Category: Fighting Games

ARIA isn’t the only thing Killer Instinct players will have to look out for today, as the folks at Iron Galaxy Studios have once again released a patch full of gameplay adjustments with the new playable character.

This time around, a fair majority of the patch has been dedicated to correcting unintended issues, but there are a few balance changes as well. The previous roster addition has also seen the most tweaking, so Cinder players in particular will want to play close attention.

System Changes

• Fixed a bug that could cause characters to get caught in the air for a moment if their opponent instinct canceled a successful air counter breaker.
• Fixed a bug preventing air techout from occurring when you try to counter breaker from some grounded launcher attacks. In a few other situations, the counter breaker won’t cause tech out, but you can quick rise and still punish it so it isn’t safe. In a future patch we will make this quick rise automatic if the opponent performed a counter breaker to make sure you don’t miss your punish window.

Sabrewulf

• Fixed a bug that caused an Auto Double to come out instead of an Ender when trying to trigger Eclipse Ender with Light or Medium buttons.

Glacius

• Fixed a bug preventing Glacius from getting Medium manuals after a Medium Puddle Punch linker.
• Fixed a bug that let Cinder keep his Pyrobombs after being thrown by Glacius.

Orchid

• Possible fix for a bug that caused Orchid Auto Doubles to be blocked if performed late after a very low to the ground Air Throw.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Orchid to perform opener and linker cancels even if the opponent’s current hitstun was inflicted by a projectile (grenade or instinct firecat) and not her current move. This bug effects many characters separately, and many S2 characters had this fixed individually. Orchid is fixed now, and this should hopefully prevent blocked doubles and linkers after a grenade or firecat hits.

TJ Combo

• Fixed a bug that could cause another hit of Auto Barrage to come out instead of the Auto Barrage Ender if you input the final button too quickly.
• Put in a possible fix for an issue where TJ could perform opener cancels after a whiffed Tremor, which could potentially lock the opponent up.
• Fixed a bug preventing TJ from buffering moves during Forward Dash.

Maya

• Fixed an issue in Practice Mode where Maya’s Daggers were not respawning in her hands after resetting positions.

Kan-Ra

• Duration of the free Shadow Swarm you spawn during your Swarm ender now scales with ender level, at 3, 4, 5, or 6 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Spikes from destroying themselves if Kan-Ra got hit out of the summoning motion.
• Fixed a bug causing the opponent to gain no meter when being hit by or blocking Shadow Swarm.
• Fixed a bug causing Shadow Clutch to not scale after a wall splat as part of a combo.

Riptor

• Fixed a bug causing Medium Auto Double to come out on accident if you held it for the Heavy Shoulder Charge linker.
• Fixed a bug preventing you from getting Throw inputs out if pressed LP before LK.
• Fixed a bug preventing Riptor’s Wall Splat Enders for blowing out if you did a 2nd Wall Splat in the same combo.
• Fixed a bug that made Air Shadow Tail Flip breakable as an opener.

Omen

• Omen can now air dash between rounds.
• Fixed a bug preventing Omen from getting a manual after a Light Demon Slide linker.
• Fixed a bug that made his F+HP Furious Swipes command normal fans the flames for the Kick buttons.

Aganos

• Fixed a bug causing the Lv3 Payload Ender to drop from specific positions.
• Fixed a bug preventing Aganos from buffering moves during Forward Dash.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a whiffed Shadow Natural Disaster to hit very late and trigger another full 5 hits of rolling.
• Fixed a bug that let Aganos counterbreaker attempt during Super Freeze before Shadow Natural Disaster.
• Fixed a bug that let the Hold and Charged Up portions of Shadow Natural Disaster to auto correct to face the opponent.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Payload ender to not combo.

Hisako

• Reduced active frames on Far Standing Heavy Kick so it isn’t hitting opponents while she is pulling it back toward herself.
• Hisako’s Crouch Blocking hurtboxes are a hair taller, so a few moves that whiffed her when crouch blocking before will no longer do so. Sorry, no more ducking Glacius Lance.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Hisako from doing an Ultra immediately after a Vengeance counter vs an airborne opponent.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Hisako to tech grab attempts during the recovery of Shadow Influence.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the opponent’s character to flip if they were thrown while facing away from Hisako.

Cinder

• Ensured that both Burnout Enders push the opponent away the same amount.
• Made it so that if you piano a Shadow move it wont take your Fired Up buff away.
• If you are too far away to counterbreak attempt during Shadow Inferno, your opponent will treat the move as a projectile and will be unable to break. This fixes an issue where the opponent could break but Cinder could not counterbreak.
• Burnout durations changed to Lv1 – 3 sec, Lv2 – 4.5 sec, Lv3 – 6 sec, Lv4 – 7.5 sec.
• Burnout VFX sizes adjusted so that they never get too small to see.
• Third Degree Light Punch Final hit is now +2 on block instead of +3.
• Heavy Fission starts up 6 frame later than before. These two changes prevent a very long blockstring from occurring in the corner.
• Air Combo Breaker animation changed to look like it hits the opponent in the right direction.
• Fixed a bug preventing Shadow Fission from destroying itself properly when using an Ender or activating Instinct.
• Fixed some negative edge issues on his special moves.
• Fixed a bug causing Shadow Ender Fire Flash to be breakable even when Opener->Ender didn’t occur.
• Auto Doubles after Trailblazer attacks now have a lower priority than the 2nd Trailblazer change of direction. If you want an Auto Double, leave the stick/d-pad in the neutral position and you’ll get it. If you hold a direction and hit a kick, you’ll get the 2nd Trailblazer as expected.
• Fixed a bug that made the hitbox for Fission stay around even if the opponent used a combo breaker, which got them hit.

Source: Ultra-Combo

Though a great tournament by all on-site accounts, Combo Breaker 2015 was plagued with a variety of internet issues this past weekend, which kept a good chunk of competition from being broadcast to people at home. Among the games affected by this downtime were Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, King of Fighters XIII, Skullgirls Encore, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and more.

To correct this problem and give folks who weren’t able to make it out the chance to see the final stages of competition in these titles, both Spooky and Callisto are prepared to broadcast recorded footage this weekend.

Below, you’ll find both streams as well as their individual schedules, so be sure to check back to catch anything you might be interested in. We’ll be sending periodic updates through Twitter as well.

Team Spooky

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Saturday, May 30

Event	PDT	EDT	GMT
TTT2	11:00 AM	2:00 PM	6:00 PM
UMvC3	1:00 PM	4:00 PM	8:00 PM
GGXrd	3:00 PM	6:00 PM	10:00 PM
Skullgirls	5:00 PM	8:00 PM	12:00 AM

Callisto

Watch live video from bgcallisto on www.twitch.tv

Friday, May 29

Event	PDT	EDT	GMT
Skullgirls Top 16	4:30 PM	7:30 PM	11:30 PM
MKX Top 32	6:30 PM	9:30 PM	1:30 AM
MKX Top 16	8:30 PM	11:30 PM	3:30 AM
GGXrd Top 16	10:30 PM	1:30 AM	5:30 AM

Sunday, May 31

Event	PDT	EDT	GMT
GGXrd Top 16	10:00 AM	1:00 PM	4:00 AM
KOFXIII	12:00 PM	3:00 PM	7:00 PM
P4U2	1:30 PM	4:30 PM	8:30 PM
UNIEL	3:30 PM	6:30 PM	10:30 PM
Divekick	5:30 PM	8:30 PM	12:30 AM

Sources: Team Spooky, Callisto

After first appearing in the title exclusively as a boss character, Kazumi Mishima will be joining Tekken 7’s main roster in the near future.

Like previous cast reveals, the folks over at Bandai Namco have released a brand new trailer detailing what the Mishima matriarch brings to the table. She’s thankfully kept her tiger assists in the transition from boss to playable character, allowing for some amazing gameplay footage. Any fighter that uses a literal tiger uppercut is alright in my book.

No word has been shared as to when we’ll see Kazumi officially join Tekken 7, but with the roll Bandai Namco’s been on for the past months, players shouldn’t have to wait long.

Source: Bandai Namco via Level Up Your Game