Bech's Video Games Career.

T6 acquired

2009-11-10T10:03:00.004+11:00

Last week Monday I got it =3. Figured I'd 2 main it up Kazuya (he's simple and I played him in the arcades because he barely changed) and Baek (for the mixups, and I played him in t5)

Made a baek combo vid, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQ_M7Wekq0

It took 5 hours to figure out juggles and record them; 2 hours editing. Really baek has 6 different sort of launchers.
-df2
-uf4 /FLA_uf3
-b3
-ws 21 / (I think) low parry
-db4 / ff3 / df2, f4
-(Crit or from stun) 4
Anything that ends in a bounce has 2 options, wave dash with a delayed ws444 or df34. Use df34 for map control. 433~f can pick up from bounces and the halfway launchers (IE ff3) from close. Baek's FLA entrances give him frame advantage on block. He's FLA side step improved making it very useful. He's wall juggle I've yet to work on. I've just been doing f212, d33 or f214, db4.

I've yet to play online but I had a look at a few replays and it looks horrid. Do not want.

After spending so long in training figuring out juggles, I feel like just keeping him as my main =/. Although I really need to do the same with Kaz. I haven't really figured out his juggles. Plus it really helps develop the co-ordination/dexterity.

Incomplete 'A Guide To All Fighting Games'

2009-07-19T20:12:00.002+10:00

CBF completing this for now. Maybe when DOA5 comes out, or if I have NOTHING to do anytime soon, it will be done. As you can see it's just an incomplete plan and predraft writeups on sections.

Moves:
Bread and butter
Safe/frame data
Punishing
50/50 (playing chances)
Mixups
Juggles

Spacing: CONTROL SPACING
Movement + Baiting
Stair stepping `
Fuzzy
Crouch dash
Sidestepping + KBD `
_DOAONLY-
7
insta crouch and fuzzy
214
AYANE BT 8p
BRAD BT sidestep
Sidestep moves
_SCNOTES-
A=crushable
B=sidestep
Pattern in use

Desc:
Stair for backing away if you cant kbd in a fighting game or if the character sways. What you're actually doing is cancelling a back dash into another back dash It's used to space away from the opponent, making safe distancing, baiting whiffs. The notation is 442442448 etc.

KBD is another way of achieving the same goal as the Stair Stepping but much more difficult to perform. The notation is 441414141 (or 4214214214) etc.

Fuzzy after moves, not all the time Fuzzy approach to limit range, bait and intimidate

crouch dash to approach with a crush
back off after attack pushes
7 for a back and side step, after moves, after approach, bait whiffs,

Here's to say I know and have organised my shit

2009-04-23T00:56:00.006+10:00

I decided to put everything I could remember back into my character guide that I wrote up a little while ago. I can't stress the important on the basics. Think of it as martial arts or a degree. You get to black belt or certificate, and all that means is that you know all thus use the basics. Now you have to develop your own style of play.

http://www.doacentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=555233#555233

My DOA notes are now public.

2009-02-09T10:43:00.002+11:00

Taking notes help me process things thus remember time in a split second under pressure.

DOA, Busa.txt

Safe moves
p 2 3
3p 6 6
2p 0 4
k cr 8
3k cr 10
2k 6 9
BT 4p 0 4
BT p 5 7
BT 2p 1 5
pp 3 4
p+kp cr 4
3kp x 5

Throws
5 pf
7 6pf
10 4pf/214pf
12 236pf
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For space
33p
3k
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2in1 ON WALL
2k+fk
3kk
pkk
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At range
pp2k
ppp

p+kp
7k
8k
33p
2p
6p
3p
8p
1k
2p+k

4k
2k
3k
2k+f
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SETUPS
>>WS 4p+f
LOW COUNTER
9p/k
2p
crouch dash

>>BT BT
9k 9p

>>8k/2p+k
ch 2k+f 6p

>>3k
6pp
1k

>>pp
ch 6p
ch 2k+f

>>1p+k
whiff get up kick

>>66p+f
pp2k
1p+k

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SCIV, liz.txt /Didn't work on this too long, like a few hours or something

Pimp out 1ak
2bk for crush
6b for whiff punuish
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44b/a+b-
44ab 66k CLOSE + IF NO/FWD AC 87- 83
33_99a+b FAR 68 - 64

3b-v
66k 58
33_99a+b 66

22_88b-
66a+b 49

1B+K
66B 90

44[K]/1[k]
LC A 31~32 tech dep

a+k-
44k

44[a]b-
66a+b 52
(on back) 44ab 66k 50

(44a)b/22_88k-
1b 42

ON wall (3b)
MID+HIGH 44ab 66a+b 84
LOW 2bk 44k 72~77
66p 66b+kab G (turn) 6[k] 44[k]a
GROUND (66k) 44k 62

CH 4B
--> 44[K], LC A: 47~56 dmg depending on tech
CH 4[B+K]
--> LC A: 48~55 dmg depending on tech

STUN (b+k)
6k 60
1ak 77

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THROWS
A+G leftforward
LEFT back
BACK forward

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DOA jannlee.txt /was gonna post this one on doac but cbf after an hour or so.

[b]31-10-07 [size=9]I haven't had much time with him so far, and all I've done was screw around with open and closed stance for a bit.[/size][/b]
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[size=18]Open/Closed Stance[/size]

[size=9]7k7k 6pk whiff/hit -TINA NH

7k7k 44pp whiff/hit -TINA NH

214p 6pk k-whiff(hit on distance)/hit -TINA NH

33p pppp hit(+p on distance)/whiff(+ppp on distance) -TINA NH

9k pp6p p pppp hit/whiff - TENGU NH

9k pp6p pp6p pppp (ppp)p-whiff/hit - LEI FANG NH[/size]

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//I also wrote up my guide to brad wong. It consisted of 4 TXT files, and I must of spent a month writing it, tweaking my ideas etc.

//This is the TXT that was used for planning. I wrote this up before I Started and ended up doing more than what's said there.

Throws

Match openners DONE NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Natural combos DONE NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Crush Moves DONE NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Wiff punishing DONE NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Interrupting ??????????????

_Stances:
BT
DHO - Throw = useful fucker.
Laying down - LHT LFT

_The God Wong: DONE NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
!if played correctly you got a free round and the opposition is left stunned.
p+k
6+p+k
slow escape doesn't do shit.

_General notes:
There is no ceiling.
Brad gone wrong - confusin at times (see The God Wong +stuning), don't develope bad habits, keep mixing up on stuns etc etc.

_Combos:
Starting Stuns
Counting Stun Threshold
Moves to continue stuns

Juggle Finishers

// The rest of it can be found on DOA+
// http://forum.doa-plus.com//index.php?showtopic=728 Juggle list.
// http://forum.doa-plus.com//index.php?showtopic=713 Guide.

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I've also started a basic guide that's a cross over of ideas that'll help one become good at any fighter but I'm pressed for time so it will take a while. It's gonna be released as a youtube video.

My SCIV Custom characters.

2008-11-18T13:22:00.004+11:00

Tom Wilson - Taki
http://tinyurl.com/5dh4s8

Gary - Hilde
http://tinyurl.com/6hr3bb

Samual Peter - Lizardman (yes I realise I spelt 'samual' wrong)
http://tinyurl.com/62q2cr

Clive - Setsuka
http://tinyurl.com/565jua

SCIV update I think

2008-11-07T01:47:00.005+11:00

I tried to play Hilde when I first picked up the game but I dropped her and only use her as a backup character now. I consider lizardman as my main. With the lizzy, I've put the most hours reading, watching, note taking in sparring and against people (sometimes) there. I was trying to pick up Sets but I haven't played her enough or put much time into her so I basically don't use her at all against players. I consider yoda to be my not too far off second best character. The main reasons for that are because of the natural advantages he has, a constant crush, unthrowable and almost unjuggle-able. People just don't know how to play against him.

Now as for Nashias. He's pretty much the same as me. As far as I can tell the only difference is that he actually has people to play offline.

In the videos both me and nash haven't played for almost a month but this is just where I'm basically at with the game. I don't have the time to play the game at all so there's a bit of rust. You should be able to pick out some things, so just imagine them things to be consistant and there's where I'm at. It's also online so there's a lot less poking and spacing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvcVQLwYqic&feature=PlayList&p=71FDEB8C4030AAEC&index=0&playnext=1

The first state of me

2008-10-20T12:08:00.008+11:00

Here's a quick brake down, at any given point in time I'm focusing on one or more of the following games depending on how much time I've got on my hands and what's got something coming up sooner.

(The newly added) SCIV
DOA
UT3

Over the years of being considered a 'gamer' I've more or less dissosiated myself with it. I'm more or less a geek for competitiveness. Consider what I do, I play(ed) futsal, the industries I've most enjoyed working in (including my current job) are competitive by nature, I do martial arts, I cycle. The video games I play are only played for the sake of being able to beat other people hard. The games I find myself play over and over are either shooters, fighters, or strat games. When I'm bored and afk a game of tetris, metroid hunters or advance wars is used to past time.

But yeah, I've had to basically stop playing videos games because of work.

Also picked myself up another copy of 'Vagrant Story' from ebay for a steal =D.

How to step from scrub to not scrub

2008-09-29T16:25:00.030+10:00

After playing soul calibur 4 at Manifest 08 and watching the guys at couch warriors do their bit, come to the conclustion that the majority of players suck. From what I could see during my 45 minute rain at freeplay and at the tournament, the top level of play was nothing more than scrubs with combos. I'm going to do a quick run down of the basics, the things that I didn't see. Get good at these and you'll be more than halfway decent between fighters in general.

I'm going to use this opportunity to say it out loud; Online destroys fighters. Think about it. How does that one third to half of a second delay affect what's happening. The thing killed is the most important thing in fighters, input delay and it's consistency. This crosses out reaction time, thus punishing, only to leave you with mixups (promoting bad ones at that) and a broken spacing game. Ask any top player in a fighting game that features such as that and they'll give you a run down.

To sum up what I'm going to go through; if you're playing right your direction tagged with block input to attack input shouldn't be any less than 2:1 or even 3:1. Over time I've come to realise that because of the priority of movement involved that fighting games are best played using an arcade stick.
The orthodox of any Fighter are: Movement, blocking, 'bread and butter' (which can be seen as character knowledge, this also ties into punishing).

Here's the easiest way to look at it, what makes a good player in sports? Good reaction, hand eye co-ordination, technique, intelligence in ones self and intelligence on the opponent, experience, the ability to defend and the ability to attack. Trade technique with bread and butter, and hand-eye co-ordination with distant judgement and there you have it.
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Defence

Defence is more important than offence due to the nature of fighters. It's simple, after you defend, you punish-- you get to deal damage without a second thought of it coming out with them on top. What makes high level play is consistency. What makes good consistency is a solid defence. Looking to block should be a large part of your game because of this.

A more advance type of defence is spacing. You have to be able to keep both in range and out range of attacks. Try to control the range so you limit your opponent's options as well being able to force whiffs. If you can touch your opponent with very end of your attack while making them miss by the width of a hair than you're doing it right.

Take it a step further for forcing whiffs and you got side stepping and crushes (Crushes are moves that avoids one or more level of attacks). These are generally easier in practice because they generally don't require you to be a specific distant and can also be tied into your spacing.

This really takes the most times to learn because its dexterity work tag along with game knowledge. Dexterity to so you can input when you want, and game knowledge which allows you to correctly read what's going to happen from what range.

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Offence

Here is were you're bread and butter comes in. Pokes (fast attacks, used to interrupting), launchers (leads to juggles/combos), punishers (it's like having cake and eating it too), mixups and setups. You want to have the ability to fit in all the damage when you can. Punishing depends on the game but in SCIV you punish with attacks after you block an attack, but be careful, throwing is the offence against blocking.

'Whiff' punishers are a bit more lenient with what you can use. To whiff is to miss, and when you miss there is a large window open for punishment. Thus you can use potentially more damaging attacks depending on just how far you are from the opponent and your character.

When you attack you do three things, catch them off guard, create windows, and apply mental pressure.

With your offence you want to stay "safe" in most cases. This means that you'll come out without too much of a frame-disadvantage/recovery wise. This takes away some if not all the punishing abilities that can be used against you through just blocking, crushing, dashing or side stepping. What strings do in a game is create true mixups and setups. Say there's a string that has a safe ender, you can easily use that to force the opponent to block the whole string, but instead of finishing the string you end it before the safe finisher and do a throw instead. Even if they are not blocking, sometimes you can catch them off guard with that throw.

Also don't be scaried to use the stun system in place.
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The best way to deal damage is get guaranteed damage (through punishing, through the juggles, and through the true combos).

The fastest way to learn is by other people. Go online, check out forums, look at a few character specific combo lists, have a few decent reads with the game open and I bet you that you'll see yourself improve. Top 10 movelist threads here and there I find are what you need to know for the bread for your knowledge. If you don't get what I mean just have a look and play around and you'll see. Using the basic knowledge you can actually easily break down matches you spectate. Also spend the time in training mode to absorb things at your own pace.

I believe that solid theories inter-relates, are multi dimensional, one point must be able to meet another point regardless of everything else. This is just a mention of the basics which separates scrubs from decent players. I'm too lazy to write it all up in one because I know how much work it will be. Here's one Dead or alive specific that's not overly complicated but is still a decent read. It goes over what one needs to know but doesn't dive in too deep. Written up by a well known player for his character and game analysis XDes,. http://doa-plus.com/Book%20of%20Destruction.pdf

I'll more than likely post something for the more advanced later.

Yeah that's right, I called all of you scrubs.