Soul Calibur 5 Official Discussion

[K3lloggz]

Yea I was fighting Astaroth on 8wayrun stream and his grabs were pissing me off. Me, my Zwei and Ein were gettin raped

• Generalkills

[CaliberChamp]

the thing is that yes astaroth can do the same but alot of other peoples strings are faster then astaroth
astaroths gets affected much more by this based on the fact that his strings lock you in place but there is enough time to just guard while blocking. sort of a red parry deal.
mitsu doesnt exactly want you to block bb or a simple aa
or 2kb
astaroth doesnt mind and actually sees it as much better if you block his strings as the inevitable guard break will come much more faster with him
as for that vid some of that stuff is good…no its great. but some of that is more of the "if you get hit by that opening move in that position you deserve whats about to happen to you"
and you can tech the throws

True. Every character should have some sort of exploitable weakness. It would be interesting to see how things play out at SC5 at evo. I actually want to get really good at this game before then though. I can only see myself getting good with 2 characters though, I don’t know how a few people can get good at playing everyone.

[Ben_Perkins]

I’m pretty sure DLC pack 2 goes up today. More CAS gear, natch. I’ll let y’all know more when I find it out.

[Master_Thespian]

A dude told me to do the same with Pyrrha, and just put a statue on the confirm button. He said that he regrets it now, he has people quit as soon as they join a match with him because he’s lv99 and he hasn’t even played a real online match.

So true. I have to explain this constantly when I enter into rooms.

[d3v]

What’s QS4G?

[Master_Thespian]

Quick Step 4G. A way to cancel Quick Step into Guard aka ruin the game by turning it into a turtlely mess.

[Tomo009]

I’m pretty sure that was SCIV, I think you have to quick step > BACK step G this time don’t you? Making it still dumb but harder to pull off

[k4polo]

Now that the game is out and ppl played it. How will it stand over time?

I think this time around ppl will keep track of it.
I mention before that this game needs more support to survive than others.

Hardcore scene for this so far seems rather weak in numbers which is weak in general but it is growing at least.
Plain and simple, not many took this game series. They created a bunch of CAS and had fun which is fine IMO.

I think even as a hardcore player, everyone need to look at some aspects of the casuals end as well for the game itself to grow or say blow up. People doing a good job making tutorial and such to bring some in this game to stay.

MvC3 had the backing of its previous games but lack more content than this game. SCV had some backing but not much on the competitive side of things.

[scytheavatar]

Hardcore scene for this so far seems rather weak in numbers which is weak in general but it is growing at least.

What’s your definition of “weak in numbers”? They managed to get 31 players in the first SCV weekly tourney in Super Arcade, which to me isn’t what I would call weak. Then SC has always been more popular in the East Coast than the West.

[MikeBreezy92]

For most part other games are more popular in the EC. Ask MK.

[frostycyke]

Mk is big is the east, but so is SC, in fact it seems like EC has a greater number of 3D fighters compared to west coast. Tekken is huge in ATL and I expect SC to get some nice numbers at final round.

[Jaymz_Kutz]

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Can someone explain to me if I’m an idiot for uploading that video, or is that a genuine glitch? I’m not so good at this here Sowl Caleeber business.

[Ben_Perkins]

New DLC is disappointingly low on content.

[norppa]

Can someone explain to me if I’m an idiot for uploading that video, or is that a genuine glitch? I’m not so good at this here Sowl Caleeber business.

That’s her normal fake jump from possession stance (in the move list it’s called “Silent Mist”). When she’s in possession and you press up, she will do her hover jump and you can do moves from there, but if you press down she will do a fake hover.

[Jaymz_Kutz]

That’s her normal fake jump from possession stance (in the move list it’s called “Silent Mist”). When she’s in possession and you press up, she will do her hover jump and you can do moves from there, but if you press down she will do a fake hover.

From where I was, pressing up wouldn’t do anything at all. It would just stop the motion. I’ve messed around with it for a while now and I’m lucky if I can manage one attack from the aerial position out of every 10 or 15 times.

Maybe I’m just not understanding it correctly, but it honestly just looks and feels like a glitch. If that’s an actual stance - then I’m honestly disappointed that they thought it was a good idea on terms of how it looks. S:

Oh well.

[norppa]

From where I was, pressing up wouldn’t do anything at all. It would just stop the motion. I’ve messed around with it for a while now and I’m lucky if I can manage one attack from the aerial position out of every 10 or 15 times.

Maybe I’m just not understanding it correctly, but it honestly just looks and feels like a glitch. If that’s an actual stance - then I’m honestly disappointed that they thought it was a good idea on terms of how it looks. S:

Oh well.

She has two “aerial stances”: hover and stalker (B+K). Stalker doesn’t really have any other aerial attacks but an air grab. Hover is done from her possession stance.

You can enter into possession stance by pressing 214 (qcb) (there are also other ways like 4A or WR AAA4 etc.). Now if you tap up, you’re in hover stance, there you can press either A, B or A+B. But if you tap down from her possession stance, she will do a fake hover jump (she doesn’t actually jump, but stays on the ground and is still in her possession stance, you can do any of her possession moves) you’re really not supposed to hold down and keep doing those fakes, because any opponent with half a brain will murder you right there.

[TheDarkPhoenix]

for all you guys complaining about story

GameSpot Live - GameSpot

[Alenth]

Jaffe is a great producer, is an interesting opinion but i disagree in some parts.

This Is just an hypothesis, he is only talking about resources from a financial point, but players are happy with history in their games, and soul calibur doesn’t need a big history as MGS or Mass effect but doesn’t need a shit history either, if you are going to put an story mode for the game just do it right or not do it.

Some of the most successfull game franchises are story driven.

[Ichipoo]

Assuming your stick has turbo.

1. Remap B to whatever button you use to confirm.
2. Go to arcade mode, pick Raph, use turbo to spam BBB. Keep the button held down (use a heavy book).
3. Watch videos for a few hours.
4. ???
5. Profit

Just tried this out today, connected my stick, set X as B, set it to turbo, and all that jazz, set the SCV guidebook on top of the X button, left for classes, came back after 5 hours, exited Arcade Mode, and checked that I jumped from LV. 8 to LV. 38.

You sir, are gdlk, thanks for the suggestion.

I think one or two more tries will be enough to max me out.

[Theautophobia]

I’m really disiking somethings in the game.

Global collesum is bullshit. I live in new york and I’ve been in there one time. Its always full. When I went people are from like cali and florida What the fuck?

Faster characters will do better in the lifespan of this game from the looks of it. If you’ve got a fast abusable attack you can avoid punishment. I’ll hold reservations because I use tira and elephantitus(sc5) .

I really don’t think free gis that required timing were broken

Why is every high ranked person I’ve played a nightmare? And their strategies aren’t exactly miles away from eachother…