BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

[Moridam]

hakumen changes seem interesting, longer active window on D counters will be awesome, even if it's only 6D/2D.

kinda curious as to how much meter that barrier move is going to cost.

[Ramor]

ha, 11 for tager that's awesome.

[Nitsuki]

there's prolly gonna be complaints on tager having that much guard, i have a good feeling arcsys is gonna change that, but at the same time, it'll make good sense to give tager that much. He does have to block a lot and capitalize on the opening, he's not one to be a rushdown character like almost everyone else.

[Insanecyclone]

This is still a test so things ARE subject to change

[Ramor]

yeah, but considering how often against just about every character my block almost breaks as tager (not for lack of trying to get an attack string started) i'm guessing it'll still be pretty high

[Squeelch]

Spoiler for big pic, also I suppose it could be a spoiler.

Spoiler: show

http://i34.tinypic.com/30ij6fr.jpg

[Insanecyclone]

Spoiler for big pic, also I suppose it could be a spoiler.

Spoiler: show

http://i34.tinypic.com/30ij6fr.jpg

Well we kind of already guessed Hazama would be in it
http://i36.tinypic.com/2lc63ow.jpg

Hazama

Profile
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 61 kg
Birthday: April 29
Blood Type: AB
Birthplace: Unknown
Hobbies: Collecting silver accessories
Likes: Boiled eggs
Dislikes: Cats
CV: Yuichi Nakamura

General Information:
Drive: Ouroborus - Summons chains which can hang in the air, be launched at enemies, or be used for transportation by swinging from an axis. It might also be able to ensnare his opponent.

He wields knives and will apparantly be a speed-based character.

[Merovingian]

great hazama is in, if he's speedy like Chip zanuff i'm sold.

[Nitsuki]

here's hoping hazama will be a charge character, then i have Axel and May, from the chains, seems like Axel.

Saw the new things for noel, seriously i hope they change her, cuz she's a dead in the mid tier character, and they nerfed her like no tomorrow, almost to the point of pretty much being unplayable, if they don't fix anything, looks like i'm def going ragna and learning hazama.

Noel nerfs:

Noel:

5a: more +frames (wow)
5b: on hit can jump cancel. scale more
5c: 12F, cannot jump cancel on block
ja: start-up is slower, confirmed.
jc: star-up may be slower.
6A： can only hit crouching tager/hakumen. head invincibility start-up may have been delayed
6B： May scale more (or may just be 22c scaling)
6C：hit stop, tech time, start-up all got nerfed. second hit has guard crush properties (means it can take out a primer).
JD： air hit cause ground bounce. untechable time increased
J6D： No idea what this move is for.
throw： Scales more
air throw： more start-up, more recovery (ouch)


・chain revolver- initiate
D： nothing new here.
2D： No longer overhead, feels like it still has good hitbox though.
4D： faster
6D： faster, still low.

・Chain revolver- follow-ups
A： current c. faster, spammable (not sure if I got this right)
6A：didn't change
B: didn't change
6B： more knockback, maybe
C：current a, can rc.
6C： guard crush, hit level decreased maybe. Can AA (may be wrong). cannot combo from D.

・Chain revolver- Special
Bloom： didn't change
Assault： guard crush
Raid： more landing recovery. need to rc to continue combo if not in corner.

・Special
bareru (236 a-c)： comes out faster, less block stun.
mazuru (command throw)： No change
22b： parameter didn't change, not sure about scaling change.
22c： more recovery, more scaling

Ground super： Damage didn't change. Guard point change unknown.
Air super： Cannot do anything till landing. All character can punish.


・Combo
Currently only certain character can be hit by regular bloom combo. If not in corner the combo is hard.
Bloom loop not possible (the corner one).
Will need to figure out new combos.


・Others
Only 5a jump cancelable on guard makes her offense suck (sounds about right)
Edit: ??? I read that wrong. I actually don't know what this guy was referring to.
6c hit stop is very little so cannot reliably combo.
???
because 2d is not overhead can no longer feint people into getting hit by command throw.

[Nitsuki]

Now i just saw this on Dustloop

Noel: chain revolver moves are jump cancellable, but this is hearsay.

Hellooooooooooooooooo

[Ramor]

I don't think noel needs a nerf at all, and at best i think v-13 and arakune (possibly jin) just need some minor tweaks to them, which they seem to be getting

unlike superragefighter4 which needs some serious fucking balancing because fuck shoryuken

[Nitsuki]

Well, Arakune's basically a character to relearn now w/ the new cursing method, nu has been nerfed to hell, Jin has been nerfed pretty bad tho it was kinda uncalled for. Noel is a mid-tier that shouldn't have been nerfed to begin with. However, people speculate that the way she's played wasn't the way ArcSys created her to play like (the 22C > BC loops, and the 22BC loops are apparently glitches). I think they meant for her to work for her damage and combo differently into her drives and not use those glitches to her advantage.

[Ramor]

ahh, well maybe in time it won't end up being a nerf but just a change in playstyle, in any case i'm thinking the noel vs. tager matchup will be wayyyy easier if the focus becomes more on drive attacks (from tager's perspective anyway)

[Nitsuki]

invincibility and guard breaks ftw tho, the nerf was completely done on her fast attacks, her 5A and 6A were shot down, and her 6C as well, it just ruins her completely, we'll have to wait til next month for the new loke test, rebalance go!

[Insanecyclone]

http://i33.tinypic.com/rbd6aq.jpg

[Merovingian]

sucks that it seems they might only add those 2 char, would be nice to see rachel's butler(Valkenhayn) in there to or maybe Jubei and the woman they show on some cutscene that its supposed to be Kokonoe mother( think Nine is her name)

[Ramor]

i'm really looking forward to BB:CS, and SSF4, mostly to the changes in BB god when is it supposed to happen D=

[Nitsuki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSGaQRYhMw Rachel v. Hazama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK46qk8IKV0 Noel v. Litchi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fankwBdeM0M Hazama v. Noel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJvtP_IBEQ Tsubaki v. Taokaka

Holy shit @ Hazama and Tsubaki, Holy shit at noel's optic barrel and her new drive loops, she seems fun as hell, but we'll see as the loke tests go. Also Tao's new Cat Spirit 2

*edit* nvm

[Insanecyclone]

Hazama is a smooth criminal

[Nitsuki]

I see slayer (his style), axel (his reach), and bridget (his homing in) in hazama, can't wait to use him, and i really am liking noel's new stuff, and her optic barrel is still holy shit.