Guilty Gear: Strive (PS4) - Open Beta - Noob with some FG experience

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Published on February 24, 2021 5:52:36 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atr6yUESeAI

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Guilty Gear -STRIVE- (2021)

Duration: 6:32:52

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That was 1st day I managed to play for 1st time :). Hori Pro 3vs Kai Arcade Stick was not recognized on PS4 (bascially too old). Sadly there wasn't legacy support on beta despite that fac game is coming on old gen console too. I suspect on PC all will be fine.

So yeah I haven't played FG on Pad since I was a kid and didn't know shit about the genre - meanign just hitting buttons and doing specials short combos for fun - 20 + years ago baby :).

My general FG online and overall experience is very small and limited with some Garou and King of Fighters 13 and very little SF4.

Strive is great 1st of all let's get that out right away. It plays fantastic it feels fantastic it looks fantstic - without going too in depth on each of those. Lobies a unfortunately a tad too bad and might actually hurt online play or the matchmaking of it cause people are goofing around have no idea what's going on. The actual gameplay with rollback is godsend and over the course of 3 days I played with people across all over the world and 300+ pings with over 7-8 rollback was actually playable! Very few games had small hitches. This is basically the FG you want to play online. I can smell the success from miles away and very few things can bring it down.

Balance in terms of roster was all over at times and there are clear candidates for improvements or nerfs because in trouneys you want to see variety instead of same characters over and over and over - it kills hype and interest very fast. Plus it gets boring.

I can feel that Arcsystem is going for a long journey with multiple character releases over the years so hopefully balance changes will happen along the way making it vibrant interesting and constantly evolving game that tries to reach a nice sweet spot for everyone that plays the game.

Even with me playing FG on pad 1st time and not actually have experience wtih anime style of air dash and doing stuff in air type of FG I started from floor 2 and got to 5 in the next days after this stream. Wish I did stream or record some of the matches to see how overall my basic gameplay and aproach to situation improved. The beauty of FG :). I had a roug day too with overall 50-50-ish win lose. There were many occasions where as floor 3 player (out of 10 plus heaven) I faced people many floors up for some reason - 6-9. I even beat or took round fo some. Then again it was beta and it is to be expected to be like that. Small amount of people and matchmaking usually require time to adjust a proper population.

Not gonna like some games with higher floor or level if you prefer players were fun and much more exciting then spammy low or mid tier players. Will se how it wii pan out at release. There were a lot of server issues or slow load times/communication with servers very often. Failed matchmaking opponenets constantly - I assume due to how lobby hurts it. There is stuff to polish and improve. Still if you are into it or in FG in general just try the game. It's gonna be amazing. Most of all it was and is fun to play. Albeit almost every new good game is. Hopefully balance will keep in check the fun for the long run.

ps. Giovanna is fun, she is cool and all. Sadly rather fast you start to see she doesn't have that many paths or options to aprach the game of - everyone have long range ass stuff - normals, specials and what not - while you play the patient dash in - out and look for opening to start mixing up and mind game your opponent. People started figuring it out fast and I am afraid she will falld down quickly compared to other in the roster. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/freebiebg

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