ARMS House - The Bear and Badger

Kernowgaz

Here's the testfire times .

North America

26th May
5pm PDT / 6pm MDT / 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
27th May
5am PDT / 6am MDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT
11am PDT / 12pm MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
5pm PDT / 6pm MDT / 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
28th May
5am PDT / 6am MDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT
11am PDT / 12pm MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
2nd June
5pm PDT / 6pm MDT / 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
3rd June
5am PDT / 6am MDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT
11am PDT / 12pm MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
5pm PDT / 6pm MDT / 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
4th June
5am PDT / 6am MDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT
11am PDT / 12pm MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
Europe

27th May
UK/Ire: 1am BST - Europe: 2am CEST / 3am EEST
UK/Ire: 1pm BST - Europe: 2pm CEST / 3pm EEST
UK/Ire: 7pm BST - Europe: 8pm CEST / 9pm EEST
28th May
UK/Ire: 1am BST - Europe: 2am CEST / 3am EEST
UK/Ire: 1pm BST - Europe: 2pm CEST / 3pm EEST
UK/Ire: 7pm BST - Europe: 8pm CEST / 9pm EEST
3rd June
UK/Ire: 1am BST - Europe: 2am CEST / 3am EEST
UK/Ire: 1pm BST - Europe: 2pm CEST / 3pm EEST
UK/Ire: 7pm BST - Europe: 8pm CEST / 9pm EEST
4th June
UK/Ire: 1am BST - Europe: 2am CEST / 3am EEST
UK/Ire: 1pm BST - Europe: 2pm CEST / 3pm EEST
UK/Ire: 7pm BST - Europe: 8pm CEST / 9pm EEST
Asia / Oceania

27th May
9am JST / 8am AWST / 10am AEST
9pm JST / 8pm AWST / 10pm AEST
28th May
3am JST / 2am AWST / 4am AEST
9am JST / 8am AWST / 10am AEST
9pm JST / 8pm AWST / 10pm AEST
29th May
3am JST / 2am AWST / 4am AEST
3rd June
9am JST / 8am AWST / 10am AEST
9pm JST / 8pm AWST / 10pm AEST
4th June
3am JST / 2am AWST / 4am AEST
9am JST / 8am AWST / 10am AEST
9pm JST / 8pm AWST / 10pm AEST
5th June
3am JST / 2am AWST / 4am AEST

dynamiteReady

Whole day Saturday, basically, right?
I've already downloaded...

May buy a Pro controller and invite some people over.

[Deleted User]

The Splatoon ones were just an hour each slot.

Seems odd to not let us tutorial the controls before the test. With Splatoon it was safe to assume that most people know how to FPS, but this is different.

Nina

Thought there were hour long sessions too. Glad I can jump in on Friday already, as I'm not sure if I get the chance to have a look in the weekend.

Bob

The edge article seems to imply that there's less control if you don't motion control

[Deleted User]

Andy wrote:

The Splatoon ones were just an hour each slot.

Seems odd to not let us tutorial the controls before the test. With Splatoon it was safe to assume that most people know how to FPS, but this is different.

Splatoon had great motion controls that were actually quite unusual and took a little practice to shine through. I'm presuming this is just server testing but who knows with Nintendo.

[Deleted User]

It is purely server testing, but you'd think you'd want potential customers to get the best experience.

Kazuo

Well on board for this. Great way to start my bank holiday weekend. Feel as though this is the sort of game that would benefit from me inventing an intense rivalry with one of you for its duration. Maybe I'll draw names out of a hat.

regmcfly

Look it's gonna be me isn't it

regmcfly

SHIT BOYS HERE WE GO

Kernowgaz

You using a yank account?

Kernowgaz

I forgot to download it

Nina

I'm waiting at the DMV to take my written test, hopefully I'll be back home before 5pm.have a feeling this is gonna take a while

Kernowgaz

Good luck and at the DMV

Nina

Thanks, all went fairly smoothly (apart from the fact that my passport doesn't have my married name on it, so there was a bit of confusion and computer says no situation) and I passed the written test. Was nervous as I'm still not too used to using feet and miles.

1,5h to get ready for this ARMS thing, really curious to how it plays.

[Deleted User]

Godammit.

Nina

Seems fun, I'm losing though. But I'm used to that

[Deleted User]

Oh, I hope they include the option to reconfigure the buttons in the final game. I doubt it, though.

Advantage of motion controls is evidently bending punches in opposite directions at the same time.

Need to work out tactics against heavies just spamming their attacks.

Fun.

Nina

Yep, definitely fun.

Would be nice to have a bit more SP punch bag options, wouldn't have minded a bit more time to adjust to the controls. I have a bit of a bad habit in games to spam buttons too quickly, and that doesn't get you anywhere here.

Had a nice fight with springman against a ninja, he was winning, but I managed to come back (partly thanks to a healing potion I think) and when we where both in the low red, managed to avoid his rush, countered that with mine and had just enough hits connect to win. If I'd stand a bit further behind I wouldn't have made that.

Had a perfect as well, felt nice.

Springman and ninjaman are favourites so far, min min makes me too hungry.

Escape

Can you launch punches with buttons?

Left stick to move, triggers to throw left and right punches, and motion to aim them?

dynamiteReady

3 one hour windows per day? I may have to pass on the testpunch.

But I'll still preorder...

[Deleted User]

Escape wrote:

Can you launch punches with buttons?

Left stick to move, triggers to throw left and right punches, and motion to aim them?

As it stands, you move with the left stick, jump is X, dash is Y, left punch is B, right punch is A, block is L3. I'd much prefer to swap Y and B, shift block to a shoulder button, and a whole other button to throw. I think they've got it as A and B because you have to hit them at exactly the right time to throw. I often found myself throwing a swift 1-2 instead of a throw.

It's worth noting, folks, that the controls say that the up button is switch target. Before I saw that, though, I found that clicking the right stick towards a character shifted my focus onto them.

dynamiteReady

Did you not try the motion controls?

[Deleted User]

No. I was in bed.

dynamiteReady

Doesn't matter. Had a 15min sesh, and built up a 5 game win streak. It's excellent. Undoubtedly fun, but unusual.

The demo is rather eclectic too, which meant that I was thrown into online fights, before I could fully work out the controls, but once you get the basics down, it's satisfying.

Bollockoff

Ok I wanna Switch.

Oh no there are no Switches.

Nina

5 minutes till the next round. Let's see if I've learned anything.

optimark_prime

My 7 year old daughter just won a match!

She's loving this, really having fun.

regmcfly

Bwaha just got into this and it's insane. There's clearly proper tactical depth but at the minute it's just PUNCH CITY

dynamiteReady

I don't understand how the 3 player melee matches work, but everything else in the demo is butter.

Really like how the motion controls work.

It's refreshingly functional.

The only problem I had was in mixing up left and right joycons, and occasionally finding it hard to remember where the tiny lz and rz triggers are.

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