Quick overview of this game:
-Dauntless is too fucking easy.
-Chel is too fucking good/cheap
-Talos is also fucking cheap
-So is Crow, but not to the extent of how cheap Chel is.
-Vlad is odd, I dont understand him.
-and Edge is hard as fuck.
Random Dauntless chiming in after a few sessions of playing. Really fun game .
Playing Dauntless does make me feel like a scrub because she seems so basic, but considering I and everyone else have only been playing for a couple days, this is probably pretty reasonable. Picked up Vlad just today, also super fun.
edit: wish I still had a Saturn pad, I just have the analog one which isn’t compatible with my PC converter. Since I have to actually use all 8 attack buttons, playing on stick feels weird.
Notes for people who want to sign up for the alpha: PS3 sticks don’t seem to be supported as of right now.
Mine took about two days. You are definitely in the queue, just a matter of when.
Have not really run into any major projectile issues, yet. Crow and Chel both have fireballs which are good, and Edge just got one in the new update IIRC, but I haven’t seen any of them be easy mode.
KD is basically a combo breaker, KA is a Roman Cancel/FADC to extend combos and make things safe. Not sure about meter usage, since I have a graphical glitch where when I don’t know how much meter I’m burning.
anyone playing this on mac with either bootcamp or parallel? how is it managing. That stream last night got me hooked on this game.
Edge, for some reason, seems to be the most popular character at the moment. Can’t seem to get into matches with anyone but him. Really annoying for me since he seems to be Chel’s worst match up.
Edge probably has the best return to time put in for an average player. He just has everything going for him.
N/m
well i got an invite.
this game is ass. its sf4 with everything replaced by tin cans. the biggest blunder of seth’s life.
like who is this for. casuals are playing mkx which looks amazing, has wild personality, and has good single player. hardcore people are waiting for sfv or playing anime. no one wants or will want coffee can sf4 with one button specials.
uninstaleld.
Got my code over the weekend. My thoughts:
Like I thought, I kinda miss execution, but RT definitely works without it. Got a similar feeling in Fight Night and UFC when they removed the analogue motions. There’s more to execution than it simply being a dated input medium, or whatever.
Characters feel a little limited in terms of combo construction and techy stuff, more might come out in the wash, but, on a positive, the limited nature actually adds to the fast ramp-up of meta, much like in Dive Kick.
Really enjoying the range of characters and their unique behaviors. Again, that reduced input barrier allows you to experiment with characters a lot more comfortably.
Likewise, playing mostly against Crow, I think it’s due to his heavy lean on keepaway shenanigans.
Personally trying to play as Talos. Difficult but rewarding. Doesn’t have that same ability to bully players like a classic big-body for some reason or another.
Quite enjoyable as a lightweight fighter. Interested to see how this game evolves as more alpha keys roll out.
Everyone struggles against Edge honestly.
Crow looks really good at first. Once you start quick-rising EVERYTHING he does, then he becomes pretty meh. The moment as a Crow player you find someone not quick-rising anything, Crow will be having a field-day because he will actually blow people up fast. Quick-rise though, then the oki gets bopped and then Crow will be shafted. It then comes along the lines of what you want from the character, and at that point, there are better alternatives in the Alpha than him. Oki? Vlad, he’s secretly good with S1.1 (Missile) oki on knockdown. Projectile/Zone? Chel. Rushdown? Edge, Dauntless, and Vlad. You can use Talos as grappler, but he also feels limited in terms of how much he can do.
I know it’s Alpha, but yea something about Edge has it where he literally has very little cons. The biggest problem is that he’s like Guy + Ken, only that Run -> Slide is safe, and Run -> Overhead is also safe and can be combo’d… Blocked? You have the ability to DP KA Dash Cancel, which really doesn’t take away utility since there are no EX moves. Btw the DP KA Dash Cancel is also safe.
There really is a list of things to talk about him, but I guess the one word that describes him atm is “safe”
Yeah, Run -> Slide feels hella busted at times (though I’ll admit, this is coming from someone used to having unsafe slides in other games). I guess they’re making it safe because of the cooldowns.
Technical Alpha (read first build, nothing optimized)
You should not expect anything other than you might have a chance to play it.
You are literally an unpayed play tester.
Shut the fuck up and quit bitching.
For anyone else unsure of the difference, i’ll be lazy and grab the wiki.
It’s rough but pretty accurate.
Alpha
Beta
I don’t understand why they added more recovery frames to Edge’s S1v1 but left the slide and overhead untouched…
So that you’ll learn to play against them instead of wishing to patch your problems away.
I feel like everyone bitching about balance in the first month should just have their key revoked. Seriously people, you have nowhere near the experience needed to make real complaints.
Yeah, I’ve never heard of a game having an open group of testers so early. Generally the game is still only being tested by a selected group of players on NDAs. They’re letting pretty well anyone who signed up play the game months before they would have had the beta out and they can release all the footage they want. People will find anything to complain about.
lol.
I have a key if anyone wants one.
I’ve seen a lot of Marvel players enjoying this game as of recent, wonder if the Marvel scene will migrate over to that a little.
My biggest problem with this game is that I get bored when playing it.
If you play Chel against everyone except that Chinese dude, you’re in for a heck of a lame game.
It’s basically impossible to fuck up an anti-air uppercut in this game and being able to make your offense save by dashing is really annoying too.
I don’t know but if you make a game with execution requirements as easy as this, don’t have invincible uppercuts.
I feel like there’s no incentive for me to attack my opponent as Chel. I don’t know how it feels with other characters, but I don’t know why other characters like Vlad for example would not feel the same.
Also this game feels like SFIV all over again on okizeme. Most of the time I just shimmy and block or walk up and block, because you know invincible shit on wake-up.
Even my girlfriend told me from just observing: “Wow, matches in this game last forever, huh?”
so has anyone made a hit/hurtbox viewer, ripped the assets and made mods yet?
oh, wait, intellectual property theft (oopz, freedom of information required to win) only applies to commercially released games… wrong fwed, l8r
This game sure ain’t poverty friendly.
Had to really bring the resolution down and turn everything to low to keep the framerate from dipping in certain situations.