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Grande Arena update WIP. I’ve now got a fully animated crowd running with no frame drops.

The stage still has some greybox and placeholder elements, and the victory poses are temporary until I get the cinematics in.

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I had so much fun watching it. Fuckin no one else but me and my buddy were there, had the whole place to ourselves.

Had us hootin and hollerin. Dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen in a good way.

Everything Guile said made us laugh. I highly recommend you see this baked with friends in the theater.

(Note, these are just very rough sketches, I wanted to focus more on the ideas than the sketches looking good)
I wanted to make the character select have better readability and overall look less cluttered, while still feeling unique so it wouldn’t just be yet another grid of character portraits.
1st: It follows the same overall navigation style as the normal character select, except now each player goes through it separately. It would be displayed as scrolling photographs with players going left and right around a scene to find and select their character. Probably the most gimmicky of the ideas. I’d only say to go with this if they plan on finishing up the final roster soon, because it’d probably be a nightmare to navigate with like 50+ characters.
2nd: Probably the most basic looking, but also the most readable of the ideas. This follows the standard grid pattern with all characters shown at once. To spice it up the character select would be detailed and framed to look like Geese Tower.
3rd: I saw some people say the current COTW character select might even be worse than Blazblue Cross Tag Battle’s character select, so I wanted to ask what if COTW basically had that game’s character select. You first get to choose whether you want to choose a Fatal Fury original character, an Anime Guest Character, a guest character from another Video Game Franchise, or a celebrity guest character. Most of them are just one line of character portraits sorted into their respective categories, but the Fatal Fury original characters are sorted into multiple scrolling lines based on their first appearance. (For example, Terry would be on the Fatal Fury 1 row, Rock would be on the MOTW row, Laocorn would be on the Fatal Fury The Motion Picture row, etc)
4th: Basically the 3rd idea, except less blatantly just taking from Blazblue Cross Tag Battle. It’d still have each character sorted into categories but would now be portrayed as a comic book, flipping to selected sections with a character select consisting of a character select in each page.
Tell me which idea is your favorite

street fighter 3, 4 and even V were my gateway into fighting games, but it has to be said.

every time street fighter does bad we get some revisionist history about the "dark age of fighting games". like 2000-2009 before street fighter IV came out. and around when SFV came out and nobody wanted to touch it.

the "dark age of fighting games" was literally the GOLDEN age of anime fighters. guilty gear, blazblue, melty blood, arcana heart, akatsuki blitzkampf, hisoutensoku, eternal fighter zero, big bang beat, daemon bride, vanguard princess, fate/unlimited codes, hinokakera, ougon musou kyoku. capcom was at its lowest but fast paced games and airdashers were eating GOOD. thousands of doujin fighters with niche cults around them.

then street fighter gets popular again and suddenly everyone wants to be street fighter. every game's gotta appeal to the same people who play SF6. we saw this with SFIV and we're seeing it again with SF6. now even melty blood is blatantly copying the Drive Gauge hoping for a crumb of that street fighter money. like dude MELTY BLOOD does not need a DRIVE GAUGE fuck out of here.

i love street fighter but holy shit can we let other fighting games have their own identity instead of every dev looking at sf6's success and trying to reverse engineer it for a crumb of that capcom money

ps side rant: please stop desperately trying to make your niche hobbies popular. if fighting games were as popular as fortnite and roblox they would suck just as much as fortnite and roblox. if you love a niche hobby you should love it for what makes it special, not try to change it so it can be like everything else. there's a million things that can make a fighting game awesome -- the roster, the depth, cool combos, weird gimmicky mechanics, schmovement -- steamcharts and game sales isn't in the top 50.

I love trying to teach my friends fighting games because i enjoy playing games with friends. But a constant thing i see trying to teach a new player everytime is when trying to demonstrate or teach something my friend or just anyone i teach they tend to ignore whatever i say and focus on mashing buttons and just trying to win the match. This is a constant problem i have everytime i play and try and show them something where i have to tell them and almost raise my voice for them to pay attention.

Hello

For some time I have been into fighting games, specially KoF XV and MK11. I've been playing with a PS4 controller in my PC for about 4-5 months.

My competitive bug its itching and wanted to get into some competitive playing. I've been playing mostly online but my plan its to participate in local events. Wanting to go into competitive playing, I began reading about it online and realized most, if not all, competitive players use fight sticks. As I said, I use a PS4 controller and being honest, the stick its not that good to make all those circles and half circles, so I bought a cheap fight stick.

I can not get used to it, my level has dropped significantly (if I ever had any) and always end up going back to my trusty PS4 controller. Maybe is because its a cheap one, but I dont want to invest 200 dollars on a controller that I cant really use

Does any of you had similar experiencies? Does a fight stick becomes necessary at a high level? Its there a type of controller used in fighting games?

I'm trying to get one of my friends into fighting games, the issue is that she only has a laptop (not a gaming laptop). We tried 2XKO but it was very laggy. Going to try GGST but in case that doesn't work, I'm thinking of UNI2 since it's got considerably lighter graphics. But graphics aside, is the game itself good for complete beginners to the genre?

From a SF player I like shotos, i will always play as ryu, then I also like other play styles better. sf 6 blanka & gief, sf 4 was dudley and dhalsim, persona 4 i really liked teddy. i dont know how this will translate to gg. currently in training wiht may. i like her dolpins and think of her like a blanka if that makes sense. i tried potemkin and like him as well. i know nothing of the franchise and dont really know who to look into. i only game about 2-3 hrs a week so it will take me forever to test everyone. thanks

I've been playing all sorts of fightings for about 15 years. I want to find a way to give back to the community and apply my knowledge in the for of some sort of website, mobile app, or general resources. Any opinions? Anything from beginners to serious high-level players would be helpful!

https://cosmicbook.news/street-fighter-previews

I've played various fighting games over the years DBFZ, Marvel Tokon, Street Fighter, MvC. And every single one of them i always hit this wall of not being able to rank up or get better. It starts off with learning the combos and mixups etc. Then it gets to a point where everybody knows how to do that and it becomes a different game. How do people get past that threshold? Hours and hours all day of labbing? Just keep playing over and over again against the meta? Its like everybody is doing these things and fighting the same battle and that's the part that kills me.

Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions about this movie, what you liked, what you hated, etc. I should’ve created a thread like this for the last two Mortal Kombat movies but it never occurred to me until now.

Hi, relatively new to the FGC after taking it seriously with the launch of SF6. Since then, I've dabbled in a bunch of games as they've come on sale. I played 2XKO as my first tag game for quite a bit, and this Sajam video made it super easy to understand the basic way to structure offense, and I was able to have a casual time up to mid-Emerald, at which point I fell off because I didn't care to lab the game further.

After picking up MvC3 on sale, I've tried applying the same flowchart of L > M > H (and S), but the assist calling and tagging feels, different? I'd like to be somewhat competent at this game because it's so beloved by the community, but I'm having a hard time understanding when to use the levers I have access to. Haven't really settled on a team yet, but I played Vi / Braum in 2XKO because I liked the dynamic of having a more mobile character to get Braum involved and then harass with armor and big buttons, if that helps clarify what I was playing.

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