[ARMS] Update 4.0 is live, new character Misango added

Roe

I'm ready for the next testpunch. Going to give motion controls another go.

Also, 15 days until release. I have my copy preordered from Amazon and can't wait.

Handsome Costanza

klemming wrote: »

I think the US starts on Friday, and rest of the world starts on Saturday. I don't know if that's exclusive for them or just how the time zones work out, though.

I'm probably going to miss this testpunch, as I'm having to use my PC as a mobile hotspot since the Switch refuses to pick up my wifi nine times out of ten, and the PC is being sent off to be repaired.

I don't think another testpunch would do anything else to sell me on this, anyway. At this point it's all down to if they put in a decent single-player mode.

That's just how the timezones work out. Everyone's playing at the same time.

edzepp

You know, it's amazing how much mileage they get out of that main ARMS melody. Nearly every stage incorporates it in some way, so there's a unified sound, yet they all feel distinct.

McFodder

I'm seeing reports Twintelle will be playable in the TestPunches this weekend. Or at least, I'm told that's what it says.

https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter/status/870490166229467136

edzepp

That is pretty much what it says.

Maz-

What about Byte & Barq though

Byte & Barq

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Wraithverge

edzepp wrote: »

You know, it's amazing how much mileage they get out of that main ARMS melody. Nearly every stage incorporates it in some way, so there's a unified sound, yet they all feel distinct.

I find myself humming and whistling the tune often without thinking about it. I'd say the subconscious tune recall accounts for 5% of why I'm buying the game!

Dracil

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/6etl8d/players_who_did_well_in_the_first_arms_testpunch/

So if you felt you were super good, prepare to feel way worse. And if you felt like you sucked, prepare to feel like you're winning more.

Handsome Costanza

So hows Twintelle? I didn't make the last two but I'll be playing tonight.

Dracil wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/6etl8d/players_who_did_well_in_the_first_arms_testpunch/

So if you felt you were super good, prepare to feel way worse. And if you felt like you sucked, prepare to feel like you're winning more.

I welcome this. It's not fun beating up on some newbie who's trying to learn the game.

Maz-

Dracil wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/6etl8d/players_who_did_well_in_the_first_arms_testpunch/

So if you felt you were super good, prepare to feel way worse. And if you felt like you sucked, prepare to feel like you're winning more.

Huh, didn't expect them to track that. I'll definitely be in the better bracket then.

One hour to go!

Wraithverge

Well I'm a little disappointed that I'm not as good as I thought I was. I assumed they were already bracketing players but I was just getting better and better every match. Maybe I'll finally get in the ring with one of you fine punching maniacs!

PMAvers

Oh hey, looks the Ramen Bowl is open too.

I did see some people fighting in a 1v3 mode against some sort of boss player? Just fought him, Hedlok, who fits on top of whatever character they're normally playing and gives them a extra two arms on each side of the head, so they have 6 arms total.

Maz-

Woah, turns out you can fight the final boss this round. Seems to be a 3-vs-1 match against him. Haven't done it myself, just saw others in my lobby do it

Wraithverge

Just did it! He's got tons of HP.

PMAvers

Hoops is pretty rad, too, you dunk them whenever you toss them or bounce them into the edge bumpers.

EDIT: Oh jeeze, we just got rocked by a level 5 Hedlok. He does NOT MESS AROUND.

Maz-

Just fought him too. Looks like he was using Byte & Barq in that round.

Big Dookie

Damn Twintelle.

Shake dat.

Polaritie

Ah, so that's how Min-min's dragon arm works.
1 - Charging for long enough transforms the arm
2 - The arm basically throws constant charged punches for a while, instead of one-and-done. May be until hit, or something? Unclear.

I can't recall if guard charges it. I know I ended up with it transformed after grabbing someone?

But DAMN throwing a barrage of charged punches is kind of awesome. Had a 2v2 where I just went double dragon fists. And filled the arena with fire. Got off 2(!!!) specials that round, and the second deleted both opponents at once (due to the dragon head sweeping the fire breath)

Maz-

Won my lobby, but man, it was a lot tougher this time around. Lots of skilled players.

PMAvers

Man, playing non-Mechanica characters is hard. Especially since you can't jetpack around anymore.

Twintelle's freezing fist seems really good?

Dracil

Twintelle ice fists straight up lose to Master Mummy IMO. But I got wrecked by the dragonfists from Min-Min.

BronzeKoopa

Polaritie wrote: »

Ah, so that's how Min-min's dragon arm works.
1 - Charging for long enough transforms the arm
2 - The arm basically throws constant charged punches for a while, instead of one-and-done. May be until hit, or something? Unclear.

I can't recall if guard charges it. I know I ended up with it transformed after grabbing someone?

But DAMN throwing a barrage of charged punches is kind of awesome. Had a 2v2 where I just went double dragon fists. And filled the arena with fire. Got off 2(!!!) specials that round, and the second deleted both opponents at once (due to the dragon head sweeping the fire breath)

Yeah you can only transform the dragon arm by holding dash/jump, and it seems to stay permacharged until you take damage. Had it transformed the whole time when in warmup mode waiting longer than usual to get matched up.

Also messing with the different controls, I was wondering how you change it from the thumbs up grip to standard controls on joy-cons. Seems the gyro detects if you are holding them vertically or not and changes accordingly, but when trying to hold the joy-cons in a relaxed position it sometimes gets confused and reverts back to thumbs up motion grip.

Handsome Costanza

From Downtown!







YES!



I took a pic of this guy because he had no idea what was about to happen to him:

No Idea.



He has some idea now

Here I am dunking him so hard that I turn into the sun.

Twintelle Wasn't a problem at all:

Except for when I was playing her:

Also I blew her up so she's dead now, sorry guys:




Min Min and Mechanica got wrecked too.

Here I am teleporting Min Min into another dimension:

I literally punched this guy so hard that it went through him and killed him. I am now Injustice Superman:

random pics I thought looked cool:

Wrecked everyone again using the jump-dash strat. The only game I lost (ok I lost two but the first game I was afk for the first 20 seconds) I lost to someone using the exact same character, loadout, and strategy. He just outplayed me. The jump dash strat also apparently translates really well to the hoops minigame because I went 10 and 0 a few times using it.


Edit: that means, not counting the afk match, I went somewhere around 22 to 25-1.. with the only loss coming from someone using the same character and strategy.. this is after the game paired me up with people who did as well as me in the last test punch. I think it's safe to say that jump-dodge-throw/punch-repeat is a legit strategy at this point, and a damned potent one to boot.

Dracil

So I did test Spring Man a bit. I don't get the being able to dash during an attack thing you talk about. However I did come across this: https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/204207-arms/75415564

Handsome Costanza

Dracil wrote: »

So I did test Spring Man a bit. I don't get the being able to dash during an attack thing you talk about. However I did come across this: https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/204207-arms/75415564

He doesnt dash during an attack he jumps up straight.. dashes right or left then throws punches and throws at the apex of the dash while the enemies still throwing his punches at where you just dashed from... thats it.. thats all it is. You should rarely ever throw a punch with two feet on the ground. Also when an enemies knocked down I sort of zig-zag right to left to keep him guessing which direction I'm going to jumpdash next. Funny enough the guy who beat me also did this.

edzepp

Hedlok is quite tough.

Kriegaffe

I enjoyed all of that. Loved the boss fight. We beat a lvl 3 Headlok but got trounced by a 4 & 5.

Hoops was fun in the sens that it is basically a fight, but no even bad players get to fight for the full time limit.

Skillshot was ok. I would like to say it's a good opportunity to practice aiming, but unfortunately I spent much of my time getting hit/thrown by other players.

I spent much of my time in regular fights playing Mechanica. My approach was hover jumping over punches and throwing big charged attacks in return. It mostly worked, but I had a bit of trouble hitting fast side-dashers.

redfield85

Did you know if you hit L, R, or A in the party mode waiting area, your icon shakes or winks or whatever and makes noise? Ha.

Borrowed my friend's Switch to try this this weekend and don't regret it at all. It makes me not want to wait until winter to get a Switch. Arms has sold me more than Zelda. Weird.

edit: Up to 64....arms coins? I don't know what those are, but I've been killing it this second go round with the game. Being down 1-2 in a 2v2 and winning is so goooood.

Handsome Costanza

redfield85 wrote: »

Did you know if you hit L, R, or A in the party mode waiting area, your icon shakes or winks or whatever and makes noise? Ha.

Borrowed my friend's Switch to try this this weekend and don't regret it at all. It makes me not want to wait until winter to get a Switch. Arms has sold me more than Zelda. Weird.

edit: Up to 64....arms coins? I don't know what those are, but I've been killing it this second go round with the game. Being down 1-2 in a 2v2 and winning is so goooood.

It only makes sounds on your own screen.

syndalis

So I got to play the test punch, and I had a ton of fun.

Y'know what was missing though? Fucking voice chat. That game really feels like so,ething I want to be abl to either taunt my opponent in 1 on 1 / wish them a good game, or talk to my teammates in 2 on 2 or 3 on boss.

I can already tell this is going to be a discord on my phone, line up with friends kind of game if I buy it. It felt kind of sterile without real human interaction.

The gameplay was pretty tight online though - they did a good job with the netcode and it is novel as fuck. Best motion control gaming I may have ever played.

Roe

Had fun this morning, and finally learned the controller instead of motion controls. Basketball and Volleyball are both really good distractions from fights. Hedlok was fun too, but fighting him can be tough.

I tried out different characters this round. Helix is weird, Mummy isn't fun for me, but the Ninja character was really what clicked.

Enlong

I played basically only Twintelle and Minmin this mornmorn.

Twintelle is less powerful than I thought, because you can't hold her slow field for very long at all. It's still a strong move, though, and combining the Parasol and any other arm is pretty strong.

Still lovin' Minmin's arm options, and now I know how to charge her dragon without throwing. Megawatt Dragon and Chakram is still a fine combo.

BronzeKoopa

Still can't get the hang of the fire and ice dragon head arms. Seems like I always miss with them.

Maz-

I can't imagine playing without at least one heavy arm.

Polaritie

BronzeKoopa wrote: »

Still can't get the hang of the fire and ice dragon head arms. Seems like I always miss with them.

Charge them so they keep the beam out and sweep towards the enemy.

Enlong

Polaritie wrote: »

BronzeKoopa wrote: »

Still can't get the hang of the fire and ice dragon head arms. Seems like I always miss with them.

Charge them so they keep the beam out and sweep towards the enemy.

Oho?

And Minmin's left arm has effectively a permacharge when you dragon up.

Hmmm...

Left arm dragon, right arm Megawatt, use the latter to block while you set up a charged up dragon?

Alphagaia

So, Headlock is probably the mode in vs that had a spoiler tag on that one picture showing the options menu?

Roe

Alphagaia wrote: »

So, Headlock is probably the mode in vs that had a spoiler tag on that one picture showing the options menu?

I think so. I mean, they didn't add Barq and Byte like most people thought was the surprise.

Polaritie

Enlong wrote: »

Polaritie wrote: »

BronzeKoopa wrote: »

Still can't get the hang of the fire and ice dragon head arms. Seems like I always miss with them.

Charge them so they keep the beam out and sweep towards the enemy.

Oho?

And Minmin's left arm has effectively a permacharge when you dragon up.

Hmmm...

Left arm dragon, right arm Megawatt, use the latter to block while you set up a charged up dragon?

Yeah, dragon arm dragon is pretty good at keeping the opponent pinned down.

In the 2v2 it's not fair what happens when you just double dragon, because you basically always have flaming beams shooting across the ring.

redfield85

I don't care if there is a voice chat. I'd prefer other pre-made things like in Mario Kart.

I tried motion controls last night and they just weren't for me. I played with the switch remotes hooked to the screen and it worked great. Last night I was getting trashed and using the controllers today took me to another level.

I also haven't been given the chance to play volleyball yet. Weird.

Ribbongirl is what pushed me over the edge to winning most matches today.

So, this is getting frequent updates like Splatoon, right? Modes, characters, levels? Is there any type of customization besides arms?