Guilty Gear

[vonflare]

does anyone here play guilty gear? Strive comes out in April and it seems pretty cool, some new gameplay was revealed today



Will anyone else here be playing?

[vonflare]

yes I had a Faust avatar for a while

still have it saved

[vonflare]

wowow new beta gameplay

[vonflare]

I feel like some of the new models make hurtboxes more confusing.

The weird clock thing on screen is some new mechanic? Or is it just a new way of communicating the time advantage from either yellow roman cancel or red roman cancel?

roman cancelling now also makes your opponent move in slowmo for a split second, the clock is to communicate that

[vonflare]

it definitely didn't in +R

[vonflare]

ah I see. I never played rev

[vonflare]

well if there's one thing the time slow mechanic gives you it's more time to tbag during supers

[vonflare]

cool combo

[vonflare]

15th character is I-No

[vonflare]

the first 5 dlc characters have been datamined, they are:

Spoiler:

Happy Chaos
Jack-O
Goldlewis
Jam
That Man

(the order they'll be released is uncertain)

[vonflare]

poor faust, didn't get nearly enough buffs from this balance patch

https://www.guiltygear.com/ggst/en/news/post-1342/

at least jack-o looks fun, kind of a venom function. I might switch to her when she releases, since Faust seems destined to be garbage for a very long time

[vonflare]

I’m just sad that they removed her air projectiles that get stronger the more tension you have, those were cool

Unless that’s just her j.D

But I doubt it

The loss of her super unique play style is tragic fir sure but I think everyone knew that it couldn’t work in strive. I mean, what would happen to the houses on screen transition?

[vonflare]

true, but we'll see. if you can cancel all your normals into the attack command it shouldn't be too bad

also it looks like its going to be way harder to sandwich the opponents with jack-o than with other summon characters like zato, because you have no easy way to get a goon behind the opponent

[vonflare]

yeah but if you think your opponent is just going to let you:
pull out a minion
jump
throw it OVER THEM (so it's not hitting them)
land
without getting punished on landing?

I guess it's feasible as an option for okizeme but it'll never work in neutral
of course this is all wild speculation since the character isn't out yet. if she has some equivalent tech to zato drunken shade boosting to get minions behind the opponent then I'll be all the happier. but the best I'm hoping for right now is ambiguous crossups where you place a minion and jump over the opponent, commanding it to attack as you're above their head

[vonflare]

True it seems like pulling one out mid combo is optimal for a lot of things

[vonflare]

the axl matchup is absolutely unwinnable as faust

[vonflare]

anybody else hard stuck
I can never make it all the way to celestial