Street Fighter IV PS3 Official Discussion Thread

[imascrub]

i don't think they'll add any dlc characters unless they were free. I think Capcom has stated before that they won't introduce any dlc that will give anyone an advantage over another (using a character that the other person cannot get unless they pay for it) or something like that. They want to keep the playing field completely leveled out. Which is a shame cuz I feel the game could use some more new original characters. And some more female characters. lol

[GodlyOne]

I should've put more effort into playing online matches but 10 more matches until I finally get the 100 online wins. Was just fighting some guy in a player match and it was 6-0 for me but he kept wanting to fight, gotta applaud him since I thought that he'd eventually disconnect.


Oh, and I think the least they could have done was put in a little CPU demonstration for the Move Trials just to help people get a better understanding of the certain time requirements between each move in a combo.

[HowStern]

Has anyone tried el fuerte 3rd hard trial?
Jump>HK
lp
lp
lp
lk
crouch>mk

I can get up to the 3rd light punch using a dualshock 3 but it's tough. It would take 2 seconds with a turbo function I think. It looks easy but..

[GodlyOne]

Damn it, I just realized that I have about 70 more matches to play before I get the 200 online matches trophy.
I feel like playing some Random Character Select matches with people.

[RelentlessRolento]

if I get time before 9pm I might be on... I'm a non-shoto player, seing as I only really play as Fei and Dan... sometimes Abel...

[HowStern]

GodlyOne add me up! I'm all about random select matches :)

[thelonepig]

I got the game on Monday and was surprised to find myself challenged between every single match as I tried to make it through story mode the first time. I won my first match (first time I played the game!) playing as Rufus against a Ryu. I lost three more matches (though won one round in each) before I finally figured out how to turn off the online play.

So yeah, it's taking some time to get used to the game but I think I'm managing. I've played through the initial sixteen characters, most on medium difficulty. El Fuerte gave me the most difficulty - even on easiest difficulty, 30 second rounds, and one round it still took me nearly an hour and a half to beat Seth. :cry:

Finally, I never really got beyond SSFII in the arcades. I've not played any iteration of SFIII. Does anyone have some thoughts/hints/ideas on cancelling moves? I'm having a difficult time making it through the character challenges.

[RelentlessRolento]

lol

http://www.eegra.com/pages/show/title/04_03_2009_EXCLUSIVE_DETAILS_ON_NEXT_STREET_FIGHTE R_IV_PATCH_/

[GodlyOne]

Yeah, the fight requests would be a lot more useful if you could set it to friends only.


:lol: at the "patch".
I'm okay with people constantly choosing Ken but it's annoying when they try some feeble attempt to play mind games at the character select screen, like just go ahead and choose your Ken so you don't waste my time with hovering over random characters before finally going to Ken at the last moment.

[RelentlessRolento]

Yeah, the fight requests would be a lot more useful if you could set it to friends only.


:lol: at the "patch".
I'm okay with people constantly choosing Ken but it's annoying when they try some feeble attempt to play mind games at the character select screen, like just go ahead and choose your Ken so you don't waste my time with hovering over random characters before finally going to Ken at the last moment.


I just follow their cursor around to fuck with them... only when I see someone pick a non Ken quick I usually expect a decent match... or if the load time is short.

[GodlyOne]

I just follow their cursor around to fuck with them...

:rofl:I should try that.

[slam09]

I just follow their cursor around to fuck with them... only when I see someone pick a non Ken quick I usually expect a decent match... or if the load time is short.
I just hover on and go back and forth between Sim and Seth when I see that.

Anyone else play Gen here? I'm trying to pick him up. He has a great cross up game but I'm having issues with finding some B&B combos and ways to get in safely.

[Roa]

I just follow their cursor around to fuck with them... only when I see someone pick a non Ken quick I usually expect a decent match... or if the load time is short.

Exactly the same thing I do. Either the person picks a character after following their cursor or they end up playing around, hover over a character and stay there for a long period of time. When this happens, I just pick my character :)

[slam09]

I love it when they hover over a character like Vega or Fei Long and then you pick your character and then they go straight for Ken.

[Oktoberfest]

I love it when they hover over a character like Vega or Fei Long and then you pick your character and then they go straight for Ken.

haha I notice that too. Pretty funny

[RelentlessRolento]

haha I notice that too. Pretty funny


it's both funny and depressing for me to be honest.

[HowStern]

Yea..sometimes I feel like plugging in my mic just to say "go ahead i know your picking ken.." to hurry things along.

[Nibi]

Yea..sometimes I feel like plugging in my mic just to say "go ahead i know your picking ken.." to hurry things along.

I was just playing some ranked matches, and the majority of the people I faced chose Ken, my wife kept asking why do they always do that (referring to the heavy Shoryuken)

[imascrub]

i find that players in player matches are more of a challenge and choose a wider variety of characters than in ranked matches. In ranked matches they almost always go for Ken or Ryu, but just in one session of player matches I've seen people pick Vega, Fei Long, Bison, Sagat, Cammy, Chun Li etc etc

[Nibi]

There is less of a consequence in Player matches so naturally people experiment a bit more.

[Furashu]

nvm on kz2

[slam09]

I was just playing some ranked matches, and the majority of the people I faced chose Ken, my wife kept asking why do they always do that (referring to the heavy Shoryuken)
Because it does average damage and is majorly punishable on block and whiff obviously. And cause it's on fire! FIRE! TO THE EXTREME!!! TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE!!!!

I actually like the character Ken. I don't play as him though cause I find Shoto play style kinda boring. Easy to learn and effective but boring.

[GodlyOne]

Yeah, scratch that thought about people starting off matches with jump to roundhouses, people always start off the match with a jump into a trip.

Woke up early in the morning and played a bunch of matches half asleep, lost to a scrubby Ryu during my first match so that's kind of disgraceful. :roll:


Now that I've got my 100 wins, it's time to screw around with characters like Gen or Gouken.

[HowStern]

Goukens pretty awesome. I finally decided to unlock him a couple days ago and his hard move trials are a breeze. His moves connect into each other so easy.

[GodlyOne]

Goukens pretty awesome. I finally decided to unlock him a couple days ago and his hard move trials are a breeze. His moves connect into each other so easy.

I need to fill the void of not having a copy of Killzone 2, lets play some random character select matches tonight.

[HowStern]

lol yeah I haven't picked up KZ2 yet either due to lack of $$. sounds awesome I'm always on around 9:30pm EST til like midnight or so

[brighenne]

Well, my ps3's hard drive data got corrupted, there goes 151 wins/200matches/50% titles. :(

[Paco]

Anyone notice whenever someone is Akuma the MOMENT they get a super or ultra they jump back and start inputting the raging demon? Even if they're doing good they MUST do it like the game depends on the fact that they can do the raging demon? I imagine it to be something like this.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/Somelazybum/Akumaplayers.jpg

[blueweltall]

Anyone notice whenever someone is Akuma the MOMENT they get a super or ultra they jump back and start inputting the raging demon? Even if they're doing good they MUST do it like the game depends on the fact that they can do the raging demon? I imagine it to be something like this.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/Somelazybum/Akumaplayers.jpg

I just think it look cool.

[GodlyOne]

Yeah, the moment they get an Ultra/Super you see them quickly punch twice and kick while retreating. That's when you rush in and kick ass since they're so focused on trying to do the Raging Demon. :lol: Kinda pointless though since most of the time you just jump up and over them.

Probably a good thing to use if you're Akuma in a match, just fool people into jumping towards you without having to constantly throw fireballs, throw a couple of jabs and a kick then counter them when they jump in.

[denze]

Not sure how I feel about SFIV , I got my ass kicked 12 times straight by chun li. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about . So I loaded her up in training mode, apparently there is a jump in target string where you mash fierce punch repeatedly and will easily buffer effortlessly to spinning bird kick .

[crunchb3rry]

Which is a shame cuz I feel the game could use some more new original characters. And some more female characters. lol

I'm not liking the original characters much. Feels too much like Samurai Showdown and King of Fighters style character design. I would rather they put all the good guys from Final Fight in there. A Haggar outfit for Zangief is a slap in the face. JUST FUCKING GIVE ME HAGGAR! More female characters would be cool. Maybe Ibuki, Karin as a rival for Sakura, R Mika so there's a female grappler. I kinda wish they just used Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the character set. So we'd have Charlie, Rolento, etc. too, but I guess it makes sense to hold them off until Street Fighter V, or Street Fighter IV Super Turbo Dash MAX Championship Edition.

[Roa]

Anyone notice whenever someone is Akuma the MOMENT they get a super or ultra they jump back and start inputting the raging demon? Even if they're doing good they MUST do it like the game depends on the fact that they can do the raging demon? I imagine it to be something like this.


It's a requirement for the Akuma players :lol:

Yeah some people go like this
LP LP LK<HP
until they get it right, I usually just jump over to the other side and do a combo on them :)

[HowStern]

"DIE ONE THOUSAND DEATHS!"

Apparently El Fuerte has an infinite combo but it's really tough to do.

s3X0RAPgUSo

HP>EX cancel repeat

[distgfx]

"DIE ONE THOUSAND DEATHS!"

Apparently El Fuerte has an infinite combo but it's really tough to do.

s3X0RAPgUSo

HP>EX cancel repeat

This has been known for a while, before it even came out on consoles. Fei has one too up against specific characters.

[Roa]

I'm not liking the original characters much. Feels too much like Samurai Showdown and King of Fighters style character design. I would rather they put all the good guys from Final Fight in there. A Haggar outfit for Zangief is a slap in the face. JUST FUCKING GIVE ME HAGGAR! More female characters would be cool. Maybe Ibuki, Karin as a rival for Sakura, R Mika so there's a female grappler. I kinda wish they just used Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the character set. So we'd have Charlie, Rolento, etc. too, but I guess it makes sense to hold them off until Street Fighter V, or Street Fighter IV Super Turbo Dash MAX Championship Edition.

Remember that SFA3 was before SFII, then SFIV and SFIII.

Charlie is supposed to be dead since he was holding off Bison to let Guile escape. Chun-Li planted explosives on Shadaloo base and Charlie sacrificed himself.

Mike Haggar might have been running Metro City during SFA3. If they were to put him in SFIV, his moves would have been too similar to Zangief. Both of them taught each other the spinning piledriver and spinning lariat.

[slam09]

Might I suggest that everyone watch "Rufus MADNESS" video's from darksydephil on YouTube purely for the comic genius. The comedy from a scrub playing scrubs and out scrubbing them.

"DIE ONE THOUSAND DEATHS!"

Apparently El Fuerte has an infinite combo but it's really tough to do.

<snip>

HP>EX cancel repeat
Its actually not HP cancel. It's Haberno Dash>Stop(LP)>HP repeat. You have to do 3 loops of it for his level 5 hard challenge.

edit: I just learned it can be done either way. My bad. Which makes it interesting. Sorta.

[crunchb3rry]

Remember that SFA3 was before SFII, then SFIV and SFIII.

Charlie is supposed to be dead since he was holding off Bison to let Guile escape. Chun-Li planted explosives on Shadaloo base and Charlie sacrificed himself.

Mike Haggar might have been running Metro City during SFA3. If they were to put him in SFIV, his moves would have been too similar to Zangief. Both of them taught each other the spinning piledriver and spinning lariat.

Since when did Capcom's continuity matter though? They have so much retcon anyway. As far as spinning piledriver/lariat being redundant, that's irrelevant given the shoto moveset. I'd settle for those characters being added in with no story mode extras. Just highlighting Guile or Haggar, for example, and having a toggle button to swap between extra characters without requiring a new character select screen. Then they're in the game as bonus characters, not plot characters.

[DarkKenpachi]

ok got 14 challenges to redo, 23 normal move trials, and still 120 hard moves to pull off:

8 time trials 5 normal and 3 hard
6 survival trials 1 normal and 5 hard

plus like 250 more wins to get that 506 title and icon.

how in the heck do you pull off vega's 4th trial the 3rd combo?

I can never get the ex wall jump to come out after the kick.

and why is gen's level 5 trial killing me on the 3rd one?

[HowStern]

Just got my fightpad a couple min ago. Had some awesome matches with Godlyone earlier. Every match was really close but he won most of them! :)

Can't wait to try the fightpad out tonight.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

I think I am the worst player out there 26 wins out of 78 matches (i think it also because my friend and I kept dropping connections on at least 5 matches). 34% win percentage.... I hope to improve when I get my joystick back.

[distgfx]

I think I am the worst player out there 26 wins out of 78 matches (i think it also because my friend and I kept dropping connections on at least 5 matches). 34% win percentage.... I hope to improve when I get my joystick back.

38%

I fuck around too much and try new characters online all the time. I don't stay with a single one unlike most others.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

I believe I played as Dan 10 times and only won twice.

[distgfx]

I believe I played as Dan 10 times and only won twice.

Now now, I hope you're only doing that to people who pick Ken. :lol:

EDIT: Somehow I always got paired up with a godly Bison, Zangief or Vega. Vega I can handle, but the other two, forget about it. That's one of the reasons for my low ratio, the 38% I have are from scrubs and a few hard ass wins.

[GodlyOne]

Just got my fightpad a couple min ago. Had some awesome matches with Godlyone earlier. Every match was really close but he won most of them! :)

Can't wait to try the fightpad out tonight.

I kept hoping that it would be a Dan vs. Dan match but it never happened... but wow your Blanka is a fierce, I'm like a fly to a bug zapper, I always jump into the electrocution for some reason.
Yeah, those matches were really close, you could probably tell that I forgot the motions for a bunch of the character's special moves :lol:. We need to do some mirror matches soon.

[DarkKenpachi]

down to only 17 normal move trials left.

Chun Li 4,5 - can't get that ex spinning bird kick out for nothing
Guile 4,5 - cant' do the double flash kick after the flash kick
Balrog 4,5 - stuck on the punch into the super
Vega - 4,5 can't get ex izuna drop to connect after the roundhouse
C. Viper - 4,5 tried once and never went back
Rufus - 4,5 can't get that roundhouse to connect after the focus
Sakura - 4,5 tried once and never went back
Gen - 5 can't get the switch between styles right for the combo
Akuma 4,5 tried once an never went back

13 time and survival trials left. - really frustrated about survival normal 19. bison just destroys me without special moves.

*My win percentage is 67 percent. I need to stop trying out characters on people and stick to mastering them on hardest like I use to do.

@everyone- I will mirror match any of you guys just let me know if you see me online. and if you don't have me added already then add me so we can play.

Only 4 days left until I abandon this game for RE5. lol

[HowStern]

I kept hoping that it would be a Dan vs. Dan match but it never happened... but wow your Blanka is a fierce, I'm like a fly to a bug zapper, I always jump into the electrocution for some reason.
Yeah, those matches were really close, you could probably tell that I forgot the motions for a bunch of the character's special moves :lol:. We need to do some mirror matches soon.


haha yeah same here. First time I got fei long I was like "how do you do anything with him!?" same with rufus lol and to top it off I kept getting the same people over and over. haha yeah mirror matches would be awesome.

[GodlyOne]

haha yeah same here. First time I got fei long I was like "how do you do anything with him!?" same with rufus lol and to top it off I kept getting the same people over and over. haha yeah mirror matches would be awesome.

It kept giving me Zangief to play as over and over again...

[Nibi]

Holy crap, I did terrible tonight. Killed my win ratio. I don't know what it is I just got walked on by scrubs. Grr.

[slam09]

Holy crap, I did terrible tonight. Killed my win ratio. I don't know what it is I just got walked on by scrubs. Grr.
I've had that happen too. I know exactly what they'll do and I know what I should do but for some reason I do something else.

[DantheApe]

I really thought you all were exaggerating about how many people played as ken...that is til I actually went online last night. I played 4 kens in a row then just went back to challenges. Even matches where it was laggy to the point of "slow motion" they were predictable and just sloppy.

I don't understand the appeal of Ken, and i doubt I ever will. Give me dictator and rose and I'm set.

[imascrub]

does anybody else get annoyed by people who crouch right up in your face and start jabbing and short kicking?

[GodlyOne]

does anybody else get annoyed by people who crouch right up in your face and start jabbing and short kicking?

I'm annoyed by people who only focus on tripping you, it never works out for them but it's still annoying as hell. :roll:

[ohvermie]

@everyone- I will mirror match any of you guys just let me know if you see me online. and if you don't have me added already then add me so we can play.

Good games last night. I just couldn't buy a win during our mirror marathon. Too bad my power went out, we were almost done too! Up to Vega. Let me know if you want to continue on later tonight. :)

Got my first piece of hate mail last night too. Ken player kept on trying to jump in with a roundhouse, so I just backed up with Blanka and sliding fierce into him as he was about to land. Did that for a round straight, then for second round, he tried to play range games with hadokens and he ate some more sliding fierces. Claimed that my game was "weak" and that I wasn't even really fighting. :roll:

[HowStern]

^you should have wrote back and said only "ha-noob-ken"
sounds like hadoken, eh? eh? nudge nudge pretty clever huh! lol..

[jterp7]

does anybody else get annoyed by people who crouch right up in your face and start jabbing and short kicking?

this is the most annoying when they're using vega, I believe with the medium P

[slam09]

Good games last night. I just couldn't buy a win during our mirror marathon. Too bad my power went out, we were almost done too! Up to Vega. Let me know if you want to continue on later tonight. :)

Got my first piece of hate mail last night too. Ken player kept on trying to jump in with a roundhouse, so I just backed up with Blanka and sliding fierce into him as he was about to land. Did that for a round straight, then for second round, he tried to play range games with hadokens and he ate some more sliding fierces. Claimed that my game was "weak" and that I wasn't even really fighting. :roll:
I believe that punching him in the ankles repeatedly does count as fighting.

[Paco]

I love using Balrog. I go around stealing all of Ken's BIKE MONEY. I love jump ins as that headbutt is just fantastico!

[GodlyOne]

^you should have wrote back and said only "ha-noob-ken"
sounds like hadoken, eh? eh? nudge nudge pretty clever huh! lol..

I don't get it.... OHHH wait you were talking about Noob Saibot from Mortal Kombat huh? I see what you did there, I GET IT!:whee:


If anyone's online in a couple of hours, mirror matches yo!

[DarkKenpachi]

@ohvermie. we can finish those mirror matches anytime we play again. I gotta start playing more with bison and blanka. I use to love them in ssf2 but ever since then I barely use them.

I hate loosing to people that you know you can beat. it is sooo frustrating. I know what you guys mean. I am starting to attribute this to old age though. lol

[slop101]

I'm sad over the fact that this will be the first Street Fighter where I am unable to unlock all the characters.

Well, I might be able to, but I just don't have the patience to put up with the cheapness known as Seth.

[RelentlessRolento]

I still suck but not as bad as I use to... I actually win more fights as Dan than I use to... though I sorely need a stick or a fightpad

[MiniB0ssBattle]

hazaa! i've gone from 34 to 39% winning. cammy and poor shotos FTW!

[DarkKenpachi]

I'm sad over the fact that this will be the first Street Fighter where I am unable to unlock all the characters.

Well, I might be able to, but I just don't have the patience to put up with the cheapness known as Seth.

once you learn seth's pattern then he is a piece of cake like bison was. in fact he is actually the only in game character that has the same fight pattern no matter who you use to fight him.

I still suck but not as bad as I use to... I actually win more fights as Dan than I use to... though I sorely need a stick or a fightpad

hit me up tonight if you want to mirror match dan. I also need a stick or fightpad so I can finish up the normal and hard trials.

hazaa! i've gone from 34 to 39% winning. cammy and poor shotos FTW!

a few members on this board saw to it personally that my win percentage dropped. lol

[EDiddy0042]

I need some major help on this game. I am a relative Street Fighter newb. I played II every so often on my genesis, but that was really the only one I have ever played. Is there hope for me to be able to match up evenly with just about all of the guys playing online, or am I asking too much ( I am pretty much stuck at zero BP.) ? Also, I have been playing with a regular controller: would a fight pad or arcade stick make a big enough difference to justify. I appreciate any tips/advice, and if a start posting on here again asking for more help, don't give me too rough of a time. Thanks.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

This is the first time I have owned a Street Fighter game. I only played at my friend's house and I am learning this game everyday.

Just play a little single player, get some friends (add me if you want, I am not great) maybe even friends with headsets so you can talk.

DarkKenpachi destroyed me which taught me to BLOCK and not jump in all the time.
In terms of looking for tips, youtube is really good, mycheats.com has a sf4 megatip thread.

[slam09]

I need some major help on this game. I am a relative Street Fighter newb. I played II every so often on my genesis, but that was really the only one I have ever played. Is there hope for me to be able to match up evenly with just about all of the guys playing online, or am I asking too much ( I am pretty much stuck at zero BP.) ? Also, I have been playing with a regular controller: would a fight pad or arcade stick make a big enough difference to justify. I appreciate any tips/advice, and if a start posting on here again asking for more help, don't give me too rough of a time. Thanks.
You can set the search details to "Same skill". That would be your best bet for playing newer people like yourself. Although what I would recommend though is to play with people here and ask them for advice to critique your game. I'm on a few hours a day. Feel free to send me a psn request and we'll definately play. I'm not awesome or anything but I can definately try to help your game out. Another resource would be to check out places like shoryuken.com forums and check out their character specific boards for tips for playing certain characters then hitting up practice mode to memorize combos and then playing games online to actually try them out.

edit: I agree that the mycheats guide is really good for newcomers.

[EDiddy0042]

Slam and MiniBOss: Thanks for the advice. I will def. add you both and check out some of those sites you guys mentioned. I really appreciate it.

[Oktoberfest]

Anyone up for joining a very short-term gamesharing group for the extra costumes? It'll be a little over $4 for all 4 packs if we split it among 5 people. I already have a blank PSN account to use so I can do the leg work. PM me

[GodlyOne]

The usual ritual:
1. Quick Match
2. Select person
3. Connected/ Unable to play, search again? <go back to 1>
4. Lobby/ Unable to connect with other player <go back to 1>
5. Ready, other player ready/ Ready, other player removed you from session <go back to 1>
6. Fight

Ughhh....

[DarkKenpachi]

i will be on later if anyone wants to have mirror matches or random select matches.

@godlyone so true so true. lol sometimes I feel like people will only fight you if your title and icon reflect you being an amateur.

[distgfx]

The usual ritual:
1. Quick Match
2. Select person
3. Connected/ Unable to play, search again? <go back to 1>
4. Lobby/ Unable to connect with other player <go back to 1>
5. Ready, other player ready/ Ready, other player removed you from session <go back to 1>
6. Fight

Ughhh....

Just create your own, people join my games almost instantly. Way faster than searching.

[GodlyOne]

Just create your own, people join my games almost instantly. Way faster than searching.

I always like to look for the hardcore Japanese players since it's almost always a guaranteed good match. I don't know, I'm not into creating games for some reason.

[ocbengtson]

I need some major help on this game. I am a relative Street Fighter newb. I played II every so often on my genesis, but that was really the only one I have ever played. Is there hope for me to be able to match up evenly with just about all of the guys playing online, or am I asking too much ( I am pretty much stuck at zero BP.) ? Also, I have been playing with a regular controller: would a fight pad or arcade stick make a big enough difference to justify. I appreciate any tips/advice, and if a start posting on here again asking for more help, don't give me too rough of a time. Thanks.

Hey add me, (bengy81) I am kind of in the same boat as you, if you are down, we can have some spar matches, anyone else can join too if they want, I need some decent practice/constructive criticism.

[maximus101]

I just wanted to come in here to say one thing. Ken spammers, Fuck you to the grave!

[pedobear]

does anyone want to play a bit today my psn id is stvncao looking to practice since its been awhile. just add me

[HowStern]

Started the day yesterday with 200bp. Went beast mode with blanka 7 ranked matches in a row and was up 1021bp. (so aggrivatingly close to 10 ranked wins in a row). Today I start out with my 1021bp and lose to 3 sagats in a row and then the spammiest vega i've ever seen and an actually really good c.viper. Am now down to 500something bp :(

[DarkKenpachi]

Started the day yesterday with 200bp. Went beast mode with blanka 7 ranked matches in a row and was up 1021bp. (so aggrivatingly close to 10 ranked wins in a row). Today I start out with my 1021bp and lose to 3 sagats in a row and then the spammiest vega i've ever seen and an actually really good c.viper. Am now down to 500something bp :(

thats why I don't even play ranked matches anymore. After I got my ten wins during the first days of release I rarely even played ranked matches anymore. got my BP up to 1400 something and haven't played seriously since then. though you may hate me saying this...the best way to get the 10 wins ranked straight is to use ryu or ken. you may hate shotos but the general advantages they have for 10 wins straight out weight a lot of risk you take using other characters you may prefer.

tonight I am going out with a bang since I will be moving onto RE5 for a while. so if anyone wants to play hit me up. mirror matches, random matches, whatever I am down. and add me if you don't have me added already.

@godlyone have you gotten a gold yet on survival normal level 19 yet? I hate that challenge with a passion. flipping balrog and bison right after each other. (2 of the easiest computer controlled characters to fight, but with no special moves they are a real handful.)

[denze]

Just create your own, people join my games almost instantly. Way faster than searching.

I dont even bother, I just play arcade mode (with match requests set to ranked) and I get auto matched up instantly

[dejeckt]

Is it me or SFIV seems to be better of not getting disconnected with playing a match when the opponents language is other than English (even if they only have like 2 bars)? First, I was hesitant to play with some with only 2 bars and language set Chinese (I think), but after countless times of failure to connect with 4/3 bar people I just tried it and it worked.

[HowStern]

thats why I don't even play ranked matches anymore. After I got my ten wins during the first days of release I rarely even played ranked matches anymore. got my BP up to 1400 something and haven't played seriously since then. though you may hate me saying this...the best way to get the 10 wins ranked straight is to use ryu or ken. you may hate shotos but the general advantages they have for 10 wins straight out weight a lot of risk you take using other characters you may prefer.

tonight I am going out with a bang since I will be moving onto RE5 for a while. so if anyone wants to play hit me up. mirror matches, random matches, whatever I am down. and add me if you don't have me added already.

@godlyone have you gotten a gold yet on survival normal level 19 yet? I hate that challenge with a passion. flipping balrog and bison right after each other. (2 of the easiest computer controlled characters to fight, but with no special moves they are a real handful.)

lol yeah thats true actually about picking ken or ryu. I was thinking maybe I should just go for a "ken for 10".

On a challenge trial note has anyone had any luck with blankas last hard trial challenge? It's like
Jumping Heavy Kick -> Medium Punch -> Crouching Medium Kick -> Light Punch -> Heavy Rolling Attack
I can't get past the crouching medium kick and I only even get that far every few times.

[StrandedBrit]

I dont even bother, I just play arcade mode (with match requests set to ranked) and I get auto matched up instantly

Yeah this seems to be the best way. And you can beat up on the CPU players inbetween the real matches.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

Gah, back to 36% (played 32!!! matches with a co-worker) mostly because I am trying to learn balrog. I at least beat him every time with my cammy and sagat. I really want to learn charge characters

[DarkKenpachi]

@minibossbattle: i will help you learn charge characters if you want. but honestly the way people play these charge characters now is how they use to play them on the other street fighters. (watch lots of youtube video and look for old school guile videos)

Ex.
Guile, Balrog, vega, bison, and blanka (and Dee Jay if he was in the game) are pressure characters and work best under these rules. (some of the few characters who really don't lend themsleves to changing fighting styles)

While Chun Li and E Honda are more reaction type fighters. though they can be played a few different ways. ie pressure, reaction, turtle

I might not be explaining this the best way but when playing against me, the ways I mentioned above are consistent ways to beat me when you use those characters.

Take lessons from Jekki. he has an amazing blanka who took it upon himself to personally take my win percentage down. lol

one more tip. like I mentioned before it is best to learn as many characters as possible..so in this case you can react to who your opponent picks, learn which characters you are better with against certain characters.

[GodlyOne]

@godlyone have you gotten a gold yet on survival normal level 19 yet? I hate that challenge with a passion. flipping balrog and bison right after each other. (2 of the easiest computer controlled characters to fight, but with no special moves they are a real handful.)

I don't even remember, I doubt I got gold in it, I think at that point I said screw it with the Survival challenges and just did the quota 10 wins then intentionally lost during the 11th match.

[EDiddy0042]

Hey add me, (bengy81) I am kind of in the same boat as you, if you are down, we can have some spar matches, anyone else can join too if they want, I need some decent practice/constructive criticism.

OK great! I will add you when I hop on tonight and see if you are on. Looking forward to playing against someone of similar level as me.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

i think i need to learn the following:
learn headbutt to ultra, anti air, overhead smash (back to frontdown press and HOLD punch) and punish consistently.

[HowStern]

Headbutt to ultra is actually really simple once you know the trick

Hold backwards/down and then hit backwards/up punch, still holding back, then on the way down hit forward>back>forward PPP

[pedobear]

Anyone up for some playing tonight about 830 pst?

[JEKKI]

Headbutt to ultra is actually really simple once you know the trick

Hold backwards/down and then hit backwards/up punch, still holding back, then on the way down hit forward>back>forward PPPdo the KKK version of the ultra, not to PPP version.

it juggles better, hits more, and is where all the damage is.

[Nibi]

Just finished kicking a good amount of ass. I love pressuring Akuma's who are desperately trying to pull off the raging demon. Especially when I can jump at just the right time and counter with my own ultra.

[Ultimate Matt X]

If anyone would want to play tonight/this weekend just PM me on here or send a message on PSN. I'd like to really get some more online games in than I have been able to lately.

[slam09]

For some odd reason I have become quite fond of fighting Ken scrubs. Easy BP.

[MiniB0ssBattle]

I need to get better... I really don't feel like I won't ever get the challenges done. I also feel like I am back to square one now that I got my joystick back. Like relearning a bike.

[slam09]

Huh... I just beat a Ken scrub literally only using throw... Go in 1 character distance and he'd throw a fireball which I'd block. I'd walk back in and stand. Immediately after he'd Shoryuken and I'd block and I'd throw him on the way down... I thought I'd just kinda bait for a round and do that to see what'd happen and he just kept falling for it. For 3 rounds straight...

[HowStern]

^lol nice. I do the same except instead of a throw I'll electrocute with Blanka.
I played a balrog earlier who had no idea what to do when I went electric. he kept trying to jump kick me and straight punch me. It was great. Turbo function is awesome.

[slam09]

^lol nice. I do the same except instead of a throw I'll electrocute with Blanka.
I played a balrog earlier who had no idea what to do when I went electric. he kept trying to jump kick me and straight punch me. It was great. Turbo function is awesome.
For you that don't know: The solution is sweep kick. Or continuously taunt just to show the other player you're not playing their mind games.

[HowStern]

^thanks for giving it away :P lol but yeah if they don't try to sweep kick within the first 10 seconds of my electrocution then I know they have no idea what to do and I've got the win. I fought an e. honda who didn't know and he kept head charging me til he died.

[slam09]

I really enjoy how much people think Cammy is safe when she's not. Pretty much all her moves are super unsafe on block except her knuckle since the blow back is pretty far. Block spiral arrow and I get to throw for free. Block Cannon Spike and I pretty much get to do whatever I want for free.

edit: I also enjoy how some people think Zangiefs lariat is invincible. Just jump in deep and I can do whatever combo I want for free.

[EDiddy0042]

^^ Thanks for the tip slam. I keep getting my butt kicked by Cammys who just use cannon spike and spiral arrow the whole match. Now I know how to handle it.

[Furashu]

Anyone who hasnt signed up for the PS3 SF4 tourney please do so asap :)
im closing off registration so i have time to build the brackets!!

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216447

the more the merrier! there are prizes too!

[slam09]

^^ Thanks for the tip slam. I keep getting my butt kicked by Cammys who just use cannon spike and spiral arrow the whole match. Now I know how to handle it.
Spiral arrow only LOOKS safe. It's 2 hits at close range but the animation keeps going after the hits for a while. More than enough time to throw. And Cannon Spike you just deal with like you'd deal with a Shoryuken. Block it and get em on the way down.

Other character that look safe: Bison. Scissor kick is punishable. Psycho crusher is punishable. Head stomp you just need to dash back and he'll land in front of you giving you get a free throw.

[HowStern]

Finally finished Blankas last hard challenge and got his icon. It took me longer to get his 5th hard challenge done than it took me to get seth and goukens first 3 hard challenges combined. I'm stuck on both of their 4th hard challenges now though. :( I can get up to the EX sonic boom with seths and then the EX attack is always late. It's more annoying when you get to the 2nd to last move and mess up then not being able to do it at all.

[option.iv]

I really enjoy how much people think Cammy is safe when she's not. Pretty much all her moves are super unsafe on block except her knuckle since the blow back is pretty far. Block spiral arrow and I get to throw for free. Block Cannon Spike and I pretty much get to do whatever I want for free.

edit: I also enjoy how some people think Zangiefs lariat is invincible. Just jump in deep and I can do whatever combo I want for free.
That's why Cammy players must learn how to hit confirm and space.

[cortjurt]

That's why Cammy players must learn how to hit confirm and space.

I completely agree. I'm a Cammy player and I always have to adjust on how people play.

[DarkKenpachi]

arghhhh why can't I do guile's level 4 normal trial? that flash kick to double flash kick is killing me.

at least I beat survival normal level 19 yesterday with a gold medal. :) (that balrog and bison combo back to back gets so frustrating)

[imascrub]

i'd like to play in the tourny but with my loss record vs loads of people in ranked and player matches, I have a feeling I'll get taken out in the first match lol. After reading some of the comments on how people play in this thread I believe it too. I don't really know all these techniques and I play mostly by reaction haha.

[DarkKenpachi]

i'd like to play in the tourny but with my loss record vs loads of people in ranked and player matches, I have a feeling I'll get taken out in the first match lol. After reading some of the comments on how people play in this thread I believe it too. I don't really know all these techniques and I play mostly by reaction haha.

don't be scared it is only a video game. besides I play by reaction as well. I will admit though I do get stubborn trying to pull off a certain move or combo that will cost me a round here and there. lol

enter the tournament. who knows you might win plus it will help your game get better.

@cammy players. I tend to play her like a shoto so thats why I don't abuse her moves like other people. my tip is to learn to add in as many lp and lks as you can get in with your combos, they help a lot with her.

[HowStern]

arghhhh why can't I do guile's level 4 normal trial? that flash kick to double flash kick is killing me.

After reading this I realized I hadn't done any of guiles trials and this is definitely frustrating but I figured the trick out.
When you do the flash kick hit:

db>uf k
And use the f to rotate right into the double flash kicks second half in one continuos motion the db charge will count for both.

The other thing I did was use turbo for HK so when I hit it for the flash kick I just held it down after so it would hit it again automatically for me after the uf, f, df, db, uf motion

so the whole motion is
charge db, uf, Hk, f, df, db, uf, Hk
all in one continuous motion

[SmallWind]

so the whole motion is
charge db, uf, Hk, f, df, db, uf, Hk
all in one continuous motionYou can just do DB, UF + K again to get the Super(Double Flash Kick) out after you do a regular Flash Kick.

Skip to the 3:45 mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3wc-3_vCM

[HowStern]

^oh nice! yeah the 2nd way he does it is the way I did it. (the way i described with the rolling motion)

[DarkKenpachi]

I am using the ds3, I can do the bison, blank, and e honda's normal into super and all that jazz it is just that guile's is really blistering my fingers. I know the motion too, its just that I get caught up somehow.

honestly my problem now is that I am trying to do it like a job and not a game and my sub conscious won't let me do it or something. when I sit down and try to do it not in a hurry it will probably come right out.

[imascrub]

hmm i managed to do that guile trial with the normal motions. It hurt my thumb like hell after awhile, but I pulled it off. I didn't know rolling motions worked and would still count. I gotta try that sometime, cuz I'm very inconsistent in pulling off guile's supers. About half the time I end up just jump kicking lol

[distgfx]

hmm i managed to do that guile trial with the normal motions. It hurt my thumb like hell after awhile, but I pulled it off. I didn't know rolling motions worked and would still count. I gotta try that sometime, cuz I'm very inconsistent in pulling off guile's supers. About half the time I end up just jump kicking lol

I did it with the normal movements too, I have more trouble doing it with the reverse tiger knee motion. :lol:

[HowStern]

The only rolling one I have trouble with is zangiefs super/ultra. i always jump. always. unless i do an ex attack first and start while he is about to hit. i'm junk with zangief.

[distgfx]

The only rolling one I have trouble with is zangiefs super/ultra. i always jump. always. unless i do an ex attack first and start while he is about to hit. i'm junk with zangief.

You have to do that lightning fast. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating, but it does have to be done really fast. Are you using a stick or controller? If controller then which one?

[HowStern]

I'm using the fightpad now. I definitely had an easier time using the DS3 analog stick with that move but even then had trouble. I would always have to cancel into it. Sometimes I would even taunt and do the motion while he did the personal action to keep on the ground lol. That would never work online though.

[distgfx]

I'm using the fightpad now. I definitely had an easier time using the DS3 analog stick with that move but even then had trouble. I would always have to cancel into it. Sometimes I would even taunt and do the motion while he did the personal action to keep on the ground lol. That would never work online though.

Really? How long have you had the fightpad for out of curiosity?

EDIT: Better yet, how long have you used it? I had to break mine in before it became smooth as butter.

[Furashu]

last call for PS3 Tournament Entries

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216447&page=6

30 more mins and i will close the window and make the brackets!

[HowStern]

Really? How long have you had the fightpad for out of curiosity?

EDIT: Better yet, how long have you used it? I had to break mine in before it became smooth as butter.

Yeah I just got it a week ago from when best buy online had 'em in stock. It's still a little stiff.

[DarkKenpachi]

funny thing is that I can consistently get out zangiefs super and ultra. I normally only try them on wake up, blocking, or landing from a jump though. he is one of my mains though and I will admit playing this game has made it easier for me to get the super out in SSF2HD and SFA3.

I just have a funny feeling that in the end of things the only thing I will have left to complete far as task wise in this game will be the move challenges. 5 time and 4 survival challenges left to get gold in.

I will probably end up with a fightpad or something down the road just to finish up the trials.

[ohvermie]

I think it is time for me to stop playing ranked matches. Out of 10 matches, I got 6 disconnects when close to victory and the other times I just flat out got beat like a red-headed stepchild. I will probably add the rest of the peeps that post in this thread for fighting action, as it seems like the couple of CAGs I have currently have on my friend's list have been sucked into the RE5/KZ2 sinkhole. :)

[DarkKenpachi]

@ohvermie sorry man RE5 is a good game :). I do need to come back and get some mirror and random matches with you. I can play tonight a lil past 12 if your down?

[ohvermie]

It's alright dude, I understand the need to facehole zombies. I'd be doing the same thing if I had the means to get RE5. :)

As for tonight, probably not, I have to get up super early tomorrow morning.

[DarkKenpachi]

hit me up whenever you see me not playing RE5. I still need like 80 more matches for the 500 trophy.

[distgfx]

hit me up whenever you see me not playing RE5. I still need like 80 more matches for the 500 trophy.

Jesus, and I just hit my 200 last night.

[DarkKenpachi]

Jesus, and I just hit my 200 last night.

hey what can I say I got the game day one and have played almost everyday since then for at least 3 hours a days. I am over 80 hours already. brings me back to my childhood. :) only difference now is that I give up sleep to play the game. lol)

add me if you wanna play a few rounds. we can play mirror matches, random matches whatever I don't care it is all in the spirit of fun. :)

PSN: Kenpachiexodia

[distgfx]

hey what can I say I got the game day one and have played almost everyday since then for at least 3 hours a days. I am over 80 hours already. brings me back to my childhood. :) only difference now is that I give up sleep to play the game. lol)

add me if you wanna play a few rounds. we can play mirror matches, random matches whatever I don't care it is all in the spirit of fun. :)

PSN: Kenpachiexodia

As long as you reach 500 matches, right? :lol: j/k

I'll add you the next time I'm on. I wanna get my 100 wins trophy myself to get the Akuma shirt in home. Just 25 more wins to go!

[HowStern]

I will probably end up with a fightpad or something down the road just to finish up the trials.

One thing that's really dissapointing and slightly intimidating, is that the turbo isn't even fast enough for some combos.
El fuertes 3rd hard challenge there's a part where you have to hit LP 3x in a row and the turbo isn't fast enough for it. You have to tap like you were playing a van halen solo.
Same thing with blankas 5th hard challenge and one of c vipers hard challenges i forget which one. Every move in it is done with MP.

but on a lot of trials the turbo is a big help. also the turbo is awesome if you play blanka, gen, etc. ovbiously

[DarkKenpachi]

One thing that's really dissapointing and slightly intimidating, is that the turbo isn't even fast enough for some combos.
El fuertes 3rd hard challenge there's a part where you have to hit LP 3x in a row and the turbo isn't fast enough for it. You have to tap like you were playing a van halen solo.
Same thing with blankas 5th hard challenge and one of c vipers hard challenges i forget which one. Every move in it is done with MP.

but on a lot of trials the turbo is a big help. also the turbo is awesome if you play blanka, gen, etc. ovbiously

funny thing about all these combos though is that outside of a few, most will never get used consistently in real play. very few players I have come across really use a lot of the combos presented in the move trials anyway. I don't play that many ranked games so I couldn't tell you per se. Add me so we can get a few matches tonight.


As long as you reach 500 matches, right? :lol: j/k

I'll add you the next time I'm on. I wanna get my 100 wins trophy myself to get the Akuma shirt in home. Just 25 more wins to go!

lol cool man. I need to boost my win total as well so I can unlock the 301 and 506 wins icon and title. make sure you add me. lol

[HowStern]

funny thing about all these combos though is that outside of a few, most will never get used consistently in real play. very few players I have come across really use a lot of the combos presented in the move trials anyway. I don't play that many ranked games so I couldn't tell you per se. Add me so we can get a few matches tonight.


So true. I wish the save file wasn't copy protected because I really don't think I'll ever be able to do some of them again (or want to try) and would desperately like a back up. :(

[DarkKenpachi]

@howstern ain't that the truth. I still have 5 more time and 4 survival challenges to finish to get the gold trophy. I want a bigger HDD but now after all my work on SF I will have to just reformat my 1 TB harddrive to FAT32 so I can transport all the extra junk on my harddrive.

[distgfx]

lol cool man. I need to boost my win total as well so I can unlock the 301 and 506 wins icon and title. make sure you add me. lol

I got the 100 wins today, go me! If you wanna play, I'll just fuck around and pick random each time or something whenever. I don't have any other goal with the game.

[option.iv]

I'm really getting tired of the online play. It's nothing but jump back, jump back, fireball. "If they get too close, sweep. If they start comboing, mash out SRK." Whoever said jumping back is safe as hell, they were right.

[ohvermie]

Jumping back just leads to eating a Blanka HK vert ball to the face. :)

I have had some better luck in playing random player matches than ranked matches. Seen some pretty mean Fuerte, Rufus, and Akuma players through that. And they're usually out to have fun so they don't just spam the same shit over and over again. Although sometimes I wish they would so I can wrap my head around how to trump their shit.

[option.iv]

Jumping back just leads to eating a Blanka HK vert ball to the face. :)

I have had some better luck in playing random player matches than ranked matches. Seen some pretty mean Fuerte, Rufus, and Akuma players through that. And they're usually out to have fun so they don't just spam the same shit over and over again. Although sometimes I wish they would so I can wrap my head around how to trump their shit.
That's great if I played Blanka. However, I play Cammy and Bison, so I have to constantly dodge through, and eventually try to corner them. Thank goodness Bison also has teleport, but the lag on that move is too long, and I have to know well ahead of time to do it safely.

[DarkKenpachi]

I am really starting to like abel, rufus, and C. Viper. I need to play with them more on hardest before I start to use them on people.

@howstern gg's last night man. you got a decent blanka there. you can really tell the difference with him when you have a turbo controller at your disposal. sorry I left so early, my best friend was calling me to play RE5. lol I should be around again tomorrow night if you wanna play.

[HowStern]

haha yeah those were good games. i was picking random people and you were handing my ass to me everytime so every so often i had to pick blanka to win for once lol i think like i had maybe 13% of the wins at the most

i finally got 10 ranked wins in a row trophy with blanka
i got up to 1800 bp and ended up with 1400 i was down to 1300 but beat someone with like 4000 and got 100 something bp for it

i'll def be on tonight probably around 9:30-10pmish eastern

[Furashu]

Hey all you fellow SF4 players on ps3,
registration for Next months tourney will be open on friday, please sign up.
we had a great turn out for the first tourney, the more the merrier!

get prizes and bragging rights :)

check out how our current tourney is going!
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216447

[RelentlessRolento]

I'll sign up for PS3 tourney :)

been meaning to sign up but been so damn busy.

[Furashu]

hey Rol, thanks for signing up, ill add ya on friday to prevent confusion with this tourney and next

[anathema728]

my sf4 madcatz SE stick broke (can't do left[1/4/7] inputs)

just when i thought i wore in the springs, sigh

stop crying option 4, bison is high tier

[RelentlessRolento]

hey Rol, thanks for signing up, ill add ya on friday to prevent confusion with this tourney and next


no prob. I need an excuse to play this more because I keep forgetting how good the game is.

[EDiddy0042]

Count me in for the PS3 tournament next month. That will give me something to practice a little more for.

Also, I have been using Sagat and Blanka for a while now, and I don't think I'm bad with either one of them. I'm not incredible either, but the question I have is that I have had an incredible amount of trouble beating Ryu and Akuma (I actually don't think I have ever beaten a Ryu). Can someone recommend another character I could work on developing with that would work well against these two? Much appreciated.

[HowStern]

Count me in for the PS3 tournament next month. That will give me something to practice a little more for.

Also, I have been using Sagat and Blanka for a while now, and I don't think I'm bad with either one of them. I'm not incredible either, but the question I have is that I have had an incredible amount of trouble beating Ryu and Akuma (I actually don't think I have ever beaten a Ryu). Can someone recommend another character I could work on developing with that would work well against these two? Much appreciated.

Hey send me an invite on PSN ill show you how to take out akumas and ryus with blanka. He's awesome for them. The main things you want to watch out for/do:

When fighting akuma, start the match off with a rolling attack, hold back the whole time it says round 1 until right after it says "fight" then hit forward+HP. Because almost 99% of the time akumas will start off by jumping back and throwing a hadoken in the air. The backstep roll will smash them when they come back down and put you right in their face.

The next thing to do is to avoid ground hadokens hold down/forward and hit HP
tis will slide underneath the fireball and trip the opponent. Block right after you do this and watch to see if they do a shoryuken (they probably will) when they are in the air doing that start tapping punches and electrocute them when they fall. rinse and repeat.
Sometimes instead of shuryken they will simply try to sweep you. When they do that just back up a couple steps and do a backstep roll or hold crouch/back and wait for a hadoken then do another HP slide.

Sometimes when fighting ryu or ken, I will start the match off with electricity because half the itme they jump right into it going for a whirlwind kick, jump kick, or shoryuken. Another good thing to note is that blankas EX rolling attack will go through fireballs. So if you are across the screen a good way to close the gap and get a hit is to wait for them to hadoken/tiger shot and then EX roll atack through it and smash them closing the gap.

[EDiddy0042]

Hey send me an invite on PSN ill show you how to take out akumas and ryus with blanka. He's awesome for them. The main things you want to watch out for/do:

When fighting akuma, start the match off with a rolling attack, hold back the whole time it says round 1 until right after it says "fight" then hit forward+HP. Because almost 99% of the time akumas will start off by jumping back and throwing a hadoken in the air. The backstep roll will smash them when they come back down and put you right in their face.

The next thing to do is to avoid ground hadokens hold down/forward and hit HP
tis will slide underneath the fireball and trip the opponent. Block right after you do this and watch to see if they do a shoryuken (they probably will) when they are in the air doing that start tapping punches and electrocute them when they fall. rinse and repeat.
Sometimes instead of shuryken they will simply try to sweep you. When they do that just back up a couple steps and do a backstep roll or hold crouch/back and wait for a hadoken then do another HP slide.

Sometimes when fighting ryu or ken, I will start the match off with electricity because half the itme they jump right into it going for a whirlwind kick, jump kick, or shoryuken. Another good thing to note is that blankas EX rolling attack will go through fireballs. So if you are across the screen a good way to close the gap and get a hit is to wait for them to hadoken/tiger shot and then EX roll atack through it and smash them closing the gap.

Thanks for the tips. I will shoot you a PSN invite next time I log on. It probably won't be until tomorrow afternoon because I have to study for my Sociology exam tonight.

[Furashu]

Hey guys the Registration for CAG SF4 Monthly Classic Tournament #2 will be open tommorrow. We had a great turn out of 26 people for the first tournament. The tournament ran very smoothly with one or two hiccups but nothing serious.

There are prizes and its free to join! Show off your SF4 skills


The more the merrier and Aprils tournament will be on a weekend!


here is the link to the tournament thread
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216447

please post
Cag name -
PSN name -

thanks and hope to see u sign up!

[Paco]

Does it make me a bad person to choose dan and have this song playing in the mic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrSSlA4MFs

[Ecofreak]

My thumb is exhausted from ~3 days of relatively heavy playing. But when using Balrog 90% of the time, and all those charge moves, I seriously couldn't pull off any of his moves.

Makes me want an arcade stick even more. :-(

[distgfx]

My thumb is exhausted from ~3 days of relatively heavy playing. But when using Balrog 90% of the time, and all those charge moves, I seriously couldn't pull off any of his moves.

Makes me want an arcade stick even more. :-(

Do it, it's sooo worth it. Not to mention there's plenty of other fighters coming out starting this summer. Pick out a nice one for yourself.

[GodlyOne]

Yeah, I've been using a controller all my life to play Street Fighter so I'm on the edge too about getting an arcade stick since I've never used one before. :-k

[distgfx]

Yeah, I've been using a controller all my life to play Street Fighter so I'm on the edge too about getting an arcade stick since I've never used one before. :-k

Similar situation here, switched to an arcade stick and haven't looked back since.

[GodlyOne]

Similar situation here, switched to an arcade stick and haven't looked back since.

Looks like I'm throwing down 80 dollars for an arcade stick then.

[metaly]

I tried using my HRAP3 with SF4 and I think I'm actually better with the controller. Not sure if it's worth it to retrain myself on a stick. This is after playing SF mainly on consoles since the SNES.

It's the complete opposite for SC/Tekken, though. When I try switching to a controller for those it's like I forgot all my moves.

[DarkKenpachi]

-got the 301 wins last night. now I gotta hit the 506 win mark to get the last title and icon I can get from just fighting. still need around 50 more matches for the 500 matches trophy. looks like I a will linger around the 66-70 percent victories online for my sf4 career. lol

-4 more time trials and 2 more survival trials left to get the gold trophy.

-plus a whole heap of move challenges. lol

I am going to get the platinuim

[Ecofreak]

I am going to get the platinuim

Craziness -- Capcom should make a special banner for your signature in honor of such a feat.

Good luck, and pass on some of your skillz 2 me! :lol:

[metaly]

Wow I suck at this. Anyone want to play Soulcalibur??

ohvermie's Chun-li is relentless. :hot:

[GodlyOne]

Wow I suck at this. Anyone want to play Soulcalibur??

ohvermie's Chun-li is relentless. :hot:

I'd be up for a couple of games of SCIV, never played an online match in it before. Beware the fury of my button mashing methods in Soulcalibur though.

[distgfx]

I'd be up for a couple of games of SCIV, never played an online match in it before. Beware the fury of my button mashing methods in Soulcalibur though.

Good luck trying to impact online.

[GodlyOne]

Good luck trying to impact online.

I never payed that much attention into learning everything about SC so that doesn't make any sense to me.... :cry: :lol:

[distgfx]

I never payed that much attention into learning everything about SC so that doesn't make any sense to me.... :cry: :lol:

Oh... just press Forward + Guard, Back + Guard or Down-Forward + Guard right before you get hit. You won't take any damage and it will leave your enemy vulnerable for a few seconds. You'll know you did it right when you see a clash like animation... actually, you should know without me telling you, it's that obvious. :lol:

[GodlyOne]

Oh... just press Forward + Guard, Back + Guard or Down-Forward + Guard right before you get hit. You won't take any damage and it will leave your enemy vulnerable for a few seconds. You'll know you did it right when you see a clash like animation... actually, you should know without me telling you, it's that obvious. :lol:

:dunce: I remember now, I only used impact guards for the treasure in the ascending tower. After that I just went back to mashing horizontal, vertical, kick, and the occasional throw in SC. :-\"

[distgfx]

:dunce: I remember now, I only used impact guards for the treasure in the ascending tower. After that I just went back to mashing horizontal, vertical, kick, and the occasional throw in SC. :-\"

Hit me up sometime on PSN, I have every fighting games for the PS3 both disc and digital. Send me a friend request and we can have some fun sometime. I admit it, when I play fighting games I like messing around and try new stuff. Much more fun that way, so if you're ever up for some laid back matches, hit me up. If you want some competitive then that's fine too, but usually boring. :lol:

[ohvermie]

Wow I suck at this. Anyone want to play Soulcalibur??

ohvermie's Chun-li is relentless. :hot:

Manhands coming to get you! :)

Good games last night, I'm sure you just need to get up to speed with SF4. I kinda wish I still had SC4 now that I have a stick, so I can suck it up again at that game. :P

[DantheApe]

has anyone tried using an x arcade stick with a ps2-ps3 adapter? i have a double stick and haven't even though about using it on sf4 til about an hour and a half ago...haven't found anyone else who has tried this.

[EDiddy0042]

HowStern, I gotta thank you for the Blanka tips. I am amazed how many guys do the exact same thing off the start and I get them every time, and I have been more successful against Ryu, Ken and Akuma. Also, I have found that the floor slide punch works well off the back when they begin with a fireball or shoryuken. Anyway, thanks again.

[ohvermie]

-got the 301 wins last night. now I gotta hit the 506 win mark to get the last title and icon I can get from just fighting. still need around 50 more matches for the 500 matches trophy. looks like I a will linger around the 66-70 percent victories online for my sf4 career. lol

-4 more time trials and 2 more survival trials left to get the gold trophy.

-plus a whole heap of move challenges. lol

I am going to get the platinuim
It is so sad, I got my 500 win title a week ago. How time flies... My win percentage is quite dismal though, it is in the high 50s, but I blame that on me dicking around with Abel and Fuerte recently and my love affair with Viper when I first got the game.

Good luck on your quest for the plat though, the challenges will surely break you. :)

[HowStern]

HowStern, I gotta thank you for the Blanka tips. I am amazed how many guys do the exact same thing off the start and I get them every time, and I have been more successful against Ryu, Ken and Akuma. Also, I have found that the floor slide punch works well off the back when they begin with a fireball or shoryuken. Anyway, thanks again.

Awesome,man glad to hear it!

It's funny because the one person I have a ton of trouble beating as Blanka is Blanka. I always lose my patience and go in for rolling attacks thinking "maybe they will stop blocking" and then I get blocked and countered.
I need to invest more time in some other characters. I've put all my time into blanka I'm terrible as everyone else.

[slam09]

The newest ranking charts are in. Obviously, there are going to be objections and this is purely unscientific but here they are. Unofficially compiled by Japanese players (http://www5.atwiki.jp/koko100/pages/160.html). Also, these charts will evolve and change as the game ages and new strategies are found. The chart works like this: If 2 evenly skilled players used a character and played each other 10 times how many times would each player win. For example, I pick Zangief and play against Sagat. I'm expected to win only 3 times and Sagat should win 7 times. This is done with all the characters and the wins are totalled and that's their score and they are then sorted. Keep in mind that THESE TIER CHARTS ONLY WORK AT HIGH LEVEL GAMEPLAY. So maybe your El Fuerte crushes your friends all the time but you might actually suck at a high level tournament. That said there is a fairly small spread between the tiers still. It's fairly tightly packed together with only 41 wins spread between top and bottom.


http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/03/sfchart.jpg

I find some of the rankings to be kinda odd and wonder what happened and why. Initially at launch alot of the top SRK players rated Rose as the highest tier character out of all the console characters and at this list she's bottom tier. Boxer is high up but I'm quite sure will fall pretty quickly as the tournament scene goes on since he's pretty limited once you figure out his tricks. And C. Viper I see going up since she's one of the most flexible characters around.

Which brings us to an American chart


The arithmetic is WAY off on the chart (which is ironic, for reasons that will remain unmentioned).
Some matches don't add up to 10 (Eg. Cammy vs Gouken, is 4-4 WTF?)
The sum totals for each character was completely off too.
I just fixed it by taking the top half and extrapolated the bottom half from it. Here is the outcome:

1. Sagat 153(+33)

2. Balrog 140(+20)
3. Blanka 136(+16)
4. Zangief 135(+15)
5. Ryu 134(+14)
6. Seth 131(+11)

7. Chun Li 129(+9)
8. M.Bison 127(+7)
8. Rufus 127(+7)
10. Akuma 126(+6)
10. Ken 126(+6)
12. C.Viper 122(+2)
13. E.Honda 121(+1)

14. Dhalsim 120(-)
15. Guile 119(-1)
16. Gouken 118(-2)
17. Abel 117(-3)
18. El Fuerte 114(-6)
19. Fei Long 111(-9)

20. Vega 107(-13)
21. Cammy 104(-16)
21. Gen 104(-16)
23. Rose 103(-17)
24. Dan 100(-20)
25. Sakura 76(-44)
Note: American Names

This chart was compiled by Bokchoy on the SRK boards (http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=6365439&postcount=102). Despite asian stereotype, the math was all off. Not everyone plays 10 matches and sum totals are off for some characters too. He (re)did some math of his own and some characters move pretty far (See Seth, Vega, Fuerte, Sakura).

So what's everyone elses thoughts? Keep in mind tier lists are always changing, dependent on the players, and even dependent on the region where you play.

[HowStern]

arghhh at hondas 5th hard trial

connecting three c.LKs into a flying headbutt is ridiclous the LKs dont buffer into each other at all. and when i do manage to get all three the headbutt is always blocked.

[Kuroi Kaze]

I have to say the most surprising person to see low is Sakura. She really feels quite strong with her chip abilities, her low-hitting super/ultra, the solid damage from her super, her EX hurricane kick, etc...

I was also surprised to see Fei-Long as high as he is. C.Viper kind of cheaply gets her rank because there's a specific jump-in that stuffs Guile's flash kick that gives her a 6/4 instead of the 3/7 she'd have like she does with Honda.

I think the Japanese underestimate Zangief a bit. The 2-frame start up of SPD is insanity and his risk-reward on fierces is pretty crazy. He is much better at advancing than he has ever been and is really strong in this game.

Boxer is going nowhere as he has basically been great in every game. Reach+damage= Balrog.

I similarly agree that Rose is surprising since everyone was freakin' about Shamwow's ability to hit anything ever.

I think the Americans have Rufus placed more accurately as well.

[GodlyOne]

I wonder when the hell we'll actually be getting that Championship Mode expansion pack.

[Ecofreak]

I wonder when the hell we'll actually be getting that Championship Mode expansion pack.

QFT.

[Ecofreak]

Well, just hit a milestone by reaching 1,000 BP! Certainly pales in comparison to some of the pros on this board but I'm proud non-the-less. I'm glad I gave my thumb a weeks rest, as I went 5-1 tonight -- losing to an Akuma. Thumb was getting tired again and desire for buying a stick grew stronger. Bah!

As for what's up with the SF4 Championship Mode update, from EventHubs.com (http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2009/mar/27/some-details-released-sf4-championship-mode/)

Q: Have you been thinking about any fixes for the home version characters?

A: Ah yes, the patch. In the same way we fixed things when going from the arcade version to the home version, we will be performing little tweaks to fix the odd parts.

When the title update is released, for everyone who goes online this patch will download automatically.

(Azrael's Note: The question only asks about the console characters, but the person answering doesn't specify if she's only talking about the console chars or the whole game. She also says "the same way we made changes from the arcade version"...did they make changes?)

Q: We heard that Dee Jay and T. Hawk were planned for the game but didn’t make it. We’d like to see them put in.

A: Yeah huh. They were already plenty developed…! It’d be nice if we could do something to not let that go to waste, but…!!

(Azrael's Note: That sounds like a "no".)

Q: ROUND4? Is there development for a SFIV Dash?

A: That’s just language used on the SFIV posters. Since its Street Fighter IV, we just took the 4 and put it together to say ROUND4 for when the game went on sale.

(Az's Note: This is probably just promotional language for the console sale that may have confused people.)

Q: Will there be any other costumes this spring or summer?

A: We haven’t decided yet! However, it looks like there will be some sort of announcement this summer.

Q: Any chance of seeing Shin Akuma or Evil Ryu?

A: Hmm…sorry, I can’t really say anything on the matter!

Q: Please enforce some kind of penalty for disconnects.

A: In the patch, we will be adding a disconnect ratio! But since this will include disconnects for natural reasons and not just ragequits, we’re also including a bail-out feature so that if you continue playing for awhile after a disconnect without any further disconnects, your ratio will restore itself! Yay!

(Azrael's Note: The wording isn't exactly clear, but it sounds like the disconnect ratio will go down sooner rather than later.)

Q: Although you weren’t able to go on sale with the 6-button pad when the game was released, do you have any plans to sell it in the future?

A: Now, we are working hard on it. But sorry, no plans to sell it at this time.

Q: No Mac version?

A: No plans for a Mac version at this time. I also use Mac as well as Windows, so I feel your pain!

Q: We really want new alternate costumes!

A: We understand that the alts are really popular. You’ve made your voices heard. …So for now, please cut us some slack!

Q: Sorry to say this, but the quality of the anime openings and endings just wasn’t good at all.

A: The prologues and endings are probably what we regret the most in a handful of mistakes. This is definitely something we want to work on for next time.

Q: When will the PC version go on sale?

A: We will announce the release date very soon! Sorry to keep you waiting, but please wait just a little longer!

Q: For the next time, we’re expecting new characters that make us think “Ryu and Ken are fine, but this new character is cool and seems easy to use!”

A: That makes me happy to hear…! Abel really is a strong character, so I hope more people will use him.

Q; Shiozawa…yeah yeah, but Lil’ Ono seems pretty strong.

A: How rude! Well…I can’t refute that though. Not just me, but Endo is also the best! In no time at all, with just the PS3 and 360 controller he was able to unlock all characters and all color variations!

Q: Are there any extras for the PC version?

A: Basically, it’s a port of the home version, but we will be throwing in a little extra service. More details will be coming soon!

Q: For the new home characters (Cammy, Dan, etc), we’d sure like a downloadable move list.

A: Definitely! Check the downloads page very soon!

[thelonepig]

I (purposely) played online for the first time last night. I went up against two Kens, a Zangief, and a Sakura. I took out the first Ken pretty quick and he dropped. The second Ken barely beat me the first match, then I whopped him the second match and he disconnected. The Zangief was a monster... I have a hard enough time playing against the AI, let alone someone that spams his heavier moves. He beat me four times - I kept selecting different characters hoping that he'd change as well, but never did. I stopped after the fourth loss.

The Sakura was on the ranked boards and beat the tar out of me. I've got to go back to the game for some training before I try that again.

And here I was so proud of myself actually making it through the Normal Trial Mode with Cammy using my DS3.

[distgfx]

I (purposely) played online for the first time last night. I went up against two Kens, a Zangief, and a Sakura. I took out the first Ken pretty quick and he dropped. The second Ken barely beat me the first match, then I whopped him the second match and he disconnected. The Zangief was a monster... I have a hard enough time playing against the AI, let alone someone that spams his heavier moves. He beat me four times - I kept selecting different characters hoping that he'd change as well, but never did. I stopped after the fourth loss.

The Sakura was on the ranked boards and beat the tar out of me. I've got to go back to the game for some training before I try that again.

And here I was so proud of myself actually making it through the Normal Trial Mode with Cammy using my DS3.

With a DS3? Wow ... Once someone picks a main online, I doubt you'll ever face them as anyone else. I like to pick Random sometimes for the hell of it.

[RelentlessRolento]

Glad to hear a disconnect ratio will be added.

[Oktoberfest]

Maybe I played too much SF on SNES and PS1, but using the DS3 to play isn't THAT big a deal... I'm sure an arcade stick is better, yes, but using a PS3 controller isn't that terrible

[Ecofreak]

Maybe I played too much SF on SNES and PS1, but using the DS3 to play isn't THAT big a deal... I'm sure an arcade stick is better, yes, but using a PS3 controller isn't that terrible

Totally agree with you, as I'm getting used to the DPAD after SFIV came out.

But my thumb gets tired holding charge for Balrog all the time, a problem that wouldn't happen w/ a stick. If I mained any non-charge character, this wouldn't be an issue.

[DarkKenpachi]

I use the ds3 also and actually it feels better to me than the ds1 and ds2 for street fighter games.

the ds3 is fine for characters with circle movements but for charge characters you will greatly benefit from using a stick. besides if I had a stick I would have finished all of the normal trials and I am still stuck on 3 characters in particular. Guile, Balrog, and Vega.

so my advice is if you can afford a stick to grab one asap. you might have to relearn a lot, but the advantages in the long run are worth it.

(coming from a ds3 user)

[distgfx]

I was using a FightPad then moved onto a stick... I can't image playing SFIV without having all 6 attack buttons on the front of the pad.

[KingBroly]

Downloadable Move list?

[DarkKenpachi]

just saw this over at gamefaqs about blanka and I to me it is just as funny as the ken flowchart. look for yourself.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3682/blankag.jpg

it is missing the slide, but it is still pretty dead on.

[EDiddy0042]

just saw this over at gamefaqs about blanka and I to me it is just as funny as the ken flowchart. look for yourself.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3682/blankag.jpg

it is missing the slide, but it is still pretty dead on.

Haha. That sounds like me.

[slam09]

I use the ds3 also and actually it feels better to me than the ds1 and ds2 for street fighter games.

the ds3 is fine for characters with circle movements but for charge characters you will greatly benefit from using a stick. besides if I had a stick I would have finished all of the normal trials and I am still stuck on 3 characters in particular. Guile, Balrog, and Vega.

so my advice is if you can afford a stick to grab one asap. you might have to relearn a lot, but the advantages in the long run are worth it.

(coming from a ds3 user)
I use the DS3 as well and the only real complaint I have with it is the R2 and L2 buttons. They feel different than the other buttons but you eventually get used to it. I considered buying one of the SF4 Fightpads but decided to opt out.

[DarkKenpachi]

Haha. That sounds like me.

sounds like a lot of people actually. lol I like blanka myself but for some reason I only tend to use him once someone beats me with him and it frustrates me. lol. but that chart is real because blanka's ultra is outright silly in the damage it does. feels like it can take half of your life bar depending on who you are. still a funny chart, almost as funny as ken's. lol

I use the DS3 as well and the only real complaint I have with it is the R2 and L2 buttons. They feel different than the other buttons but you eventually get used to it. I considered buying one of the SF4 Fightpads but decided to opt out.

the R2 and L2 buttons are a little suspect and in all honesty they hamper the use of the L1 button overall for me. good thing I really don't use that button that much.

[ohvermie]

Sadly enough I don't think there's really any other way to play Blanka. :P

I love it though. :)

I tried playing with a DS3 for an evening just for shits and giggles, and my thumb honestly felt like it was about to break off when playing charge characters. But sadly, I can pull off quarter circle motions so much more consistently with the pad. :(

Is it just me or has the competition against random peoples just gotten more brutal? I tried playing some randoms last night and I just got tore the fuck up. I don't know if it had anything to do with me just picking Sakura a whole bunch though, but it was just sad. I think all this time spent playing as Blanka has finally rotted my brain.

[JEKKI]

smh Blanka flowchart...

play me, that's all I gotta say

[drake0727]

anyone wanna help me win the 10 wins in a row trophy? if you dont have this trophy, we can switch off, i win first, and you can win the next consecutive 10. i dont really care about battle points, because they're not hard to get, but 10 wins in a row is a pain.

add me drake0727 if interested.

[GodlyOne]

Is it just me or has the competition against random peoples just gotten more brutal? I tried playing some randoms last night and I just got tore the fuck up. I don't know if it had anything to do with me just picking Sakura a whole bunch though, but it was just sad. I think all this time spent playing as Blanka has finally rotted my brain.

The game's been out for close to 2 months now, I think the ratio of "skilled to complete trash" has evened out since people have had time to find a character and practice.
I haven't played SFIV in a while, I need to get into a couple of online matches soon.

[HowStern]

Yeah people have just plain gotten better since the game has been out for a bit now.

I haven't gone online on it for a few days because everyone always disconnects. I'll go online when championship mode comes out. Or if I see a friend on.

[Ecofreak]

Yeah people have just plain gotten better since the game has been out for a bit now.

Either that, or all the scrub players decided to give up when they weren't making any effort to actually learn the game outside of the Ken-Flow chart.

[GodlyOne]

Wow, it's been a while since I've played cause I just got my ass handed to me by a good Chun-Li player. My 5 wins to that person's 15 wins... was fun though.

[DarkKenpachi]

smh Blanka flowchart...

play me, that's all I gotta say

lol, your blanka is great and I can honestly only beat him with Honda. lol but that chart is so true for most blankas online now


Yeah people have just plain gotten better since the game has been out for a bit now.

I haven't gone online on it for a few days because everyone always disconnects. I'll go online when championship mode comes out. Or if I see a friend on.

I will start playing again to get up to the 506 wins so if you see me on hit me up


Wow, it's been a while since I've played cause I just got my ass handed to me by a good Chun-Li player. My 5 wins to that person's 15 wins... was fun though.

finally got the 500 matches the other day, now I am only 5 challenges away from the gold trophy. hard time trials 3,4,5 and survival 3,4

I will probably never finish the move trials so that is a lost cause for me.

[x-striker]

So. . . has the new PS3 update fixed the lag for SF4? I remember reading somewhere on here that the new PS3 update was supposed to fix some networking issues. If it does fix the lag for SF4, I'll still whine and cry about losing, but I won't have any excuse, now! :-#

[GodlyOne]

finally got the 500 matches the other day, now I am only 5 challenges away from the gold trophy. hard time trials 3,4,5 and survival 3,4

I will probably never finish the move trials so that is a lost cause for me.

You're so close though, keep at it. 5 more sets of trials to do and you've got a platinum.

[jughead]

I'm waiting on a custom stick from SRK but everytime I quit playing for a while and come back I get whooped. I am probably just going to not play until May when i get my custom stick. It takes too much effort to be competitive. I'll friend some of you guys when that time comes.

[HowStern]

So. . . has the new PS3 update fixed the lag for SF4? I remember reading somewhere on here that the new PS3 update was supposed to fix some networking issues. If it does fix the lag for SF4, I'll still whine and cry about losing, but I won't have any excuse, now! :-#

I never understand when people say stuff like this. Out of the hundreds of matches I've played only about 5 were laggy.

I've even had some matches against red connections run flawless.

[JEKKI]

lol, your blanka is great and I can honestly only beat him with Honda. lol but that chart is so true for most blankas online nowahh E Honda... I lost a tournament last weekend to E Honda in loser's bracket (I lost winner's to a Ryu player, who's actually a top ranked 3S player in USA)

seriously, next time I play Honda I'm jus gonna turtle... sit and wait for him coz I seriously cannot win if I try to get close -_-

[distgfx]

For people complaining about lag, go here:

http://www.dslreports.com/

Then go to Tools and run a Line Quality test and post your results please.

[nbballard]

I ordered some Saturn USB controllers, and i've about tapped out RE5 for the time being. I should be ready to start playing online soon!

[x-striker]

I never understand when people say stuff like this. Out of the hundreds of matches I've played only about 5 were laggy.

I've even had some matches against red connections run flawless.

I doubt it's the machine. It's the connection. All my friends have been able to play fine, but they have cable connections. I have DSL, and before that, I had WiMax, and they both weren't so great. I don't think it's a matter of speed though, I think it's more about ping. Testing connections, I sometimes get a ping of 50 ms, although, it's been a little closer to 20 ms lately, where my friends (with cable) get 3 to 5 ms.

The irritating thing about lag, is that you do something (hadouken, punch, BLOCK[!]), and it'll come out half a second later unless you get hit (in which case, you get hit and it won't come out at all).

So, I doubt the firmware update changes this. . . but here's to being hopeful?

For people complaining about lag, go here:

http://www.dslreports.com/

Then go to Tools and run a Line Quality test and post your results please.

http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2506453

[anch]

You're so close though, keep at it. 5 more sets of trials to do and you've got a platinum.
he still need the Move Trial, you read it wrong. Platinum don't get handed so easily.

lol at Blanka flow chart.
its like my friend who main as Blanka can kept complaining how he cant beat Sagat, that spams TBlows and TU.
what a noob cuz he doesnt know how to slide under fireballs.

[distgfx]

I doubt it's the machine. It's the connection. All my friends have been able to play fine, but they have cable connections. I have DSL, and before that, I had WiMax, and they both weren't so great. I don't think it's a matter of speed though, I think it's more about ping. Testing connections, I sometimes get a ping of 50 ms, although, it's been a little closer to 20 ms lately, where my friends (with cable) get 3 to 5 ms.

The irritating thing about lag, is that you do something (hadouken, punch, BLOCK[!]), and it'll come out half a second later unless you get hit (in which case, you get hit and it won't come out at all).

So, I doubt the firmware update changes this. . . but here's to being hopeful?



http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2506453

50ms ping is excellent, I get 160ms on average myself and play flawlessly all the time. Looking at your results, there's absolutely no problems with your line, so we can kill that possibility. How do you have your network setup?

[GodlyOne]

Just played a ranked match with a skilled Sagat player, first round he wiped me out, second I managed to get a win, and the third we were both down to about 5% health but he hit me with an Ultra before I could throw him..... such an adrenaline rush.
That was intense, like the equivalent of consuming 2 energy drinks in a minute. :shock: :lol: I'm addicted to Street Fighter again.

[Oktoberfest]

Just played a ranked match with a skilled Sagat player, first round he wiped me out, second I managed to get a win, and the third we were both down to about 5% health but he hit me with an Ultra before I could throw him..... such an adrenaline rush.
That was intense, like the equivalent of consuming 2 energy drinks in a minute. :shock: :lol: I'm addicted to Street Fighter again.

yeah same thing happened to me, my Rose and his Guile had 0 health in the final round, of course he just kills me with block damage from his flash kick haha. I'm sitting at 700 BP and he was at 2600 BP... so close... lol...

[DarkKenpachi]

ahh E Honda... I lost a tournament last weekend to E Honda in loser's bracket (I lost winner's to a Ryu player, who's actually a top ranked 3S player in USA)

seriously, next time I play Honda I'm jus gonna turtle... sit and wait for him coz I seriously cannot win if I try to get close -_-


well hey I need to play some more games, so anytime you see me hit me up so you can practice your blanka against my honda.

Just played a ranked match with a skilled Sagat player, first round he wiped me out, second I managed to get a win, and the third we were both down to about 5% health but he hit me with an Ultra before I could throw him..... such an adrenaline rush.
That was intense, like the equivalent of consuming 2 energy drinks in a minute. :shock: :lol: I'm addicted to Street Fighter again.

I am starting to get addicted to SF4 again myself. I just wish I could finish those move trials. arghhh. I can see it now. this time next year I will stilll be complaining about the move trials.

you ever have those days when you can hit every combo and do exactly what you wanna do when you wanna do it? then the next time you play absolutely nothing comes out right? well that happened to me last night. I think i need to play nonstop again because it feels like a day off makes you rusty real fast.

[DeskLaser]

I posted this in the trading forum, but I figured I would post it here also, to let you guys now. I'm having to sell some things, and one of them is my only slightly used Chun Li PS3 fightpad controller. Everything on it still works perfectly, I just need the extra cash. PM me if interested, I'm asking $35 paypal for it shipped (just the controller and wireless dongle, no box).

[x-striker]

50ms ping is excellent, I get 160ms on average myself and play flawlessly all the time. Looking at your results, there's absolutely no problems with your line, so we can kill that possibility. How do you have your network setup?

OMG! How do you play with a ping that high!?
Well, I'm running a DSL modem to my Linksys router which the PS3 connects to wirelessly. I've tried hardwiring it to the router, but it's still lagging. I've given priority to my PS3 on my router (I think?), but even if I'm not doing ANYTHING on-line, it'll still lag. My PS3 has a static IP, with, I get NAT type 2 with UPnP available, all tests successful, the ports on my router opened (port 80 tdp, 5233 or something, etc.), and I still lag. I usually only find people with at least 4 bars, and I still lag (they don't seem to be lagging at all though). The funny thing is, I think I remember playing against 'no bar' people, and I guess they lagged, too, making it 'fair'. :/

I can play shooters just fine though (usually; sometimes it will lag, but I attribute that to PS3 hardware lag when too much is going on).

I appreciate your help btw, I just don't think there's anything I can do, except get a cable connection (or FIOS, which isn't available where I am). Thanks anyway though.

[distgfx]

OMG! How do you play with a ping that high!?
Well, I'm running a DSL modem to my Linksys router which the PS3 connects to wirelessly. I've tried hardwiring it to the router, but it's still lagging. I've given priority to my PS3 on my router (I think?), but even if I'm not doing ANYTHING on-line, it'll still lag.

I appreciate your help btw, I just don't think there's anything I can do, except get a cable connection (or FIOS, which isn't available where I am). Thanks anyway though.

I actually have cable, lol. I play very well with a ping that high too. No problems at all.

[FISTINFACE]

Id like to play some cags. Hit me up.

[slam09]

just saw this over at gamefaqs about blanka and I to me it is just as funny as the ken flowchart. look for yourself.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3682/blankag.jpg

it is missing the slide, but it is still pretty dead on.
These flowcharts are fun. You could do one with Cammy and Akuma too. Cammy would pretty much be drill and spike infinitely. And Akuma would be jump back, air fireball, red fireball, do i have an ultra yet? ultra!!! Infinitely.

[Ecofreak]

So I'm entering my first tournament since the Game Stop one back when the game was launched.

For those of you who have been climbing the online ranking ladder, do you have a rough break-down of the skill levels? I'd like to know where I fall in the skill curve at a measly 1100.

Example:
Beginner = 0-2000
Intermediate = 2001 - 6000
Advanced = 6001-12000
Stay Away! = 12001 - Ridiculous

[HowStern]

You can't go by BP really. 1)People disconnect. 2)Make new accounts to get huge ammounts of BP from everyone since they are at 0bp 3)spammer scrubs have tons of BP somehow despite being easily beaten.

[distgfx]

^^ With #1 + #3 being combined very often

[DarkKenpachi]

@ecofreak- yeah the bp system is really not a good measure though it is reliable once people get in the higher numbers like 7000 and above.

honestly as it stands right now there is no real way to tell how good a player is until you actually fight them. though you can pretty much tell how good they are from the first few moves in the round.

[GodlyOne]

Championship Mode expansion release finally dated:
http://kotaku.com/5215857/street-fighter-iv-championship-mode-dated-brings-new-features

April 24th in Japan, so either the same day or some time soon after.

Both systems don't have the same replay system:
PS3 - replay voting system (tag certain parts of replays as Funny, Awesome, or Beautiful)
360 - ability to display inputs in replays and save the replays to the hard drive/memory card.

[metaly]

The input display and replay features look really cool, but... $25??!?!?!?

That stuff was all free until now!

[GodlyOne]

WHOA I never saw that part, 25 fucking dollars? Really?!?
I thought that giving it for free was a way of relieving some of the rape that people endured from the costume unlock keys.

[Furashu]

what the fuck!?

thats a dam patch that should be FREE cause their online system SUCKED that came with a $60 GAME.

[Paco]

seriously CRAPCOM. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU UP THE ASS. You're WORSE then SCAMCO

[metaly]

Suddenly I'm really looking forward to next week's CAGcast.

[GodlyOne]

Hmmmm the Famitsu article mentions nothing about a price but Kotaku says there is.

[Furashu]

lulz free championship mode
remember this

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/208771/street-fighter-iv-costume-dlc-priced-free-championship-mode/

[metaly]

Kotaku silently removed the price from their article.

[GodlyOne]

I thought I misread the Famitsu article for a second. Yeah, Kotaku fucked up, they edited the post. Expansion still free.

[Paco]

Did kotaku go around sniffing those highschool girl panties again and committed a huge boner?

[GodlyOne]

The only way I could think that Kotaku said it cost $25 was that the person misread the date 24th as 2400 yen or something, as long as they didn't question any other website's credibility, a mistake's a mistake.

Though not having the same features cross-platform in this expansion, let alone not having the ability to export replay video files to the hard drive on the PS3 version, seems weird.

[DarkKenpachi]

@godly one. if this is the case then us ps3 users are getting screwed and now I have to actually go out and get sf4 on 360 :(. they still have CE sf4 360 versions at all my local bestbuys. lol

this means now I really have to buckle down and started playing ranked matches so I can get my BP up to get into the better tournaments. *now I get to really unleash my zangief for the world to see* ;)

Also aren't the costume packs supposed to be sold as a bundle starting next week or something? I wish they gave the option of picking 2 or three packs for a certain price.


*on a side note I still gotta finish 5 things in RE5 before I can focus truly on SF4 again.)

[GodlyOne]

The only console up until now that openly let people export screenshots and spam Youtube with gameplay videos doesn't get the ability to export replays to the hard drive, like it doesn't make any sense. But the majority of people probably aren't going to be using the replay system more than once anyways. I'd just label someone's ragequit as "beautiful" and go back to psycho crushin' fools.

[MSUHitman]

I am pissed that you can't save clips of SF4 matches to the HD for uploading. I loving doing that with MLB The Show.

[Ecofreak]

Though not having the same features cross-platform in this expansion, let alone not having the ability to export replay video files to the hard drive on the PS3 version, seems weird.

Seriously -- what good is giving 360 owners the ability to download videos when not ever 360 has a HD to download to, while all PS3s have a hard drive?! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!:bomb::bomb::bomb:

Personally, I'm pissed off. The PS3 is the console used for all tournaments, including the biggest tournament in America (if I'm not mistaken, EVO).

People bought more copies of the PS3 version because of the controller (likely), and thus are perhaps a more competitive bunch. So what good is having an actual worthwhile replay capability on the system that would see the least benefit?!?!!? :bomb::bomb::bomb:

The whole thing is backwards if you ask me.

BIG EDIT

Turns out there (http://kotaku.com/5215943/more-nitty+gritty-on-the-free-sfiv-championship-mode) is more to Championship Mode than we originally heard...


Here's how the tournaments work in the Championship Mode: Tourneys are divvied up into five different levels, making it possible for players of various skill levels to compete on the same footing. Like with tournament play, character selection is "double-blind", meaning you cannot see who your opponent has selected for his fighter. Player score Grade Points (GP) for wins and can use their accumulating GP total to enter higher level tournaments.

Those who win tournaments get Championship Points (CP), which Capcom compares to "prize money". So fighting against players with higher GP means a bigger CP purse. The top 5,000 CP leaders get the option to upload replays that are available for everyone to watch on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.

As we previously posted, the PS3 version lets users vote in real time on things they think "Funny", "Awesome" or "Beautiful" — and vote every 30 frames (which is 2x per second). There is a cap to avoid total spamming, Capcom points out. Voting is not possible on the Xbox 360 version; however, as we posted previously, players can save their machines and see which inputs players are using.

"The new tournament system is totally addictive," Capcom's Seth Killian tells Kotaku. "Winning takes you higher and higher, but even if you get knocked out in your first match, there's always another tournament starting immediately, so you're never out of the action. With replays, if you're a junkie for great Street Fighter matches like I am, you basically just got the best cable channel in the world for free."

The Championship Mode hits April 24, free of charge.

I am disappointed that PS3 users won't be able to download their own replays, but at least we'll have access to the top tier matches for review. It's a half-loss, at best and totally stupid at worst.

[GodlyOne]

Well, Capcom could always
Fix the horrid lobby system
Lets players unlock costumes through gameplay instead of having to shell out the cash

No? Alright, since we've been granted this ability, I'll vote this expansion as:
"Funny" "Awesome" "Beautiful"

[jterp7]

honestly the only DLC i could ever feel okay paying for was the RB2 music since there was licensing involved. Right now the only DLC costumes I have are the ones included with my CE.

[DarkKenpachi]

you and me both jterp just got one more thing to do in re5 and I am fully back to being devoted to this game again.

[Ecofreak]

honestly the only DLC i could ever feel okay paying for was the RB2 music since there was licensing involved. Right now the only DLC costumes I have are the ones included with my CE.

I'm inclined to agree that charging for things like costumes is totally asenine, but someone has to play for the cost associated with servers -- and I believe that it's Capcom.

Once you pay for the game, that's pretty much it for what you give to Capcom yet they continue to spend money so you can enjoy their online services. Should the cost of such maintenance be included in the original price tag? Perhaps, but there would be a big PR fiasco trying to explain why it's more than most other games.

This doesn't just apply to SFIV, but to all games with large online communities. Paying for licensed DLC certainly is understandable, but I believe that "bonus" features such as additional costumes (that neither limit or expand upon the experience) are company's attempt to recoup the incredible cost associated of developing games for this generation of highly-advanced platforms.

[Furashu]

you and me both jterp just got one more thing to do in re5 and I am fully back to being devoted to this game again.
your gief is retarded to play against...............
too good! got so frustrated playing ya lolol

ggs though learned a few things

[metaly]

SF4 national finals were crazyyyy. Some guy even has videos up already. Daigo VS Japanese champ Iyo was definitely the best match of the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSiOyDKgp5Q

And then whenever Justin Wong did Rufus's ultra, the crowd would all do the last motion. Awesome (ultra starts at ~2:00):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQdA0HfdOU#t=2m00s

Took some horrible quality camera phone photos (gallery and commentary here (http://metaly.org/archives/2009/0419_street_fighter_iv_national_finals_2009.html)) but I'm sure all the blogs will have better stuff up tomorrow. Here's some of the stuff I picked up instead:
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm287/hoimi/game/sf4/IMG_11370.jpg
Brought my copy of SF4 to get signed by Ono -- they weren't giving those out. :)

[RelentlessRolento]

that Rufus/Ryu match was great

[Ecofreak]

that Rufus/Ryu match was great

QFT -- I enjoyed that match more than the championship.

So why, in this day and age, couldn't Gamestop have done a live feed?

[dman1869]

By any chance do any of u CAGs have a MAS arcade stick for the PS2 that u use for SF IV on the PS3? Is so, does it work 1st off, and 2nd, is there any lag? Thanks in advance.

[RelentlessRolento]

QFT -- I enjoyed that match more than the championship.

So why, in this day and age, couldn't Gamestop have done a live feed?


they care about their money, remember?

[Ecofreak]

they care about their money, remember?

You're totally right -- How could I forget? #-o

[decon]

Is there going to be a full costume DLC pack end of April?

[Lost_In_Shadows]

I need to start playing this again. I haven't played it in several weeks. I'm sort of interested in getting that championship mode soon then maybe some cags could get together. ;)

[Ecofreak]

I need to start playing this again. I haven't played it in several weeks. I'm sort of interested in getting that championship mode soon then maybe some cags could get together. ;)

A CAG tournament is definitely a given.

[Furashu]

I need to start playing this again. I haven't played it in several weeks. I'm sort of interested in getting that championship mode soon then maybe some cags could get together. ;)

theres already a cag tournament, once a month.

we're on our 2nd one.

[blueweltall]

What was the prize for the Gamestop Tournament? Did Daigo won or Justin Wong?

[Bavgate]

Wong won Nationals, but Daigo won the exhibition between Wong, Iyo, and Poongko. Prize was a SFIV Arcade cabinet. Might've been some other stuff, not sure.

[Ecofreak]

Wong won Nationals, but Daigo won the exhibition between Wong, Iyo, and Poongko. Prize was a SFIV Arcade cabinet. Might've been some other stuff, not sure.

You forgot the big, honkin' trophy and over-sized, novelty check.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/04/justinwong_withtropy.jpg