Samjkim has translated the first half of the 4Gamer.net article which gathered the thoughts of various top Super Street Fighter 4 players in Japan on the Arcade Edition changes and tweaks that were made.KSK: How has Seth changed in AE?
Hiropon: He’s changed a lot. His jumping fierce had that really great reach, but now that’s gone. And his head stomps have lost a lot of active frames. So it’s much more difficult now to be tricky with him.
KSK: Ah, so he’s lost a lot of his gimmicks.
Hiropon: You really have to think about your 50/50s and rushdowns now. But since they detailed the changes before the release, I did some work beforehand by playing Super as if it was AE. So it didn’t feel that strange when I actually got to play AE.
The rest of the translation should be available tomorrow.
Thanks to kSummer for the tip.
Itabashi: Like Boxer’s Dash Straights. And it’s super fast. How is it on block?
Nemo: Maybe -4 frames? And plus she has 1000 health…
Mago: 1000? That’s messed up.
That made me laugh. I'm sad about Chun Li, I wonder what they did to her.
Lol, people will get deflowered by makoto
Chun-li must have gotten alot of stealth nerfs for so many japanese to be so negative towards her
Aside from U1 juggle huge crap, Chun got her sweep stun and st.MP damage nerfed - it previously hit for 70, now it didn't even look like 70 on Counter Hit. Don't know about the precise numbers, though.
Heard l/f + dk was nerfed too, but still decent antiair.
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They did, it was called super streetfighter 4,but too many people whined
ya honestly ssf4 was 3 times as balanced as AE but people like to cry and now every thing is ruined
I lol'd at people starting whinning about a game they didn't even touched, even harder when people say'in SSFIV is balanced. Fighting games will always have tier lists, just as opposite to "weak", "strong" will always exists when there is more than 2 characters in a game, only thing that matters is that how long it would take to figure out which character is the "strongest". If you are serious about trying to enter tourneys with this game, what I'd suggest is that you follow what everyone else's doing, play a second character that is at least considered "strong" if your MAIN isn't top tier.
I am whining and I haven't even touched the game.....but i have seen what the nerfs are on video. Not cool, Capcom.
You better be making this A.E. version as a joke/test run cuz' its not looking good so far beside two new characters that really no one was looking forward in getting.
If you are making a DLC as a console update, you better just keep the top and mid tiers fairly untouched and buff characters like Makato and Hakan.
And put in Rolento, Alex, Elena, and Charlie for crying out loud!!!
....plus Hugo and Sodom, cuz they are bada55e5! But to be honest, I would forgo any new character additions just to have a better update than A.E. Only few buffs and lots of nerfs. So sad.
Part 2 uploaded: http://samjkim.wordpress.com/2010/12/...
Sooo...CAPCOM nerfed an integral part of Street Fighter gameplay just so Yun and Yang could be even more overpowered?
SSF4 = SF3TSHDR
Good job!
Lol, the Blanka thing is kind of funny. I was talking to this guy on SRK who plays Gief/T. Hawk and he said he cries at the character select screen if Blanka pops up, rflmao.
Ever watch T-SRAI play? He hits one frame links consistently and hit conforms all Blanka balls/super/ultra. The way he plays, he didn't need extra distance on the ball. Of course MANY people either do not want to be that good, but playing like that makes Blanka extremely offensive and less of a turtling character and more of a mix-up character. So it seems to me they wanted to make him more offensive (which suits him based on his animalistic design).
A lot of American Blanka scrubs like to ball from full screen and crap like that against other players (especially grapplers who can't punish it).
Also, Makoto is looking GODLIKE. But in a sense, she is similar to Balrog. Both must rush down and both are very linear characters. So Makoto deserves that high health out of any other girls, good dashes, good hayate, good karakusa....she's in business.
The variables of a fighting game are obviously very sensitive by this point. Some matches were so bad against Blanka that they probably decided it was best to nerf it some, because solid players would just hit confirm it (and that can be done, I watch it in videos all the time). I'm happy to see Chun will still be high tier, she's one of my mains.
I decided to main Zangief and Chun-Li, simply because she is my worst match-up (outside of maybe Sagat).
Interesting read.