Yeah, I'm really behind with posting and such. It's pretty demanding to do all this and I don't even know of it's really worth all of the effort. Who am I kidding? It's hard work but I'm proud of what becomes of it.
Blogging explanations is the final step but by the time things finish rendering and uploading, I'm really not in the mood to follow up. lol.
At any rate, my channel will be gearing more towards SSFIV but other matches from other games will be thrown into the mix. It's funny how some of this stuff evolves though. I originally created my YouTube channel just to rally support to get Rage of the Dragons on GGPO. If any of you are familiar with it, please request Rage to be put on there. Since then though, I've managed to pull out some old video capture devices to record other matches, namely Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars. This blog was actually to document ragequits but has also risen above such.
Summer is approaching so that means BlazBlue: Continuum Shift season will get underway. TvC and MvC2 are also stuff i want to add as well as some RotD action with Sensei for old times' sake if it's possible and maybe some Garou matches should i feel like going back to that. I'm also looking into a new capture device to further improve video quality. Hopefully i could get it soon.
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 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。。。
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..."
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. -_-
