3rd Strike Online Thread

Why is SRK trying to make alexisdabomb the next DSP/lowtiergod of third strike?

He already was and has been for the past 7 years

Just looks like a circlejerk to me. The two I mentioned at least have a real Encyclopedia Dramatica page, as opposed to some cringeworthy blogspot post.

this has all reminded me why i don’t bother coming here anymore.

same here.

So you never got back to me. Do you play lol or dota? Maybe some other steam game?

Got any help to not rage? I don’t know, SF4 don’t get me this mad. Fought a makoto who was excellent but being placed in a position where you can’t do anything and all your options are unavailable. That, that’s where it gets frustrating.

I’m on PSN but damn, when you’re stuck and getting an ass whooping on a regular? Need to chill more. Trying to get back on xbox 360.

So you kinda just have to go in to the online setting with an understanding that not everything is going to work as it should, you’re going to lose to stuff you shouldn’t, and your focus should be on improving and experience and not so much on winning.

If a Makoto is pushing your shit in that hard, you need to save those replays and watch them over again to see what you’re doing wrong. If you can’t come up with answers or solutions on your own, post them in the online videos thread and ask for help. Try to explain as best you can what you’re having trouble with and hopefully you’ll get some worthwhile answers.

Try not to give any fucks about winning or losing online and you’ll have a much better time.

I agree that you shouldn’t really care about winning, but I think that should be applied to both offline and online play.

Third Strike is about making decisions, and sometimes, you are going to make bad decisions, and you will lose. If someone is remotely on your level, you’re probably going to lose, eventually. If you’re constantly winning, I’d argue that you’re missing the point of Third Strike. I want somebody to push my mind, I want to make adjustments, I want my habits to be punished, I want to improve.

I’ve been playing online for close to 6 or 7 years now, and I never felt like the game wasn’t working as it should. If you have someone that’s directly wired on a good connection, you’re pretty much only dealing with delay. The funny thing about online is that there’s this big misconception that online drops inputs, which is true, on a terrible connection against someone that is on wireless, yeah, you’ll probably drop inputs. However, that’s rarely the case, the most common reason your inputs fail is because there is delay, and you haven’t adjusted.

I have no problem reacting to the likes of dashes, uoh and overhead moves. With the caveat that I’m playing someone that is on a good connection, and with decent ping. Which comes my next point, pick your fucking opponents, please, guys.

If you’re sitting on 3SOE playing ranked, hoping you don’t get matched up against someone in Africa, you’re doing it all wrong. **Find someone that’s relatively close, that isn’t on wireless and can push you mentally. Continue to find these kind of players and exclusively play them. **

I see a lot of guys come online and play somebody that kills them with “bullshit” or “online” tactics, and then they leave and write offline off. If the game actually isn’t laggy, that means you have no idea what to do against an opponent that is playing wild, and that’s something you need to work on. If you’d rather not, and would rather fight someone that doesn’t play like that, you don’t have to ever play that person again. That’s the beauty of online, you can choose who you play.

Losing to something “you shouldn’t lose to” because it’s online is kind of a cop out in my opinion. Obviously if the game is a laggy mess, you’re going to get hit by things you shouldn’t get hit by, and that begs the question; why are you even playing this guy?

I’ve lost to a ton of people online, and I’ve played a handful of them offline. The things they hit me with online, well, they still hit me with that shit offline, too.

Start using kara versions of moves to offset the spacing and get them to waste or misuse their particular counter measure.

Metric- While I agree with a lot of what you said, online isn’t 3s and it never will be. Anything that limits ones ability to react noticeably changes the game.

Kenji- 3s is a game that you always have options. From the sounds of it you need to sit down and figure out what your options are in every given situation.

The timing is very slow on arcade. So you have more time to multitask.

You can go for
A (looking for any whiffs to punish) and
B (jump back tech on opponent jump in) and also be able to

C throw tech on opponent dash in. (last thing you’re looking for, but still possible to tech on last few of the 6 frames)

Online? A lot of guessing on all the options.

I never seem to have any trouble reacting to dashes and jumps whilst looking for whiff opportunities. Look at someone like Exo, he anti-airs 10/10 while maintaining his ground game.

I agree though, arcade is slower, but there really isn’t any reason to compare online with offline.

You aren’t the first to say something like that, and it still doesn’t make any sense to me.

I’ve played a ton of offline Third Strike, and playing online… well, it still feels like Third Strike.

Obviously it’s not going to be the same, you’re playing the game through an internet connection, it’s going to be different. It’s not offline Third Strike, but it definitely is Third Strike. I can still make reads, fish, parry, confirm, footsie, combo, etc. The core elements are all there, some things may be a little harder to react to, but it’s all possible.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend like online is something special and everybody is crazy for thinking it’s a terrible platform to play the game on. However, I don’t think it’s as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

But hey, if you want to be an offline purist, and never touch online Third Strike because it isn’t really Third Strike, by all means.

I think you need an offline wake up call man.

Online feels like you are playing through an emulator, yes. Feels like flying a plane, in a flight simulator maybe.

But that doesn’t mean people cannot still “play” 3S online. Not to mention its still great for learning the game (mechanics, match ups, much more) and getting matches in against real human beings, for FREE.

It’s a totally different animal to “real 3s”. But if online is the only medium of “playing” 3S for some people, then fine. It doesn’t mean people can’t still have fun playing this “different game” called online 3S. As metric said, elements like parry and footsies are still there.

Having said that, anyone who is serious about the game should go play offline.

And here’s why it will never change. Someone always brings up the argument that its free and thus should not be questioned.

But what if that horse tosses me off its back because its sick and I didn’t bother to make sure it was in proper health?

Says the guy who was told not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why? Because you’ll get sick too, stupid!

Haha don’t get me wrong. I am just saying people don’t need to spend all their quarters in the online world.
Me not wanting to spend yet another dollar more than my allocated budget is the reason why I care about winning or losing at the arcade.

Nevermind, going to retire from these boards again, forgot that this is just an endless cycle of people who hate online and people who don’t.

Carry on with the far more entertaining and productive act of ganging up on Louie.

Yuuki and Metric. You guys are best friends man. What happened?

I think it’s better to discuss things and compare thoughts. If everyone stops posting because of disagreements then SRK 3s will quickly have no discussion. And I much prefer SRK to other mediums of English language discussion. It’s important that 3s community doesn’t turn into fragmented sections that don’t talk or play with each other.

Reasonable people can disagree. Let’s have the conversations.