It’s actually not a unique gimmicky design, there’s some discussion here. Should be good for dashes and precise short movements, but maybe worse at hcf and longer inputs.
Yeah, there are somethings you can do on a keyboard that aren’t really possible on a joystick and if you know shortcutting it really can be crazy efficient.
I feel strongly that pushbuttons would be more precise and faster than a stick. It’s just a matter of adjusting, but think of the motions needed for the moves and imagine just rolling your fingers across…too easy.
I’d try it out if I didn’t like the feel of a joystick and the fact that sticks are whats common be it an arcade or a friend’s house.
Yeah, you’d be kind of hosed trying to play on someone else’s stick/etc.
Haven’t you guys seen that stick someone made? There was a video on the frontpage semi recently with a stick with nothing but buttons. Dude was doing standing 720s with Gief and stuff. It’s viable, but… silly. Then again this game is silly. Perhaps a perfect fit.
Plus that way you can hit left and right at the same time for hilarious charging antics.
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It’s the newest button press fightstick. There are combo videos for it and everything. It’s a sweet idea and I agree that it can be more precise than joysticks with practice.
hi, i’m huey253
nice to meet you guys.
hope to see you soon at mvc3 meets
(i’ve been trying to make an account for a while, but srk’s registration is troll)
any washington players on mvc3 psn?
would be nice to get games.
Speaking of the Hitbox arcade pad, Husser_Brian was just on the Wednesday Night Fights stream playing with it. He was doing extremely well. The movements from that thing are just way too smooth; especially for wavedashing from what I can tell.
This game is hilarious… not sure if that’s good or bad. Get at me on psn if you want to play! Mag/Dante/Tron
thought i’d try out keepaway in this game - it can be pretty harsh. With online lag, a lot of people couldn’t get through repeated magneto fireballs. Got a rage quit. Kicked me back to the main menu. I was on galactus!
I guess now i’ll never know what happens.
Yeah, I actually try to always make sure I have a character that can catch runaways or beam the shit out of them.
Fun new secondary team. V.Joe, Chris, Pheonix. I always have five meters by the end. Heh.
not if that bitch gets snapped in.
More and more people are learning how to beat Phoenix now. That’s why I switched that bitch out for Doom/Hsien-Ko. Much safer. 
True… but Pheonix isn’t that bad on point. Her zoning game is decent and she has good combos and stuff even before dark pheonix. Just gotta not take risks.
My team is Wesker//. I’ve had some success with my original Wesker/Doom/Sent team, but I don’t feel comfortable ENOUGH with it. I might change the order and put Doom on point, midfield Wesker, and anchor with Sent. I haven’t decided.
I’ve had a bit of success with Wesker/Chun/Doom. It’s interesting. I almost never switch Wesker out since he’s my main dude. I wanna do as much damage with him as possible. I might let him get down kinda low, swap in Doom, make the opponent snap him back in, do some more damage and swap him back out. I use Chun legs, Doom missiles. Chun for pickup combos, and Doom to harass people.
I always forget I even have snapbacks, takes getting used to… I took sentinel down 90% cus I cought him as an assist in a combo, snapped him in, and killed him, pretty satisfying.
the way that you can dhc back and forth between your first two characters without having to go through the third is interesting.
wahh?