If you really do love fighting games, stick with it. A fighting game will give you years of return on your investment and the skills you learn will apply to virtually every subsequent FG you decide to pick up. There really is no competitive genre more rewarding for your time invested in my eyes.
Matrix “can I get a blue ribbon just for participating?” Gravity
haha jk keep trying or whatever…
2 things
This isnt unique, youre not alone.
I was terrrible when I started!
From rage, ive stomped on my stick, destroyed several headsets and made several enemies from yelling online. Its apart of the experience.
- how to grow a little.
Best case is to find offline friends at your skill level and play alot.
If online is all you got then take it slow, practice one thing at a time and expect to lose.
Good luck
There ought to be a thread somewhere where noobies on steam can exchange tags and play amongst themselves… That would help alot methinks.
@OP: add my on PSN if you want a sparring partner with low skill m its oMDKo
I’m in the same situation as you but I can see a steady though small progress. Playing like one month now and I recently won my first round online in an endless Lobby. Just keep on practicing and hone your execution and just play. Make use of the Arcade or Versus Mode if you can’t handle the pressure in an online match.
See if I feel like if a thread like this popped up before 09 OP you would have been verbally ripped apart by everybody on here. But you seem sincere enough and are listening to pepole so just keep playing. FGs don’t usually get that “instant gratification” that a lot of other genres do so just keep at it.
Your expectations are off. Winning should be the last of your worries right now.
I could help you out on Steam if you’re from around Europe and play on pc.
I think you guys already answered his question, but I’d like to say something. If you can’t handle losing in a very competitive game, you ain’t playin’ the same game everyone else is playing. We’re all playing to win, and winning is fun. If you want to start winning, start practicing, learn what you need to learn about the game to become decent. Play against players who are better than you, and I mean WAY better than you. Fighting games aren’t meant to be easy, I’ve been playing fighting games for awhile and I’m still ass at them, but will I let my skill level discourage me? No, fuck that! I’m going to play the hell out of [Insert competitive video game here] until I made to where I want to be. Make some sort goal for yourself, an example would be getting to 2.5 pp on USF4, or beating your rival at the game you play. Keep on playing man, if you want to get better, then Fatal1ty has an answer for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs
Awesome. Thank you so much for all the advice and encouragement everyone. I feel like this thread has given me a brand new outlook. It feels very refreshing. I won’t quit. I will continue to play as often as possible, continue to improve, learn every aspect of the game, and ultimately enjoy the experience of learning.
When I play someone that has some clear problems while playing i.e. jumping in constantly even though they get anti-aired or focus everything. I tend to repeat the process over and over by shutting them down that way to try and teach them something.
If they jump in constantly even though I am throwing cr.Fierce every time then I’ll just keep doing it so hopefully they can understand that jumping is a bad idea. Same for using focus too much and using armour breaks etc etc with anything that I can see they are doing wrong.
Of course you main Ryu just like EVERY FUCKIN person online. Of all the 40+ characters in the game you could have picked, you picked Ryu.
Taking on the whole mental aspect of fighting games can be pretty daunting for beginners.
The guy in this video talks about one of the most important portions of it in amazing detail that’s easy to understand.
Pretty long video, but I highly recommend any intermediate/new player that is trying to learn the game watch it. If it doesn’t sink in at first, come back to it later and watch it again.
The sooner you recognize the ins and outs of really knowing how to play the game, the better.
It’d be a shame if you went down the path of becoming an average “online warrior”.
You are either too afraid to engage and end up walking yourself into the corner or you’re eating combos from random jump-ins that lead to corner carries or hard knockdowns.
Any average player online will jump in or do other unsafe things without putting too much conscious thought into it, so it’s up to you to scout out these things and be ready for them ALL THE TIME.
The mark of a good player, is a disciplined player. Learn how to be patient and wait for your opponents to hang themselves. It’s hard at first, especially since a lot of new players get antsy and just want to press buttons, but being patient will up your game to a different level.
Anti-airing properly is key for a beginner, so get used to looking for arrant jumps.
If reacting to a jump with a shoryuken or any other special move with inputs is too hard atm, then just go with a normal that has good anti-airing priority (eg: ryu crouching hp, cody back mp)
Screen control is important (especially in usf4 imo) so pay close attention to where you and your opponent are on the stage at all times.
Simply being aware of your position and all of your safe options at any given moment is a good way to begin working on avoiding those situations where you do eventually get knocked down or put into the corner and have to guess the oncoming mixups.
If you are being pressured in the corner or anywhere on screen, then you have to take it, or risk doing an unsafe reversal “get off me” move, or hope for an unpunished back dash. When your opponent is up in your face, you have to be ready for things like throws.
React to the situation and try your best to anticipate mixups. Although there are some techniques that can help in pressure situations, like option select crouch techs, there is no guaranteed way out of pressure unless your opponent is predictable. That’s just the nature of 50/50s.
Another helpful habit is to study your opponents and matches. Find people you frequently play with online or offline and take out bits of information on the things you think you did wrong in a match and even the things you think you did right in a match, along with your opponents tendencies. Try to spot patterns in their gameplay, like times when they get impatient and do unsafe things like jump-in, the diversity of their blockstrings and mixups, what they do before and after certain things like jumping back, back-dashing, throwing a fireball, hitting a certain button at a certain time, etc. Even their button inputs can be worth noting.
That way, you can improve on preparing yourself mentally for specific things.
On the technical side of SF, studying frame data and hitboxes is a good idea even if you are new to the game. It’s not as confusing as it looks; frame data boils down to simple math honestly.
Studying hitboxes would be easier if sf4 had a feature where you could view hitboxes in real-time, but eyeballing the reach of character normals will suffice.
As far as getting better at executing combos, it’ll come with a bunch of practice. Just put in the time in training mode. There are some techniques to aid in execution (p-link, double tapping). You may have heard of them by now.
Lastly, I wouldn’t recommend focusing on trying to win so much. You have to lose to learn, so don’t stress if you’re getting your ass beat. Analyze your losses and you’ll learn real quick.
Hey man, don’t wanna jack up this guy’s thread, but whats your steam name? I’m from UK and play on pc but don’t have many people to play against that are alot better than me. (in terms of people on my friends list not random endless people). It’d be nice to have someone to kick my ass on a regular basis so I can get better haha.
Just practice, man. Also, Ryu is hard to use in SF4. Zoning is difficult so you have to be especially on point with your spacing. No gimmicks or setups to save you. The fact is you WILL get taunted, sent hate mail, and booted from rooms for no reason. Just let your anger out and continue playing.
Street fighter is something you get better at by learning from mistakes and watching others. Back in the arcade days you had to learn fast too otherwise you was spending lots of money losing and waiting in line. Replicate things in training mode, watch replays, understand what is going on.
It’s always great to see someone change their mindset and decide to learn the game, keep at it.
Fighting games take a lot of effort to get good at but the reward for putting in that effort is well worth it, nothing beats the feel of starting to consistantly counter stuff that was absolutely wrecking you before or of finding new tech and using it to smash somebody you could barely touch previously.
This thread is funny. Maybe you should make a new law to force everyone to think like you.
That actually wouldn’t be a bad idea. Out of the thousands that come through here, only a handful ever have their own ideas.
Hey Op, this guy might be on to something. Of course, his dumb ass doesn’t know it.
to see how pointless PP points are.
I dont know what happened but after a win on ranked, an option to upload a replay appeared!
Couldnt believe it! Didnt occur since 2011! But game stuck on upload screen forever. Had to quit the game, lost 200 PP. More than I won after 1 hour of play! Went to endless after that… At least game does not freeze on ranked on WinXP.
It’s because they have nothing else in life. That’s why they resort to bullying people online. That is the plain and simple truth. Get yourself some satisfaction and keep going at it for the right reasons, one of them being because you enjoy it, and in time you will see that those people were not really good and that they have not progressed much since then.
Happy beasting.