With red focus, I don’t think it could ever become as good as it was in 3S.
True that, so make it as good as it was in third strike and it’s balanced bc of red focus (which cost meter) I assume it’s why they barely touch it for fear of making it too good… unless they went out of their way trying to make it broke it would probably be impossible at this point. No reason to be scared to make it too powerful by tweaking that shit, when there is now 2 new tools (red focus/delay wakeup) on top of backdash and regular focus…fast startup, and and almost no recovery type of rose functionality awesomeness needed.
I just wished EX focus was 3 bars instead of 4. Unless I’m mistaken, scaling is still the same for red focus crumple as it is for normal focus crumple. For a lot of characters, you’re essentially spending a entire bar for maybe only a little more damage as a combo into Super. Except your burning more resource since you’re also using your Ultra to finish the combo. To me it would make more sense since you’re committing both Ultra and Super meter if they made it 3 bars or EX red focus added no further scaling to combos.
Is this delayed wakeup actually now comfirmed? By the way, any changes on Claw?
Uh…yeah, it’s confirmed.
Thanks. Damn, I have been missing out a lot.
No changes on Vega. Don’t look around like a sensible person just believe me.
Any word if they’re changing training mode so you can restart by just hitting select?
I hope for a online training mode.
I hope everyone that leaves feedback mentions this. And a damn hitbox viewer in training mode. (Please capcom!)
It would be really cool if Supers got some love in general. They’re kind of vestigial right now.
Re: Red Focus
RFs are just a little too costly as they are. I would say make them 1 bar but dash cancelling without releasing the attack costs another bar.
So if you’re in footsie range and you’ve just started an RF, that costs a meter. Your opponent isn’t falling for it and you want to be safe, so you dash cancel backward. That costs a second bar.
You’re in footsie range again and you’ve just started an RF, that costs a meter. Your opponent throws out lows/jabs/mids and you release your RF. You either hit or block. Either way you’re dash cancelling after the RF has been released. This does not cost a second bar.
Sure this means that you’ll see slightly more RFs in general, but it means that you’ll consciously be trying to get closer to get that block so that you don’t have to spend the second meter once you release. That also means you’re putting yourself at risk of being thrown or a react armour breaker.
As a balance to seeing more RFs in general, I would say make them count as 3 hits of scaling instead of the 2 for regular focus attacks. RFs shouldn’t be about the damage anyway, but about the utility.
2 bars right off the bat is just too steep of an investment for a lot of characters to make this a game changing mechanic.
This would also make RF EXFADC crumple combos cost 3 meters instead of 4, which I think is exactly the right cost.
Capcom should just copy everything Skullgirls does in training mode.
http://www.capcom-unity.com/combofiend/blog/2013/12/05/capcom-cup-schedule-and-usfiv-release-information
Release date details:
digital upgrade for me then…
June?
AUGUST?
EXCUSE ME WHILST I PUNCH MY KEYBOARD
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why a 2 month delay for the PC? I play on PC. what happened to early 2014? I don’t own a 360 and trying to play AE on ps3 is a joke.
“We want to ensure players have enough time to practice for EVO as possible. But if you play primarily on PC, you can go fuck yourself. You dont get ultra until AFTER EVO. Hold that L master race. If you dont have the storage to do digital upgrade on console, you can go fuck yourself as well.”
Master race version in august? 
Sad.
I have to play this game on PS3 for two months then? Damn.
Well Im planning to double dip so its no problem. The issue is why so late? I thought early 2014, as in March. WTF!
EVO USF4 is going to be ulgy.
Well shit, I don’t own a console anymore.
By the way, Japan is gonna destroy this year’s EVO even more than usual, since they get arcade version in April.