RK always comes through with the dynamic rips.
@ 4:33… tears.
Got an email with my code for the January pin challenge. Unfortunately you still have to pay for shipping.
Yeah I thought it was pretty lame you have to pay $3 and some change for shipping. The thing could fit in an envelope lol. But whatever, I arleady ordered it lol.
As far as the update goes, I’m really liking Glacius alt costume. I was just playing Spinal a little bit and he seems pretty fun. He can be pretty nice as a rushdown if you are on the offensive too, and you can then mix up with teleports. His laugh when he runs is the best part of his character.
I don’t know though, I felt like his controls are different than everyone else. I felt like I was missing shit left and right with him that I don’t normally miss with other characters. Also I tried to counter break 4x and not once did it actually counter break. I don’t know wtf is up lol. I got off because it froze in a Spinal mirror match when I was in the corner and the other guy teleported.
80% spinal combo no gimmicks
Yeah dude I was messing around with him in training and got an 83% combo with full meter and no instinct.
But then I tried it again, and it wasn’t landing that much damage.
Do his skulls (on him or on the opponent) make his attacks more damaging at some times more than others?
From what i tried one skull gives him and extra 5% on a full combo, im not sure if more skulls will stack. i was getting more than 80% like 87 ish but then i realized i wasn’t letting the health regenerate if i dropped a combo before.
Sucks.
People going to jail because the game still can’t tell who disconnected sucks also.
Oh well, at least we got something. I hope the exhibition glitch got fixed cuz I’ll be doing that most of the time now.
Cop: excuse me, but are you (insert name)?
Person: Yeah Why?
Cop: Good, Your under arrest for quitting an online match on Killer Instinct.
Person: What?!!
Sounds kinda silly to go to jail over something like that if you ask me
Can’t stop listening to dat spinal theme. Im surprised no one has just the op/broken gun yet. Wish I had an XB1 to play this 
I have not once been able to successfully counter break with Spinal. I switched between a bunch of characters to make sure my timing wasn’t off, and between all others it was fine. Either the timing is very different for Spinal, or he can’t counter break. Which, considering his ghostly manuals, wouldn’t surprise me
I was playing a bit tonight with Glacius (who is my normal main) and I was also having some issues with counter breakers, as well as normal moves. I don’t know what is up but something does not seem right after this update.
I use Sadira, I could hit counter breakers with her, even online. Spinal however didn’t even give me the whiff animation. I’m thinking he can’t counter breaker as a trade off for his ghostly normals. That being said, I’ve noticed a lot of subtle changes that weren’t listed in the Dev list, so maybe that’s part of if
Apparently classic Sabrewulf’s color 6 is homage to Max’s dog Benny.
Soo Spinal can just teletport and punish all of the Glacius wakeup setups, even the meaty f+mp. Hail and shatter have to be use differently in this match up, as of now seems very weak
But if you don’t do anything you can punish the tele.
Maybe you just should use simple oki. Like clk, spinal doesn’t seem to have great ways to deal with a simple clk.
Also, we should play later, I’m still descrubbing my spinal.
Yeah you just have to play more fundamentally vs. Spinal on his wake up. The other stuff Glacius normally uses people don’t have an option to simply move their body out of the way of like Spinal. If you do something meaty yet quick you’ll be able to recover and punish. It’s definitely a difficult matchup once Spinal gets skulls going because you can’t really do much without him teleport into a free punish.
So far Spinal seems pretty manageable before he gets skulls/instinct. Easily the worst character in the game when low on resources.
I actually have the opposite opinion so far. His skulls aren’t as crazy as I expected, and his skull-less play isn’t as bad as others are saying.
My day one impressions anyways.
Gg’s DevilJin & FlyingVE
Jin:
Something I forgot to mention on chat but you’re helping me unlearn the bad habit of using the same strenght linker after doubles/manuals with those breaks.
VE:
That was a fun session, I agree that Spinal seems somewhat akward. I picked up some your tactics with Spinals pokes.
Yeah definitely Diek. A lot of the lesser rank players only break on auto doubles. When you fight someone that looks for the linkers it forces you to change up more. I noticed you started going for counter breakers more during the later part of the set. You should definitely have counter breakers on the ready when using your hard auto doubles as it can make them more potent. Then you’ll get free hard auto doubles later when you condition the opponent to not break during them. Glacius’ ice lance is punishable on block from closer distances with shadow wind kick also. I played some good matches vs. Rebelo’s Jago later today and I’ll upload those later for you to watch.
As much as I like weird characters like Spinal, he’s almost too weird for me yeah. He just reminds me a lot of Zappa where the real stuff you must fear about him is hidden behind a sub game and such. Glacius was already taxing enough to figure out with no dash and slow unblockable non projectile so, yeah just stick with him and wait for Fulgore. Which BTW they said Fulgore will be another game changing character. Which is crazy because like the last 4 characters that have come out have been game changers as is. Spinal is basically game changer the character, so I’m excited to know what my old main will bring to the table.
@FlyingVe, let’s get some games in. I want to see what theory you put together with Spinal so far.
There was a KI tourney yesterday at CEO winter fest i think we all missed it because of Spinal lol. Starts at 25:45 http://www.twitch.tv/ceogaming/b/499768655