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The BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Official Thread [360/PS3] - Be Ready for the Rebel

TheExodu5

Banned
Chauncy Talon said:
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo. You will get better. How I got better was watching the DVD that came with the game. I learn so much after that

Won't help too much if you're a Rachel player. The advanced Rachel section is easily the worst on the DVD.
 
akachan ningen said:
I just beat score attack. Ragna took me 4 tries but rachel was pretty easy, beat her on the first. btw, did anyone beat SA mode without doing the 2P start trick? I feel for you if you did. :p

Fuck my ass, you mean I could've slept that night??
 

Grifter

Member
kafka rock opera said:
Consider me down aswell since its the weekend i can stay up! My arakune has im improved prepare to taste my bee's!

I'm in, real life is taking too much time from gaming and I'm making up the time tonight!@
 
TheExodu5 said:
Won't help too much if you're a Rachel player. The advanced Rachel section is easily the worst on the DVD.

It was of great help to me. My second in line is Rachel, and the dvd was phenomenal for help. It helped me understand how to use Rachel's cat uppercut to keep air attacks at bay, to keep the block up, and use the chair for some easy damage if under pressure. They didn't go into much detail on the winds effects on your moveset though.

Xbl
GT:xXSteelBlastXx

I'm up for some games tonight, and I'm not new to the game either.
 
I let my friend borrow the game after only getting to play for like a day. :lol At least he's digging the game a lot.

But now I have it back finally and I'm working on the first 6 Litchi combos from the tutorial disc. Any GAF PSN meets planned for today? My PSNID is ndmazin.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Won't help too much if you're a Rachel player. The advanced Rachel section is easily the worst on the DVD.

No kidding... All I remember in the advanced section was "be ready to block a lot" and I was left wondering wtf am I supposed to do after blocking.

Worst advanced section ever
 

Ferrio

Banned
toasty_T said:
Is Litchi a hard character to pick up? .

Ya she's pretty difficult, and the bad side she's fairly low tier even if you do get good at her.

Reasons she's hard:

-Two different move sets (staff, or no staff).
-Outside of the corner she doesn't have very good mix ups. (with staff she has no good low move, Her A's also are only comboable on CH).
-Low damage
-Difficult combos that are very dependent on distance and character.
-Her distortions are difficult to use. You can't just stick them out there like some characters and get a ton of damage... they require setup.

Reasons she's awesome:

-Corner shenanigans.
-One of the best punishing moves (and AA's) in the game.
-Her Range/zoning.
-Air throw range
-Good mobility. (Command back dash, fastest air dash in game, her staff jumps)
 

georgc

Member
I'm trying to do this combo with bang and i cant seem to get it. Its only one part that i need help with. Down.C, forward.D, then his fire punch. How come the fire punch doesn't cancel the forward.d move?

It can be done and seen it on the DVD and I've tried it at every stage of the animation. Am i missing a trick? I don't think its a rapid cancel because I've seen people do it at the beginning of the match.
 

Ferrio

Banned
georgc said:
I'm trying to do this combo with bang and i cant seem to get it. Its only one part that i need help with. Down.C, forward.D, then his fire punch. How come the fire punch doesn't cancel the forward.d move?

Because it's actually trickier than that. To do the Fire punch from the forward d you have to do a Jump Cancel Cancel.... ya i never knew they existed until that combo.

Basically what happens is you cancel the forward D with a jump, but then cancel the jump before you actually leave the ground with the fire punch move.

So to do it, you have to do something like 923B or something like that. (I think B is the fire punch right?) A bang player will inform you better though.
 
georgc said:
I'm trying to do this combo with bang and i cant seem to get it. Its only one part that i need help with. Down.C, forward.D, then his fire punch. How come the fire punch doesn't cancel the forward.d move?

It can be done and seen it on the DVD and I've tried it at every stage of the animation. Am i missing a trick? I don't think its a rapid cancel because I've seen people do it at the beginning of the match.

Like Ferrio said, it's a jump cancel. It's similar in motion to a Tiger Knee (2369), except it's a DP (6239).
 

g0atcheese

Neo Member
xero273 said:
yay! finally finish story mode. I can't wait to see the addition characters in the sequel. and now I'm ready to go online.

Says the naive BlazBlue novice, if only you knew what awaits you :lol
 

Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
My stuff arrived!!!!!! :D :D Stick si awesome, getting used to it in SF. Will take a while.

Now, about... BB...
What is the best controller config for the SF4 TE stick?
 

MoxManiac

Member
I need to put SF4 and DW6E down long enough to give this another shot. I haven't touched it since the initial session i played it when i first got the game.
 

Teknoman

Member
Relix said:
My stuff arrived!!!!!! :D :D Stick si awesome, getting used to it in SF. Will take a while.

Now, about... BB...
What is the best controller config for the SF4 TE stick?

If its the same layout as SE, this is what was recommended earlier:

ABC
D(B+C for throwing)
 

Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
Teknoman said:
If its the same layout as SE, this is what was recommended earlier:

ABC
D(B+C for throwing)

Thanks. Did it.

SO... XBL: Lord Relix. I suck. Absolutely suck. But gotta learn!!!! Invite me =P
 

Mrninjaman

Neo Member
TheExodu5 said:
Won't help too much if you're a Rachel player. The advanced Rachel section is easily the worst on the DVD.

Well thats good to know I watched it and tried to practice a bit with Rachel, thinking of using her as a sub, but it was just like a general strat nothing really useful at all, luckily there is Dustloop
but i still suck T.T
 

JEKKI

Member
I'm at evo watching losers bracket for 4th place, JAN vs pulsr

Jan beat pulsr's v13 with tager!! Made him switch to hakuman lol

but in the end Jan goes to losers finals!!
 
To anyone who has gotten 100% completion on each character in Story mode, do you have to lose each match to increase your percentage? I'm sitting on around 90% with a few characters and I've done all the paths according the the thread on Dustloop.
 
toasty_T said:
To anyone who has gotten 100% completion on each character in Story mode, do you have to lose each match to increase your percentage? I'm sitting on around 90% with a few characters and I've done all the paths according the the thread on Dustloop.

Yes, you have to lose matches against the characters to get a complete ending.
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
toasty_T said:
To anyone who has gotten 100% completion on each character in Story mode, do you have to lose each match to increase your percentage? I'm sitting on around 90% with a few characters and I've done all the paths according the the thread on Dustloop.

Yup, losing can also make a different branch of the story open, but you still need to lose to the ones that just go to game over for percent.
 
akachan ningen said:
I just beat score attack. Ragna took me 4 tries but rachel was pretty easy, beat her on the first. btw, did anyone beat SA mode without doing the 2P start trick? I feel for you if you did. :p

What is this trick you speak of?
 

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
I'm finally back from vacation! Noticed this thread grew another 33 pages. I'm not reading all of that. :lol

Are gaffers still active on XBL?
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
ZealousD said:
I'm finally back from vacation! Noticed this thread grew another 33 pages. I'm not reading all of that. :lol

Are gaffers still active on XBL?

There's one going now, Lord Relix is hosting it.
 
ZealousD said:
I'm finally back from vacation! Noticed this thread grew another 33 pages. I'm not reading all of that. :lol

Are gaffers still active on XBL?

You should check your GAF account online. I'd imagine that people have been sending friend requests like me.
 
Red Blaster said:
Does the match not count if the other guy quits? I just railed a guy by spamming Jin's C attack, he called me a fag and then bailed.

It shows up as an incomplete match for the both of you. I don't like that feature, because it punishes both of us even though I'd never quit a match.
 

TheExodu5

Banned
Oh man, I might be improving, but I still can't win a match. :lol

I probably have the single worst win ratio on PSN. :lol

My biggest problem is my defense. Even button spammers just mash, get me in the corner, and I have the toughest time countering. I think I'm overusing barrier shield.

My first win of the night, against a 50% Litchi. :lol

I am now level 5. Bow before my 4 wins 40 losses!
 

Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
I am like 5-30 now :lol

GG's guys, I started button smashin but then discovered there are tactics hidden and started using them. Probably if we play tomorrow I can get some more rounds off you guys :lol Also, gotta adapt to the new stick. That's taking a while..

Also, fuck the burst barrier thing :lol
 

Mrninjaman

Neo Member
TheExodu5 said:
Oh man, I might be improving, but I still can't win a match. :lol

I probably have the single worst win ratio on PSN. :lol

My biggest problem is my defense. Even button spammers just mash, get me in the corner, and I have the toughest time countering. I think I'm overusing barrier shield.

My first win of the night, against a 50% Litchi. :lol

I am now level 5. Bow before my 4 wins 40 losses!

We should play I'm pretty crappy too, the worst is loosing to the Ice Car spammers I think, I hate it when a jin players does nothing but special moves and yet i still loose...

Although i am lvl 7 (only b/c i beat a lvl 16 and got 2 lvls from it) anyways look me up my PSN is Mrninjaman
 

TheExodu5

Banned
Sure thing, I'll add ya.

To both of you, I'll just say that I think it will pay off in the end. While these Jin/Noels are just constantly spamming ice cars and drives, we're taking a more tactical approach and making an effort to learn the finer mechanics of the game.

I'm learning opening in my opponents spamming, slowly learning combos, and learning my opponents tactics. I don't have the experience or the familiarity with my character to pull off what I want to pull off at this point, but I'm far more situationally aware then I was, and am feeling that I'm constantly improving. I don't think the spammers are going to quite get as much out of it as we will in the end.
 
Yeah, good games, guys :lol

I gots me some wins on dat Tager! :D lolz at Ice Car awesomeness XD Actually, though, I did do some pretty amazing things with Jin while keeping the Ice Cars at a minimum :eek:

Oh, man...I haven't been playing with Litchi anymore :(

You did pretty damn well for your first day with the game, Relix.

Anyway, I think 4 players is the sweet spot for rooms because it doesn't take long for your turn to come up.

By the way, is Raznell a GAFfer? His Taokaka was awesome.
 

Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
I made it my mission to learn Noel, then Lichti... and probably Gin or Hakuman. Noel is just the noob character IMO... she's pretty damn cool and I like that rush down style though. Love it.
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Yup, good games!

I've switched from the dpad to the control stick because I was butchering the throws a lot, so I was doing more of the 360 grabs tonight. =D

I really need to learn how to fight Jin though, he comes up so often in both ranked and player matches yet I never really got a hold on his style like I did some of the others. And I'd say Nu is a lost cause, it's pretty much like trying to scale a mountain where the littlest mistake in climbing makes the mountain angry and lob stalagmites into your chest until you get killed six times over.

Also, I definitely think you would have won more rounds just how you are now Relix. The barrier burst thing really messed it up, especially when it happened early and it's basically chopping your life in half.
 

Dreavus

Member
TheExodu5 said:
Sure thing, I'll add ya.

To both of you, I'll just say that I think it will pay off in the end. While these Jin/Noels are just constantly spamming ice cars and drives, we're taking a more tactical approach and making an effort to learn the finer mechanics of the game.

I'm learning opening in my opponents spamming, slowly learning combos, and learning my opponents tactics. I don't have the experience or the familiarity with my character to pull off what I want to pull off at this point, but I'm far more situationally aware then I was, and am feeling that I'm constantly improving. I don't think the spammers are going to quite get as much out of it as we will in the end.

You nailed it. Throwing random crystal strikes as Jin and mashing D as Noel doesn't lead to improvement. On the receiving end, you will shortly learn how to pick apart and destroy these players, while they will likely be left with nothing but their mashing. :D
 

TheExodu5

Banned
Dreavus said:
You nailed it. Throwing random crystal strikes as Jin and mashing D as Noel doesn't lead to improvement. On the receiving end, you will shortly learn how to pick apart and destroy these players, while they will likely be left with nothing but their mashing. :D

It's a slow and grueling path though. :lol Especially for a fighting game noob such as myself.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Sure thing, I'll add ya.

To both of you, I'll just say that I think it will pay off in the end. While these Jin/Noels are just constantly spamming ice cars and drives, we're taking a more tactical approach and making an effort to learn the finer mechanics of the game.

I'm learning opening in my opponents spamming, slowly learning combos, and learning my opponents tactics. I don't have the experience or the familiarity with my character to pull off what I want to pull off at this point, but I'm far more situationally aware then I was, and am feeling that I'm constantly improving. I don't think the spammers are going to quite get as much out of it as we will in the end.

I may play on Xbox live, but I sympathize as a Rachel player. I've come to understand that in order to beat spammers with rachel you have to master using her air cannons. I know that her strong, and middle strength air cannons can give them some trouble if you fire them from the air. Once you put a little pressure on them using the air cannons use pumpkins, and cannons from the ground with wind to keep pressure on them. They'll be to afraid to attack from the air, and they'll have no choice, but to resort to spamming. This is where the quick consecutive uses of the electric chair,cat upper, and her down-forward 5 hit combo keeps them paranoid, and confused. Spammers wouldn't even know what to do at this point, and you can just pick at their life gauge. These tactics have helped me get my win ratio out of the low thirties into mid 40s range in player matches where the spammers reign supreme, and I've got 190 matches which makes it hard to change my win percentage as it is.

I didn't get to play with anyone tonight though ;_;
 
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