Oh and it’s worth noting that the translation on NeoGaf says surprise hop back (b + KKK) has been nerfed, not surprise forward. That would make more sense I guess. When I use this to escape pressure I option select a tech throw so I won’t feel this nerf.
After reading some of the more positive post…I have to say I need to stay positive myself…and realize that it doesnt matter cause whatever happens, I will come back to blanka Lol…
This takes a load off
Yeah, his footsies are what win you matches, but if the other person just decides to sit on things, what can you really do?
don’t worry guys ROCKCRUSHER BUFF IS GONNA SAVE US ALL!!! at least that’s what the dev team thinks…
-LAU
lol. rockcrusher and ex electricity buffs. the 2 things i never used . awesome work
yeah like balrog has little to no nerfs (i used to main him) he can at least chip with dash punch. with ball sucking what does he do now lol?
can someone tweet (i don’t have twitter) Ono and ask him why is Blanka ball nerfed so bad when there’s plenty of other characters can spam moves and force the opponent to block, like… dictator, boxer and even fireball characters in a way… but Blanka’s ball that does 20-30 damage on block and extremely punishable by most characters is nerfed.
also… maybe more details on ex electricity buff…
-LAU
Slide is Better.
I think jab/ex might be safe.
Now we can kill crouch tech’er with the new ex.electricity and/or a good reversal now:wow:
This isnt so bad now guys:confused: I guess.
ALL I WAnTED FOR CHRISTMAS WAS EX UPBALL IS A KNOCKDOWN:sad:
Maybe they shortened the bouncing height of MP/HP ball as well so that these 2 moves are as safe (or unsafe) as Honda MP/HP headbutt. Well we shall see it in a month.
As for rock crush buff, yes it could be helpful but since we have got close st.mk already which does exactly the same thing then why bother? Unless it is changed to be an overhead I can’t see the point of this ‘buff’.
EX electricity is nice but as long as it’s still grabable I can’t see it beats EX upball as a reversal outside corner.
The other nerfs are meh but at least manageable.
I wouldn’t recommend asking Ono anything, his response would be like “Oh haha, Blanka is very tricky haha.”
so… where do people send in their FAQ!!!
they have it posted about the previous characters every week…
-LAU
Don’t know, probably send it to the people running the blog. I asked Ono some questions on twitter about some of the finer details of AE a while back and he just avoided my questions altogether. He usually likes to answer questions like “Is [insert character name] going to be in AE?” or “M. Bison’s new alt costume is awesome, thank you Ono!”
He rarely ever says anything worthwhile.
I think you mean “Oh Branka? He one tricky ferrow!”
Exactly. “Please try out new Blanka. His attack is very strong.” and that’s it.
Were the changes to Blanka a result of the Capcom ssf4 game designers deciding that blanka needed nerfing,or a result of various morons sending them e-mails complaining?
If the changes are a result of idiots complaining-then my complaints about things like new characters via dlc are fully proven correct.
If capcom is willing to listen to these idiots (So that EVERYONE has a chance to win matches online), then the fighting game genre is well and truly screwed.
Street Fighter 5. 150 characters (most of them female,and scantily clad) Courtesy of capcoms ‘special’ relationship with its new generation of players. "Its not nice to lose-so,we will add more characters every 6 months,and change every characters moveset in order to ensure they all buy our costume dlc"
Fuck this game.
Were the changes to Blanka a result of the Capcom ssf4 game designers deciding that blanka needed nerfing,or a result of various morons sending them e-mails complaining?
If the changes are a result of idiots complaining-then my complaints about things like new characters via dlc are fully proven correct.
If capcom is willing to listen to these idiots (So that EVERYONE has a chance to win matches online), then the fighting game genre is well and truly screwed.
Street Fighter 5. 150 characters (most of them female,and scantily clad) Courtesy of capcoms ‘special’ relationship with its new generation of players. "Its not nice to lose-so,we will add more characters every 6 months,and change every characters moveset in order to ensure they all buy our costume dlc"
Fuck this game.
I think these developer change blogs are hurting the game. Better off not releasing patch notes and let the dust settle when it comes out and we can see what it means .reading the notes half the time its not obvious what is a buff or nerf.
No changes mean anything till you actually play it and see how it balances in the real world.theres a much broarder selection of play styles out there then just that of the developers. No matter what happens the character commuities will come together here and other sites and work out how to deal with it
No, I think it’s a good idea. Better to let people blow off steam in increments.
Yeah… gotta try it first to see… there’s a good chance that I will probably be playing AE before you guys are gonna be since Hong Kong’s Arcade scene is still fairly active while the US is pretty dead… so hopefully when the game does come out I can give a bit more insight…
right now… based on the changes shown so far… I’m guessing the matches against shoto, rufus, fei long, zangief, t-hawk, abel, chun li, and probably a few others that i’m not thinking of will be harder…
lets just hope medium ball = same bounce back as now… and lp/ex ball = safe ball distance… but chances are that’s probably not the case.
slower ball = easier to interupt…
faster EX electricity to me only means we can now have an option to do LP/hop/coward crouch into EX electricity… assuming it’s still less than LP electricity startup (5 frames)
rock crusher buff = useless since double knees does the same thing… unless regular rock crusher is an overhead now… then that’s a different story… or unless rockcrusher on hit gives you like +6 frames of advantage… making it super easy to link to UC1 then i guess that’ll be different but will make double knees useless… regardless… with the rock crusher change either the knees are gonna be useless or rock crusher itself didn’t change the game.
-LAU
as much as I hate blanka I feel bad for him