And the best way to break out of it is? I'm guessing my default hammer on 1, 2 or 1+2 while crying isn't the ideal strategy?

Cheers for the tips Rouj!

Finally, new AVP podcast is up. 

Dat Duk!

Posting from phone so will keep this brief.

Patch 1.02 out today!

Fixes:
Kuni crouching under some mids
A.Ogre infinite

New stuff:
Slim bob, Sebastian and Miharu unlocked - they all have ending movies.
4 new stages
Decal customisation mode
Tekken theatre - where movies from old Tekken games will go when you buy them presumably.
World Arena - The same as Grand Colosseo from SC5, which happened to be the best thing about that game after the netcode. You pick an area then go into a huge lobby where you can chat and play games with loads of other players.

Sorry, they could only give you the characters and stages for free. The greedy whores are gonna charge for the essential old movies.

Your man looks like he's doing more eating of legs than sweeping. Jumpsuit Elvis.

Sorry I didn't invite you earlier: me earprod and stick arrived in America yesterday. I could always grab my HRAP from home one day and dig out the bundled headset. I'd be rubbish. (I tried the pad for a laugh. No laughs. Absolutely dire directional manglage.)

Lots of decals, innit? I've taken the one that looks a bit like Manny from the first page - skello in a plane with a bomb.

Gg's man, yeah it was a bit weird lag-wise last night, I've played Rouj on 1 bar connection and it's been absolutely fine. Definitely felt a bit sluggish, I don't think you mostly got stomped (mostly), think we both had rampages, bouts go so wrong so very quickly, but there were some great comebacks in some and the majority of them went down to the last bout which is always good. Drag has a lot of sneaky tackle setups and again if you're hit it's the 1,2,1+2 mindgames. I also need to learn the exact timing for Duk's different moves on his mounted tackle, was trying to avoid going the 1 or 2 rout and use his 3+4 versions but either you were nailing the yomi or my timing is well off. 

I managed to start teching JayCee's vaginal mount 1+2 throw but teching normal garden variety throws still eludes me. Guess that'll just come with time as well. Was getting up too quickly last night s well, ate lots of King turn punches, boo.

Scape we'll get some games once you're back to an optimal controller setup buddy. Enjoying this game tons.

FYI Dragunov's tackle can be broken with 1+2. You can also break his option from the tackle if you guess right on his 1,2 or 1+2 option. 

So you actually get two chances to escape, as the tackle itself only does about 15 damage. The 1+2 ender to drags tackle where he pounds on your face for a while is his most damaging option though, and some drag players will use it more than the 1 or 2 tackle finishers.

It's not possible to know everything about every character, in terms of character defence but the more you play the more of the 'gimmicky' stufgf you will pick up. Case in point Drag's tackle, it's a grab, it's not really a safe move at all for the Drag player, as the opponent always has two chances to break out. I think Drags tackle is like other tackles as well where if you break early enough you reverse the tackle and end up on top of Drag smashing his face in, like the universal running tackle. Learning to read and break throws in Tekken takes time, so initially throwing someone can be a great tactic.

I think that video on spacing and backdash cancelling to maintain space is probably the most important thing we should be trying to incorporate into our gameplay. If you are standing in any characters face you are at the full mercy of their entire move list, especially if you dont currently have the momentum. Everything they have can hit you. If you can keep yourself just outside long poke range or near the edge of it you will negate a lost of the "bs" that an unfamiliar character can catch you with.

You should make Teddy Gordo and fight bs with bs, Smagnam style.

Speaking of BS, I find it hilarious everytime I have to play a Law online who doesn't know how to sidestep.

Jinpachi fireball all day from fullscreen for maximum rage generation. 

Smang, I have no idea what I am looking at there, is it like a character select portrait and you can put decals on the portraits as well? And how did you get kings head to look as though it was being held out by Alisa juring her spam bomb throw? All I know that it is next level, it may even be zef and it was possibly created DJ Hi-Tek using his pc computer.

MY GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS

Roujin wrote:

If you can keep yourself just outside long poke range or near the edge of it you will negate a lost of the "bob" that an unfamiliar character can catch you with.

Man's a monster at eating range.

@Smang - I'll get back to you with King info after I've relearnt the names of his throws.

My rule of thumb for grabs 'n' tackles is a ratio of one double-break to four singles. So two 1s, two 2s and a 1+2 in any random order.

Sometimes add a third after two in a row. If they do know how to break what you're doing, they might second-guess themselves. (Bit obvious if you keep hitting the most damaging, o' course.)

Sounds like I ought to bring Zardoz' Zed out of retirement to set your boys straight.

The low's harder to block/parry if the mid whiffs. Parry the second low (they can't punish your parry attempt if they stop after the first).

Midwhiffery.