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GlingGling on 05 August 2008

Many people don't play special in competition. Our group banned it in 2/3.



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Sansui on 05 August 2008
Pristine20 said:
Sansui said:
I've had the game a week now but haven't had much time to play it. I'm really digging it, but I'm not sure I like the way they've organized Ivy's stances and abilities.

Ivy's my favorite character, but I think I'm missing a lot of crucial attacks that need to be fast + shift you into the correct stance for a good followup or range attack.... or they're just missing.

Ivy has been totally overhauled. She's like a new character. Some of Mitsurugi's moves have been altered as well and his most useful unblockable attack was removed (the horizontal qcb square move that hits three times). Perhaps they thought it was cheap.

 

Yeah, the first two characters I went to play were Ivy and then Mitsurugi.  Hopefully it's just a matter of finding the right abilities to link stances, because otherwise I will probably have to pick a new character to play as my main :(  I was also disappointed that it seems her 'extend' ability doesn't have the option to drag left or right if someone is trying to sidestep/run at you.  And the fact that its limited only to the loose extended stance, and you can't perform it with the sword in compact mode.

 
Pristine20 on 05 August 2008
GlingGling said:

Many people don't play special in competition. Our group banned it in 2/3.

 

 I don't mind normal.

Its just that I have a ridiculously powerful mitsurugi with no health or defense specially created to eliminate noobs without having to waste more than 30 seconds on lame fights lol.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Pristine20 on 05 August 2008
Sansui said:
Pristine20 said:
Sansui said:
I've had the game a week now but haven't had much time to play it. I'm really digging it, but I'm not sure I like the way they've organized Ivy's stances and abilities.

Ivy's my favorite character, but I think I'm missing a lot of crucial attacks that need to be fast + shift you into the correct stance for a good followup or range attack.... or they're just missing.

Ivy has been totally overhauled. She's like a new character. Some of Mitsurugi's moves have been altered as well and his most useful unblockable attack was removed (the horizontal qcb square move that hits three times). Perhaps they thought it was cheap.

 

Yeah, the first two characters I went to play were Ivy and then Mitsurugi.  Hopefully it's just a matter of finding the right abilities to link stances, because otherwise I will probably have to pick a new character to play as my main :(  I was also disappointed that it seems her 'extend' ability doesn't have the option to drag left or right if someone is trying to sidestep/run at you.  And the fact that its limited only to the loose extended stance, and you can't perform it with the sword in compact mode.

 

I've met some badass Ivy users online. I say pick one character and master them before branching out. I think I'm almost at 100% Mitsurugi mastery. I have situations to use almost every move he has.

 



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

d21lewis on 05 August 2008

I'm a 360 player. I'm still training before I go online, though. I'm adding you to my PS3 friends list anyway, pristine20. You seem pretty cool.



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GodofWine on 05 August 2008
Pristine20 said:
 

A win is a win.

 

So true...look forward to receiving a good beating!!



 

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kutasek on 05 August 2008

i'm avarage, never been that good in fighthing games. Don't mind playing with you though.



Obliterator1700 on 05 August 2008

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Pristine20 on 05 August 2008
d21lewis said:
I'm a 360 player. I'm still training before I go online, though. I'm adding you to my PS3 friends list anyway, pristine20. You seem pretty cool.

 

 Thanks for the compliments bro.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

c0rd on 05 August 2008

I'm no expert, since I don't play that much, but I'm pretty good.  Since I'm not great at memorizing complicated movesets I've only been able to play well as Siegfried.  From what I've seen playing online on my bro's name, though, most people suck anyways - I've beat people with 80+% records without too much trouble (these guys still fall for the easy combos).  I'd probably get owned against the experts, though.  I still haven't memorized all the characters, so it's hard to read some attacks (I haven't played much since SC2).

Special mode does sound great, I've always liked the ability to customize characters, since I'm good at math / maximizing in RPG's.  I haven't tried it yet online, though.  Still, one advantage to normal mode is you can customize the look of characters without worrying about the stats