I can't believe I'm fucking doing this.....
If you've been playing SF5: Arcade Edition for the last couple weeks, you'd know about the new Extra Battle mode. This is the renewable fight money source that was implemented to replace the exhaustible FM gains from Survival mode. The reason behind this change was that too many people weren't skilled enough to actually finish their Survival runs on Hard or Extreme, so the rewards might as well not have ever been there. I can't say I blame anyone for giving up when even the top players reportedly had a hard time doing it.
SO the Gold Shadaloo Soldier battles are here to compensate as an easier alternative to gaining more FM. There has been a small FM fee to participate in these challenges (500 per battle), and for a limited number of times. If you can win all three attempts against these soldiers, the reward you get can be pretty damned big. In the first challenge from last week, you'd have been able to get up to 7,500 FM. And the one that just started two days ago could net you 10,000 EXP for each batte, which meant even more FM if you picked a character that was still at a low level. I did this with Sakura since she just came out, and I got an easy 8000 FM from winning all three attempts.
And wouldn't you know it? Despite this FM being easier to obtain than playing through Survival, and DESPITE the still on-going weekly missions to help you gain back any FM lost.... I've somehow run into some dipshit casual COMPLAINING that the Extra Battles are just a way to scam you out of your FM.
WTF is this? I knew casuals typically sucked ass at fighting games, but when you have a mode that essentially requires you to gamble an incredibly TINY fraction of your FM (it's just $1500; who gives a shit?), you have to expect somewhat of a challenge to it. Did you really think the AI for these soliders would be set on EASY?
For fuck sake. They don't come anywhere close to being as hard as Shin Akuma, and they're most certainly NOT on the level of intermediate human opponents who actually know what they're doing. I've read accounts of people cheesing the soldiers out by doing basic stuff, like repeatedly jumping in with a roundhouse and sweeping them on landing. I don't know how there can be so MANY people losing even one of these fights.
But moreover, I can't understand for the life of me how anyone can blame Capcom for their own failed attempts. Since when did THEY become accountable for your losses? This is beyond ludicrous. Why do you people want EVERYTHING handed to you on a silver platter in this genre? What's next? You gonna report them to the Better Business Bureau for not giving you a WIN button? God. I wish there was a way they could just straight up BAN you from playing online for being stupid.
People wanted a challenge with a reasonable balance between risk and reward. We got it. If you're smart, you'll accept and make the best of it. Because if you can't even beat the fucking CPU, controlling a deliberately shitty NPC, you have no business even touching fighting games. End of discussion.
- ED23
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