BlazBlue Continuum Shift

[eastyy]

well did challenge modes only managed to complete one fully and that was iron tager

got no idea how i will be able to do the others...the ones i really struggle is where you have to do a quick dash during combos

[Darwock]

Valkenhayn is available now for the US PS3 version as well. I picked him up after work and tried his challenge combos, cleared 6 before moving on to other things. It's pretty good fun to string his wolf dashes together in mid-air, but I don't think I'd like to do it online as I can imagine combos failing left right & centre. His Astral Finish is awesome as well.

I usually prefer the english voices in BB but in his case I think the Japanese one is a bit better.

Only made a tiny dent on my points requirement before I got pissed off by a Tao player who hit me a few times and then played keep-away for the time out. Couldn't be arsed after that and switched it off. I was trying to get a million points a day but I've lost that target now.

[briareos_kerensky]

A million pint per day, wow. I should be playing more because I like BB and I don't want to let it go, at least not until Platinum and the future balance patch are released. However the Fall Games Flood has already begun and time is so limited...will definitively get back during this weekend to play some Valks and to further lower my win/loss ratio online :P

[Darwock]

Only 4 levels to go now to reach my target of 50, but I estimate those four levels to be separated by 20 million points. I'll be lucky to get there this side of christmas!

I fear that the final push will be painful enough to turn me right off online play for good (after this I'm moving on to tackle the challenge mode trophy anyway). I don't really want that to happen though as I plan to stick with the series as it's grows, so I ought to keep my hand in. I only played Calamity Trigger for that one summer, and it showed when I started out in Continuum Shift as I basically had to start learning from scratch again.

I think once done I will also try to learn another character as Tager's style is too limited to give 'transferable skills' for other characters. As time has progressed Tager has turned from an easy winner with a dangerous mix-up, into a large punching bag with numerous weak points that everyone knows. None of the gimmicks at his disposal will work on the majority of people anymore, at least not with my limited skills behind them.

Then again, the cast has such a variety in play styles that the same could be said of most characters (I mean the transferable skills thing, not the punching bag thing).

[eastyy]

erghh still no sign of valk for xbox

looking for some tips..how do you do those combos that require dashing during the combo i can never do them

[Darwock]

I think it becomes tricky when the dash is not actually a dash cancel. In the case of dash cancels you can input it during the preceding move, but if it's not a cancel then you have to wait until the move animation is over completely before you dash. It makes the timing really strict.

That said, some of the dash cancels are horribly strict too. The one for the tutorial mode fatal counter was a serious pain in the arse to do (2 consecutive dash cancels off Ragna'a 5D attack)

[eastyy]

yeah its madness.....have about 42% of the challenges done some i doubt i could ever do

whats the reward for completing the challenges ?

oh score attack is mental havent even beat the first character yet

[Darwock]

You get a couple of gallery images at 20% completion and another couple at 50%. There is no incentive for completing any more after 50% so you're almost done - oh, except for the 100 challenge trophy which comes at 66% (excluding DLC character challenges) of course!

You've done way more than I have. Besides Tager I want to just get each character completed up to number 5, I'll only take them further if I start using them properly. I'm stuck on Noel challenge 4 though, the first part - and yep, it's a dash that's giving me grief.

Score attack is just hellish. I completed it once but it was when the score registration bug was still present so my score disappeared into nothingness >< I have no desire to ever do it again.

In fact these trophies are utterly painful to achieve, I haven't felt this tested by a game's challenges since Wipeout HD.

[Darwock]

I actually hit 49 tonight, the goal is within sight!

It happened after I got matched with a level 65 player who's regular character was Noel. Noel is the only opponent where I can beat higher levels, as she is seriously disadvantaged against Tager. So the adrenaline was flowing as I smelt blood.

Unfortunately for me, he counter-picked and chose Ragna - which is one of my (and Tager's) worst match-ups. I never beat Ragnas with that much experience. I was resigned to losing but by some miracle I was able to escape from his corner pressure on several occasions and won the match! That victory got me 500,000 points, my biggest haul ever. I assume he wasn't an expert with Ragna but just fancied his chances better than with Noel.

[speedlolita]

Ragna isn't that good of a matchup again Tager surely. My Ragna at least always plays really close to the opponent so Tager can easily grapple me for massive damage. Even so that's pretty cool. I think I'm only about level 11 online, haven't tried Ranked Match as I'd get an awful connection with people in nippon.

[Darwock]

If Tager catches Ragna then yes, it's over for Ragna - but that is extremely hard to do with Ragna's speed and mix-up potential. I'm getting better at the block strings but once he gets in that's it - I get battered into the corner and juggled to death, I don't know if I'm being caught in tech traps or if it's just Tager's gigantic hit box but I can never find a way out unless the Ragna makes some kind of cock-up.

[Darwock]

...aaaand relax... number two of the big three trophies done after I hit level 50 tonight. Not the most spectacular finish, I picked up most of the million points I needed to get tonight from a couple of high level Valkenhayn's where I literally just got lucky - both of us with a mm of hp remaining at the end and I just had enough space to squeeze out a spark bolt before he connected. Then the last 2 or 3 hundred thousand saw me matched up with the same lower level player three times - first time as Tsubaki, second time he counter-picked and went Ragna, then after I beat him again he went back to Tsubaki. I would have liked a more memorable replay for the collection, but hey-ho.

It was on my 394th win (out of twice as many matches fought)... it took me approx two months to get from level 25 to 50 and that was playing nearly every night - and the trophy is only a silver! They gave you a gold one just for watching a cutscene FFS!

By the way from the lack of posts here it seems like we are back down to just one or two people still playing - when is the european release due?

[briareos_kerensky]

End of the month, IIRC the 24th.

BTW, massive congrats Darwock.
I've slowed down due to new releases...well, due to just one game. I'll give BBCS a shot tonight if people a quarter of my levels won't be cleaning floor with me, in that case...I'll endure. Who cares about PSR and win/loss ratio, right :P ?

[speedlolita]

I hope some more people are gonna play it on release..

[Darwock]

Assuming you are referring to NTSC-UK members only (as there is a very healthy online population in the game itself) - I wouldn't count on it. Based on reactions to CT something about BB seems to turn NTSC-UKers off. I don't play a lot of fighters but I can't imagine there are many as inventive and unique as BB. To top it all off it has superb hi-res 2D graphics (something people are usually crying out for around here) - I really don't understand why it gets so little attention on this forum.

It can certainly be frustrating but I guess that's par for the course with all vs. fighters.