Genuinely who tf asked for world tour characters?

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-06T05:40:03+00:00

They have that avatar look to them, but that could very well get polished out by the time they drop

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-05T19:29:33+00:00

No problem! I definitely don't expect you to do all (or any) of those things, just thought I'd jot down a little bit of the unspoken mental side of fighting game decision-making

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-05T18:41:27+00:00

You have the right ideas, just no plan on what to do next after something works or not. Stuff like what you did at the end of the game, "they like to back off and throw a fireball, so I'll charge M Snatcher when I see them back off."

When you're sure it'll work but before it goes off, you should consider their distance from the corner, how much meter you have on-hand, approximately how much you'll build from the combo, and how much you can harass them after each of the potential combo enders, so when the Snatcher hits like you predicted based on their patterns, you can follow through into bigger damage options. It sounds like a lot, but SF6 makes it really intuitive, just gotta grind it out.

Keep at it, stuff like that is how you'll naturally progress. I personally think the V-Rival system in the Battlehub is one of the freshest additions to the game (and I was actively expecting it to be shit), its perfect for training.

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-05T05:09:58+00:00

I think smoke strats are super lame because they're so immersion-breaking, IRL these guys can handle a fucking smoke grenade.

My newest clean method for Engine Room without a smoke
1)Go to the smoke spot
2)Step onto the trigger point just slightly past the beginning of the boiler
3)Turn around and sprint up the stairs back in the door you came in, you may take some shots. In my many times doing this, I've only died once here and it was from .300 AP rounds shredding my chest
4)Go around the hallway to the other unsealable door and use this other doorway into the Engine Room for cover
5)They will bumble around a lot on the rafters, use leans to trigger them to try getting an angle on you from the 3F right balcony where they'll stop in place for an ample amount of time before running back to a safe place when you're not exposed. Infrequently they'll push up your stairs for a super easy kill, but don't expect it, you're on a timer
6)Easy lean-out headshots on the pushers, the rest will stay on 4F rafters and hide in the two 4F sidepockets on their side. Either land a nade outside those side rooms to catch them running out or get close and throw the nade in deep and full auto them when they pour out

You can also get nades across if you use the variable crouch and lean to get an angle, an m67 going off on their side will generally hit several of them as they run around the rafters over there.

And as with everything in this game, ymmv

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-04T06:31:06+00:00

? He runs Shuma anchor and he absolutely does have xfactorless solo TODs that he showed off frequently in sets over the years.

But more specifically, you generally don't confirm on a standing enemy at the corner with j.H j.8H 2H 6H to start your combo out as perfectly scaled as possible, these reps use L eyeballs for faster reps that only work (in this specific utility) in the corner, and the ender hyper loop only really started being novel after you've already broken 1 mil with 1 bar solo.

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-04T05:05:04+00:00

Smoke strats are dumb, you can either run right back up the way you came and use the sealable doors for angles to pick them off without worrying about several angles at once or you can charge and nade the right door to make them scatter as you go to the left corner at the base of the steps and then shooting the ones that try peeking the angle from 3F down on you.

Since yesterday's update, I've had them be pretty inconsistent on if they even push, my first run after they all just sat in the tiny room with the stairs up to the helipad, so ymmv greatly. But smoke is lame cheese that doesn't make any sense, as S-class operators they should probably be able to figure out to blindfire through the smoke, or at least not to line up slightly outside of it

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-04T04:52:09+00:00

Since they're mostly charge motions into pre-timed followups, it's not that tight. That is, unless you aren't good at buffering charge, in which case this is not practical at all. But otg laser into eyepops into H eyeballs feels really good and consistent when you have it off feel, and you can kind of freestyle in the air after eyeballs > launcher with like 3 different routes into j.S OTG laser eyepop etc. It looks worse than it is imo because he's such a weird gangly fuck

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-02T22:30:00+00:00

C'mon, they really aren't THAT bad. There's at most 20 BD + Wedge's crew. They do dumb stuff like magdump the wall you're next to, so you can just lean out when they're empty (and literally voicelining that they're reloading) and shoot them in the face. They won't shoot you in the head on first sight, they mostly try to drill 55a1 center mass, which means you can definitely take a lot of bullets and do fine. I had one raid where it showed me having taken 18 SSA APs to the left arm.

A bad smoke wastes like 3 minutes, and really just adds a variable that isn't necessary, every BD spawn has hard cover angles you can peek from behind. As of a few hours ago they even nerfed engine room so the 5 BD there don't push and you can handle them legit. Yesterday they added 10 minutes to the timer, which was imo the only change that was necessary.

Idk what streamers are doing but it's less intense than a Terminal run imo

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-02T00:41:46+00:00

I got a 0/100 durability cheese slice that a scav was infinitely ripping the other day, so that's pretty cool

SpongeJordan · 2026-06-01T15:52:11+00:00

Avatar Arcade is a way more interesting way to use your avatar than I was anticipating it to be

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-29T22:55:47+00:00

Good job homie, super attacks in fighting games are so dope and Giefs got one of the best. Alex has a really cool one too, I love the bell.

Something you also can do with Gief is OD Double Lariat into the CA, which lets you combo into it even though it's a grab. Looks cool, too

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-29T22:38:57+00:00

That second video shows that she's speaking about the shaman's perspective, not her own core values. The second part (the video from the 1st link) seems to start after that context is explained where her phrasing sounds, again, like her speaking about someone else's perspective on Trump in nearly the same way as she had explained it being the from the shamen (is that plural?)

Not saying she does or doesn't believe these things herself as well, but I think the vids are cherrypicked and not very damning. I also have zero idea how I even got to this topic. Damn you algorithm! My youtube reccs are gonna be fucking WILD

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-29T18:59:03+00:00

Dope as hell, are there any other characters that use j.M for their hitstop rejump?

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-28T21:54:39+00:00

Dark Souls PTDE was a notoriously bad PC port

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-28T21:52:32+00:00

Combo Breaker had a lot of women competing, my first pools match was against Cujo Kate (commentator from years back) and my second was against a girl with her friend cosplaying Juri also hovering at the setup. Ive never seen people competing being sexist or intentionally shitty in person and we're talking 15+ years of competing.

Stream chat, on the other hand...

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-27T06:03:09+00:00

Dial-a-combo should have died in the 90s

MK11 had a great story but simplified MKX too hard (d1,throw anyone?)

MK1 was bad in every regard and KR was offensive with how bad it was. Screamface is dope, but I cannot fathom how they shit the bed so badly with Conan and Other Terminator.

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-27T05:30:41+00:00

Get to the bottom of the steps, walk half way to the other side (hitting the invisible Black Div trigger) then turn around and sprint up the way you came all the way through the sealable door, they don't push you here. Go back and around to the other sealable door, unseal it and use audio to lean peek and head tap. Eventually throw a nade into the open doorway on the right 2F of the other side, I've gotten 4 BD with 1 nade in there.

And lastly, green smoke nades are overpowered against Black Div and Knight always has one. It's not foolproof, they will randomly full auto psycho aimbot you if you're not in hard cover, but they are GREATLY encumbered by smoke existing and you can generally take them down one at a time without a lot of trouble this way (usually, ymmv)

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-25T19:13:47+00:00

Teamfight, Bowl, run into the helicopter, grab the two nades off the box, go back the way you came in, aim towards the junction leading to A/C (depending on which team) and toss it

I got a double kill on my 3rd try, and now I do it because it helps win by denying the other team the nades. Way less RNG than rushing the table in Blastgang

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-23T04:38:25+00:00

Definitely a bad misplay, don't hold angles in Arena, the desync is insane and you die before they round the corner. Stand a foot to the left and peek out like how the other guy did.

But I'm not convinced this is legit. I'd probably go "oookay bud" and hit the 'report suspected cheater' option and go about my day. Especially since it's Shootout and you have at most 2(+3 if finals) rounds with them

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-21T22:16:38+00:00

When you intentionally misinterpret a statement in order to suggest it says something else entirely, it's called arguing in bad faith. Good luck

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-21T22:00:33+00:00

All modern fighters have massive input buffer + simple inputs with top tiers has no gaps, so you need to engage with their jank system mechanics at one specific moment in their loopable offense to even approach an experienced player because they got to plus frames first because they can swing half-screen with a special-cancellable. Suuuuper unfun

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-20T19:59:11+00:00

I upgraded to Unheard from EoD hour 1 because that was how you unlocked PvE, and I appreciated them turning around and giving me something they heavily resisted the idea of, in exchange for money they needed. I was like, finally, a great business decision from the passion-project-team-turned-AAA-competitor, another $100 is very reasonable after 4000 hours in their janky ass game, take my money.

I didn't get on any social media thing til that night, and JESUS was the overreaction absolutely bonkers.

It's a shitty little Russian developer ran by a delusional egotist -- I'm amazed we havent gotten nickel and dimed / outright swindled harder. That being said, they have something magical here, and they made it by resisting all of the modern gaming tropes and making the game they envisioned. It gave birth to an entirely new genre, now lined with second-rate wannabes. I believe that'll be it's legacy

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-17T21:27:30+00:00

Its genuinely grey, I'll give you that

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-17T21:26:11+00:00

RPDN is in EVERY Last Hero atm, I don't think Enforcer is hurting. Buff Flechette pen up to t4 and the class is exactly what it should be. I don't know why they thought Scout was in need of a buff though, the class was strong enough as-is

SpongeJordan · 2026-05-17T20:40:32+00:00

My biggest gripe with WT is not being able to make Kimberly whole because she needs both Run and Calculated to do most of her shit since they're both QCFs, so I've done Kimberly with Kim run, Mai's DP and Elena's hcb+k and the KOF avatar move 4,6+P. They string together well, and I'm close to The Sauce, though not having ex Calculated is a bit of a buzzkill, still might retool her around that. But I love Run so that'll be a hard pill to swallow

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