Dead or Alive 5 Announced for 2012! PS3 and Xbox

Ha!

I know.

 

So ummm... The VF characters in DoA5 have TK backdash cancelling (or something like it)?

 

I played DOA with raze on Friday night after unlocking Pai finally. It took me 8 hours to do it too I hate having to get 100 titles when I had Sarah and Akira unlocked in the first hour or so of playing the story mode. I like Pai in this version but I have to get used to her new combo properties playing as I do in VF don't help as much as I thought it would especially against someone that actually knows how to play against Pai somewhat.

The characters I like the most for me are Eliot, Gen fu, and some Lei Fang too. Eliot's reach is godly and he has some speed too. Gen Fu is the one I like the most because he isn't fast or very mobile but I was locking people down with his random crap keeping people stunned and punishing raze's random counters when it was obvious they were working very well. I have perfect mix of slow and methodical game with Gen fu, my fast paced game with Pai, and the awesome reach and surprising power that eliot brings out when I get going. I played DOA 4 some but once I get comfortable with Gen Fu and Eliot I will have 2 great characters compliment my Pai. All things being what they are though I like VF 10 times better and if I know a good room is going on I will stop playing DOA and play VF if I am not playing someone I know because I love VF too much. I would love to play some VFDC guys in DOA or some other people I know online because I am beginning to hate playing random ninjas already and I have only played the game for 1 day oh well

 

Cool. I'd love to hear what you guys think of Akira (still deciding on the getting the game). I heard on a stream today that he was good but very linear (not surprising but I'd like to hear more).

 

the whole cast is linear so that's not really a problem in this game and his circulars are full circulars now. Rodnutz would be the best to comment on akira though.

 

He's a beast, and much easier to use.

 

I played around with a DOA5 a little at my cousin's house. Overall, we are about equal as video game fighters. I'm VF player who dabbles in DOA. He's a DOA player who dabbles in VF. I haven't played DOA in about 5 years. I was eager to try out Pai on DOA just to see how it felt to play a character who was designed for one game in another game. Once we unlocked Pai I started to win some matches. Too many when you consider the disadvantages I had...

1. Almost all Pai's moves are in the exact same place as in VF5:FS. So even though I had not looked at it, that wasn't much of a disadvantage.
2. I suck at the DOA counter system
3. I don't know any of the stuff that Tricky says that you need to learn, (in bold in the above quote).
4. I was using a Xbox 360 d-pad. That is the absolute worst instrument a person can use to play a fighting game. I missed 2P almost every time I tried it. I kept doing either 3P or 1P. A good portion of my losses were due to taking damage from doing 1P at the wrong time. Yet still, I won quite a few matches because of that.

At first glance at least, I feel like the VF strike game is too strong for the DOA system, which is designed around the hold/reversal. The players want to hold and no doubt the characters are designed around that hold system, a rock paper scissors game with a large window. But the VF characters, Pai at least, has a movelist designed around forcing choices in a small window.

It seemed as though I had lots of options, all the time. If my short experience with Pai is indicative of Akira and Sarah, then I suspect that the VF characters will prove too fast and too deep for DOA. DOA players want to reverse/hold, but if you guess wrong, you get launched, and If you guess correctly but miss the timing, you get launched. With Pai at least, I have too many options from most any position for someone to consistently guess whether my next strike will be a high, low, MP, MK, throw, or a feint to bait a hold. Especially not when they get launched for guessing wrong.

I suspect that it has to do with the nature of the games and that Akira and Sarah are going to see similar results. DOA players could defend them but they would have to defend like VF players defend. In other words, a hold that has a 60-frame duration is just too risky to attempt. If that is the case they will end up being banned from major DOA events. That wouldn't surprise me one bit.

 

I know when I first played as Sarah, I changed the R1 button's default attack to P+K, and I felt more comfortable playing as her.

 

Nah, you look more like one of my customized Jeffs.

 

I keep reflexively trying to do a DOA hold in Final Showdown, instead of properly guarding, and I'm suffering for it. It's a terrible habit to have taken root so quickly.

 

Unlockable characters? ...Is this game for real?

 

GT get a hair cut! Nice Sarah by the way. Your movement reminds me of VF4. I think I'm gonna borrow it and see if it can help my game.

 

There was some stream I was on with shidosha and some actual legit DOA players and I busted out the VF4 style movement with Pai. It worked quite well against them the first few sets. Then they busted out the shenanigans with characters I don't know yet and just got stomped. I don't even know what the twitch.tv/name is for it though. My Pai was putting a good hurting on folks, only guy who was able to take it out was SHidosha cuz he knew all her shit already from VF and he's actually a closet DOA player.

High point of the stream for me was the doa players not knowing how I was able to backdash like that. 4141 all day everday.

 

Since a lot of you are posting in here, I figured this would be a good place to post this. Just as a reminder, don't forget about River City Runbacks 2 this Saturday in Richmond, VA.

http://virtuafighter.com/threads/6-...unbacks-2-the-runbackening-richmond-va.16660/

Remember, we're having VF5FS, DOA5, and TTT2 for all you 3D fighting enthusiasts. And for your 2D pleasure, AE2012, UMvC3, KOF13, and P4A.

 

I have no idea what possessed me to buy this game.

People who run away and button mash in VF annoy me, and both of those "skills" are the POWER in DOA5 online.

I've got to sell this game before I break something.

 

tricky add me to xbl you bastard....

 

LOLOL

You don't have your xbl tag under your name dude. Did you send me a req? Tell me the name so I don't ignore it this time around. My bad if I did last time.

 

"Can't confirm any dates yet but just to let you know that we're looking into updating DOA5'S online functions and fix some of the known issues reported to date.
We're looking into working on prioritized and quick fix issues making them available as an update ASAP. Issues requiring additional attention and time will be considered at a later stage.

Also as our appreciation to everyone who owns DOA5, we're planning a free DLC so be sure to come back for the latest!" -Dead or Alive Game (Facebook)