Online Pretenders

[supersteveola]

It’s called HERP DERP NOT ALL OF US SRK ALL THE FUCKING TIME AS OUR MAIN TACTIC.

What’s called herp derp?

[Caim]

It’s the Norwegian bootleg translation for Shen Long.

[BlackShinobi]

But whatchoo gonna do when the round begins?
and whatchoo gonna do when you block dat hit?
Whatchoo gon’ do when yo’ opponent’s full-screen,
spammin’ tiger shots, preventin’ you from proceedin’?

Ummm… Shoryuken?

I found out SRK’ing during those moments make me S-Rank.

I love SRK :lol:

But to the OP yeah its auto pilot mixed with some sandbagging. Playing a set of players in a row who are too horrible to fall for mind games causes you to adjust to a style that beats bad players, sometimes i just ride out bait and punish until someone shows that they’re actually smart enough not to fall for it, sometimes it cost you a round or even a game when you get matched against someone good, but its much less maddening than playing every random scrub online seriously.

As i was explaining to someone a little while ago, sandbagging doesn’t make people dicks, there are a bunch of good reasons not to play at 100% all of the time.

[Mr_Bakaboy]

I can understand this mindset. Kinda like the arcade days with MVC2, if i was going up against someone i never played, i kinda took it easy on them at first. Picking characters i rarely used, toning my game down, and seeing where it goes.

If its a newbie i do NOT want to utterly destroy them, its good to have more players around. If you totally smash them to dust the first rounds, they might get intimidated and quit. Even if i beat them, i TRIED to make it look at least like he had a fighting chance, to encourage more rounds, and hopefully i could teach him a thing or two. Those instances where it turned out to be somebody good and he destroyed me, then i switched it back up to my best.

I have not yet tested the waters of online play yet, but if its chock full of newbs then i could see myself behaving the same online.

Honestly, destroying newbs with no mercy is like an expert Samurai going around picking fights and beasting on untrained citizens. Nobody is impressed, he just looks like a jackass.

Totally agree with this. Just beating someone down who doesn’t know enough to stop it doesn’t really encourage them to come back. Might also add the OP could be pissing the player off somehow i.e. spam fireball, same online crap over and over where the opponent took offense and brought out the whoopin stick.

[bbq_sauce]

What’s called herp derp?

I have type 1 herp derp…

[Rhio2k]

I have type 1 herp derp…

facepalm Oh, shit…

[Little_Goten]

I’ve noticed a trend facing people online in HD Remix and SSF4 where you will play the first round against someone and they will be just ok in skill, but then the rest of the game they just own you all around. Why do people online pretend they aren’t very good for the first round and then come back and annihilate? Why not just go strong the entire time? Any thoughts?

I tend to play more defensively in the first round in an attempt to try and download my opponent. Doesn’t work all the time though . . .

[BitterSweet]

The point of a game is to win right? So what gets me thinking is, why the hell would I want to waste a minute turtling when I could just take a few steps forward and waste my opponent in a few seconds? Makes sense, of course it does. If the other person is good enough not to die instantly then I might take a few seconds to change a little before sending him to oblivion.

[mad_possum]

If I run into someone online that I haven’t heard of I usually assume that they aren’t very good and play on autopilot until they force me to sit up and actually pay attention.