Escape wrote:

The game's always 'on'

 
Sorry to pick out just one tiny statement from your very nice post Escape, but this for me is why Tekkanz is my preferred beat 'em up of choice. There's no effective way to sit on a life lead and sandbag for the timer, there's no wearing your opponent down to a sliver of life and then killing them off with chip damage, you have to stand near your opponent and finish a fight off, you can't even just go in and try and bulldog them into a desperation mistake because they will be under rage conditions and will you will take serious damage if you try something wreckless and get caught. You're only 'safe' when you get extremely lucky and find yourself at full screen against someone who hasn't seen an eye laser or one of the ranged item moves before even then you're reliant on them to not be able to duck or sidestep in time and charge you down during your recovery.

On the subject of overheads comboing, we sort of have that already don't we? I mean every single mid in the game is technically an overhead, with many forming the first hit of strings which result in knockdowns, or juggles. Allowing you to continue your attack, albeit in a slightly different matter from a 2D fighter's use of tight links to string together individual moves.

Cross ups though, I do not miss, or rather the ambiguous cross up, to be more specific. I knocked you down = 50/50 guess on wakeup to deal more damage is all well and good if you have it at your disposal, which bizarelly for all his other shortcomings Hakan actually had. It was a welcome addition, but it did make me kind of lazy, the best option every time on knockdown was the 50/50 unless you were playing someone with an EX SRK that could interrupt the safe jump in which case you just reverted back to whatever. In Tekken, while the getting up aspect of the game can be frustrating to new players because they don't yet know or have got used to using the different get up options available and are constantly tech rolling backwards into tech traps, once you understand the options for standing up, it becomes a lot easier to avoid getting your head kicked in as you get off the floor. 
 
In other Tekken news, haters will be pleased to see a couple of interesting videos starting to surface, on the subject of certain characters properties during tag assualt, namely Jack-6 and Yoshi. Videos below:

Jack FF3+4 Tag Assualt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BXmTTjzsv20

Yoshi Kamizake (F3+4 iirc) Tag Assault Glitch/Bug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pyRqfB9wRTI

The reason I'm labelling Yoshi's as a glitch or bug is that you can only do it after an air throw it would seem, and even then only with certain characters. Some people have said this is broken, but for that to be the case it would mean that you would have to have Yoshi on your team, speaking as someone who has dabbled and is currently redabbling with him, putting Yoshi on your team requires you to actually know how to use Yoshi unless you literally plan on being on being so godlike with your primary character that you are never, ever going to need Yoshi outside of setting up that Flea stance reset. 

The Jack one is more interesting. Especially as it doesn't occur with P-Jack, his body is too small it would seem to create a barrier like Jack's does. Jack is already a fairly useful tag partner thanks to his Patriot Fist default tag assault move. The option to now manually use his normally near useless dive in a manner similar to the sandwich combos with characters such as Lili had which were discovered and patched out of the initial arcade TTT2 release gives him even greater flexibility in this support role. Unlike Yoshi, Jack is piss easy to learn and use once you get the hang of his main pokes. One of the reasons why I quite enjoyed learning him and stick with him to this day. He offers a really nice mix of straightforward moves and tactics, with a smattering of shenanigans and some nice command grabs. A real all rounder, you can play him however you feel like at that particular moment, poke machine, tick throw setups, catch people with some of his more unorthodox gimmicks like the pancake press or jetpacks. PLUS PATRIOT FIST AKA DAT ASS JUGGLES ARE PURE HAWTNESS. I think this is something that is likely to be patched out though, presumably Jack's hitbox will be adjusted after the dive to match P-Jacks. Unless I hear from Namco that it's staying in it's not something I want to start getting used to using.

Insta-Edit - Formatting was all to fuck.
Double Edit - Why is the Youtube formatting not working? A fun size Mars bar to the first person who can tell me.

tl:dr - play Barbie's Horse Adventure

The arcade mode will eventually start reading your inputs and insta punishing almost anything that's unsafe, which is quite annoying and gay.

The only slight outcome from this is that you will soon learn which of your pokes are the fastest, or which are the safest on block or whiff without having to look at the frame data.

Edit: Arcade mode is worht it to directly see the endings for the characters you are most interested in, but you can unlock the ending movies through lucky boxes which you can get from Ghost Battles, which I find highly preferable to the Arcade Mode as they give you a wider variety of characters to fight, the option to select your next opponent from a choice of three and the AI seems to do a lot less Psycho Mantis input reading.

I am an XL and I am familiar with the character art if you mean either the We Are Tekken fan art competition thing on Facebook, or the character art that was done by the external different studios, yes.

If it was some other art that fell under the whole We Are Tekken thing, then no, it would appear I am not familiar with it.

Blargh can someone fix that? Posting from my iPad and its fucked up.

Aw Gav dat Mokujin poster...

Wow Gav, amazing haul there!

Give Pez the t-shirt, keep mokujin for yourself. I'll take the Heihachi/Jinpachi poster if its okay.

Thanks man, really. If you ever pick this up, I'll be more than happy to show you the ropes.

@Roujin Nae bother. I'll give Reg that poster if he wants it. PM me your addy, and I'll hopefully get it sent off some time after payday (Friday)! 

Also, I've got that promo copy of the game for a while. Didn't get a chance to play it tonight due to Borderlandsing, but wouldn't mind getting a few scraps some time soon, mate. All the best.

If by some miracle Reg doesn't take that Mokujin poster then I'll take it! Come on it's even got my name on it!

Was talking to Pez about this and I'm gonna plot an evening to pop round to his and give this a go.

Okay okay PM addy plz Woody.

Another day another video, this one from ATP covering the finer points of taking on a solo player as a team. It's full useful information if you find yourself having difficulty up against their increased life, on screen red health regen and quicker rage build up. 

Enjoy!

I think you can get them from most Post Offices or W H Smiths, usually run between about 80p to £2.00 or there abouts.

Per my PM, more than happy to poney up the cash to cover the postage man.

afgavinstan wrote:

I was gonna keep that, but nah. It's all up to Roujin, he's been on brilliant form in here. He deserves it.

Mad respect, Gav. : )

EDIT: Double post fuckery.

Double Edit: Double post salvaged thanks to Level Up posting nearly 3 hours of TTT2 footage from their recent tournament on Youtube in a single vid! I havent had chance to watch this really at all, but in 3 hours worth of footage there must be something for everyone. Plus there are some good players here so you can see how the early tournament regulars are playing the game right now. 

I apologise in advance if there is an abundance of solo characters hahahaha. 



EDIT: I have started watching this and the commentary is excellent. I would say watch this over the UltrachenTV vid, as it is entertaining and there is some hype stuff, but you are likely to learn more about the basics of Tekken from the Ultrachen vid.

Quadro Edit: At about 18 minutes there is a set between Rickstah and JustFrame James which is fucking hype as hell. Rickstah using Ganryu/Bob and Jinpachi/Ogre against JFJ using Yoshi/Law.