Intel PAX East Street Fighter 6 Invitational: Information and VODs March 26th, 2023
Intel hosted a Street Fighter 6 tournament at their PAX East booth this year, and in so doing they created what is probably the first ever offline tournament for the upcoming title. They hired James Chen and Vicious to cast the tournament, and invited eight strong players from around the US to compete.
And you probably didn't hear about it, because it wasn't advertised anywhere. Most people first heard about it when Intel tweeted about the event an hour before the stream went live, which is an unusual way to announce a tournament that I'm sure was intended to draw eyes to their stream in the first place.
Despite the bizarre lack of advertisement—and despite some internet issues on the third day of the tournament—the invitational ended up being a thoroughly enjoyable event with a lot of good matches and player interviews. The VODs are well worth your time, and the games (and the stream quality) only got better with the progression of days.
* Day 3's Twitch broadcast ended abruptly before the first game had concluded due to internet issues at the venue. They recorded the rest of the matches locally, and have uploaded it to their Intel Gaming YouTube channel.
New developer match just released: Cammy vs Manon.
We've seen Manon before (she was one of the first to get a dev match in fact), but the video shows off some Manon tech we haven't seen previously. Mostly, though, it's the Cammy show.
The Intel PAX East tournament was really good overall. One reason is that we finally saw some high-level play, especially some top tier Juri courtesy of Nephew. I haven't seen Feng Shui Engine used this well since USF4.
The Twitter API is still broken and embeds don't work, so I just made this an image link.
Well, apparently he's a big fan. People are saying there was a Drake vs Lil Wayne tour that had a Street Fighter theme. It's not exactly stunt casting, but it still caught me off guard. =)
Great post Aylear, really made me interested to check this one out. I played a fair bit of Street Fighter 4, not much Street Fighter 5 and then a lot of Guilty Gear Sign/Rev/Rev 2.
Will definitely give this one a go, looks really fun. Will get it on PS4 or maybe Steam if I buy a PC capable of running anything made in the last five years. Intrigued by a lot of the cast this time around (compared to 5 where I reluctantly played Mika) but I know I'll inevitably end up playing the lowest tier rushdown character.
On April 13 2023 20:15 Flicky wrote: Great post Aylear, really made me interested to check this one out. I played a fair bit of Street Fighter 4, not much Street Fighter 5 and then a lot of Guilty Gear Sign/Rev/Rev 2.
Will definitely give this one a go, looks really fun. Will get it on PS4 or maybe Steam if I buy a PC capable of running anything made in the last five years. Intrigued by a lot of the cast this time around (compared to 5 where I reluctantly played Mika) but I know I'll inevitably end up playing the lowest tier rushdown character.
We just have to get you your Makoto back! In the meantime I hope Marisa can fill the hits like a goddamned truck niche left behind. I am so taking her for a spin on day 1. Punches so hard that they shake the screen? I want that.
I played a fair bit of Street Fighter 4
That's a weird way of saying "I got to meet and play with Emersion in tournaments." You were at Hypespotting, man. =P
Welcome back Flicky! It's good to see you. <3 If you're still in England I would love to pick you up on this post seven years after the fact. With the supposedly godlike netcode of SF6 it should be smooth as butter between us.
On April 13 2023 20:15 Flicky wrote: Great post Aylear, really made me interested to check this one out. I played a fair bit of Street Fighter 4, not much Street Fighter 5 and then a lot of Guilty Gear Sign/Rev/Rev 2.
Will definitely give this one a go, looks really fun. Will get it on PS4 or maybe Steam if I buy a PC capable of running anything made in the last five years. Intrigued by a lot of the cast this time around (compared to 5 where I reluctantly played Mika) but I know I'll inevitably end up playing the lowest tier rushdown character.
We just have to get you your Makoto back! In the meantime I hope Marisa can fill the hits like a goddamned truck niche left behind. I am so taking her for a spin on day 1. Punches so hard that they shake the screen? I want that.
That's a weird way of saying "I got to meet and play with Emersion in tournaments." You were at Hypespotting, man. =P
Welcome back Flicky! It's good to see you. <3 If you're still in England I would love to pick you up on this post seven years after the fact. With the supposedly godlike netcode of SF6 it should be smooth as butter between us.
As long as nothing crazy happens in the next few weeks I'll be down! Probably very rusty, but new game no problem.
I went to Hypespotting quite a few times, I'm not sure I ever left pools, I can't remember haha. I have a vague recollection going 3-2 in Guilty Gear and burning out after beating a Bedman I should've found easy haha. Anyway, all good fun.
I honestly don't remember Emersion... I met and forgot a lot of people over the last ten years... I have a feeling we've spoken before but honestly, can't remember...
The Street Fighter Showcase hosted by Lil Wayne is happening tomorrow at 3:00 PDT, at the following YouTube stream:
Countdown: Show's over, click the video to see the VOD.
I'm betting we'll see a bunch of World Tour stuff, all the mini-games and casual game modes, a couple of high-level matches, and some info about characters we haven't seen a lot of yet. Beyond that, I really don't know what to expect.
Edit: Preshow is live. Edit: Preshow has ended, timer on screen. Edit: Show has ended.
Some notable takeaways from the stream:
World Tour has tons of different locations and settings, not just Metro City. You travel to other places in the world to learn new techniques and progress through the story.
You can fight with your custom World Tour characters in the battle hub against other players for fun.
Jamie's drink is totally not booze.
Female Ruby Rhod is nowhere near as annoying as her 90s counterpart.
Accessibility options include hit sounds and proximity alert sounds. It's weird and sounds like a pinball game.
Training mode has tons of trials, taking you from basic moves to advanced combos, and to be honest it looks really solid and robust. Capcom appear to have taken a lot of inspiration from other titles (especially anime FGC titles) to create their moves and combos lists.
Lil Wayne has said six sentences so far.
Year 1 DLC is Rashid, A.K.I., Ed, and Akuma.
And Akuma has white hair now, apparently.
A demo version for World Tour is coming out on April 26, and the Playstation versions are available... now. Edit: By all accounts it's completely barebones though.
Weezy said nine sentences.
Trailers from the show have been released:
PS5 version of Street Fighter 6 has ~2.8 frames of input lag, and that's without low lag mode. This is great news because most multi-event tournaments will be run on PS5, which historically has been awful on launch, featuring the highest input lag and delay out of all the versions. Seems like they've finally cracked it.
The CPU looks really strong in this game, and much more closely emulates human play than ever before. Here's Momochi getting wrecked by a level 8 CPU. Just look at the CPU hovering just outside of c.mk range when Momochi is in the corner.
The last game to really nail "human emulation" was Smash Ultimate in my opinion, so this is fun to see.
30 fps... that's rough. Also concerned the open world portion might just endless trolling (possible players can be smurfing in some way?). But the single player part of the game will be a gateway drug for the the fighting genre. Capcom is brilliant.
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