The Street Fighter V Lounge: We all gotta chill 'til the end of April

[amrraed]

I was wanting to use this at first but i thought it would be too much for an AV.

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https://68.media.tumblr.com/0db4d85a0060a3f5cc6cb5558d5eb429/tumblr_olqc6kJSAM1u7287ko1_540.jpg

Then i thought about this one which i really like artistically but i don’t like the featured character

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https://68.media.tumblr.com/7d077e91f9d65c565af594eb9ed88683/tumblr_olqc6kJSAM1u7287ko2_540.jpg

Then i thought this one is cool since it feature both of my characters but i am reserving it for later.

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https://68.media.tumblr.com/ee7aade0eb7a1161e24d299d3ed654ee/tumblr_olqc6kJSAM1u7287ko4_1280.jpg

So I decided to go with Thick Mika for now. The size of her head is actually fine, it is the boobs that gives you the illusion that it is too small. If you look at it and compare it to her arms, you would find the size of the head to be acceptable.

[OceanMachine]

Look at her entire body. She fucking looks like Zarya.

[Prof]

Ready for duty?

[mega_buster]

When capcom first announced the v-skill system i was thinkin it would change how a character is played like a character gets better rush or better zoning like added layers since the game was gonna be pretty simple boy I was wrong.

[Necrotrophic]

vskills are just special moves with an easy input really. nothing too interesting and most vskills aren’t that good

[A10metal]

good gawd

Look at her entire body. She fucking looks like Zarya.

Good

[Los]

Throws are 5 frame start-up, not 4. :razz:

I think 5 frame throws are fine, I just wish moves had less pushback on block and/or had more range. Like with Chun, she has solid enough data on her frame trap tools but the pushback makes it harder to properly threaten with a throw since she has to walk so far forward, even with the throw range buff. She still has IALL but the risk/reward isn’t really her favor on that anymore.

Conversely, Juri has really short normals which makes it harder to stagger strings effectively, especially since her st.mp got a hitbox nerf.

Compared to SF x TK which also had 5 frame throws but less pushback/longer ranged normals, plus the ability to threaten with damage from a normal from pretty much any range, so you had more options you could go for in any given situation to make yourself a threat. That’s pretty much what SFV needs right now…more options. Not only being allowed to do the stuff that Capcom has pre-approved.

I completely agree with this. Lack of ranged damage options really hurts and makes the game feel very binary, lacking nuance.

It is a shame because some characters like Ken have some moves like his st.HP and st.MK-HK TC that allows him to convert into something meaningful from a decent range.

In this game outside something like ryus fhp or chuns fhk in v trigger… or a v pop… most characters can’t get good damage outside a CH… which exacerbates the issue. No one wants to play footsies cause footsies don’t get you any damage.

About footsies, I don’t think damage is the main reason we don’t see as much back and forth as we would like. In other titles you have less normals to control the space in front of you. In sfv every character can use a much higher variety of pokes, making it way harder to counter poke/whiff punish. That’s also one of the reasons why people think this game is random

I don’t agree with that at all. Older titles have more moves to better control the space in front of you.

The difference is that in older games the moves didn’t have you wide open to jumps like in sfv and they were much more wiff punishable so they couldn’t really be spammed like stupid, but were still really good. The thing is “wiff punishing” mediums is super hard now. You basically can’t do it… and when you do with some random shit… you get no da,age the risk reward is skewed towards whiffing shit.

Whiff punishing medium is hard, but still better than S1.
About pokes, with Laura I can use basically every button except light punches in neutral. A character like evil ryu in sf4 used mostly his cr mk to get things started, making it more clear to understand the spacing in the match up

[Cathrao]

I forgot how bad SFIV’s training room music is. this is the only music bad enough to make me wish I was listening to SFV’s training room music.

i actually have it turned down usually, but pc sf4 has issues remembering my volume settings for whatever reason so sometimes it’s up or down.

Don’t know if this is what you mean, but SF4 PC is always louder on boot-up, but makes itself ~50% quiter once you alt-tab (regardless of the audio settings).

Reason/Logic? Dimps be crazy.

You think that’s bad, try adjusting your audio settings in SF x TK on PC. Some audio clips are unaffected by changing the volume settings, so if you say, lower things to 50%, when your character does a launcher (one of the main audio clips with this problem), they’ll shout their line at full volume.

Or there’s the fact that if you turn the music “off” it doesn’t actually shut off the music completely…

Oh god, I forgot about that already!

Look at her entire body. She fucking looks like Zarya.

That’s the point~

[Quark]

vskills are just special moves with an easy input really. nothing too interesting and most vskills aren’t that good

I think Gief’s and Sim’s v-skills feel much more natural with the VS input, and it makes all the parries more convenient as well. but other than that, yeah, there’s not really a good reason they couldn’t be specials.

I imagine a good number of them would never make the cut as specials, though, since they were just put in there to fill the v-skill slot with very little thought put into them

[QuixoticNeutral]

When capcom first announced the v-skill system i was thinkin it would change how a character is played like a character gets better rush or better zoning like added layers since the game was gonna be pretty simple boy I was wrong.

When they first showed V-Skills I thought it was basically BB’s Drive button. But like, they made a terrible version of it for some reason?

[handa711]

V-Skills build V-Gauge, specials don’t. I guess there’s that.

[amrraed]

Look at her entire body. She fucking looks like Zarya.

I don’t agree with this very much but there is still an appeal to Zarya.

Zarya is muscular while this is thick and I like thick and that is why i like thick Mika. This is so ridiculous that i really love it.

I like Laura, Mika, Chun, Jaycee, Tina and actually find Zarya to be pretty attractive in the weight lifting outfit. I also really used to like WWF’s Chyna way back in the day, after she got the boob job and looked more like a female.

I always liked strong females in a way and that also explains why i really like Wonder Woman.

[Highlandfireball]

Me tonight - another mate - "FT5 " Me - Sure fuck it, won’t knock back actual games with decent players.

“We got two supreme fighters lined up! This is going to be one hell of a show!” (SF4 commentator voice)

Ryu vs Bridie, first to 5. Shit comes down to the wire - “I’ve never seen a combo that intense!”

4-4 going into the last set, one round each in the last match, crowd is going fucking nuts, Highlands thinking maybe there’s a glimor of hope for this pile of shit game this has been a great set, man this rounds going to be hype, all on the line

“The fear out there is tangible!”

“Who will emerge victorious?”

• Server shits itself and we cant move the characters and have to watch the timer go to zero -

Somebody fire someone, anyone.

[Quark]

V-Skills build V-Gauge, specials don’t. I guess there’s that.

the idea of making specific special moves build towards their own unique resource bar is not a bad one IMO. but I think narrowing it down to 1 builder for everybody is too limiting. I’d rather see V-skills scrapped / reworked as specials, and then have certain special moves designated as V-builders (would have to have a special icon like armor breakers had in SF4). It would give Capcom a ton of control over each character’s options for building V-meter; some might be forced to use a weak move for maximum V-build, some might have a single very effective V-builder, others might have a number of average ones, etc.

[Pertho]

Highland spotted in sfv about 3 hours ago. Capcom loves him. Ono loves him. He knows that. That’s why he’s still hanging in there.

Glorious Comeback such a funny fucking title considering

Turns out in my drunken rage I snapped my fall out 4 disc, my friend Niah who I’ve not played since SF4 ( gamogo will know him) wanted to play so I set up a battle lounge then … It was unplayable so we quit after 5 matches and talked shit about SF5 for an hour on steam.

Funny though, I thought of this thread when I switched i back on. I thought who’s gona ring the bell. Thought’d it be froztey.

I don’t touch that garbage either. Been playing SFIV instead, only issue is the bad netcode but overall plays better. Go play SFIV and tell me that shoto cr.mk and being able to whiff punish from far out with sweeps doesn’t feel fucking glorious.

Except Ryu’s cr forward got nerfed hard after vanilla into being shit. Selective memory posting.

[Volt]

V-Skill was a poorly implemented mechanic. I have 3 issues with them.

1 - They were supposed to be unique, an expression of the character. Most of them are "Press this to deal with Fireballs."
2 - Since they were supposed to be unique and beginner friendly, they should be a bit flashy and at least a bit strong. We got stuff like Chun-Li’s hop.
3 - They could be used as an alternative to specials, where you sacrifice damage or oki for V-Gauge. You can’t cancel into V-Skill.

Basically, stuff got messed up. The third point is especially stupid for me. I really wish you could special cancel into Chun-Li’s hop. You’d lose some damage for anime-like combos but it looks good to watch this stuff.

[Highlandfireball]

Highland spotted in sfv about 3 hours ago. Capcom loves him. Ono loves him. He knows that. That’s why he’s still hanging in there.

Glorious Comeback such a funny fucking title considering

Turns out in my drunken rage I snapped my fall out 4 disc, my friend Niah who I’ve not played since SF4 ( gamogo will know him) wanted to play so I set up a battle lounge then … It was unplayable so we quit after 5 matches and talked shit about SF5 for an hour on steam.

Funny though, I thought of this thread when I switched i back on. I thought who’s gona ring the bell. Thought’d it be froztey.

I don’t touch that garbage either. Been playing SFIV instead, only issue is the bad netcode but overall plays better. Go play SFIV and tell me that shoto cr.mk and being able to whiff punish from far out with sweeps doesn’t feel fucking glorious.

Except Ryu’s cr forward got nerfed hard after vanilla into being shit. Selective memory posting.

Don’t think you’re remembering that right. Ryus low forward was still tops in Super. Think it was 5 frame 5 active.

Or in other words better than every single button in SF5.

[Pertho]

Highland spotted in sfv about 3 hours ago. Capcom loves him. Ono loves him. He knows that. That’s why he’s still hanging in there.

Glorious Comeback such a funny fucking title considering

Turns out in my drunken rage I snapped my fall out 4 disc, my friend Niah who I’ve not played since SF4 ( gamogo will know him) wanted to play so I set up a battle lounge then … It was unplayable so we quit after 5 matches and talked shit about SF5 for an hour on steam.

Funny though, I thought of this thread when I switched i back on. I thought who’s gona ring the bell. Thought’d it be froztey.

I don’t touch that garbage either. Been playing SFIV instead, only issue is the bad netcode but overall plays better. Go play SFIV and tell me that shoto cr.mk and being able to whiff punish from far out with sweeps doesn’t feel fucking glorious.

Except Ryu’s cr forward got nerfed hard after vanilla into being shit. Selective memory posting.

Don’t think you’re remembering that right. Ryus low forward was still tops in Super. Think it was 5 frame 5 active.

Or in other words better than every single button in SF5.

No, i’m remembering just fucking fine because our local ryu player had to deal with hsi character getting bodied after every version. Think they unfucked him a bit after AE and the biggest improvement he got was making cr forward xx hadou a true block string so that people would stop doing blow that up.

That move hits at the ankle, not the foot. But if we all wanna remember the real struggle, play viper and hit crouching forward.

Selective memory posting.

[Quark]

Don’t think you’re remembering that right. Ryus low forward was still tops in Super. Think it was 5 frame 5 active.

Or in other words better than every single button in SF5.

apart from the balance stuff, landing a stationary poke deep into its active frames was just such a satisfying feeling

[Highlandfireball]

Highland spotted in sfv about 3 hours ago. Capcom loves him. Ono loves him. He knows that. That’s why he’s still hanging in there.

Glorious Comeback such a funny fucking title considering

Turns out in my drunken rage I snapped my fall out 4 disc, my friend Niah who I’ve not played since SF4 ( gamogo will know him) wanted to play so I set up a battle lounge then … It was unplayable so we quit after 5 matches and talked shit about SF5 for an hour on steam.

Funny though, I thought of this thread when I switched i back on. I thought who’s gona ring the bell. Thought’d it be froztey.

I don’t touch that garbage either. Been playing SFIV instead, only issue is the bad netcode but overall plays better. Go play SFIV and tell me that shoto cr.mk and being able to whiff punish from far out with sweeps doesn’t feel fucking glorious.

Except Ryu’s cr forward got nerfed hard after vanilla into being shit. Selective memory posting.

Don’t think you’re remembering that right. Ryus low forward was still tops in Super. Think it was 5 frame 5 active.

Or in other words better than every single button in SF5.

No, i’m remembering just fucking fine because our local ryu player had to deal with hsi character getting bodied after every version. Think they unfucked him a bit after AE and the biggest improvement he got was making cr forward xx hadou a true block string so that people would stop doing blow that up.

That move hits at the ankle, not the foot. But if we all wanna remember the real struggle, play viper and hit crouching forward.

Selective memory posting.

A lot of low forwards were like that, Sagats for example was even worse. Still SF4s buttons were like so far beyond SF5 you’re better off not looking.

When you read the numbers it’s like Neo finding out from Morpheus what the matrix is. You start being sick in your mouth.