Is it just the newness of the game or is it worlds better than SF4? I think it might be the latter.
As for the netcode, I had one laggy match last night, it was for bars and lagged, yet I played a few 2 bars that didn’t. I’m sure as I play the game more I will become more sensitive to latency, but provisionally I say the netcode is doing the job.
Total KOF noob here, got a few questions before I buy it:
Thanks!
Yeah, quite a lot. This game is way more offenseive than SF4, and you’re generally playing footsies on the ground and while you’re hopping. Zoning characters like Joe and King seem to carry a signifigant advantage due to their zoning prowress.
Much harder. You cannot mash anything, and your timing and execution skills have to be fairly good.
Depends on how dexterous you are. Some of these trials will leave you saying “wtf?” upon reading them, and a lot of the early ones took me awhile to get down. How someone can pull off Raiden’s c.lp > hcb x2 at will is beyond me.
Yeah, I was gonna say that. At times you gotta apply good short hop tactics to your footsie game for KOF
& Athena (Her Psycho Ball, and she can reflect projectiles. She been annoying as shit every since the old days. lol)
Interesting. Anything else you guys can tell me? Is there a particular way to “play” this game? My problem is I tend to play every fighting game I see like its ST, lol. Getting this most likely today. Any noob-friendly characters I should look to use?
Man I’ve been missing out on KoF all this time. Feels bad, man. I haven’t gotten online, just playing around with training mode and trials and trying to hop consistently. I like it.
This is the first KoF I’m sitting down to seriously learn how to play. So far it’s pretty tough execution wise. I’m trying to learn Joe, King and Takuma. Is that a good team? I don’t think I’ll be getting online for a long time. I played against the computer and could barely pull off any combos in a match. Is it necessary to learn the complicated combos in the trials? I’m not too great and doing really long combos like that.
Norieaga, if you play ST try Kensou, he sorta feels like Ryu, he’s a solid all around character with good zoning and rushdown.
Maining Kensou, Kula, Andy right now. Maxima is very annoying in hands of someone who knows how to use autoguard moves well.
That one isn’t too bad. At first I was all confused but once you buffer in the motion, it becomes a hit confirm which makes things a lot better.
Takuma takes some work. His range on his normals are pretty lacking. He’s s stun and combo monster though. Down side to that is SNK made his more damaging combos stricter. There’s nothing wrong with your team. You should try doing the first couple trials in mission mode for each character. You should tak eyour time when doing combos. You should be able to hitconfirm visually what you need. The only combos that are giving me trouble now are crLPxN, excessive Drive Cancels mixed with EX moves and such along with HD combos but it’s my second day with the game.
Shoutouts to the trial mode having a demo option so i don’t have to search youtube to see how the combo is suppose to look.
Ok this has been getting on my nerves, when you go into ranked and get matched up with a 1-bar, is there no way to back out? I’ve had a few people back out when we get matched but i cant seem to find an option to do that.
also, has anyone figured out how to unlock the customization colors? and are they universal or do u have to unlock them for every character?
add me on XBL…Shadow Ace 50
im done to spar
Yes but not for online mode.
I’m kinda bummed about the lack of presence KOF13 has in stores…in Colorado anyways…
Went to a Walmart at Midnight for it and they didn’t order any. At all. Yet they still had a copy of 12:shake:
Went to a Best Buy in the morning because I saw someone mention they had a ton on here. They had none.
Hit the Toys R Us up the street for the same reason, they didn’t order ANY
Checked with another Walmart while begrudgingly heading to Gamestop. They didn’t get any in the morning.
Gamestop had 1 copy for each system. I had to buy the open box display one, and it took the guy 15 minutes to find the disc. When I first asked he had no idea what I was talking about.
Small tournament going on right now in London, never sure whether to post streams in the general discussion or video section of the site…
Yeah, though I forgot what my sign in was, I’ll have to rejoin…haven’t been on there in a while, but I got WholeGrainWheat(Mike) on my friends list. I run the Game Force up in Arvada…non of my distributors ordered KOF13 either. I was pissed.
Saiki Unlock = Do a lot of Target Actions (I did like 35+ and he was the 4th mid boss)
Hope it doesn’t freeze on me again >:/
Unlock Extra Bonus Colors = The first set I got by choosing the same character 10 times. You can’t select and exit at the start of the round in offline versus to quick unlock >:/ So far I’ve just been doing offline versus HUM vs HUM and select 3 characters and quickly beat up the P2 and rematch. Whoever player P2 picks doesn’t count to character use. Need a quicker way.
Wait… so it’s not just me this happened to? Right after I beat Saiki and got the trophy for it, my TV screen went blank. I had to reboot my PS3 and beat him again.