I really enjoyed playing as decapre. Might use her as my main charge character.

On the bright side, it's way easier to connect Juri's ultra from the EX wall kick now.

Yeah my Sakura's more dangerous here than she ever was in SFxT.

Well I mean after the Ultra update. I mentioned after downloading super that I couldn't do it anymore. Tried like 20 times. Not once did I connect.

Downloaded Ultra and I can hit it at will. Might be a damage reduction though.

Getting back in the groove, but also reminded why I left this link heavy frustration test. Ultra is the most aggressive version, but you would have to know intimate knowledge of the game to notice. The execution required is just tiring.

Anyway me and Khuntry been at it. I should be online for battles throughout the week.

I heavily prefer SFIV over everything else. It seems like all other fighting games these days are about memorizing long combos that take off a third of the lifebar, and managing meter to hit said combos.

SFIV is more about strategy and execution. Playing mind games so you can hit smaller but more precise combos. It just suits my play style a whole lot better.

SFxT is WAY more strategic than SF4.

Can you not upload saved fights? Only your battle log?

That's gay.

Oh for fuck sake, Capcom, why didn't you import SFxT's netcode. God.

Focus Attacks kept lagging me and Figgy's matches, which also explains why we both kept getting timing wrong after successful FA hits.

Sorry Kalyx. That was on my end. Gonna have to talk to the landlord about a range extender for the wifi, so it may be a few weeks before I'm on again. Hopefully once I am the issue will be resolved.

My Makoto is better than when I last picked the game up. Wouldn't have even tried to play Kalyx with her in AE. STill not using all the tricks I'm capable of with her, and I'm getting hit with a lot of shit that I shouldn't be, but overall there's progress.

Maybe by the time I get my interwebs fixed I'll have her and Decapre developed better.

Still a bummer. Online training mode is a nice touch, though. Get some risk-free practice in before embarrassing ourselves. Will be doing that often.

Aside from E.Ryu, my stable now includes:

Akuma
Ken
Sakura
Cammy
Yun
Yang
And I'm also messing with Decapre.

Chun Li and Vega may not return from the old days.

Thought about putting more time into Yun too. Messed around with him a bit in AE, but never really buckled down and practiced hard with him.

Hugo looks like a lot of fun too.

Thanks to you I'm a tad more confident with E.Ryu at least.

lol I dunno, my Makoto may have improved, but she's still garbage.

I meant as far as getting more aggressive with him. I don't consider any wins or losses from this session legit. The lag was real.

God yeah it was. Maybe half of my dashes came out. Which is really essential to her game.

Testing out the YouTube upload feature with a match I just had with a Balrog player. See if it's decent enough that I won't need my capture device. Like DOA5 and Mario Kart 8, I may not like the process time anyway.

Okay I'll stick with my capture device this process is crazy.

Yeah, I've heard if you're lucky and it doesn't time out, it takes an hour or two to upload.

Wish this was on XBONE so you could just say "xbox, record that" and be done with it.

Doesn't it only record the last 30secs?

Is that all? Thought it was at least a minute.

That sucks.

That that feature more for collecting cool moments on the fly. You can record longer than that but takes some gymnastics with the DVR app, that's how I got a whole match in my Xbox One clips on my 'page'. Even still the quality was less than my own recorder.

Well, that was ugly.

Can't even really blame lag that time. It was there but it only messed up my inputs a few times. The rest was my sloppiness. Almost tempted to get a stick again, as I feel like my execution was better.

Hit Makoto's EX DP a bunch of times, and could have capitalized for big damage, but NOPE. Butterfingerrrrrrrrrrrs. Same with her command throw.

I just want the lag to be gone.

How come you don't use E.Ryu's dive kick at all?

No real payoff. I don't really use Akuma's either.

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The process is pretty rough. It'll take about 20 minutes or so for an average match to upload. I set it to high quality video and it took almost an hour to "render" or whatever the term is and then at 87% uploading it tells me the YouTube service is down.

I'll have Ultra in a month, if anyone still plays.

I have had a Zangief t-shirt for a few years now and I'm planning on buying a similar one with Hugo. I can't, for the life of me, find an official one for Poison. They have one for every other character that's been playable since SF4 and SFxT. Infact, they use SFxT artwork.
All I find are the unofficial "hilarious" "trapcom" designs.

Make your own using cafepress or something.

I'll still be playing this by next month.

Her not having a t-shirt is kinda shocking. She really moves merch.

The only publicly available Poison merchandise I've seen has been a figurine of her with blonde hair.

I've seen hundreds of Poison statues and posters and when she got a playable role in SFxT she sky-rocketed from there. I don't know where you're looking for her merchandise but it is very much out there.

Amazon and few uk places. I've googled it a few times too.

I checked and there is still not a single official t-shirt, though. Gotta make one.

Yeah, they need to fix that.

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Start @ 2:21. The Vega is done very well, I thought :D

I'll have the game around about Friday or Saturday.

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No idea what some of them have to do with Summer vacation but, yay, a Poison alt that doesn't look like fetishwear! Love the badass leg tattoo, too.
Hugo looks cool.

Isn't Guiles Summer vacation alt that Dark guy from SF EX?

There are rumours an animal costume DLC pack could be on the way, based on Steam files.

If it's anthropomorphic, I have an idea for a few of the characters.

Cammy = Cat
Zangief = Bear
Adon = Jaguar
Sagat = Tiger
Balrog = Buffalo/Bull
Dudley = British Bulldog
Guile = American Eagle
Ryu/Ken/Gouken/Akuma = Dragons

I don't see it:

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...ldog_(RIP).jpg

http://www.wwe.com/f/widget/itout/20...WE-Network.jpg

I hate the dlc costume packs. Just offer them piece by piece like they did witj SFxT.

wouldn't Tekken level customization be easier in Street Fighter? I've been playing Tag 2 lately and can easily make any costume that would cost me a few bucks in SFIV

It wouldn't even be so bad if the costumes were cool. Sometimes I'll even pick up a new character if I like an alt enough.

But christ, most of these summer ones are god awful.

I've always found costume packs retarded. If it doesn't add to game play then I'm not paying for it. I don't give a flying fuck what Ryu looks like as long as ↓→punch=fireball

For those interested, retail version of Ultra arrives this week while the Steam version arrives tomorrow.

http://www.destructoid.com/ultra-str...k-279228.phtml

Everyone buy this so I can wreck you with Makoto.

where u at bruh Hugo says whaddup

Im gonna be offline for a bit, going through a move. I will be on very limited at random.

Using attire edit like Tekken or Virtua Fighter is certainly possible, but that would still mean dlc down the line. Im good with color edit to start. Soulcalibur V puts them all to shame in this area.

Hugo is your go to guy? I will destroy him with Zangief! [/fightin' talk]

Got it yesterday. First impressions.

WTF with Hugo? I went through Arcade with him and he is so powerful it feels like the opponents health just melts away. Power, I love it! No doubt they'll reduce his power in a patch when enough people get upset about it. Even though he's insanely slow, cannot do anything unless he's right in your face and he's a giant target so I feel it evens it out.

Poisons U2, Poison Kiss, is pretty powerful but a pain to hit. I thought it would activate if you missed and the opponent walked into or under the heart that just floats there for a sec. Could take some practice if I choose that one.

I only played through Arcade with Poison and Hugo, so far. I don't know if it was intentional but both Arcade stories made me laugh. Hugo is a potato. Who tells their baby son to grown big like a potato? Baby Hugo is cute. Adult Hugo is awesome. Everybody wins.
I noticed the potato had markings on it like Hugos shirt. Is he supposed to be dressing like a pink potato? I guarantee that someone will cosplay as Hugo and carry the biggest potato they can find the entire time.

As for Poisons intro, I just found the "Why don't you dance!?" guy asking her to dance when she got in the ring funny. Partly the way he says it. Partly because, in my experience, no matter how serious you are being, there will be an idiot that would rather see you "dance" or something and they'll ask endlessly.
Her ending was great. The music in it was cool and I hope full versions of those remixes exist, somewhere. Kinda want to cosplay as rock/metal Poison:$.
Also, they mentioned Sodom. SFIV mentioned/showed Adon in Sagats intro, He was in SSFIV. Yun and Yang were mentioned/shown in Chun-Lis story and they were added. Incoming Sodom DLC announcement!:shifty:

I'm a little disappointed the old characters have the same intro's not animated, new characters don't have rival cutscenes and that the achievements just carry over from SFIV.

I see Capcoms definition of hardest is still having the AI just spam one move. Did they do something to Seth? He actually fights now instead of just working to a pattern.

Hugo is my main and he's an absolute monster. st.Mp does like 120 dmg I think? 6 or 7 of those and you win. He's super duper hard to get in with but once you do it's time to go to town. Claps combos and kara throws all day. He was my main in Third Strike and 1/2 of my mains in SfXt so I was super stoked that he came to Ultra. I just wish they'd have took the little bit of time to make some trials for the new characters. It just goes to show how little they actually care imo

I'm all about grapplers but I rarely get to fight them because no ones seemed to notice that the Shoto characters aren't the only choices.
I main Zangief but I've not really touched him in Ultra because I'm trying to get used to the new guys. At my best with Zangief, I was in the top 10 European players and top 30 in the world by SSFIV's online leaderboard which I know doesn't mean much but I like to use it as a rough gauge. I also had what may be the longest win streak in TPWW with 20 or 21 wins against 6 or so of the guys as I played Zangief. Super rusty by comparison now, though.

I don't think it's a lack of caring in the case of Ultra. I think it's a lack of money, isn't it? Capcom just can't afford to spend time on trials, a 100% new intro, new characters etc. That's the impression I was under.

Was I in that win streak of yours? Seems unlikely Id let that occur.

Yes. There was you, RoXeR, Funky Fly (it was a while ago), Fignuts, I think and maybe one or two other.

I was just on a roll that night. I've never been able to repeat it which is why I still remember it. I started to feel awkward because I kept picking Zangief.
I was actually pretty proud of my streak because I've always ranked everyone else in our TPWW sessions as being much better than me so I liked having my moment.

You definitely were Kalyx. Drakul's Gief was ridiculous. Only ever beat him 2 or 3 times and only ever my best guys.

Drak is good with the Red Cyclone but 20 wins good is wild. Good games, then.

Session sometime this month?

My internet is garbage, so I probably won't be playing for a few months.

I'll give it a shot though and see.

New apt with Khuntry. Give us a few weeks.

I think challenges needed to be added to. Help with timing is something I'd have really appreciated because it doesn't seem constant. One combo is slow, by combo standards, like "m.Kick Mississippi. l.Punch Mississippi. EX [move name] Mississippi etc." while another is much faster in a rapid boomboomboomboom way.

Also, names for alts instead of Alt 1, Alt 2 etc would make selection easier. One word names like Alpha, Casual, Gangster etc. Previews for selectable win quotes and taunts would have been good too, A little text box by the characters artwork to preview dialogue.

I've been seeing a lot of women in the trans community dying their hair pink these last couple of months, including two of my friends. They do this as Poison gets into USFIV. Coincidence? I think not!!

I wish there was color edit.

Second.

Third.

also what platform does this sesh occur on. i wouldn't mind getting slapped around a bit

360.

XBLA name is in the XBLA/PSN etc thread.

I've been playing ranked matches lately. I see it's still just one of 5 Ryu vs me. There seems to be fewer people online than I remember, which is a pity.

Btw, what's with people picking Training Stage all the time? Is it some kind of status thing? "I'm so pro, I only play on <S>Final Destination</S> Training Stage!"
That's all I can think of. Why else would 99% of the people I face intentionally pick the dullest stage possible, every single time? I could get it if someone, once in a while, chose it or if Random selected it but manually selecting it every time?
I'm basically just replaying the same match in the same place at this point.

Stumbled on this image from The Simpsons. It sums up Ranked Match pretty well.

http://s4.postimg.org/3n5ff8w59/hide...eighborino.jpg

Just have a hoard of what is basically variations of the same guy to deal with.

Training Stage reduces lag somewhat. You're fighting Ryu players because of rank.

I'll probably be done with this and heading back to SFxT but I do wanna face you guys before that. Just waiting until we're online and set up here.

I'm at C rank right now. Hoping to get to A this time. Never got passt B or so.

Lag was something I considered but I didn't think it was likely.

It is another excuse as to why a "L" occurs, just like in CoD.

Lag

It's more legit in a fighting game, honestly. Lag can really be a bitch in a peer-to-peer input lag system as most fighting games are. Me and Figgy tried to have a series in SF4 a month ago and we dealt with lag we haven't had to deal with in SFxT (rollback netcode). Granted he had some tech issues on his end, but it was really bad.

I don't think Training Stage environments improve things that much, though, since there's no reason the game would need to communicate background actions between each player; those canned effects and animations only need to be processed on your own box. Their pre-set switches dictate that I'll be looking at an NPC do something the same time you are, it's in the system. I mean; I still have laggy matches in Training Stages, and I have smooth matches in very active stages - so it might a myth sort of thing.

Last I checked I think my E.Ryu was at a C. Decapre should do great. The very few matches I had on ranked with her are 100% win rate. She's a keeper.

Omega Mode essentially uses unused moves and concepts and puts them in what looks like a more fun engine overall. The mode will come for free along with an update that adjusts a few characters.

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So what kind of hardware are you guys using?

360 has a sizable number of us.

I meant controller hardware

i prolly should've said that

Oh.

I use the 360 controller.

360 controller, though I do want to switch to stick in the future.