Turn on Fight Request. If you’re about to lose, turtle until you get a challenger then play that match and you’ll start over. Trust me it’ll save you.
for anyone wondering, just finished every character for every survival~ it puts you at about 1.1M FM (if you completed story mode as well) and at about level 415
Wow! If you are on PS4 then you might just be the first person in the world to unlocked the 1M FM trophy. And you must also have some considersble skills to boot!
Tips for Chun Li and R.Mika on hard please
This saved my ass yesterday when I was doing normal with Zangief. Necalli was beating my ass then I got a ranked match. After the match, I perfected Necalli.
@VersatileBJN007 For Chun-Li, whenever you jump at her, she will either jump too to try to air throw you or she will do back hk. Just try to cross her up all day, but don’t jump at any angle where she can smack you out of the air. As for Mika… I don’t know man. On hard I got lucky by just spamming bareclona attacks and she didn’t try to anti air me. Not sure what character you’re using.
Oh no. Sorry. I meant do you have any tips for me getting through hard mode USING both Chun and Mika
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With Chun you can do df+HK on most opponents repeatedly and they won’t block it (the vortex). I do this on just about everyone before level 40 except Birdie after level 30 because he’s the most likely to actually avoid and counter it. I usually put on the attack boost before level 30 or if I have high health, just to get through those levels as quickly as possible. Abuse it, stun them and abuse it some more. Be care with this near the corner though, as it will whiff if the opponent is directly in the corner… go for crossup j. mk -> BnB instead in this case. In the rare situation where they start to dodge “the vortex”, you can usually fish for a sweep to knock them down and then get in position and start up “the vortex” again. The AI is really stupid about dealing with sweep 90% of the time.
At the later levels, I start putting on defense boost if my health is already high just to keep it as high as possible.
For Birdie Level 34 and beyond (sometimes even level 22 Birdie), I legit zone him with LP Kikoken and st. HK/anti-air if he jumps to keep him out. He blocks like 80% of the fireballs and allows himself to be chipped down. It’s long and boring, but it is the safest way to protect your life bar against him, Lvl 45 Zangief, Lvl 47 Vega, Lvl 48 Fang and Lvl 50 Necalli.
Against Bison (particularly lvl 49 Bison), V-Skill -> j. HK or V-Skill -> crossup j. MK works pretty well as almost never blocks it or anti-airs it. Even if he does block, go for the cr. LP, st. MP, cr. MK xx EX Legs string as one of these normals usually opens him up anyway. After blocking scissors kick or regular inferno, go for cr. lp xx EX Legs. If EX Legs is ever blocked, EX SBK almost always hits him. Otherwise, I’d just block to remain safe. The input reading AI is dumb like that. If you’re on point, anti-airing his headstomp or devil’s reverse with B+HK is legit, but sometimes I freeze up against this because he’s going insane on the ground and I don’t notice the headstomp soon enough lol.
If he pops v-trigger and starts the scissor kick, I’d just chill and block if he has meter because he’s pretty much guaranteed to cancel into an EX special until he runs out. Practice this strategy on the lower level Bisons too so you can be ready when it’s time to fight the last Bison (practicing it in training for a few minutes vs max setting CPU Bison with normal super meter and v-gauge also helps to get a grasp on it).
The first time I beat this I didn’t have the fight request on. But the second time, I had it on and set to “ask” like people have been suggesting… it’s helps get you out of a bind A LOT if you don’t like the way a round is going.
Proof or I don’t believe you.
Any tips for completing Necalli’s hard mode?
Thanks a lot. To be clear, does the d/f+roundhouse exploit only work from 1-30? And then from 31-50 zone out with fireball?
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I used the df+HK exploit up until about level 44 on everyone except higher level Birdie. Then I switched to the zoning for the few remaining matches because they are a bit more “dodgy” and tend to go ham if you let them. It even works well on level 45 Zangief, but it’s just safer to zone him, so I do that to guarantee my health remains high.
I’ve been through the mode at least 20-30 times trying to get the colors for both outfits, so I know it has about a 90% success rate on the characters. It’s the last few levels that become kind of a luck factor and make you want to strangle a Capcom Rep if you fail. The final four have their difficulty turned up to hardest according to someone’s post earlier. That’s why I recommend taking a few minutes to fight them in training to get their patterns down. I think Bison is the hardest to deal with.
F.A.N.G. and Necalli are actually not that hard imo, but being poisoned and having your health drained can put you on tilt and going into the final match with barely any health left (thanks to Bison) is nerve-wracking. Vega is kind of nuts, but he does a lot of unsafe shit, so I just zone and wait for either a wall dive to B+HK, or a slide/crimson terror to punish.
Damn this Hard mode. Doing completely fine and all of a sudden Bison decides he’s Omega Rugal.
That’s my problem with it. The A.I. can be as easy as pummelling a dummy in training mode but once you get to the last 5 fights it just springs on you.
On PS4 only 0.4% of players have completed Hard Survival at this time.
I hope these videos can be helpful for people trying to complete survival hard mode.
Ryu - https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5XTq1x4UH8
Ken - https://youtube.com/watch?v=PuWDjazN-TI
Chun-Li - https://youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8v7shHlaE
Cammy - https://youtube.com/watch?v=cmUynuO9xDg
Laura - https://youtube.com/watch?v=_htIWTjjl-E
Nash - https://youtube.com/watch?v=pi1qWmXhsvA
Rashid - https://youtube.com/watch?v=hzmdOaI6iCA
Bison - https://youtube.com/watch?v=4pq_ykuXRSk
Vega - https://youtube.com/watch?v=-oTx0Lwd1nI
Karin - https://youtube.com/watch?v=56MBoMa7Qgk
**Mika **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=EYj_VVlPPPY
**Birdie **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=WAIPCNkQBNo
**Necalli **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=iE0zI3BPZac
**Dhalsim **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=PbYTvkCQ278
**Fang **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5Xl_GG-9E
**Zangief **- https://youtube.com/watch?v=vcrc9PaJ2hc
**Playlist **- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ2bHV5QJct40QbaaFzM0dlBd29zMudqf
I was doing fine on hard mode with nothing but HK Cannon Strike with Cammy (duh) until level 46 Birdie decided to buck the trend and actually start blocking. --
On the plus side repeatedly bashing my face against the wall that is Survival Mode has revealed that I’m much worse at mashing uppercuts out from the P2 side. --
fuck bison. He out here with vtrigger cancel combos into safe pressure.
This is really starting to get frustrating to no end. I have put a lot of time into SFV (200+ Ranked Battles, 200+ Casual Battles, 555 Battle Lounge), and this is getting really, really frustrating. I have beaten Easy and Normal with little issues, but I have thrown everything into Hard, including the Match Finder reset trick. My best scores are 33 Ryu, 42 Vega, 42 Laura, and 47 Abigail. I find Abigail’s damage is really useful to this, but it seems Birdie beats him most of the time, and Vega does unrealistic 15 hit combos just to end my day. Is there anyone that can help here? I think I’ve put 500 hours into this game and I’m really getting tired of this.
-James
Is this stupid mode bugging on anyone else? I beat Ibuki’s hard survival for the first time a week ago and got neither FM, nor any experience. The same had happened with Bison on extreme. I thought I would do it again with Bison (despite having cleared it before) and still nothing. And yes, I was connected to the server at all times. Fuck this shitty mode! You lose even when you win!!!