Month: May 2017

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Watch out: An Injustice 2 bug can cause players to (temporarily) lose their character’s progress

One of the unique new features added to Injustice 2 is a character progression system, based on gear that players can earn. While not relevant to competitive play, it’s a nice system to encourage more casual players to stick to the game. But sadly, it seems that a glitch has been found that can interfere with the hard work that a player has put into their gear.

The glitch seems to occur when players either quit or get disconnected from the game’s servers. Upon logging back on, players find that their characters have lost a number of levels, but are still wearing their current gear–that they’re now under-leveled for. The catch of course is that players cannot swap gear, as they will not be able to put their old gear back on.

Warner Bros. Games is currently aware of the issue, and are apparently working on a fix. In the meantime, Kotaku has confirmed that the workaround for this is to clear the console’s local cache, by powering down the console and waiting 20 to 30 seconds before powering it back on. This should correct the problem and restore your progress.

Sources: WB Games forums; Kotaku

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Learn how to bait and punish Zangief’s V-Reversal in Street Fighter V

YouTuber The Prince is putting together a small video series showing all the different ways the cast of Street Fighter V can beat Zangief’s V-Reversal. In part 1, he shows off options for Laura, Birdie, Akuma, Necalli, Karin, Rashid, and Nash:

The vast majority of these take advantage of the fact that you can throw out a special cancelable normal, and then react to the V-Trigger flash with a special or super. There are some interactions that go beyond that, however: for example, Birdie’s V-Trigger activation actually hitting Zangief standing during the Red Cyclone’s V-Reversal.

Source: The Prince

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Somehow, there’s a Brief Karate Foolish “World Championship” in Kyoto, Japan on May 21st

The Megabit Convention in Kyoto, Japan will be paying host to a very special tournament on Sunday, May 21st. If I could italicize very special so much that it became a completely solid horizontal line, I would.

Brief Karate Foolish is a free-to-play 2D parody fighting game on Steam. It was made on a clearly limited budget, by a group of people with a good sense of humor and a decent understanding of actual fighting game mechanics. Spiritually similar to something like Dong Dong Never Die, Brief Karate Foolish plays better then it probably should (it has links! jump cancels! footsies!) and wears its intentionally-ugly D.I.Y. aesthetics with pride. I’d submit it under the kusoge category if I didn’t enjoy it so much. (Actually, no. I still would. It’s totally kusoge.)

An extreme example of the game’s combo system.

I say all of this because I never, ever would have guessed that there’d be a real tournament for this game. Run by the developers, no less! In my imagination, this is a ploy to raise awareness for the game and gain funds for a version of BKF with online play. By far BKF’s biggest weakness is that players around the globe can’t play this ridiculous thing with each other unless they are in the same room: a huge missed opportunity for a game basically begging to be streamed and laughed at.

More then likely though, this is just a group of fighting game fans looking to have a laugh at an indie-game convention. And I hope they do, and I hope someone films it. There’s no stream of the event advertised (yet!), but BKF has made it this far on dreams alone. Maybe a little bit more wishing will get a Twitch stream to show up on the 21st.

Source: D.C.S.