I think we've all had that moment where we are the ones on the verge of defeat, with a 100% health character waiting in the wings. I'd be much more frustrated at getting beat by that, as opposed to missing out a chance to finish off an opponent. I'd rather beat BOTH his characters, but hey, that's just me.


Think I've narrowed the main team to Juri and Heihachi. I'll keep working on King, but I doubt he'll replace Juri. She's more beastly here, than she was in SSF4. Been putting heihachi on point, but I think I am going to switch it, and make Juri the first. She's more versatile, and I can more safely gauge an opponent's play style with her. She also builds meter a lot faster than hachi.

Also, Juri + Speed gems = Feng Shui Engine

Got to D+ and suddenly getting a Time Out every other round.

Rumoured to have been found on the disc, hinting at DLC stages:
http://shoryuken.com/wp-content/uplo...stages-dlc.jpg

Those could just be unused stage art.

Fucking ranked matchmaking is garbage. Got up to 800+ BP, and then it continuously put me against much higher rated people till I was back down to 300 something. I just want to get to 1000.

Yeah, maybe unused. If all the other DLC is any indication, DLC stages would be on the disc.

Those are backgrounds for the mission menus.

Fuck, I am balls at this game. Everyone I am destroying 87 - 8 in our ssf4 league is kicking my ass at this game all over the place. I'm barely above a 50/50 win/loss record.

It's tough if you are an active sf4 player, as you have to teach yourself not to fall into habits from that game.

Easier for me since I play Juri, and she's one of the only ones that play the same.

http://andriasang.com/con0db/sf_tekk.../images/23uhb/

Sorry Kalyx. No purple.

Is that not a glowing purple there?

I'd be legit upset if purple was not in one of those color packs.

Looks like glowing pink to me.

Fucking pastels colour pack, awesome.

No idea why Capcom is dicking around like that. It's all on disc, it's all free, just fucking release all the colours. Better yet, why no include them in the original game, SINCE IT'S ALREADY THERE.

To be fair, the red and blue on xiaoyu looks darker and more vibrant than the little selection square.

It's probably not all free. Just the first pack. That's why it's locked. No other reason.

Ugh.

What is that "Ugh" in reference to, good sir?

Red is there so, I'm pleased. The glowing colour looks like a glowing violet colour, to me. Parts 1 & 2 in the colour screen are other shades of purple so maybe there is a light, dark and glowing version of each colour?
The screen shows light green, standard green and glowing green.

Ugh in regard to me waiting for one damn color.

So, what is everyones opinion on Pandora? I was pretty interested in it but it is pretty useless.

As predicted, everyone just runs away from you when you activate it, it doesn't have a long enough time frame or a big enough boost to make it worth going for.

Capcom were screwed regardless of what they did with it. As they've done it this way, it's useless and it seems unpopular. Though, if they had made it an insane boost for speed and strength that lasts 1 whole minute, people would complain about that too.

I'd rather it was an insane boost. We should move incredibely fast and should have such a big strength boost that an H.punch is the equivilent of an EX special move. That would justify keeping it in the time frame it has now.

If they didn't change the boost from what it gives now, they should extend the time quite a lot.

Nah, there are ways to combo into it. Just requires tight timing.

Only reason I've really used Pandora is if I'm winning a tight match and the clock is low. The clock ticks down while all the animation is going on.

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Peep the channels for all the others.

Christie looks fun.

So, Ono is fine but wont be going into work for a while. He seems to have exausted himself to the point of collapse so, I think he deserves a good few weeks off.

Just after the news of his collapse broke and before we knew it was exaustion, I was reading people saying that he deserved it for some pathetic reason like screwing up SFxT or including on-disc DLC etc.
The sad thing is, I don't think they were trying to be funny.

Yeah, I've read some of the petty comments as well.

Really disgusting.

Fortunately most of the comments were positive, even from people who didn't like his work.

Fuck the others, though. Never cease to amaze me.

I managed to get a 10 or 11 match win streak in Ranked. I'm now C class and Hugo is about as effective as Zangief for me.
I think I'm getting quite good at reading people, finally. SSFIV, I relied on brute strength most of the time but I'm managing to notice patterns in this game while using the usual brute strength approach. Landed Hugos flying backbreaker a lot this way.
I also actually managed to use Pandora in Ranked and win. I pulled it out both rounds of the same match and got the win each time. I think I know how I'll be using it now.

As for the streak, I ended up having it killed by someone that basically did one big long combo in each round. I don't feel cheated but it's a pity there isn't some way to break out of a combo that exceeds X amount of strikes. Even if it used a lot, or all, of your meter.

Are there any plans for a big TPWW lobby? I've only really fought Fignuts online and Kalyx once or twice.
Speaking of lobbies, I like playing as my main team but I start to feel a bit awkward if I keep choosing them in lobbies. Is that just me?

Lobbies are the place to experiment with characters.

We have had good lobbies. We should do something this week.

I try to experiment in lobbies. That's when I realised I didn't care about 90% of the Tekken cast enough to even try them.

Yeah when we do lobbies we typically pick different characters. Myself and Blitz, more than others really.

Finally surpassed 1000 BP and ranked up to C. Afraid to go back now.

Also, finding some nasty stuff with Hworang and Law. Specifically with tag cancel combos between the two of them. They mesh really well together.

Hworang is a fucking monster. His 'canon spike' is better than Cammy's.

Cammy's seems a lot safer.

Also, let's fight.

How? Love Cammy's spike.

Maining Cammy and Law right now. Good synergy there.

Soon we'll fight.

I honestly just haven't had time. I will join you all for fights soon, I promise.

ugh.

Khuntry is zonerrific. Was able to pull out a win with Julia & King, but got worked otherwise.

Too many games against people who allow me to jump in.

So much for the "We just didn't have time to add it to the 360 version" excuse. The PC version isn't even out yet and they still wont be putting it in, even though they have plenty of time.
Why don't they just admit that they've been paid to make the PS3/Vita versions the superior?

Ibuki's swap costume is up on the Xbox Marketplace for 80 MSP. I'm guessing they accidently put it up a little too early.

I'm not going to buy it because I'd rather buy a complete pack and I think you might get banned if you used the alt online, with Capcom asking people to report players using "hacked" content.
people might wrongfully think you hacked the alt, rather than bought it.