Orakio Rob
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I'm very interested in the tutorials. I'm having fun with the game, but I'm a pretty bad player.
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SFV March Update Details (Challenge Mode, Shop, Rematch, 8p Lounge, and more)
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Man... I'd really like to have the TvC announcer. I'm probably the only person on the planet who wants it, but that's the only fighting game I'd ever played before SFIV and V. I need dat.
poodaddy
Member
lmao, I mean she's basically always lugging around 40 or 50 pounds of chest meat so I imagine her lower back is pretty stout. Combine that with her ridiculous hammies and I just wanna know what she deadlifts.
That was your first fighter? I mean it's a great game but wow. Never played SF2 in arcades back in the day?
I wasn't even born when that game came out. Hell, I would have only been, like, three years old when Third Strike was in the arcades.
poodaddy
Member
Oh shit right on man..... my bad. I feel old now though so that's cool I guess :/
Seems from the rough descriptions that it covers all the basics. Its pretty much exactly enough to get people new to FG's started.
Hoya Destroyer
Member
8 player lobbies with spectating sounds great. Thats the most important online aspect for me (other than netcode quality). Still no proper arcade mode though. Hard to justify that $60 price tag without that.
This makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Can't wait for this update, especially the salty runback option! Hopefully it'll appease a lot of people who were underwhelmed with the game's initial content.
Double or nothing for the winner IMO
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
How the hell is arcade mode not there? WTF??!!!
They seriously not going to add region restriction to Battle Lobbies like in SFIV? I know I can invite people and be invited, but sometimes I just want to join a random lobby and not have it be some American or Chinese 1 bar connection.
2 out of 3 ranked is great... but you're implementing that with no rage quitter penalty? Seriously?
*just lose a fight*
*I'm run that shit back*
*just about to win*
*d/c*
I'll be salty as fuck.
2 out of 3 ranked is great... but you're implementing that with no rage quitter penalty? Seriously?
*just lose a fight*
*I'm run that shit back*
*just about to win*
*d/c*
I'll be salty as fuck.
Can they please just give me the 8 player lobbies? I'll take that or the shop without anything else until the end of march.
Because it was never part of the intial plan. They probably don't wanna half ass it after people asked for it.
Because it was never part of the intial plan. They probably don't wanna half ass it after people asked for it.
The Lone Dragon
Member
You do realize a CPT event ALREADY took place last month, right?
They didn't release it so early just because of the fiscal year. Otherwise, they would have just release it once the March patch dropped and saved themselves a world of whining.
Lol i know man I always thought super filled up lobbies were boring too much spectating. It's like 4 - 5 ppl max for me.
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
I pray this rights the ship
The game is still missing several key features that they don't mention in this update, like Offline Versus CPU. The fact that it's not being added tells you how wrong their focus was when they launched it.
toastyToast
Member
Same here, that's the feature I'm most looking forward to. Hopefully it's a deep tutorial and not just super basic stuff.
Noisepurge
Member
Not exactly "free". We paid 60$.
If they charged more money for this, there would be riots on the streets!
lol if people win and troll the runback. capcpom
mai internet cut out, damn tpg!
SoRuffShoNuff
Member
That would just cause people to decline a rematch. I'd rather keep my points after a tough match than risk losing them.
They might actually have not considered that people would want such a mode, odd / tonedeaf as that may sound to us, so to expect them to whip one up in a month is perhaps asking a bit much.
I'm with you though; we do need an update on that outside of "we are considering it." Same for stage DLC, stage transitions being fully implemented, and fixes for visual glitches and clipping issues.
OmnipotentO
Member
They need to fucking add a save my search and training settings option.
I'm still trying to understand how Offline Versus CPU is a "key feature" when you can just go play Survival mode and it's basically the same thing.
BossDarkseid
Member
This is me. I can't pull off some movements for the life of me, but I'm getting a handle on blocking, jumping, sweeping, dodging etc.
How is Survival Mode remotely the same thing? Yeah, you're fighting AI opponents, but you're not playing best 2 or 3 matches, you're carrying over your meter and health from one round to another, you can't manually adjust the difficulty, and if you lose once the AI actually starts to get challenging, you have to go all the way back to the very beginning and play against all the easy AI opponents again.
Why are some people so eager to defend the lack of this feature that would have been ridiculously easy for them to implement?
Survival is an ABYSMAL mode. No one likes it.
Here's what Offline Versus CPU offers that Survival doesn't:
- I can pick my opponent instead of one in a set in order
- Best of 3/5/7 Games
- Stage Selection
- Time Selection
- Handicaps
- Meters carry over between rounds
- I can change my character whenever I want without penalty
- I can try out characters in a somewhat competitive space without there being added pressure of facing other people or trying to get lucky going through X amount of waves in Survival
And no, Training versus the CPU doesn't give you half of that, either. There's a big difference between trying to execute something versus trying to execute it against someone/thing that can react when I may not expect it.
Because you give them the time of day with post like these. If that other topic is anything to go by these replies just repeat themselves over and over and over...
Still they did mention vs cpu coming soon somewhere. Its anyone's guess as to what that means, but I still don't consider that a key feature, arcade mode however is.
When you are in training, and you set the bot to CPU controlled and then set the difficulty it is exactly what you will be getting in "arcade mode".
If you think otherwise I do not know what to tell you.
The main difference will be having actual rounds without having to micro-manage.
I am not a huge fan of Survival but I am also glad that it is there.
Either way, Arcade mode will be there sooner or later and it will be a nice addition.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Same here. King of the hill style lobbies are boring even if you know the people. That's why I keep asking for more details about the lobbies.
Are they going to be like sf4 lobbies or something like gg xrd where you could have multiple matches going on Simultaneously so that you're not waiting a long ass time in a queue every time you lose.
Arcade Mode was not in their initial plans, meaning that if they decide to put it in, it'd come next year at the earliest.
Offline Versus the CPU should already be in the game since it's in store demos already.
Survival Mode is terrible. You have Top Tier players saying this as well, not just casuals looking at the game wanting more content.
I imagine the latter. No way they're going to be that innovative. I actually didn't know xrd did that. That's rad.
Anyway I also agree 8 player lobbies usually are less fun than they sound, but it's good to have the option.
katsubento
Member
As do I. But I think the casual market won't jump on until arcade mode is present.
For anybody wondering, this technique isn't actually affected by the update in any way, sorry. Adding an additional pre-jump frame just makes it so it's one frame longer until a character is considered airborne, which makes jumping riskier and nerfs the throw/jump OS.
That technique exists in every SF game, the attack will gain "throw invuln" but can't be timed as a reversal so it will lose to anything meatie hitting the actual prejump frames. It was a non issue then, is a non issue now.
Edit: For people wondering what throw/jump OS, you input a jump and throw a frame apart when you think you're going to be hit by strike/throw mix up. If you time it right and they strike then you just block, if they throw then you tech, and if they do nothing you jump out, since you input the throw during the prejump frames you shouldn't even get an input while jumping. The patch didn't outright remove the OS because that is actually more or less impossible, it just made it riskier by a frame.
There should be an article on SRK later today detailing the implications of the throw tech changes for people who don't understand all the OSes that were happening and what was specifically addressed about them.
good question
According to the Japanese official site, when the shop goes up this month you'll also be able to purchase alternate costume colors and fighter profile colors.
Son Of Sparda
Member
So no Extra Battle and daily challenges? That's a little disappointing.
Still, can't wait for this to finally drop.
Still, can't wait for this to finally drop.
Secret Character
Member
Not just that, but it looks like they're the Director's Edition colors that I've been begging for since launch!
Yay!!!
I think many people do by now, but most of them don't hold the opinion that it's the same thing/an equivalent as vs CPU or an arcade mode.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
Lobbies and Ranked Rematch are both excellent additions.
Robobandit
Member
It should have been there on day one.
The fact that GG XRD, a game that cost half as much on PC had better multiplayer support than SF V out of the box is pathetic. I'm glad they're finally catching up. (yes, I know XRD released in 2014 on consoles and SF V is new, but it still doesn't excuse the lack of features)