Month: October 2016

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Rocwell Brings the Thunder with This Extensive Guide to Pressuring and Mix-Ups with Laura’s EX Thunderclap in Street Fighter V

Put your hands together for Rocwell, as he has compiled a thorough guide for Street Fighter V’s Laura: detailing how to bully and mix-up opponents with her EX Thunderclap. Starting with basic combos off of each knockdown, Rocwell slowly builds up the options Laura has following an EX Clap, leading into some electrifying combos. For the majority of these setups, landing the reset following the second EX Clap will result in stun, so those struggling with Laura need to study up on what may be coming your way, using this video.

Rocwell also shows how mixing in normal dashes and Laura’s V-skill dash can cause opponents to panic, leaving them open to a throw or dropping their guard so you can lead into a combo. The oncoming threat of the EX Clap is so much that Laura players can get really creative with their pressure, so take inspiration from Rocwell’s guide and see what crazy things you can come up with.

Source: Rocwell

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Sea of Thieves – Making a Pirate Game Sound Piratey

Rare Sound Designers Guillaume and Jamie have taken to the Sea of Thieves airways to give fans a bit of insight into how the team is working to create a piratey sounding world. From the description on the video, it seems that tissues, tape, astroturf and other interesting components all come into play to give Sea of Thieves the right feel. See what you think!

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Is Fox Honest? ZeRo Weighs In on Character Honesty in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Cheap. Unfair. Broken. Unbalanced. Dishonest. We’ve all heard these types of phrases, and some of us may even use them. These phrases are all subjective, however; making one person’s sense of honor in their character choice mean nothing to another player. This, occasionally, leads to salt and name calling.

In Smash, there is a pretty large divide between the good characters and the rest. This mentality of certain characters being too good started heavily with Melee, but still persists a bit today. A player having difficulty may sooner declare his opponent’s character dishonest before improving. One such character is a long-time face in the Smash metagame, Fox.

The video below sees ZeRo delve into the meaning of the phrase “honest,” his interpretation of it, and whether or not Fox meets this subjective definition. He does this by looking into the character’s strengths and weaknesses to see what the counter play is, if there is one, to Fox McCloud.

Source: ZeRo