that was you? I was laughing so hard when that worked, and i do that all the time, ken's ultra beats pretty much every other ultra except zangief's and honda's
I find that Karakusa into Ultra is kind of iffy. If I don't mash the Ultra shortcut like a madman it often just gets blocked or punished.
i gave up on makoto because of things like that - her link windows are just too small and if there is the slightest input lag, she can't do even the most basic of combos i really like playing fei long but he has similar problems - after the command grab i just wanna do standing punch rekka rekka rekka, but the link window is super narrow also, my least favorite thing about this game right now is inputs that come out after block stun - like i try to wakeup tiger uppercut, it doesn't come out for some reason, the opponent puts me in a block string, and then when it finishes, big fat whiffed uppercut seriously, wtf
Agreed. Can't we get ethernet-over-USB? All this lag is making be sad and cranky. When your character moves left while you hit "right" and vice versa, it's the cha-cha of death.
I actually updated mine before official release with the GM version. I was afraid I could lose the data, and every app synced fine but SF4Volt, I had to download again from the app store and lucky I didn't lose the data.
I'm really trying to make it work with her but she plays a LOT differently than she does in Third Strike which is kinda depressing. It's really the engine of the game though. I never really realized how dependent she is on parrying before I tried to play her in this game.
Is makoto this 'new character' mentioned in your sig? and when will you be around for a fight, i havent played you in a while
dammit xcool, i can never get a lag free game with you. and the worst thing is i remember having games with you. do you wanna try again same time tomorrow, i havent played that many good fei longs...
Thanks guys. I updated mine overnight and had no problems except it wouldn't allow me to backup to Cloud (it forced me to choose backups to computer). I'm not sure I see any problem with this.
Guys, I just created a form+list to let us know who plays here and which character each one use. This won't be used for any tournament. Just to people check who's playing and participating here. http://tinyurl.com/toucharcade-sf4-form - The Form http://tinyurl.com/toucharcade-sf4-list - The List
If we played about 5 Ken/Makoto matches then yeah. What's your GC ID? A lot of Ken's moves are like that. They just have 0 startup and if you try to beat them out, you get stuffed most of the time. He's a lot better in this game than I gave him credit for because of that. Actually, I don't think we've EVER played. We tried once but there was a disconnection or something. But we should, I'd love to play you sometime! And yeah, Mak's my new character. She's one of my favorite characters in this game, but she's really hard to use because she doesn't have all the tools she did in 3s or even console SF4. Me sucking might also be part of it haha! But yes, let's definitely play soon! That's a great idea! Actually I had an idea to make another thread a few pages back that would have a listing of who plays who here and if anyone finds someone online that's really good at a particular character we could add them to the list too, just so anyone looking for a particular matchup could request that person. I think i might make that thread.
Ok, so I think I may be losing my mind. Awhile back I deleted SFIV Volt and reinstalled to kind of start over. I'm now going through the challenges to complete the ones that I was previously able to complete (which is not many). I'm working on Sagat and am trying to do #8 (with the FADC). I just can't seem to get the timing right and every time I cancel his uppercut with a focus, he goes into his focus knee. I'm obviously way off in my timing to get the kick while the opponent is in the air, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The frustrating part is that I remember it not being very tough when I did it before my delete-reinstall. So any ideas? Am I not dashing correctly? Too slow or too fast with the focus, the dash or the standing kick?
so with that combo i hold towards, press sp, keep holding towards then press focus. then you have to stop holding forawrds or the step kick wil whiff. after you stepkick just mash out the ultra.
No timing is required for this combo and can be completed by just mashing the next command while Sagat performs the current one While holding forward (do not let go for the duration of the combo), hit SP, then IMMEDIATELY mash F (at least 2x), then K, then Ultra. hope that helps.
Ok so im pretty comftarble with cammy now, but Im trying to choose a secondar for two reasons, and I need some help. Firslty I want a new character just to mix it up a little bit, but the main reason is to help me with a few matchups. So I need a character that can counter these guys: Zangief: Cammy relies on being in your face the whole time, but thats hard when you can get hit by a 280 damage un-techable grab for doing something stupid like pressing any button or empty jumping. And its not like you can jump in all day with that lariat. Guile: Sometimes it just feels impossible to stay on top of guile. In super and AE cammys jumping light kick crossup beats flashkick, but i dont have that in volt, so its a guessing game every wakeup. And sonic boom is just a bitch. Honda: Headbutt. Headbutt. Headbutt. I need a character that does decent against honda, really hard for cammy. So I was thinking dee jay/chun li/sagat, ideas?
Sagat sounds like a good choice against Guile, but I'm not so sure. And of course, he beats out Zangief pretty easily, and can Tiger Shot or Uppercut Honda out of his headbutts. Blanka does okay against Guile with the River Run thing where he slides under a projectile, and he can also EX Blanka Ball through Sonic/EX Sonic Booms, but you have to stay at mid-range to stay out of Flash Kicks which are devastating if you're caught in the middle of doing a Blanka Ball. I haven't really fought against Honda with Blanka so I can't judge, same with Zangief. But I do know that you should stay back and wait for Zangief to either Lariat or Banishing Flat before you actually attempt to hit him with Blanka. Jump ins can be dealt with that lightning thing, and sweeps can be prevented with EX Lightning. Although EX Lightning is not useful against characters with projectiles, but the normal Lightning can be used to build up meter.
Sagat no question, he's prob 6/4 on Honda and guile and 7/3 on gief. Sagat/guile matchups are kinda boring tho, especially if the guile plays defensively. Some guiles think they can sit back and sonic boom all day. Please, you can't out-sagat sagat.
Thanks a lot guys. That did the trick within just a couple tries. Not sure why I couldn't get it down earlier but I was definitely letting go of the forward button multiple times so that would seem to explain it. Two down now, twenty to go.
