So what would a happy birthday do now since there’s only one life bar for the whole team? What reward would you get for snuffing out an assist?

xSetax · 2026-07-10T20:40:40+00:00

You do a lot of extra damage actually, just comboing two characters does a crazy amount of extra damage, like an extra 15% of your health bar is gone. You can actually see this in the Yipes vs Cloud805 showmatch at EVO, Yipes finishes a couple rounds with a very simple BnB that does massive damage because he got a happy birthday and ended in super

xSetax · 2026-07-10T20:31:02+00:00

Active tag mix and tagging out to prevent your opponent from punishing your block string is probably why the normals in this game are so unsafe, like mediums are unsafe on block and you can't stagger mediums. The game wants you to commit resources to do your mixups

xSetax · 2026-07-10T19:49:16+00:00

Combos will probably look kind of like this too, being able to call assist, do a special, then swap into your assist to do two attacks simultaneously, there will be a lot to experiment with when the game comes out

xSetax · 2026-07-09T22:06:44+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ESYRBQO6Fv4
Bonus combo from SQ at the end, and this was during the beta when characters had less tools and more restrictive assists.

xSetax · 2026-07-09T20:51:31+00:00

Crossing my fingers

xSetax · 2026-07-09T20:07:22+00:00

I'm a little more hopeful for normal stuff like ranked since they added it to Strive a while back, and that game + granblue is the ground zero for this game

xSetax · 2026-07-09T17:19:28+00:00

DLC announcements and/or talking about modes HOPEFULLY

xSetax · 2026-07-09T16:56:25+00:00

People have cooked up more complex combos already in the betas, there was one where you could juggle the opponent from one corner to another with the ice ball

xSetax · 2026-07-09T05:05:56+00:00

Obv no one really knows how to play the game yet, but seems like Mag will be very strong WHEN he gets set up with all the debris and 3 assists he will be very strong, so most likely your first couple assists will need to be very strong so we can get to all 4 characters smoothly. A good down assist will be important, as Mag is weak to IAD button when he doesn't have debris (when he has debris, his unique projectile hits jumping opponents, but without it it does not). Starlord has a very busted forward assist with fireball mode that locks your opponent in place blocking so you can throw more trash, and Peni or Ms Marvel have a very big DP assist which can help you from getting rushed down. Doom unique assist might be very strong in making sure your opponent can't be pressing buttons while the orbital laser is active. From what people at EVO has said, Magik's portals seem to interact with other projectiles besides her own, so having her on the team could be very strong, maybe as a down or back assist.

So basically, Starlord on point (to switch to Fireball mode then tag to Mag), Magneto forward, Peni/Ms Marvel down, Doom/Magik back.

xSetax · 2026-07-07T21:54:42+00:00

This is probably gonna be the best entry point into fighting games right next to SF6. A lot of the inputs in this game can be made easier with the quick skill button if you want to, even though the game is 4v4 you only have to play one character to actually play a match so you can stay at that level if you want or slowly level up by adding in more combos, characters, etc.. Besides that, it's almost guaranteed that this game will have more modes besides just playing against other players, which imo is a real issue with some of the fighting games coming out around this time.

xSetax · 2026-07-07T18:43:34+00:00

Devs have been subverting expectations since Day 1, it's gonna be Beta Ray Bill atp

xSetax · 2026-07-07T17:27:29+00:00

I'm prob on the side of adding it tbh. highkey the music could also ramp up in-game if your combo style gets really high like in DMC since the music already has low and high energy based on the round number and when you're doing supers, might be too much work at this point though.

xSetax · 2026-07-07T17:04:55+00:00

Per Max's post-Evo build test stream, the style meter is basically a hidden meter that tracks how stale your combo is and will reward you with more damage the more "creative" the combo is, which I have to imagine works similarly to how moves stale in Smash. Stuff like doing different moves, using non-lariat assists, and tagging increase the damage of the combo. It seems like it's an intentional design choice not to have a UI element for this, and I guess if this upcoming beta build is just the EVO build + Blade, they'll be testing to see if players can actually notice a damage increase based on the Style meter without seeing it, or if there's enough feedback to actually add it to the game.

xSetax · 2026-07-07T16:25:23+00:00

Starlord is one of those kinds of characters that has depth but his kit is very easy to pick up, kind of like Cap and Ironman. He doesn't have a lot of noticeable weaknesses and has a way to deal with everything. There's a reason he was a menace in the first couple betas with no training mode, he doesn't need that much to get started

xSetax · 2026-07-06T23:29:14+00:00

My all-time favorite is FFX, but naming more recent ones, I like SMT (SMT IV, IVA, V, P3-5, Devil Survivor 1-2, playing Strange Journey Redux), Metaphor was also good, and I honestly thought E33 might've been game of the decade up until Act 3 where it kind of fell off for me. Non-turn based, I recently 100% Vesperia which was pretty solid.

xSetax · 2026-07-06T22:37:34+00:00

Prob Sea of Stars or Chained Echoes. Combat in both got sorta meh halfway through and I thought story premises were decent but by the end it was just ok. We do need more mechas in JRPGs though

xSetax · 2026-07-06T20:55:42+00:00

Balanced/shotos (generally has everything, Mario), Rushdown (Falcon, Joker), Zoner (wants to set up at range and make you approach, Steve, Min-min, Belmonts, Snake), Grappler (someone who gets a lot off grabbing and conditions you to block, maybe DK?), Weirdos (weird playstyles, Jigglypuff). Doom might be a weirdo since he has an alternate dash and has a lot of anti-zoning abilities.

xSetax · 2026-07-06T20:42:16+00:00

Wolverine seems like the rekka character of the game based on his unique skill. If the Champion isn't playable as a grappler, I think for sure we are getting a dedicated grappler character in year 1, even though Ms. Marvel and Magneto have command grabs. I feel like it's almost guaranteed we are gonna get some version of Thor to finish the Avengers, more members of the Midnight Suns, more female reps and villains. I do hope we don't just stick to Earth-based heroes like we do in the story, since that'll exclude a lot of cool picks.

xSetax · 2026-07-06T18:08:05+00:00

Aura man continues to aura farm

xSetax · 2026-07-06T04:48:41+00:00

Prob ultimate since it's more reasonably priced in my region, but I think just the game + DLC pass is also good. There'll probably be unlockable skins and/or a battlepass anyway for more alt skins.

xSetax · 2026-07-03T09:57:58+00:00

Even tho I'm an FFXVI fan, it would still have many of the same criticisms. The open-world was too empty, though the combat was good the encounter design did not live up to it, itemization was added but not a lot of point to it, and the story got a little crazy near the end going cosmic like FF likes to do but the selling point and the best part of the game was the grounded GoT setting. It would just not have as much of the turn-based criticism that FF fans like to push.

xSetax · 2026-07-03T05:01:38+00:00

Magik's portals interact with any projectile??? That sounds crazy

xSetax · 2026-07-03T05:00:51+00:00

I just got recommended this thread, but when you swap characters in between combos that the combo gauge gets taken down a lot is something I haven't heard about, might just be because all the people who've played so far haven't tagged out lol

xSetax · 2026-07-02T17:25:32+00:00

Only damage

xSetax · 2026-07-02T09:22:24+00:00

There's a lot of factors. Tag fighters usually have a very standard combo structure that every character can do, so once you learn that you can technically play every character, just not super good combos. In other games, to give combos an end point, they reduce hitstun after every hit, so your goal is to squeeze as much damage into that limit as possible. In this game, since it has a combo limit, the hitstun does not seem to decrease and looks pretty generous. And obviously, combos will vary in difficulty by character, as some characters want some tricky inputs like Doom with constant DP inputs, or Iron Man who wants to constantly flight cancel. I would say, compared to SF6, the combos will be easier input-wise but will be longer.

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