lol. vf5 is too top tier.
I think, for future release’s references, that the online lobby should be fashioned more like gulp DOA4 was. I would love to see, at least, a 4 person, winner stays, lobby. That way, I don’t get locked in to what character I chose when entering the verses menu, and I can talk to my buddies while getting my ass kicked.
They used the same sort of system in SFII: HF and UMK3 and it’s worked very well.
you’ve got to be kidding about those games; their netcodes sucked. Lag ran rampant.
the big reason why they don’t have lobbies in VF5 would be to cut the lag as much as possible…especially in a frame-dependant game like VF5.
dare to dream…
I see what you mean about the netcode, but I wasn’t having a big problem with lag in either game (most of the time, depending on who I played).
Sure, the frame-dependency makes minimal lag a must, but at the same time, some of us aren’t as serious about it and want to have a good time with friends. It doesn’t mean that the 1v1 set-up would be switched out. Why not both?
in this case, it’d be a “can’t have your cake and eat it too” type of thing.
Well, I finally made 1st Dan on my Brad, and am getting alot more comfortable with my Hori stick, my dashing and evading is improved alot, but for some reason, I can’t evade as much stuff on-line as I can vs the computer. It’s either lag, or I just suck and evade too early/late.
This morning, I played a beastly 8th Dan Brad, and he was smooth as silk, I’ve seen stuff like that before in match vids and stuff, but this was the first time I’ve experienced it first hand. He destroyed me but it gave me something to aspire to.
yeah, that’s what i like about the VF5 ranking system; it’s pretty accurate, showing the people who really know their stuff…
OMG Konjou Akira is beastly. :sad:
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have to play completely different when playing against most scrubs online. They don’t make much sense when they play, and they throw out extremely unsafe moves that you never predict and end up getting hit by it. Most of the time I just beat them up with brute force, not giving them a chance to even be random.
I don’t know about rank. There are a good amount of people who are 8th or 9th dan that really don’t play very great. A lot of them play scrubby and throw out a lot of moves that have high disadvantage on block… They beat me most of the time though, but I don’t think thats saying too much.
they must be doing something right if they’re beating you.
I had a much better day today. Only problem is those damn Lei-Fei players. I don’t think I’ve beaten a single Lei-Fei player yet, regardless of rank. What can Jacky do against a guy who does not follow any of the standard VF rules? Do I have to play a completely different game in order to fight this guy? This guy is used like crazy online, and if I can’t stop scrub Lei-Fei’s (the good ones don’t count. They know what they’re doing), then I am forever going to be a scrub myself.
Anyone know where I can get the VF5 sound track from?
I use Jeff, so take this with a hill of beans.
The main tools I use against low-level Lei-Feis are
d+K+G long-ranged low, I don’t know if Jacky has something that long-ranged
uf+K+G if they stick a stance for no reason, this move tags them
running K+G
generally you throw the heavy stuff out the window unless they do something laggy, and just tag
You can also sidestep some of their strings.
Vs Lei-Feis I try to play more like it’s Tekken and not VF. That might help.
That’s the funny part, I win whenever I do nothing but high, low strings and repeat. If I try playing them like they’re good I lose.
How do you perform Blaze’s hammer edge? I can’t seem to figure out what move makes him “jump”.
that’s the thing with vf and one reason why I never got into it. You can’t always tell whether you’re being beat my legit tactics or scrub tactics. Because it’s a game based on rock paper scissors aka throw/attack/block, selective mashing can work.
You have to dumb down your skills to beat scrubs sometimes, but when you first try to play the game, it’s hard to know what’s good and what isn’t good, or who is good and who isn’t good. I may be just doing dumb shit to beat scrubs and that develops bad habits in high level play./
That’s one of those things that comes quickly if you play a good player, like a top online player a few dozen times, and they’re willing to teach. It’s how I’m learning to not love the low jab so much, and to love the half-circulars.
Yeah. I play good players all the time. It’s not a matter of me not knowing who’s good and who’s not. It’s easy for me to tell, my issue is having to dumb down my game to beat those who play a really unsafe game.
If you’re losing matches (not rounds) to selective mashing you’re not good at VF.
Re: Lei Fei mashers, just use your counter-hit tools like LP, elbow, etc. repeatedly, they will lose to just that most of the time guaranteed.
lol no man, you don’t have to dumb down your skills to beat scrubs. All that means is that what you thought was your “High level skills”, weren’t that good in the first place. Lei fei mashers never don’t ever guard for some reason, so you could just things like ->K+G with Brad, Lau, Pai all day against them.
As my fundamentals get better(and actually acquire them), I’m able to deal with alot of the bullshit I couldn’t handle at first, without the cost of dummying down my strategies.
The better and more understanding of this game, the better I enjoy it.
Can’t get enough.