Played Endless with someone who can at least keep up with me last night.
Went something like 22 wins-4 losses (one was because we had a massive lag spike that stopped inputs and started back up after a long wait, he was inputing Ultra the entire time and I wasn’t able to block it when it eventually came out)…not exactly a post for this topic though now that I think about it.
Edit:
So tonight I can say is one of my off nights. I tried to do stuff, but it came out as something completely different, if at all.
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I played EXCELLENT yesterday against a wide variety of characters. I was called GLDK for the first time. I never got so many perfects in one night… i mean EVERYTHING seemed to work on EVERYBODY. It was like everyone was playing SSIV and I was playing Killer Instinct namean? I mean dudes were sending me messages like:
“… WTF??”
and
“I had no chance… sorry I had to quit, there’s no reason for me to play anyone who’s THAT much better than me”
and
“Are you Japanese?”
haha no mufugga. No i’m not Japanese. I just went into Bruce Willis plays Makoto in her new movie: Yun must Die (yun played by Jet Li) mode. Son i’m telling you, I was on my shit. Hit every fukiage. Every Karakusa. Every Tsurugi. Every U2. Every follow up. every Kara whatever. Everything was going my way.[/details]
The Bad
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So why am I bitching? Because I cannot play like this EVERY day. I mean WTF. Some days its not even close! some days i’ll be the one saying that I shouldn’t be playing. I’ll be the one who’s confused and has no chance. How can I get more consistent? I need to be more consistent. I dont’ know what i’m doing differently on those good days that makes things just POP. I practice plenty, but I’m not sure what makes me so good some days and so bad the others. I go back and watch hours of my own video over and over, and… nothing. I sit there and I stare at this screen, watching Makoto win every match one day, then lose every match another…
For you guys that are more consistent, I got to hand it to you. I think the one thing that seperates good players from great players is consistency. That is something that i’ve always lacked. Sometimes i just dash into fireballs. That’s just what I do. I keep telling myself to stop, but my hands wont’ listen. And sometimes i do failed wake up ultras all day long. even if there is no reason to do it (U1 from across the screen NAHMEAN). I have got to find a way to get more consistent. if I’m going to play bad, I want to play bad all the time and stay that way. I can live with that. if i’m going to play well, I want to play well all the time. I am not sure what i’m missing.
I did watch about 2 hours of vryu footage before I played last night, though. Maybe I was inspired :). Got to find a way to feel that way everyday…[/details]
^ It happens to me as well
Days that you feel that you are the Makoto King (or queen)
And days that you think what the hell is happening to me, why nothing comes out
Tell me.
How does one go from having 5000 BP and finally reaching that B rank with Makoto…
… To having a lose streak so bad I fall almost instantly back to 4500 BP?
I kept telling myself that the last guy was just really good, that I could do better next time, but when I was getting beaten by players with around 300 B/PP it made me throw down my fightstick in utter despair. I literally couldn’t work out where I was going wrong, especially since the other day I was wiping the floor with everyone I fought. Deeply frustrating.
It’s made me realise that my Makoto (and my game in general) is still very weak anyway. I’ve not been playing Street Fighter that long (got the 3DS version, got hooked, got AE on PC when it came out) so I guess I’d better go back to the drawing board.
Sounds like you were playing angry. If that’s the case, stop, go into your replays and start studying why you lost. Also, don’t use points to gauge the skill level of your opponent. Remember, SF has its roots in the arcade, so don’t be surprised if you run into someone who has really low BP/PP but is an absolute beast. Most likely that person spends a lot of time offline because they don’t like dealing with any sort of lag (really common on XBL).
Oh yeah, I wasn’t taking a shot at anyone with lowish points suggesting that that is an immediate gauge of their skill. (Sorry if it sounded like that)
I don’t tend to lose my cool or anything when I play SF badly which is why I couldn’t figure out what I was doing badly. Guess it was just an off-day ;X
yeah I was on a losing streak last night. Hadn’t touched the game in about 4 days. Warmed up a little got online and won a couple of ranked matches getting me up to 1500pp then proceeded to lose match after match until I was down to about 650pp. Too bad I’m so stubborn or I would have quite ranked after a couple of losses.
I even fought a ken 4 times in a row because all the rounds were close and he kept beating me with cross ups. So I wanted to play him until I could figure out how to get out of the cross up loop. Oh well back to it tonight.
Why by the god’s ass fuckings do Capcom game seem to hate my guts now at days? I mean, whenever go train on AE or 3S, I get lost. I go to an online session, midway I get lost on what to do. I do the same for let’s say Tekken or MK or KoF, I see some improvement or improvement greatly. Plus the help getting with SF in general is starting to faith as the same for my mind is getting shoved with shit to my neck with wondering “how”, “why”, and “why the fuck isn’t keep up with my inputs when I’m doing it right?”
Lost 3 endless games to a Blanka (previously played Makoto, able to practice against the Japs). Real life super > rape for the next bunch of games.
I play better when I get a bit angry, I don’t hesitate anywhere near as much, hit my combos, and I just generally play smarter (not as much back dash attempts getting me into trouble, my reactions get faster so it’s easier to tech throws).
Started playing gouken for a few days cause i like his playstyle… get very frustated cause i suck with him A LOT and switch back to makoto and lose a lot again cause i got used to sweep with hk instead of hp
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKKKKK!!! I lost so much today and not because of poor decision making. Today, lag was the culprit. I landed so many mk Tsurugis, but I couldn’t combo into cr.MP. I know for a fact that lost damage cost me at least half a dozen games. As an added bonus, I had the hardest time doing wake-up Tsurugi, instead I kept getting Karakusa. It’s like the computer couldn’t/wouldn’t read the “up-toward” command. Frankly, I feel robbed.
Has anybody experienced more lag during peak hours (in Ranked)? All my opponents had 4 green bars, but certain combos were ABSOLUTELY not connecting. I almost never have this problem when I play later at night. Or is this problem all in my head?
EDIT: Nevermind about the lag. Found out my roommate was home. She was probably streaming porn while I was playing.
It’s hilarious and very true. My roommate doesn’t just regular, vanilla porn either, she watches some REAL crazy shit.
In any case, knowing she was home and on the internet makes my losses a little easier to swallow. I was real salty, but then I jumped on 3S. For some reason that game always puts me in a good mood even if I’m getting my ass kicked.
Im upset that no one took me up on my other thread …grumble
Also Im playing on pc and MAN you definitely cant tell skill level by points on there! I dont think I won a single game yesterday. But then other days I can just mow people down, and they all have the same points
