Hate Speech: When Worlds Collide (Revisited)

[CMDRZeroC]

But it becomes spam when you have torn apart there sequence of moves and they continue to do it to no avail.

Just my 2 cents

Im with you. The fact that i kept side stepping, ducking and blocking the crossbow bolts didn't stop him from firing them.

 

[SinseiPo]

Im with you. The fact that i kept side stepping, ducking and blocking the crossbow bolts didn't stop him from firing them.

Sadly, sometimes a player brings the one or two moves he/she knows to the player matches and ranked matches. If he/she is lucky they'll match up with someone else that has done the same thing and both parties will have "fun" otherwise things can be comical. One player will be side stepping, ducking and blocking and the other player's character usually gets, well.... Punished :-) When I face this kind of player, I usually don't try to punish them immediately, I use the opportunity to practice moves and techniques that I'm still working on. I treat my opponent like we were in training mode. I will always give them a 'gentlemen's round' and always give them the first half of the last round(that way everyone goes home with a prize), and then I bring the match to a merciful close. This gives my opponent just enough motivation that they think to themselves "I almost had him" and they are encouraged to go practice, but not so much punishement that they are scared to go Online again, or that they totally put the game down.

I've noticed online C1, D3s,B5s,etc just brutalizng E5's who are at less than Level 10.
I don't know where the fun is in that. Its obvious to everyone in the room the C1's etc are more skilled, but they just for some reason feel the need to just obliterate the new comers. Why don't they pick on someone their own rank or higher? It can be a cruel world online LOL. I've already noticed the E5 Bullies, that won't go rank up, but instead they stay at E5 and sport the 'Beginner' title but in reality they are intermediate players, who think that its sport prey on unsuspecting noobs. Intermediate -to-advanced players should really leave the beginner's rooms to beginners. Beginners can willfully come to causal rooms or everybody's welcome room or the Colesseo if they want to casually play higher ranked players. Most times when beginners pick beginner's rooms they don't expect to have to meet strong intermediate to advanced players. In these instances usually what happens is you will see the room has been terminated because host has left the room. This happens a lot because of those E5 bullies :)

 

[Ashley]

Everything is ok in SCV except that all the stats are permanently tracked like you mention and there's no casual type games where we can just play around and not have it reflect on our numbers. And 70% of the player population seems to be Natsu right now.. it's.. really annoying.. the other 10% is Xiba and the last 10% is Maxi or Mitsurugi.

For me matches keep dropping completely near the second or final round of the fight. It's frustrating as well! But yes the connections overall seem to be quite smooth!

 

[rudeb0y]

My experience at the moment is that there are a lot of new guys starting out and learning the game. If I come into a game that I know I am likely to win then I decide during the loading screens on working / doing something in my game that I struggle to pull off and use that against my opponent. This usually means dropping a few rounds unnecessarily but I will still try to win the match overall - hopefully helping to improve my clutch play - albeit against lower skilled players. I do get mad still, always at myself though because I did something stupid, or because of lag! ARGH!

If the new player is spamming though, I do try hard to break their habit - by beating them with mix up and hopefully showing that spam isn't effective, it's predictable :)

Would love to get some more offline games though but for me at the moment it isn't really feasible; friends live too far apart.

 

[CMDRZeroC]

Yes, with the titles and all i started picking characters that i don't normally use to learn something new. Then i start getting wrecked by someone who was a way better player than me. No shame in that though. In SCIV i would like to think that i was a intermediate to a little higher player, but i have lost so many of my game mechanics (still find myself trying to parry), and the removal of my top characters (Cass, Amy, xianghua. [and no the replacement aren't the same]) so it's been slow going.