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skullbone posted...

There were 3 matches I beat him 2-1 actually. He was losing his mind during the last match.

Ah nice, I only watched the first one lol. Also I thought you played Batman but it was a Jack fighting him at the 55 minute mark.

Btw watched your match against that Smith. Insanely close. Very nice try.

The good thing is if you keep winning your hidden MMR will increase which will make you lose less RP and gain more.

redrocket posted...

We should lobby to have it declared a Historic Landmark so that Fandom cant just arbitrarily shut it down.

Show me where to sign.

Void's latest tier list makes me feel amazing for hitting Master with Banana.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e5a0df71.jpg

Some info here from the MVS subreddit regarding how ranked mode currently works.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/13b69104.jpg

Good Marvins make you want to pull your hair out. Gotta play sooooo carefully.

And yeah I'm glad Ranked is finally best of 3 now, no more "I could have beat that person, damn it!".

INCEPTlON posted...

Anyone else feel like this place is one of the their last living remnants of old times? I cant think of another website I frequent that is still (relatively) similar to how it was when I first visited it.

Yeah Gamefaqs truly feels like the last bastion of the OG Internet.

I hope it never dies. :(

I think the Ranked matchmaking will get tightened up in an upcoming patch.

Congrats on Diamond though. I bet you could hit Masters if you tried. Still lots of season left.

I dunno when you play but I'd be happy to grind some 2s ranked sometime. I'll be free late Saturday night, late Sunday night, and late Monday night (woo holiday).

Add me at MikeTavish if you want. (This goes for anyone else too, I'll play with anyone idc lol).

skullbone posted...

Ended the night top 100 Batman at Plat 2 I believe. Being able to abuse grappling hook whenever the enemy is in burnout is very underrated. And for some reason there are a lot of players who LOVE to put themselves in burnout almost immediately.

I'm still having the most trouble with characters who can keep away like Morty and Gizmo. And of course Harley and Arya but I think you could mash your controller and beat most people playing those two.

Funny you mention that last part. I had a mission to play an assassin 8 times in ranked so I tried Arya for the first time and got obliterated over and over and over lmao. I guess I need to practice my mashing.

skullbone posted...

Man I really wish I knew what to do against Harley with Batman. I would bet my winrate in that matchup is probably 5%.

She whiffs her boxing glove and then drops with her side air which has so many active hitboxes it's completely safe.

I never know when to actually punish her.

Constantly jump up and down quick to bait them to push you, when they come in for the side air or a dash attack double jump over it quickly and do the down special kick. It's such a long, extended hitbox with no hurt box it's super safe. Probably Batman's best poking tool.

skullbone posted...

My winrate against Jason has gotta be 0% too. That's on me but I always get hit by his jab then I'm dead at 60%. Maybe my playstyle is just more susceptible to getting hit by jabs, idk.

This one gets me too a lot. Jason isn't OP by any means but someone good with him can give you a surprisingly tough time. And that combo of jab jab side special giving a guaranteed kill past like 60% is so terrifying.

Waluigi1 posted...

Wtf... Are you a secret fighting game pro?

25 years of playing all the Platform Fighters you can find gives you a lot of fundamentals I guess.

Punnyz posted...

I hate the dailies man

"play 5 FFAs"

"Play 5 1v1s"

"Play 5 2v2s"

I don't wanna sit here and play 15 matches brooooo gawwwwd

You know they don't expire and stack right? Just do a longer grind session once a week if you want and you'll have a bunch of those quests to get done all at once.

Waluigi1 posted...

I do get it. I don't play many fighters so I'm just not used to it.

Oh, so how about 2v2's though? I guess it's still just based on your character, your partner being irrelevant?

Yep. Each character has a 1s rank and 2s rank.

Hit #1 Banana Guard in the world today in 1s ranked. He's fun.

Street Fighter does the rank for each character thing too. I kinda like it tbh because I can work on hitting Masters with each character one by one. Once I'm there I don't care so much to keep grinding.

In news that isn't just talking about hitboxes. Saw this chart of who is currently in Masters (as of yesterday anyway).

I was just talking to someone about how my hardest matchups feel like Arya. That damn down tilt gets me every time.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d1bbe275.jpg

Punnyz posted...

FF6man I love you, I adore you, I've always liked you from our decades of being here

but this is a bunch of bullshit, bro. Thats not remotely true

Lol I love you guys too but we'll have to agree to disagree here. I've played basically every platform fighter at a high level and I don't think there was a single one where people didn't cry about OP characters, combos, and hitboxes. It's just a thing people do.

Melee Marth had some egregious hitboxes, Brawl Meta Knight and my personal demon Wolf would hit you from what felt like light years away. Ultimate has it too with Pyra/Mythra.

I'm sure I can find videos complaining about janky hitboxes and listing "the most overpowered moves in X game" without much issue.

Void put out a good video recently about this topic basically and that's where I'm at too.

I will say they need to upgrade the lab to display hitboxes ASAP if they want the game to feel more competitive. The ability to see hitboxes in front of your face is such a huge boon to your preparation for matchups.

Edit: Oh also I hit Diamond 1 with Banana Guard. Gonna try to get that last rank up to masters tonight.

Punnyz posted...

also

is it just me or did they change the rules of the level up event?

I ...already almost have it and I even did the math, I think I only gained like 5 levels total. I was seriously not even gonna attempt to go for it either and I'm at tier 14 out of 15

Yes the event changed. It's explained on the event page. It's based on exp now too.

Hitboxes that hit around the body and stuff have been common in every platform fighter I've ever played so I guess I'm just used to the whole "get hit by it and learn for next time how to properly space it" thing that comes with learning a new matchup in Smash bros and the like.

Weird, not having any issues on my end on pc or mobile.

Grand_Kirby posted...

I started Marvel Rivals. It has a Battle Pass. I said it before, I only have enough time to invest in a limited amount of BPs, so this is an easy drop.

It also helps that the challenges in that one aren't stupid like they are in this game. There's no "Play as The Incredible Hulk wearing a duck hat on a Tuesday 5 times" or whatever.

They got rid of most of (all of?) those skin challenges starting in season 2 btw.

Punnyz posted...

well then

Figured with a new season they would change a few things but they did nothing to the stupid hitboxes

Which in particular would you say are problematic?

Waluigi1 posted...

I think one of my biggest beefs with this game is the respawn situation. Like it just feels inconsistent on respawn invincibility. Sometimes it last a second or two and sometimes it's nonexistent. And before anyone says, I know about the perk, but it just seems dumb and idk why they can't have it like Smash's.

If you just move and don't touch any attacks, it lasts a good 4-5 seconds I've noticed, but the moment you touch any button you lose the invincibility. Took me a while to get used to it myself tbh.

KommunistKoala posted...

Why did they add a ranked mode if theyre just going to put you against people who match your hidden MMR?

These people I'm playing are definitely not Bronze 5 level

Yeah that was frustrating for the early parts of the climb to me too. Though once I got to gold I noticed it only paired with me gold+ in like 90% of games.

skullbone posted...

I know you like this game but pretending that the entire meta right now isn't who can get the jab first is weird.

I basically never jab. I should probably do it more often but when I try to jab I usually get punished for it.

Idk, I honestly don't have those issues. If I get hit it's because I mess something up, either my spacing or my timing or my hitbox placement.

In lighter news I'm excited to climb ranked this weekend when i have free time. Already almost to Plat in 1s with the Banana who I just randomly picked up a couple days ago.

So far seems like Morty is by far the hardest matchup for him. Running through mostly anyone else or at least having close matchups at worst.

Jack is good but not unbeatable by any means. I'm winning most of my games against him.

Almost every Jack spams the side special so much it's easy to just bait and punish it.

Since you only get a handful of dodges until you enter burnout, at the top level the game is all about baiting dodges out in a way you can punish, or, failing that, baiting enough of them that you force the opponent into burnout and take advantage.

If you're constantly rushing in guns blazing you'll definitely hit a wall in your wins.

From what I've played as Jack so far, he seems to have a fair amount of whiff lag, so if you can space correctly, it's not terribly hard to get into an advantage state, and since he's a relatively large body it's easy to keep him disadvantaged or hit some nasty combos.

skullbone posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/958d49c6.jpg

Dear lord make it stop

I need to try Harley again. Been having too much fun with the dumb Banana lately.

Never mind, just played through the new rift. There's one new gem type, you keep your old gems, and there was at least one node that used the old gems in the rift. Good choices.

Grand_Kirby posted...

By the way, there's still six more days to try and get him. There's new Rifts available too, although I'm not sure if they count towards Smith.

The new Rifts have new Gem categories, which I expected but is amazingly crappy. So any levels you built up with Gems so far are worthless. gg

I read there's only one new gem type and the other three still exist and will be used in future rifts/nodes and you keep all your previous exp. Is this not true? I haven't gotten to play yet.

Waluigi1 posted...

Did I miss something or did they make this last event literally impossible without paying for certain characters and skins? All the other events have had just enough missions to complete it without needing the specific skins or characters they want. I do see there's one more day and thus a couple more missions, but I'm still 2400 points away and there's no way they give out four 600pt missions.

There's a Rift that uses shark hat tom and Jerry as a guest character if you have that one still.

I can go find the exact node if you want it.

Season 2 in a week and a half. It's gonna be hype.

Enjoying Agent Smith from what I got to play so far. Busiest time of the year at work though so haven't had nearly as much time to play as I'd like.

Corrik7 posted...

I personally think Biden is unvotable in his state. I'm not entirely sure why he is so adamant to try and stay in office personally.

I'm not American, but anyone becomes votable when Trump is the other option, and I guess that's what Biden is counting on.

Yeah the story in Infinite Wealth never really grabbed me. As for the game as a whole, after over 120 hours I was kinda just happy it was finally over.

That said, I still loved the game and will look forward to the next one.

Grand_Kirby posted...

Yeah. Rift difficulty sucks. I got stuck at the computer battle because my hits barely did anything and every single character could one-hit kill me. On the lower difficulty level it didn't even last 10 seconds. It's not fun to play even when you win when it's so wildly unbalanced.

Also, minor thing, but you can't even "average" out your strength because your Gems automatically level up, and you can't unequip them*. So if you're overleveled but WANT to be on par with the stage, either for fun or to complete the challenges better, you just... can't. What kind of ass game design is that?

(*The closest you can do is equip Gems from the "wrong" category, which doesn't quite fix the problem.)

I beat that Computer level on Insanity with Bugs. His rocket does like 15% on the way up and 15% on the way down. Use that and either kill the Shaggys as they spawn, or run away until the rocket comes back using your tunnels.

Punnyz posted...

so

all of my matches my partners do the following

1. are a jackass who immediately just starts killing themselves with no provacation
2. are afk
3. use a mage and just shoot projectiles off to the side and immediately die once they are attacked
like..yes I can bypass this torture by playing 1v1, and I do

but you know

I kinda want TO PLAY THE PARTY GAME LIKE A PARTY GAME

but I keep getting teamed up with these fuckwads

this is not a game problem, its a people problem, and this kind of problem is in any team online game. but it fucking SUCKS here man because the team are always competent and I have this dude using Marvin the Martian and giving them 3-4 of their points

So strange, I don't think I've ever had these issues. Though I guess I don't play with Randoms often.

Add me at MikeTavish and I'll send you an invite if I'm free and see you online.

GavsEvans123 posted...

How's everyone doing on rift progress to unlock Agent Smith? I'm at 14. I've done the first four rifts 3 times each, and the summer rift twice. My chaos gems aren't high enough level to access Insanity difficulty for the summer rift yet.

15, every available current boss and Rift. I've done my daily rewards every day on the hardest rifts available and my gems are all between level 7-9. I should be ready for Looney difficulty without issue on July 10th.

Finished Power Pledge and hit level 15 with Gizmo. Really hoping for the big balance patch this week.

Grand_Kirby posted...

Oh, cool, they brought back the level up Event. And all the progress in it has reset. So it's even harder to complete now, especially if you leveled up characters while it was away (which I DIDN'T because I expected this happen. Not that it helps, because the amount of levels I have stored up isn't worth anything good anyway. Maybe for the NEXT time it comes back again).

I'm only logging in to try and complete the BP, but I'm not sure if I'll even do that. I have 30 days to get 40 tiers, and I definitely don't get a tier a day, so... I might be done as well. Even beyond that, the best way to progress the BP seems to be to spam easy Rift missions, which isn't like, fun. You know, the thing you want to do when playing a video game?

I left feedback asking for Power Pledge to be exp based rather than level based in the future.

You can easily get a level a day just from BP dailies, the weeklies make even more and they stack. Also, games give 50 BP exp per win and 25 per loss now. I haven't had much time since they changed it to play because of work but I'm still almost up to level 60. I feel like there's no way easy rifts are faster BP exp than regular games now.

Shame you guys aren't enjoying the game, I'm having a blast each time I boot up.

Punnyz posted...

So there was a mission to complete matches with caped characters

I did some PVPs with Supes

but ...I didn't get it

turns out, it doesn't count if you use his vacation skin.

the thing is...its technically right, I will admit its right: He doesn't have a cape

but I feel like the game is being a semantic smartass like, like...really man. Its SUPERMAN

ya know?

That one is Beach Ready at least if you get a mission for that.

Waluigi1 posted...

I find the timing on neutral dodge so weird. I've seen my character do their animation multiple times and it not work. I just don't get it I guess.

I was the same way the first day or two. I made a custom game with a friend and we tested the timing and now I'm pretty decent at it.

Grand_Kirby posted...

Same.

I'll add this game REALLY needs a damn shield system instead of just dodging. And making neutral input the slow/strong attack and tilts the fast jab, while having the latter be overidden by the dash attack is godawful. I don't feel like I have good control over my character, so why should I play?

A feature to swap forward attack with neutral attack is coming in one of the next couple patches. Maybe take a break until then.

Also you can Parry if you neutral dodge, so satisfying baiting someone into one. I hope they don't ruin it with shields.

Waluigi1 posted...

Or Bugs' forward jab, which is really annoying with how fast it comes out.

Yeah that's a really solid one.

To add to that, any move with a purple effect to it breaks armor instantly and still does knockback. For example, Marvin down attack or down air (lasers), shaggy down attack (foot stomp), or Gizmo down attack (keyboard).

Punnyz posted...

Since WW was removed from Rotation, I had to pick up Shaggy

he is surprisingly so frustrating to use because all of his attacks have some sort of delay to them

considering hes probably supposed to be the "Mario" of the game and everyone has him by default, its strange hes kinda hard to use

Are....are we playing the same Shaggy?

Waluigi1 posted...

Finally got it jfc. It took 20+ matches to get Townsville(Dexter's Lab in actuality, yay bugs) just 2 times. I'm not sure how many it actually took because it only shows the last 20 so it could have been 30 for all I know.

After playing a ton more PVP, I've also come to realize how weird and inconsistent hit-boxes are as well.

A trick you can use for map missions is Rift Mode works for them so if you can find a node on X map you can just use it for the missions to get them done quick.

Zigzagoon posted...

Nice tourney win! I wish I had a bud that was super committed and wanted to do tourneys and stuff like that.

If my duo isn't available for a tourney at some point I'd be happy to play one with you. Also good to just play 2s some time as well. I'm just happy to be able to play again.

Zigzagoon posted...

I get it every 3 or so games. I wonder what I'm doing that's triggering it more often than you.

That's terrible, I have no idea, but I've spoken to a couple devs about it so it should be fixed quickly.

Won a tournament with over 300 people in it just now. 18-0, we never dropped a game, won a bit of cash, and now I go to sleep happy. Loving the game, has great potential they just need to fix all the common sense things.

Zigzagoon posted...

https://streamable.com/0fsc53

6:34 I've lost access to my jump and airdodge for the rest of the match.

@MikeTavish Are you getting this at all with Gizmo?

Happened to me in game 3 of top 24 of a tourney bracket on stream yesterday. The devs are aware, still stung real bad and left me quite tilted.

Has happened to me maybe like 6 or 7 times now out of 150-200 games?

On the main subreddit it looks like the devs acknowledged a bunch of the community's issues and are gonna be working on fixing them.

Hopefully they get on it fast and don't get hamstrung by corporate bureaucracy.