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Capcom denies El Fuerte's infinite combo

6:09 AM on 09.02.2008, Jim Sterling 14 comments

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Yesterday we reported that Street Fighter IV may have had its first broken character in El Fuerte when it was suggested that the newcomer had an infinite combo -- something that would inflict "black sheep" status on the masked luchadore among the fighting game elite. Capcom, for its part, has denied that El Fuerte possesses an infinite combo and has stated that the video currently showing an example of the move proves nothing.

"In that video El Fuerte does not chain together infinite FP cancels. He chains some together to dizzy the opponent and then repeats a similar combo to win in one round, but that hardly constitutes the use of the term 'infinite'," stated a Capcom rep. "Let's wait and see what the Japanese players say about the tiering before we hastily condemn anything. El Fuerte is currently considered the weakest player in the game, and I doubt this ultra-difficult combo will suddenly push him above Blanka and Sagat."

Ah, the world of fighting games both amuses and bemuses me at the same time. All this talk of canceling and infinites and tiers and whatnot. Well, we'll just sit tight and wait for the crazy hardcore elitists to tear this game limb from limb before casting El Fuerte into the fire.


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Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/02/2008 07:35
But can he wave-dash?
Yuphrum's Avatar
Yuphrum at 09/02/2008 07:54
@ vrplumber
I know, this is almost turning into the Jim Sterling website
ZServ's Avatar
ZServ at 09/02/2008 08:04
just another reason to hate mexicans.
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dephect at 09/02/2008 09:14
Is this going to be a disc based game or a download?
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casualweaponry at 09/02/2008 09:25
I've seen much worse from Ryu, Sagat, and Abel. Abel is way too powerful, and Ryu has a full screen ultra combo fireball that does massive chip damage if blocked.
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zeroword at 09/02/2008 09:37
You guys will eat anything they tell you huh? It is an infinite that requires only one button (w/ dash cancel) and the video to prove it!
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Narishma at 09/02/2008 10:04
zeroword: It doesn't prove anything. A character can have an infinite and still be weak. As I said in yesterday's post, SFA3 has a lot of infinites, but none of the top characters has them and the game isn't broken.
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DinnertimeNinja at 09/02/2008 11:24
The "harcore" fighting community won't give a damn at all about this infinite.

One of two things will happen within the hardcore community:

1) The infinite will be deemed unfeasable and will be allowed since El Fuerte is bottom tier anyway. Or...

2) The infinite will be banned in tournies. Not the character, just the repeated use of that combo of moves in succession.


This will seemingly not effect casual play at all since it's pretty difficult to hit and sustain the infinite. You might get a bunch of n00bs flocking to Fuerte and getting their asses handed to them because all they try to do is the infinite.
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loki d20 at 09/02/2008 11:59
That video proved nothing regarding an infinite combo. In fact, it just looked like one player had no clue how to block, let alone use low sweeping moves to overcome his opponent's need to use constant high attacks. I could do a similar move with any character in Street Fighter 2 and win if the idiot playing against me didn't know to stop moving towards me without blocking or using any abilities to beat me to an attack.
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el_chack at 09/03/2008 12:35
I watched the video and it seems a cheap move for me, but I'm not totally sure if that's really an "infinite" combo, it looks more like a fail at blocking the movement.

Thank you CAPCOM, the world will now hate us Mexican people even more!
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shirase at 02/23/2009 09:34
yeah, it doesn't look like an infinite at all.
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