I wish this game was better optimized for my absolute hunk of shit laptop because the lobbies are a pain for me. The game has been fun but I can't play it for very long so I can't get strong at it, but that's okay because I won't lose to the weak ass players I seem to be sharing lobbies with usually even when I keep forgetting to turn off Pulse combos

Do we know who is or was the designers for Akali and Senna? Just to know to expect another busted shitter or not.

>>558015410
>Akali
Someone on that team definitely has a vested interest in that hero being strong, since Akali is beloved by every retard with a god complex. I think it's safe to assume she'll have a bunch of tools she doesn't need

>>558015410
Akali is from Apologyman isn't it?

>>558015410
there is a 0% chance that she isn't completely fucking busted
i am pretty confident that she's going to make us wish we were still fighting ekko

so let's try to predict akali's kit
>gigantic slow-moving shuriken
>command backflip with followups (similar to warwick's demon flip but moves her backwards and has a projectile because fuck it)
>teleports anywhere anytime
>invincible reversal super
>parry super
>level 3 hits the entire screen frame 1

good night tuko

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>pay up, chump
it's like they wanted to flop

>>558027943
California brain rot is one hell of a drug.

Decided to finally give this game a shot. It's surprisingly fun, I think the FGC has been too hard on it. I get the complaints about low character count and the lack of any modes outside of casual/ranked is a problem but the game is F2P and not 60+ dollars so I think it's a solid trade-off. Skins are expensive but none of them are hot so I'll pass until swimsuits drop. I think casuals will drop off hard, but for regular fighting game enthusiasts I'm surprised there's so much negativity around the game.

>>558015410

Senna will be busted. The devs can't figure out a weakness to give to rushdown characters with zoning tools.
Akali might be pure rushdown, and looking at Vi, they know how to make pure rushdown not busted

>>558039097
she looks pure rushdown so far but she is known for her E in league and thats all she needs to be cancer
That move would not be fly in a FG

2XKO has great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQBtl_99QgQ

>>558033515
Idk
Bbtag got a lot of negativity for being a tag fighter too
1v1tards just love to fling shit from atop their molehill. They just want to wank how they managed to be the least niche of our genre for some reason, idgi.
Like seeing a fat hobo making fun of an obese hobo, what a victory dude, congrats ig

>>558025262
lights are stabs with kunai
mediums and kama strikes
heavies are kama whips
Gonna have big disjoints on the whips a l yasuo for no reason

Kunai throw that she can only do diagonally downward like chip shuriken.

Smoke bomb move that gives teemo invis or maybe smoke bombs are just her teleports actually

The demon flip with a projectile is probably exactly right its gonna be fucked up

>>558045912
impotence breeds agression
no sfag will ever be good at a tag game and that knowledge seethes away at their edges, tragic.

>>558045912
It's not even that hard of a tag fighter, UMvC3 has a higher skill floor than 2XKO and the FGC jizz themselves just saying the name.Just seems like the FGC would rather shit on each other than try different games out these days

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todo list:
1. lab vs warwick run/demon flip

end of list

reminder this is how people not in the fgc felt about 2xko's mess of a release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMk0k57Ge10

>>558055058
most success ive had against it is going for air grab if he's using it in a string

>people are starting to unlock the bp finisher
>it's loud as fuck, same as the first one
UGH

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this is like the scene in a movie or show where the hero is about to kill the villain but instead he just gut punches him and spares him

>>558064934
the QA is so lacking
what are the devs fuckign doing

>>558072430
Looking for a new job on Linkedin lmao

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queuing some 2xko

>>558074193
gl bwo

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save us kali...
please...

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pretty good sesh
only lost to this filthy j*gger on jinx he was so cringe
Kinda wanna buy the heartseeker jinx skin..

>>558078305
heartseeker jinx is cute

>>558045803
I actually agree. First fighting game since Killer Instinct where the music gets me going. Music team did good. Just need a jukebox mode to set songs.

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>>558045803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXdRwCbI9o
i never actually listened to darius' theme in isolation til now and never noticed the (very far in the background) war chanting
god he's so cool
god his theme is so cool
i love him so much bros

>>558075267
I think I have more of a problem with Illaoi than ekko

>>558082689
she's fucking annoying but at least the plays she makes are mostly intentional
ekko has too much shit that's literally "i'm gonna throw it out there and if it hits, you die, and if it whiffs, i'm probably still in advantage because it's too dangerous to interact with me EVER"
the other day i lost to an illaoi that basically just mashed her stupid busted 5m though so you may be on to something

>>558045912
>"our" genre
blud thinks he's on the team lmaooooo

they said the next champion has a mechanic "never seen before in a fighting game". and we know the next champ is akali..

>>558084412
This. Dude just gets away with murder

>>558095167
if you told any fg player about helm breaker they would ask you why the fuck you're still playing this game, like
>it's a dive kick but the hit boxes are so good that it outright beats almost everything but a 2h, but even if you 2h he can rewind it to beat it anyway ON REACTION
like

>>558075267
why do they have fag flags?

>>558096852
new to anime fgc?
most lgbt gamers rep their flag instead of their country

>>558096654
That balance patch needs to happen now. League is allowed to get away with it on the account of 160+ champs. We only got 12

>>558101296
that is the one objectively good thing about this game
imagine if we had sf6 "1 patch per year" balancing and we just had to deal with ekko for that long
now, granted, they are too pussy to actually hit him, but maybe now that the game is in panic mode they will

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How much of a degenerate would I be if I were to buy skins purely for making screenshots like this in training mode?

>>558103818
all chars and skins available for free offline training mode

>>558104343
My offline launcher is connected to my account and only has the skins available to me, I don't have all the skins when I got to offline training except for the ones I bought already

>>558106619
go to the install folder on your computer and find offlinelauncher exe

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>>558107221
What happens for me when I go to offlinelauncher

>>558108094
I'll have all the characters in offline mode, but only have the skins and chromas I bought on my regular account

>>558108170
>>558108094
oh, huh, coulda sworn

>>558109848
I think there is a separate tournament launcher that riot gives out that has all the skins on it for locals and tournaments, but the regular one you get is limited to your account skins
If I did have all the skins, I would have done the other screenshot unfortunately, and it's not in my shop either

We should do Friday night lobbies

clayton turns out to be a right wing scumbag :(

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>>558045803
The lobby music is very cozy, I like a lot of the character songs too
Need more instrumental low fi math rock in my life
https://youtu.be/zbMVT1y2xkw?si=P7n7KUpP2MCh5a8Z
https://youtu.be/c1Hm24WH1Ao?si=GZ6Rm7C-00kQF6A9

Did they fix Akali yet

>>558118027
unknown unseen
this week's thursday post was nothing

i think it would be unfortunate if riot wastes all the assets for this game, the netcode, everything. i hope if it does eos, they take what's there and use it as groundwork for a 3v3 game

>>558119145
they're not touching a fighting game ever again lil bro

>>558121000
"for a 3v3 game" was the joke part of the post. but it does seem like a waste
i mean, they reused LOR assets for riftbound. we might see 2xko assets used again for something else

>>558121000
lmao
this

>>558119145
I dont think it even will Eos
Even LoR which everyone makes fun of is technically still alive
They get a new champ every like 6-8 months and their single player gamemode still gets updated with new levels and enemies.
Afaik they have like 5 devs on it operating a zombie team, same thing might happen to tuko. 1 champ a year just so they can say it isnt dead

at least the chinese love this game... when they buy skins the profits go to riot yes? or does it go to the CCP idk how this shit works

is the game being successful in china finanically good for riot US?

>>558132650
if china makes a lot of money then the ccp will want riot to keep making the game so they keep making money yes

>>558132650
>at least the chinese love this game
another delusion

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check out my riftbound mat bros

>>558134162
p cool

>>558134162
rubbing on your mat

>>558111941
Clayton has said before in videos he's a democrat schizo.

>>558011325
1. Was there ever a wider marketing campaign for this game?
2. Why does it seem like only fighting game players know about this game, instead of League players at large?

>>558143060
1. the only real attempt was having it at the game awards
the rest has just been community-driven hype

2. i used to constantly bring up to my league friends that this was gonna be our game, and now i stream it to them here and there
but.. literally none of them have tried out the game
fighting games are just too scary for people to get into

Remember when there was that 1v1 fighting game with a brand new IP that was starting to make waves even outside of the FGC because it was actually approachable to beginners due to being slow-paced, low power level and having cooldowns instead of motion inputs? Man whatever happened to that game, sure seems like 2XKO could have learned some lessons from it.

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>>558144435
haha
yeah...

>>558144435
>slow-paced, low power level
the very first time i saw ahri in this she was doing a 30 hit air combo with loops

Big leff says the closest character to practice for akali is vi since vis 5m looks like it has about the same range as akalis, and sway is the closest thing to akalis teleport, thoughts?

>>558151742
big leff is a fucking retard and you should never listen to anything he says

>>558151742
>actually listening to anything leffen says

>>558151742
just for that teleport + assist aspect, but that's literally it
just focus on who you'll be using as a partner for her

>>558149726
Well then you haven't been paying attention, the first time we saw Ahri in 2XKO she was doing a single strike on Darius. The game was 1v1 and had a completely different (and better looking) artstyle back then.

>>558156830
i guess, that was like a 5 second long teaser, though. the first actual look at gameplay was like that
also, all of this "but the 1v1 game would've been so much lower power level!" stuff is a pure assumption. there's absolutely no reason to think the people who have released ekko in this state would have ever made a game like that

>ekko on every team i've fought today
not a good day for tuko

>>558157562
>there's absolutely no reason to think the people who have released ekko in this state would have ever made a game like that
Yeah, imagine if the devs had made a slow, low-powered 1v1 fighter before being bought out by Riot to make the League fighter, hahah wouldn't that be funny...

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>>558159361
>dude if only we could have had rising thunder!!!

it's all downhill from here. bros
LoRbros can attest to that
It's the Riot way

>>558162216
i already got my character
if they only ever added this year's characters and BALANCED THE FUCKIN GAME i'd be ok

shook this game still has a general

>>558144435
>>558144557
>>558159361
You have never booted up rising thunder in your entire life l0l
10 hours in fighting games larp Andy here to tell you what you should be playing l00l

>>558169352
No but I watched that guy complain about zoning a bunch

>>558169352
>You've never booted up this game that was only playable as a beta for a few months a decade ago before being taken offline forever due to the company getting bought up by Riot
Yes, and? The point was that Rising Thunder didn't have an IP or a huge marketing budget, it reached wider audience beyond the FGC purely due to it's gameplay. It single-handedly completely btfos everyone who tries to claim that 2XKO's gameplay had nothing to do with it's failure.

>>558170965
>It single-handedly completely btfos everyone who tries to claim that 2XKO's gameplay had nothing to do with it's failure.
no bro you don't get it
The only reason 2XKO flopped is that Riot didn't market it enough
If Riot paid for every single ad space and billboard in the US, 3XKO would've been a hit
Gameplay is PERFECT
And if you complain, you're a HATER
I am having a BLAST!

>>558170965
>it reached a huge audience!
the beta literally was so dead by the end of it that you couldn't find a game
i know it's fun to romanticize "lost media" but that game was fucking ass brotherman

>>558172931
Yeah the game was so ass that it convinced Riot to buy the entire company. Whereas 2XKO was so fucking good that they fired half the staff as soon as they got it out of the door.

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Leff just said that cait teemo was one of the worst teams and that double zoner is the worst archetype in the game, so he's fine with me

>>558174056
the fact remains dude
riot ten years ago was a completely different company

>>558170965
>, it reached wider audience beyond the FGC purely due to it's gameplay.
and u know this because..? it peaked at 400 concurrent players dude

>>558174459
That's higher than this game though.

>>558174335
zoning just isn't very strong in this game
it's good at bullying bad players, but it's way too easy to get in on people

>>558175893
imo the strength of zoning is just fully dependant on what characters you're fighting, and since the characters that are best at shitting on zoners are also the most common + best characters in the game, it's like, yeah of course it's gonna feel weak as hell
also since yasuo is a zoner i would say the archetype is actually quite strong

>>558174668
Not that Anon, but let's not be rash here

bro we dropping 2xko for crushing force