Month: October 2015

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Next Level Battle Circuit #140 feat. Ultra Street Fighter IV Streaming Live

This week’s installment of Next Level Battle Circuit is now streaming live courtesy of Team Spooky’s Arturo Sanchez. As usual, the event is being broadcast from its namesake, Next Level Arcade, in New York City. Tonight, they’ll be running Ultra Street Fighter IV and Mortal Kombat X, featuring some of the best players on the east coast.

If you would like to check out these weekly tournaments, be sure to head on over to Next Level Arcade and take part every Wednesday. The address has been included below.

4013 8th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

The stream is currently live below, but you can also visit Twitch to join the chat. Full brackets will be made available through Challonge.

Watch live video from nycfurby on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Arturo Sanchez

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General: A Skeptic’s Return to Destiny

A Skeptic

The original Destiny was a letdown. Our author played it through and, like so many others, left just after finishing the campaign, equally disappointed and aggravated at the game that should have been. With all the buzz surrounding The Taken King, he’s returned to see if it lives up to the hype. Is one expansion enough to overcome a year’s worth of mistakes?

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General: Do You PvP?

Do You PvP?

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at some different types of endgame, including PvP as one of the principal activities available in an MMORPG once you hit the level cap. Of course, many modern MMOs offer some kind of player-versus-player interaction throughout the leveling process, even going as far as to incentivize low- and mid-level arenas through XP gain and gear rewards. PvP is one of my favorite diversions in an online game, both while leveling and as part of the endgame.

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Make Use of Overdrive Startup Properties for Half the Meter in Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-‘s Yellow Roman Cancel system has been the source of more than a few useful strategies in the game. Previously, players were able to use it to set up an option select against Dead Angle attacks as long as they had 25-49% tension. Now, another trick has been discovered that lets players use it to gain invulnerable frames.

According to eSports Runner and GREATFERNMAN, all characters in Guilty Gear Xrd can YRC the startup frames of their Overdrive moves. In doing so, they cancel the Overdrive before it consumes their tension gauge while at the same time retaining whatever properties the startup of the Overdrive had, such as first frame invulnerability, before the YRC activates. This allows players new options in certain situations and only costs 25% meter.

This technique exists in both Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- as well as in the newly released Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-. In the latter, it also allows players to YRC out of Burst Overdrives without consuming their Burst meter.

Sources: eSports Runner, GREATFERNMAN via IPLAYWINNER