***OFFICIAL Street Fighter x Tekken Thread -- "Dat dere gem tech??"

[suparstarx]

Platforms and release dates
Playstation 3 & X-Box 360:
March 6th for US
March 9th for Europe and Japan

PC:
May 2012

Vita:
Fall 2012

Number of players
1-4 Offline

Introduction
Street Fighter X Tekken is a 2v2 Tag team fighting game developed by Capcom. The game currently has 38 characters (43 for PS3), with 12 more to be revealed by the game's Vita release this Fall.
The game utilizes a 'Create-a-groove' like subsytem known as Gems. Gems have various activation requirements and last for a certain set of time. Each Gem offers specific buffs to the player, from a slight attack boost to an increase to the amount of meter the player gains in a match.
Here is a list of what Gems are in the game-
http://i.imgur.com/oP9v6.jpg
Note that Gems that take up 2 slots are available to those who purchase the game through select retailers.

The Cast

Street Fighter:
Ryu
Ken Masters
ChunLi
Cammy
Guile
Abel
Zangief
Rufus
Dhalsim
Sagat
Hugo
Poison
Rolento
Ibuki
Mike Bison (aka Balrog, Boxer)
Balrog (aka Vega, Claw)
Vega (aka Bison, Dictator)
Juri Han
Gouki (aka Akuma)


Tekken:
Kazuya Mishima
Nina Williams
Lili
Asuka Kazama
Hwoarang
Steve Fox
Marduk
King
Bob
Julia Chang
Jin Kazama
Ling Xiaoyu
Yoshimitsu
Raven
Heihachi Mishima
Kuma
Paul Phoenix
Law
Ogre


$ony Exclusives:
Toro
Kuro
Cole (From InFamous series)
Pacman*
Megaman (not the one you think it is)*

Characters that will be revealed/released by the Vita version's release
Street Fighter:
Guy
Cody
Blanka
Sakura
Dudley
Elena

Tekken:
Bryan Fury
Lars Alexanderson
Alisa Boskonovitch
Lei Wulong
Jack-X
Christie Montiero


Features

4-Player gameplay: Since the game is a 2v2 fighter, you can have 2 players fight against 2 others.
Scramble mode: Accessed from the game's Versus mode, all characters will appear on screen and you and a friend can beat up on an opposing team for some hilarious and insane matches!
Color Edit mode: Customize what a character looks like! Currently the game doesn't have many colors to work with, but Capcom's stated that there'll be FREE Color Packs to use for additional customization.
Online Spectator mode: Watch others play online while you wait for your turn in the lobby!


Breakdown of how Gems work
The game has a Customization menu from which the player can customize what Gems they want to use with their characters (you can play without Gems BTW).
The player can equip up to 3 Gems (you can also have only 1 or 2 Gems equipped), and can create as many Gem setups as they want.
The requirements for Gems to activate is pretty simple and straightforward, but here's some elaboration to help those having a hard time figuring them out:
1- Gems that require you to connect with certain attacks, simply require you to actually damage your opponent with the specified attack for the Gem to activate

2- All Gems last for a set period of time, if you tag out a character who has a Gem activated, then the timer will still keep ticking/deplete (e.g. you activate a 20 seconds lasting Power Gem with Ryu and tag into King. If you tag Ryu in again after 20 or so seconds later, the Gems effects will have depleted)

3- The game also includes Auto-Block and Auto-Tech Throw Gems. As the name implies, they will perform an auto-block or automatically tech throws, but at the cost of your meter. These Gems are active throughout the entire match, and don't have a specific time period.

4- Easy Inputer and Super Easy Input simply the motion for special moves. SE Input makes it so that moves are now performed by holding a Direction and pressing a button (eg Fwd+Punch with Ryu will have him do a Haduken, etc.). Unfortunately, this penalizes you with a 10% drop in attack power. Non the less, you could create a Gem set-up with it in case you have a get together with friends or family, just to spend some fun time.

Gameplay stuff you should know
1- The game has a chain system like in Darkstalkers; Light Attack-->Medium-->Hard. You can go from crouching to standing with any of these. This basic 3 hit chain can be canceled into an EX move or a Super move. If you press Hard Punch/Kick after this chain, you launch your opponent into the air and tag in your Partner, to continue with a Juggle combo. It is possible to cancel 2-hit chains into EX or Super moves though.

2- Tagging is performed by pressing Medium Punch+Medium Kick. A neat feature in the game is that, at the cost of 1 stock, you can perform an attack and press MP+MK to bring in your partner to continue your combo! This can also be useful if you want to tag in your partnet to go for a mix-up.

3- Keep in mind that you lose if your point character is KOed. The game does have 'grey'/recoverable health, and you don't seem to lose any grey health when you perform a tag.

4- When your health drops to 25% or lower your health bar will flash red. If your press Down, Down+MP+MK, you will KO your low healthed character, and your partner will be in Pandora mode. In Pandora mode, you have infinite meter, a slight boost to attack and defense, BUT if you do not defeat your opponent in 10 seconds, you will lose the match. You cannot cancel into Pandora, but you can combo into it (and as such it is the most prefered method of using it).

5- The game has the same strict damage scaling as the SF4 games, but it is possible to find some damaging combos with practice.

6- The game also has moves that cause wallbounces (Ryu's EX Stallion Kick) & groundbounces, and there is a limit to how many you can do (2-3 times).

7- If you perform a combo that has multiple juggles, wall or ground bounces, you can reset their juggle limit by tagging into your partner...and reset it AGAIN by tagging once more!


Charge-able moves
Each character has 1 move they can charge by holding the attack button used to perform that move (eg Ryu's QCF+P, Hold P to start charging the move). There are 3 levels for charge-able moves:
Lvl. 1 is nothing special, but only has you delaying the activation of the special move.

Lvl. 2 is interesting and is identified by a flash of lighting on your character. Lvl. 2 makes your special an 'EX' version if you let go of the button after the flash.

Lvl. 3 has your character perform their Super move! However, the charge time for Lvl. 3 is very very long, longer than Charging for Lvl. 3 Focus Attacks in SF4. In fact, chances are you'll either never charge to Lvl. 3, or only use this in certain combos (check the video section below for some examples).

Much like Focus Attacks in SF4, you can cancel a charged move by dashing forward or Backwards. One major benfit to canceling a Lvl. 2 charge is that the next attack you do will be a Counter Hit. Some CH attacks could put opponents in a Crumple state (like when being hit with Ken's Standing Hard Kick), or give more frames for you to follow with a unique combo, or juggle the opponent with certain attacks.
Keep in mind that if the next attack you do after canceling a Lvl. 2 charge gets blocked or simply 'whiffs', you lose the Counter Hit benefit.


The Super Meter
As in many fighters nowadays, SFxT also utilizes a super meter. The meter is divided into 3 segments and you are granted various ways of using your meter:

With 1 stock you can do:
1- Switch Cancel: Press MP+MK during an attack to bring in your partner to continue a combo

2- Perform an EX move: Much like SF3 and SF4, performing a motion and pressing 2 attack buttons will have your character flash yellow and perform an EX move. These can extend combos as various EX moves either cause a juggle or wall/ground bounce. In addition, if you perform the EX ver. of a charge-able move, and keep charging it, you'll perform that character's super instead. Charging this way is much faster too.

3- Perform a Cross Counter: Press Fwd+HP+HK as you see an attack coming. Think of them as Parries. This will make your character perform an EX move. However you cannot combo off a Cross Counter...unless you tag in your partner who can continue the combo for you! This, however consumes 2 of your stocks, so be careful how you use it.

With 2 stocks you can do:
Super move: Super motions in SFxT are much similar to the vs. games, for example, Ryu's is QCF+3P (this may be a problem for pad players, as the game may only have an option to set 3K or 3P). You cannot cancel Special moves into Supers in this game, however. All supers in the game do 400>Super Damage>300. Hugo's super does 380 points of damage BTW.

You can use your entire gauge to perform:
1- Cross Art: Performed by pressing QCF+MP+MK. The damage of CAs is 100+Partner's super damage. A main benefit of using Cross Arts is that they destroy any grey health your opponent's character has. Depending on the characters you use and how you play you may rarely ever use Cross Arts.

2- Cross Assault: Performed by pressin QCB+MP+MK. Both your characters appear on-screen, but your partner is CPU controlled. Assaults last around 5 seconds, and while their main effectiveness has yet to be discovered, it can lead to some big damage if your partner is human controlled, or lead to some useful set-ups.

Various Questions
Q1- Will there be alternate outfits like in (S)SF4?
A1- Yes, but much like SF4 and MvC3, you will need to purchase them, but these alt. outfits can also be customized! We have yet to know about the prices for the DLC outfits however.

Q2- What are the alternate outfits going to be?
A2- Tekken characters will cosplay as SF characters (eg Kuma wearing R. Mika's outfit, Steve has Charlie Nash's outfit, Sagat GGPOed and stole Dragunov's clothes, etc.)
Here's a sample of some of the alt. outfits in the game-
http://www.capcom.co.jp/sfxtk_en/system_customize.html

Q3- Will Megaman and Pacman be on the PC and 360 ver.?
A3- We don't know yet but they might be added after the Vita ver. releases.

Q4- When will the 12 Vita characters be available for the other platforms the game's on?
A4- We'll know about that in April...or not.

Q5- Is Poison a he or a she?
A5- NEXT QUESTION!

Q6- Will the retailer exclusive Gems be available for those that got the normal version?
A6- Chances are they will, as the general understanding is that those Gems are more of an 'early unlock' than anything else.

Q7- So why are there 2 cats in this game that mimic Ryu and Kazuya?
A7- Well you could impress Japanese girls with your Toro skills; chicks dig cute little cats, so use that to your advantage and score a date!

Q8- Will there be a Super Ultimate Turbo Arcade Edition? A new retail disc for them?
A8- No, for future content they will be patched in ala Super Street Fighter IV and the Arcade Edition updates as stated by the producer of the series, Yoshinori Ono.

Interesting and useful videos to watch
Maximillian's SFxT begginer's tutorial video Part 1**
Maximillian's SFxT begginer's tutorial video Part 2**
Level|Up's Marduk and King tutorial video
Level|Up's Paul and Law tutorial video


Game's Rader character demos
Rufus: http://youtu.be/6uu8N_P5tMw
Sagat: http://youtu.be/M0v3bqMwTvY
Cammy: http://youtu.be/vl-r-5XnyJU
King: http://youtu.be/ojzcMlvjV6Y
Nina: http://youtu.be/GbYQgoRK2C8
Steve: http://youtu.be/JVqH1VAaVnc
Heihachi: http://youtu.be/37gXtDYGLDU

Markman & co.'s SFxT combo video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EJ2hvM7Gp8

[suparstarx]

Just got this today. This game is amazing. Tuesday release. I'm digging Tekken characters more than the Street Fighter characters at the moment.

[jpchato]

psn or xbox?

I plan on picking this up on Tuesday. Gonna use my two mains from the respective games nina/bison aka team purple stuff

[suparstarx]

On PS3 at the moment. I have an xbox one preordered for cheap. That will come whenever. Completed like 19/20 Steve Fox and Law trials. They are pretty rough to do. 80% of people online first month will be Street Fighter characters lol. These guys hit ****ing hard but they have uppercuts and fireball courses to run through before anything.

Just whooped a near 600 damage jump in with Law.

[VitorBelfort]

Have you tried to wave dash under fireballs?

I saw Kazuya do it on a stream. I was wondering if its easy, or is there strict timing involved

[Criollo]

wait wait. dudley in the vita. DUDLEY



















































DUDLEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
will be buying it just for him pls come at me

[suparstarx]

Have you tried to wave dash under fireballs?

I saw Kazuya do it on a stream. I was wondering if its easy, or is there strict timing involved

It's just like dudley's ducking move in functionality

[suparstarx]

Streaming if anybody is interested right now

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/suparstar-ssfiv

[supremejd]

this game is gdlk imo

been using combofiends team of rolento/king, but i only use king for the knee x3 into s.hp grab ender. gonna try replacing him with someone like heihachi or steve. or maybe even ogre, fuuuark.

[.:Chris:.]

Someone hacked the disc already

DLC Character endings already on disc
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...scovered-disc/

Models of the DLC characters already on disc
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...costumes-disc/

DLC info here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hTUc4ZXc#gid=0

Gotta love Capcom. Expect a Super SFxT a year from now from that spreadsheet.

they are totally complete... fully rigged, animation files, voice files, etc... I wasn't able to get the textures to display properly with the software I was using... they just appear as normal maps like on Abel.... expect these characters to be fully playable on hacked consoles in the near future, should be possible by just hex editing

http://basgrospoing.fr/wp-content/up...elect_full.jpg

[suparstarx]

Someone hacked the disc already

DLC Character endings already on disc
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...scovered-disc/

Models of the DLC characters already on disc
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...costumes-disc/

DLC info here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hTUc4ZXc#gid=0

Gotta love Capcom. Expect a Super SFxT a year from now from that spreadsheet.



http://basgrospoing.fr/wp-content/up...elect_full.jpg

I'm rrrrreeeeeeeeeeeaaaaallly happy they put in some of those characters from fan requests. Elena!!!!

I'm using Tekken characters right now and they have such good pokes and punishment combos.

Using Poison feels so good yet so wrong.

[supremejd]

poison's ex chicken wing is pretty damn good

[suparstarx]

Brewing combos and punishes without much Tekken experience. So fun to use!
Gem$$$$$ power
522 damage tag in combo, just one meter.

[jj00ee]

all im sayin is my vega is a fukking boss in this game

will be buying tomorrow. would go to midnight release tonight but gotta wake up early and vote for Super Tuesday!

[Bcider]

psn or xbox?

I plan on picking this up on Tuesday. Gonna use my two mains from the respective games nina/bison aka team purple stuff

Get it for psn

[jj00ee]

What are the pre-order bonuses? Is it worth it to do this or just buy retail?

[jj00ee]

annnnnnnnnnnnd Ryu is OP in this game. lol damn.

[suparstarx]

annnnnnnnnnnnd Ryu is OP in this game. lol damn.

He's Capcom's poster boy. He has to be at least good. The Tekken characters are being slept on. They are really good too. Too early to dub anybody OP. People just run to Ryu first because he's famous and everyone knows his moves by heart. It just takes a small adjustment to use Ryu in this game.

What are the pre-order bonuses? Is it worth it to do this or just buy retail?

It's some DLC gems. There's a ton of DLC gems for this game apparently. But so far from playing all weekend, they don't matter as much as people make it out to be.

PSN & XBL MASTER GAMER TAG LIST
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Jpchato
Samitech7

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XBL
SUPARSTARX
pow3r XBL

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xSNGx Shakur
MrOuijaII

[msharingan]

Yo I just picked this up for 360. GT: pow3r XBL

[Bcider]

Yo I just picked this up for 360. GT: pow3r XBL

How the hell do you always get it early. I went to gamestop and they said not til midnight.

[msharingan]

How the hell do you always get it early. I went to gamestop and they said not til midnight.

NYC Penguin Village Chinatown.

Come at my Day -1 Rolento/Vega bros.

[Suit]

in on pay2win game.


brb gotta BUY 12 characters.

You don't wanna? you will be at a disadvantage.

game is like League of Legends, fukcing stupid pay2win ****.

[.:Chris:.]

not having pac man and dirty bulk megaman puts you at a disadvantage?

You havent heard about the big controversy about the planned DLC characters? Well all 12 are all on disc..will be release in fall but hackers already getting to them. Expect a full blown hack game soon on xbox.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...hter-x-tekken/

Thought DLC meant downloadable content..well if theyre on the disc..then what content is there to download? These 12 will be available on vita first then will be out on system for purchase Fall. But im sure modded xbox and pc gamers will be ahead.

[Cinderblock]

You havent heard about the big controversy about the planned DLC characters? Well all 12 are all on disc..will be release in fall but hackers already getting to them. Expect a full blown hack game soon on xbox.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/m...hter-x-tekken/

Thought DLC meant downloadable content..well if theyre on the disc..then what content is there to download? These 12 will be available on vita first then will be out on system for purchase Fall. But im sure modded xbox and pc gamers will be ahead.

No I actually didn't know until I just googled it. That's gay as fuk. I waited years for this game and now they're gaying it up.

[jj00ee]

you all need to chill the fuk out about the dlc srs.

game still has 38 characters, as was promised from the get go. so what if they want to make a few bucks several months down the line?

38 fukking characters. AT LAUNCH. this is VANILLA SFxT. and it's GOOD. just be happy ffs.

[.:Chris:.]

So you're happy knowing that youre paying full price for half of the game? Then for additional money months later you can full buy the whole game if you wish to?

The only people who I can see that arent mad about this is the people who will just pirate and hack the game for free. Other wise like this tweet says, its pretty much a scam:

Maker of Resident Evil, God Hand, Okami, Bayonetta and Devil May Cry Responds to Capcom's "Unique" business practice.
Platinum Games Founder(And former Capcom employee) Hideki Kamiya

Totally agreed. RT @PrCat88: Sounds more like a scam if game content is intentionally withheld simply to squeeze more money out of a product

https://twitter.com/#!/PG_kamiya/stat...

I can see why Kamiya-san left Capcom.

Before you bring up Vanilla Marvel, no one knew that ultimate was coming out since they said there wont be an update. If ppl knew, including myself, no one would have bought vanilla and would have waited for ultimate.

If you're smart, you'd do the same here because its guaranteed that there will be a "super" edition.

[msharingan]

I respect Capcom's hustle. Atleast they are investing some of that cash into the community by sponsoring events.

[jj00ee]

So you're happy knowing that youre paying full price for half of the game? Then for additional money months later you can full buy the whole game if you wish to?

The only people who I can see that arent mad about this is the people who will just pirate and hack the game for free. Other wise like this tweet says, its pretty much a scam:



Before you bring up Vanilla Marvel, no one knew that ultimate was coming out since they said there wont be an update. If ppl knew, including myself, no one would have bought vanilla and would have waited for ultimate.

If you're smart, you'd do the same here because its guaranteed that there will be a "super" edition.

tbh the only game I've really played the last few years = sf4. yeah I've spent a lot on it but I've had my moneys worth of fun. sfxt will be no different.

and you can't say don't bring up marvel rofl you knew what you were getting into day one. its fukking capcom and us as the fgc buy the same **** over and over anyway.

[.:Chris:.]

tbh the only game I've really played the last few years = sf4. yeah I've spent a lot on it but I've had my moneys worth of fun. sfxt will be no different.

and you can't say don't bring up marvel rofl you knew what you were getting into day one. its fukking capcom and us as the fgc buy the same **** over and over anyway.

Nah dont get it twisted. When MVC3 Vanilla came out, Capcom announced that they will not be doing iterations like they did with SF4. No one knew they planned Ultimate. That was the first time capcom actually announcing that they wont make an iteration. But guess we all now know not to trust capcom. I mean just look at this scam that theyre trying to sell to ppl.

Glad I wised up and didnt get this game. If I come across a hacked version of this for pc, thats the only time ill get it..but this game is not even worth my time to search for.

[Cinderblock]

Glad I wised up and didnt get this game. If I come across a hacked version of this for pc, thats the only time ill get it..but this game is not even worth my time to search for.