Yeah I know. I knew from the start that I was never going to be able to consistently win straight away. People wrongly think that I want to be able to beat people without any practice but that's just not it at all. My biggest concern is never being matched up with people at my skill level. I found out yesterday that the 360 version uses MS Trueskill for its online matchmaking (I wrongly thought it used the PS3 tier system)
The point where beating your head against people who you never have a chance of beating and never have a chance to learn from has been extremely early for me. I've never fought anyone that didn't use Peacock/Double or Peacock/Valentine. One of the matches where I felt like I could learn something and maybe actually have a chance was a German guy who used solo Cerebella. It started off pretty well but once he hit me he turned that into a 30 hit combo every single time and just annihilated me.
I've added you and just holla if you ever want to fight!
e: Another night of being beaten so badly that it's physically affecting my mood. One player in particular was using Parasol/Cerebella. He was using a throw assist with Cerebella I think. While I was in the air he'd throw out some of the napalm balls and then from there kill both my characters in one gigantic chain where I couldn't even block a single move.
That's one of the biggest problems I've encountered so far. Blocking low using the d-pad on my controller just never works. I tried to defend against their mix ups by blocking high then low but during their low attacks it would just flat out stop blocking no matter how much I was pressing down and back. My one saving grace is that I managed to beat a solo parasol player as Fila/Ms. Fortune. I had about one health left at the end when I got a lucky high kick in while she was doing one of her supers. My heart was beating so hard that it was actually causing my back to hurt due to the stress/adrenaline.
This can't be the only way to learn fighting games, can it? By beating your face against a brick wall made up of players who are immeasurably better than you are over and over again until you can't feel anything. I don't see how I can ever improve myself by being consistently matched up with people hundreds of times better than I am.
My birthday is coming up next month and I was seriously considering getting the sf4 arcade stick. I can already mentally picture that it is 500 times better than using a pad just because of the placement of your fingers and how you're not having to just use your thumb to hit the face buttons one at a time and then your index finger for the trigger. I know it's not going to make me instantly better and I still need to practice but will it at least make it easier to learn all this shit? The pad is just a total handicap and being completely brand new to 6 button fighters on top of that is just a whole other mountain to climb while learning fighting games.
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