Plamatonto
Noob
I've been playing MK9 for a few months now, been maining mostly cyrax and a little rain on the side. I've always been a competitive gamer. I used to play BF3 and some other games competitively(5x a week training, theory training, etc)
A few months ago I decided I wanted to start going competitively in fighting games, (Was already playing SF4 then, but never got really into it, just fun casuals with friends and such).specifically MK9, I know the competitive scene at the moment isn't at its peak but I really love the game, and want to get serious about it.
I've lost lots of matches or got into setups that transition in high damage combos simply because of input failure( I go for anti air, instead it inputs a jab etc) which can turn the whole match around.
I currently use Thrustmaster gpx lightblack edition, which is similair to a xbox360 remote, except the dpad is 8 directional, so its more similair to the ps3 then the original xbox 360 remote.
I bought it specifically for fighting games because of the dpad, but its not satisfying me, I feel like no matter how much I train with it, theres always a few flaws here and there.
I've been talking to a friend who used to play fighting games competitively a few years back, he's currently selling his q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick because he doesn't use it anymore. I was immediatly interested in buying it, but offcourse I want to do my research first, so besides from googling bunch of stuff related to that, I wanted to ask on TYM aswell.
So here are my questions:
I heard the transition from dpad to stick is pretty rough(I'm prepared to grime it out).
1.Are the inputs on sticks more accurate then on dpad?
2.Is this arcade stick good in general for mk9?
3. I've read lots of posts where people say that for MK9 its actually harder to play with stick because the block button layout( You need block button to perform EX moves), is this true? Aren't there any ways around this?(I'm talking specifically about the q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick button layouts).
4. I main cyrax, any one out there use sticks with cyrax? Specifically the q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick? Share results
*Feel free to answer questions which you think might be important for a first time stick user/buyer
which I haven't mentioned yet.
Here's a picture of the stick incase you don't know which one I mean.
Thanks in advance TYM community.
A few months ago I decided I wanted to start going competitively in fighting games, (Was already playing SF4 then, but never got really into it, just fun casuals with friends and such).specifically MK9, I know the competitive scene at the moment isn't at its peak but I really love the game, and want to get serious about it.
I've lost lots of matches or got into setups that transition in high damage combos simply because of input failure( I go for anti air, instead it inputs a jab etc) which can turn the whole match around.
I currently use Thrustmaster gpx lightblack edition, which is similair to a xbox360 remote, except the dpad is 8 directional, so its more similair to the ps3 then the original xbox 360 remote.
I bought it specifically for fighting games because of the dpad, but its not satisfying me, I feel like no matter how much I train with it, theres always a few flaws here and there.
I've been talking to a friend who used to play fighting games competitively a few years back, he's currently selling his q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick because he doesn't use it anymore. I was immediatly interested in buying it, but offcourse I want to do my research first, so besides from googling bunch of stuff related to that, I wanted to ask on TYM aswell.
So here are my questions:
I heard the transition from dpad to stick is pretty rough(I'm prepared to grime it out).
1.Are the inputs on sticks more accurate then on dpad?
2.Is this arcade stick good in general for mk9?
3. I've read lots of posts where people say that for MK9 its actually harder to play with stick because the block button layout( You need block button to perform EX moves), is this true? Aren't there any ways around this?(I'm talking specifically about the q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick button layouts).
4. I main cyrax, any one out there use sticks with cyrax? Specifically the q4 qanba/bigbenz arcade stick? Share results
*Feel free to answer questions which you think might be important for a first time stick user/buyer
which I haven't mentioned yet.
Here's a picture of the stick incase you don't know which one I mean.
Thanks in advance TYM community.