KOF XIV General Discussion - King of Fighters XIV Arcade Ver. Burn 2 Fight cabinets from Taito!

[rukawa_kaede]

emil is no joke last time I played him I couldn’t even beat his first character

which is amazing when I found out what BALA did to him,lol

I can’t possibly fathom how strong BALA is, that guy would kill me with a stare

[StoneDrum]

i’d totally get into kof 98 if it weren’t for the atrocious win screen character art and the slightly too stiff and robotic animation. the win screen always leaves a terrible taste in my mouth. I don’t even care if the graphics aren’t great but when the art is really terrible it does put me off. However I really like the art direction… the stages are gritty and grungy.

[JulianKPrime]

@StoneDrum You should totally give '98 an honest shot, even outside of your gripes with the win screen character art. It’s considered the pinnacle of old school KOF. You definitely won’t regret it, and at best, you can close your eyes / look away when the win screen comes on!

[StoneDrum]

@StoneDrum You should totally give '98 an honest shot, even outside of your gripes with the win screen character art. It’s considered the pinnacle of old school KOF. You definitely won’t regret it, and at best, you can close your eyes / look away when the win screen comes on!

i guess I could…It is just im super picky. Like I only try to play the best games, not only from gameplay but presentation and art. Vsav, garou, 3rd strike, last blade 2, kof 13, etc all do it for me, but people say kof 98 has great gameplay. so I could give it a shot

[ReoGeoSRK]

I dunno, Emil has and still beats me pretty easily. I have to do my best usually to take games from him. If anything, I like playing against him to learn how to get better since he plays super solidly most of the time. Playing against Emil is a litmus test of how solid you are as a KOF player.

Also, nigga, ReoGeoSRK. Let me ask you, are you even proactively taking steps to get better at KOF? Are you applying anything you’ve seen from DandyJ’s or my tutorials? If there is one aspect blowing you up, are you focusing on that one concept and trying to get better at applying it? I mean, I was worse off than you when I started playing KOF. I am where I am now because I stopped, looked around, and applied each tiny concept until I got decent at it, then put everything together for the whole picture.

If you are where you are at your current skill level and quit here, you don’t have the heart or the drive as a competitor. Simple as that. Again, I was much worse off when I started. I had more heart to push forward and get better; and I still have much further to get to the level of Xiaohai and beyond. You don’t have the heart, the vision, nor the tenacity to keep going. That is my merit as a player and as a person. Do you have it?

The thing that trips me up and that cost me like 75% of my mstches is that I can’t do moves reliably. The execution barrier is too intense, I have problems hyper hopping and doing combos and super confirms. I managed to get Emil to his 2nd and 3rd characters most of the time, but in those crucial moments I would connect a light or hard hit and couldn’t convert. It’s the same problem I have when I play SVC. I can space well but I can’t super confirm or do combos as often as I should be able to.

I made some progress in my game though, I was able to beat his goro with my ryo some of the times and managed to do pretty good in kyo mirrors.

[StoneDrum]

I dunno, Emil has and still beats me pretty easily. I have to do my best usually to take games from him. If anything, I like playing against him to learn how to get better since he plays super solidly most of the time. Playing against Emil is a litmus test of how solid you are as a KOF player.

Also, nigga, ReoGeoSRK. Let me ask you, are you even proactively taking steps to get better at KOF? Are you applying anything you’ve seen from DandyJ’s or my tutorials? If there is one aspect blowing you up, are you focusing on that one concept and trying to get better at applying it? I mean, I was worse off than you when I started playing KOF. I am where I am now because I stopped, looked around, and applied each tiny concept until I got decent at it, then put everything together for the whole picture.

If you are where you are at your current skill level and quit here, you don’t have the heart or the drive as a competitor. Simple as that. Again, I was much worse off when I started. I had more heart to push forward and get better; and I still have much further to get to the level of Xiaohai and beyond. You don’t have the heart, the vision, nor the tenacity to keep going. That is my merit as a player and as a person. Do you have it?

The thing that trips me up and that cost me like 75% of my mstches is that I can’t do moves reliably. The execution barrier is too intense, I have problems hyper hopping and doing combos and super confirms. I managed to get Emil to his 2nd and 3rd characters most of the time, but in those crucial moments I would connect a light or hard hit and couldn’t convert. It’s the same problem I have when I play SVC. I can space well but I can’t super confirm or do combos as often as I should be able to.

I made some progress in my game though, I was able to beat his goro with my ryo some of the times and managed to do pretty good in kyo mirrors.

what’s ur fightcade name

[Monkey66]

Maybe after the entire cast is shown, they can reveal all of their profiles.

Hopefully.

[ReoGeoSRK]

I dunno, Emil has and still beats me pretty easily. I have to do my best usually to take games from him. If anything, I like playing against him to learn how to get better since he plays super solidly most of the time. Playing against Emil is a litmus test of how solid you are as a KOF player.

Also, nigga, ReoGeoSRK. Let me ask you, are you even proactively taking steps to get better at KOF? Are you applying anything you’ve seen from DandyJ’s or my tutorials? If there is one aspect blowing you up, are you focusing on that one concept and trying to get better at applying it? I mean, I was worse off than you when I started playing KOF. I am where I am now because I stopped, looked around, and applied each tiny concept until I got decent at it, then put everything together for the whole picture.

If you are where you are at your current skill level and quit here, you don’t have the heart or the drive as a competitor. Simple as that. Again, I was much worse off when I started. I had more heart to push forward and get better; and I still have much further to get to the level of Xiaohai and beyond. You don’t have the heart, the vision, nor the tenacity to keep going. That is my merit as a player and as a person. Do you have it?

The thing that trips me up and that cost me like 75% of my mstches is that I can’t do moves reliably. The execution barrier is too intense, I have problems hyper hopping and doing combos and super confirms. I managed to get Emil to his 2nd and 3rd characters most of the time, but in those crucial moments I would connect a light or hard hit and couldn’t convert. It’s the same problem I have when I play SVC. I can space well but I can’t super confirm or do combos as often as I should be able to.

I made some progress in my game though, I was able to beat his goro with my ryo some of the times and managed to do pretty good in kyo mirrors.

what’s ur fightcade name

Ultros.

I’m playing a lot of SVC and KOF98 right now.

I tried getting into alpha 2 recently but damn that was difficult too ha.

[Monkey66]

From top to bottom, which revealed do you like most to least. And which unrevealed are you excited to see most. For me it’s

Revealed:
Luong
Mui Mui
Kukri
Sylvie
Nelson
King Of Dinosaurs

Unrevealed:
Alice
Latin Girl
Masked Girl
Demon Boy
Pillow Child
Love Heart
Geese Butler
Brazilian Ninja
Nakoruru
Kim’s Master
New Prisoner

I know KOD technically is Tizoc, but SNK introduced him as new so let’s include him anyway.

[Be4r]

I’m disappointed, they never showed off the follow-up for Leona’s D-grand saber. I’m pretty sure I saw her do it once or twice in the PS arena gameplay. I was curious if she would be able to cancel the follow-up into V-Slasher. Also the should have made ex Baltic launcher the version were she leaps forward and crosses up grounded opponents.
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I was sad that her climax looked less that XIII, her hair doesnt turn red anymore. Hopefully they will change that before the game comes out but I would kill for her to have the dynamite in the stomach when she screams super, that was my favorite back in the day

[StoneDrum]

i miss leona’s design from 13…so much cooler than the plain jane 14. That’s what I dislike most probably with kof 14 currently. All of the character designs are so generic. With 13 even the generic designs like ryo and takuma were fleshed out to be pretty badass. but i feel 14 is again another step backwards in terms of character design across the board. Kula and k- look alright and no one is really looking bad… the designs just aren’t as cool as they could be

[Monkey66]

i miss leona’s design from 13…so much cooler than the plain jane 14. That’s what I dislike most probably with kof 14 currently. All of the character designs are so generic. With 13 even the generic designs like ryo and takuma were fleshed out to be pretty badass. but i feel 14 is again another step backwards in terms of character design across the board. Kula and k- look alright and no one is really looking bad… the designs just aren’t as cool as they could be

Idk about that. I think King, Iori, Vice, Robert, and Athena look better here then in KOF13.

Also the newbies show a nice variety in character design.

[Bubba_da_genius]

From top to bottom, which revealed do you like most to least. And which unrevealed are you excited to see most.

Revealed:
KoD (doesn’t really count but whatever)
Mui Mui
Nelson
Luong
Kukri
Sylvie

Unrevealed:
Butler
Love Heart
Mask girl
Antinov
Demon boy
Latin girl
Kim’s master
Brazilian Ninja
Sleep boxer
Prisoner boss
Alice
nakoruru
Cthulhu(I hate monster even more than I hate cutesy little kids)

i miss leona’s design from 13…so much cooler than the plain jane 14. That’s what I dislike most probably with kof 14 currently. All of the character designs are so generic. With 13 even the generic designs like ryo and takuma were fleshed out to be pretty badass. but i feel 14 is again another step backwards in terms of character design across the board. Kula and k- look alright and no one is really looking bad… the designs just aren’t as cool as they could be

I actually like Leona’s XIV costume over her XIII costume(I thought it was dull and the grenades were stupid because she already had grenades on her ears) . But honestly I prefer her classic look over ether.
But in all, all of the design’s so far(except Kyo) are superior to the XIII designs. Even Andy who looks factually terrible has a cooler outfit and design, it just hasn’t been carried out very well(not unlike SFV Ken)

[Monkey66]

I think that the reasons that they only revealed two characters before was because before the Geese/Ryo reveal there were 22 characters are they couldn’t make all of the remaining reveals 3 characters. And even if they were to only reveal 1 making 21 left, it would kinda drain the hype for that week.

So with 18 characters left, they could successfully reveal 3 characters per week for the following weeks.

My prediction on the following reveals are

1.Pillow Boy, Latin Girl, Daimon
2.Alice, Yuri, Kim Master
3.Love Heart, Mature, Geese Butler
4.Mask Girl, Kensou, Brazilian Ninja
5.Nakoruru, Ramon, New Prisoner
6.Demon Boy, Joe, Mai

With the first characters listed for each week being the character with the spotlight and special opening (like how Sylvie, Athena, Geese, and Mui Mui had).

Also I really am starting to think Joe will be trolled and save for last :lol:

[StoneDrum]

kukri- pretty cool… not sold on him yet… but at least i like his design and concept. not really in the league of kof greats yet
luong-shes kind of hard to outright dislike, but i don’t find her particularly interesting. love the flower on her head though
mui mui- i like that she has the dragon going for her that really gives her an old school vibe. her appearance could be more interesting.
kod-im just excited to see tizoc return. obviously his griffon costume is hard to live up to, but we’ll see.
sylvie- i dont have a problem with her and she’s interesting, but the voice and personality aren’t my cup o tea
nelson- i just find his design really unappealing…the colors, the vitiligo going on, the cyborg arm, backstory, name… i just dislike it all.

so yeah, im not too excited about any of the new characters yet, but there’s quite a bit more to be shown and i may end up liking characters i thought i wouldnt

[Windam]

From top to bottom, which revealed do you like most to least. And which unrevealed are you excited to see most…

Revealed:
Luong
Kukri
King of Dinosaurs
Sylvie
Nelson
MuiMui

I don’t really dislike either of the bottom two, it’s just that fighting game boxers and Kung Fu Chinese girls are pretty boring to me.

To be revealed:
Love Heart
Geese’s Butler
Masked Girl
Kim’s Master
Demon Boy
New Prisoner
Nakoruru
Latin Girl
Brazillian Ninja
Alice
Antinov

[MMaker]

Kukri by Ronny Maia

KUKRI Costume

[Bubba_da_genius]

Can’t wait to see his Mui Mui

[Monkey66]

Could the South American team be a rival team to Fatal Fury?

After looking at the two teams, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did have something.

Joe and Nelson - Both are prize fighters
Andy and Brazilian Ninja - Both are ninjas
Terry and Latin Girl - idk, I guess both lead their teams and could have a energetic charismatic personality. Also both would have pets.

[affinity]

the KOFXIV hype is escalating!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0kufx74Io

So next week, perhaps they will reveal a Women’s team fighter and South American team fighter.