It’s more likely that we’re getting more costumes to milk the fanbase a bit more than characters
He was right about costumes are coming but cannot get the right costume. He predicted nostalgia costumes and capcom franchise costumes but Capcom release sports costumes which are nowhere his radar.
and he was right by obvious upcoming costumes guesses using pattern of release like.
if Shadow Nash was release therefore he guesses Mech Zangief which are both part of MvSF secret characters.
Yet most of his correct were lucky guesses and a bunch of wrongs especially with the stages, character and game modes that resulted for him to deactivate all his previous social media account and even start a brand new twitter page…
I still believe we would get brand new costumes, that’s for sure, but as for characters, stage and mode I hope we still do get some stuff.
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Possible Dime level post incoming. You fuckers posted a ton overnight.
I get where Akhos is coming from. Maybe overly intense in execution but I get it. I sort of had the same thing going on where I was always either the best or near best player in my local group and you realize the pros are light years ahead of that, but you are still pretty good. Then you get ego checked - either online or by travelling - and the harsh reality comes to light. Shit burns.
I think from there it is a matter of degree. Akhos has the drive and desire to shoot really high, which is great, but the tradeoff is when you’re holding yourself to those standards you can beat yourself up a lot (which he does). And it is easy to keep measuring yourself that way because the internet gives you infinity opportunities to keep comparing yourself to players that are better or doing better than you.
We each self-motivate differently though. I’ve had a lot of troubles with this game over the past couple of years as I’ve tried to apply myself. Ups and downs and back arounds, same woe is me moments and “jesus fuck I’m trash I’ll never get out of bronze/silver/gold league” crisis. Individual games where I felt like the literal worst player in the world (despite Volt being right over there to give me reassurance) and days where it felt like I just booted the game up and mashed my face on the stick for all the good it did me.
What got/gets me through that is sort of what Highland talked about: remembering that it is all relative. General life reassurances aren’t super helpful right now due to marriage and work issues, but even reminding myself how far I’ve come in SF5 helps a lot.
Yeah I have shit days where I’m a noob idiot but I’m still playing way the fuck better than I was 12 months, 6 months, or even 1 month ago (that is mostly due to the turbo lounges, which I am a fan of). Maybe today isn’t the day the light finally hits my brain and I learn/remember that key thing but eventually it will happen. Just gotta keep a it and learn from the lumps along the way.
The other bit of HIghland’s advice is on point: stand by your wo/man. Most SF5 characters have to contend with at least one flaw in their kit (apparently not if you have a wicked neckbeard) so switching characters to address one set of issues usually just opens up another. Sometimes that is fine if one set of issues bugs you a lot less than the other, if the character “clicks” better, etc, but building that character skill back up is time intensive and can be a real bummer if at the end of that process you think “huh this character isn’t really what I want either”.
To borrow a phrase: the problem isn’t too few choices it is too many. If the game had 4 characters in it, it would be easy for any of us to settle on a main and boringly grind away at them until we were fucking wizards with them. But when the character select screen is now up to 35 characters it is really easy to have wandering eyes. Especially when you have so many variants on the archetypes now.
Anecdotally, and I don’t think this is Akhos’ problem but I’m on this track so here we go, I see a lot of this in the Gold ranks. It is a grind to get anywhere and what you see a lot of are players with thousands of matches logged but no progress. If you scroll through their match history you’ll see them bouncing between 3-5 different characters. It is a lot easier/more fun to play a different character than it is to focus in on why you are so inconsistent you can’t climb out of Gold and work on the very likely fundamental reasons. “Fuck introspection I’m playing Bison”.
Its why even though the character drives me slightly crazy sometimes I’m still iffy on trying to move off of Laura. Whatever meager skills I do have I’ve built up with her and switching to any other character is super painful because of how clumsy I feel (gets better over time but that is a time of beatings). And I know that even though I have issues with the character my actual problems are general and not something that is going to be fixed with a new character. It is actually going to be a way harder period because instead of working on those fundamental issues I’ll be training up a new character so I’ll be doubly worse.
That said though there is no harm in trying shit out to see what sticks - see: Frost leaving Cody for a couple of weeks on his sexy Kage fling - so I’m still gonna do that with the characters I think might be worth it. Hopefully in SRK lounges; if I’m going to take a beating, I’d prefer to have it be from the bastards I know and not the random bastards online.
Rambly shit. Props to anyone that read it.
Also X-Kira has been right in the same way a broken clock can tell you the correct time of day. Dude shotguns so many guesses out there that he is bound to hit on a few things.
Saying that a 4.5 patch is coming isn’t predicting shit. It is basic pattern recognition.
I predict this year we will get a costume bundle that is CPT related. It will have 3 costumes and a new stage. Also includes bonus FM challenges.
I can also say with confidence that this season we will get 8 characters. Kage was the first. The other 7 will be, in no particular order: Dan, Mummy Commando, Makoto, Rose, Dudley, Dudley’s Butler, and C. Viper.
Am I Swordfishing my way through Capcom’s servers? Or do I just really want EH articles written about me and realize that people aren’t too particular about their facts on the internet?
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He really wasn’t though.
The change to his V-skill is a berf if I ever saw one. Like for example, Birdie’s chain is considered a physical attack instead of a projectile, and in this situation our parry suffers. We also lose the projectile store in many circumstances.
The rest is inconsequential.
The change to Ex Blast for example, no one was contesting that shit. Yes, there is a sequence in VT1 that can life more hellish for opponents, but it’s too situational to be considered a buff. Especially when you consider the required resources.
The change to the juggle properties to ensure that EX SK always plays out the full animation/attack is a buff, but it is a fix first and foremost.
VT2 Psycho Crusher projectile invincibility is a buff/fix, but thematically correct. I understand why they did it. Too situational for it to actually have an impact.
The rest are all nerfs.
The real buff Bison got is that he was left more or less unchanged (while everyone around him did) - which was what a lot of us were hoping for because he was in a good place. “Annoying to deal with” does not equate being overpowered.
I think he will likely settle in the number 5-7 positions. Fair game.
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Just a reminder, dataminers are not leakers.
They don’t know shit about when stuff is coming out. They know about real stuff being added to the game which may or may not even be used.
If y’all don’t even get confirmation from either you or someone trustworthy busting open files to prove any dataminer isn’t talking out of his ass, you’re in for hype crashes.
if you believe a dataminer known for being unable to predict shit and rampantly guessing, you’re a dumbass. Stop drinking that Eventscrubs kool-aid.
Also, regarding the whole to main or to not main debate, You can have up to 2 mains as long as they form a core that cover each other’s bad MUs. Living in a permanent character crisis is not ok. And honestly, sometimes you do need to switch.
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He even claim lately that he isn’t datamining anymore since 2017, Now he is a hacker since 2017 lol, He hack Capcom QA servers lol.
https://twitter.com/XKiraDatamining/status/1068114132057169920
Another thing that made this shady is his working with SFV modders lol
Xkira
Source, please use google translate.
according to the article
The type of hack that X-Kira does is called “data mining”, which is to break down the game codes behind these new features. “I do not just look at the game code, I have access to the Capcom server, the ‘master server’, which they call QA (Quality Assurance), where future news is tested first,” said the hacker. “It may be on PS4 or PC, the server shows me everything that is in the game, so I have an exact information.”
https://twitter.com/XKiraDatamining/status/1068132122995638273
1:18 - “Evil Ryu will return to the game”
Apparently, X-Kira’s cousin (XXX-Kira) predicted something X-Kira himself failed to, lol.
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With all the complains people have about SFV.
I think you should all play SF2 and never touch a modern SF again.
Then again there will be massive complains about SF2, because of all the BS Capcom has to fix to make the game good.
Also the game has Top Tier, they need to be nerfed though.
Can’t have broken ass top tiers.
Anyway, play SF2 and experience the real SF experience.
Real SF Footsies.
Aka Vega Walldive 50/50s
Or better, go and play Anime, thats literally what you want.
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People give Capcom allot of shit for the early days of SFV and the bad PR around MvCI. I still strongly believe that CFN is one of the best things to happen to modern fighting games and new fighters that don’t have that type of ground work laid out feel empty.
- Tekken has no replay function which is just asinine in the current year.
- Soul Calibur 6 has a replay function but it’s nowhere near as in depth as SFV’s is
(Seriously you can’t even pause the videos to see Frame by frame action)
CFN is one the biggest reasons why I keep coming back. It feels good having so much of the games world just one click away. Seeing who’s beating up who and getting high level strats. Or hell just checking in on friends and setting up lobbies because it’s easy as fuck to see who’s online and what character they are using etc etc.
I hope they refine it even more for future titles down the line. It would suck if they didn’t push it after SFV.
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ST is still have many amazing discoveries.
like the new Blanka tech
Have the same thoughts too, yet I was amaze that SFV made a comeback. They even made recreate animation stages like Guile stage. I was surprised with all the efforts Capcom did for it.
Despite many hated MVCi for the bad PR its still a good game content wise and gameplay wise. (I still hate the projectile deflect mechanic)
I think it’s in the name, Capcom Fighting Network. It’s meant to become a platform for all future games and likely begin including other fighters. Thank you for acknowledging it though, it’s easy for many to forget how much good that is coming out of this era. SF is not a new game, it’s an old franchise and it has to play catch up. A lot of what SF5 went through is growing pains.
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Here you all go, enjoy something nutty:
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You would get the free reading on the newest loot box for 4 weeks, to be precise.
There was an occasion when that period expired before the next box came out, and there was no free reading for that week.
Not a very audience friendly game. Too much going on on-screen. Too flashy. Hard to enjoy watching the game for entertainment.
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I read it
Right now I’m only saying I’m not that good 'cause of what I mentioned before; haven’t put in enough effort yet, not as much to compare myself to or see how far along I am, so calling myself good at this stage doesn’t feel right
Just a matter of time
Side note when are you gonna be on tonight, dunno when @Doctrine_Dark or @DevilJin_01 will be on so maybe we can get games in before then
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Hope so cause I am still waiting for the best Juri costumes never made
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That Mecha Abigail alt is out of control good.
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I’m shooting to be on by 7:00. Hopefully before then but I’m dog sitting while my not-quite-ex-wife is out of town so I need to take care of the puppers and swing back by my apt to make sure the cats get food too. But I can hopefully punch all that out not too long after I get off work around 5.
I’ll @ when I’m ready to go.
Also side note about the FM mission changes that I left out: shit sucks.
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Chris T, Daigo, looks like a few pros are looking at maining zeku now. Momochi, big bird and angrybird proved that he’s viable at the top level. That’s the only way new chars are taken seriously by pros. Tokido with Akuma, and infil with menat.
Could be. They could.
One thing for sure is that this version of the game has the strongest low and mid tiers of any version yet. You’re going to have to take every character a bit seriously in tournament now.
They bring the next balance patch out pretty much whenever it’s ready. S2’s came a bit later in the season but S3’s came almost immediately to fix Abigail going up through the roof and a few other things. Could come anytime.
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