Street Fighter 6

I'm having the same problem too - thought I was just out of practice but I can hit them fine on Guilty Gear: Strive.

Sucks as the Series S is the only 'next gen' console I have to play this on. Hopefully it's something they can tweak/patch?

Glad its not just me, then. And, yeah, strive is fine, too. Its fine on the PS5 pad, so its not *purely* me being cack handed. If you look at the input log, its just going straight from down to back.

I just ordered a Hori Fighting Commander Octa pad, not a bad price for around 50 euros. Not putting up with any of the shit d pads on both the PS5 and Xbox.

I wish I could get something decent where I am, the local department store has a Hori Fighting Stick Alpha for around 180 Euros but I know I could get something much better down the line.

Now that you mention MadCatz I remembered that I do have a Street Fighter 4 MadCatz pad for the PS3, now that was a good pad. Think it only had two top buttons when I feel like I'm going to need 4 just to add shortcuts for drive impact, throw and parry/drive rush.

Yeah I'm down, I'll post my Capcom ID when I get home after work. Out of interest which characters are charge characters in the demo?

Guile and Chun but I don’t think there’s any pure charge anymore as everyone seems to have one or two motion inputs.

Open beta up for download. You do have to go searching for it though.

For all platforms mate, bar Switch. So PS4, PS5, series S/X and Steam.

I’m downloading it on both now but going to try the New Zealand trick on the SS when I clock off.

Exactly the same as before, then!

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Capcom have uploaded a couple of explanation videos on the official channel, so if you’re not familiar with the systems they’re worth a look. Biggest advice I would give is to go into the settings and change your controls _first_ (and set it for all characters) - it defaults to “modern” and doesn’t inform you of this. The option to switch is unintuitive but it’s covered in the top reply of this Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/znbmzf/how_to_change_to_classic_controls_on_street/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Also the game itself comes out in 2 weeks! I’m personally very excited - the game feels good, the netcode is great, the new characters look cool, the amount of content is huge! Many of the pros, especially, are sounding extremely positive on it. My only fear now is that a newcomer will be broken - or have something which is very hard to deal with - and ruin the meta.

Anyway, I’ll try to be on from around 9pm tonight I think - if anyone wants to run some sets against my pad-heavy guile that would be cool.

Be interested to hear your thoughts on the Octa pad - I'm looking to get one myself for the Xbox but the reviews of the D-Pad don't sound too promising (though people will moan about anything on the internet).

Please report back!

Looking forward to testing out my stick with it later

Just picked it up from the store. Initial impressions are it's incredibly light as I don't think has any rumble motors in there. Face buttons are microswitches, akin to like a mouse button so there's a click sound when you hit them and you don't have to press them too strongly. The top 4 buttons are just normal buttons though, interestingly the R1 is named L3+R3 and the L2 is named L2+R2. The Dpad is a bit small and felt a bit stiff, it kinda reminds me of the Saturn Dpad, I won't really know till I try it out but surprisingly the stick is actually quite nice, it's got an 8 way indentation in the layout so it feels like you could use it as a genuine alternative and there isn't much distance between neutral position and the edge so it could give you a quick response time. I don't think it's a perfect pad but for the price of 50 euros I'm happy.