OLD Virtua Fighter

I saw someone online say that the game is broken and unbalanced in favor of Akira, because they "held block for an entire round to see what would happen, and Akira managed to hit them every time as though they weren't blocking at all"

LMAO the person admitted to telegraphing what they were doing for the entire round and leaving themselves wide open and called the game unfair. I don't think people understand the purpose of the guard button in this game lol.

 

I keep running into this Goh player that is demolishing me online. He's super diligent about all the down attacks so I have to constantly roll away as soon as I land or he'll finish the round in just a few moments. I keep getting matched up with him, I've only won one set against him in like 4 tries.

 

For the first time in my life, after literally decades of trying, I pulled off The Knee against an actual living person tonight. It took me decades to figure out a way to do it with my hands and longer to actually get good enough to sort of reliably do it. I've finally gotten to the point where I can pull it off maybe 3 out of every 4 tries, so tonight I finally landed it in a fight. I wish they had an achievement for that, because that's one of the coolest things I've done. I have to make like a raking claw motion with my hand and scrape downward hard to do The Knee, with my thumb catching guard. I have to position my claw hand in such a way that only the tip of my thumb graces the button. I slam my hand onto the joystick buttons and pull my hand down quickly so the thumb only catches the button for a single frame.

I don't know if the other dude knew what I did, but I definitely did. My adrenaline was pumping throughout the rest of the match and I was in the zone lol.

 

It's not a huge deal to me, because I honestly don't care about esports stuff, but the ranking system in this game makes no sense. Today, I leveled up like 5 levels in the span of about 2 hours on a 22 game win streak, one of my best days in a while. By the end of the day, I had lost all those levels from seemingly random matches. I could win 3 matches in a row, then lose a set, and the next match would be a demotion rank. Sometimes, it'll feel the opposite -- I can go on a long losing streak and my rank doesn't change at all. Sometimes, I can go on a long winning streak, and my level barely moves. It doesn't seem tied to the opponent rank, higher or lower it does these weird things.

Again, it doesn't really matter to me, at least not until VF6 is out, but this ranking system is weird and intuitive.

 

Said tourney highlights.

 

A match replay feature is coming soon via Seiji Aoki's latest producer letter.

 

Fucking FINALLY. Replay takeover would be so useful. I'm getting stomped by a bunch of level 42 people lately and I have no idea how to counter their shit. Being able to workshop a previous match it would be a godsend. Right now, I resort to steam's built in gameplay recording and just watch videos play back.