http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kLoiVqMPON0#t=101s
Sent force leaving when he gets hit fucking blows
That’s not new.
Holy shit, 1-hit armor air normals with Sentinel? That’s a pretty big buff, in addition to faster, 3-hit armor cr. B. IMO the air normals buff makes his j. l the most better, it’s already deceptively good with a hitbox from the bottom of his spike-gauntlet thingy to pretty much the top of his face, now he’ll have a fast armored normal with a big ol’ vertical line to challenge people going to the air with, and hitconfirming it is pretty easy too.
Its always been like that, you had me thinking hyper sentinel force disappears on hit for a 2nd there. Overall Im liking a lot of the things i’ve heard bout umvc 3 so far. I still wish he had 1 mill at least, but if the overall damage is reduced enough that he doesn’t die in one combo after an airthrow anymore I think I can live with 900k.
There seems to be multiple interpretations of one of his changes. Event hubs has it listed as armor on all aerial moves, but SRK and unity has it listed as a nerf to s.S hyper armor(now super!!!).
Which is it? Because it could mean the difference between Sent being a genuine threat in the air again, or him not even being a threat on the ground anymore 
Event hubs changed it to match SRK so Sentinel is…
T_T
I don’t think that the armor nerf on St. S is THAT bad.
Besides, they don’t have all the changes.
LOL if Sent had armored air normals he could possibly be one of the best chars in the game.
If they had only 1 point of armor, I’m actually not sure if he would. He’d be BETTER, yes, but top? Nah, characters like zero would still blow him up.
It would just give him a really viable approach and bring back some of that head stomping game he back in MvC2 XD
I’m bummed about the super armor nerf though. I just see no reason why it needed to be nerfed, sent’s launcher was still Hella unsafe versus anyone that knows how to not press buttons
I hope Sent is complete ass in Ultimate, i’ll take nerfs all day in exchange for a little speed boost. that’s all he needs to be more fun to play.
The nerf on Sentinel’s launcher is kinda stupid, it was helpful for those moments that you knew your opponent was going to attack and you sacrifice some damage to get a free combo of your own. But at the same time those situations didn’t arise too often so while it’s a nerf, it’s nothing way too big IMO.
I don’t think the nerf is that bad, i mean it sucks, but most sentinel players don’t throw out naked launchers anymore anyway. Only time I used it was when I saw a wesker teleporting cause it caught front and high teleports.
If he really is faster, and has armor on all his air normals I think it’ll be a fair trade in the long run. Ill even quit bitching about not having high health if all that turns out to be true.
The nerf on the S launcher is fairly minor. That move was difficult to abuse to its start up and if you swing and miss, you’re in for a possible ToD.
The rocket punch hitstun nerf potentially hurts a lot of Sentinel combos and follow ups. It COULD mean that the long Toan combo might no longer work. It also could mean that the block string of crouching M -> rocket punch -> HSF (and some people don’t block the rocket punch) could possibly have the HSF missing.
The health nerf is slightly negligable too, it’s just 10,000. But if you made a bad sent assist call and sent barely dies, that 10,000 health might have saved him.
Drones are a block string as well.
So yeah, nerfs all around with little compensation. Mashing during Plasma Storm? Cool I guess.
The TAC rocket punch combo didn’t work in the Evo build, even TAC xx RP, into j.L didn’t work. This was also in both up and down directions!
I don’t get why they would hit sentinel with nothing but nerfs though. Heres hoping the air armored normals and increased speed are both true, I mean he really wasn’t that good in vanilla once he lost 400k, and unless those buffs turn out to be true I doubt there are any chances of him not getting a lot worse.
so coming in hard drive then air x factor to be made safe, so amazing or does this not get you guys excited at all?
Well it was very hard to punish hard drive anyway so that doesn’t really excite me, plus the idea of blowing my x-factor just to make something safe doesn’t excite me at all. With that said, hard driving to catch 2 characters, x-factor, frying pan into death combo does have me very excited.
idk not having to block an income mixup due to having one meter and a level 3 x factor with sentinel and a full screen of coverage leaving sent in the air where he is best just makes me giddy…
That little option will be nice to have, but Sentinel has so many ways to apply XFactor so using it just to make it safe isn’t something you shouldn’t have to rely on too often. Not to mention a lot of the cast have a hard time punishing it as it is, some characters that can punish it now like Wesker, won’t be able to in Ultimate.
Have any of you guys actually tested this?
Because I did… and it’s not a true blockstring.
Did he receive ANY buffs at all? I’ll probably keep him on my team just for drones… but damn… not even ONE buff? lol
He was already pretty assy in Vanilla…
Well apparently his flight mode is faster and he doesn’t carry momentum anymore when he is flying. Other than that, nope, capcom didn’t see fit to give him a single buff. Which woulda been fine had they not decided to nerf so many aspects of his game, nerf the rocket punch indirectly nerfing his mix-up since he can’t combo off an air throw mid-screen anymore, nerf the :s:, nerf his health, I mean really? How did sent get more nerfs than wesker? How did dante, zero and wesker get more buffs than sentinel?
I really don’t understand what direction they are going with the new sentinel, ill wait a bit before I really start ranting about it, but Im not impressed so far. Im hoping the air dash nerf, and overall changes to the system indirectly buff sentinel cause I love the robot and Im prolly never gonna drop him, but capcom just make me so sad sometimes. Now I know how them hsienko players feel.