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[purbeast]

That story costume is so fucking dumb. People gonna rage hard when they lose to that.

Dumb too how the costume is way wider than his hitbox.

[FengShuiEnergy]

I think second only to Bison’s cape and Hot Ryu, Blanka’s story mode costume is one of the best costumes in SF history. In the context of everything we know about the character and culture around him, it’s absolutely genius. Ono is a fucking genius.

Blanka’s mascot uniform is the best outfit he’s over anything he had in 4 or SFxT. It’s got a perfect troll face on it, fitting for the character and his fans, and it’s kind of adorable. It manages to thread that needle perfectly where you get mad but you can’t stay mad. Polar opposite of that giant glowing feather halo shit he had in SF4 where it was only fun for the person playing it at the time and everyone else hates it.

looks like blanka is still obnoxious to fight. just as he should be.

his face is a little weird but I’ll forgive him when he has the best hair in the game.

and also the best costume.

Spoiler

https://ibin.co/3rbmepP8yWDr.png

Blanka’s hair is the thing I actually one thing dislike about his remake. It’s too poofy, moves around too much and gets in the way. They should have gone with the look of his nostalgia outfit which is longer than SF4 without adding like 2 feet to his height. I like the longer shin & arm hair, and I like his hair on head overall longer, I just dislike how fucking giant it is. Then again, I hate the same thing about Necalli’s VT but that is FAAARRR worse.

So…how come blanka (like sakura) didn’t a get complete movelist overhaul?

They are playing it safe. They can’t take the same risks as year 1 from a financial standpoint. This is why we have 2 new characters this season alongside 4 returning. They have more leeway with them to indulge their creativity.

That’s good if you ask me, if they maintain the same way with Cody and Sagat people will be extremely pleased. I don’t hear Sakura and Blanka players complaints about their mains movesets, this is a good step in the right direction.

The incredibly drastic change in look for Cody over Final Fight or Street Fighter has me worried they’ll pull a Juri on him where they kind of try to keep some of the flavor of the character in concept but they change everything so much that it just hints at the original character rather than feels like the same one with new tricks.

With cody, you may not have to worry as much (although his mayor status could be a hint). I mean, he’s a fan favorite and I believe many cody fans were longing for him to break his cuffs and get some change. Id’ be 50% optimistic that he won’t change and the other 50% slightly concerned.

[Surremies]

I can honestly say that one of the biggest weaknesses I have, is that I have trouble with players that are either brainless or retarded.

Ironically saying, they are so bad that I can’t beat them.

[GenUser]

Did I miss the last chore for the last piece of the viewtiful Joe thing?

[GetTheTables]

Not FGC related, but today at work, I got some sweet, sweet, vindication…

Spoiler

There’s been two contractors managing some sort of IT solution (don’t want to get into specifics) at one of our sites (us and another company).

A few months ago, the other contractor (to my belief) sabotaged some work we did, as well as told the client a whole bunch of lies to make us look like shit so the owner would only work with them. The owner questioned me about the statements they made, and I explained why all of their lies were BS and offered to come in and prove to the owner the other contractor was lying, but the owner refused. They believed all the other company’s BS and didn’t want us to touch the system again.

We have a one year warranty on our installations and yesterday I got a call from the owner saying that one of our slightly older installations (still within the warranty) could not be located on the system and the other contractor told the owner that they believed we never did it, even though we got paid for it. Due to the circumstances, the owner finally allowed me back on-site.

The main access point to the system was mysteriously hidden, yet when I dug through the database, I found it working perfectly fine.

I then had to find out how the system became hidden…

In the configuration for the automatic query that would find this, someone literally put in code that pretty much said to find all of these systems, and to specifically disregard the exact system we installed… Too bad for the other contractor, they didn’t realize that any edits to this query were stored within a history, and I found that a few months ago, someone on their account added the code to specifically hide our system. The real great thing was the history actually showed the following, “Query changed from ‘find all’ to ‘find all except _______’ ”.

I took screenshots of everything and sent it to the owner. I then strolled over to the owner’s office and he was shocked, and apologized profusely to me for not believing me when I told them the other company was crooks months ago. I strolled out of owner’s office as he picked up the phone to call the other contractor. I could hear his yelling from far down the hall, while I walked, whistling away… Good riddance, you lying fucks.

That is fucking awesome.

Usually situations like that don’t let you get vindication in the end. Glad it worked out for you!

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

From the days of yore:

You can Lead a Scrub to Water, but you can’t make 'em Think

Been watching match footage of DBF on various rehosts, one of which is Sajam playing. He’s pretty much destroying people at Saiyan rank with super basic stuff while they still mash on auto combos and super telegraphed dragon rushes.

I know that’s what happens around every mid level online, but point being that a lot of the people buying the game aren’t even gonna make it that far. DBZ will get them in the door but they’ll rage quit when Krillin defeats SSJGS Vegeta because that would totally never happen in muh dargonbawl. Also this game is stupid and ghey and they are going back to a quality series like Xenoverse.

[Reticently]

HiFight(ハイファイト) (HiFightTH)

[stronzolo]

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

Kinda expecting it, glad I had the chance to beat all those xenoverse players before they left.
This should be a lesson to all those FGs developers that think that making their games easier and more accessible will draw more casuals

[RAW_Guts]

So that Album should be out in Japan right now, right?

Somebody go rip Falke’s full theme!

[FDream]

I need a blanka toy plushie

[Deadpool_Merc]

I can honestly say that one of the biggest weaknesses I have, is that I have trouble with players that are either brainless or retarded.

Ironically saying, they are so bad that I can’t beat them.

they are so random you can’t predict them.

aa them 5 times in a row and think they’ll stay on the ground? Nah nigga they are about to jump on you again.

[Shahenzan]

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

thats like the least interesting thing possible actually
every fighting game takes a big hit a couple weeks after dropping, casuals have gotten their fix and now all thats left is people who wanna play the game
if it retains somewhere in the neighborhood of 6k consistently, hell even 3k I’d say thats still a big win for anime

its too bad I can’t be hype about the idea that most shitters are gone, because who knows how PS4 is doing

[Eternal]

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

Called it. Not even a Db 2d fighter can hold up casuals for long. Not surprised. Fresh game hype, then dwindles. NOW…the real test begins to see how long it stays relevant. If it can’t do that then well…it disappears. Same thing happened with destiny 2. Mad hype, streams and all that. Then roughly 3 weeks later…tumble weed blows buy

The numbers portrayed in that article are completely ignoring context because of how it presents the data. DBFZ was only over 40k for TWO DAYS after day 4 the actual fluxuation of players has settled into basically as Tekken or SFV did but with much higher numbers on launch day. By saying “IT DROPPED 80%!” it ignores the spots it dropped and how much that is leaving it.

It says tekken 7 took 2 months to lose the same amount, sorta. By not giving all the data it can present information in a light that stretches it. June 29th Tekken 7’s peak had dropped from 18,996 (3 days after release) to 5,599. That’s a loss of ~71% of it’s player base in less than a month. They streeeeeeched the timeframe to get it to 80% but that doesn’t really accurately show how quick drop offs are on games.

Yesterday DBFZ had the exact same number of peak players as Tekken 7 did it’s equivalent day post-release: 9,530. Tekken 7 averages usually about 2400~2600 player peaks. That is PEAK players. That doesn’t tell you the average number of players at any given time of day. Tekken 7 averages about 1600ish players playing at once during the day. SFV averages about 1400 while having peaks only about 1700~2000.

I think DBFZ will do fine and be possibly the most popular “marvel-esque” game we’ll have seen in over a decade in terms of playerbase. GG Rev only peaks in the mid 200s and MvC:I’s peak in the last 24hours was 33 players.

There is DBFZ DLC on the horizon I’m sure and more events to come, it hasn’t even had it’s first EVO. Here is a factworth noting: Despite selling significantly less SFV almost doubles Tekken 7’s tournament entries at most events, pro-tour or otherwise.

Edit: That said, I am curious to see if DBFZ tournament entries match it’s popularity even if online play stays popular. I have my doubts it’ll be as popular offline as online might make it seem like it should. Marvel 3 in it’s hay day may out match it in entries but if it does it’ll be close.

[Eternal]

That story costume is so fucking dumb. People gonna rage hard when they lose to that.

Dumb too how the costume is way wider than his hitbox.

Yeah, the size is definitely an issue I could see ppl complaining about.

[FengShuiEnergy]

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

Called it. Not even a Db 2d fighter can hold up casuals for long. Not surprised. Fresh game hype, then dwindles. NOW…the real test begins to see how long it stays relevant. If it can’t do that then well…it disappears. Same thing happened with destiny 2. Mad hype, streams and all that. Then roughly 3 weeks later…tumble weed blows buy

The numbers portrayed in that article are completely ignoring context because of how it presents the data. DBFZ was only over 40k for TWO DAYS after day 4 the actual fluxuation of players has settled into basically as Tekken or SFV did but with much higher numbers. By saying “IT DROPPED 80%!” it ignores the spots it dropped and how much that is leaving it.

It says tekken 7 took 2 months to lose the same amount, sorta. By not giving all the data it can present information in a light that stretches it. June 29th Tekken 7’s peak had dropped from 18,996 (3 days after release) to 5,599. That’s a loss of ~71% of it’s player base in less than a month. They streeeeeeched the timeframe to get it to 80% but that doesn’t really accurately show how quick drop offs are on games.

Yesterday DBFZ had the exact same number of peak players as Tekken 7 did it’s equivalent day post-release: 9,530. Tekken 7 averages usually about 2400~2600 player peaks. That is PEAK players. That doesn’t tell you the average number of players at any given time of day. Tekken 7 averages about 1600ish players playing at once during the day. SFV averages about 1400 while having peaks only about 1700~2000.

I think DBFZ will do fine and be possibly the most popular “marvel-esque” game we’ll have seen in over a decade in terms of playerbase. GG Rev only peaks in the mid 200s and MvC:I’s peak in the last 24hours was 33 players.

There is DBFZ DLC on the horizon I’m sure and more events to come, it hasn’t even had it’s first EVO. Here is a factoid worth noting: Despite selling significantly less SFV almost doubles Tekken 7’s tournament entries at most events, pro-tour or otherwise.

Edit: That said, I am curious to see if DBFZ tournament entries match it’s popularity even if online play stays popular. I have my doubts it’ll be as popular offline as online might make it seem like it should. Marvel 3 in it’s hay day may out match it in entries but if it does it’ll be close.

Well of course. That’s one article. Still not surprising though. New game hype usually have high numbers. But can it stay relevant like other fighters have done before it? That’s the real question.

[Darc_Requiem]

Not FGC related, but today at work, I got some sweet, sweet, vindication…

Spoiler

There’s been two contractors managing some sort of IT solution (don’t want to get into specifics) at one of our sites (us and another company).

A few months ago, the other contractor (to my belief) sabotaged some work we did, as well as told the client a whole bunch of lies to make us look like shit so the owner would only work with them. The owner questioned me about the statements they made, and I explained why all of their lies were BS and offered to come in and prove to the owner the other contractor was lying, but the owner refused. They believed all the other company’s BS and didn’t want us to touch the system again.

We have a one year warranty on our installations and yesterday I got a call from the owner saying that one of our slightly older installations (still within the warranty) could not be located on the system and the other contractor told the owner that they believed we never did it, even though we got paid for it. Due to the circumstances, the owner finally allowed me back on-site.

The main access point to the system was mysteriously hidden, yet when I dug through the database, I found it working perfectly fine.

I then had to find out how the system became hidden…

In the configuration for the automatic query that would find this, someone literally put in code that pretty much said to find all of these systems, and to specifically disregard the exact system we installed… Too bad for the other contractor, they didn’t realize that any edits to this query were stored within a history, and I found that a few months ago, someone on their account added the code to specifically hide our system. The real great thing was the history actually showed the following, “Query changed from ‘find all’ to ‘find all except _______’ ”.

I took screenshots of everything and sent it to the owner. I then strolled over to the owner’s office and he was shocked, and apologized profusely to me for not believing me when I told them the other company was crooks months ago. I strolled out of owner’s office as he picked up the phone to call the other contractor. I could hear his yelling from far down the hall, while I walked, whistling away… Good riddance, you lying fucks.

For those that didn’t read the spoiler, here is a visual interpretation of what King Crimson said.

https://i.imgur.com/Bry6PFH.gif(image larger than 3072KB)

[Darc_Requiem]

Interesting, eh ?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/dragon-ball-fighterz-loses-80-of-its-pc-player-base

I know is is cancer but just skim over the comments section.

Twitch viewership is still pretty high on DBFZ.

[KingCrimson]

Lol! Thanks @GetTheTables and @“Darc Requiem”. I feel pretty good right now. Thursday’s actually my last day at this company, but I do have a successor that I’m sure the client will be calling. I’m just glad the truth finally came out.

[Volta]

I need a blanka toy plushie

We ALL need a Blanka toy plushie.

[Relldaproblem1]

If Gat has his trailer/release around evo and they continue at this character a month pace. I really think will be getting more characters then the Initial 6 they’ve shown this year.

Rell Shyt

[willseless]

8800 is more than every other fighting game on Steam though.