Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

[Rikuto]

So, Bayman is the Astaroth of DOA?

Sort of? Well he played quite a bit like a much, much weaker Astaroth in DOA 4, but since he actually has punishment options this time I wouldn't say the comparison is too accurate. And he's slow, but not the slowest as that honor would fall to Bass.

Bayman and Bass are characters that have offensive holds, which unlike regular throws can potentially beat strikes like throws in SC can. I guess in that regard it helps them play a bit like Astaroth lol.

I would say Bass is definitely closer to Astaroth though.

Maybe the Life bar is also set on normal!? It's funner on the largest setting... :)

I always preferred normal for the most part. It feels like my attacks are more meaningful. You aren't alone in that opinion though.

 

[Igneous42]

"You’ll be able to choose any number of characters and stages, and the random select option will be limited to only the characters and stages selected"

HOLY CRAP someone actually finally did it. I've wanted this forever. I wonder if you can customize which outfit it will choose and stuff as well. I'd like it even more in Soul Calibur. Hate how I can't do like "random custom char" or "Random no customs" and stuff.

 

[MorrowsWings]

Damn it! This makes want to play sooo bad!

Sort of?
I always preferred normal for the most part. It feels like my attacks are more meaningful. You aren't alone in that opinion though.

Normal here too but with three more round after round two sometimes the opponent shows his true colors.

 

[Rikuto]

Well yea, best of 5 normal has always been my standard.

A lot of the reason people leaned towards largest back in DOA 4 was due to the outrageous counter-hold damage. Thats been nerfed pretty substantially, but we'll have to see how the game plays out. By default we're going with normal, but we'll see what people want to do after the game starts being played.

The primary thing is, we want a reasonable standard people will agree with and be happy with. We're all very tired of having community divide over the issue and frankly we would have preferred if they did not even give the players an option to change the life settings.

 

[MorrowsWings]

Countering is a problem to tournament people
cause it's broken as many would say.

Damn it I'm playing DOA Dimensions and I hate playing against spammers and players with cheap tactics