I think Jason asked at Xizhimen after the tourney and the folks there said an ambiguous ‘next year’. I expect it’ll be similar most places, but no harm in looking. What’s the plan this weekend? I’ll likely be busy for most if not all Saturday, but I might be able to turn up and leave early if a session is indeed happening.
You can definitely bank on me setting up a session for this Saturday. I will probably be out of commission for most of January because I’m going to Greece for 10 days in February so I promised Kim tons of quality time. If AE is out during that time I might be able to squeeze some arcade time. On a side note, it seems like Chun isn’t looking to be a good matchup for Yun. Good times! xD
Edit: Forgot to mention that this Saturday I’ll be free after 6 because of a company outing. I guess since it’s gonna be Christmas we might wanna spice things up a bit with some stronger beverages too.
Coming to Beijing on the 28th or 29th. Is there SSF4AE at any arcades? I read the first post which mentions AE but it isn’t clear whether there are actually any cabinets in Beijing
None that we know of yet, by all accounts looks like they’ll be here sometime during (early, with any luck) 2011.
lol, thanks buddy, but I already know how to play kof. Pick kyo. short jump. short jump. Get hit by yamazaki 10,000 times. Insert next token. Whats goin’ on with you anyway - are you coming back asia side?
Sorry i pretty much dropped off of the face of the planet.
Here was the story. Gf’s dad got worse. So i made the decision and we went back to America to do the surgery. That was done and now he is in chemo. Assuming it goes into remission that will be the end of that.
Will be back in BJ asap, most likley before the end of January.
Hope things work out fine then. Glad to hear you’re well. Drop any of us a line when you’re back.
lol playing KOF in China is like playing Tekken in Korea… like even in the small ass city I’m in now I still get OCV’d by slutty Iori
Of course it would help if they would play a real KOF and not shitty 97
Can I come and crash at your place during spring festival? I miss the BJ Tekken crew (and you guys too of course)
ugh cannon strike is allllll messed up now. I couldn’t get it lower than head height which given its slow start up is kinda messy. Couldn’t muck around with the new combos, so that’s all that sticks out to me. Without IDK it was messy to get in and its not really fun to play anymore. Rufus is pretty much the same, messiah is joke dmg now but who really cares honestly. Yun is nutsy. After just a little bit I was able to play him pretty (pitifully) ok. His dmg output is really solid (even ghetto combos I was doing like c.lpx2 s.lp s.mp upkicks looks like upper 100 - 2-hundo) and his dive kicks have a 3s fake out appeal to them with the different strengths. Upkicks is nice, but non EX gets stuffed somewhat. EX is solid, but I’m not sure if it hits crouchers. They’ll be blocking in any event. Other than that weaksauce antiair normals from what I could see. Maybe close s. mk/ s.fierce? Dash is pretty fast, but not far. Cmd grab is NICE, love cracking the guard with this combined with dives and c/s. strong. He has head height dives too only, but it doesn’t feel so bad although unlike IDK its disadvantaged on block and ate throws a lot as well as c.lp mashes. EX lunge, I’m not sure if its safe. None of the others are, but I could tech throws after EX. Shoulder miiiight be safe, but its slow as hell. Palm spam generally unsafe. shrug Def first day pick for me tho. Yang I played once, easy mode combos, but the dmg isn’t really too high. c.mk x tekka is like…100-150 I think. Teleport is balls which sucks for my straight pimping online-only shenanigans. Makoto I think also got the min air height which messes up my mashing a bit, but the dash is SICK. So damn fast. BD doesn’t go anywhere but it does it in style. I think I’ll pick her up again. Played a pretty slick Guy too, got ran over with ambigious crosses(elbow/mk) and wake-up airthrows(did anyone know you stand for 1 frame on wake up so you have to wake up with a normal? but guy does an elbow without throw so won’t that beat c. lp/whatever? I dunno someone wanna test this? apparently it works for hooligan too, nasty stuff)
Awesome stuff Raas! I’m definitely going to be checking out Yang when AE hits here. Too bad for Cammy though. So you mean that Guy can wake up with elbow drop? Probably need to explain it a little clearer.
Guy can do it on your wake up and its guarenteed. Now that I think about it, that’s probably why demon flip is so annoying on wake up too.
New in town
Hey Beijingers!
My company recently relocated me out here for the long haul and I was interested to see how the SF community is like out here. Do you guys usually meet at an arcade on the weekend or at somebody’s place?
Would love to meet up and fight it out sometime!
Mike, glad to hear from you. We were worried! Looking forward to seeing you back in town. I’ll be gone from mid Jan to mid Feb, but I’ll see you after that.
Welcome to Beijing!
We generally meet for casuals at someone’s place nowadays as a lot of us are burnt out on vanilla arcade (though you can get in on some arcade action now and then too). PM me and AkibanaZero your number and we’ll keep you in the loop. Count on casuals somewhere this Saturday.
I’ll give it a shot during next casuals. I know that Bushin Flip is annoying on wake up in the corner. Never tried it mid-screen.
Welcome to Beijing QQBert! Drop me a PM with ur number and I’ll keep you in the loop. Do you have PS3 with you? Maybe we can get some online going as well.
Have we gotten AE yet? or do we plan to?
and by we i mean like ?? or ??
So far no arcade seems to have it yet. Last time in ??? they said something about it coming sometime in 2011, which we assume means within the next month or two. We’ll be getting it sooner or later that’s for sure.
Edit: Casuals at my place this Saturday, gentlemen. You can start rolling in after 2:00. Any newcomers who want to join in on the fun just PM me your cell and I’ll give u directions.
Thanks guys, hopefully I’ll see you Saturday! I live right by ?? and I haven’t seen AE at all. Their SSFIV seems to be a 360 hooked up to a custom cab though. I was around ?? last weekend and they didn’t seem to have AE either.
I’ve got my PS3 with me, but work is pretty OT heavy lately so I’m not on as much during the weekdays. Still hit me up though, I’m on sporadically~
Hey, welcome to Beijing. I also live right beside ?? and you can usually see me in there after working hours on weekdays. I’m the Balrog/Boxer player usually wearing a black winter coat (I’m not that easy to spot though, I blend in with all of the other asians, wonder why…). Hope to see you tomorrow!
I don’t go on the network that much either. I’m finding it hard to get decent connections even with people in HK. Think it would be best to just text each other to get a lobby going.
I’ll be visiting Beijing again this February. Any ST in arcades there now? If so, I may try to make time one day to check out how the comp is.