Street Fighter V

chef-borjan · 15 Feb 2016 at 14:23

Alright guys, this finally drops tomorrow, Feb 16th.

Who's picking this up? I have it pre-loaded on steam, ready to go. Dusting off my fight stick (haven't played for years now, fell off staying competitive with SFIV) and jumping straight into it. Stayed away from the beta and general videos of this, want to just go in cold!

I'll be trying all the characters, but probably be staying loyal to my main girl Chun Li.

cyro_borjan on Steam, please leave you name so we can organise some fights!

chef-borjan · 15 Feb 2016 at 15:33

SkeeterUK said:
Barely played much of ultra so nope. Maybe when this is in a steam sale for £10 or less.

Curious if its a small or big update this new one. Is there all new cut scenes and storys for all characters? Who's the new fighters? Is there any new mechanics that would prevent me from playing sagat normally like I did in previous games etc? Hope they toned down combos etc as I still not a fan of then since sf4 I'm more in favour of normal attacks ala sf2.

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I have good news and bad news for you...

Good news first. I think its a significant update. Ground wake up oki/vortex/option selects have been taken away, hardly anything hard knockdowns anymore. Two quick stand options mean the action flows very fast. Combo's are much less important in this one. Combo potential has dropped significantly in this game, the ones that remain are short and to the point. The normal attack game is very important now, especially with a few changes to counter hits. Quite a few new characters, and they have actually changed how some of the old ones play a significant amount. Crucially, every character has a unique V-skill manoeuvre that changes how they can be used.

Bad news... no sagat this time around (yet). Also they have removed chip damage being able to kill (still chips though), so I don't know how you played sagat before but now you actually have to land a proper last hit to finish someone off. Zoning obviously still works, but Sagat was a real pressure character and I think now with the changes to normals/combos mean that block strings are not as tight, you have to be really careful about applying mindless pressure or you will get counter-jabbed out for decent damage.

chef-borjan · 15 Feb 2016 at 17:40

SkeeterUK said:
No sagat? Meh its not worth it then for me as he and ken were my main two characters.

Eh, Ken still looks quite fun from what I can see. Fast and damaging, right kind of stylish too.

I'd at least give it a go somehow, I think the characters you use aren't your favourites because of who they actually are but the tools they have. Perhaps someone else will tickle your fancy.

llamadal said:
wouldnt mind getting some more info on this once you have played it. a mate keeps wanting to play mortal kombat but its utter **** on pc so want to find a good alternative

I'll have my thoughts written up in a couple of days maximum. I think this will pretty much be my entire weekend though haha.

silent said:
i'll be getting it but on the console probably. sf4 is not the same with my xbox pad on my pc as it just won;t map the keys properly.

Strange, shouldn't ever be a problem there... Official pad?

Kreeeee said:
Most people will be using the SFV console thread. You need to share your Capcom ID and you can play people across the platforms.

Ah good point, also didn't realise the Capcom ID is the one to use... at least cross platform is a thing! Luckily with fighting games they at least make sure the console version run properly at 60fps

Still I will get it on PC as that's all I have.

chef-borjan · 16 Feb 2016 at 13:17

Hmmm I had a fair amount of crashes when I played this for an hour last night, not sure what the deal was but only happened when I was just about to enter an online fight or exit from one.

Not sure if it was because I was playing at a higher DSR, had everything else whacked up to max settings. I'll try again this evening.

Also the fact it pings the server so often is quite a sluggish experience, at least I think that's what's happening as I have my game installed on an SSD. Definitely not as snappy as SFIV from an interface perspective.

I'll put more notes up about the actual gameplay when I have a few more hours under the belt.

chef-borjan · 16 Feb 2016 at 17:40

Kosmiche said:
Who wants a fighting game on PC? Can you even have two controllers connected and working at once?

Yes of course you can. is this a joke I don't get? Haha.

chef-borjan · 16 Feb 2016 at 18:28

Unfortunately, whilst those who follow fighting games were well aware that SFV was going to ship in the state it current is in (this has basically been released 'early' for an upcoming fighting game tournament), those who didn't may feel that they have been short changed.

These modes are coming (and relatively soon) but perhaps Capcom should have done a better job advertising what was still to come on the store page.

chef-borjan · 16 Feb 2016 at 18:43

MegaPinches said:
Will it be included in update?

or is it going to be a dlc con job?

Nope all included with the game, it's just not finished yet.

There will be more characters too, 6 so far confirmed. You can pay for them win real money, but you earn fight money from playing online which can be used to buy characters.

IMO, not really a con job. There will not be any Super or Ultra versions of this game to rebuy either.

chef-borjan · 17 Feb 2016 at 22:02

Again, you do not have to pay extra to get the additional characters. You can use currency earned in game to obtain them.

Capcom will only be releasing ONE version of SFV (this one) and that will be the base that everything gets put on top of.

I really don't think they are milking anyone for this.

chef-borjan · 18 Feb 2016 at 20:02

Fighter ID is chefborjan would be good to get some games in.