New main menu, there's going to be some kind of DLC too.

>Rachel nerfed

Oh for fuck's sake

CT was pretty bad, is CS going to be better?

>july 1

FUCK YEAH I'LL PROBABLY BE BACK IN THE STATES FOR IT

any word how mu plays?

and if mu is noel does that mean she's gone all robot on us?

because that would just break my heart

>>50211167
Well almost everyone considers CS a vast improvement. If you really hated CT though I dunno.

>>50211131
How have you not heard of this by now? The game's been in arcades since November.

i'm still pretty mad that i bought ct for full price a week before cs was leaked

>>50211268

Oh, I thought she got hit with the nerfstick again for the console release.

>>50211266
I didn't hate it, the gameplay was pretty good, but the over all experience wasn't worth the money, it got old fast.

>>50211282

me too. Actually less than a week.

Wasn't it initially stated to be DLC? Fucking fighting games

Oh, and there's going to be another supa sugoi J-Popish song for the new intro.

>>50211414
no, that was just bullshit spread around by assholes wishing it'd be dlc.

>>50211414
It was never confirmed as dlc, it was simply a possibility.

>>50211394

then maybe fighting games are not your cup of tea.

>>50211414
that's what I had thought ;_;

Challenge mode has some stuff like doing really big / long combos.

>>50211478
hm

iconlast wasn't so bad

but jpop has potential for disaster.

>>50211173
Nothing yet. And yes, she's now a death machine that wants to kill everything.

July 1
Blazblue is still not available in Europe

>>50211829
just import it already

>>50211642

Whoa. What's up with Hakumen's sword there?

I just want to know if Mu is actually going to be playable or if she'll just be another overpowered boss character that you can only use in friendly matches.

>>50211900

he gets a new ability to eat projectiles and throw them back.

>>50211924
It's Arksys, they always make their bosses playable

>>50211924
Overpoweredly playable

>>50211716
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4s_Nltytjg
Clearly should be the new OP.

>>50211924
Reminds me a lot of Archetype Earth

>>50211924

can't remember any time arcsys made a boss unplayable.

>>50211900
If you cut a projectile now with a C move, that barrier orb thing appears for 5-10 seconds and absorbs projectiles.

>>50211900

he's blocking something, it's making it look all distorted.. I think

>>50211121
New menu is shit compared to the old one. Man, the last game had a beautiful UI, and this is halfassed as shit.

>>50212173

does not look finished to me.

>>50212024
>>50212047
>>50212144
I'm talking about making her a real, balanced, tournament compatible character instead of say, #Reload Justice.

>Rachel nerfed

She was already shit as it is.

They'd better have the english release within the same week again.

>>50212173
im sure all 1 person gives a fuck about the menu

>>50212230
>implying it will fucking matter unless she's added to the arcade version
This will shock you all, I'm sure, but the BlazBlue tournament scene outside of Japanese arcades is shit.

>>50212077
hahaha excellent

iconlast/love so blue always worked BEAUTIFULLY as background music for a fight to my surprise

>>50212240
what the fuck am i reading.jpg

>>50212285
Your opinion really doesn't do much to answer the question.

>>50212173

The old menu was fucking beautiful yes, but you could only see 3 options at a time.

The new one in these screenshots could easily be the "shortcut" version. All the GGXX games had two menus.

>>50212077

>>50212373
It actually does.

If Mu is added to the arcade: She's tournament legally balanced, if still potentially bullshit
If Mu isn't added to the arcade: She'll be a broken ass end boss like Justice because there's no point in making 2 versions

oh shit

mu being added means we'll get another new song

so far i have not been disappointed with the music

>>50212773
It is impossible for him to make bad music

>>50212077
Too much WIN!!!!

>-In exchange for Rachel getting nerfed, she gets to commentate tutorial mode. Yay!
>by nerfed we mean she's unplayable and has no B&Bs.
>we're not fixing her for the console port.

aaand I'm not buying your game, you inept faggots. Get back to me when you're making another Guilty Gear because BlazBlue is fucking stupid.

>>50212478

>>50212838

>>50212838

>>50212838
As far as I can tell Ragna has been buffed. I am most pleased.

>>50212838
>You are completely incapable of making video games so let me know when you make another video game!

Sucks that they're utilizing a new artist... Hazama doesn't feel as badass.

>>50213341
Are you fucking retarded?

So is a majority of the cast still B-tier?

>>50213341
It's like with Calamity Trigger. One artist for standard character portraits. One artist for story mode portraits.

>>50213508

That is to say, his character portrait doesn't do him justice, I feel.

>>50213341
looks like the proper amount of awesome to me

>>50213477
as is with every fighting game, yes

what you should be asking is "do the top three characters still shut down the entire cast"

no

>>50213640

>-More animu cutscenes

meh, I could live without that, but I at least hope they aren't animated by GONZO

>>50213640
Last time I checked he was never "badass."

>>50213477

bang and litchi are high tier, the rest mostly mid tier with rachel alone in low tier. but no s-tier character like nu this time.

>>50212838
What's the matter, miss your 8k+ combo off a counter hit? Get the fuck over it.

>>50213275
>>50213218
>>50213165
yall just mad that you suck at gg. go back to your weeabo shit

>>50213686
They are

>>50213722
I have no problem with her getting put in line with the rest of the cast. What I do have a problem with is them making her so bad that she has NO FUCKING COMBOS. God damn. OK, she has one combo and it's an air combo and it fucking sucks because she does no fucking damage.

Fuck you. I mad.

>>50213817

>>50213477
The current list is

S: Litchi, Bang, Ragna
A: Hakumen, Carl
B: Arakune, Hazama, Taokaka, Lambda, Jin, Noel, Tager, Tsubaki
C: Rachel

>>50211353
Sure is ridiculously unoriginal training stage.

Fuck, even SFIV made that shit white and grey to look like a real room.

>>50213677
Wrong. We just have a new top three S tier characters styling all over everybody. Those characters being Bang, Litchi and Ragna. They're considerably better than the rest of the cast, albeit not as ridiculous as Nu, there's still a gap between them and others. That and Arakune has multiple combos that do 9k+ damage.

>>50213882
http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7767

Perhaps you should visit Dust Loop more often. She's got plenty

>>50213921
Can some explain how in hot and buttery goodness Carl ended up A tier? Or how Tager ended up higher than Rachel?

>>50213882
Think of it this way: She won't be nearly this bad in the next iteration. Remember how GG turned out? Pretty damn balanced except for Potemkin who was overpowered and Chipp who was underpowered. I'm not taking into account Justice and Kliff because they're notoriously overpowered and not tournament legal (most of the time).

>-Netcode is getting beefed up

Wait, what? It was already perfect.

>>50214151

U mad at a video game bro

>>50214151
>>50213817

your trolling skills are very low.

>>50214237
Hardly.

>>50214237
It will be more perfect than perfect. It will be the Netcode God.

>>50214237

close to, maybe they fixed the connection lost problem when joining new rooms. other than that it was already awesome in ct.

>>50214151

>>50214083
>Almost all of them do a whopping 2k damage for a ton of work.
>Rachel still has one of the lowest health pools in the game.

>>50210996
>-In exchange for Rachel getting nerfed, she gets to commentate tutorial mode. Yay!

So they acknowledge the fact that Rachel is nerfed, but dont do anything to fix it? Shes supposed to be like the strongest playable character, storywise.

>>50214277
Ragna plays vidya, while Jin makes out with Noel

>>50214151
Fixed.

>>50214237

Sometimes matches in CT had input lag for me but if they just improved it enough to get rid of the long delay at the beginning of matches I would be happy as shit

>>50214401
>taking poster commentary as official word

>>50214189
But seriously though, fuck tourneyfaggotry. Is it gonna make or break the fucking game if someone's character is given a different grade than what you want? For Chris sake you people need to just fucking get good with the character and win. Being S tier isn't gonna win for you. It's your skill. /endrant

>-Netcode is getting beefed up

>>50214237

This!

I could play with Australians with only lagging the first 5 seconds, then it was fluent.

>>50214401
And storyline wise, Litchi is just a former scientist-turned doctor with some freaky ghost powers and a stick.

>>50214483
>Christ*

Aksys needs to hurry up and announce it for the west. I'm dieing to play some online with Mu.

>>50214483
Hi there, person who hasn't played Continuum Shift yet and probably non-Rachel player. Why don't you let the grown ups talk until you've had a chance to play her in Continuum Shift for yourself, ok?

>>50214695
I have CS and fuck Rachel.

>>50214674
You anger me.

>>50214674

learn to fucking read the OP Christ almighty

I don't see the reason for this Rachel-torture from Aksys.

I mean..why throw her off from such a good character to nearly unplayable?

>>50214483
this. tiers are just a simplified version of matchup charts, which you should be paying a lot more attention to anyway (hint: zangief is high tier in sf4. why don't we see more zangief players? think about it.)

fuck tiers. play whoever you want. you're not going to be automatically good at the game just because you picked an s tier character (and if you are then it's a SHITTY FIGHTING GAME)

>>50214695
I've played rachel in CS, I'm still kicking ass with her as always... so...

>>50214937

You're not playing on Hell mode, are you?

>>50214483
CS tourney match with the best Rachel player in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi2_AsGIcZQ

Yeah, it's totally the players and not the fact that Rachel is literally not worth playing anymore.

>>50214937
>kicking ass
>versus the CPU only

yeah, no.

>>50214937
Yes, I am, Y'all just suck

>>50214934
There's quite a few Zangief players compared to...pretty much any lower tiered character but maybe Ken, actually.

>>50215176
let me rephrase that

why don't we see more gief players winning tournaments?

sagat and seth say hi

>>50215096
You know, all this crying is why Sagat will still be stupid good in SSFIV. Thanks guys, for being more worried about your own shit than the general state of the game.

I hate seeing Rachel nerfed that hard too, but shit happens

>>50215346
Even though I didn't like the character, I can agree that she was nerfed way too hard. On the other hand, nobody with a legitimate opinion can say the top 3 didn't need nerfing.

>>50215096
You know there's always the possibility that the other player was just better then him.

>>50215096
Wow, I thought Tao's loop sounded bad enough with just her annoying noises. There should be an ingame option to automatically mute the match when it's Rachel vs Tao.

>>50215523

>>50215096

Oh god, that was depressing to watch.

My gothic loli princess, worth nothing now. ;_;

>>50215096
Though the player made a lot of mistakes anyone can see that the nerfstick struck her hard. I don't even use her and I feel bad for her.

Any character that can block and counter is now S-tier. Discuss.

>>50215096
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IG3EjkYvKQ&feature=related

Oh hey, is that the same Rachel beasting Ragna in tournament finals?

>>50215096

She seems fine here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IG3EjkYvKQ&feature=related

>>50215911
That Ragna player is garbage though. The only thing that video proves is how much of a beast Matsu is.

Is it just me or is the Mu-12 character design horrible?

>>50215911
>>50215948
>Ragna
>Not Kaqn

Not even worth discussing.

>>50215986
This is becoming oddly reminiscent of /v/'s discussions of Tager and Mike Z

>>50215986
Well, that and how stupidly rigged Ragna is that someone so bad could make it to the finals just because of him.

>>50216082
Rachel confirmed for CT Tager tier?

>>50216044
Looks fine to me.

>>50215911
Dat comeback!

I wanna see Matsu take on Kaqn, then we'll judge

PROTIP: none of you basement dwellers will ever go to tournaments so character tiers really don't effect you. Play who you fucking like and not just the top tier and maybe you will enjoy the game!

>>50216400
agreed, who knows maybe there's shit about rachel we dont know about. I remember back when SSBB came out , inb4 not a fighting game I'm well aware just using it as an example, when everyone said that snake and wario sucked then after a while it ended up being him and wario on top along with metafaggot

>>50216044
no, I'm not really feeling her and Tsubaki either. Tsubaki looks a lot better in motion, though, so Mu might not be so bad as the art makes her seem.

>>50214483
>>50216400
That's basically what I was saying here.

>>50216591
Take a look at the post you're responding to again and ask yourself how your post actually pertains to what he said.

>>50216744
>Play who you fucking like and not just the top tier and maybe you will enjoy the game!
>maybe if people stopped whining about their top tier vampire bitch and just played the game they would have fun

Oh man words can not express how bad I want to play mu 12, need NA release date god damn it!

>>50217012
>play who you want regardless of tiers
>maybe she'll become higher tier like Snake did

>>50217012
No one judge any character based on their skill

Buppa and Nisepachi = expert Jin players
/v/'s response = LOL ICECAR ICECAR

Goryus = expert nu13 players
/v/'s response = OMGWTF SWORDSPAM

>>50217136
Yes. Noel = win and Mu = sufficiently more win. Brofist.

not implying tiers, it was more of a "Stop bitching she might not be as bad as everyone thinks she is, and maybe when more people play and find out what her new playstyle is, everyone can just fucking enjoy her">>50217153
>>50217153

>>50217216
Buppa's a fag, he switched to Hazama. Well, at least there's still Dennou and Ren.

>>50217216
the jin bitching was more because of what you expected from ranked matches. Same goes for how most noel players on ranked spam drives

>>50217581
And Nu players being Nu players. I'm expecting nothing more/less from these Mu fags.

>>50214860
>>50214855

Do you see anything about a release date for US or EU? Cause as far as I know, that's for Japan. Arc System Works doesn't localize BlazBlue games, Aksys Games does.

They have done so with the first one and the PSP game so I don't see why they wouldn't do the sequel.

Where's my god damn European release for the first game?

ITT: people at such a low level of play that tier lists don't actually matter to them.

She's not CT Tager. Quit bitching.

>>50218146

March 20th, 2010. Now stop bitching.

REPORTING IN GRIMALKIN

>>50218678

At ease Hakumen. I have a new assignment for you.

>>50217939
BBCT had a simultaneous release in Japan and US.

>>50218852
getting too old for this crap!!

>>50219236

Now, now. You need to obey otherwise these are the consequences!!!!!!

>>50218852
I thought I was your little errand boy

>>50218673

Delicious new characters just for europe.

>>50219660
US has them as DLC and the are just unlimited versions of existing characters
Unstoppable tager is unstoppable.

>>50217879
You don't even know how she plays

>>50219515

We still need to work on your movement so you're staying put. I GOTS PLANS.