Ultra Street Fighter IV

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yes, sorry Joe, I was drunk and on my phone so it's not the most sensical post. I tried to edit it too and that appears to have gone wrong. I'll rejig it now in fact.

[Camel]

Thanks for ggs Joe and Igs.

[JLM]

Yes Joffles, that's exactly who it was! He's quite a bit shorter than Alistarr, for future reference. At one point I did kidney blow OS rolling thunder on his wake up and he was able to back dash and still block it. Stupid Rose. I wasn't surprised when it happened but was still quite salty.

Are you Hypespotting in March?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Camel how on earth do you do sim's b.mk x flame x super combo. There are far too many contrasting directions for my woeful execution. I've been messing about with sim a little bit recently and I can't get that down at all.

[Camel]

I can't get it down either. It's a rarity for me to pull it off tbh. There's timing to be aware of too. Donut makes it looks easy, ask him?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

quite why flame couldn't be hcf and kicks is beyond me. They did make some odd decisions with inputs for various moves.

Also everyone go and watch grand finals of thaiger uppercut. It's as good a set as I've seen in a long while.

[Camel]

b.mk x flame is pretty simple. I find that rolling forward after (so after hcb, do hcf rather than qcf) followed by a qcf makes it slightly easier but I still can't do it consistently.

[IgTerminals]

Thanks for ggs Joe and Igs.

Another great 2 hour set with excellent fightings and some real footsies!

I really can't handle your Honda, can I? AAing your buttslams was awesome though.

More!

[JLM]

I am so jealous of you folks and your GGs, but also very happy to hear that GGs are happening. It's quite a conflict.

[Plopboy]

My match against Shinji was meant to be on stream but got bumped at the last second. Guess my next tournament goal is to get on stream at a big event.

In other news, Microsoft held a national tournament for Killer Instinct and the winner should be a surprise to no one:

Is it me or is Justin getting younger?

I am so jealous of you folks and your GGs, but also very happy to hear that GGs are happening. It's quite a conflict.

I think your avatar sums up your feelings well. I really enjoyed your write up which had lots of lovely words and conveyed much of what makes this game great to play.

[sith]

I bumped in to OverMostHead's Oni in ranked!

Put up a good fight, should have won the 1st round when I did EX-Dive > EX-SPD. Should have been Ultra and he'd have been dead. He presses so many buttons though. If I play him again I'll use all my EX-meter on EX-SPDs for sure. I also need to anti-air more, there was at least 3 times in the final round where I could have used Tomahawk. He's got amazing execution though, I was eating full punishes everytime I made a mistake!

Hopefully I'll get a chance to play him again.

[carlito]

I may be out the game but it is an absolute pleasure to come in here and piece together the various Joey Helm tournament write ups to create a tapestry chronicling his transformation into actual real life Street Fighter Beast.

Road to EVO right here.

Love it.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

You're still on the game though, right?

[IgTerminals]

Alistarr and Donut - sorry I missed your messages the last couple of days. I have notifications set to off for videos and I didn't see your messages.

I don't want you to think I was ignoring you.

Annoyingly I was free and would have happily played you last night Donut, if I'd seen your message.

Sorry.

[carlito]

You're still on the game though, right?

Obv.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I just learned that Teddy Hawk's forward throw has a 3f shorter tech window that anyone else in the game. It's wild how many little inconsistencies there are.

http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Super_Street_Fighter_IV_AE/Universal_Abilities#Exceptions_to_the_Normal_Throw_Tech_Window

[Camel]

Terry Hawk's Pro Scalp Hoarding

[mayor_mike_haggar]

ultra is being sourly streamed from dreamhack, if you want to watch (Currently) someone trying out rolento in the training room.

http://www.twitch.tv/armshouse

rolento looks like he'd got loads of ways to combo into ultra, including a 1 meter midscreen combo at the moment.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

hugo's meat squasher runs the ENTIRE length of the stage, for some wild reason. Madness.

[Plopboy]

hugo's meat squasher runs the ENTIRE length of the stage, for some wild reason. Madness.

Yes but isn't that just two steps for Hugo?

[Plopboy]

ggs to Haggs for a long casual session especially Dan running away from Able's U2

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yes good games. How many times did I get yang? I genuinely have no clue how to play yang.

[Plopboy]

you did manage the odd FADC though, which was nice.

[strawdonkey]

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/11/29/weekend-deals-terraria-call-of-juarez-gunslinger-divekick-more/

Divekick and SSFIV:AE are a shade over three quid this weekend on PSN.

On a completely unrelated note, has anyone recently dual-modded their 360 TE for PS3 use, and can recommend a method? I'm considering it but am not sure whether to wait for PS4 mods to show up in the future.

[JLM]

With this news and me snagging a shiny new PS3 stick at Heggwest, the time to double dip on AE has arrived. Cheers for the heads up.

[Judgement]

Any news on the fifth character yet?

[ah]

Not officially but it's heavily rumoured that it will be Sagat's other eye.

[Judgement]

SOLD!

[Nate Dogg III]

I have been invited to Capcom in London to play Ultra in a couple of weeks. Four days after Nate Dogg IV is due. Hngngnggg.

(I'm probably going anyway)

[Camel]

Oh excellent, I can have SSFIV installed on both my consoles.

Still showing as £10.99 at the moment. Will keep an eye on it.

I'll go in your place if you like, Nate.