Ex Shatter is a deterrent, scares people from jumping, it keeps people way out and knocks down to reset situations. Its not about the damage its his most versatile ex move. Once you start using it you’ll see, you’ll land 4-5 of them per game and still have meter for other things. Not just on Thunder, it applies across the cast.
Yeah I use it often enough as is. It’s just for the lack of damage you can’t really be burning it unnecessarily. If it led to combos it would make up for that, but it doesn’t. Plus better players know how to work around the fact that it has 13 frames start up after the freeze. Meaning you can preemptively jump forward before the freeze and make it whiff also. Better players will just block it down or jump around it since the homing isn’t really foolproof. If you block it you don’t really take much chip damage and if the Glacius player only had the one bar filled, they’re not getting another one anytime soon without doing something offensive.
I just won a match last night against Tom Brady’s Sabrewulf using it to stuff his dash as he went behind me, but if he had jumped forward instead he most likely would have bypassed it and killed me. Thunder can easilly time instinct dash after the flash to bypass it or only get hit by like one of the hits. Which definitely works in his favor if he’s already in instinct. You still have to pick good times to use it though since you only get 2 meters and after that you have to force them to block stuff or hit them with something to start getting any of that meter back. Which is why Glacius’ zoning game can only be so strong because EX shatter is obviously a very important part of it since it makes up for his terrible movement speed and beats a lot of projectile invincible moves (since it’s not a projectile). If you have 2 bars you only want to spend one at most on ex shatter unless you’re in a big health lead. Otherwise you’re burning out your last ditch defensive maneuvers or meter you could use for ex hail to start up offense.
Apparently Filthie Rich said that EX shatter used to be unblockable in early dev builds of the game. LOL.
Since getting the TE2 I’ve been playing more. Namely against my friend locally who, despite not owning the game nor planning to, runs a very mean Shadow Eclipse, I mean. Sabrewulf.
Been a bit slow moving toward playing online (work lately leaving me drained not wanting to play anything, fuck holidays). After a couple sets he told me to play some online. So I humored him…yeah, I’ve gotta jump back in on that. I was enjoying that more than I should have. lol.
Still very much enjoying Sadira. Them Web Trap loops and rushdown, oh baby.
Yeah I’m probably going to be doing some overtime at work to make some extra cash after burning it on the One. I told Mad Catz to cancel my order for the other TE stick I ordered but apparently they haven’t listened after 2 phone calls so they are still sending it to me and it’ll probably be at my house by tomorrow. I’ll keep it if my brother pays me enough for it. Otherwise I’ll either sell it to someone else or just send it back to get my money back until a later venture. Knowing me I’ll probably just sell it to my brother so we can play together.
Yeah Sadira is a lot of fun. If I wasn’t already vested in Glacius I would spend more time with her. I still feel her and Sabrewulf are the best characters for tournaments ATM if not the 2 best characters period. Jago has potential to be up there with them, but no one’s really perfected the tech/combos I think are necessary to really get him up to where they are in a tournament situation.
I’ll probably just start learning Orchid because she was one of my old favorites and with the way Sadira is going, it’s up in the air whether or not some of her tech will go unpatched.
lol thats exactly the same situation I had with Madcatz(called twice to cancel and random shipping confirmation showed up) and how I wound up with my stick, They just don’t listen to phone calls.
With the very high demand for the TE2 I would just throw it out ebay and post about it here. I’d say you could double your money and have a bit of extra holiday cash.
Gamestop still hasn’t gotten my order. I’ve honestly just stopped playing for the past two weeks, too much personal stuff and I’m sick of playing on pads. I’m just going to wait.
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Yeah, the dpad is still awful on the XB1 controller. Improved, sure, but still really, really bad. Thankfully my 2x ChronusMax should be here today or tomorrow and I can begin to take the game seriously.
Yeah I was looking on ebay and some people were getting away auctioning them for about 300 or a bit more. Some guys tried to go for the whole double price thing but I haven’t seen any bids on those yet.
With shipping or without? Because it’s prolly like $20 for shipping, ebay and payal will collectively pull about $45 off the transaction, factor in $200+ tax, that’s only like $30 profit - not worth it.
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Well she got her KI1 outfit which didn’t have the booty outfit (which was her KI2 costume) so hopefully that returns
I saw one that sold for $640 and another that was around $600. It was last week I think though.
Jeebus, that’s pretty tempting. Even after paying Ebay you’re looking at 500 or a bit more.
I’ve been dicking around with orchid a little bit, and I think we have underestimated that character… alot.
Her strengths are just less obvious than other characters.
started playing today and was pleasantly suprised, only having played the original KI and KI2 in arcades, SNES/64. I’m still trying to learn the combo system while waiting for the TE2 to arrive. I’m super excited to finally get online and absorb all the knowledge I can. getting bodied be damned
I never thought she was bad. It was obvious she was designed to work with her instinct and have her tools augmented around it. Still has strong walk speed and normals before all of that though. She doesn’t have 14 frame start up overheads like Sabrewulf, but has a lot of other useful tools and a bit better of an air game than him.
I will do a little orchid write up later but…
How do you make her double linker actually work?
Looks like the first Pin Ultimate Challenge has started!
http://playxbla.com/your-first-pin-ultimate-challenge-in-killer-instinct-is-here-c-c-combo-breaker/
I’ll be trying to get that over the weekend most likely. Seems like it should be doable even though I’m still a nub at this game.
Haven’t had time to do very thorough testing yet, but the CronusMax works great with my OG MadCatz TE (PS3 version). I just had a few minutes to update/program it and test it at lunch. I’ll work on DS3/DS4 later this evening if I don’t go out to happy hour, but so far I’m very happy with how it works.
Now, the lack of USB on the front of the XB1, on the other hand… Sigh. I’m hoping a USB hub will work so that I can make my own front USBs for it. The one on the side is not cutting it, since I have it in my entertainment center and it has to be pushed all the way to one side (preventing proper airflow) if I have the CronusMax (about 2+inches long) and a device plugged in (another inch for the USB plug, making it about 3+" total).
Anyway, I’m much happier now knowing that I can at least get the stick to work. I’m very happy that I didn’t find the TE2’s in stock somewhere, because I would have bought two of them. “A fool and his money…”, they always say.
is there input delay on the CronusMax? do tell