BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend - still too good for EVO.

cj iwakura

Nope, it ain't dead yet.



Mori promises BlazBlue 3 by the end of the year, so presumably this will be Continuum Shift's last update.

Updates to Extend:

Enhanced Story Mode: Relive and rediscover the events that took place in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger or venture forth into one of four all new story scenarios!
New and Revised Game Modes to Explore: Take on the strongest of foes in Unlimited Mars Mode, dungeoneer* your way to the bottom of Abyss Mode, or lead an army to victory in Legion Mode!
Fully Revised Combat System: All characters, new and old, have been thoroughly rebalanced and armed with all new strategies and combos to take your game to the top!
Improved Online Multiplayer: Battle it out in BlazBlue’s acclaimed online mode with all new multiplayer features, such as online team battles!
RELIUS CLOVER.

(*is that even a word?)

European / American Limited Edition Swag:

North American LE:
-CD soundtrack
-Calendar
-Artbook

European LE:
-CD soundtrack
-Concept art card

We had an old thread, but it's, uh, old, so I'm taking the initiative to update it a bit.


I was going to include full updates for each character, but reliable sources vary. I included Ragna's as a sample.
I may update if someone gives me some better resources.

Here's the most updated Tiers List as of recent:

Current Dustloop Assessment List: 1/23/12
S Rank: Ragna, Valkenhayn, Hakumen >> Arakune, Taokaka, Hazama
A Rank: Tager, Bang, Carl, Mu >> Relius, Noel, Platinum, Lambda
B Rank: Rachel, Litchi, Jin, Tsubaki, Makoto

Current JP BBS Assessment List: 1/23/12
S Rank: Ragna, Valkenhayn, Hakumen
A Rank: Arakune, Hazama, Tager, Taokaka, Bang, Carl
B Rank: Relius, Mu, Noel, Platinum, Lambda >> Rachel, Litchi, Jin
C Rank: Tsubaki, Makoto

The Players

Ragna The Bloodedge
"They'll never find your body."
Drive: Bloodedge, drains life from other players, can also up attack power at the cost of his life.

[+] j.C has a better hitbox on its lower side.
[+] 6B air hit now gives knockdown, can be picked up by normals and specials.
[+] Carnage Scissors now projectile invulnerable.
[+] 6D floats on hit.
[+] Forward/Back Throw are both special cancelable. Back Throw throws farther midscreen, but can still be followed up by specials, and wall bounds in the corner.
[+] j.D has more untechable time and floats on air Counter Hit.
[-] 22C now only gives 3-4 frame advantage. Can be followed up on Fatal Counter with 5A.
[-] Keri Age (214B -> 214D) now has a tighter window to be executed.
[-] Blood Kain combos are just about the same. Cooldown after activation extended.
[-] Dead Spike has further horizontal knockback on air hit.
[-] Tsuika (214A -> 214D) does not break primers anymore.
[-] Keri Age (214B -> 214D) does not break primers anymore.

Jin Kisaragi
"That won't do, brother."
Drive: Yukianasa, freezes opponents with ice(cars).


Noel Vermillion
"Ragna The Bloodedge... YOU'RE stupid!"
Drive: Chain Revolver lets her loop attacks into combos with ease.


Rachel Alucard
"Maybe another time."
Drive: Uses wind to move around characters and her assorted projectiles.


Taokaka
"I'll slice you to ribbons!"
Drive: Dancing Edge, dashes around the screen at high speed.


Iron Tager
"THE POWER OF SCIENCE!"
Drive: Magnetic Gauntlets, he'll pull you in whether you like it or not.


Litchi Faye-Ling
"Now, stand up."
Drive: Matenbou, can switch between using her staff and not for two entirely different move sets.


Arakune
"What is a man?"
Drive: Curse, builds a negative meter that adds hordes of insects to his combos.


Bang Shishigami
"This is an ukemi!"
Drive: FuRinKaZan, uses counters to build up his meter and go into crazy fast mode.
(Also has nails. Lots of nails.)


Carl Clover
"Where's father?"
Drive: Nirvana, controls his sister/puppet as a separate entity. Takes lots of practice.


Hakumen
"The end has come!"
Drive: Zanshin, absorbs attacks and instantly counters them.

New Characters



Lambda-11
"Systems activated."
Drive: Sword Summoner, creates blades out of thin air.


Tsubaki Yayoi
"I'll accept your sins."
Drive: Mugen, charges up to use powered up versions of special moves.
Got nerfed to all hell. Again.



Hazama
"It's time for a little punishment."
Drive: Ouroboros, uses snakes to launch himself around the screen and grab onto opponents.


Mu-12
"I am Kusanagi, destroyer of all."
Drive: Steins Gunner, sets projectile lasers around the stage to zap and/or blast her opponents.


Makoto Nanaya
"The voices of a million squirrels call out to me! ...wait, they don't?"
Drive: Impact, adds to combos with high power strikes. (To the moon!)


Valkenyayn R Hellsing
"Now then, if you'll excuse me."
Drive: Werewolf, briefly changes into wolf form to move around the screen at high speeds and rend flesh with ease.


Platinum The Trinity
"Are you okay?"
Drive: Magical Symphony, switches between assorted magical weaponry, such as KITTY MISSILES.


Relius Clover
"Spare the rod, spoil the child."
Drive: Detonator, uses Ignis to punctuate his attacks with extra powerful strikes.

Relius is worth it.




Oh yeah, and did I mention we get DLC ANNOUNCERS?
(No dubs, sorry.)




Now the fun stuff! I'll update as requested.

Online Names

PSN IDs
cj iwakura - cj_iwakura
AuburnTiger - Morningstar_PA
Vagrant Winds - vagrant_winds

360 Tags

See you on the 14th.

Dragkonias

Yeah. I'm getting this I hate how Jin is so over the play with everyone update though. But I guess that's every character.

His lost of 6C combos midscreen hurts me though.

cj iwakura

I used to main Jin in CT, but that was before I knew how to play the game. Tsubaki's BNB combo hooked me on her for life. (Even though I spam it a bit too much.)

Dragkonias

That being said as long as the tier differences aren't as bad as they were in CS1, which I think was probably the worse balanced BB(CT while the top 3 were bananas I would say it was generally okay. CS1...the low tier were just horrible), I won't mind as much.

cj iwakura

Word is this is the most balanced version yet.

Unless you play Makoto. She got nerfed into the ground.

Also, added more Relius vids because he's awesome.

Jin VS Tsubaki theme!?



It's like it was made just for me.
(I fight lots of Jins.)

Dragkonias

That's cool. Though my brother plays Makoto so he will be sad. That being said we just play for fun anyway.

Grimthwacker

Now THIS is what I like to see from my BlazBlue packaging - all sorts of neat stuff. Glad I waited on this; before it was announced for the consoles as well I was seriously considering getting a Vita just for this (and maybe Dragon's Crown). Between this and Skullgirls I'll be set for stylish fighting games for a while (even though I'm not terribly great at them).

vagrant_winds

It actually looks to be one of the most balanced 2D fighters ever.
Also, Tager is now A with his Real Soviet Damage.

Big Red Tie

cj iwakura wrote:

Tsubaki's BNB combo hooked me on her for life. (Even though I spam it a bit too much.)

yyyeaaaah
D cancel that mofo

Big Red Tie

eek, carl actually has feasible gold burst combos

Cantido

I am ill right now so my hearing is fucked. Did Daisuke get a drummer yet? He's been using those weakass drum machines for a while.

I turn your attention to this as evidence that Daisuke gets lazy when he's not working directly on Guilty Gear.


I'm preordering this on the fact that I have successfully skipped the previous edition.

cj iwakura

Honestly can't tell the difference, but as awesome as the Tsubaki/Jin theme is, I have a hard time caring.

I actually like the vocal version, too. The climatic part with the shredding gives me chills.

Nick T

I tried to pick this up today but the release seems pretty limited. I have to wait for backordered Amazon to ship it but I'll have this for 360 eventually if anyone else picks it up.

Big Red Tie

i got it on 360
the gamestop nearest me ordered 2, one normal one limited edition

cj iwakura

Yep, think I'm hit by the backorder too. Ah well.

If anyone wants to play some CSII until then, I'm always willing.

Geese_Pants

I guess they are competing with Capcom for who can release the same fighter the most times with the most names during a single generation, and winning!

cj iwakura

Except this release was a couple years after the last, not six months.

vagrant_winds

It's also a pretty good update.

And CJ: You didn't preorder?

Big Red Tie

Geese_Pants wrote:

I guess they are competing with Capcom for who can release the same fighter the most times with the most names during a single generation, and winning!

super street fighter 4 arcade edition 2012

k

Geese_Pants

Big Red Tie wrote:

Geese_Pants wrote:

I guess they are competing with Capcom for who can release the same fighter the most times with the most names during a single generation, and winning!

super street fighter 4 arcade edition 2012

k

That was free. I'm looking at three purchases for SFIV, three for BB, and two for MVC3, all of which is typical, and rather comical at the same time.

Big Red Tie

mmhm, cs2 was also free

Geese_Pants

Doesn't change the fact they are competing with Capcom for most ways to sell the same game.

vagrant_winds

Look at what's going to be sold soon! (The small ones, not the big one).



He better be playable in the next game.

Geese_Pants wrote:

Doesn't change the fact they are competing with Capcom for most ways to sell the same game.

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- Guilty Gear X Plus (2001) PlayStation 2
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- Guilty Gear X ver 1.5 (2003) Arcade
Guilty Gear XX (2002) Arcade, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows
- Guilty Gear XX #Reload (2003) Arcade, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows (2005) PlayStation Portable
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- Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus (2009) PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii

Dragkonias

Yeah. I mean I know it isn't an excuse. But whenever I hear people talk about game updates such as these I remember the old pre-online standard days.

Geese_Pants

I was more laughing than mocking, I remember how things were I've been playing these games since SF2WW.

It's just, well, funny by now. It's almost a running gag. I'll still buy it, but I'll still laugh.

Dragkonias

Honestly, I am a little confused by it myself since there is only one new character and balance changes.

But I hear it has a revamped story mode and people who didn't have a story mode in CS2 got one.

And I mean I know its an "LOL fighting game plot" but I actually liked BBs story mode.

Also, if they put ranked matchmaking back to how it was in CT I would love that.

Big Red Tie

honestly they should release jubei as free DLC
but it'll probably be 7$ and i'll probably pay for it

blaze_zero

Didn't see that there was a new thread.

Wanted to get this, but my Gamestop didn't have it. Probably have to wait a bit.

Also, boo for Rachel being low again. But how the hell is Tager so high? He's always low tier.

AshtonDragon

So stoked for this. Too bad it doesn't look like I'll be able to find it before the 23rd. I don't know if I've ever been able to get a BB game on time, and it's never any less frustrating. The worst part is that some places in Canada did seem to get it on time, so I don't even know what's going on this time.

Either way, it's going to be awesome when I do get it. My man Valkenhayn got buffed for some reason, and I really want to try Tager's new stuff, not to mention Relius.

Geese_Pants

Dragkonias wrote:

Honestly, I am a little confused by it myself since there is only one new character and balance changes.

But I hear it has a revamped story mode and people who didn't have a story mode in CS2 got one.

And I mean I know its an "LOL fighting game plot" but I actually liked BBs story mode.

Also, if they put ranked matchmaking back to how it was in CT I would love that.

Just be glad you weren't one of us that bought an X2 for SIV and BB only to get sucked into the wonderful world of all these updates.

Cantido

Geese_Pants wrote:

Dragkonias wrote:

Honestly, I am a little confused by it myself since there is only one new character and balance changes.

But I hear it has a revamped story mode and people who didn't have a story mode in CS2 got one.

And I mean I know its an "LOL fighting game plot" but I actually liked BBs story mode.

Also, if they put ranked matchmaking back to how it was in CT I would love that.

Just be glad you weren't one of us that bought an X2 for SIV and BB only to get sucked into the wonderful world of all these updates.

BB sets the bar really high for story modes. GG's story modes consisted of characters telling each other "get out of my way." In BlazeBlue, every fight is fleshed out and justifiable from what the characters are saying before they throw down.

cj iwakura

IMO, BB has the best constructed story mode of just about any fighting game, ever. Whether or not you'll enjoy it as much as me depends on your tolerance for anime tropes.

@Vagrant - I preordered it when it was $39. Still hasn't shipped.

vagrant_winds

It's not release day shipping. I'll get mine on the 17th... And have to pick it up from the office in the morning of the 18th. Amazon has this annoying habit of delivering after 6pm when I'm at work.

Paladin

And I'll wait 5 more years for it to come to PC

vagrant_winds

At least Calamity Trigger is on PC

cj iwakura

Did anyone ever do any modding with that? You see it all the time with SF, but I never heard of any BlazBlue mods.

blaze_zero

The only mod I saw was a combo video. Making these ridiculous, long-ass combos possible.

AuburnTiger

How's the PS3 online community for Blazblue?

vagrant_winds

AuburnTiger wrote:

How's the PS3 online community for Blazblue?

In total? Bigger than the 360 community.
On this forum? I think there's more 360 people, but don't quote me on that. PS3 here.

AuburnTiger

Alright, cool.

I wanted to pick this up, but I don't know much about the series, and didn't want to be left with a game where I couldn't find anyone online to play. A little saddened I can't find a strategy guide, as I'd much rather have a book in my hands than have to look online for help.

Big Red Tie

nah dont worry we can help you (i can anyway)

also, 360 is the one true console for blazblue