Vortex Gallery @ Evo 2022 - DNF Duel Top 8 (HQ VOD)

[@hypersoulgamer]

I was able to microwave a hot pocket while getting bodied by swiftmaster.

[@AntLeonardi01]

He killed this game incredibly quick. Everybody already moved on to more balanced stuff.

[@loushia16]

I heard Swiftmaster was in another tier but after watching this, he's actually just broken. There's no reason why the wind orb should continue to stay on screen after he gets hit. 1:21:26 Striker gets the hit and is in the middle of a combo but the orb is still onscreen and literally PULLS HER out of range and forces a combo drop. She took all his blockstrings and mix, won the neutral, and she still gets punished? Yea, I'm glad I held off on buying this game. That's not just strong or OP like he has good damage or mix. That's just broken. Coupled with his range, damage, ability to confirm from any hit, and the little tornadoes that protect him punish your opponent for making a move, this character was very poorly thought out. I've been wondering why this game has been getting such poor reviews when the beta seemed well received but now I get it. This is how you singlehandedly kill your game. And it's barely been out a month.

[@lambson43]

Good thing there's a patch coming at the end of August. I think they'll address Swift Master quite a bit.

[@Gamma0_0]

O my god... I didn't even notice that. That wind orb needs a _serious_ rework.

[@CrystalMang0]

Exactly, making a game with insane broken gameplay is just begging to hurt your game hard

[@kenshin391]

This game needs DLC and a patch.

[@TheIceLurker]

Watching Swiftmaster is not even fun. As soon as he gets a hit in I just roll my eyes and wonder how much BS he's going to get out of it

[@sethswoodruff]

let’s go a swift master set! 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

[@opssoldier3316]

Delay dp is not a risk lol. It’s less of a risk than early dp. If you early dp you’ll get punished by delay divekick or block into whatever. But if you delay dp sometimes they’ll pressure enough before you do and if they delay their pressure they get hit by the dp. Any delay when you’re not frametrapped is naturally not going to be as much of a risk compared to just doing something at the earliest possible option.

[@dearikj90]

That Striker blockstring is honestly the only thing anyone has to worry about in the matchup and it isn't easy to do. Scrawt lost so many rounds going for it only to whiff DP and die.

[@dhayris160]

That’s not true at all. Neutral with her is an RPS of slide and dive kick as well as reverse beat pressure that you have to challenge or be locked into another string.

[@dearikj90]

@@dhayris160 What RPS? Divekick is not an overhead. Her only overhead are her jump light and medium. She can reverse beat into them after Divekick if you crouch block too much but you have more than enough time to stand block on reaction. Aside from the Divekick every option she has to engage carries a high risk without conversion to make it safe. That's the reason you see Divekick used so much even though air guard doesn't exist. It's one of her very few safe buttons. Her oki is what is very strong but that only comes after she's navigated the minefield of mid to full screen normals other characters have. I don't understand why people downplay how powerful big normals are in this game when that is half of what makes a character top tier in every other game. Striker has insane options for oki and that's where people stuggle. If they manage their meter properly, though, and stop going into exhaustion all the time it's not that bad. Once she gets pushed back to neutral after a Guard Cancel it's back to struggling against big normals.

[@dhayris160]

@@dearikj90 People constantly downplay striker. Reverse beat makes every normal safe, firstly. Secondly, the RPS is not in Overhead, Low. The RPS is in low profile slide, or Dive Kick. Most things that beat one option lose to the other option. Even blocking one of those is dangerous because of the crazy guard pressure she lays down. Guard cancel is an option, yes, but any good Striker knows you just gave her Conversion for a while, meaning she can get back in quickly and safely since Guard Cancel is only a little plus. Also some higher level Striker players I’ve seen react to Guard Cancel and can DP through it, which is bad news bears. I know all this only after hundreds of games with her as well as against her with several characters. Just Poking her to death isn’t super viable like Laura in SFV. You actually have to take stock of her options and never over extend. You can’t safe jump her or you’re in a blockstring and have to pray to Lemedios that you have 100 mana or she flubs, which while possible, isn’t a reliable response. You have to constantly play on the back foot unless you’re one of the few characters that can cover her main approaches without switching up their strategy too much. In the matchups where this is possible (HITMAN) she loses. His 5A is kryptonite. In others (Crusader), he literally can’t. He has to make hard reads in neutral if she gets anywhere close enough to slide. THAT’S the RPS. That’s not even considering the portions of the cast who get destroyed by instant overheads and have to fuzzy guard if she gets in.

[@dearikj90]

@@dhayris160 The amount of misinformation and bile being spread is honestly pretty sickening. Striker for some reason basically has a hate mob and I can't be asked to try to reason with people online. So I won't try anymore. I'm done trying to actually engage with this "community."

[@thrillainthemanilla1409]

@@dearikj90 You’re the one spreading false information 😂. You know good and well that can mix with every Dive kick on block because she can cancel with Dive kick into a j.L (which is an overhead) and after that can either go immediately into another j.L (overhead) or 2L which is a low. She has tremendous damage and wall carry, the best safe jump set up after a knock down in the game, the best blockstrings in the game and if she baits out a guard cancel the opponent is likely going to lose 70% of their life or more.

[@barrysmith4610]

Awesome matches but I really wished we got some DLC news

[@yurareigiryu]

44:30 there was way too much laughter at this joke. Do you think they did it afterwards?

[@carlosalbritton6662]

swiftmaster is hard to watch just like zero in umvc

[@hp3445]

Swift master should be neff seriously, it kill the game, but the official don’t fucking care

[@Gamma0_0]

Patch is supposed to come at the end of this month. Hopefully they make huge changes to revive the game.

[@hp3445]

@@Gamma0_0 Oh nice, better late than never. I hope this game will get better

[@denisn8336]

@@Gamma0_0 na this game needs to remain high character power just dramatically increase movement options and add air block make guard cancel cheaper then announce dlc

[@Gamma0_0]

@@denisn8336 Yeah I don't see them making the character power much lower. But they'll need to do more than just make guard cancel cheaper. There's so much unreactable mix, so many bad character specific interactions, so many easy two touches, etc. The game needs a GG styled burst or some other kind of combo breaker.

[@yurareigiryu]

They need to reduce SW damage. If it was in line with characters such as Enchantress or Kunoichi it would be fihe. Maybe reduce white damage as well, especially on Striker. 50+% damage off of good neutral is really oppressive.

[@ghostmoth8617]

as much as I love dnf duel, it died as quickly as swiftmaster kills, in fact I'd blame swiftmaster for the game decline in playerbase

[@powerthroughfocus]

This game is awesome! Someone go get sonic Fox!

[@hotboi1718]

A damn shame how this game just died like that smh

[@skunthundler]

Game got cucked out of EVO which hurt it badly, but ARCrevo should help. And hopefully it'll be at 2023 EVO.

[@GoCrazy69]

It’s done should of been ftp more people and money for them that way

[@CrystalMang0]

@@GoCrazy69 It's not that easy to just go free. Going Free means people would have to constantly make content ALOT and arcsys never even makes skins in the first place as well. It's not that simple to just go free

[@luelplays]

Swiftmaster looks broken. Game really needs a balance patch or in any other case, ban the character

[@purplenutria1351]

swiftmaster give me deadshot vibes, hate that shit

[@silverjrbr]

man why masoma always use shit characters? like vlov and swift?

[@michaelcarrig627]

This is what happens when a corporation builds a game. It can be brilliant, but if it doesn't sell enough they will just leave it to die.

[@ShadowFri3nd]

Very true, in fact it reminds a very good video about this topic that i saw like 1 year ago, I'm always reminded about it when unfinished good games like DnF appears in the market.

[@GoCrazy69]

Should of been ftp

[@youtuberguy123]

@@GoCrazy69 Your mom should of been ftp