The BlazBlue Thread: all the imports!

[Rutger]

That's fine.

 

[Lore]

What are the latest notable changes? I'm curious. :3

 

[Lythium]

I don't think they've found much more. But here's a link to the thread if you want to peruse it: http://www.dustloop.com/forums/show...rsion-loketest-8-11-11-UNHELPFUL-POST-TEMPBAN

 

[Spelt]

Yeah, i think the loketest is more or less done.

 

[Lythium]

I guess I should change the thread title...

But effort...

 

[Wave⁂]

I checked the thread for Revolver Blast nerfs

I am disappointed

 

[Lore]

5D is like CS1 again? Hurray!

 

[Spelt]

I don't know what revolver blast is, lol.

 

[Minato]

5D is like CS1 again? Hurray!

Boo~ I hate when Noel's mash 5D because of that 14 frame invincibility.

I don't know what revolver blast is, lol.

It's the move she does when she ends air combos.

 

[Rutger]

I believe there's going to be another loketest during the Tokyo Game Show.

 

[Spelt]

Boo~ I hate when Noel's mash 5D because of that 14 frame invincibility.

I would rather deal with 5d mash than 2d/4d mash.

It's the move she does when she ends air combos.

Ooh, okay. Thanks!

I believe there's going to be another loketest during the Tokyo Game Show.

When is that?

 

[Lore]

I'm not gonna lie; using 5D to dodge attacks was one of my favorite things about Noel. It took a different skillset than anything else, and when you read someone well, the results were fun and like nothing else in the game.

At least, that's my opinion of it. Plenty of people will disagree, of course.

 

[Rutger]

Wikipedia said sometime in September. So I don't know.

 

[Spelt]

Oh.

Well then hopefully we hear news about more characters before then.

 

[Turazrok]

Maybe they will buff rachel

 

[Spelt]

Probably not.

 

[Minato]

I actually like how Rachel received the least amount of changes to be honest.

 

[Spelt]

I agree!

But as long as they keep the lvl 2 top combos, i'm pretty content.

 

[LivewiresXe]

I know I'm going to sound like a complainer but, a couple of those Makoto changes were just unnecessary, and the same was said about the crazy amount of Platinum buffs. All the Noel changes make me sad, half of them (at least) are totally unnecessary (and partly unfounded), and it's just....ugh.

 

[Spelt]

Most of platinum's buffs have to do with her items which basically are all almost completely useless besides in combos, except for her bat and cat thing, which are just completely useless.

When I play platinum I just spam the item throw away thing until I get missiles or bombs.

 

[Minato]

I know I'm going to sound like a complainer but, a couple of those Makoto changes were just unnecessary, and the same was said about the crazy amount of Platinum buffs. All the Noel changes make me sad, half of them (at least) are totally unnecessary (and partly unfounded), and it's just....ugh.

Platinum needed buffs. She wasn't bad, but she wasn't high tier material.

I do wonder who ASW is setting up to be the next top tier characters.
Rachel didn't get a lot of nerfs so I'm expecting her to stay around A tier, not top.

 

[Kuraudo]

If only everyone was high tier, eh?

I just hope Ragna gets boosted back to his former top tier glory while maintaining that uniqueness in combos from CS2 and all.

 

[Spelt]

With everyone else around Rachel getting nerfs I wouldn't be surprised to see her rise to top tier, but idk, with the system mechanic changes it's kind of hard to tell what's going to happen.

I don't really want Rachel to be top tier, though.

 

[Kuraudo]

As I think about it? Maybe the nerf to Ragna's Hell's Fang heat gain is counterbalanced by the fact that you gain 25 upon a successful green burst. Either way, Ragna's gonna be scarier than ever imo. A bit of a gamble using your burst for that extra 25 heat, but if it gives him access to Blood Kain even faster if he regains the momentum? All the more power to him to beast his way in.

So does anyone wanna make some predictions upon what the final changes will be in CSII+?

I'll start with the obvious, and I'm gonna try to not be biased. I'm not too sure about nerfs but I'll go with buffs.

Ragna,

better j.C for jumping in (confirmed at least for the first loketest)
Dash-cancellable Dead Spike upon hit confirm (upon defense hit would just be too broken now that I think about it)
C-Inferno Divider is now a Fatal Counter and the heel kick can be combo'd into with j.C to start up a combo.

Asides that? Not sure what else. Guess these are my wants but what I can see happening if they go the "buffing Ragna" route.

[EDIT]

... I hope to god that I'm not stupid on the C-Inferno Divider thing. I don't remember if that's a fatal or not already. I don't think it is. But still. lol

 

[Minato]

With everyone else around Rachel getting nerfs I wouldn't be surprised to see her rise to top tier, but idk, with the system mechanic changes it's kind of hard to tell what's going to happen.

I don't really want Rachel to be top tier, though.

Well, if she really is placed at top tier, at least she doesn't have a brain dead playstyle.

But I always get a feeling ASW is going to randomly put 2 overpowered characters like they usually do.
If not, that's a pretty tame top tier level.

 

[Zero_Gamer]

I think Makoto will still be fine. I'm okay with the changes being made.

I like that I (hopefully) don't have to relearn Rachel because she's hard enough as it is for me to stamp out the kinks. I keep on thinking she has a good jab and my rushdown with her needs work. She's an awful lot like SSFIV Seth.

I think Litchi is still going to be really good. Tao too. Oh, and it's impossible for Hazama to be bad. Can you name ONE person who uses chains that isn't high tier+?

 

[Spelt]

Yeah, i'm afraid of there being the obligatory super overpowered characters again, too. :/

I REALLY don't want to have to deal with a top tier valk or platinum, lol.

 

[Kuraudo]

Let's just wait and see what happens with Ghost Rider...

 

[Darky-Sama]

Can you name ONE person who uses chains that isn't high tier+?

Let's just wait and see what happens with Ghost Rider...

^ This. Even with his range, something tells me Ghost Rider is going to be really bad.

Also, Rachel top tier again? HNGGG.
So, I'll finally get to main a top tier. :>

 

[Lythium]

No way, Ghost Rider looks pretty decent.

I don't know what revolver blast is, lol.

It's OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1UkfPEyUk

Honestly, I think the best way to fix Noel would be to just nerf her damage output a bit. But it seems like ASW doesn't know what they want to do with Noel either, so...

 

[Spelt]

It's OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1UkfPEyUk

-watches-

Honestly, I think the best way to fix Noel would be to just nerf her damage output a bit. But it seems like ASW doesn't know what they want to do with Noel either, so...

I agree.
I'd be completely fine with her is she didn't get 5k + full corner carry off of her drives.

 

[Lythium]

Me too, Spelt, me too.

Buff her normals frames and hitboxes, nerf her drive damage. Problem solved?

 

[Spelt]

Yeah. Arcsys just likes to **** stuff up because they can.


I wanna play Noel just because her taunt is so fast and easy to spam.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIy7aDehTvU

SO glad that's getting removed. e____e

 

[Lythium]

Oh, Rachel and her fatty hitbox.

I didn't know they were removing Noel's haida loop.

 

[Spelt]

I thought they were... :S

 

[Lythium]

I know they removed the throw whiff loop in the loketests, but I didn't hear anything about the haida loop.

 

[Spelt]

Oh. Well then i'm dumb.
And sad.

 

[Lythium]

Don't be sad, little buddy. Here, have a George:

 

[Meru.]

Rachel:
- j. 2c: now also air cancelable on hit.

Oh my <3

- 6B: No longer jump-cancelable.

.... That sucks though. I don't care for the cat chair nerf, I never used it anyway.

Unfortunately I can't comprehend Litchi's changes at all, since I don't know the names of her moves ><.

 

[Spelt]

George knows just how to cheer me up. :D