RifleAvenger

Fuck... something is telling me this is bad... Indeed, my excitement has turned to fear. Any further news on this?

It's not just combos though. When I first came here we actually had things like active match-up treads and guides on playing basic neutral with each character. That's what I'm really after, not combos. Those things are much, MUCH harder to learn by just watching youtube/niconico videos. I'd try addressing the problem myself, but I know I'm not a particularly great player, don't trust my experience to hold true at high level play, and I don't want what is here to be misinformation.

I agree, the inflated importance of discords is bothering me. I thought to pick up playing Bang again for the first time since Continuum Shift, only to find that both his forum and wiki entries for Central Fiction are utterly barren. I get that discord is great for asking people advice in real time, but stuff like combos and basic play advice ought to be posted HERE and on our wiki. How are new players supposed to know to go to the discords if the site itself (which they'll probably find first) seems dead? Hell, some of the discords need invites to even gain access to them, and that's an obnoxious barrier to entry.

The way the D-Pad connects to the controller is very poorly designed. The interior connects to the external Dpad not directly, but via a flimsy plastic stem. This stem breaks very easily under the type of strain playing fighters puts on controllers. If you're willing to spend extra money to mod it, you could take it apart and use the pieces to make a better pad. As is though, it's pretty shoddy.

Sol Combos, right here on DL: http://www.dustloop.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8267-xrd-sol-badguy-combo-thread-updated-12292014/ Challenge mode in game will teach you combos as well, but they may not be the best. Combos require practice in order to get them assigned to muscle memory. How long it takes varies person to person. Combos in GG are often distance, starter, and/or character specific. Doing combos in game, and properly confirming hits, is a skill you will need to acquire naturally through play (though certain training mode set-ups can help). Netplay is never a substitute for offline play, and depending on your connection quality certain combos may be very hard to do on netplay. If all else fails, learn a simple ground combo into knockdown, and a simple air combo into Volcanic Viper -> knockdown kick.

Probably because in Japan (where the developers are from) they're all 3 or 4 bar, where you can kinda get away with skipping intros. So it's not an issue worth addressing to them. I notice that when I do for some insane reason fight jp players, they never let the intros play despite the game chugging so hard. It's probably because they've never HAD to do it. Kinda wish they'd put out a message specifically for the NA version though.

So after a real bad day today, I finally struggled up to MASTER rank. I'm think I'm done with ranked for good, the constant loss of rank mentally outweighs earning and re-earning new ones. I get mad, play worse, and get angrier and angrier. It's not good for my health. MASTER sounds cool anyways, even if I did happen to luck into it. Proof in point, the mirror match against OmniSScythe I had yesterday, where I got steamrolled. Given that Omni is MASTER grade too, I'm probably going to have a miserable time if I fight anyone here who's supposedly "on my level" (getting beat down by Fluxwave on stream is another example). By the way Omni, I was serious when I asked for pointers. I'm pretty lost as to what to do with Minazuki in neutral, and when I ask most people just say "it's easy," but against good players I've no clue. GGs to anyone I fought in ranked and tournament today, but I must admit I'm mad salty about the omnipresent laggy Kanji army, dropping combos in tourney, and jumping into Adachi reset when I meant to block. See you all in the lobbies and player rooms from here on. So I guess I should add "Sorry" to anyone I got mad at, especially Atarax. IMO the bottom 5: Liz, Kanji, Junpei, Labrys, Yukiko. We do. I need the Yu XP (even if it is Shadow Yu). Dooby Please. (This is great lol)

This game really does seem to inspire a lot of salt. X character is OP, my character is garbage (I see this one more from Adachi and Akihiko players than from players of characters this actually makes sense for), etc. I'm getting tired of the complaining I'm subjected to for playing Minazuki, often for things that aren't even all that troublesome (ex. teleport at neutral, which I think is only useful to Minazuki in a small number of matchups). One of the more disturbing examples I saw last night was someone who threatened to torture someone's mother because they engaged in "spamming." Good games to everyone else.

When do all of you play? I don't think I've met most of the people who post in this thread.

GGs to Techrayder's room. I'll be back someday. I need to take some time off of this game though.

GGs to everyone I fought. Especially to the stream room full of red cards, Grant, and Syklone.

This might explain why AoA seems so hard to block all of a sudden when I play people with a low number of bars. Lag and bad ping usually go together, but I can definitely see this being the real explanation. I had worse lag with a certain 1-bar than I've had with some of the 0 bars I've dared to play.

I'm actually pretty sure it has something to do slowing down after X matches played. Mine stopped going up so fast at ~730, while people with much lower winrates than myself told me they began slowing in the 600's. Evidently you made it to 770 before slowing.

Ranked is a joke. Scrubbed my way to SS, ~750 PSR, and 80% winrate. Now I pretty much never find anyone around my grade who isn't a 0 bar. How PSR works is super weird. You get tons of points (about 5-10 per match won) for beating anyone at all for like 100 matches, and then suddenly you crash to only getting like +/- 1 or 2 a fight fighting people around your PSR and/or grade. I did meet a few nice players in there though.

Mitsuru is the one character I have lower than a 50% winrate against. Fighting someone who actually has a longer 5A than mine screws with me hard.