It’s not, but that shit was hilarious.
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I don’t understand why it’s so hard to be consistent in this game. One day I’m on a 10/15 win streak, the day after I lose against every scrub I face. Maybe it’s the nature of the character I use, but the game feels so volatile it’s infuriating
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Dont worry it’s all of us. Thing is even if you check out high level players, go into their profile, grand masters are getting beat by super Diamonds.
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This game is prone to good and bad days, specially online.
So it is pretty normal to beat whoever comes your way in one day and then lose 2 out of every 3 games the next day. Even more so if you tilt.
Tilting lead to a massive series of defeats yesterday in my case.
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I blame myself, not the game.
I can sense when I am not really into it and I usually loose way more. When I am really in the zone, I can beat people that are way better than me. Although, they are probably having a bad day 
And how do you get ‘in the zone’? Because if you don’t know, we’re back at the randomness I was talking about
The game is random and based around soft mixups. Those are like the hands in poker. In fact the game is very much like poker. You play shit hands all day long and try to turn nothing into something.
Sf2-sf4 is chess, use powerful moves to put your opponent where you want, then crush them. Sf5 is poker, use shitty or mediocre moves to confuse or trick your opponent, all the whileyou might be the one getting tricked.
The game is inherently volatile and unstable. The best players make the game all about reactions and less about volatility, but even they get scooped and put in the dreaded -2 mixup or the stagger pressure soft mixup of doom.
For us peons we think we are experiencing Good days and bad days but nope, we are simply experiencing the ups and downs of any numbers game… sometimes you win 10 in a row, sometimes you lose 10 in a row.
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Canon and timelines should never stand in the way of a cool picture, especially if it’s backed by perfectly toned buttocks like those.
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You need a lot of concentration in order to win in this game. That’s why it’s better not playing if you know that you will be on autopilot.
There is no skill difference like before, so everyone is a treat.
Phantom_Miria with the perfect logic.
Give this man a medal.
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Amen to that, I couldn’t use better words.
It’s obviously intended and Capcom told us since day one. Isn’t hard to see a good player lose to someone not that good, but this way even the latter will have fun. SFV for y’all, fellas.
Two other things of use in survival mode provided you don’t actually want to spend FM/real money on these:
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Unlocks the remaining colors for the outfits you get via extra battle (and is actually not as strict to beat anymore).
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Gives you up to 5 fortune tickets per difficulty per month (i.e 5 tickets on Easy, then 5 tickets on Normal etc. for potentially 20 tickets). These will give you the chance to roll for the exclusive alt outfits that are only available in the fighting chance mode (which I still think is garbage with completely random chances, but currently it’s the only way to get them).
I think I made five or six 4,500 purchases to get one of the costumes, then I got the next costume the following month for 500.
I’ve been meaning to give survival another go, ever since the “exciting updates” to it half a year ago… 
Dime hit the nail on the head.
The only other thing I would add is that character definitely makes a difference too. Like with Laura it adds to both sides of the equation: she epitomizes some of the more fucked parts of the game but she also has to expose herself to a fair bit to get where she needs to do in order to get work done.
With a character like that it is two sets of dice rolls every game - one for your offense and one for your defense. If either comes up short you die.
Compare that to someone who has a more stable offense and they are only really looking at dealing with defense volatility. Way easier to be consistent over time with that.
I’m not spouting anything new here but as I’ve played more it has really been impressed on me how feast or famine she is. If you aren’t a cut above where your opponent is skill wise or the character match up isn’t in your favor (and most folks she does well against aren’t super popular this season) fights get rough.
I don’t know how Idom does it. Probably by being one of the young’uns.
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The very nature of games where you have to take calculated risks means that those risks will blow up in your face on occasion. It’s difficult to be consitent in a game like that. Not to say it can’t be done, as we can see from certain top level players, but it’s harder than a lot of other games.
Also, since chess was brought up: any of you nerds are watching the world championships? Because holy shit game 10 was siiiiiick.
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After doing about 12 or so “10 readings” trying to get the Balrog one and still not getting it, I’m pretty much done putting any FM whatsoever into that mode. If the Fortune tickets don’t get the outfit for me, then I will just be without it.
I was amused by some of the survival mode enhancements they let you play around with (like poison + freeze + damage boost letting you completely murder the AI, felt satisfying after all that Season 1 Hard/Extreme survival mode torture). Being able to continue where you left off for 1000 FM is the biggest boon when it comes to unlocking.
But other than getting alt outfit colors or the occasional weekly challenge for some quick FM, I don’t really touch survival anymore.
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Yea I hate fighting chance with a passion.
I just know they will add a costume for Juri and I will dump all my FM on that.
I have 10 tickets and around 200k FM saved just for that.
Random things -
Personally I struggle against my own playstlyle which pisses me off the most. One day I’ll be Bonchan king of the zone, but if I go into a losing streak I’ll turn into the flash, king of rush down. Then that’ll work for a day, and I’m back thinking about zoning being better.
I think this is the key in SF5. You need a character that = this is what you do with this guy. Bison, Menat , Guile, Cammy, ibuki ( oh look it’s the top tier) , they all have a defined way ofplaying optimal. When you pick a lower down character I feel like you’re battling against the system , I wanna play Sagat, but I don’t want to play him different every match because one guy is a nut case and one guy is the biggest turtle you ever seen.
Last point, it depends how harsh you are on yourself. If I get beat 5-4 in a set, I’m salty contemplating my life and my entire being, when in reality that’s fucking amazing for a different guy.
To finish, this game is literally designed to be fucked. Neutral by pass tools than are plus on block literally define the game as not being a very good SF. Its like playing chess really carefully for 30 seconds , then flipping the board and shooting up the crowd with an ozie 9mm.
Half skill , half what the fuck. SF5.
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I don’t even play around with Fighting Chance. I’m completely good on that.
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