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[alexr-fightgames]

Got Law to purple ranks this afternoon! Part of my “get every character to Purple Ranks” project.

OK OK OK, so... that one was relatively hard for me. I think I’m understanding what it means to play Marshall now, and I think I know why there are lots of Laws hanging out in red ranks forever. This took a few weeks.

TL;DR for the non-Law player: You need to learn to low-parry junkyard. Almost nobody, even in red ranks, is ready to low-parry Law’s b+2,3. Also his block/whiff punishment is quite good.

Read on, if you want my detailed thoughts!

What is he good at?

- RIDICULOUSLY GOOD PUNISHMENT. 3+4 as a launch is just absurdly useful. If somebody whiffs *anything*, even from pretty far range, you launch that. Move that’s exactly -14 on block, even with some pushback? Launch. Right away. I’ve got a button bind for 3+4, and it came in super handy. Sidestep 3+4 is a great whiff punish if you step something linear too.

OK OK OK but you’ve got this amazing instant launch, and you pull up the frame data for your opponent’s character, and you say “huh, Hwoarang’s dumbass mid-mid power crush? That’s -14 with some pushback? Guess I can launch it!!”  ... so satisfying. Get rekt, Hwoarang. I can’t stress this enough. 3+4.

His ws+1,2 is a really good 13 frame punish from crouch. It is hit-confirmable. This means that you’ve got, with slide, a sick FC mixup game.

- Slide?? It’s pretty good. You have to find good ways to get into crouch -- be wary of people just hopkicking.

df+2 and uf+4 hopkicks to launch at -15 from standing. Their range is bad, though, and df+2 doesn’t launch crouchers. This is a big drawback.

- Jab strings. You get 1,1,2 as your 10f punish, and that’s pretty good. But there are so many extensions, almost all of them safe. Unless you end with the mid out of 2,1+2. It’s almost like he’s got a jab *system* more than “jab strings”.

- ff+3 power crush is really good. It wall bounces. It’s unsafe, but it’s got pushback and people might not be ready to punish it.

- Easy and good magic 4 combos. His magic 4 is 11 frames.

- f+1+2 (DRAGON HAMMER) is so sick. So many plus frames on block, forces crouch. A bit slow, but if you can pressure with this, it rules so hard. CH launch.

- STUPID GIMMICKS. Bad Law players use d+2,3 all the time because it works so often. People just get clipped by it -- it launches on CH. You can do a string that looks like it shouldn’t be safe (but is), and then just d+2,3 because people are going to try to jab retaliate.

Also, playing through Genbu-Suzaku, almost nobody low-parried junkyard kick. If you take one thing away from this, you need to learn to low-parry junkyard kick.

Also he’s got the string df+1,3,2 , where there’s a low kick that comes out after the df+1, and nobody blocked that low kick. Pretty helpful for opening people up.

He has a lot of moves where he does a flipping kick, possibly more than one. Most of them are very punishable, but 4,u+3 IS NEUTRAL ON BLOCK. This leads to ABSURDLY STUPID GIMMICKS because people are going to try to punish it. It looks a lot like d/f+4,3, which is -18??

What are the difficulties?

- His range is kinda... bipolar. Most of his good pokes are very close range. The longer-range stuff is a big commitment. If you can snipe people with legend kick from range, though, that feels *great*. Just enter DSS manually at range, watch for them to twitch, and f+4 -- BAM!

But the range on most of his key moves is very short. His df+1 has a tiny hitbox.

- I think his running 3 is more linear than other running 3s? Mishimas seem to have a big ol’ wide hitbox on their slash kick. Marshall feels like he gets his kick stepped more often. This makes approach difficult.

- I found myself wanting good lows other than d/b+3 (kinda like his stature kick) and d/b+4,4 (DRAGON TAIL) -- which is pretty seeable, like halfway between a hellsweep and a snake edge. Banana peel (d/f+3+4) is actually quite helpful because it’s fast-ish and crushes a lot.

- I also wanted good powerful mids with more range. He’s got f+1+2 and f+3+4, and they’re great, but they’re not fast (20 frames).

- Good use of Dragon Sign Stance (DSS) in combos is actually really hard! I don’t think I ever successfully landed the Real Combo Ender, which is 4,3 (b,f,f to cancel into DSS) f+4 in a match. You have to do something similar with DSS f+3 for the good wall ender.

I ended up doing a jankier but easier version, where you just do more hits in the combo before the screw, and then end with d+1+2 for manual DSS, into f+4. It’s almost as much damage.

The skill ceiling for using DSS for pressure is so high. I felt like an absolute god when I noticed another Law was using DSS for pressure and went for the 2-break throw out of DSS. Broke it on reaction \m/

Law, man. Playing Law (well) is hard. I see the appeal. Going to move on for now, I am not going to be a Law main, but respek for people who play him well.

[jamesdwannabe]

ok but what was ur old rp url for THIS blog before u stopped doing rp on it? because i follow u and want to know who u are lol

Oh right 🤣 I’m such a handful y’all 💁🏼 I know that this one was darktimes but as we all had to do it was some variation of that!! I had my fave muse ever John David Washington. I’ve rped with literally the entire community at some point cause I was like…the tenth person to start rping on tumble lmfao. I’ll post all my accounts soon the second I find them 💋😘

But for further info, GLEE RP WAS MY ENTIRE WORLD!!!

Cause like I said I rolled up in the very very early 20’s even earlier than when Karson 🧵 his kargo shorts and never took them off but I’ll list the fandoms and fcs I always use

FINNEGAN JAMES HUDDLE HOUSE my baby 😭 I’ll give y’all brittana and finchel and goddamn fabbery my god y’all bitches blew up. Even got to achle how much y’all saw their rare and raw chemistry 🧪 and I’ll always cry that the pussy bandit wasn’t my forever and evermore babygirl cause ugh. A bitch is perfect like GO LEA YOU STUPID FUCKING RACIST PIECE OF SHIT 🤣 oops I’m supposed to be forgiving everyone so my bad kiddo. But you really was a total piece of shit towards the end of thet show Lmfao RIP NAYA but yall know nals the second she swam herself out the lake after visiting her little 🍼👶🏻 first of course 💋 she had me fling Lea straight into the ☀️ so her and apollo could torture that bitch for eternity before sending her back 🤣 and princess 👑 di of course let us cause Satan is snitch and a bitch and he could never bring our princess down except to attack her on equal rights via her soulmate so 💁🏼🤣💕 but like I said we forgive and forget her in our heavenly oasis. Anyway…my point was our 🛳 on the show was a dumpster fire 🔥 but me and you baby di in real life behind the scenes 😭 we tore that set up baby. Everyone hated us cause prank after pranks y’all go to youtube right now and watch our videos they’re Gloriaous Estafan and all y’all swiftgrons had me to thank cause we all know Taylor is such shit at picking her own relationships our and i deserve credit for all her best ones, especially our pussy queen di 💪🏻 2. Sammy Superhero Evans who Ryan always paid dust and speaking of that bitch Ryan I’d you ever go behind my back again and ✍🏻 my favorite 🤩 characters again I’ll slice your goddamn throat and drive your car straight into a pole. No more just stealing your magically red pen and mind blocking Taylor jot to give you a stupid one ☝🏻 agains whose the color red anyway? 3.Anyway. I lost thre entire goddamn script Nevermind a plot. Let me just get it over with lmao 3.Queen bitch Quinn, Blaine, Seb and Hunter and some more warblales (but not often) I hardly played girls but Santana of course cause we love a bitch snitch and Puck ugh. Mark broke my heart cause y’all know he was my twin 🔥 sin. But as we all know he’s the real crook who got caught and Satan and me and all of us got a lot waiting for him in hello. I think that’s it for glee idk like I said I’ll post pictures of all my old accounts once I get to there in my timeline. 4. LITERALLY EVERYONE AJDKALDJSJ ELSE IDK. Mainly joe Kerry cause oops huge spoiler but here’s to all our cruel summers and tis the damn seasons and New Year’s Day and all our twisted tangled augusts and us dancing our hearts away cause we never heard anything like those 80’s songs baby and we never will again and when I say baby of course I mean my tay tay💕 but we had to write us some stranger characters before things could get rolling so here’s to looking at you my sweet babygirl Nat Don’tcha Know Legends Never Die Seven When You Drown Them in the Ocean 🌊 mixed in with a little maya angelo 😘 here and there throw in a side of Steve and hopper and we got ourselves an award winning shoe netflexes 👑 jfc I’m worse than my own goddamn lover with a sprinkle here a dash here a giant idiot sandwich in between with anjuicy red lipped 🍒 on top for added dramatic flare 💁🏿‍♀️😘😉 and yeppers. I also used dylan all the damn time, pll boys, teen 🐺, sense8, gregg sulkin, oh WAIT the CAST OF SKINS TOO THEY WERE MY EVERMORE 😢 love that fucking show and Naomi and Emily and speaking of Naomi like I said I hardly played girls but if I did it was usually Naomi and she was my weirdo baby and everyone loved my writing and I had so many bffs but never ever a gf cause she was gay as fuck and back then you stupid bird 🧠 🧪 bitches didn’t understand shit and hated on all use beautiful 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 peeps and other minorities unless you were Larry or the 5sos boys or Koop which I unfortunatelymissed cause I stopped rping but 👜 using them soon!

[roman-winter]

ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS

WELP good thing ur the only one who actually sent me anything. HERE WE GO. every single number under the cut lmao

1. your favorite face claims

ZANE HOLTZ, MICHAEL TREVINO, BOB MORELY, STEPHEN JAMES, CAMERON MONAGHAN, if i could only use those faces for the rest of my rping life, i’d be perfectly happy, they’re my babes

2. your least favorite face claims

fcs i actively don’t like are p much bc people ruined them for me such as dane dehaan, xavier dolan, that blonde guy who’s always w xavier dolan and serval others that i never see around anymore anyway so it doesn’t really matter

3. face claims that you are dying to use

for the love of god someone actually let me use dj cotrona jfc. also miguel angel silvestre pleaseeeeee. and more zane holtzes always. like if u want a holy holtz, i’ll give him to you

4. face claims that you are dying to play against

rn i’m super into american gods so def both ricky whittle and emily browning. i’ve always wanted to play against a billie piper. every single person in this tag

5. your favorite original-verse oc (or one of your favorites)

shit that’s hard ummm i’m just gonna go w a current fav which is eli whitehall mostly bc of the amazing world that we’ve created for him and andrew and the like super amazing and rich backstory that has been developed, also just like playing a trans character who’s 50?? BEST THING EVER 10/10 WOULD RECOMMEND esp since he’s got the best husband in the world #relationshipgoals

6. your favorite fandom oc (or one of your favorites)

not technically an oc since his name is mentioned in the books BUT since the verse is so completely not canon he’s basically an oc AUGUSTUS ROOKWOOD ALL DAY EVERY DAY my love my light my fav i will keep playing him forever and ever and then a bit more

7. your favorite oc who isn’t yours (or one of your favorites)

can i just say every single one of @chrysalis-writes​‘ characters??? but like atm probably oliver who is the love of my life. like wtf is better than an unplanned ship just taking form out of nowhere and then being THE BEST SHIP EVER CREATED like fuck man i get emo when i think about oliver and how beautiful and pure and wonderful christine made him. i’m crying ok bye

8. your favorite fandom character to have played

rn my fav has to be richie gecko my trans son, i love fdtd w my whole soul and i love having the privilege of writing richie w my two fav ppl 

9. a fandom character who you would really like to play

hey guess what i want? i want to play bruce wayne in my horrible crossover crackship helldream that is ironbat, aka the best ship in the world. i want bruce wayne and tony stark to fuck and i have zero regrets

10. a fandom character who you would like to interact with

see above.

11. an rpg that meant a lot to you

knockturn meant the world to me and i’m so so glad that i’ve gotten to keep writing in that verse even if it’s outside of a group environment, but it was such a fantastic experience and so much fun to create that world with my best bruv and i’m so so proud of all the writing we did, everyone was just absolutely amazing, and it’s also how i met nikki GOD BLESS US EVERYONE

12. an rpg that you’re excited about

i just applied to an rp a few days ago and i’m pumped about maybe getting to be in that but i'm not gonna tag it bc i dunt wanna be that asshole but it’s all the worlds and it looks hella cool

13. an rpg that you’d like to create

lmao NONE i’m done w that game man. i still dream of bringing back knockturn w christine one day bc that was legit my fav rp that i’ve been part of but a lot of things about the rpc would have to change before i’d feel okay about putting that much work into something again

14. your favorite rp friendship

i’m not gonna say christine bc that’s a cop out and also we were friends years b4 rping 2gether, so i’m gonna throw a bone to my two favs SUZIE and NIKKI the loves of my life whom i am so so lucky to be friends with and get to write with, and if either of u read this i love youuuuuuu

15. your favorite rp otp

every single ship that i have w christine but mostly oliver and val alwayz

16. your favorite rp notp

lmao idk bro you’d be surprised about how many notps i have tbh i’m just quiet about it bc i mind my own business unlike some people :~~~)

17. your favorite rp family relationship

UM SETH AND RICHIE GECKO OFC WHO DO YOU THINK I WOULD SAY the first time we started a thread w them we were legit like wtf why have we never played bros???? and it was the best and i’m always emo about those two trans losers

18. your favorite rp universe/world

i’m super into the little sensate world we’ve got going bc we have such cool and amazing characters and evil jeff goldblum exists and the story we’ve got concocted is great and can you tell i’m just talking directly to you now christine? bc i definitely am, who else would read this whole thing????

19. your favorite non-playable character

that is very very hard bc i’m notoriously bad at npcs, but i luv valentin’s daughter, alexandra bc she’s just so sweet and kind and accepting and i love her and all of the cute little things that have and will happen with her interacting with val and all the other sensates KILLS ME

20. your first rp character

omfg my first chara was an oc when i was like eleven called lily lupin and she was remus’ secret brother’s child???? i remember nothing else about her but that. idk guys i was a weird child but i had a good time rping on an hp forum lmao

21. your latest rp character

ELECTRIFICATION KOZLOV who is a badass kgb agent during the cold war who i’m super excited to start writing soon. he’s awful and great and idk what happened but i have a thing w playing russian characters rn????

22. a plot that you’d like to play out

see numbers 9 and 10

23. a real-world setting that you’d like to use as the setting of a plot

i think i’ve got all the real world setting plots i want rn tbh i’m really into grabbing more supernatural plots!

24. your favorite rp genre

probably scifi, esp atm! i’m so so bad at science myself but i really do love playing inside a scifi environment that i didn’t have to build lmao

25. a quote you’d like to use to build a character on

omfg i’m the WORST but i really would love to build a few characters (probably like a 1x1x1) based on “you are jeff” just literally the whole damn poem. i’ve had some character relationships that mimicked the twins section of it very well, but i think it’d be super fun to literally base a plot on that

26. a song you’d like to use to build a character on

i just saw reeve carney live and i’ve been listing to his new album nonstop and “resurrection” would make a really REALLY good character song, so THAT!

27. a song you’d like to use to build an rp relationship on

i’ve had the need since the album came out to have a ship based on against me’s song “haunting haunted haunts” i feel like it could make a pretty good plot tbh and i’m always here for angst

[aion-rsa]

How UFC 4 Is Changing the Way We Play MMA Games

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For the UFC, there is no season. Fights happen year round for the world’s premier mixed martial arts promotion. So, unlike annualized franchises such as Madden, EA Sports’ UFC franchise isn’t beholden to the same yearly release structure.

But even for the UFC series, the two-and-a-half-year gap between UFC 3 and the upcoming UFC 4, slated for an Aug. 14 release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is a long time. Even the transition between the former THQ-published UFC Undisputed franchise and the first EA Sports UFC in 2014 wasn’t quite as long.

Rest assured, creative director Brian Hayes and his team have used the time to make major changes to some of the more maligned gameplay systems from previous iterations of the series. Every element of the octagon action has been either tweaked or overhauled. 

Perhaps no system has been as obtuse for the greatest number of UFC players over the years than the ground game. Grappling and submissions are integral to the sport of MMA, so real fighters who can’t tell a kimura from an omoplata probably won’t make it far in the sport. UFC 4 won’t be issuing quizzes on the difference between Brazilian jiu-jitsu shoulder locks, but it has made dramatic changes to the way fights on the floor are contested. Two new submission mini-games replace the former system, which utilized a battle over “break walls” using the left and right analog sticks.

“They’re different in a very subtle way,” Hayes tells Den of Geek, referring to the two new submission mini-games. “The basic premise is the same. If you’re in a submission game, and you’re on defense, you have a colored wedge, and your opponent has a colored wedge. Their goal is to keep their wedge on top of yours. In the choke submission game, it’s played on a full circle. In the joint submission game, it’s played on an arc. The control for the choke is with a stick, and the controls for the arc are with triggers.”

You can see how the new submission system, and some of the other gameplay improvements, work in the video below:

Conventional wisdom might suggest players on defense rapidly move their wedge around to escape the hold. Not so, says Hayes. Instead, he says precision control of the defending player’s wedge is critical to staying out of trouble and keeping the wedge from getting too big. He compares the idea to real-life grappling situations, where keeping a cool head and mounting a technical defense often makes the difference between a successful submission defense or a brual tap-or-snap situation.

“The reason that sort of nuance comes in there is we thought of that in terms of, if you’re training in an actual gym and you get into a dangerous situation like a submission, pretty sure that your coach never tells you, ‘OK, freak out now. Just panic. Just flail away as quickly as you can,'” Hayes says. “They’re gonna tell you, no, be calm, focus on your technique, do the right things to get out of this position.”

A few new wrinkles were added to the submission battles in UFC 4 beyond the mini-games themselves. Attackers can now mix in strikes to soften up their opponent, while those on defense might be able to execute slams to get out of certain holds in less technical, more strength-based ways. Outside of the sub attempts, navigating transitions on the mat has been simplified as well with more basic left-stick inputs to execute actions such as standing up, advancing positions, or posturing up for heavy ground-and-pound.

Of course, every UFC fight begins in an upright position, and some will never hit the canvas unless a fighter is put there by a heavy strike or two. For UFC 3, the striking system was overhauled using the same Real Player Motion Tech featured in EA Sports’ FIFA and NHL franchises, among others, in an effort to create a more locomotion-driven striking system. That RPM Tech has now been applied to a completely new system for the clinch game and takedowns.

Gone is the old system of clinch transitions, which worked the same as the grappling dynamic of holding the right stick in a direction to change positions with a HUD as a guide. Now, players enter the clinch with a simple strike input and a modifier, and transitions are executed the same way. Striking controls will work the same way in the clinch as they do from distance, with uppercuts, knees, and more available to throw. Staying in the clinch is as simple as moving toward your opponent, while exiting means moving away.

“Maintaining the clinch or getting out of the clinch is simpler than it’s ever been because it’s actually an intuitive, ‘Well, I don’t want to be here, so I’ll just walk away,’” Hayes says. “It doesn’t get much simpler than that.”

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If the changes to the clinch, takedown, and submission systems are best described as a revolution, then consider the differences between striking in UFC 3 and UFC 4 as more evolutionary. Rather than rewriting the script of punches, kicks, knees, and elbows from scratch, EA Sports just wants to make the execution of many of these strikes less clunky than before. In UFC 4, tapping one of the primary strike buttons executes a different strike than holding that same button — the hold mechanic being new to the series. Hayes says this was done to reduce the execution of certain advanced strikes from five or six simultaneous inputs to three or four.

“That was because the multitude of different strikes fighters in the UFC can throw requires such a great deal of real estate on a controller that only has so many inputs,” Hayes says. He notes that the bulk of the striking should feel similar to those already comfortable with and skilled in the striking from UFC 3. The adjustment will come in how attacks such as spinning strikes or roundhouse kicks are performed.

A byproduct of this shift away from so many concurrent inputs is improved responsiveness. Hayes says that every strike in the game is now one to two frames more responsive than in the past. 

“We managed to eliminate some input latency where, previously, we had to wait to be sure we knew what you were doing, and now we don’t,” Hayes says. “There should be an increase in responsiveness with every single strike that you can throw in the game. …. It should get to your opponent’s face a little bit faster than it did previously.”

As much as the gameplay has changed, its console home won’t be any different. EA currently has no current plans to release UFC 4 for the upcoming PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X. No talk of a PC or Switch version, either.

“We’ve been building this product for the last two years,” says producer Nate McDonald, who, like Hayes, has been a part of the UFC series since it began. “The focus has been heavily on the Gen 4, PS4, Xbox One title because we want to make the best experience we possibly can with this particular product. We are exploring opportunities on Gen 5 and what that could potentially mean, but we don’t have any specifics to share at this point in time.”

We’ll keep you updated as we learn more about UFC 4 closer to launch.

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