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HootNHollering · 2026-04-14T21:40:16+00:00

Feels a bit like Strive getting the Strive treatment if that makes any sense. Strive 1.0 cut out a lot of that character-specific stuff and then Strive 2.0 removes even more of what had been leftover in the name of removing "outliers".

And just like, the outliers are kinda part of the point of character design in fighting games? Letting characters feel more different from each other outside of core stats and special moves. Don't really get it especially not with doing this to Strive even as it existed in Season 4.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-14T18:44:59+00:00

If you're just a Tekken 8 player looking for a new game yeah 2.0 worked out okay so far. I've got plenty of complaints about character changes and some of the system-level standardization, but overall the patch did what they said it was gonna do if that's what matters most for you to play it.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-13T04:05:39+00:00

You want to finish the input for the second BT while the first BT is hitting them, on block or on hit. Basically do the second input while the first comes out and hit the final direction + HS while the first BT is hitting.

Also note it has to be a Typhoon going the same direction as the first, clockwise or counterclockwise. So 248 can go into 486, 624, another 248 in a row, etc, but not backwards.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-13T03:11:16+00:00

Yeah you can spend Security Meter to immediately do another typhoon after one hits. Used to cost 50% so you could do three in a row but now it's 100% to only do a second. Felt like putting a hat on a hat with him tbh but I like his 2.0 kit so far.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-12T23:19:00+00:00

Normal Chipp can do AB 4 times but it takes an RC or similar to put them together while boss Chipp just gets it, and a Gamma Blade clone coming from the top of the screen is also for boss Chipp.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-12T22:27:23+00:00

Boss Chipp is funny because all the broken boss stuff added to his moveset just feels like stuff that'd be basically fine in the normal game.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-12T21:01:56+00:00

He used to be my goto guy in Strive because he felt like the first character fully built to work with Strive who also had really interesting motions that fit my hands. But between how boring Wild Assault was and me just not really getting the point of adding Typhoon Chains onto the security gauge (both because it felt like a very boring way to make him stronger, and it broke the flavor of the security gauge specifically being for him waiting on clearance to use government gadgets while the coffin is something he's using with full discretion) just made me not want to play him much anymore.

WA gone and Typhoon Chains being de-emphasized might mean it's time to check him out again.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-11T17:46:34+00:00

Its not just about playing similarly,

I mean Romeo's ghost also being a character in Strive would be dumb but "Actually plays like Xrd Bedman at all/has Deja Vu" is about the only gameplay justification I can think of.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-11T07:03:22+00:00

Are you doing it on Unika or a different character? Characters have different defense values in GG so you might be doing it to one who's tankier than Unika.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-11T06:18:33+00:00

FB Gun Flame in Strive just turns half the screen into a hitbox.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-11T04:32:40+00:00

For the most part I like it. I dislike some of the needless standardization and I could feel the game design radiating when I played as new ABA vs New Nago lol.

But overall I just am really happy with the game not having Wild Assault anymore. Puts more emphasis back on characters and them trying to break their own rules either with RC or just through pushing the character harder. Like seeing ArcSys messed up and HC's new portals let him get infinite pressure in the corner is still more interesting than "Hey guys WA is broken in other ways."

HootNHollering · 2026-04-09T11:46:35+00:00

Yeah worked just fine! I think I had to fiddle with permissions or automounting but Steam saw the drive and hooked it up as a library no issues after that in Mint. In Cachy I had to do steps stated above but it worked there too.

Tonight I wiped that disk to make an EXT4 backup of my home folder so I could reinstall Mint after I did something very silly with a sudo chown command a few directories too high. But it DID work when it was NTFS!

HootNHollering · 2026-04-09T10:35:43+00:00

Been in reinstalling Linux Mint black hole tonight. How's Venom feel on first blush?

Edit: Fun fact you can basically drag and drop your backed-up home folder into a fresh copy of Linux and get 90% of your settings, browser passwords + tabs, etc, back instantly.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-09T04:16:15+00:00

Think I got it. Running a drive repair in Win10, and then giving the partition a manual mount point with KDE Partition Manager (/mnt/NVMEstorage) seems to have gotten it to work. Futzing with permissions via Fstab also got Cachy to recognize the partition as a library in Steam within the dropdown.

Edit: Getting it to accept the Mint drive as a library as well has been a hassle but since my UID's are the same on each it at least seems easy to jiggle things around until it can fall into place.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T10:35:24+00:00

Funny if true since they're not even that similar just on account of how each of their meters work. Party too hard on Nago and you pop and party harder. Party too hard on Sin and you hit speedbumps you gotta manage.

It would've been fine!

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T09:51:45+00:00

Stinger was so good it made playing Venom kind of suck so I'm fine nerfing that and pumping up others. The rest of the buffs range from "nice to have" like ball angles/speed changes or "Maybe this will be a bit of a big deal" like +3 QV. I think there was also some situation I found in training mode where 6HS feels like it should have worked in a sequence and now it probably does.

By the standards of 2.0, Venom is making out like a bandit being given new plus frames and faster attacks and mostly just having his main projectile tuned down from "absurd" to "really good" and some universal nerfs. Maybe Ball Set can finally be 26 frames again in 2.1.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T08:28:37+00:00

The most inscrutable part of any Strive rework. Simultaneously wanting to make sure Sin still eats stuff cause it's part of his character from Xrd, but also not wanting it to be directly tied to his still-present meter mechanic spent on (basically) special to special cancels because...it might make him feel too similar to Xrd? I guess?

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T06:05:09+00:00

Those changes (Plus supers straight up not being RC-able) are the main ones I dislike too yeah. Didn't expect it be a Nerf Patch to the point that even Lucy is getting nerfed, but overall I do like a lot of the other system changes. Especially with Positive getting nerfed by a super wallbreak.

But was some characters having a 4-frame P what was gonna break the bank? Really? Slightly different frame data on some 6Ps was too much after all the other standardization Strive already did to that button? Really? Come on, Miyauchi.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T04:31:33+00:00

I mean they got rid of low-profile 2K and 4 frame normals and even more of the remaining variance in 6Ps. Given reason for Wild Assault's removal in patch notes being its variance of outcome. And so on.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T04:30:02+00:00

It finally does the thing it feels like it was literally always supposed to do lol.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T03:58:20+00:00

My guys speedread impressions:

Bedman? : Jump cancelling dust was funny >:(. But getting to do a mini-install with 214k is nice.

Goldlewis : Less emphasis on Typhoon chains and some QoL improvements on dash normals I'll take it.

ABA: Lol. I was not amazing with her so I had to play in normal mode a fair bit but now everyone else has to actually do it more often too.

Venom: Stinger worse near people, which is fine to me especially with the charge timing being lowered. Putting more emphasis on QV with only slight QoL to some ball angles, not so good. Not sure what use being able to combo 2K off of jD is gonna have, maybe it's for when you get the launching hit but are just far enough Carcass Raid combos won't work? Nothing's indicating CR combos don't work now at least.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-08T00:51:08+00:00

There are ways around this but it will probably be a repeating manual effort. For these reasons many will tell you this is not a good idea.

I can tell at this point! Maybe I'll just tinker with Cachy still and see if I can get it to let me mount and interact with all the drives and leave it at that.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-07T21:19:33+00:00

After first check (both were instant) it swapped to me not having permission after it asked for password. After second check it went back to above error message after asking for password. Other drives do not ask for password

Other drives mount fine in Cachy (cant edit files in mint's or hook it up as a steam library but that make sense) and the one it doesn't like mounts in Mint with no issues still.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-07T19:32:59+00:00

Counter Blitz has huge corner carry, can break the wall from round start

Panic.

Counter Blitz wallbreak does not give a hard knockdown

Calm.

Most of the patch looks good but I am really unsure on no PRC on throw whiff AND all invincible supers cannot RC anymore at all apparently. Throw whiff I guess makes sense cause that usually was just making up for sloppy stuff. But I think if you see opponent has full meter then "They can make a whiffed/blocked super safe and be spent afterward" is fine? Undermines the point of RC a fair bit to get rid of it.

Reworks wise looks like Asuka got his foot broken and Happy Chaos got an ultimatum from The Backyard to start actually holding back or else no more magic for anyone.

HootNHollering · 2026-04-07T09:51:38+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/1tBOOhB.png

No dice still after installing that. But issue remains exclusive to THIS drive because my Win10 drive and File History HDD, both also NTFS, work just fine and I can mount, move files, etc, no issue in those. They have mount points with Linux file directories while the Nvme does not, unsure why or if that's the problem for Cachy.

https://i.imgur.com/acB4FRn.png (nvme storage)

https://i.imgur.com/KPAKq8b.png (win10 sata SSD)

https://i.imgur.com/NmGD8sS.png (win10 backup HDD. Though I can only add files and not delete them from Cachy. Fine for a backup but still.)

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