So, Soul calibur V is out

[Prpl_Mage]

I played a bunch of aeon to begin with, some nice moves with his fly flykick, fly fireball (that's spamable) and the switch side fly. My problem with the lizard was just that most of his attacks got such delays before the guard goes up again. And with the CPU blocking pretty much everything at the higher difficulties I looked for faster options.

Which is why I'm playing a lot of natzu lately. Sending people in the air and jump grabbing them is made a lot easier, tons of usefull attacks and a variety of kicks. Biggest problem as always is the range. But that's why we can brave edge teleport closer and also why she deals so much damage I suppose. But those hunter knives are looking good.

PS: The game got an update today, some "balance" changes and in-game store. Yet this in-game store doesn't work. And still no dampierre on the EU PSN. Been 3 weeks now.

[Felix-0]

I played a bunch of aeon to begin with, some nice moves with his fly flykick, fly fireball (that's spamable) and the switch side fly. My problem with the lizard was just that most of his attacks got such delays before the guard goes up again. And with the CPU blocking pretty much everything at the higher difficulties I looked for faster options.

Which is why I'm playing a lot of natzu lately. Sending people in the air and jump grabbing them is made a lot easier, tons of usefull attacks and a variety of kicks. Biggest problem as always is the range. But that's why we can brave edge teleport closer and also why she deals so much damage I suppose. But those hunter knives are looking good.

PS: The game got an update today, some "balance" changes and in-game store. Yet this in-game store doesn't work. And still no dampierre on the EU PSN. Been 3 weeks now.

what balance changes? Hopefully it involves devil jin not becoming ban worthy. I'll be happy. Aoen and siegfried, you need to throw fast kicks that cause stun states, they both have plenty of these kicks, to set up your combos. Cervantes also does the same.

[Prpl_Mage]

what balance changes? Hopefully it involves devil jin not becoming ban worthy.

http://www.uk.namcobandaigames.eu/download/4787_26921/battle-system-update It's a pfd with a list of changes.
Also there's some cephreus(or something) store that won't be available until april the 3rd that will host a bunch of SC2>SC4 items as well as the SC5 casts' regular outfits as customization items. Apparently. But still no dampierre for us europeans.

I'll be happy. Aoen and siegfried, you need to throw fast kicks that cause stun states, they both have plenty of these kicks, to set up your combos. Cervantes also does the same.

I hate those blasted stun kicks. I don't get why they made so many attacks be stunning in this game. It's breaking my balls. Especially Alpha patrakolos.

Also, I've defeated 238 quick battles (offline), where are the last two? It says that there are 240 in total, yet when I search for opponents I haven't defeated there is nothing showing up. I'm pretty sure one of them was an Algol that kicked the crap out of me.'

Been playing a bunch of nightmare today. He sure isn't hard to learn. Currently at lvl 73 and still missing some items. Amazing.

[Prpl_Mage]

So I've completed all there is to complete in the offline mode. Well beside unlocking titles for playing many matches with different characters. Which is basically the only reason I'm trying new characters now. Zwei is pretty fun, not all that efficient but fun. Much like Viola it feels like he's going with the whole mindgame direction of his moves. Good times.

Currently at lvl 80. Still no EU dampierre, starting to doubt if I'll even download him once he's released. Been more than a month since I got the game and soon a month since he was released for everything but ps3 Eu.

[Felix-0]

Z.W.E.I will never see a light of day, probably the lowest amount of tournament use of any character. Viola has lots of quick strikes, and has range and harass. Those shine well. Also, I couldn't read that PDF file of yours.
I'm still messing around with yargmaster Cervantes. I made him look like Gangplank from League of Legends.

A thing that people think is OP about cervantes is his odd moveset that's all over. But he has such slow start ups. And characters who have jumping combos and speed, Maxi, and Xiba, will win against cervantes everytime. Because standing combos, their attacks strike quicker, and make it there before cervantes. Then, his usually reliable low hits are getting jumped over by their jumping attacks. Thus leaving you with an unwinnable fight.

[Prpl_Mage]

A thing that people think is OP about cervantes is his odd moveset that's all over. But he has such slow start ups. And characters who have jumping combos and speed, Maxi, and Xiba, will win against cervantes everytime. Because standing combos, their attacks strike quicker, and make it there before cervantes. Then, his usually reliable low hits are getting jumped over by their jumping attacks. Thus leaving you with an unwinnable fight.

In tournaments his slow start up might be an issue, but while playing online with that delay, there's no stopping it in time. You see attacks coming but the delay mostly just make you drop your guard before getting hit.

Currently got the titles for potro, zwei, lexia, natsu, ezio, raphael, siegfried, aeon, nightmare. I'm just assuming that you need to play X amount of battles or gather X amount of player points (which is basically the same thing) to unlock those titles. Not sure I'm gonna see it through and unlock the titles for all characters. It's slow.

And I'm at lvl 90 right now. Just unlocked a dragon sticker and some more Chinese letters! Woo...

Also, the "sportswear" dlc is released apparently. Even though it shouldn't be purchasable until april 3rd.

[Felix-0]

Natsu, that's officially my answer to everything. I have a bunny girl using carrots with cutesty feather attack animations. I've learned everything there is to know about her ~possession~ stance. I can even do the full. Ninja Bomb, Critical edge, followed up by aerial suplex combo.

[Prpl_Mage]

I suppose I'm odd since I prefer to burn my brave edge-nergy on brave edges instead of critical edges. Either I'm bad or my fingers just fail me when I need to activate one of those critical edges.

Anyway. Impressive to squeeze a critical edge in there. Carrots are awesome. I also like the fish and stingray weapons for potrokolos. Zwei had just another boring colour. They could've atleast changed the wolf to a puppy or something.

Currently at lvl 94. And well, it's the 3rd today but no new dlc packs or dampierre out yet.

[Prpl_Mage]

4rd of april and the dlc packs came.

So the pack with Potrokolos and ZWEI 1p and 2p costumes as well as pyrrha, pyrrha omega, elysium and viola p1 costumes was released for the same ammount as previous dlc packs. 4-6 pieces each.
But the maid pack and active wear is a tiny pit more expensive. And it's basically a french maid and a goth maid (or something) in one of them (3 pieces) and the other is a swimsuit and a tshirt with runner hotpants.

AND FRIGGIN DAMPIERRE! Finally, he's the troll.

[Felix-0]

I'm don't always fight DAMPIERRE.
But when I do? God damn mother ****ing son of a bitch I hate this ****ing ****!

All that aside. The Demon Texture pack is awesome for Devil Jin, black feathers. :3

[Prpl_Mage]

Demon texture pack? Like the attack effect?

Also, I thought they would release a bunch of tekken based stuff. That dlc video showed jin's pants and some xiayuo crap as well as a pac man mask.

Dampierre is pretty fun to play, but that's about it. Started playing a bunch of pyrrha and pyrrha omega lately. She got some pretty nifty stuff that one.

[Felix-0]

OPyrrah is terribly OP. That would be pyrrah Omega who I'm talking about. Ugh, she's just too good. Nightmare is easy compared to her.
Dampierre is annoying to fight, and he only does about everything ever. Ugh. I'll stick with Natsu and teleport and ninja bomb.

[Prpl_Mage]

Not sure if anyone plays this anymore.
But namco keeps releasing customization packs over and over. Since my last post there have been flight attendant uniforms, face masks, tekken attires, a medieval armor set, a ceremonial samurai set, firefighter gear, extra items such as cat, pacman, klonoa. Sure I can make my characters look funny but there's still not a lot to do in the game. Game looks amazing and all. But yeah, lack of stuff.

Still haven't been able to reach lvl 100 in the game, gets kinda boring after a while. Also it takes about 8 arcades to get a characters title.

[Felix-0]

I still play, I'm wanting a DLC involving an actual storymode. They haven't explained ****.
How did Lizardman become Aoen, where did Zaza go, how is Cervantes human again, How did Amy get ammnesia and become that chick with the orb. When did Kilik become an edge master, What is Algol's purpose, where the hell did Dampierre even come from. I'm rather upset at the lack of story :c

[Prpl_Mage]

I believe that Aeon is just an attempt to go away from the characterless person that was lizardman.
Apparently cervantes was reborn. However that happened. Not so sure that Viola is Amy, they seem to follow a pretty similar young-girl style but she doesn't mention that she wants to drink peoples blood or souls or whatever. Hell you find out practically nothing about her in game. I think Kilik have been on the way of becoming an edge master for the last 2 games. Got some faint memory of it. Algol is the immortal king, creator of soul calibur to suppress the power of soul edge. I bet fans voted for him to stay since they liked him so much.
And yeah, no story whatsoever kinda make the game useless for anything other than fighting characters with different styles.