Just suck it in and learn the new game. All of that stuff isn’t all that bad anyway. It just means you won’t be killing your opponent off the first hit anymore which sounds pretty good to me.
Though I agree that it would be nice for some things to be changed. Saki doesn’t need those buffs for one thing. Megacrash grabs being removed from the giants is also not very nice at all. And a few other minor things I can’t quite remember right now.
And universal snapbacks would be pretty nasty (though I do like the idea). Think of how many characters have unblockable setups from switch ins. Furthermore, snapbacks arent exacty the easiest things to land without comboing into them via assists because they’re generally pretty slow. Daimou’s was the best and he isn’t in this game.’
And the players who care certainly DID want the game changed thank you very much. It’s not just scrubs who complain about Karas being strong and Alex being weak. The game had balance issues that look like they’re being addressed. I agree Karas doesn’t need to be nerfed that bad, but he still needed to be nerfed. Even without the infinite he still has retarded range and speed in his attacks.
Old stuff. But I’m going to analyse these two vids and add changes to the main post. It seems ll.nd and RoyalFlush’s Karas feedback was just a little off. He can clearly still do chargeback off 5C.
^^^Didn’t really pay too much attention to Karas while playing US version, but all I did was test the slide infinite to see if it was still in ;P.
Another general tidbit change that I forgot to mention: ending air combo with 7, j.A, j.C/7, j.B, j.C (only if it reaches; in JPN TvC, this works with Ken, Polymar, Karas, Ippatsuman, Batsu, Morrigan, and several others) to get opponent in corner (regardless of where you’re combo’ing on the stage) for guaranteed positional advantage appears to have been fixed. You’ll understand if you test out the combo. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here it is in in JPN version at 0:31 [media=youtube]-w3ehW2m9wI[/media].
jimmy 1200 if they nerfed karas and made him bad just like alex i would still play him cause i just like that character and you should to. it just so happen that karas turned out to be top tier and in the us version he will be to just have to be played slightly different. i like the fact that you cant hit someone with that infinite and ko there character at the start of the match.it was to gay no real skill but i mean mag cant even do that in mvc2 with out burning meter to hyper grave xx tempest. even then you could still mashout but its hard but you still have a chance. that karas infinite was just stupid gay and there was nothing you could do about it either. that does not make the game fun or challenging because the whole time your just trying your best not to get hit my a low attack that goes into the infinite. i know how to do it but i like sticking with the megacrash combos in the corner but even then i start reseting. karas has some very good resets like mag. if anything i dont think karas got nerfed i think he got buffed up. he can combo into the chain that takes you into the corner for rekka combo into the overhead(combos now!) for wall bounce into mix up,megacrash combos, resets and unblockables. karas can still throw level three super, karas is still to good. im a karas player and i think he really hasnt been nerfed
Something worth noting about Karas: he gets a subtle buff just from the system changes. Karas can combo throw into level 3. The new system makes grabs much easier meaning that Karas can now do tick throw setups and invisible dash crossup grab tricks to even better effect, so his rushdown is still going to be pretty scary because it’s no longer going to be so easy to block low all day against him.
Karas’s 5C comes out faster than most other character’s 5C’s. So in an event that they try to jump up and back to avoid the grab, he’s still going to be pretty safe and will hit their guard and push them out of danger range.
edit: also, is it just me or is karas’s dash no longer invulnerable? [media=youtube]Dd1tw4b_QP0&NR=1[/media] in this video karas tries to dash into Alex a few times and gets hit.
nah, im pretty sure that it has always been like that. that you can stuff him early on in the start of the dash. maybe im wrong. i can test it later when i go play
Sorry guys but i couldn’t really getting to testing anything. (me being a scrub and all) but i must say that it’s either the sticks they were using or something but i had a hard time pulling off the half decent stuff i could do at home.
it felt like the stick i was using was missing inputs or expects them faster than tvc jp.
i did confirm though that jun’s 6c links 100% after her 2c.
but all in all, i had a good experience coming out for the first time and getting into quarterfinals only to be eliminated by S-kill’s buddy. but in the end an SRK’er won the tourney. Shout outs to Myung?
i srsly need to play this build some more without 3 wii’s and 6 wiimotes around. felt like the wireless was getting messed up.
tl;dr
09’er talking about his first tournament ever and complaining missing inputs.
ps. they went through half the tourney with turbo on? wtf
No new news is okay with me. The game is coming sooner than we think. Almost the final quarter of '09 – that just means a few more months until we finally have the game. I’m not running any tournaments until we hear official news about a new character, though.
Kinda reminds me of last quarter '08 all over again.