mercredi 13 mai 2015

SDGO PVP tips compilation

Hello, it's been a while.

After revisiting this post, I think it's a bit too long, so I'm covering this post with a table of contents, hope that helps. (Ctrl+F)

Table of contents

1. Forewords
2. The pro's gameplay videos
3. My list of PVP tips
4. Closing words

1. Forewords

SDGO has been gone through its best moment, and as of now I believe it's the best timing to payback to the community I have learned. More than 2 years ago (if I recall correctly), I played my first SDGO game, in North American server (NA for short), got stomped hard, but I didn't lay my head down and admitted that I couldn't beat the seasoned players.

As of now, after the training in NA and a short time in KR, I'm pretty confident to say that my in-game skills are pretty solid (well, not solid enough to beat the like of top players like Alphaedge, Sakura, Shadowknight26, and so on...), but    (sorry no but here, no excuse no self overhyping lol). The players I listed above are known for being team players, one-man carry, god like reaction & judgment skill (well, sometimes they are drunk and feed and throw the game away but let them feed to give hope to newcomers).

(A side note: SDGO started their own server pretty late compared to other regions like Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong, and countless servers from the SEA regions. You can say when SDGO NA first went beta, a lot of american veterans hopped back to NA, resulting in a big beating every single game against the newcomers.)

My story of getting better at SDGO may take hours to be written here, but let's keep the content short while the readers are excited, I'm releasing a list of notes that I took while playing the game, or watching pro's replays. I hope this list of mindset can help newcomers to realize the mistakes they make in games, thus resulting in lesser time to be tormented :). I believe "play the game you love" + "play the game you win" should always be better than "play the game you love"alone.

2. The pro's gameplay videos

I'm holding a big collection of pro players' gameplay. Around 20-30 GB of videos (mostly .flv and .mp4). I'm planning to share them if people are interested, but Youtube isn't my favorite, as these videos contain copyright musics and will soon be removed from Youtube. I'm also not residing in US so uploading to American-hosted site will take super long (and I'm too lazy to do that, too much effort). Tell me if you know any solution for this.

The pros' name is mostly from korean server: Napier, SynysterGates, Boxing, Geniuses, Eodud, FBFB, Master of freedom, Newtype Sentinel, IdentityCrisis, Berserkd, Cybaster, Oralb, RLTK, Cyan/Blue, Asacasa, the water ??? clan master (sorry I'm not native chinese, don't know the exact meaning of those chinese translations), some from taiwan/hongkong server: 550408, zzn974211, and finally some from japan server: BxFyRe, etc.

Special mention to NA server's pros: You can google Shadowknight26's youtube channel. His gameplay is pretty entertainning. (I do know other NA pros too, but unfortunately they don't upload their gameplay *shrub*). I'm pretty strict when it comes to my collection of good gameplay vids, because when you record the scene where your stacked team of 4 pros beats a team of newcomers to a pulp, we will have nothing to learn from watching that.

Many thanks to the korean & other pros from all servers, as well as many contributors from Youtube, Sdgundam.cn and so on.

3. My list of PVP tips

Here is the list itself:
  1. Make the right call (very dfficult make correct decision, as SDGO is a fast paced game, but keep thinking whether what you are doing and what you are about to do is justifiable or not). For example: if you see 4 opponents and you are alone, better back off to where your team is, instead of trying to use Hide and assault one of them
  2. Rush: auto lock to check how many foes are standing at the rushing location, and rush the guy who is alone
  3. Support (those who have stun): stay behind teammates, or tail your team's rusher, stun people who retaliate or stun the guy who comes to melee your team's rusher.
  4. Learn to semi lock while shooting. Useful to take down units with infinite boost.
  5. Corner your opponents when given the chance (need extensive checking of radar & auto lock to do this). Easiest way to shoot down strong players.
  6. MCA 1 hit then run to avoid melee sp (don't need this when the game starts, as everyone hasn't had their sp filled yet)
  7. Spam sp before you die. Reason: when you respawn you will be given a small amount of sp bar by the game itself. So if you die while having full sp bar you are basically wasting momentum! Useful tip for Banshee (the S rank one).
  8. Protect your teammates (either you follow this, or you chose the rush route).
  9. Hover behind the top and side corner of covers (building) and trade shots (don't do this if your ping is too high, you will eat shots through building!)
  10. Stay right behind building to look through building and see what your foes are doing
  11. Melee sp from high ground
  12. Dash next to the covers when you see funnels tailing you
  13. Don't use melee dash auto attack to reach your melee target, unless you are absolutely sure that you will catch him
  14. Fire your range sp as if you are firing a bazooka weapon
  15. Rusher: if you are seen, retreat
  16. Always look behind (there is a button for this function in game)
  17. Attempt to melee reach failed: dash away from the melee target for a while, then turn back to check his positioning
  18. While being attacked: let your foe hit your shield, while ready to press Mouse 1 for ZBS hit (if they have sloppy MCA skill).
  19. Dash ZBS: side dash to your target, while swinging mouse in air 90 degree.
  20. Set your mouse sensivity as high as possible. Best reward for this is now you can swing your beam sp direction super fast!
  21. Set your finger on SP button if you suspect SP from your melee target
  22. Trading shots in air: dash a little longer between 2 shots to mess up your opponent's timing to shot back at you 
  23. Reach with ZBS: dash toward your melee target, and quickly swing mouse when near your target for ZBS. Why? Take less time to reach your target. Also a must for people who want to melee after they quantize (00 raisers, 00 quants). Also nullify the preemptive ZBS defense of your melee target
  24. Attempt to melee reach failed: quick dash to the side
  25. Melee 1vs2: MCA 1 hit your first target, 2 hits your second target, then switch back to your first target
  26. Safe shot: jump, shot, quick side dash, land. Good when you have no cover
  27. Shot from close range: don't use beam rifle, use vulcan or machine gun.
  28. Increase dps (damage per second) for shooter: Alternate between your 2 guns. For example, crossbone X2: switch to weapon 2 (beam rifle), shot, switch to weapon 3 (machine gun), shot, rinse and repeat
  29. V formation: stay in a position that makes sure you are at the lowest bottom of the word V (where the 2 wings are your rushing allies). Cover them.
  30. Getting chased, have hide item available: Use hide, jump and and hold jump to hover in air
  31. Getting chased, don't have item: dash backward and shot the chaser. If boost depleted, melee dash to the back to increase the distance. If enemy is closing on you, blind zbs (just to buy time, and gain some booster recovery). If you are good you may catch greedy chaser with your zbs xD
  32. Shooting with 00 raiser: use semi lock
  33. Chill man! Better not know what players are in your room (so that won't lead to unecessary panic like "OMG he's a RED STAR", "OMG he's a korean player", "OMG this man is a f...ing ghoster") *side note*: ghoster: people who have bad internet connection thus resulting in them moving around but your computer doesn't recognize it, and then you get backstabbed (crits). Of course this ghoster quote is a joke, nobody want to play with ghosters.
  34. It's better to stay in higher ground than your opponents, because people rarely auto lock at whatever above their head.

 4. Closing words

I'm out of words. Go wreak house!

lundi 10 février 2014

Fail return

Hello everyone,

So finally I have decided to return to sdgo kr server again, but this time I taste the bitter taste of a common problem: lag. Basically whenever I teleport when I see a foe near me, I find myself in a new place where my hp is chopped by at least 30%, that means I still eat some hits because of my latency. So yeah its so sad.

The only thing that I feel really happy about is my aiming skill tends to get better and it fares really ok in kr server as well (counter proof to myself: I used to think if I stay in NA server, I won't be able to improve myself, silly me).

Oh well and Hearthstone is in a stalemate state now, because Druid has is too solid, and if you really want to rank up in a consistent way, you may have to pilot that deck. I really am against that deck since it violates my motto (same as Satoshi Kato, heh, "I never play the best deck"). Hence why I also almost never play the best suits in sdgo, namely SS Freedom Meteor or S Full Armor ZZ.

A tiny bit of advice for those who are having a problem in sdgo: do not melee, unless you are sooooo sure that you could land your hits safely without eating sp in return, or getting shots at your back. Because this situation happens rarely (people will be merciless and never ask you to 1v1), do not melee!!

Let's enjoy life more, but not by playing games, shall we? ^^

mardi 4 juin 2013

SDGO S rank Reborns gundam gameplay


I have added some scenes from the original Gundam 00 movie (Season 2, episode 25-26). Enjoy :)

dimanche 19 mai 2013

SDGO SR rank Gundam Harute (GN Boosters) review + gameplay





This suit is pretty straight forward. Capable of playing poke games now thanks to its homing missile or GN scissor bits. 

============Mode 1:
Weapon 1: Its melee weapon in mode 1 is a bit slow, but it's still far from being useless. It has very good reach, so you can abuse this fact to do Zero boost slash.

Weapon 2: Beam machine gun for short. Nothing too special about it. In korean server, full attack SR Harute doesn't exist anymore, so it's less fun.

Weapon 3: Homing missiles. They are fired from your back and they fly automatically over your head in a parabolic trajectory. This weapon is a nice asset for Harute as ballistic weapon, so you won't be completely useless against I field or Mobile Armor suits.

============Mode 2:
Mode 2 buffs your agility while lowering your defense.

Weapon 1: When you enter mode 2, your melee weapon becomes much better thanks to the bonus Agility. You can pretty much outplay any suits who don't have dash attacks.

Weapon 2: Your damage per second is upgraded, so you don't need to stand still in order to deal massive damage like how you were in mode 1.

Weapon 3: Pretty self explanatory. It reloads very fast, and its damage is decent. Abuse it.

Special attack: Range, in both mode. Goes very well with Special Awakening skill part.

=============Skills:
Marute Mode: notably +Agi, +booster and free radar at 70% HP 

Trans Ams: boost everything save attack, at 50% HP. Of course you can't rely on this skill because at 50% HP you are bound to eat special attacks very often.

=============Playstyle: 
You mainly provide support fire, but when the situation calls in, you can initiate the fight by yourself too (do it while you are in mode 2...).

Don't hesitate to throw out your special attack. You can reclaim your Marute mode back easily thanks to your arsenal of gun and homing.

New youtube channel + Batch uploads

Hello everyone.
Sorry for not updating for a while. So, I have updated my blog with a new bar on top. You can use it to have access to my new youtube channel. I recently moved to this new channel because my old one was having copyright problem with multiple third party companies.

Anyway, here is my new content, most of them was recorded in korean sdgo. I think this new content attracts people more, because you can use it as reference to see whether to get the suit you have seen or not.

Crossbone gundam X3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfC9zodhoQ0

Full Armor Hyaku Shiki Kai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwktiLzCcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxoaZKyYCw

Korean server is getting SR 00 quanta Full Saber soon (in 5 days, counting from today).

lundi 12 novembre 2012

SDGO basic skills

Basically, you can enjoy it from here: http://ggftw.com/forum/sdgo-guides/94070-sdgo-skill-library-noob-nt-all-skills-you-need-know-will-keep-updating.html

Side notes:
- dont do MCA walk if your enemies are near you. You'll pay for that extra boost.
- fast shooting doesnt have much use in game.
- dont learn Sin Swap (SS) because you will be banned if you abuse that in NA server.

It takes months (or several weeks for those who are geniuses) to use MCA at will during combat. At first glance you will not get used to it and get killed too fast. When you get used to it, you will feel under the category of overusing MCA. It takes a little more time to come back to the perfect balance for you.

Example of using MCA dash without a brain: there's a tower between you and your foe. You use MCA dash to get closer to your foe. Your foe can wait for the moment you land your sword, and... free shots.

My last advice is: dont be greedy and decide to learn all skills from that aboved link. Just learn them one by one. Dont give up :D.

mardi 6 novembre 2012

SDGO Blue Destiny Unit 2 gameplay


I didn't pay enough attention to my foes in early game. Fortunately my team supported me very well and not to mention, that Elmeth wanted to give up too soon =.=