PDP Versus Fighting Pad has broken D-pad after only one month of playing

[DeusMortem]

Haha! I wonder if they’ll keep disabling me from playing.

[PresidentCamacho]

Your skin will adapt. In case you didn’t already figure it out, one technique you can do on a stick for rapid press moves is alternating two fingers tapping on the same button. Makes the fierce/roundhouse mash attacks so much easier.

[FreedomGundam]

Thanks for the advice on Saturn pad. Is it good?

Know what, guys? Something happened yesterday. I’ve had a stick for years and in the heat of battle I do far less well on it than on a controller. Never understood the hype with sticks. Thought people were just being “purists”. Then yesterday, I realised stick is AMAZING if you get used to it. You just need to put more thought, strategy into playing because different inputs require different finger positions. All of a sudden I was doing stuff I couldn’t even do with a six button controller. I plinked Gen’s 1 framers and I did Blankas crmkxxelectricity and Honda’s crlkxxhands. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do that consistently on a controller. Even though I can do some fancy stuff with a six button controller I realised I am actually, even with such a good controller, crippling myself when not using stick for those characters.

And square gate is amazing too, for charge characters, and I take a liking to charge characters as I find them more strategy oriented. Know what else I realised? I have a major blister on the finger I use for sliding today. Anyone else got those? I need to be real fast when I play Blanka and Honda (and to some extent Gen) but I hope my finger will eventually get used to this treatment. If not, tips on how to protect the finger? It’s the **** you finger, by the way.

It’s defintely a good thing, but that’s one HELL of an epiphany.
Going from “man, I’m horrible on sticks, I just don’t get them” one day to the next day’s “OMG BEST THING EVER!!!11111” (I know, I’m exaggerating).

Good to hear you’re enjoying using an arcade stick, though. Stick with it (har har, pun totally intended), and you’ll most likely get better soon enough.

[DeusMortem]

Hehe, thanks for the help, guys! I’ll try to adjust to stick. In all fairness I’m still far worse with it than a controller in the heat of battle, but at least yesterday I realised there is even more potential in using a stick (at least with these characters). Who knows, if I “stick” to stick I might even surpass my current efficiency with a controller in a year or so. Not to mention I won’t have to worry about buying new controllers every month. Thanks for the input.

[Moonchilde]

I never get blisters or callouses on my thumb or fingers from playing. Pad play caused me a sore thumb but never had a callous grow there. On stick I don’t have any issues though and I don’t use sliding techniques, I guess I have my own unique tap style.