Month: November 2016

If you’re tired of playing random people over the Network Mode and can’t travel much to tournaments, an online Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- league might be your solution. A competitive online league is coming soon for the PS4/PS3 title to match up fighters in North America in team battles. Dubbed “Salty Circuit,” the league is a grassroots effort that’s actively developing, but the sign-ups for the first season are ending soon!

The rules to join this are as following: each team must have three North American members with one designated Team Captain; the tournament is character-locked, so you must stay with the same character through the season; two of the same characters can’t be on the team; and the players will have a week to schedule games with their matched opposing team in a 3v3 round robin, first-to-three. Participants then record the highest number of wins to moderators.

Since it’s an online tournament, not everyone’s connection experience will be perfect, so the rules state to report to moderators if the delay counter in game is eight frames or more. The organizers urge having a wired connection, and have translated an official port-forwarding guide to Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- from Arc System Works.

Sign-ups are open until midnight PST Friday, November 25th. Season 1 will last eight competitive weeks.

“Sign-ups are free, but we are always looking for volunteers to either help organize, record matches, or to join our media projects that will soon be underway,” said TSC|faultydefense, who established Salty Circuit and is one of the moderators. “We’re speaking with a few people about a website or a more official avenue of presenting everything, but we want to move forward for the players as soon as possible, most likely before these avenues are set up. Please support us as we attempt to grow through and after our first season.”

Looking to join or find out more? Follow this Discord invite to get started and ask one of the moderators.

Source: TSC|faultydefense (Twitter)

In BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Hades Izanami is a force to be reckoned with. Some of her scariest abilities include stopping time to freely damage her opponent, command throws, an intense air-to-ground mix-up thanks to a floating mechanic, and the infamous “ribcage,” which grants limited super armor.

Learning to defend against the monstrous Imperator is no small task, but Dora, famous for his Bang play in BlazBlue, made a new video where he shows a typical Izanami attack string and shows ways to get out of it. While Izanami activates her Drive, she can’t block, but she can fill in the gaps in her pressure with projectiles, firing at will.

Typically, many players try to Barrier Block her attacks and then jump out, but blocking the projectile brings them to the ground right away. Dora recommends letting yourself get hit by the projectiles to tech above as a different strategy to get out. Furthermore, he explains her 2A jab and points out that her standing C is a good moment to activate Overdrive.

Watch the clip over on Openrec.tv to learn from Dora. Unlike his other videos, he made this one in English with subtitles, so let’s show our support–Dora says he’s eager to make more BlazBlue content if people like it.

Source: Openrec.tv, tip from Spectro