Yeah I'm super active on the blogs today. I'm finding a bunch of crazy stuff. That, and I'm bored out of my mind. Again, just like the whole VF5 trailer, this could be another april fools ploy. The logo and subheading for the title seem... kinda weak. Also, take into consideration the year it's supposed to come out. 2012? uhh.... yeah. It didn't take SNK so long inbetween kofxii and kofxiii to be made. Moreover, Capcom's plans as far as their fighters is in the 2.5d direction. One could keep picking at it some more like with how the character icons are... diamonds again? I don't think they'd stick with the same style. I call "shenanigans" on this.
someone has a presumably final build of SSFIV and is finding all these things out. With Zangief, If you move you're done. With Ryu, well its a damn unblockable. There's much I need to practice on.
so I'm just looking around and this trailer catches my eye. All characters (and there's a lot) have been adapted to use whatever system and mechanics this game uses so that could mean some not so overly imbalanced characters. It's an indy game but looks like a nice side project I could get into.
I haven't been too active in the TvC arena in a while. I took that short week break and upon return I just wanted to get in a little TvC on the weekends when i have some free time. As it turns out, It has been yet another week where i haven't played. Oh well, really.
My attention is divided greatly. With the impending release of SSFIV, I thought I should dust the cobwebs off and practice a little. The same goes with BlazBlue, although I haven't played it since some time last year. I guess you could expect me to record some other stuff when i finally get my xbox repaired or replaced... I'm leaning towards both options. I stopped playingboth games around the same time last year as you can't stop life nor would I want for that matter.
Yes my secret life is being that of a fighting game enthusiast but it's just that. I do think about matches and characters a lot more than I care to admit but that never took priority over my personage outside the confines of an online match making lobby. Although anime and games can set the imagination free, the essence of true real world interaction or even just observation does feed the soul. I gripe about what happens when I go out with friends but what's more important is I am out.
How industrious I am in various areas dictates how much time I can (or want) to allocate to playing games. Saturday was full of stuff I needed to attend to but Sunday, I opted to lounge around in the afternoon. Hope my decision doesn't disappoint anyone. Just like the tides, expect intervals high in updates and as the flow changes, spans of low activity shall pass.
Strive to become more like water... blah blah blah. Just maintain a balance in all areas of your life and things work out for the better. ^_^
So I finally captured a match against JEFFREY. I really don't like fighting against this guy. Usually, he comes on later when I've finished recording for the night. All the encounters I've had with him go unrecorded unless I posted one early on that I forgot about.
He has more experience and time with the game than I have, obviously. As of this video he has over 1100 wins in free battle alone. I have never had a ranked match against him so I don't know how he fairs there. Every time i run into him its like he tacked on a few hundred more wins. Well you might be thinking that doesn't say much cuz people play for blah blah blah when blah blah blah or blah blah blah for whatever blah blah blah reason. That's bullshit cuz I face this guy a lot more than I'd care to admit. Sometimes I'd face him night after night at the same time. I never really paid much attention to his stats or whatever until the frequency of our encounters became too noticeable. One night he had 600 wins and a more than winning percentage. The next night he would have over 700 wins and a grip load of BP added and i'm like o_O. I remember jesting with my old GGPO war buddy, Sensei about how next time I see him he's going to have over a thousand wins. I think i was close and he was over 900. Question... how long do you have to play to get so many wins? FUNK DAT! GET A LIFE!
I usually admire people with high stats because I'm usually treated to some very impressive skill sets in which I am a true underdog. Sensei can attest to this and how I play Pupa in RotD also is a good representation of my own running game. I have one purely for LOLs. This JEFFREY uses it as an integral part of his formula for success. For someone who is new to the game its fairly normal to play like this. He takes it farther than any scrub can.. I hate using that term cuz for the most part I believe in do whatever is necessary to win. I think it goes beyond "faggotry" what this kid does.
Before my short break, his main team consisted of Soki and Saki. It was pretty much expected to see this team linked to the tag "JEFFREY." I remember fighting him when I first started playing online and a combination of Morrigan with Roll comprised my main team. During my evolution to all most exclusively using Jun and Chun Li, his team remained the same. I will admit he got the better of me and many nights he'd win by the slimmest of margins. Other nights I'd be soundly defeated and not gain a single win. It would just get under my skin because it would be the same bullshit I'd be up against. Sometimes after a very close loss, I would be unable to secure a rematch. The reason being that I'm on to his bullshit.
His Soki is where I've learned how to deal with a majority of them. Same L L L L L L L L bullshit. Before the break, his Soki was the aggressor, for lack of a better term, of his team. Still ran for the the hills but when one L made contact you knew a hundred more would follow. If he got into a rhythm it annoyed me. When things got too heated he'd switch to his Saki. That bitch would get the fuck out the way every fucking time. If either got trapped in a corner, they got their shit pushed in.
This recent match up caught me off guard. He switched Saki out for Polimar and even had him point man. For a moment... maybe a tiny fraction of a nano second, I actually thought he'd be agressive. Polimar doesn't seem like the type of character to run. Of course I was wrong once I got deeper into the match.
I don't know how long it took him to slightly (and I mean slightly. After all those fucking wins you'd think he'd improve by leaps and bounds.) adjust his Soki but he understands the match up against Jun. In this video you see that he crouches a lot and doesn't take the offensive like most L L L L L L L L Sokis... He's still an L L L L L L L L L Soki btw. He just learned how to baroque into more L L L L L L L. In one vid, Sensei pointed out a 10 second period where a Soki kept eating my crouching attack. Because we've fought so much, JEFFREY knows of this, hence the crouching. That didn't save him though I used to eat those overhead slashes but I've gotten better at seeing them come out.
He still runs around like a faggot even though he has the offensive edge. Super jumping, back jumping and back dashing... WTF? He had a commanding lead over me but that never deterred me. Whether he's toying with me or not, never let up in a fight unless you are absolutely sure you have the match down lock and key. Some things never change... every time he got cornered he got his shit pushed in. One other thing to note, that Polimar super I keep seeing that try to close out the match, highly unreliable.
So in closing, if any of you ever come across JEFFREY, stay calm and shut down his running game. Easier said than done but his skills and strategies fall like a house of cards when there's no where to run.
I wanted to create a new background image for my YouTube channel and an avvy for the SRK forums but I really didn't dedicate any time to that. I remembered that I have another video capture device in my closet so I fished it out. It just took a few days to find the right drivers and software for it. This cut into my design time.
With this new set up there's some ups and downs to it. The capture resolution is higher than that I was previously using. It doesn't seem such a big deal but watching the raw vid caps and it was extremely impressive. Somewhere between the raw vid and rendering the final product, I lost something. In the raw vids, nothing looks flat. That's the best way i could put it. All the depth and detail in the 3d models are all present in the raw captures but don't transfer over. It might be the contrast and brightness that mask the detail but I have to tinker with it before I get it right.
So far, post production quality and the time it takes to render the finished video are my only gripes right now. I have less wires running every which way and I could capture more clips almost instantly. I was able to record 11 videos today. All but the last one weren't up to par for viewing. More on that later. Editing is so much easier and I haven't really looked into all that i could do within the program.
Moving right along to the match posted above.
All week, I haven't played but I watched new vids people would post up. For the most part it was pretty impressive in terms how much progress the online community has grown in skill. So earlier this afternoon, I tested the waters. I said I captured 11 matches. Most of them were heavily one-sided in my favor. I think one or two suffered from major lag issues... I might post them just for demonstration purposes.
So this DR●PEACE was close to me in BP hence why I posted it. I don't have anything against him or anything... I just needed to post something.
I don't think I'll be entering the TvC circuit for at least a few days. I have a few things I would like to take care of until then. It's not that I don't want to play anymore. TvC just takes up more time than I would like it to. Maybe I'm just a little jaded by all the BS I see from certain places. Who knows. So no new vids or screen caps till probably the weekend if that. In the interval between now and my return, keep it classy.
I played a few casual matches against this WING. Four to be exact. The first three I posted and while I was waiting for the capture to save, I got paired up with WING again. So let Ardent get this straight WING... you and Ardent... WING and Ardent one more tahyme. do you wanna... go? well then go get Ardent a bologna sandwich cuz this doesn't concern you!
In the second match, I somehow inputed the command for a bomb super while in a super jump and right after that I changed into a crossover combination. -__-. i didn't want to do either so it made things look really funny.
This WING did pick up a few more tricks from watching my Jun but it couldn't save him. In the fourth match, he started playing really... well i didn't like it. I had a poor showing with Chun-Li so this final bout I had her boots do the walking. I could have put him away extremely fast but he switched his style around to some running game so I outran him while building meter. It was soo long cuz I put his Karas away fast and his jun wasn't holding up very well either. I got him to barely breathing and danced around him. he finally raged 8 seconds before the match could end. やれやれ。。。
I was checking out the SRK forums right now and I read someone called out someone else for being a "lag switch user." I think I've seen that term before pop up in some other discussion but never really looked into what it is. I could only assume there's a way to impede connections but is it really worth all that trouble just to pull out a win?
I can't stand trying to work in lag in the first place but I remember my days on kaillera and those who would use the 8 or so frame delay to their advantage. It takes a separate amount of skill to work in that environment but its gross. RotD in 5 frames of delay still annoys me. Speaking of Rage of the Dragons, I'm still waiting for some GGPO representation. I haven't played in a few months but I still have a score to settle against someone. I want no excuses for any losses on either side. Again, this goes down to integrity and principle rather than pulling out a win. People can talk their point to death sometimes and things still don't get resolved. In this case, there's only one way to get one definitive answer and I'll be sure to record it or have someone do it. (lol... some unfinished business. Sensei knows the history)
ok... get on point-- ON POINT DAMMIT!
lol
*ahem*
So as i was skimming over the last page of the TvC ragequitters thread, I saw that term stick out. In one of my recent matches (I was in the middle of rendering vids so I couldn't record this. I do have a witness though) , I came across this opponent. The only TvC community seems pretty small and you tend to run into the same people if you play at the same time during the day. I remember the name but he didn't seem to make a decent impression on me. All I could recall is that I beat him pretty soundly a few times.
What struck me as odd was I was fighting him in a ranked match. I forgot to mention, his tag is PACO... could be anybody with a name like that but his player icon always was the same so yeah. So PACO and I were in a ranked match ok... cool. Things were ok. No hint of connection failures on either side. The match began and immediately I got into my string and pushed him into the corner. It was pretty overwhelming and I was hoping to close out this match fast. Then it all went so horribly wrong. As I try to engage my opponent, the worst lag I have ever experienced hit. it slowed stuff down to a crawl. Things were fine up until that point. I couldn't move my characters with any type of reaction. Blocking wouldn't happen or jumping or any movement on my end yet he was able to move to some degree. special moves started getting pulled out of nowhere from his end while i couldn't even block a jab if i wanted to. While this happened I just figured he must be torrenting something and its messing with the connection. Then the frame rate started to pick up as he started landing stuff but as soon as I started my offensive strike and pinned him down again, the lag kicked in. It did that serveral times during the match and It seemed too suspect to be a coincidence that the ebb and flow of the lag would be in some kind of synchronization with the pace of the battle. It irritated me cuz i built up enough of a lead that I had to win by a timeout. I was infuriated.
I took a few moments to cool down and then I headed to the free battle side of things. Low and behold, my next match up is against PACO. the rage came back with a vengeance and I wanted to make sure I got a clean and clear victory. The match started and sure enough the same shit happened. As soon as I would gain an offensive edge, frame rate dropped down to next to nothing but as I would regroup and wait, the connection returned to a playable state and he'd be on the offensive. I remember I beat him again but i don't recall in what fashion.
Network issues are limitless so he could have just had some connection woes. I don't know. From my point of view, it seemed like things were being tampered with. If he somehow contacts me saying what the problem was then ok... nothing to be really worked up about. BUT if he is fucking around with whatever a lag switch is its such a dirty tactic to try to squeeze out a win.
Sigh. I remember Sensei and I were in a 4-player MvC match on kaillera and some guy started spewing out that the game kept desyncing. I know it happens but even his partner was like wtf are you talking about? He was trolling hard and it wasn't pretty.
I guess that ends this rant. PACO... you got some 'splaining to do.
With a name like Dani California, the day was going to come when I was going to mourn ya... and that day is today. Ragequit on me twice. I'm sure this is exactly how DANNI bolstered up his BP. I thinking to myself, no way this kid is worthy of all that BP... he has over 5000.
I caught him with evidence that he's a terrible player this time. I'm not the greatest but I have enough respect to take a loss. I think i said it earlier that I'm not all that worried about gaining or losing BP. My win percentage always stays under 50% and I don't mind I just want a good fight. This kid though... The first time I fought him, Jun's boots walked all over him. Check the screen cap below. To my surprise, I was paired up with him in my very next ranked match.
I guess i was still a little hot under the collar so I lost two or three straight to him. No big deal as they were more my errors than his skill. Either way a loss is a loss and I took them and prepared for the next one. The final match I had against him, I know he picked Chun-Li out of spite just because in the previous matches, Jun wasn't pulling the team and Chun-Li came very close to cleaning house each time. I wish I linked that super in the air... I usually never miss and when i saw him just barely above me, it was heartbreaking to see Chun Li whiff by the smallest of degrees. Either way. I beat him and he didn't like it so he thought he could get back at me for ragequitting.
It's never about the BP or the win with me. It's about having the decency to not be a spoiled brat. He took away some BP that can always be gained back but what I take from him is the integrity of his name. That's something not easily recovered if it is possible in the first place. He stained his own image and that's his bad.
"I'll be there, waiting for..." DANNI to ragequit? Dammit... that's not it... that's not it. I think it should go something like "Dani the girl is singing songs to me beneath the marquee..."
sigh... im trying to clean up my YouTube channel... it looks all messy. I just put all my RotD vids in one playlist and I intend to group all my videos accordingly... I just wish there was a neater way of doing so. -_-
sigh... at any rate, I'll also try to come up with some kind of new layout.
yeah i've been busy with other stuff... I haven't updated with new entries about new matches I had. This one was from a few days ago. This person lives up to the tag cuz whoever it might have been was gone in a flash. ha ha... -_-
I really don't remember too much about this match cuz I didn't even realize I put a quick end to his Karas.
I'm not proud of this one. I got the win alright but my opponent stopped moving right after my Chun-Li died. It just felt soooo wrong. I narrowly escaped the loss but it just bothered me for the remainder of the match. I was confused. There wasn't any signs of connection problems either. I just kinda panicked when he started moving "....eh?!?!" all anime like. -_-
Then he stopped being so aggressive and started using that gun thing. I completely forgot he had that move and that added more to my disoriented state of mind. All in all... I feel bad even though it's a win under me.
This happened a few nights ago. I should probably check the dates of the images to get an exact date. A big thanks goes out to Sensei for screen capping these guys for me. That's right. Better watch out before you see a "mac run through your windows." >_>
This could be just a bad connection but there were no signs of network breakdown. I started one string and I think after i messed up the finish, this appeared. I'll have to fight this person again to get a straight answer I suppose.
Now this one is another story altogether. KATSU●K is a... i don't say this too often... *ahem* KATSU●K is a MASSIVE FAGGOT. I know he fucking raged. right when I finished my string it paused for a second. Thats all I needed to know before I was greeted by this lovely message. What's irritating about it is that it was a ranked match and I wasn't doing so hot this night. I fought him maybe a few matches earlier and he beat me. I took the loss better than him. A loss is a loss no matter how many excuses one makes. So hats off to him cuz I couldn't find a work around from his play style.
After a night of fighting against a bunch of Rolls... I love Roll btw. It just hurts to see something similar to how I use her used against me. Ok, back on target. I learned how to deal with them so by the time I had this unexpected rematch against this... you fill in the blank..., I'd had my fill of getting my boots cleaned. I didn't stomp him out but I was in control for the whole bout. I've dealt with Sakis before so it wasn't too difficult to dispose of her. It was Roll I was adamant about destroying. After that happened, it put a lot of pressure off of me and I disposed of Saki fairly quickly. I wish I recorded this match but Sensei is my witness on this one.
A bucket of camel piss has better integrity than this kid. I have read on various forums that some higher ranking players are known ragequitters but I've never experienced it myself. whoever this person is has a much higher BP and win percentage than myself. With that goes a hell of a lot more wins than I've even played overall matches. It's not going to kill you to go down 2 BP. If you are as good as your win percentage and BP says, then you could make up 2 fucking points. This is another reason why I don't understand or agree with how the BP system works for this game. You have people like this not getting punished for ragequitting. Oh well. I guess its more the principle of the matter that annoys me. I use BP and win percentage to gauge if I'm in for a good fight but if their stats are tainted, then I'm left in the dark as to how much skill is really behind those numbers.
I defeated an opponent with one of the highest amount of BP that I have ever fought against. The video isn't the sharpest and even on the little output monitor I use while I play doesn't show some of the information clearly. In ranked battles, this OMEGARED has just over a 66% win rate with what looks like 486 wins under his belt. He has gained 5951 battle points coming into this fight. Quite the decorated soldier.
To put that into perspective, I barely have 30 some odd wins and 1240 BP (1250 now). Once you reach a certain rank or BP, gaining more takes forever. I gained only 10 BP for this. -_-. I really don't like how the BP system in this game works. I thought it's supposed to match you up with people in your rank but I get either really high ranking opponents or people who just came online for the very first time.
I seem to be hitting my stride during ranked matches. It wasn't a OBV but I felt that I was in control for the whole match, even when he was doing his string of attacks. Despite losing around half of Jun's life early on, I never let that bother me. He could have ended Jun by letting Soki finish his super but instead tried to chip damage me to death. That's his fault. Psychologically, the loss of one of your characters does affect you to some extent. Jun had no life left but the fact that I knew that she still could move should something happen to Chun-Li really just kept me calm. sigh. i wouldn't let him kill any of my characters and I still kept on fighting when chun li had nothing left. I taunted a hell of a lot this match which is very unlike me. At the time, it felt right so i did it. ^_^
So yeah this is my first ragequit! I dont know... i didnt think it was that bad. The TvC community isnt that big either so i thought his name looked familiar... Then I realized I recorded a match I had with him a few days earlier.
I'm soo sleepy right now... I've been trying to post this and play TvC at the same time. I need to go to bed. -_-
