Author: Crow_Spaceboy

You may remember Venom44 as one of the creative forces behind last year’s juggle-point light combo mod. As much of a trip as that concept was, it looks like those nearly-limitless combos were just building blocks to a larger project. And finally, here it is: Street Fighter V: Mysterious Mod.

SFV:MM is much more than just a combo mod for the PC Version of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — it adds new mechanics, tweaks preexisting ones, and seeks to re-design the entire philosophy behind SFV’s gameplay.

Take a look at the introductory trailer above; what do you think of the Mysterious Mod, and how do you feel it stacks up to the current game-play of SFVAE?

[Check out the video description on YouTube for more details, and to download the mod for yourself. – Editor]

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For new players, its already a chore to throw break in Tekken 7. You have to learn at least three distinct animations and train your eyes and muscles to react correctly to those animations every time — and that doesn’t even factor in unique grabs like Heihachi’s QCF+1+3, for example.

And then there’s Tekken’s flagship grappler, King. King breaks the rules of Tekken by having startups with deliberately misleading animations in relation to their throw-break — for example, Giant Swing reaches out with both hands despite only being a 1 break.

That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to deal with his throw game, though: as BoxeR-King demonstrates clearly in his live demonstration, you can defeat the “mix-up” with proper training. There’s more then the generic startup animation to Giant Swing and Shining Wizard — check out the drills above to improve your breaks between these tricky grabs.

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There’s a certain set of unwritten rules about parries in Tekken 7. Typically, parries will lose to knees and elbows, most can be reversed, and some have such heavy recovery that whiffing one causes you to get launched for free. Most of this logic, however, goes right out the window once you start talking about Jin’s parry.

Jin’s parry recovers almost instantaneously, and works versus nearly every single attack in the game. This allows Jin to punish things virtually no other character has a true answer for, such as Hwoarang’s safe, mid Rage Art. It might sound like Jin’s parry is broken, but as neptunusequester‘s video details, there’s a little more going on then just being a normal parry on steroids. Check out the video above to see the strengths — and weaknesses — Jin’s parry possesses.

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Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

Starting us off is SNK’s Fatal Fury Special, which has been the most-often played title of this year’s SFC. Because of this, the competition is as fierce as it’s ever been!

Next is Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash. This 1995 game is the first fighting game made by developer Racdym, and with its deliberate ground game, slick sprite work and chaotic item interactions, it’s likely their best entry in the genre. None of this forgives Lucifeller, though.

And closing us out is ADK’s World Heroes 2. Don’t confuse this with World Heroes 2 Perfect –– these titles are quite different from each other, both mechanically and in pacing. If you want to compare, SSFC2017 has had its own tournament for WH2P, which you can check out here.

You can follow the action of SFCX by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

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In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Vegeta is unquestionably the keeper of the game’s strongest assist. But anyone can press the assist button — what do you do when your Vegeta pick is forced to stand on his own?!

For those that are looking to explore the toolkit of the Prince of All Saiyans, That Blasted Salami has put together a masterclass on learning his fundamentals. This well-rounded fighter has one of the game’s few true meterless reversals, excellent specials, and a decent bag tricks for close range pressure.

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