… Mike hates half circles and there are no half circles in skullgirls last I checked, much less a half circle with a forward input. All of bellas command grabs are quarter circles, 360’s, or a dp motion for her AA command grab.
Sorry, I meant to say David Sirlin, who decided to add half circle towards inputs for Zangief’s SPD motion.
This explains alot. I feel that Cerebella’s command run would be better as a half circle.
What I still don’t understand is, Birdie already has a P SPD. Why did they replace Murderer Chain with that functionally identical but boring headbutt SPD? Murderer Chain is iconic to Birdie. Why would they do that? It’d be like changing Zangief’s SPD to one where he just sits on you. Sure, the damage and frame data is identical but… why?
I can’t believe nobody else is upset about this.
Nobody else played Birdie back in the day apparently.
Because it’s functionally identical. Same reason you don’t see me complaining about Ryu not having a donkey kick - since low poke into tatsu hits crouching opponents now, donkey kick has lost its purpose.
He still has the murderer chain animation. I was told it was his ex hcb+k leap grab, but I dunno if that’s true. I’m positive he still has the anim though. I’ll see if I can figure it out tomorrow.
Tatsu is far more iconic to Ryu than the Donkey Kick. Birdie has always had MC. They just decided to nerf the cool factor completely. It’s just a boring headbutt now.
So pissed. I was so looking forward to MC’ing fools. Gah.
People were getting some probably unintentional setups with banana - throw - opponent wakes up on banana. Wonder how much block stun the banana offers, doesn’t look like much but it’s still frame advantage. Plus some people were getting hit by it still.
Unpopular opinion but I think if ken ever gets into this game, ryu’s tatsu needs to go and the donkey kick becomes his staple while ken gets all the leg specials and instead of a dp he gets tatsu/flame tatsu, maybe short range flameballs from his feet, maybe giving him a plot where he decided to stray from ryu’s style and became the guy who experiments with new ways to basically do the same shit.
As for birdie, bye bye hugo and ehonda -_-… Although I wish this new fella’s moves were alittle crunchier with more impact. His hits seems ever so slightly not impactful/crunchy.
Don’t have his moves as crunchy as ferra/torr lol damn but maybe give him some shocking[by street fighter standards] moves.
Dude looks a lot better than I thought with all the birdie sucks ass comments
WHO’S ASS DO I KICK ABOUT THIS FUCKING DESIGN?!?! IM OFF THE INTERNET FOR 2 DAYS AND I COME BACK TO THIS SHIT?!?!
FUCK YOU CAPCOM.
FUCK.
YOU.
He could’ve easily just drank a beer and got a power boost/speed reduction/clumsy heavy chain moves, BUT NOOOOO, Ono haddd to take that second hit from the meth pipe 
Almost 10 years probably passed since Alpha 2 and Birdie isn’t what I call disciplined. The changes in his appearance are perfectly in line with the character’s personality.
People complain when characters change and when they don’t, it’s a lose lose for Capcom it seems.
I’m not people. I’m okay with the prior designs but open to improvement, this is NOT improvement. Yes I’ll admit I raged immediately after seeing this without looking much into it yet and his gameplay is dope. But still, he looks terrible. Weather it makes sense story wise or not, he just looks terrible. I drink beer a lottt and eat a lottt and I’m not freakishly obese in the slightest (probably less than 5% body fat). We don’t need another Rufus, NOBODY liked him -_-
Lots of people liked Rufus. Lots of people liked Bob in Tekken. Lots of people liked the Birdie redesign as well.
The new Birdie still looks way more interesting to me than Rufus ever did. He still looks like Birdie but just let himself go a bit. He’s still humongous and his new mannerisms like pulling his pants up while he walks forward at you is hilarious.
Birdie is the stupidest and ugliest character i have ever seen. Everything from the giant donut to the ass-scratching to the victory pose is just pure LOL.
But with said… Out of all characters we have seen so far i think he is the most interesting one and THE ONE single character i think would fit my playstyle the most.
It’s not hilarious, it’s outright retarded. Why try to turn a freelance thug into an ugly fatass?
Because it’s funny.
His murderer chain anim is the EX QCF+k move
Birdie was never a serious character to begin with. It makes a lot of sense for a guy on the street to put weight on and being a big eater was always in his storyline. This is the same guy who tries to fix his hair like Guile when he wins, but it flops over and he gets disappointed.