Grinding in this game is different than in other sf or fighters.
You grind experience in sf5 by being exposed and getting use to something, which a lot of players hate. And while that has been a thing always with fighters, players usually countered that with grinding out fancy combo’s or setups.
Sf5 doesn’t have much in the way of grinding out fancy combo’s and setups unless your a handful of characters like G, ibuki, meant or Urien and even then Urien is probably the only character in the game with really cool practical and execution “heavy”, 50/50. Maybe ibuki too with bomb setups.
So its really hard to get better in sf5 unless you A) have a ton of raw talent or B) stick with 1 or 2 characters and get familiar with all situations and gimmicks for your character and the opponents.
Tokido Vs Fuudo was a good example of how simply not really being exposed to something and not knowing how to deal with it can easily cost you the game.
He basically beat tokido then the DF started and he cracked and lost.
In sf5 since combo’s aren’t really what you go to training mode to practice, grinding your meaty timing, how to handle something they aren’t use too and basic frame data knowledge is what people end up doing.
I dont think its a bad thing it’s just different. Most games I’m usually in training mode trying to sharpen my combo’s in sf5 I’m practicing and trying to memorize meaties and frame data.
You know the news/DLC is dry when the “spice the game up” thing comes up again. I want less training mode combo games any way so hopefully Samurai Shodown spices things up there too.
Personally I want new characters because they make the game feel alive and fresh. Whenever I reach level 50-55 with a character I’m bored to death with them and I switch around but right now I have six characters around there and really no interest in learning anyone else at the moment.
That said I’m over the game anyway so while I’d still like to see them add some classics in SFV’s visual engine I’d probably not bother playing them anyway.
Sometimes I miss the Ranked grind. I guess after diving into it hard for some months, it’s normal to feel this way after staying away from it for awhile.
But then I’ll watch people streams and realize that I’m good at where I’m at. Warlord is so far away that I can’t even imagine going for that, anyway.
So,if you got hit by it it’s your fault really.It wasn’t a pressure tool.But it had a lot of character and I loved stuff like fuzzy guard into dive or ex dive into other followups.
