BLAZBLUE: Q&A For newcomers (PLEASE POST/CHECK HERE BEFORE MAKING A THREAD!)

i main arakune and i’m having problems with tager… primarily tagers 5d beating everything i do in the air and ground and his 236a+ A, and 236+B are really giving me the shaft as well… i can win matches but at this point its hard… i know thats its 7-3 in arakunes favor i just dont know how to go about making it that way… it seems as if i have to curse him without getting magnetized but when hes spamming 5d and the 236 variants it kills all of my clouds except for the high one. but the high one does me no good cause the tager i play doesnt really need to jump… he just spams 236 all day…

what am i doing wrong???

-dime

You can start with a more specific question.

Jump-cancels are done the same way as special-cancels or super-cancels in most any other fighting game, just with a jump. And like special and super cancels, not all moves are jump-cancelable.

Do a move, when the move connects, tap up.

1: Just play the game, it’s a new system for you and you’ll need to get used to it like other people had to get used to SF with IV. All characters are good but I’d stay away from Carl and Litchi especially, they’re more complicated. Jin, Ragna, and Noel are pretty simple (simple =/= bad, Jin is actually really strong and has no bad matchups, just none that are overwhelmingly in his favor).

2: Jump canceling is done by jumping when you hit with an attack that is jump cancelable. It just removes the recovery frames of the attack.

There any lag with HD projectors / LCD TVs?

Hey guys I was wondering if anyone had found or made up a track listing for the LE soundtrack. The only soundtrack listing I could find was for the OST.

it was posted somewhere. eitherway, someone mentioned it’s in the order of the bgm select. either way, I put both CD’s in iTunes and it found the tracklisting for me. Wayy too lazy to type it out though, sorry.

So story mode…am I correct in assume it’s like GG#R where there are just some random conditions you gotta fill in certain battles to get all three endings or is there some formula or something…

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=174085

What do the different color icons for delay stand for? My TV is an old SDTV so the writing is so blurry and small on the icons that i cant read them =(. And I couldn’t seem to find mention of the different colors in the instructions.

Don’t think anyone said this yet, but dust loop has the story mode mapped now! http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6067

My apologies if this info has been posted already.

Also, any chance the OP could consolidate some of the Q&A’s in post 1 and 2? Thanks for making the thread!

So whats the Correct Button Layout for this game

Arcade has two layouts that you can pick from

Layout A:
BCD
A

Layout B:
ABC
D

For console, since everyone is already splintered between A or B, you might as well just go with what ever the fuck you want.

edit: Actually, if your BB scene has never touched the arcade, then it might be worth it to get everyone playing on the same layout, then you never have to fiddle with the key config

I believe it decides whether or not you can use the Right stick to perform specials and if every character gets Astrals or if its left to whatever character in the arcade had one.

the Glossary on the bonus disc have Frame Trap on it.

so i was wondering if this game also has Tech Traps? lol j/w

So how in hell do you upload replays so they can be viewed when you check the ranking.

extremely noobish question…but does the whole community really use 123456 in place of up, down, left, right, etc.??

its so hard getting use to things like 6C, 324B because the controls are already different from whats on the ps3 controller…then you come online and have to translate directions.

lol, i just had to complain to someone about this. ok, i’m done.

Its actually not to bad to figure out. Just look at your numpad, the numbers correspond to directions on the numpad. Once you’ve looked at it for awhile you’ll sort of start to unconciously translate it

Also ABCD corresponds to the actual names of the buttons in the arcade and how they’re referred to in game. Since its not platform specific it actually makes things easier to talk about then referring to stuff by their button names on various controllers.

Not to mention is easier for me to remember then j.f j.hk etc.

yes.

this is gonna sound extremely noobish but what button do you press to recover in blazblue, because i feel like i press all the buttons and by the time i recover with all the spamming that im doing i end up throwing a punch instead of blocking, do i have to press a normal attack button at a certain time? or do i have to keep spamming?

Once you are actually able to recover (different moves can be teched out of at different times, others can’t be teched out of at all), you just press one button and the direction that you want to tech in. Neutral teching is the fastest, but can be unsafe depending on the situation.

On that note, I have a question regarding Jin’s ice blocks. What do you do to “waggle” out of them? Is it the joystick, or is it the A/B/C buttons?

when do you know you can recover? because i never know the difference. or do you just press a button one time and it will tech whenever it is possible like a buffer?