DOA Q&A

[Matt Ponton]

Cool, I never honestly played the PS1 version, at least to any point that I felt I could recall such information. As far as I've seen in ++, the attack doesn't affect the bounce height.

The air throw range in DOA3 differed per character. Bass' had the best, being mid-shin high; Leon's I believe was mid-thigh high; Gen Fu had to be waist high. You are right about the position of the field determining on if an air throw should be used. I was merely saying that in open space it's best to do . The air throw and its follow-up both net the same damage so it's merely where you want the opponent to go.

 

[UncleKitchener]

Then it sounds like bounce effects were standardized in ++. Shame we only use our Jamma boards for Capcom games.

Oh, I agree on that point. I just hope the air throw requirement in DOA5 isn't too high.

 

[Matt Ponton]

You'd still be able to use the Jamma board in a Capcom setup.

++ uses buttons 123 for each player. So the kick buttons won't do anything but jab, strong, fierce will be hold, punch, kick.

 

[UncleKitchener]

Same layout on DOA2M. Don't really like the layout, but there's probably a way to change it on 2M.

 

[akhi216]

Did they remove freestepping from the DOA5 and DOA5 E3 demo in favor of a single step sidestep?

 

[Matt Ponton]

You can still free step and you still have the side step move.

 

[akhi216]

You can still free step and you still have the side step move.

After the sidestep can you continue on to a free step if you hold the direction of the side stepped direction?

 

[Matt Ponton]

I imagine after the recovery of the side step you could. However, you can't cancel the side step into a free step.

 

[akhi216]

Can you cancel out of a power blow with anything other than a side step?

 

[Allan Paris]

No, only a SS can cancel a PB.

 

[UncleKitchener]

Does fuzzy guarding work in these games?

 

[Raansu]

Does fuzzy guarding work in these games?

Yes.

 

[akhi216]

What is a force tech ans how is it performed? What is a crush? What is fuzzy guarding?

 

[Matt Ponton]

Force tech is hitting the opponent while they are on the ground in a way that forces them off the ground absorption standing position.

A crush is an attack that beats a hit level at a certain time that it would not otherwise beat by hit level alone.

Fuzzy guarding is canceling a crouch dash into a guard. This is most often used to duck a throw and block a mid attack at the field the throw or attack's hit frame.

 

[kupo]

What stops a player from abusing the hold as soon as the other player starts a string? I say this because during the IPL tournament, I saw players doing a string with punches which looked to be the same height and they didn't counter.
The only way I see is if a player is staggering the normals during the string and make the other player afraid of abusing the hold.
Sorry if it's a noob question.

 

[Tenren]

a good player will notice you abusing holds and will punish you for it. But I did notice a few of the good players in the IPl were not mixing up combos, they repeated the same sting over n over. This was was prolly due to the game being new. Master & Black mamba did seem to pick up the people repeating strings as you could see hem hold a few time later in the tournament.

also during the stream Kat said it looked like they changed the frames on the hold so it may be a lil slower, Rikuto can you confirm this?

 

[Rikuto]

What stops a player from abusing the hold as soon as the other player starts a string? I say this because during the IPL tournament, I saw players doing a string with punches which looked to be the same height and they didn't counter.
The only way I see is if a player is staggering the normals during the string and make the other player afraid of abusing the hold.
Sorry if it's a noob question.

It depends.... certain strings, especially in DOA 5 have a long guard stun period that either prevents or makes it incredibly difficult for someone to simply inject holds while they are blocking.

Certain stuns also seem to have a period where you can't hold immediatly, and certain stuns don't let you hold at all.

a good player will notice you abusing holds and will punish you for it. But I did notice a few of the good players in the IPl were not mixing up combos, they repeated the same sting over n over. This was was prolly due to the game being new. Master & Black mamba did seem to pick up the people repeating strings as you could see hem hold a few time later in the tournament.

also during the stream Kat said it looked like they changed the frames on the hold so it may be a lil slower, Rikuto can you confirm this?

There is no way for me to confirm anything 100% without actually running the extensive tests. It felt like it though.

Perhaps, if you sweet talk Drdogg reaaaaaaaaally nice....

 

[EMPEROR_COW]

I didnt know where else to ask this, but it seems Team Ninja uploaded models of Hitomi, Akira, Sarah and Kokoro on their FB page and I haven't seen any1 mention them.

Anyone know if they're up anywhere in HD?

(I'm gathering up the art for designing a DOA5 dashboard for my arcade stick

 

[Tenren]

now if I can sweet talk him lol, That or wait till one of us get our hands on a newer build lol.

 

[d3v]

(I'm gathering up the art for designing a DOA5 dashboard for my arcade stick

Would you like some "professional help" with that.

/hint
/shameless plug