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Not sure if i’m coming tonight unfortunately, the past few weekends have been me neglecting everything else and playing fighting games. I’m going out with a few people tonight and ill see how that pans out.
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Matt I’ll show up for GG if you go. Can’t stay late though.
What’s “late?” Also, still waiting to hear from Skeez. Basically if he’s going to Cincy by himself, I will go with him because that would suck. If he’s got some peeps, I’ll probably hit up Lee’s
I’ll play GG if I can somehow get rides. I’m at Xanders by Adam’s house if anybody is interested in driving.
Well if there’s GG’s I’ll get to Lemanda’s a little after 9 earliest, and I have to be up early so I’d probably leave at midnight, or 1 depending on how tired I am.
Only going to show if GG makes an appearance, cause I want to play too.
Would you guys stop debating and just come over? Adam brought his PS2 and I want to see some GG. Angelo wants to play as well.
Too bad. Maybe tomorrah?
I know I asked before but I think I’ll ask again. Anyone with MvC2 for the Dreamcast got a fully unlocked Save I can get copied to my VMU? My Codebreaker is hoeing me on being able to use it with the mix I’ve got. It doesnt realize that its really Marvel. Then again I might be an idiot when it comes to the codes. ANYWAY!
If anyone has one I can copy at AL tomorrow maybe let me know in advance so I can get that ready and all.
Thanks in advance!
Hey guys. I was talking with Jordyn the other day about how my reaction time actually sucks and I was wondering about ways to improve it. I looked up some stuff and found this article: http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/10924/1/Reaction-Time-Training.html
Some of it’s irrelevant for us, but it seems like some of the exercises might be helpful nonetheless. Also, says nicotine and caffeine can help increase reaction time. I can think of a few really good players who smoke and or love coffee/energy drinks. Obviously when searching for reaction time help, it was impossible to find anything that didn’t have to do with sports.
Anyway, does anybody know of anything else that can help with reaction time? Is anybody willing to try any of these exercises and keep track of their findings? I also read a study that says increased heart rate increases reaction time, so I might go take a lap between matches at SBIV or something lol. I’m just now looking into this stuff and taking everybody’s word for it, so I don’t really know what’s legit and helpful, and what’s not.
I skimmed the article, and there were two general ways to improve reaction time providing you are generally healthy.
I lean toward physical training as the most worthwhile method, and saw that the article recommended (sort of) martial arts as one way to train reflexes. I’ll admit that I sometimes think my martial arts training has helped me catch that cup before it falls of the table, or some other random everyday incident. How much it’s helped with playing fighting games, I can’t really tell you; I still get beat pretty bad.
The other recommendation was to play computer games, lol. So just practice really fast, right? Honestly, that may be all it comes down to: trained muscle memory and physicality.
Play Left 4 Dead to help your reaction time.
I know for a fact that tequilla doesn’t help…
Great topic Matt. My reaction time is very bad. Hit confirm situations are especially hard and stressful on my mind. I end up making most of my fighting game decisions based on prediction. Fun, but not effective.
I never considered the possibility of improving reaction time overall, but tried to learn to react to certain attacks or situations slowly but surely.
Unfortunately its impossible to increase my caffiene intake.
To be more on topic and less hung over…
Reaction speed is one of the main reasons I stopped focusing so much on 3rd Strike and especially Marvel. It’s a skill sort of have, but it’s not something I have in great quantities. When it comes to defensive reactions, mine are pretty solid (tell me if I’m wrong anyway) I know how to block properly, I can get my reversals in properly, and I used to parry better but that’s a skill that I need to get back to work on. However…where my reactions typically suck is on the offensive…which is basically just hit confirms.
Dudley is a character that relies entirely on hit confirming in perfect oki situations. And his windows for those hit confirms are small. So yes, he gets great damage, and yes you see a lot of people play Dudley in casuals and do great with him…But it takes a very special player with VERY special reactions to play him how he’s supposed to be played in a tournament setting.
I.E. playing Dudley to win is MUCH harder then Dudley players let on…because he’s ALL hit confirms when played correctly.
I only realized that when I took my break from 3S last year/early this year and focused more on GG. Much, much MUCH more forgiving with hit confirms and all that, mostly because of the way frames work for GG and block-strings having a greater impact on play.
Anyway, my reaction time doesn’t suck I don’t think, but I have slow fingers(weird I know, but it makes sense somehow). So when playing Dudley I’ve adapted more of a counter-puncher style as opposed to rushdown stuff. My reactions are good enough in the right situations, but they just weren’t fast enough in full offensive, every single oki option way. So generally I just create the situations where my reactions can work well for me.
And that’s also the reason I main Elena now. No need to learn 30 different hit-confirms because she only has one on the ground and maybe four in the air. Less is more in some cases…
I know when Adam was playing Chun (and one of the reasons I think Adam got so good since last year) is that he used a Justin Wong method of getting your in-game reaction times better. He’d turn the computer on random guard and try to not screw up a hit confirm everytime he attacked with low medium xx Super. If the cpu gets hit, you input the super, if not you don’t press anything, and try to get it a certan amount of times.
I started that with Dudley…but again 30 hit confirms. And it’s hard. And frustrating. It DOES get your reactions better though.
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I also found out that getting 7 1/2 to 8 hours of sleep during the night will improve reaction time. Hopefully I can get to such a schedule one day.
Jason, I haven’t played you lately, but I doubt you block mixups perfectly in GG, so you can always use improved reaction time no matter what game you’re playing. Hit confirms aren’t really too hard with Testament, because every block string gives me plenty of time to tell if I’ve hit or not. Still I can even screw that up sometimes. Also, I don’t have danzai, so I have to look harder for openings and use them to their full potential.
Starcraft really helped my reaction time with fighting games, Matt, as I said when we were playing. Maybe look into other games that require high speed reactions and movement.
Oh I wasn’t saying I couldn’t use it. Was just saying where mine was and stuff I’ve realized about it and what not.
And yeah I have danzai…but I start out a match as the worst character in the game…and even when I’m in Moroha knockdowns hurt me ten times more then other people…so I need great, great defense to be any effective.
Which I don’t think I have, and I think that comes with experience…and I need a ton more.
Frequency, Amplitude, and Guitar Hero helped my reaction time…er hand eye coordination.
You might be right, but I was looking more for stuff I can do when I’m not playing games. When I’m playing games, I find it hard to convince myself that spending time on other games will help me more than just spending time on the game I want to improve on.