Okay, this is a tad subjective and biased topic of conversation, but I was wondering which players on either system have the best X character. I.E. R@peUrFace has the best Hugo on 360, Pwningn00b has best Hugo on PS3, etc etc. I thought it might be a good way to get started on following people with the replay channel, and selecting which players with which characters that you want to follow.
P.S. Would really like some Hwoarang replays to follow ^^;
I don’t know about online warriors. Maybe if you name dropped some tournament goers or just some really impressive play. Points are easy as hell to farm in SFxT.
This thread appears to be about online play in general. Besides, a lot of online warriors have innovated strategies in this game a lot better than people who go to tournaments and choose what they perceive to be top tier.
Yeah, there are those that are actually pretty good and then there are those that kind of just farmed/got fed up to where they are.
Not to invalidate the top 30-50 placeholders, there’s consistency there. But in general the B to B+ ranks are iffy sometimes.
Good thing I just got A rank last night.
TOO LEGIT!
Meh, I’m ranked A (ranked 79 as of today) and I play Hwo and Nina. I don’t play too often but when I do it’s generally in sporadic all night bursts. Seriously though, being A rank in this game is nowhere near as legit as being A ranked in SF4.
I’m rapidly approaching A rank and I get about a 10% response rate of people telling me I’m a fraud, and they are mostly right haha. BP is such a cumulative joke.
I love the Starcraft II system. The matchmaker rating (MMR) is hidden, works similar to SF4 PP and isn’t cumulative.
Top 200 Players: Grandmaster
Top 2%: Master
Top 3-20%: Diamond
Top 21-40%: Platinum
Mid 41- 60%: Gold
Bottom 61-80%: Silver
Bottom 81-100%: Bronze
You get placed into 100-player “divisions” and you can accumulate points like BP to place highly in that division, but that is separate from your MMR and you will only ever fight players from one league above or below you until you rank up or down. Also, inactive players are regularly removed from the whole system so that you have to not only be active to stay in your current league, but keep pace with the gradually increasing skill level with the Top 40% or wherever you are.
Also you don’t know your opponent’s league until AFTER you’ve played them!
When you don’t have a lot of games under your belt, you will rapidly face high and low ranking players and can immediately get placed in Masters if you prove you can beat other Masters. No grinding required!
There is also the thing on PS3 where 2 people playing (or even 1 person using 2 controllers) lose almost no points and gain a ton.
I played an A ranked player a couple times (I’m B) and I lost 60BP when he won and he lost 16BP when I won. So based on that I determined his rating was fraudulent.
But the sad things is, it’s not his fault that he has a high rating, it’s not like he purposefully tries to inflate his points. Think about it from our perspective, we just want to play the damn game and have fun, and if we play a lot, despite losing often to lower ranked players, our points just keep skyrocketing for no reason.
I can see how someone pathetic enough, knowing about how the rating system works, might want to use 2 controllers to inflate their rating but yeah, otherwise I don’t blame him. I’m just noting that his rating is meaningless.
Yeah, it’s stuff like that I’m kind of talking about. I had a few people with 10k BP and up just outright staying on the far side of the screen off the bat. Not a good way to learn the game. When they lose, they drop ton of points, but that’s not to say the next guy will be able to pick apart strategies like that. It’s pretty effective against people who don’t know how to play the game. These habits snowball hard later on.
The whole BP system is weird, I really wish they’d do away with it or just do something different.
I’m at 3,000+ right now (due to a combination of me trying out different characters and just not playing enough ranked matches consistently… and sucking), but I feel like a lot of my points come from being matched up against players I really shouldn’t be matched up against and still winning a decent amount of points.
These are the kinds of matches I’m talking about. Saw this uploaded by J.Rodriguez (Pikachuakuma)
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You pretty much shouldn’t use one char until low and then find a way to tag out. I mean on the high end, it’s a lot of wasted recoverable health and etc. The higher BP players obviously didn’t really have to grow too much to get the points and stuff they acquired.
And the bit on the BP system, I think it does match making also by win streak counters too. It’s not consistent but when I go on a winning streak, I usually get someone pretty high up. When I’m not, I get random people, even people that seem like they just got the game and stuck it into their Xboxes for the first time.
The number of juggles law can do in the corner is just insane.
I dunno if I’m salty or happy that that ||Sauce|| guy kinda plays Juri like I do, just more neutral jumps.
I’ve had the exact opposite happen. When I was a D plus player awhile back, a friend and I played a C ranked player and lost twice in a row. Each time we lost 58 points and he was 4x our BP and playing solo.
The BP system for bad players is too hard, and for good players too easy. There’s not much of a difference in skill before B and after D +, so your point gaining is basically hoping you play people higher rank than you.