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Super Street Fighter IV: Team RanBat tonight at 9 eastern! Get a teammate!
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Super Street Fighter IV Changes!
Other Changes:
-Achievements!
-Focus attacks are faster.
-Ten brand new characters! Juri and Hakan are brand new, while Cody, Guy, Ibuki, Makoto, Dudley, Adon, DeeJay and T. Hawk all return for another round!
-Will cost $40 USD!
-Brand new opening and closing videos for each character.
-Bonus 11th and 12th costumes for having a SFIV save.
-Each returning character has three costumes confirmed.
-A team battle mode has been added. Up to 8 players are put into a room and divided into teams based on points. It's possible to have a 7v1 in this set-up!
-An 8 player "Endless Battle" online mode has been added. Players not fighting can spectate and comment via voice chat. No points are won/loss in this mode.
-Replays can always be saved.
-Replay channels have been added to watch and discuss matches with others.
-A tournament mode will be added later as DLC. Will allow 8 players, voice chat, save replays (even one's that you didn't play in), and offer titles for the winners.
-Each character has two Ultra's now and are selected before a match begins.
-Roster unlocked from start. No unlocking required.
-All online modes will have blind select. The cursor sound has been removed as well.
-New intro song.
-Shipping April 28, 2010.
So you wanna be a Street Fighter? Step 1: Fundamentals
The information in the spoiler will help you get started!
The Footsies Handbook
A list of common Street Fighter notations
A glossary of common Street Fighter terms
Shoryuken New Player Forum
Sirlin's Playing to Win Guide- Deals with mindsets and strategy.
Know your character!
[vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMboPnznJc]Video on hit confirming.[/vidurl]
[vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHoGHcgK9k]Video on option selects[/vidurl]
[vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUe7HkRkNM]Video on spacing and zoning[/vidurl]
[vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTvXXoDNRA]First in a good series[/vidurl] of videos on zoning, knockdown and something else good that I forgot.
A list of common Street Fighter notations
A glossary of common Street Fighter terms
Shoryuken New Player Forum
Sirlin's Playing to Win Guide- Deals with mindsets and strategy.
Know your character!
[vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMboPnznJc]Video on hit confirming.[/vidurl][vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHoGHcgK9k]Video on option selects[/vidurl][vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUe7HkRkNM]Video on spacing and zoning[/vidurl][vidurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTvXXoDNRA]First in a good series[/vidurl] of videos on zoning, knockdown and something else good that I forgot.So you wanna be a Street Fighter? Step 2: Getting more serious.
More information than you thought existed, and arcade stick info.
The Street Fighter Wiki page
Eventhubs.com
How to read frame data.
Shoryuken Forums - Character specific forums are great!
Arcade Stick Guide - Complete with reviews, faq and glossary!
Switching from a pad to a stick.
[vidurl="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsME37GrqjY"]Ways to hold a joystick[/vidurl]
The best thing you can do is play people better than you. Losing sucks but you learn a lot more than from people who you just steamroll. Get in lobbies with other PAers, since we run the whole skill spectrum. They're nice and will help you with advice and stuff. Furthermore, in Super, you can watch your own replays to see why you lost! How cool is that?
The Joystick Rant
Eventhubs.com
How to read frame data.
Shoryuken Forums - Character specific forums are great!
Arcade Stick Guide - Complete with reviews, faq and glossary!
Switching from a pad to a stick.
[vidurl="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsME37GrqjY"]Ways to hold a joystick[/vidurl]The best thing you can do is play people better than you. Losing sucks but you learn a lot more than from people who you just steamroll. Get in lobbies with other PAers, since we run the whole skill spectrum. They're nice and will help you with advice and stuff. Furthermore, in Super, you can watch your own replays to see why you lost! How cool is that?
The Joystick Rant
Just buy a god damn TE. Don't ask in the thread, don't second guess it, don't read reviews online, don't poll your friends. Do you know what everyone is going to tell you? GO BUY A GOD DAMN TE. You know what people will say if you ask if you should get an SE? Save yourself the trouble and buy a TE. And then you'll be like "Why is the TE so much better than the SE?" and we'll all say "The buttons suck and you'll have to replace them and it just saves a lot of time and probably money just to get the TE." And then you'll ask us "But what about a Hori stick? I heard those are good." And then everyone will say "Yeah those are okay but they're not as good as the TE or even the SE because it's harder to mod" and then some silly goose will say "Hey, I like Hori's" just to confuse you but then someone else will be like "Yeah Hori's are fine but is it better then the TE?" and the original silly goose will be like "Oh no nothing is better than the TE" because nothing is better than the TE. And then you'll ask us why the TE is so good and the answers will invariably involve the modability, out of the box professional quality parts and the overall sexiness and build quality. But then of course because you have to make this difficult you'll say "I can't use Japanese parts because I need an octo gate, I can't use a square gate, also I need a bat top and some sort of adapter to make it work and blah blah blah" and invariably someone will come in and link you all the things you just mentioned above and tell you where to buy it from.
So I just saved the whole thread like three pages of people trying to be the first to recommend the TE and the ridiculous questions that come with it. JUST. BUY. THE. T. E.
So I just saved the whole thread like three pages of people trying to be the first to recommend the TE and the ridiculous questions that come with it. JUST. BUY. THE. T. E.
A Penny Arcade SSFIV RanBat?!
Ranbat Spreadsheet
I figured I'd take this time to present my ideas for our Super Street Fighter RanBat that I've had bouncing around in my head. What does RanBat stand for? RANking BATtle. All RanBats, as of now start at 9PM eastern standard time. Not central.
Players will be grouped into small round robin groups called "seeds." All players will play all other players in their seed, the player with the best record will advance from the seed to playoff brackets. The top eight players after the round robin mode of the tournament will advance to single elimination playoff bracketing. If there are less than eight seeds, then the next best player(s) (as determined by record) will advance to the playoffs. All players advancing to the top eight will earn one point. For every match won after that, advancing players will earn another two points, to a maximum of seven points for the champion. Points will accumulate week to week, to set up a player ranking.
Battles during the round robin period will be best of three games, best of three rounds. Because of the time constraints and logistical difficulty (inability to pass a turn) of attempting to run this in a lobby, it is best that you DO NOT run this in a lobby, and individually pair. Battles in the playoff period will be done as best of three games, which are best of three rounds a piece. Semifinals and finals will be best of five games. The losing player may change characters at will between games, the winning player must continue to play the same character.
The RanBat will be divided into seasons that will terminate...whenever I/we feel like it. The first season commences on 4/29. Season 1 rules/schedule:
You will need a reliable teammate for tuesdays, if they don't show, you can't play! Team battles described here! We are going to form team battle lobbies for this.
So, if you have feedback or ideas, please, have at them.
Players will be grouped into small round robin groups called "seeds." All players will play all other players in their seed, the player with the best record will advance from the seed to playoff brackets. The top eight players after the round robin mode of the tournament will advance to single elimination playoff bracketing. If there are less than eight seeds, then the next best player(s) (as determined by record) will advance to the playoffs. All players advancing to the top eight will earn one point. For every match won after that, advancing players will earn another two points, to a maximum of seven points for the champion. Points will accumulate week to week, to set up a player ranking.
Battles during the round robin period will be best of three games, best of three rounds. Because of the time constraints and logistical difficulty (inability to pass a turn) of attempting to run this in a lobby, it is best that you DO NOT run this in a lobby, and individually pair. Battles in the playoff period will be done as best of three games, which are best of three rounds a piece. Semifinals and finals will be best of five games. The losing player may change characters at will between games, the winning player must continue to play the same character.
The RanBat will be divided into seasons that will terminate...whenever I/we feel like it. The first season commences on 4/29. Season 1 rules/schedule:
- Tuesday night doubles, thursday night singles! Starting at 9PM eastern!
- Top 8 point structure (could change to top 16 if attendance is mindblowingly high).
- New characters ONLY!
You will need a reliable teammate for tuesdays, if they don't show, you can't play! Team battles described here! We are going to form team battle lobbies for this.
So, if you have feedback or ideas, please, have at them.
Where to watch SF
Tournaments and matches:
Arcade Infinity's Channel
FADC's Channel
Gooteck's Channel
Non Match Info:
Vesper Arcade All trials complete.
All character intros, endings and rival battles (well most of them).
Entire Super OST And a lot of other game music.
SSFIV Gameplay:
Hakf's Channel
Arcade Infinity's Channel
FADC's Channel
Gooteck's Channel
Non Match Info:
Vesper Arcade All trials complete.
All character intros, endings and rival battles (well most of them).
Entire Super OST And a lot of other game music.
SSFIV Gameplay:
Hakf's Channel
Links and Resources
Here are a few sites that can really help you get better at Street Fighter games.
The PA Fighting Game Community!
We have a friends list, you can access it here!
First, enter your data here, using this form!
Then, you can view the list of players here.
If you're on the 360, you can add the metafriend: A PA SSF4
We also made a super cool IRC room! #PAFighting at irc.slashnet.org:6667 You can use this web client if you're SUPER UNCOOL. So people know, we are naming ourselves LFG_YourName in irc if you're looking for a lobby, and LFM_YourName if you're looking for more people! Simply use /nick to change your name in chat. You should use a non web client because sometimes the web client breaks while the server is still up for some unknown reason. If you need help configuring IRC, Blackbeard made this super cool guide:
Blackbeard7 wrote: »How to get mIRC working
Step 1: Go to http://www.mirc.com/ and click Download mIRC and install it. Just do all the basic stuff and let it do its thing. It's pretty fast.
Step 2: Go file > select server. Under connect, click on servers. Then click the Add button that appears on the right. Under description, put whatever you want. Under IRC server, put irc.slashnet.org, ports put 6667, and for group put #PAFighting. Password leave blank. Hit ok when done.
Step 3: Click connect again on the left menu, and fill out the nickname box and other info (I had to also do full name and email before it stopped giving me shit. I also unchecked invisible mode in case it did what it sounded like). Click the connect button under those info boxes, and wait a sec. A box should pop up asking what channel to join. Enter #PAFighting and click join. That should do it. If you get an error at this step, you may have to reopen the server select menu, click on firewall, and add port 6667. I had to, but your mileage may vary.
Know anything I'm missing? Let me know and I'll add it.
Thanks to MNC Dover, OP originator.
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DUDLEY!
makoto is gutter trash.
Ibuki.
So this weekend I'll be borrowing a friends Xbox indefinetly.
But as of now no stick for the system, so I might not pick up LIVE just yet.
"Your Amazon.com order has shipped"
-My email
A day earlier than I thought it'd be, too!
YEAHHHHHHHHHH
Because it's actually a pretty big update? I feel like every change was documented well in advance. You could have seen if you would have felt this was worth it.
RanBats start thursday, the 29th.
If you pre ordered from amazon it was only $30. Only dropped an hour on it and I can already tell it was worth every penny. Can't wait to get my ass kicked by some of you.
I fail to see how they were overselling the game. Its Street Fighter 4 with more characters, balance tweaks, and a lobby system. What were you expecting?
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Oh, I don't mean I got ripped off here, I mean I got ripped off when I bought Not-Super Street Fighter IV a year ago. I should have known this was coming and just waited, because Capcom does this every time.
Ah, well, what's done is done. Maybe my old SFIV disc will make for a nice drinks coaster.
I dunno. I got at least 500 hours out of regular Street Fighter. My calculator says that's 12 cents per hour of fun. I think I ripped them off.
Which by the way.
ANYONE SAYING HEY GUYS THIS IS MY GAMERTAG OR PSN, JUST ADD YOURSELF TO THE SPREADSHEET
I MEAN THAT'S WHAT IT'S FOR
SRSLY
Also, I hate the cross hatching filter.
Haven't played much online. Got into 3 lobbies of 4-5 people and there was definitely something screwy going on with timing combos and shit. At first I just thought it was me but I haven't had much trouble doing trials and shit. I'll give it a few more tries but my first impressions of lobbies has been pretty sad :[
Awesome
That said. The intro and ending movies for arcade mode = HILARIOUSLY BAD. Ibuki's made me lol at how nonsensical and corny it was. She definitly wins worst character award in my book... despite having the coolest damn ultra's ingame.
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Yes a thousand times. It's distracting and horrible looking.
It is rough but getting there.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2474/stickn.jpg
Parts get here in a day or two, eight crimson/blackring buttons and a crimson ball top. Then i can stare at it while my laceration heals slowly.
I think it's a bug happened to a few people a few times.
After I get the OH MY CAR however.
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Me on Twitch!
Got to Cody's 23rd trial without realizing i was in the hard trials, i hope this is because i'm awesome and not because they're easy :P
Also Ibuki looks hella hard to play, i really hate half circle moves.