Author: Franz "d3v" Co

Just because the game isn’t out yet doesn’t mean that players aren’t trying to figure out advanced tactics for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, via its Story Demo. Shoultz, who discovered the super jump directional influence “short hop,” has now come back with a new video showing of some option selects that are present in the demo build.

These option selects stem from the fact that advancing guard (or push blocking) can now be done using any combination of two buttons, unlike previous games where it was usually just the punch buttons.  This leads to all sorts of interesting situations where — at the very least — players can option select between advancing guard, or an attack.

Additionally, as with any game with 1 button throws, using hard punch in the input allows for a throw tech, adding that into the mix, allowing for an option select between advancing guard, throw tech, and a combo starter — or even a launcher.

Other variants include ones that use the switch button, which allow for option selecting between a throw tech and a tag, as well as the Infinity Stone button alongside a regular advancing guard input, adding the stone’s Infinity Surge into the mix. There’s also one using the “easy hyper” option, though it’s of dubious value considering that these can — and likely will — be turned off for competitive play.

All in all, Shoultz estimates that there are at least 20 possible option select scenarios, especially if you add jumping into the mix, with possibly more in the future. Now, whether or not these will make it into the final game is unknown — although these kinds of option selects, especially those involving throw techs, are the kind that are difficult to remove from any fighting game.

In the meantime, check out Shoultz’ video below, and head on over to r/MvCI for a more detailed write-up.

Source: r/MvCI

With Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Story Demo out, a few enterprising players tried their hand at making combo videos from the battles in the demo. One of the players who’s done so is none other than desk — one of today’s top combo video creators.

Despite the limitations of the demo — it doesn’t have a mode where you can just perform combos on a dummy, for one — desk has put out some amazing combos in this video. The combos below include, among other things, a throwback to Captain America’s old Shield Slash loop, a combo while inside the Space Gem’s cube, and some high-flying stuff with Chun-Li that goes right of the screen. They give a taste of the sheer amount of creativity that Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite allows, especially with it’s new tag system.

Source: desk

As part of the game’s presence at E3 2017, Capcom held an on-stream presentation of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. On hand was Capcom’s Peter “ComboFiend” Rosas (who, as you may know, was a longtime competitor before joining Capcom) as well as none other than Michael “IFC Yipes” Mendoza.

For those who missed the stream, Xuses has uploaded a recording of it onto his YouTube account. We’ve embedded this below for those interested in watching it.

The stream covers a lot of minutiae that many players may not get from just watching gameplay footage alone. These include how the small details of how switching mid-combo works (from the fact that an active switch will hit an opponent, to the increased distance after each switch), how this game’s version of the Capcom “magic series” combo string works, and how Advancing Guard can reflect projectiles, when timed right. In addition to these, they also go over some advanced tricks, including some with the Infinity Stones. These include using a switch to cancel the recovery frames from an infinity surge, to be able to immediately do another one with the incoming character, and more.

The first thing they go over, however, are the game’s features for newbies — such as the auto-combos. According to ComboFiend, the auto-combos in MvC:I are designed to show new players the general flow of how combos work. This is so that players have a framework for when they begin to try to develop their own combos manually. That said, ComboFiend also mentions that these auto-combos (as well as the easy hypers) can be turned off.

Source: Capcom, via XusesGB

Every time there’s a new Marvel vs. Capcom title, one of the first questions players ask: how will the game handle the infinite combos that the series has become known for? When Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was first announced, there was talk that the game would have some sort of system — likely the same hit-stun decay system from Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

With the Story Demo now available, players now have a chance to try to figure out exactly how the system in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite works. Combo wizard desk has uploaded a video showing that characters being comboed will flip out after a certain number of hits on the ground.

For series veterans, the system looks quite similar to Marvel vs. Capcom 2’s “undizzy” system. So named because it’s supposedly based on the dizzy or stun system from Street Fighter and the older Marvel games, the system had each attack deal a certain amount of “undizzy” value, that filled up a hidden meter that would flip them out when filled.

The system in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite however seems a bit less straightforward. As the video demonstrates, the opposing character flips out after only 20 grounded hits. However, anyone who’s tried the game out knows that combos can go on for much longer. Why this happens, no one outside of Capcom knows. It could be that grounded hits deal more “undizzy” value than aerial hits, or it could simply be — as desk postulates — that it only applies for grounded hits, or the first grounded portion of a combo.

Source: desk