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Aniking300zx since winning Vector Strike has started (Saturday night U.S./ Sunday morning local Japan time) Gathering of western VOOT & Force 4 players along with our eastern brothers in what is a free-for-all battle night. Play till you drop! Acceptance by Japan friends, to play against & partner with is pretty awesome! Now on Twitter the chatter about this activity is "their" excitement to participate! They refer to it as a Holiday! -PLAYER MATCH VOOT & FORCE 4- is where to find this swelling of interest. Friends begin to arrive Saturday night 9pm PST & doesn't end. The more that know there and here, earlier times battles will start! 8pm,7pm,6pm? This week I'm unable to participate (previous Mission committed to).
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Get Ready & GET ON!
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Looks like fun. Hopefully I remember to log in.

I'm back online now but this gathering didn't happen today. From what I hear, it may not have happened in the prior two weeks either while I was offline. We can't expect aniking to feel like playing every week, so maybe someone else could post on twitter if they want to keep this weekly gathering going.

Another random discovery I made though is that every Saturday 4 pm PST (Sunday 8 am Japan time) there is a swarm of 20+ players that gather in Ranked and play for 1 to 2 hours. So that's another time that can be convenient for western players. The drawback is that you must play Ranked, but sometimes I can lure someone into Player match after the swarm is over.

I wouldn't mind some VOOT. I've had the Xbox unplugged for a while now, but I'm missing the game.

I'm still around, will try and start showing up for the weekly meets more often. Looking forward to some VO4 especially since it's difficult to get matches in regularly

edit: I'll get online at 22:00 PST

edit2: whelp, just me and VOTwinstick showed up. gg

Wait. Is this still going on? Ever since school ended I've had alot more free time to bust, and more active time. My bad on not being on much, cause I had, like school. And all that good jazz.

I dunno. In the last 4 weeks the gathering hasn't really happened. I was on last week too, but after no one showed up for the first half hour or so, I left.

I've just been playing Ranked because that's the only way I can find matches these days. The Japanese population in there has 20 times more players, at more hours of the day, than Player Match. But I got too beat up so I stopped and went back to hide in the Player Match lobby. I probably need another 2 years of training before I can play Ranked at a good level.

Meh. I like to go into ranked, and I don't get bopped as much as I thought I would. Except for the best, I can win a decent amount of matches with the Japanese. Doesn't mean I dont hit a brick wall against like 1/3 or so of Ranked players >_> (I'm looking at Katenasasosu. His Bal decimates me and everyone else, and is a plague that must be exterminated lol.) But I'm glad ppl are still playing.

I haven't beaten KATENASASOSU yet in Ranked and he makes up a fair bit of my losses. Both of us are supposed to have characters that crush Bal, but I'm not too worried because just as Bal is the most complicated and has a high ceiling potential, studying to fight against Bal (which I've never done, I don't know how to do a single move with him) should be almost equally complicated and probably brings the ceiling back down. So I try to judge myself more seriously against his Dordray (which I'm still pretty far behind as well).

I estimate that I'm currently the equivalent of an average Ranked japanese 5-star general with a 1:1 win/loss ratio. Because whenever I play Ranked japanese opponents, whatever W:L ratio they happen to have, really turns out to be my L:W ratio against them. Although if they are 4:1 or better, then I pretty much never win. I'd probably never lose against someone who is 1:4 either, but I've yet to meet such a 5-star general.

My current actual win/loss is 2:1 though, thanks to beating up a lot of green players. You don't get any EXP though from beating green players, that is why my name/color Rank is not that high, relative to the number of leaderboard Points I have (Points is not EXP, I figured out).

now his DORDRAY i have much better chances against. i have beaten his dordray more than once. his bal? hes at least 1/3 of my losses.

pwople still gather on saturdays? id like to go against mentholmoose and aniking one of these days.

FlyExponent wrote:Wait. Is this still going on? Ever since school ended I've had alot more free time to bust, and more active time. My bad on not being on much, cause I had, like school. And all that good jazz.

Me and twinstick are still trying to make the meet happen at least. It's just that aniking isn't playing anymore which also results in barely any of the japanese players showing up. I might not be able to make it this week but I'll certainly play later in the day/on sunday.

Probably about 1/3 of my losses on ranked are to katena haha, excluding him I usually win at least two games for each loss.

No-one really cares about EXP on ranked, just play for a couple weeks and youre at max rank and it's already meaningless

Zaarock wrote:edit: I'll get online at 22:00 PST

edit2: whelp, just me and VOTwinstick showed up. gg

When? That Friday or this Friday? I missed yesterday, but I tried a week ago. I didn't see anyone.

This particular gathering is on Saturdays. Seems people couldn't get it going this week, either. I did get one match in with a Japanese player in the Player lobby.

got in a few matches on the session, too bad i'm east coast.

hiyo~

These last to weeks I've played Force w/ friends on Friday night 9pm to 2am PST Saturday. After, my Saturdays been washed out! The day feeling like a zombie. Night checked Xbox on my phone saw friends, just couldn't get off the chair... till went to bed. The time Zaarock & I waited in lobby was after playing in CrazyAnchang lobby that overfilled, sorta-speak. Started our own, 1 or 2 additional appeared & split. But that's also when Sega dropped the Force 4 in PSO 2 Bomb. Reading & retweeting kept me occupied that night.