What’s everyone’s view on the stage hazards and items? From just these two stages the hazards feel like a slap on the waist. Losing meter is the worst it gets as far as risk goes. I forgot the hazards are their half the time since they ain’t huge game changers. Items seem ok. The spear of destiny sucks, RPG is decent and the boots are awesome.
The stage hazards aren’t so bad in terms of losing meter, but I hate them because they give your opponent time to set up whatever, get some hits on you, activate a super, etc. You can really get fucked over if your opponent capitalizes. They’re not as bad as Smash’s death stage hazards though.
The items are kinda frustrating. The spear being unblockable makes me mad often and the RPG is fast as hell. The boots are cool and are fun to try to deal with. I suppose if I wasn’t trying to play so seriously I could see the casual fun with the items.
You can mash out of Hades’ stun fyi.
There seems to be a set pattern for them all so they’re not as bothersome as I originally thought they’d be. I’ve actually seen a lot of players recently on hades stage who jumped the shockwave on reaction, or dropped a combo to keep their opponent grounded to try and get a reset from the shockwave.
Sorry if this has been asked a trillion times - is the public beta still dropping today? I haven’t been following this game hardly at all. I don’t see it on the PS Store (I only see the PS+ Beta).
Sometimes the store updates late. Give it till about 3 PST, 5 PST at the latest.
Does sly have any good combos? I’m having a hard time building up AP for him.
Hard to do in FFA. His alarm clock trap will score you free grounded square combos, which used to steal AP, not sure about this build though. I hate sly…
Nothing on EU store, but logged in on US account and am downloading beta now. As long as it’s downloading it should work right? It won’t check for Plus on start or something?
US Beta is open, downloading now. Anyone wanna get some matches, the add me: Djhyperkid.
This shit is hella fun. Might give smash a run for its money.
Radec is awesome. And man, there’s a ton of Kratos players. One match was me against three Kratos. But they still lost to sweet sniper + lvl 1 super.
But I bet the devs are gonna watch the results of the beta and nerf Radec/Kratos 
It was more fun than it sounded when they first revealed the gameplay.
As fun as Kratos is he needs to be fixed lol
my IMO tire list
S:
Kratos
A:
Parappa, Sly, Radec, Tooth
B:
Princess (I have no idea how to use this character help)
Everyone above Radec beats Radec, everyone under him is beaten by him.
Now explain how they beat him/matchups if you don’t mind.
Kratos is obviously the best tire.
PaRappa got a divekick. That alone is enough to be placed in A
Kratos players are mostly dumb so just throw them a lot to take all that meter. He needs fixed though. Dear god is he annoying. Also I’ve seen him combo into lv2 super.
After I kill somebody with a lv1, it seems my meter regenerates even faster. Not quite sure if that’s a thing or just me doing better.
Sly seems to counterpick Radec. As a Radec player, I have tons of issues dealing with Sly. He keeps teleporting (or something) when I do anything, and since everything of Radec’s is slow, I get hit.
Radec on lag is the worst thing ever. I joined a host of which everyone was teleporting around. I can only imagine how horrible it was for them to deal with me. Orbs and bullets and shit just appearing out of nowhere.
:3
I never had trouble vs sly with Radec. I always keep an eye on him in case he goes invisible. I’ve actually AA’d plenty of them on their way in.
Also, getting 3 kills with Radec’s lvl 2 because everyone bunches together never gets old.
I have far less trouble with anybody else. Sly’s godlike movement options just seem to shut me down. Dunno. Guess I should orb more. Any actual combos off orb/beam? I just do up+triangle to blow them away after an orb / beam hit and it seems to work.
Edit : Using tons of bombs seems to blow up any of Sly’s options.