Thread 714122692

Goat.

18 hours to go.

>hoofnail polish
What did they mean by this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DMXMuUn40

>>714122764
wtf she's wearing something that covers her CHEST????

>>714122764
Not quite as sexo as the rat, but he'll do.

I hate this game with a burning passion but I look forward to trying her as she seems right up my alley

>>714122692 (OP)
Bvilt for BHC

You know what Dan, you win.
I'll be boughting it.

>>714125251
>I'll be boughting it

>>714122692 (OP)
I can't be assed to play fighting games anymore but I'll masturbate to her

>>714122692 (OP)
How does the game feel after the big update that reworked floor hugging. I mostly stopped from the dogshit servers but if it's better I might start playing again

Never played this game before (but I have played Melee and PM quite a bit). What am I in for?

>>714126719
expect to go "Oh shit I can do that?" 100x per character because they all have unique mechanics with indulgent amounts of synergy

>>714125971
I understand the sentiment, but you can't possibly be this out of touch.

game is bad though

>>714126857
>100x
that's very, very generous

>>714127803
good chatgpt grammar check saar

>>714125251
If I didn't buy a bundle already anddidnt have 4k Aether money in reserve, I'd buy this bundle. Bastards.

>>714122692 (OP)
Honestly, I'll be glad to have her back. I've been tired of playing nothing but Lioness Marth every time I played the game.

>>714125251
Dan is clearly aware, but he's too normal and restrained to properly capitalize. I appreciate this, fetish bait isn't always necessary. Absa does seem to be gaining more cute elements but she doesn't need to be a porn enabler.

>>714126719
Think of it as a less technically demanding PM, PM is definitely the closest analogue. Every character so far is competitively viable, and the character balance is very good despite how distinct each character is. You can easily spend 100 hours learning a single character, although it only takes an hour or two to suss out whether they appeal to you.

There's a mechanic called floorhugging. Think of it as crouch cancel (which also exists), but you can do it as long as a move doesn't send you into tumble (which depends on the move and characters' weights). Doing it makes you take extra damage, so it's sort of meant to counter people mashing weak options that can potentially convert into combos.

>>714122692 (OP)
I will not be purchasing
Make porn

>>714128912
Yeah, I agree, I think all the Rivals girls are cute in a way, even to some extent La Reina.

>>714126238
tl;dr everyone is holding down. The biggest change is that it makes a lot of safe options that weren't AFHable FHable. Olympia, for example, got hit hard by the change even though she didnt have a single change herself. I think it's generally good because it can counter obnoxious options, but it's a double-edged sword: I've play Olympia and I feel like my approaches at low %s are more linear since late hit bair is consistently FH'd now. But one good combo or two grab combo is usually enough to get your opponent out of FH %s.

I'd say it's generally good.

>>714126171
We take those

>>714125251
All they have to do is make good looking skins and not whacky meme bullshit

Anyone else just see through fighting games at this point? They are all just time sinks that ultimately betray you in the end. RoA was basically the perfect logical step after learning from decades of nintendo platfighters. The genre had so much to offer, but suffered from a lot of major flaws like throws being too over centralized, shields either being worthless or broken in each game, and the ledge just being utter cancer to deal with. What did Roa do? It cut all three of those things and continued to develop the fun aspect of this genre: the neutral, DI mind games, etc. Now that there's a sequel that ditched all of those ideas, and the original game is turbo dead. Makes me jealous of sports players. You can play tennis for decades and never fear the dreaded Tennis 2 that fucks with all the things you loved about the original tennis.
>inb4 RoA didn't go anywhere
Yeah, but the playerbase fucking did. It's dead. Fighting games are a fucking scam. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself never to get into this genre and pick up a sport instead.

>>714131747
It's never too late to pick up a sport, Anon! Try football. You'd fit in with all the brain concussed players.

>>714131747
>RoA was basically the perfect logical step after learning from decades of nintendo platfighters
No, it really was not.

>>714131747
Don't be so dramatic.

>>714131747
The issues with 2 have nothing to do with the existence of grabs, shields, and ledge play. Maybe some cases are bad (some chars have 50/50 grabs) but that's more of a problem of that specific grab setup and not the mechanic as a whole.

>>714131747
Dan will never answer for these crimes. He just cares about the moola.

>>714132375
Clairen's grabs are fucking obnoxious

>>714124468
more proof Absa consciously chooses to go topless

>>714132519
Oh I agree. But you also have grabs from say, forsburn that all lose to do out. Grabs in general, at least for me, should focus more on resetting neutral or setting up short combos at early percents or getting offstage at high. Claire's bthrow and fthrow 50/50 is hella annoying and isn't even enjoyable to do as clairen, I do hope they change it while giving her something to compensate.

>>714132375
Grabs are objectively dogshit. They literally are just a spam to win button. Whether it's 64 with guaranteed 0 to death flow charts, melee with chain grabs/ tech chase infinites/ kill confirms, nu-smash with hoo hahs, or PM/ Rivals 2 with 50/50 flowchart spam. Imagine if you had to actually had to use your brain when doing punishes and combos? Nah fuck it. It's what all the other games do so Rivals 2 needs it.

>>714132774
It can be done, it just needs to be given more nuance other than "grab being easy ways to start combos and kill".

>>714132741
The good news is that Clairen is likely the next character to get rebalanced. Everyone knows she's really good at both high and low levels, but for whatever reason she slipped under the radar, probably due to Zetterburn and Ranno.

>>714132774
Attack beats grab, grab beats shield, shield beats attack.

>>714132907
>he thinks that's how it works
Oh you sweet child. Grab beats everything in this genre "except spotdodge" (loses to being baited and then punished by a grab) Also
>attack
What is crouch cancel grab? It's just not a good mechanic. Sorry.

>>714133128
Ok then how does SF do it. yeah, it's not a platfighter, but conceptually it's more or less still the same concept. Ignoring 6's throw loops, they have always been a way to beat defenses by doing some damage and doing knockdown to start the wakeup mind games. I don't know why plat fighters can't do the same, because I do hate melees grab tech chase loops and modern smashes grab combos

She has sex exclusively with large dicked white men

>>714133307
By giving grabs significant endlag, which makes them a high risk, high reward option in games with throw protection.

>>714122764
>Puts a top on
>Takes shorts off

>>714122692 (OP)
Sex

>>714134118
She is only allowed to have one or the other.

>>714134308
The only thing that can save the game at this point is them adding Sybil. Which is actually more likely than you think because Dan is mutuals on Xitter with the dev behind pseudoregalia.

Is this game good yet? If your reply is "the game was always good" pls don't reply to me

>>714134594
the game was always good

>>714134594
I don't know what your definition of good is. Are you one of those people who play fighting games for singleplayer content? If so, no.

>>714134118
I noticed that her chest fluff is carefully stuffed inside of her swimsuit top. Does this mean her fluff is akin to her tits?

>>714134463
Honestly, I'd be fine with her or Mina the Hollower being the first guess characters added to the game, though there are some other characters I'd like to see in this game but only once it's in a better spot.

>>714122692 (OP)
>offbrand games
shalln't be buying

>>714134986
>tard can't differentiate developer from publisher

>>714134986
retard

>>714134979
I want Sybil and some kind of Slugcat. They'd both be the first platfighter characters like Cody/ Vega from SF where they have weapons they pick up off the ground that can be lost when they get hit.

>>714122764
why the fuck is it always that exact shade of pink and blue

>>714134118
Balance must be maintained

>>714134986
Dan Fornace disavowed the roach and Offbrand is only co-publisher in the first place

>>714136094
and Ross condemned the wildcat review bomb

There's literally nothing wrong with killing games. It's like how hunters help keep wild boar populations in check.

>>714136094
>>714136239
this whole thing was absolutely retarded

>>714135151
Those are both good picks. Sybil's moveset sounds good for leading into this game's movement abilities and Slugcat would just look funny in 3d. Personally, I want Yi from Nine Sols since I think he'd be perfect for using this game's parry mechanic.

>>714137431
I love hooves

Why does this game run like complete ass? Lowest settings, 720p and it still dips down to 20fps while looking like a 2010 mobile game.

>>714137431
hopefully Sybil will get another game someday...

>>714139068
try passing the minimum system requirements

>>714139531
I can run MGS5 at solid 60fps 1080p and that game looks literally 1000x better than this. Stop defending lazy devs who can't even optimize a low poly fighting game.

>>714139761
check the engine used for RoA2 and it will all make sense

>>714139068
Unreal Engine 5

>>714139931
>>714141056
You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Rivals 2 players are more insufferable than melee players. You don't see it now because rivals 2 is very new but you will notice it yourself in due time

>>714131267
Gimmie the weather woman.

>>714141361
More Absa skins from the same artist.

Can someone remind me what her personality was like in Lovers of Aether?

Last skin comp from the artist.
>>714141630
She was a smart book nerd that, to get her route completed, you had to be smart.

I want to have sex with goat girls. That is all.

I prefer pic rel

>>714141764
Was she the one running for class president? Or was that Maypul?

>>714141297
I'm a Melee / PM / Ultimate player and I don't feel that way at all.
>Melee
The community has been co-opted by trannies and content creators.
>PM
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>Ultimate, offline
People (and trannies) with Stockholm syndrome who are mystified that no one wants to watch Steve / Snake / Min-Min grand finals.
>Ultimate, online
Manchildren, literal children, and trannies.
>Rivals 2
PM and Melee players, people who want to play a platform fighter that isn't Smash, seething retards who don't understand the concept of losing in a fighting game, furries, and trannies. I hate it the least at the moment, but it's still far from perfect.

>>714141361
Not really a fan of skins that are just sticking the character's in normal clothes, but I like this one.

>>714141249
Well yea, how else are they gonna pull it off? So you gonna upgrade your rig or keep winging?

>>714142001
Maypul was the class representative

>>714142047
Nah I'll just play an optimized game instead.

now that i've seen some of absa's hitboxes and frame data, my prediction is that people are doing to be incredibly pissed off at her tilts on release

>>714122764
the voice acting is so bad it hurts

>>714141492
all these fan designs are better than what we'll actually get which will be like
>Bananabsa!! lolz!!!1!
>Absa who bakes cookies!! Lol apron and a blob of cookie dough for a cloud!
>Plumber Absa!! Haha whaaaat that's so unexpected!! Dan made a not funny joke about this once in a meeting and so forced the modeler to work 10 hours bringing that to life

>>714129240
purchasing what, retardo?
Characters are free

>>714144598
>no Hellfire Absa skin
Sadness.

>>714145001
the game

Where is her sexy bikini outfit?

>>714142986
Even in 1 you could punish her by groundhugging the tilt2

>>714122692 (OP)
I really enjoyed her solo game

>>714144292
Shitty voice acting is a fightan game staple

Enter

>>714151735
too human

>>714151836
What about

>>714153357
human face

Are her pubes pink like her eyebrows or white like her chest fluff?

>>714154345
pink

>>714156049
if this isn't a skin, we riot

>>714156510
it won't be

>>714141492
>>714141649
i love brown orange babes gaahhh

>>714144292
You wouldn't say that to her beautiful face.

>>714131747
Fighting games aren't really a scam by default (unlike sports games, oof), the biggest problem with them is that they always, and I mean ALWAYS watch helplessly as the playerbase raises the skill floor over and over forever and there's no way to stop that, as the good players push the bad ones out and it becomes a circlejerk of like 50 people just fighting each other, and Steam sales introduce some new blood that just get eaten and spat out.

Dunno if it's a hot take, but releasing sequels to fighting games that update the graphics (and hopefully some of the backend code stuff), while screwing over the veterans with changes to get them to dip in skill level for a while is really kind of a win-win for everyone but the 30 veterans still playing amongst each other. Can't really run a game when you've got a tiny handful of players that slowly leave over time as they consistently push anyone new out.

I think it's why I prefer when fighting games at least include some kind of singleplayer aspect to it, like Soul Calibur with its story mode, it gets people up to speed at least a little (hopefully teaching them about combos and shit instead of just "go do these 50 generic fights and then watch the credits without learning shit") and it means they're less likely to get gigafucked as fast when/if they dip their toes into PVP.

>>714122764
I want to suck on her hooves.

6 hours

>>714160227
>while screwing over the veterans with changes to get them to dip in skill level for a while
That never happens. Fundamentals outweigh new universal mechanics every time.

>>714160319
You think you do but you don't

It's a shame that all these great designs are wasted on a Melee clone. As an individual with the knowledge of how to use deodorant and without autism I just couldn't get into comp Melee, and I doubt there's any fun in just fucking around in RoE.

>>714160758
Yeah, but at least it dips their powerlevel by a bit just long enough to let in the "wow new game" hordes try the sequel out and maybe some might stick around.
It works, even if it doesn't work THAT well, heh.

>>714131747
>I wish I could go back in time and tell myself never to get into this genre and pick up a sport instead.
Nearing 40 here and I did burn like 15 years on the genre with nothing to show for it. It's one of those things no one should invest themself into beyond friendly drunk mashing at a party with friends offline. So much time, money, investment and passion just pissed into the wind.
At least other esports have a tiny chance of going pro and getting a regular paycheck but fighting games? Literal evolutionary dead end and you won't realize till you hairline is running away.

>>714161139
You could just play the game and have fun.

>>714160758
>Fundamentals outweigh new universal mechanics every time
Tripping