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General Discussion / Survival mode strategies?

« on: January 23, 2012, 06:31:08 AM »

I've basically been trying to get the 35 survival wins to get the stupid achievement since the game was released 2 months ago.  I can usually get somewhere into the low-mid twenties with my best characters, but after that, it becomes pretty futile trying to win rounds without getting hit by anything.

Can anybody who has finished this horrible task share any strategies for survival that go beyond "Play defensively"?  One thing for sure that I know I should do and always forget is to start rounds by holding back, so I block the CPU's instant NEO max right after the announcer says GO! (which they seem very fond of). 
Are there certain characters (or kinds of characters) that are better suited for this?  I have primarily been using Iori/EX Iori, Andy, Mai and Robert.  They all seem to be ok, until I realize that I just threw a projectile with under 50% health and I'm suddenly dead

I know the point of the achievement is that it's meant to be very difficult, but the fact that the computer basically builds the meter necessary for a random NEO max every 2 fights or so just from taking damage kind of pushes it over the edge.  If you get lucky, they'll do something stupid like super cancel into a ranbu while you're blocking instead of tagging you with a NM, but it doesn't really matter, since they'll just build back the lost drive gauge in a couple rounds anyway.
When you get into the higher levels and your health is a bit low, you can't even block, really, since the CPU will undoubtedly have 3-5 stocks laying around and will just chip you to death with a barrage of DMs, especially if they are Saiki, Ash, Maxima or somebody else with a safe projectile DM or NEO max.  Is there any way to avoid taking damage from Maxima's NM?  It feels like it lasts too long for you to roll to avoid it.  Are GCAB rolls even safe to do?

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Online Matchmaking / Eastern(ish) canada players?

« on: November 23, 2011, 11:07:23 PM »

I'm a Montreal player, and I have noticed some other people on here who are from ontario/the maritimes.  Can we somehow band together, in hopes of having some online matches with reasonable connections?
I guess to be fair, people from the northeastern US are ok, as well.

If you're interested in playing some friendly matches on XBL at some point, drop me a line.  GT is also hiltzy85

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Meet & Greet / Hello everybody

« on: November 23, 2011, 08:33:43 PM »

Although I just joined the forums a couple days ago, I've been reading here for a few months, to get myself geared up for KOF XIII. 
Anyways, I'm a Canadian player, born in Halifax (Nova Scotia, east coast), but now residing in Montreal for the last 8 years.  I came up here for university, and stayed on for grad school.
I have more or less been into fighting games since the early 90s, when Street Fighter 2 first became available on SNES.  I also played some of the original Fatal Fury early on, on Genesis.
I played a lot of the earlier Street Fighter/Capcom VS series (I stopped after Marvel 2), a lot of CvS and CvS2 and to a lesser extent KOF98 and 99.

In more recent times, I got back into gaming and started playing SFIV about a year or so ago, but quickly moved on to MK9, Tekken 6 and KOFXII.  I mainly picked up XII because I knew that XIII would eventually be coming to consoles, and it was fun to pass the time for a while.
I've never really played any of the games competitively, as far as attending tournaments go, but I did play MK pretty seriously online up until online became totally dead (right around the time that Gears 3 was released), and I'm somewhat interested in playing KOFXIII online, once I get a better grasp of it.  I wouldn't say that I'm a total newbie, but my inputs could use some (a lot) of sharpening.

Anyways, glad to be part of the community.  My GT is the same as my name here on the forums (with nothing in caps)