sharky0456

King of the ocean and shitposting

50 percent australian, 50 percent irish, 100 percent dumb fuck


i understand that its been used for a long time but i think its time to change to mentioning the actual directions instead of numbers so combos dont have to be completely rewriten depending on what side of the screen you are on

looking at the image i showed up on screen can anyone give any real issues with it besides language barriers because if not i have no idea why this shouldnt be the standard rather than even more numbers

mortal kombat already has numbers so thankfully they already do this so i wish street fighter would do the same as its really making me want to pull my hair out


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I remember back in the day Street Fighter was very slow to adopting numpad notation. I'm likely wrong, but I dont think it was until SFV or VI that sf players started using it more.

I will say that SF's old notation was probably my favorite.
QCF = d,df,f
QCB = d,db,b
DP = f,d,df
HCF = b,db,d,df,f
HCB = f,df,d,db,d

my biggest grip with a notation method is usually less the direction and moreso the buttons. tekken using numbers always throws me off, cuz i usually never remember what 1,2,3,4 stand for. All of these notations have some kind of learning curve. and I don't think it needs to be either or. in the same way some folks know multiple languages, it's not bad to have knowledge of multiple notation methods.

interesting how you call that sfs old notation

i see old notation and numpad notation used toggether

also mortal kombat and injustice uses numbers for attacks too its not a tekken thing and way more intuitive than numpad notation

im willing to learn some things but i think im gonna stay objected to numpad notation for the rest of my life and maybe end up learning it just cause i have to but i doubt it

plus whats wrong with the old notation? why did they change anyway? what happened to "if it aint broke dont fix it"?

for the basic inputs i can see your point, but for longer more complicated exotic inputs i find numpad easier to parse. like f,df,d,db,b,f just looks like a mess to me. 632146 is clearer somehow. and that's not even that complicated of an input, just what i could think of at the top of my head.
and for the basic ones i kinda prefer the qcb, hcb stuff.
but i guess i've always had a keyboard with a numpad that i can just look to, which i guess isn't super common these days. maybe that's a factor.

I think the amount of repeated characters in your suggestion could pose an issue. DDFF could be read as either 236 or 2266. There would have to be some sort of punctuation to break it up like D.DF.F which just adds to complexity.