MARVEL Tōkon Fighting Souls

[Maf]

I’m waiting until the game is out for real 

[one-armed dwarf]

Gave a quick look at just the training mode before work, one thing it has is EAC (easy anti cheat). That means no Linux. So bad luck for the bullshit machine. Given how Sony have been about accessibility of this game, I'm reckoning it's them rather than Arc System works that mandated this as GGST doesn't have this problem and Sony are the bullshit merchants du jour

 

Edit, people seem to think it's a PSN sdk or something that's breaking Linux support, not anti cheat, ffs

 

Actually, I might play Magik instead. I thought she was cool in Rivals but never really got good enough to play a DPS in that game, so always stuck with healer and tank. 

 

 

[Maf]

From what I’m reading online the PC version is “really hostile to non-traditional setups” and they’ve got a bunch of programs (I guess?) in the beta version which is making the game CPU heavy. I still want to get it on PC over PS5 as my PC is wired but definitely waiting until full release before making any purchases 

[one-armed dwarf]

My secondary PC (3070 9070k) actually has a little led screen that tells me cpu usage, and it's pretty high all the time on this. Its only 8 cores though and no hyperthreading

 

You have a massively high spec CPU so I don't think you've anything to worry about, otherwise the game is unplayable for literally everyone else on PC as well, in which case it would be totally fucked

[Maf]

Obviously the loudest experiences are the negative ones but from what I’m seeing everyone is having issues with the PC beta

 

But people are suggesting it’s because of what they have in the beta version and the full version will be different. 
 

Either way, I wait until it’s out and people have tested it before buying 

 

Also j.L on every character is a mid and not overhead what the what. No j.H spam? But how will I win? 😭

[one-armed dwarf]

The beta is down because PSN is down

 

 

'Just a login'

 

fuck sake 🙄

 

edit

 

lol

[Maf]

Magik is super Millia 

[OCH]

 

[one-armed dwarf]

Sajam's take

 

 

I think he's pretty balanced here, on positives and negatives. It really is one of the best presented fighting games I can remember playing, it's like Marvel Rivals with a budget and also they don't just give every female character the Luna Snow face. But there's a lot of stuff that feels super clunky to me in a really aggravating way

 

Season 2 is going to be lit

 

I didn't get good at the perfect counter thing, but I think it must work the same way as a reactive drive impact in SF6, where you need to adapt your blockstrings a bit to more easily cancel into it, maybe

 

The whole 'assists are free in neutral' aspect of the game seems problematic but I don't know enough about tag fighters to say. The skill floor is underneath the earth cause of autocombos but if you even just peek your head a little bit above that and try to get more deliberate with things, it can be fiendish

 

They need to sort out the PC performance situation. I seemed to be 'fine' but I did get matched against people who made the game feel underwater, probably cause of all that stupid PSN SDK stuff hogging their CPU time. I feel this game is the ultimate vindication of people moaning about PSN logins on PC games. It's important for a PC version of a fighting game to be good and scalable, as PC tends to have better retention for some reason (maybe cause of the controller situation, and how locked down it is on PS)

[one-armed dwarf]

 

Deadpool has gotten so good at breaking the fourth wall that he utters my chief complaint about the game

 

This game is going to do mad numbers, coming out at the same time as the new Spiderman film which is doing crazy well

[Maf]

Arcsys, Assemble! 
 

Excellent trailer. I love Deadpool has the DBFZ Cell intro lol. Not long now..

[Maf]

https://www.metacritic.com/game/marvel-tokon-fighting-souls/
 

Tokon got 86/100. That means the game is really good and you all need to stop being losers and come play the game 

[one-armed dwarf]

^

 

[mfnick]

Just found a copy for £40. Hopefully I’ll stick at this one a bit longer than most. 

[one-armed dwarf]

Guessing you're playing Dr Doom