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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 09, 2015, 07:17:45 PM »
My own gameplay isn't anything not worthy of being ashamed of itself.

I mean, I don't just manage to not punish blocked Burn Knuckles or DPs; I manage to get my close Cs counterhit swept after blocking them.  That's a really special brand of fail.

Do something about it then. Go into training mode, use record mode and find proper ways to dealing with moves you have trouble with. Get those combos down, find out what moves are safe and unsafe at certain distances. Just play the game, stop the negative, self-pity talk.
Is there any way to record without a second controller?  When I try to record in training mode, I get a message saying "press start on the controller you wish to use", and when I press start on my controller, it takes me back to the training mode options screen.

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 09, 2015, 06:31:43 PM »
My own gameplay isn't anything not worthy of being ashamed of itself.

I mean, I don't just manage to not punish blocked Burn Knuckles or DPs; I manage to get my close Cs counterhit swept after blocking them.  That's a really special brand of fail.

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 09, 2015, 05:35:53 PM »
Ok...firstly, you need to change your attitude a bit about your expectations about your gameplay (calling the video Worst KOFXIII play ever or whatever) and just embrace learning through time and experience
So... uh, what am I supposed to think when I'm losing literally 4 out of 5 games to people who have literally 0 games played before they face me?

Because that's actually how I'm performing right now.  There's literally no room for debate that I'm the single worst player playing this game.

EDIT: Correction,  it's actually closer to I lose 9/10 against people who have literally never touched the game before, lol.  And that's after I've played about 120 games and spent over 20 hours in training mode, and have years of experience in other fighting games.  There's definitely something completely wrong with my approach, and I have literally no fucking clue what.

Well, how do you exactly know if someone really hasn't played the game before? Are you judging from a person's online profile? Are you asking a person how many hours or games they played? Why do you care about that?
This probably falls under "judging from a person's online profile", but when someone has a 0-0 record and does "BURN KNUCKLE!  BURN KNUCKLE!  CRACK SHOOT!  BURN KNUCKLE!  CRACK SHOOT!  CRACK SHOOT!  BURN KNUCKLE!  BURN KNUCKLE!  CRACK SHOOT!  BURN KNUCKLE!" interspersed with tons of jumps that sail miles over my head and sweeps after blocked burn knuckles that are somehow counter-hitting my close Cs despite Burn Knuckle being incredibly minus on block, it's not a terribly unlikely guess.  

When I play against him over and over in the ranked match queue and see that every single one of his wins is against me and throughout the night he's racking up losses to everyone else he faces, it makes it a 100% unavoidable fact that I'm the worst KoF XIII player at least currently.

Or, if you want to make it even simpler, look at it from the other guy's perspective -- when you see a guy with a record of roughly 3 - 125 (that is to say, me), and then you OCV him in your first game ever, what would you think of your opponent?  I'm guessing something along the lines of "holy christ, what a tard."

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 09, 2015, 05:00:06 AM »
Ok...firstly, you need to change your attitude a bit about your expectations about your gameplay (calling the video Worst KOFXIII play ever or whatever) and just embrace learning through time and experience
So... uh, what am I supposed to think when I'm losing literally 4 out of 5 games to people who have literally 0 games played before they face me?

Because that's actually how I'm performing right now.  There's literally no room for debate that I'm the single worst player playing this game.

EDIT: Correction,  it's actually closer to I lose 9/10 against people who have literally never touched the game before, lol.  And that's after I've played about 120 games and spent over 20 hours in training mode, and have years of experience in other fighting games.  There's definitely something completely wrong with my approach, and I have literally no fucking clue what.

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 08, 2015, 05:35:29 AM »
Does that mean I should avoid using Shen far standing C for anti-hop usage?  I had seen it mentioned as his premier anti-hop tool, but damn that thing is out there for a year and a half if you whiff it.

(Also, I think you have the wrong link; that's a Guilty Gear finals at Final Round).

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 08, 2015, 04:45:40 AM »
Thirdly, you should look into what normals your characters have that can be use in different situations offensively and defensively. With King for example, you should use far C and far D to stop incoming hops at a mid-range distance. With Billy you can use crouching C (heavy punch) as a grounded anti-air, and j. A as an air-to-air attack. Shen you can use j. CD as an air-to-air or air-to-ground (be mindful that it can be low profiled), and his crouching C as an grounded anti-air.
Should I be trying to react to a "hop vs. full jump" situation from my opponent, or should I be trying to read and preempt him?  I find a lot if times I stick out a King or Shen far standing C to try to stuff an expected hop, only to have someone do a full jump instead and land right on me.  Trying to react to a hop seems tough, and it's hard to tell based on range which they'll do since hop D's and hop CDs tend to have pretty huge range.

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 08, 2015, 02:55:01 AM »
About a week and a half.

I'm quite new to the game, and don't really have a handle on the basics (obviously), despite having watched several video tutorials (watching and doing/truly understanding really aren't the same thing).

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Training Room / Re: Gameplay video critiques
« on: June 06, 2015, 08:53:28 AM »
So, here's some footage of me getting smashed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7oltR2X_Qw&feature=youtu.be

Training mixed in with matches.  Matches at about 4 minutes to about 20 minutes, and about 35 minutes to about 38 minutes, and about 45 minutes to the end.

There's so much going wrong that I honestly don't even know what I should be working on.  Every time I try to be "active", I get smashed, but turtling also gets me killed.  Execution is... problematic, to say the least.  

More specifically, with Billy, I can't get people respecting the threat of the A-pokes enough to set up any kind of offense (and getting that damn mash move by accident doesn't help matters); with King, every fireball I throw seems to get me killed, and I can never make any space once anyone is on me; and with Shen, I have have no idea WTF I'm doing (I've watched the Juicebox tutorial for the character, but standing back and charging rush-punches or waiting for people to jump just seems to get me killed), but I really have no idea how to fix any of these.

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Meet & Greet / Re: New KOF XIII Player From DFW Area!
« on: June 05, 2015, 11:15:16 PM »
Yeah, I saw the thread here, and didn't notice that the year was 2014 :(

No idea what's going on for the game in the DFW area right now.  KoF isn't on the list of games at D-Town Beatdown.

I've posted in the DFW thread; we'll see if that gets any replies.

EDIT: D'oh, I'm a dumbass and didn't notice that you were the guy with almost every post in the DFW thread.  Whoops.  If you're still in the area, get in touch with me on Steam.

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Offline Matchmaking / Re: Dallas-Fort Worth Meetups
« on: June 05, 2015, 06:21:08 PM »
So, is anything still going on in the DFW area for KoF XIII?

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Meet & Greet / New KOF XIII Player From DFW Area!
« on: June 04, 2015, 07:36:44 AM »
Howdy!

I'm Cynical, and I'm to both the KoF series and KoF XIII in particular.  I live in the DFW area -- Arlington, TX to be exact.  My Steam profile is here: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198032825140/  Feel free to add me for games on Steam, or, if you live in the area, feel free to contact me if you want to body me in person.

(On a side note, is anyone here going to Bar Fights on the 21st?  I'll probably show up just to try to make some contact with the local scene.)

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