Wow I like that. That means you’ll get ps all stars for $30! Too bad I don’t know anyone who has a vita 
isn’t anyone scared that they’re using the beta to test online settings less than a month before the game’s release?
i was playing online last night, and i’m starting to run into people who teabag and taunt after they land a super LOL. good ol’ online fighting games, right? i thought i was done playing marvel xD
Not really. The stuff they get for the beta could be used for a day one patch
Obviously they’ve been testing internally for a long time. Most fighters are released without a beta at all, but that doesn’t mean their online isn’t untested.
I dunno, I’ve had a good online experience with this game, mostly good games. But with a bad connection it’s teleport/glitch-city.
after mortal kombat 9, i’m really scared of games getting patches. it just traumatized me lol.
i’m really happy there’s no detectable input delay while playing online, but weird stuff does happen when the connection is bad. did i tell you guys about the invisible radec? i thought one of the players quit, but there was a radec that was invisible the whole match! i knew he was there because i could still see the red line of his F+T spam.
anyways, i’m only saying that because people say that online only gets worse when the game is released due to the “servers being flooded.” i’ve already had enough lag from UMVC3, i don’t want anymore.
oh, and i really hope this kratos is a true beta kratos. i don’t know exactly how they’re going to balance him without people complaining that they “totally ruined him,” but the tracking on that chain grab has to go. actually, it’s more of a homing property. if i’m landing from my jump, i can see the chains move down as my character does 0.0
I fought an invisible opponent. In the early days of the beta I fought against an invisible Kratos. The blades of chaos were the only things I could see
Okay, apologies if this has been answered before, but I really want to know something.
Can someone give me some clarity on supers? Specifically the power of level 3 supers.
Given that supers can’t be blocked, and the seemingly ridiculous killing power of level 3’s (they all look comparable to PW’s level 3 in UMVC3), I’m worried that the game, in a competitive sense, will be a race to see who can get to level 3 first.
That’s my initial impression, but I haven’t played the game, so I’d love to be proven wrong here. I don’t really want to see this game go the way of “No items, Sly only, Final Destination”.
You can’t block supers but they can be dodged. Level 3 is only an issue for FFA. It’s not as powerful in 2v2 or 1v1 as the amount of time it takes to build three bars wouldn’t be worth it. With a controllable level 3 a player can only hope to land about 2 or 4 kills in 2v2. If the opposite team manage to land more kills with level 1 and 2s then the lvl 3 will do nothing to turn the tide.
some of the characters’ level 3 supers are pretty much a guaranteed 6 kills in Free For All mode. there’s a few things in the game that cause you to spew the AP that you’ve earned, but it doesn’t seem to do much to someone who has or is on their way to 3 bars. that invincible dash doesn’t help, either. one thing the game devs said was level 1 supers can get a lot of kills, but you have to sort of gamble with being able to land it, while level 3 supers are guaranteed kills. so it’s a risk for fat princess to save for her level 3 because she’ll only get three kills off of it. same with parappa, but he has that boombox attack that gives him free AP. sly, kratos, and radec’s level 3 seem to last a little too long.
i’ve been in a match with a kratos player who got 2 level 3s in one game! no overtime or anything.
i don’t know. it doesn’t really make sense to me either, but this game is pretty fun.
IIRC, throughout the betas, he was nerfed, and people complained he wasn’t very good, so they buffed him, now they’re nerfing him again (I’m assuming that’s what they mean by ‘tweaking’). All characters in the beta are finalized, except for Kratos who is receiving the tweaks before launch.
Kratos was Muhammad-Hulk-Hogan-Bruce-Lee Alpha 2 Turbo in the original Beta. His air side+triangle didn’t knock them back like it does now, and would combo into level 1 for free. They nerfed his level 1 to the dirt in one of the updates, and then reverted it back but made it harder to combo into in the current beta.
Ah, I see. However, I still think something should be done about both his AP gain and the homing chains. Like Husteen, I’ve seen many people as Kratos score 2-3 level 3’s in one match. And the matches aren’t very long at all.
It’s because:
- It’s free for all and there’s a lot of targets that allow you to build meter quickly.
- No one likes to block ever.
- No one has any kind of strategy and just runs into dumb stuff.
I really have a hard time believing Kratos will be higher than mid tier in competitive play when people will actually block and punish Kratos. Don’t get me wrong, Kratos isn’t terrible or anything, he can play a decent Dhalsim style range game by poking with chains, but ironically he can’t rush down too effectively because he’ll get punished for it, so he HAS to play that keep away, and I’m not sure he’ll have great options if you get in on him.
ONe thing I would like to see are thorws possibly draining just a bit more meter, not much more but just a small amount more.
Kratos builds lots of meter because the mechanic they have in the game where you gain bonus AP if your hitting multiple people, and if get a AP Burst (i think thats what its called) that is so much meter. Kratos in FFA will definitely up there his lvl 2 and 3 are perfect for it. In a 1v1 setting his lvl 1 is very easy to dodge without a good setup, level 2 will need a decent setup and level 3 at most will probably only net 1 maybe 2 maybe 3 if the opponent is derping out.
Game is out now guys. Call your local gamestop to see if they are selling it early. Sony allowed stores to break street date 
I’m picking mines up midnight
I keep getting a “can’t connect to matchmaking server” network error 
That’s cool, considering all the promotional videos for that game say it will be released October 23rd. That’s probably why the beta won’t work
I’m really interested in hearing if kratos is any different in the full game.
Same hopefully I get the game tonight because I called the store twice just to make sure lol
it’s not like using mines or using molotovs are mutually exclusive strategies. i’m not sure how to explain how to use them, they are pretty intuitive. throw them at various distances by holding the button down (while you already have your mine out~~~!~~ because it denies a certain area as well~~!~~) to make people wary of rolling/entering at certain angles. if they ever hesitate in your vicinity, run up and downthrow into combo. or you can jump and go for j. square into fat combo (fuck yeah 90 AP). or you can just ground them with j. d+triangle for oki to put them in the same situation all over again.
saying you’ve seen too many sweet tooth players getting owned by it is like saying you’ve seen too many ryu users getting blown up by throwing too many fireballs. since crouching medium kick is already so good, there’s no point in using fb RITE MAN?
you can (and should) use them both to your advantage.
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