Project M Social Thread

[batistabus]

I like how they break, makes it so putting them on is like saying that you're now trying to kick *** without getting hit, making matches more intense.

I like it too. It's the ultimate disrespect status.

 

[Translucent]

I think that Squirtle should just always have shades all the time, because he's always going to win, therfore he is THE badass and needs them... always

 

[bubbaking]

It's like another form of Wesker's shades to me. In UMvC3, if Wesker removes his sunglasses, he gets a strength and speed increase (really dumb, I know), but if you taunt with him, he puts them back on (cutting his stats in the process). It's like he's saying, "I'm holding back just for you, weakling!" Squirt's shades are kinda like another form of that. You practically scream "Just try and hit me!", and if they do, you go beast on 'em as punishment.

#AnalysisOfTaunts

Edit: Guys, Squirtle's gonna die in a couple of hits anyway. He's so light! If you got hit and lost your shades (and you probably didn't put them on at 0%), then the next stock will come soon enough. You shouldn't be getting "tapped" anyway.

 

[Avalancer]

Is here a good place to give (constructive) criticism to the game?
Ivysaur:

I really like him. I play him a lot, together with ZSS. Although I do think solar beam charge is a bit too easy and safe to do. Idea: When he gets hit while he's charging his solar beam, he loses all his charge. This will make it easy for fast characters and characters with projectiles to punish Ivysaur players that charge a lot. It would make it a bit more exciting.

Secondly, Ivysaur's down-b is a bit easy to spam. It would be better (or worse, in a good way) if you could only have 1 seed bomb in the air at once, still doing the animation but not launching a second nut when there's already one in play. It'd take more strategy to use it this way.
I also think Sonic's (neutral-B) homing attack has too much range, it outranges defensive characters like Ivysaur, and shielding against it doesn't really help.

Regardless, I really like the new 2.5 P:M. The input lag was a real nitpick for me, and now it's fixed I can enjoy it way more. Everything feels very fast and fluent, and every match is a lot of fun.

 

[Shadic]

You can always post about characters in the character subforums.

Which we have now.

Which are awesome... If a bit lonely.

 

[bubbaking]

Charging is not that easy. You're lucky if you get it more than twice a match.

@Shadic: they're lonely because of Smashmods.

 

[~ Valkyrie ~]

I'd actually appreciate your guys' idea behind the frailness of the shades if they were just more durable (think like Kirby's copy hats). But rather to break them once someone hits you just kills the coolness of them. Also Bubba Squirtle doesn't get any stat buffs while putting 'em on so I dunno if that comparison really works for everyone.

 

[Little Nemo]

Actually the shades don't seem to be part of Squirtle from what I could tell. They're in Pokemon Trainers file.

 

[kellyk1035]

squirttle is beast in pm 2.5

 

[Translucent]

squirttle is beast in pm 2.5

Welcome to the Squirtle fan club.

 

[Avalancer]

Charging is not that easy. You're lucky if you get it more than twice a match.

I found it pretty easy to charge, and it can be very annoying for the opponents when the Ivysaur keeps running/jumping away and charging. The risk of getting hit and resetting charge will (hopefully) make Ivysaur players more careful with charging, and make them charge more in safe moments like when someone's knocked of the stage or killed.

 

[Kizzu-kun]

@Yobolight

We are choosing to keep our backroom at Smashmods for control and privacy reasons. It's also important for us that we don't lose any previous post data. PMBR applications will remain there as well.

We may get our own unique name colors though

Lightgreeeeeeeeeeen~
Forget it.

 

[`dazrin]

I already have a lightgreen name though ;/

 

[Evilagram]

http://www.gatheryourparty.com/articles/2013/01/01/smash-mod-project-m-version-2-5-released/

Hey, here's the 2.5 article I mentioned writing.

Wish they had spoiler tags, because I tend to write longform.

 

[hotdogturtle]

Squirtle's shell should break on impact.

And increase his speed each time he gets hit, while decreasing his defense?

 

[bubbaking]

Does every one of Squirt's 'shell moves' have 7% armor on it?

 

[Spoon~]

Squirtle new 2.1 sonic

 

[leafbarrett]

Does the PMBR have any members that can't actually code, but who are there solely because of their competitive knowledge with a character?

 

[standardtoaster]

Yes, those are called playtesters.

 

[DMG]

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people in there for skill and not coding: wouldn't make much sense otherwise lol.

 

[bubbaking]

SideB dial combos, too good!

I'm pretty sure they also have some coders who aren't actually that good at the game.

 

[leafbarrett]

Yes, those are called playtesters.

I meant more along the lines of actively directing development to some extent, not just testing and giving feedback.

 

[B.W.]

Ivysaur:

Secondly, Ivysaur's down-b is a bit easy to spam. It would be better (or worse, in a good way) if you could only have 1 seed bomb in the air at once, still doing the animation but not launching a second nut when there's already one in play. It'd take more strategy to use it this way.

It was like this at one point in the preview. The result of only having one really just made it kind of a bad move. It's really not that big a deal if spammed, if you're getting hit by constantly, it or your opponent is getting hit by it constantly then really something is being done wrong.

It can help with keepaway to an extent, but it's really not that hard to get past.

 

[bubbaking]

Feedback tends to 'directly' control development, though. It's a gray area.

If you think Ivy's seed bombs are bad, wait until Samus finally gets released and all the Sami come at you with their platform missile spam. You'll hate life.

 

[Mr.Jackpot]

Not to be nitpicky but shouldn't the Project M character page have the new purple PM character portraits instead of the old Brawl dojo ones?

 

[Shadic]

Not to be nitpicky but shouldn't the Project M character page have the new purple PM character portraits instead of the old Brawl dojo ones?

I have no idea what you're talking about. They're clearly purple.

 

[Wretched]

Has anyone tried out the B-Stick with melee physics?

Can peach still do a turnip freepull and stuff like that?

 

[Kink-Link5]

What is a turnip freepull.

Peach can still run off the ledge and turnip pull cancel if that's what you mean.

 

[Wretched]

If you pull a turnip during Peach's turnaround animation in brawl, she gains the ability to move at walk speed while pulling the turnip out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FieBCZAn_o0

 

[Kink-Link5]

If I had to guess, glitchy brawl stuff like that is not in PM, but I'm no pmbr member or Brawl player.

 

[Wretched]

True. I think they did a great job getting out small kinks like that, but it was such an underutilized part of brawl, and nobody ever figured out why it happens. That makes me think it is possible that things like that might've stayed in.

My original intention in asking about it is I'm wondering if there is anything that wasn't possible in Melee that is possible now with the addition of customizable controls. Specifically the B-Stick. I know in Brawl it allowed for some weird stuff to happen. I'm especially interested in how it might interact with things like Lucas's or Ivy's forward b.

 

[Kink-Link5]

Lucas and Ivy can still B-reverse and RBR their side-Bs to some effect.

Charizard's RBR is particularly massive.

 

[genkaku]

I'm about 80% sure that I saw some talk about B-sticking a long time ago. From what I remember you can still do it but it's hard and the new physics make it behave even more situationally.

 

[bubbaking]

Lack of buffer changes a lot of things.

 

[hotdogturtle]

I have no idea what you're talking about. They're clearly purple.

Thanks, now we can finally tell which characters are clickable more easily. I know we already knew the characters, but some of them were hard to see (and Mr. Game & Watch could pass as unreleased).

 

[bubbaking]

Did something happen to the Tier List Speculation thread on Smashmods?

Edit: Did something happen to Smashmods in general?

 

[Shadic]

We're closing down the Smods forums. Everything should be focused on SWF now.

 

[bubbaking]

Didn't daze just say the opposite?

 

[trash?]

Wait wait noooooo but what about shun_one's HUD :'(

 

[leafbarrett]

http://www.smashmods.com/forum/thread-5583.html
The thread itself is still available, at least for now.