Ga Thread: Step your game up!

Yuna · April 22, 2011, 10:09pm

Yeah, I figured as much. This’ll be my first gathering in a long time. Hopefully we can keep it up on a weekly basis.

Ate_Bit_Zombie · April 22, 2011, 10:12pm

Yeah for sure, I would love to keep it up every week.

drew511 · April 22, 2011, 11:11pm

Eshmasesh:

For people that are interested in Cyrax -

IMO, he’s a decent character but he has very clear weaknesses and bad match-ups. Like UMK3, characters with good teleports like Smoke are a huge bitch to deal with because Cyrax’s projectiles have so much start-up. I’ve experimented a bunch with combos and AFAIK his damage output is noticeably lower than average from typical hitconfirms. He also feels really reliant on meter because EX Bomb is his best ground launcher, his only other one is b.BP which does way lower damage than BP FP EX Bomb. I still need to experiment with his wall juggles though.

However, there is some really cool stuff about him. Just before launch there was a patch to fix Cyrax’s infinite, which was caused by teleport reseting his net. But they didn’t fix it all the way. If you catch them on the ground with net, teleport behind them and juggle you can still do another net for more damage. Cyrax has to have one of the best command throws in the game, its on-hit animation is so long you have enough time to do medium bomb, dash, FP FP FP. The jabs force them to eat the bomb no matter what they do, be it block or get hit or jump out, turning his command throw into a 40-50% combo. I even caught someone who tried to combo breaker out of the string too early, he still ate the bomb and got juggled

medium bomb setup, good stuff. Also when you say command throw you mean back FP-BP-FP-BP (cyber breakdown) or AA throw?

Edit:

also i am going to try to make it to tech tonight (might run a bit late) so i can play some real humans in AH3.
right now i’m trying to learn nazuna/ plant and/or fiona/love. it looks like nazuna is proving better though… we’ll see.

karapalm · April 23, 2011, 12:30am

Plant nazuna is similar to plant akane, you get rid of the difficulty in combos and you gain high damage from pretty much any touch but you sacrifice oki.

FunkyP · April 23, 2011, 12:55am

So i was looking at Petra combos and they’re like pretty damn hard to, then i realize A,B,C, Super does like 8K when most characters have to spend the same amount of meter to do less damage.

drew511 · April 23, 2011, 1:28am

i think that would be an ok trade off given that nazuna feel like a keep away and wouldn’t benifit from the extra pressure, but i’ve only been play for half a day now so we’ll see haha. this game is like pokemon with all the arcanas

karapalm · April 23, 2011, 1:40am

Watch vinc play time nazuna so you can see some of the stuff you have to do for damage w/o plant and the reward you get.

paul: abc isn’t a common string with petra but yea, it does good damage. you can’t midrange c-super and have it combo which is kinda weak. she has some awesome stuff in fenrir though.

spookydonkey · April 23, 2011, 2:25am

in nearly 3 decades of gaming, nothing has made me happier than the ending of portal2.
5/5 :pleased:

Reox8888 · April 23, 2011, 2:38am

^This right here

Make sure all ya’ll I haven’t met (Yuna, JDash, Ate Bit, Drew511) come say hey to me tonight. I love meeting new people.

Reox8888 · April 23, 2011, 2:44am

Yo Marty if you’re coming tonight, I’m bringing my PSP we can get on that Dissdia012 action.

For you guys I don’t know, I’ll be the white guy wearing colored bands on my wrists playing Guile/Dante,?,?/Nightwolf/Petra,Saki

IggyWhite · April 23, 2011, 3:36am

Don’t be stealing my colored bands. I have a lockdown on wearing colored bands.

JDash247 · April 23, 2011, 3:41am

I am here now, someone get here.

FunkyP · April 23, 2011, 3:46am

I would be there already but, some of our regulars fail at keeping track of time so o gotta wait on them for their setups.

dragonballjoseph · April 23, 2011, 4:39am

So I’m in another online tournament. Da Knut on atm: gamersvid on Justin.tv

Cool-Breeze · April 23, 2011, 4:50am

That’s what you do DB… You rape Dhalsim’s and ish??

dragonballjoseph · April 23, 2011, 6:34am

I’m going to assume you didn’t see what happened at final round lol.

Yuna · April 23, 2011, 9:34am

Yo, good shit to everybody who played me at GA Tech tonight. I get mad salty when I play fighters, I need to work on that shit.

Eshmasesh · April 23, 2011, 12:44pm

Cyber breakdown. AA throw sucks dicks.

GG’s to that strong reptile player at the gathering tonight, I learned a lot about how to handle that match-up. and GG’s to everyone I screwed around on the game with at the end

PhoojYwg · April 23, 2011, 1:45pm

Yep ggs to everyone there. If anyone there still has questions about AH3 or didn’t have your questions answered, feel free to post it up and either karapalm or myself will do what we can to make sure you get that info.

karapalm · April 23, 2011, 7:34pm

ggs. If you are interested in the game try it out. It’s fun. A little bummed no 3s but it was great to see everyone again especially marty, jason, joel, juan, joe and kent. It’s been awhile guys.
Drew - sorry I didn’t specifically say Hi, I had a lingering idea that you might’ve been the guy in the baseball cap and I think you were standing behind me for awhile ! I was talking to Joel when you were playing some but Vinc told me he did try to teach you the nazuna basics so that’s what’s important

I don’t want to see the game completely die when I leave the scene for a little while so keep it up guys. Yeah, the visual theme is hard to get around but it’s a fun game with where all characters have answers to situations and the creativity in a fighting game that you can use is pretty rewarding.