Score Attack Hakumen likes to airdash in, I usually wait for him to do it and pick him out of the air with whatever your best AA is(I play Ragna, he has a solid DP). Just wait for spots and pick away with small bnbs and then gtfo. Most of my wins vs. him are timeouts, lol. If you think he’s bad, wait til you get to Rachel.
Coming from a background of zero fighting games, I’m planning on getting CSEX. Are there any exercises/guides to getting into this/fighting games? Seems really complex.
It is complex. And there aren’t, really, any serious guides for the total newbie. I would suggest that you watch the archived Beginner Mode videos which can be found at Twitch.TV or on Youtube. These are excellent for understanding why things happen and why you might want to do certain things. What they won’t teach you, though, is how TO actually do things.
You should go through the tutorial included (hopefully) with EX - if it’s as good or better than the one included with CS(2), then it should explain the mechanics of a lot of stuff - while most of this will repeat a lot of the info from Beginner Mode, it will put it together in a much more concise, condensed format, while may help it stick, rather than trying to absorb the mechanical instructions that are spread out over several hours of video.
Next, you should choose a character - at your level of experience, it doesn’t really matter who. Pick someone who seems visually interesting to you - it’s going to be a while until you develop many skills that won’t transfer between characters if you don’t like your first choice (After all, a quarter circle forward is a quarter circle forward, regardless of whether you’re Ryu, Ragna, Terry Bogard, Heart Aino, or Haohmaru. And if you don’t know who any of those people are, that’s fine. 
). Once you’ve picked a character, try out their trials. Do the first two, at least. And then, ideally, do them again. You need to be able to pull off each of those motions “on demand” . If you need practice for this sort of thing and don’t want to just do one character’s moves over and over, you might try doing trials 1 and 2 for EVERY character. This will give you practice “doing the motions”, most of which are shared between characters - but don’t feel too bad if you can’t do some stuff like Hazama’s and Tager’s Astral heats or something. The trial #1 stuff for everyone is stuff you should be able to do, however.
Once you’ve gotten to the point where you feel like you are ‘comfortable’ with how often moves come out, try doing some further trials with your character of choice - but again, don’t get frustrated if you can’t get past #3 or #4. The idea here is just to get a feel for how combos work, and maybe some possible applications for a few of your moves.
At this point, or even before, really, since it’s never too early, you should start messing around in Arcade Mode. While the CPU is no substitute for human opponents, it will help you get a feel for how your moves work. Better still though, would be to find another person who can embark on this journey with you, because nothing improves you skills more than going up against someone else of similar skill. If you have a partner, going at it in versus mode will really help you start putting theory into practice.
From there, you’ll want to play as many people as possible, work on the various trials for your character, spend time in training mode making sure that you can RELIABLY do those combos (Being able to do a combo once after trying 5 times will clear a trial, but it won’t serve you well in a match.) - and probably swing on over to Dustloop.com to learn more about your character of choice… though lots of smart, well informed folks hang out here too.
So to summarize:
#0: Watch you some Beginner Mode. You can get started on this even before you get Extend.
#1: Go through the tutorial
#2: Choose a character, and go through a couple of trials. (At least #1, preferably 1-3 or so, maybe 1-4)
#3: Play. At this stage, it doesn’t matter if you’re playing the CPU or a person - while a person is better, there’s plenty you can learn from battling it out with the CPU.
#4: Practice. Use practice mode to improve your execution.
#5: Learn. Visit Dustloop, watch videos, talk to people.
#6: Play.
#7: Practice
#8: Learn
Repeat Steps 6-8, and remember step -1: ENJOY.
Thanks a lot!
I also sortof neglected step #5 a bit - in addition to the learning options listed, you should watch replays of your own losses and ask yourself “Why did this happen? What did I do wrong? Where in this match did I make a bad decision?” and try to learn from that.
That’s a long way down the road yet though.
Yeah, the first time I really watched a replay and saw all the random unsafe crap I threw out was pretty-eye opening, even on the matches I win handily I still see lots of mistakes to learn from.
I’m thinking about getting into Blazblue but unsure if its right for me. What would you guys say about the difficulty of Blazblue compared to the other fighting games? The only fighting game I played was Umvc3/MvC3.
It’s not too far from MvC3 in terms of controls/combo styling, the major meat of combos is cancels rather than links, defensive aspects are pretty similar, being able to use throws to begin combos is there. I’d say in terms of execution strictness it’s slightly harder that most of MvC but not as strict as SF. You really should have no problem picking it up, it’s made to be accessible.
Okay cool would you recommend that I get blazblue contiunum shift 2 or should I wait for extend?
At this point just wait for Extend, even with how cheap CS2 is, it’s only two weeks away.
Alright thanks.
Was/Is it hard to find an online match on CS2? I played a lot of CS2 on PSP but didn’t have online -_-
I want to wait till extend obviously but CS2 is really cheap and I already plan on getting a few other games this month. So I was thinking about just getting CS2 if the online was good/able to find people. How many of you will be getting EX?
I’ve never had any problems finding matches in CS2 on XBL, and PSN should have roughly as many players.
Blazblue, has, er, a lot of netplayers relative to the number of folks who bought the game, apparently, because relative to say, SF4, it plays really well over the net (5 frame advance input buffer, minimum of very strict links, etc.)
Does Extend come with any other CS2 DLC built in? I know that it has Makoto, Valk, and Platinum but what about colors or announcers?
Word on the street is that Extend comes with all the CS2 colors/announcers, but that you have to unlock them by playing Abyss mode.
As long as they aren’t unlocked in Score Attack that’s fine lol
That’s pretty cool I guess. Wish I didn’t buy the announcers now, but… whatever. Do you have to unlock Mu12/Makoto/Valk/Plat/Relius, too, or are they playable from the get-go?
I’m not 100% sure, but I believe characters are unlocked right off and it’s just “extras” that are locked up.
Note: They are also releasing NEW DLC announcers that you need to buy if you want them.
At least in the Japanese extend, all characters are unlocked but extras - most notably, the second page of colors - are unlocked by playing the game.
Announcers are straight-up DLC though.
I haven’t touched the online yet, however my PSN is the same as my username and I’d like to play with someone who knows their stuff. I was decent at the original game, for the Xbox 360. I would like to practice Bang, Ragna and Noel. Possibly get some tips and stuff, have someone who plays regularly-ish at nights, Eastern Time perhaps?