EVO 2020 - Still hatin', still watchin'

[Krandor]

I probably wouldn't play Dudley cause he's just never really been my cup of tea, but on paper he works so well with the Drive System it's criminal that he's not already in the game.

[Lokus]

Twitter FGC is in Old games vs New games Round 56.

[Krandor]

CvS2 is better than the games you like

[Lokus]

Reading some more and it's actually Old Heads vs New Gen Round 47.

[Lokus]

https://twitter.com/Jebailey/status/...JVNr3XrFQ&s=19

This is CEOs last year at Daytona. New location not announced.

[Mrbeansman]

The amount of anecdotes I've heard of Daytona residents being racist shit heads over the years.

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[Krandor]

So... any of y'all actually going to Evo this year? Groups of friends I go to Vegas with every year we're just lining it up with Evo this time around.

[Krandor]

r/kappa has been re-opened.

It's just for archival purposes, but you can find old classics like the Angela White AMA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/s/ot2nByl4Gc

[Melena]

Holy fuck, now did those neckbeards get a porn star to do an AMA? lol

[Krandor]

iirc she just randomly ended up posting there one day. Someone asked her if she would do an AMA so she made a thread for it a couple days later.

[Krandor]

https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status...83100270694431

[Xno Kappa]

https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status...83100270694431

LMAO! I love it! Fuck Rashid’s level 2.

[Lucavi]

Man, get the fuck outta here.

[Mrbeansman]

https://twitter.com/Shine_NYC/status...rQMSL0kLg&s=19

The state of SF6 with Capcom about to run 90% of CPT online again.

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[Krandor]

https://twitter.com/holyknee/status/1780647242871009659

Came to this same realization myself last night

They across the board nerfed defensive options in the game plus all the additional offensive tools heat gives. Tekken was always a game where good defense won you games, and they completely murdered that in this with the constant plus frame 50/50s (to say nothing of the characters with safe on block tracking armored heat engage moves) and absurd damage output coming from how tiny most of the stages are.

Incredibly accurate description from Reddit of what every game looks like at higher levels

Round start, 5 seconds of neutral and someone gets launched for 50% HP. Combo ends in heat, grounded player has to guess. Guess wrong and it's over, guess right and block, opponent uses heat dash to force another 50/50, guess wrong it's over, guess right and block and now the first player is at 30% go because of chip but has rage and heat and can comeback in 2 forced 50/50s

[Weltall]

So Tekken went the way of SF with 5. In the shitter.

[Krandor]

SFV was flawed at a base game design level, Tekken 8 is salvageable. The issues largely stem from damage being way too high (even characters like Xiaoyu now hit as hard as Paul) and heat dash cancelling being way too powerful. It's akin to the earlier days of SFIV were FADC Dragon Punches were safe on block, except now the yolo cancel also nets you +14 frame advantage for a free 50/50.

They also nerfed the shit out of sidestepping by giving way too many moves tracking properties (most specifically how all throws track now), but that's another issue that could be fixable.

Edit : ok and there's way too many moves among the top tier characters that are plus on block while also being heat engagers and/or combo starters, so you can just spam them over and over and over again.

[Weltall]

SF6 also seems like it’s entirely offense from my limited viewing. Gone completely is any sense of playing a character uniquely. That has been long gone since SF4.

The only thing close Ive seen from modern SF is like JWong/Sako playing the Egyptian girl. That’s also a stretch.

[Krandor]

Quite a few of the top tiers players have said the same thing about Tekken 8. Dragunov is at absolute worst top 3 with every possible tool available, but if you watch high level play everyone plays him exactly the same, just alternating between his unreactable lows and +6 on block mids

[Weltall]

Sad times. That’s why your EVO question had 0 responses RIP