The Official Killer Instinct Thread

[cmdrdredd]

Has anyone gotten the haptic option to work on the KI stick's lighting system? It never seems to respond to rumble. Does KI even do rumble? There is no option for it in the menus.

It is a stupid option to put on the stick when it doesn't work with the game it was built for.

 

[purbeast0]

no idea. i keep the lights on and haven't messed with it. i actually have no idea if there is rumble now that i think about it. probably something they will add in later if it's not there lol.

i was getting owned last night online so i decided to give glacius a try. he is an interesting character and i think i'm going to try and learn him.

 

[smackababy]

I don't like Glacius too much myself. I actually like Jago the best I think.

 

[purbeast0]

jago is definitely my best so far. i am definitely going to learn everyone though, at least enough to be competent. glacius instinct mode is by far the best in the game imo. makes him basically invincible.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I seem to be best with Jago but still suck horribly. My problem is I don't yet know everyone enough to pickout which type of attack to break and just continually get rocked. That's the most annoying part of the game IMO. Having to basically learn every character or rely on luck for a combo breaker.

 

[smackababy]

Typically, you can just spot the speed of the auto doubles and break it on that. Eventually, you will be able to spot each with little problem though. Online, I think it is like a 70% chance the auto double will be medium, in my experience.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Typically, you can just spot the speed of the auto doubles and break it on that. Eventually, you will be able to spot each with little problem though. Online, I think it is like a 70% chance the auto double will be medium, in my experience.

I still think I prefer the old method from KI2. A special that relied on timing rather than pressing two buttons. For jago you could break kicks with punch or punches with kick but you needed to do the Shindouken motion (dragon punch motion) and hit the appropriate button. You could only break it during an auto double though. The new method of matching the attack strength is annoying to me because it seems to allow button mashers to get lucky where as before they had to time it right and do the special.

It's just something I personally am having trouble with now. I'm sure I'll get better, to be honest I haven't had much time to really try learning this stuff. I've been busy trying to finish other games so I can dedicate more time to this and Forza.

 

[purbeast0]

you could always mash breakers in ki1 and 2 just as easy, if not easier than in the new one, because there was no lockout. you could literally just rock the joystick back/forth from down to forward and mash the punch buttons while doing it, and you could break with jago easy as shit.

as far as what to use for breaking, pay attention to how fast the auto doubles come out. the heavy ones are really easy for me to break for the most part because of how slow they come out. the things i have a hard time breaking are the linkers because they typically look the same, L,M, or H, but just have extra hits. also breaking shadow moves is pretty easy too once you get the timing of them down.

there are also other properties that let you know what to use to break. like glacius when auto doubling from far away, his light doubles pull you towards him, medium keep them pretty much in the same place, and the heavy pushes your opponent further away.

but i definitely do agree, that you do need to learn what the auto doubles look like in order to really know how to break them. i use the general speed of the auto double to try to break it, but when playing some character i'm not that familiar with it is hard for me. but when i play against jago, it's much easier for me to break because he is the one i'm most familiar with.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Also a friend of mine tried going online last night and did exhibition. He set it so that nobody above rank 1 would be matched up and it seemed to me like some of those guys should be ranked higher based on how they played. I wonder if a lot of people just don't do ranked matches. He did 5 matches and only found one guy that disconnected when he was losing.

I haven't touched any online play but it didn't seem very laggy when I was watching (one or two hiccups). The biggest issue I found was people using their Kinect mic and it picking up everything they said or did. No way to turn it off either. Major suckage there.

 

[purbeast0]

damn i was just in some matches with this good sabrewulf. he was raping my glacius that i'm trying to learn. i beat him like once out of 8 maybe. then i switched to jago and we split 3, but he was really good. i was having a really hard time as glacius trying to open up sabrewulf.

 

[purbeast0]

if anyone cares, the first major tourney for killer instinct is going on this weekend. top 8 is starting around 2pm EST here.

http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky

 

[Larnz]

Was good to watch. Sadira and Sabrewulf seem to be the goto favs atm.

 

[purbeast0]

Was good to watch. Sadira and Sabrewulf seem to be the goto favs atm.

actually there was only 1 sabrewulf, so i don't know if i'd really say he was one of the goto's. i was surprised that there were 3 glacius players though. i've been playing with him a bit and he's a tough sob to use.

 

[smackababy]

actually there was only 1 sabrewulf, so i don't know if i'd really say he was one of the goto's. i was surprised that there were 3 glacius players though. i've been playing with him a bit and he's a tough sob to use.

A lot of the FCG vets seem to be into Glacius. I know FChamp was learning him, Arturo was excited about playing him, and a few others commented. It does seem like a lot of guys are getting behind KI though. Quite a few tweets after the tourny about picking up and Xbox One for it.

I haven't been putting too much time into it, but I might mod my stick this week and play for real. The KI stick comes out on Amazon on the 12th too, so there's that to look forward to as well.

 

[purbeast0]

A lot of the FCG vets seem to be into Glacius. I know FChamp was learning him, Arturo was excited about playing him, and a few others commented. It does seem like a lot of guys are getting behind KI though. Quite a few tweets after the tourny about picking up and Xbox One for it.

I haven't been putting too much time into it, but I might mod my stick this week and play for real. The KI stick comes out on Amazon on the 12th too, so there's that to look forward to as well.

you sure bout the amazon one? i saw they removed the date from the listing and it now has no launch date.

as far as pchamp and art picking up glacius, it makes sense since it's as close to dhalsim as they will get in ki.

 

[smackababy]

Looks like they did remove the date. It was the 12th when I preordered it. =(

I suppose I will have to mod one now for sure. They were selling some at NEC I think and doing mods. Good thing I didn't go, I would have gotten stuck in the weather. >_>

 

[purbeast0]

yeah when i preordered on amazon, it said november 22nd heh. then went to december 12th, then that is when i received my madcatz one so i cancelled the amazon one. then i saw it had no date. i'm just thankful that i got it one already.

on another note, you may want to look into this cronus max thing.

http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141912

new firmware should be out soon that allows all of it to work on xbox1, as seen in that video there. i'll post this in the xbox1 thread too.

 

[smackababy]

I will have to check that out when I get home (blocked at work...). How do they expect me to get any work done blocking that stuff?

 

[KeithTalent]

if anyone cares, the first major tourney for killer instinct is going on this weekend. top 8 is starting around 2pm EST here.

http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky

Thanks for killing my afternoon yesterday. I watched the entire SS4 tournament. Was fun, though I did get a bit tired of watching Rufus over and over.

KT

 

[purbeast0]

yeah rufus is boring to watch but jwong and rickyo are always going to be in the top 8 with those 2 characters. while i hate watching chris g play umvc3 because that team is just boring as shit to watch and cheap as hell, i like his sakura play in ssf4 and it's a nice breath of fresh air.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yeah I really enjoyed watching the Sakura play. Blanka was fun too, but damn, Rufus gets super boring. Seems very strong though.

KT

 

[smackababy]

I wish Chris G would take SF4 more serious. He is a great player, but he doesn't really put enough work in to win majors. As far as his UMVC3 team, I'd much rather watch him play than any Zero May Cry player.

 

[Larnz]

Finally got my TE2 stick, its very nice. Only managed to get one quick game in this morning after the courier arrived before i had to go to work and she was messy will take a bit of getting used to after spending 3 weeks playing on the pad heh.

I can probably get used to it but is there a easy & simple way to add a bit more resistance to the stick itself? its a bit too light/easy to move from what I am used to in arcades if that makes sense. I am also not a huge fan of the off set buttons either TBH i would prefer them to be straight but dont think that can be changed.

Its a very well built and solid unit though, should provide mucho fun times.

 

[purbeast0]

Finally got my TE2 stick, its very nice. Only managed to get one quick game in this morning after the courier arrived before i had to go to work and she was messy will take a bit of getting used to after spending 3 weeks playing on the pad heh.

I can probably get used to it but is there a easy & simple way to add a bit more resistance to the stick itself? its a bit too light/easy to move from what I am used to in arcades if that makes sense. I am also not a huge fan of the off set buttons either TBH i would prefer them to be straight but dont think that can be changed.

Its a very well built and solid unit though, should provide mucho fun times.

yeah the parts on the te2 are japanese arcade parts. the american parts we're used to are happ. once you get used to it, you will probably like the jap parts better - i know i do, but took me some time to get used to it.

as far as the tension goes, this spring pack has 2-3 of the same types of springs that are in the joystick.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Prime-Line-Miscellaneous-Spring-Assortment-SP-9901/100142075#.Uqe-byRQ1XA

i put an extra one (so now i have 2 - the default one + the extra) inside of my joystick. definitely feels "tighter" now. i've tried putting 3 total in it, but it's a bit TOO stiff for my likings.

additionally, if you are used to american arcade parts, you might not like the square gate. you may want to check out the octo-gate for the jlf. i got my recent one here.

http://www.amazon.com/Sanwa-GT-Y-Oct...s=jlf+octogate

very easy to replace. the default one is the square gate, and as you can see from messing with it, it catches only in the corners. american joysticks don't have any gates, so it gives you the full circular motion. the octogate is similar in feel to it. i actually also have a circle gate, but i prefer the octogate because the JLF has less throw than american joysticks do, so with a circle gate it was kind of hard to be precise.

as far as the button layout, i agree i like them right on top of eachother. my custom joystick for 360/ps3 i have like that. but you will probably get used to it. additionally, madcatz said they are eventually going to have different panel kits, to help with different button layouts. i'm not sure if you opened yours up yet, but there is a metal plate in there. that, as well as the plexi, are what need to be replaced for different layouts. then obviously, the artwork will need to be as well to fit the new button layout. but for now, they don't have any custom panels yet for the TE2.

let me know if you wanna play some matches ever. i've been trying to get more time in it and feel like my glacius is starting to get better.

EDIT:

here's a video on how to replace/mod the spring. it takes a couple minutes. it's kind of tricky to get it all back together because you have to make sure everything is pushed together when getting the holder on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67fUfH3S5o

 

[Larnz]

Awesome thanks for the info! That video was good, looks quite simple, I'll see how I get on over the next few nights and maybe go find a spring on the weekend or order one on-line if I cant. There's a big screw and spring fittings store down the road from my work wonder if they have them

Yeah more than happy to have some rounds, I am also playing Glacius as my main currently, not sure how the netcode & latency would be between NZ and the US but it might be fine.

My GT is Larno at any rate.

*edit* bah hum bug Amazon wont ship the octogate to NZ :/ I shall try hunt down somewhere over this side of the planet that has them.