Good lord, I just pulled my fightstick out of its box from the closet. I haven’t touched this thing since before USFIV. Since before two children ago! Hello again, my old friend.
Works fine with the new PC. Windows found drivers for it immediately. It just worked.
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This is fun.
This man wrote a whole paragraph to hide the fact that he likes ponies smh.
I agree buddy, and this is why I want to get better at it as well. It’s also fun and I think exposes my weaknesses pretty quickly.
All jokes aside, I used to be really concerned about what a game’s aesthetic is, but fuck all that.
I used to not fuck with BBTAG purely cause it was too weeb. That game is great.
Losing in ST badly feels fucking terrible though. Like, I don’t think any other game can make me feel like such has a shit player so quickly.
Dammit my AT&T gateway has a red light. Apparently, that means something’s wrong with the power supply. Gotta go to the store to see if they change it.
ST has some real degenerate shit tho. Pertho hit me with a chun cross up loop that I had never seen before.
So a lot of wins can be just total jank. I got you with a lot of instant butt slam hh slap pressure.
I wouldn’t feel bad. As soon as you download it, it doesn’t hold water
Edit: you started to recognize the butt slam pressure and air tatsu’d. So you made me change my game plan
Play, play, play play,
Ask a million questions.
Get dunked a billion times.
I’m not really talking about losing to janky shit though (I mean yes, it’s definitely present and happens), but I’m talking about simply getting out played.
When I seem to put out the wrong option at the wrong time consistently against someone the whole set, I can’t to help but feel like I’ll never even be decent.
Like, honeslty, everyone I play against seems to have 10 thounsand options, and I always seem to repeat four things over and over with predictable rhythms. I can never see what’s coming and just get stomped in an embarrassing fashion.
Sorry, I’m salty and feeling shitty. Lol, gonna go have a shower and relax.
Real answer to the question is a lot of studying your character tools and learning match ups. A big part of ST is avoiding bad situations.
After that its knowing where your character wants to be in the stage.
First off though: pick a main.
Feels like it, lol.
I need to study Ryu more. I keep falling back to just throwing Hadoukens at jump kick range non-stop and wonder I keep getting jumped in on.
I don’t really like Ryu’s buttons in this game though (other than cr.MK and cr.HK) so I end up just reverting to those buttons, Hadokens, and jump kicks.
I know his buttons have uses. I just need to figure them out. I also need to feel comfortable walking in and using anything other than his low kicks.
I also really need to learn my matchups. I seem to tackle everyone the same way and I think that’s a terrible thing in this game…
Edit: also, I need to learn patience. I always have to press something, constantly, which really, make sure me an easy target… I think I’m just straight up not comfortable which is making me anxious. I need to figure that… hopefully that comes as I learn more.
I think Ryu’s my guy. I hate charge characters which basically leaves 5 characters to chose from and I like Ryu’s kit the most. It feels the most complete.
You did kinda do this. Step one is recognizing it, so you’re progressing
Shit this was hard. But I trust VF6 to not be bad. Dark stalkers could get rough real quick
Ryu has a place on the screen he wants to be at: opponent cornered with Ryu some distance away.
You can use some of the stage to measure it properly. The gist is that at that distance ryu can throw a hadouken and DP if the opponent jumps over it.
Similarly Ryu has a fireball trap with hadous: meaty jab fireball, hp fireball. Its basically a frame trap with fireballs. If you do it right your opponent camt do anything or the fireball hits them.
Either way throwing good hadoukens is tough
Thanks Pertho. I’m bookmarking these and will get to work tomorrow.
Niiiice. Bookmarked.
I kinda get tilted at how much blockstun ST has, so I dunno if I want to really dig into it, but I kinda wanna really work on the basics, so I wanna play some ST.
3S is kinda wack. Y’all can’t understand how much I hate parries.
Btw, is it me or did the bookmark system change? I never got a prompt asking me if I wanted to set a timer to the mark.