na you just need the beta code to download the app from the store. once you have it on your hd i guess it’s fair game. you would have to pay for ps plus for both accounts though obviously.
Believe you have to activate your ps4 as the main ps4 on that account. Although that’s just what I’ve read. Haven’t tried playing the UK beta myself.
Couple of things I figured out:
- The number in the “V” next to your ranking (Grand Master etc.) is your actual skill level. It starts with 10 (the lower the better) and the lowest I’ve got and seen is 6. If anyone got lower please let me know.
- There’s matchmaking most definitely and I guess it’s ELO-based. Both days for me started with garbage matches against newbies, and ended in really close games, many of which I have lost to great players.
- Match quality was outstanding today. I’m still mad about the frequent disconnects though. Also I’m still not sure if they masked the netcode not being that good with delay though. I could reaction parry quite a lot of stuff though, so not sure.
Question I have:
What’s up with those guys who got the World Warrior and Beta Master rankings? Beta Master had white background with a Ryu head. I never got any of these rankings I went from beta fighter straight to grand master and I wonder if those people were Capcom employees.
i noticed this too. i went around 15-0 at the start of the day and then all of a sudden got paired with the same 2-3 players who all had the same level as me for the next 30 mins or so.
I swear the only character I lost to was Chun Li, it feels like everything is safe on block or was just too stupid to figure out how to handle her.
Birdie feels surprisingly weak, he is so slow, everything is unsafe and you can hit him out of everything he can do.
I love SF5 Cammy <3
Thought it was a true skill, guess I was right. I got 5 on the very first day, but lost it after having it for one game. So you can lose your true skill rank after getting it, I was getting paired with 10 true skill players regardless so it didn’t matter in the beta but maybe in retail the matchmaking will be a little better at finding fair fights and matching you to similar true skill players.
Cammy/Chun feels pretty hard for ol’ Cammy this time around, her divekick can be stopped just by a timed B+HK so it’s not a huge threat, Chun is fucking godlike in this game and I love it.
Cool stuff. I actually like it.
Sure you get a noob here and there when it doesnt find a suitable match.
Thing I notice though, when you played a lot of matches you would get people with few matches and 10 or 9 skill rating, who were either super gimmicky or super good.
Thats when I came to the conclusion that the system noticed they win everything so it matches them with players the system thought were more suitable.
That’s really good for new player coming into SFV, as it will be a lot less brutal for those guys getting started. Winning 50% of your first 200 matches is different than winning 0.5% of your first 200 matches like it happens with people who start with USFIV right now.
If the game stops being popular Capcom or rather the players have a problem though:
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The more I play SF5 the more I feel like it should be 3 of 5 rounds standard. The games dont seem to last very long and this gets annoying when youre waiting 5 minutes for a match and your opponent dies in 30 seconds.
Other things I’ve noticed:
-Cammy is incredibly basic, its like they gave 0 thought into her V-ism or the character
-Birdie does way too much damage
-Wake up EX moves get beat every time
-Bison probably has the best juggle game, a lot can be done after a j.mp
-A lot of people have no idea how to play street fighter without focus attack :lol:
My tier ranking is so far
Bison/Nash/Birdie top
Cammy/Chun mid
Ryu bottom
Oddly enough I had quite the opposite experience. Pretty much dominated every Chun I came across as Cammy, but had a hard time with Bison/Ryu. I got bodied by the two Bisons that I matched up with. Might have just been due to a skill gap or something though. I do like how she feels in this game so far; getting a f.HK confirm into a V-Trigger combo felt so satisfying.
EU beta done for tonight? Just got back from company picnic.
The Japanese one start tomorrow? Anyone have a link to create a japanese account like that EU link from a few pages back?
This is not true. I created my UK account and immediately jumped into the beta. For the final release I would imagine PS+ is required for online play, but for a network test it is not.
Also not true. When asked to make my UK account my ps4’s main account I said no. Beta worked fine.
I tried to juggle after j.MPx2 but all I could land was his Super. What are his other useful juggles here? Knee Press? Psycho Blast?
Janitor Ned:
He can Juggle
-Ex-Psycho ball < > pp
- his Down up + lp move
- his Ex down up pp
- super
-Ex Stomp (I think, they might be able to roll or quick get up out)
some of them u have to change up the timing of the 2 mp hits to get the character at the right height for a juggle
I understand how his V-ism combos work but I’m playing with a pad so there may be more that I havent been able to time out.
Another thing about bison you can cancel his stomp anywhere on the screen into super before it hits them which seems really broken to me. You can literally jump from full screen and super right in front of their face, yeah they can block it but enough people fall for it cause they arent aware u can super literally anywhere on the screen.
Just made a japanese account on PSN that shit was rough, kinda lucked out to filling out everything properly.
Anyone in yet? It should have started 20 minutes ago.
Yeah I’m in.
Okay so I’ve been trying to adjust the timing as you said but I cannot figure out how you’re landing these juggles. No matter what I do they will hit the ground and my attack will miss. The only thing that hits is the super.
How are you juggling off this?
As for his V-Trigger combos, he can cancel any special into any EX into any other EX as long as the next special in the chain is a different one. So for instance Knee Press>EX Psycho Blast>EX Headstomp.
He also does not need to charge the EX attacks when done this way.
Wow, nevermind. As soon as I made that post I started landing them… >.>
cool that’s fantastic. that means i’ll be playing the u.s one too. i think i’ll give this asia one a miss.
Okay so I can’t figure out if it’s the online, or me, or Bison, but after landing a Knee Press the opponent can throw an attack before I can. This is even after an LK Knee Press.
I thought the whole point of leaving them standing was to continue pressure but my opponents are counter hitting me before I can continue said pressure. What’s the deal with this?
Thought so, too. But if you activate your ps4 as primary for the account the beta belongs to then all other accounts on that ps4 can use the beta.