Beta Test Fighter+
Beta Test Master
Beta Test Grandmaster
Beta Test World Warrior

But I when to Beginner to Fighter to Grandmaster with no ranks inbetween.

Is this another stress test? Does it count as one of the 3 betas?
Yes, for NA. The real beta starts on the 28th.
 
Duh. That's why it's funny to see concerns about zoning viability. Zoning is actually better so far than in 4, even with the plethora of V-skills to nullify projectiles. None of them are as convenient as a focus attack.

I think Ryu himself actually shits on any fireball lol. Because of his V-Skill, building that V-trigger is really important and you aren't really at risk for attempting to parry the fireball. And once he is in Denjin mode, his fireballs are a pretty huge threat, with how fast they are and delaying them can be pretty tricky.

Chun can slide under fireballs but it gets tricky if he is in denjin mode and she really doesn't get too much off landing a cr.mp and it's pretty bad if it gets blocked deep. Though if Chun is within footsie range, you can outpoke Ryu. I think her v-skill is a pretty poor anti-fireball move. You have to do it pretty early because there have been many times I got hit on the ascent trying it.
 
The Rank system is kinda weird in this. So far I've seen:

Beta Test Beginner
Beta Test Fighter
Beta Test Fighter+
Beta Test Master
Beta Test Grandmaster
Beta Test World Warrior

But I when to Beginner to Fighter to Grandmaster with no ranks inbetween.


Yes, for NA. The real beta starts on the 28th.

i was bet test fighter fought a match, saw i was a beta test master now. won my match and now im a beta test fighter again even though i havent lost in 3 matches.
 
I don't understand why you can't jump over Ryu's super if he does it point blank, it just makes no sense. you have to block that shit if he activates close by in neutral. I can't be the only one eating this shit. I keep 'testing' it too and dying -_-
 
I don't understand why you can't jump over Ryu's super if he does it point blank, it just makes no sense. you have to block that shit if he activates close by in neutral. I can't be the only one eating this shit. I keep 'testing' it too and dying -_-

I had that happen to me. I think it's because the super startup is pretty damn fast. Though if he is in Denjin mode and if they cancel into it from a blocked normal, you pretty much are guard broken.
 
Duh. That's why it's funny to see concerns about zoning viability. Zoning is actually better so far than in 4, even with the plethora of V-skills to nullify projectiles. None of them are as convenient as a focus attack.

I'm enjoying the fireball game a lot more in this one. It feels more natural and basic, and to me that makes every fireball seem even more important.
 
I don't understand why you can't jump over Ryu's super if he does it point blank, it just makes no sense. you have to block that shit if he activates close by in neutral. I can't be the only one eating this shit. I keep 'testing' it too and dying -_-

It's probably because it starts up too fast. Think of his critical art like Ryu's Super from SF4 and not his Ultra. His super is 3 frames and unless you're half screen, you can't jump it after the Super pause. Same probably goes for his critical art. Considering he can use it after a LK tatsu, it has to be really fast. Maybe not 3f, but no more than 5 IMO.
 
I had that happen to me. I think it's because the super startup is pretty damn fast. Though if he is in Denjin mode and if they cancel into it from a blocked normal, you pretty much are guard broken.
Pretty much, I've broken a lot of guards doing that.

It's probably because it starts up too fast.
I find that to be bullshit when Nash's CA takes forever and you can be jabbed out of it.
 
all the matches went away for me.

Sweeps being so easily punishable STILL doesn't stop people from doing their standard "jump in...INTO SWEEP!"

I'm seriously just holding forward reacting to jump ins and blocking/punishing sweeps. I love new players but...fucking hell.

edit: lol...wow. I quoted you and just blanked out after a match. I was SUPPOSED to say, I'm getting tons of matches while yesterday I was getting none.
 
At first I had like 4-5 wins in a row, then BOOM 20 loss in a row, then back on a winning streak.

Also, Nash feels goooood. :D
 
With all the talk about "blonde fighter V" I decided to make up this handy chart. I even broke the characters up into racial categories (although maybe I shouldn't have, I hope I don't end up offending anyone or sparking controversy...)

If I made any mistakes or missed anyone, let me know. Looking at it, it's crazy that a full half of the white characters are blonde even though in real life I'm quite certain it's got to be a lot less than that.

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Anybody else feel like sometimes the rollback eats inputs? Ryu v trigger into shoryuken sometimes doesn't come out even though it's the easiest shit ever
 
With all the talk about "blonde fighter V" I decided to make up this handy chart. I even broke the characters up into racial categories (although maybe I shouldn't have, I hope I don't end up offending anyone or sparking controversy...)

If I made any mistakes or missed anyone, let me know. Looking at it, it's crazy that a full half of the white characters are blonde even though in real life I'm quite certain it's got to be a lot less than that.

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Isn't Spain Spanish basically just white? Or maybe being Mexican makes me look at it differently than everyone else.'

Edit: Oh yeah Dudley is black too.
 
BIRDIE ALL NIGHT! Cammy really gives me problems once she gets in, running dat pressure game. Really hating her right now. Loathe is a more apt word choice, actually.
 
With all the talk about "blonde fighter V" I decided to make up this handy chart. I even broke the characters up into racial categories (although maybe I shouldn't have, I hope I don't end up offending anyone or sparking controversy...)

If I made any mistakes or missed anyone, let me know. Looking at it, it's crazy that a full half of the white characters are blonde even though in real life I'm quite certain it's got to be a lot less than that.

11947648_10153595825149439_4603274978816052254_n.jpg

What makes people believe Dudley is south Asian? Is there an indicator in one of his endings or something?

Isn't Spain Spanish basically just white? Or maybe being Mexican makes me look at it differently than everyone else.
yeah
 
What makes people believe Dudley is south Asian

yeah

I remember that there was a pic of his mom and dad, his mom actually is indian and his dad british, which makes sense because India and Britain do have a lot of history together.

edit: maybe I'm wrong, can't seem to google anything. lol
 
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