Uh oh ... it seems that Street Fighter IV might already be facing balance problems with one of its new characters after only a short time in arcades. Debuting pugilist El Feurte has already been discovered to possess an infinite combo, something considered character breaking and highly undesirable in hardcore fighting game circles.
The infinite sees El Fuerte cancelling standing fierce punch into a cancelled run, over and over again. The only break in the combo comes when the opponent is dizzied but El Blaze can simply start the infinite again.
As with all infinite combos, successful abuse of the tactic can see a player win the match by spamming the same move over and over again without the opponent having a fighting chance. In the above video, the infinite only stops thanks to human error, but you can catch a glimpse of what it looks like between 0:27 and 0:38.
With the console version yet to be released, it will be interesting to see how Capcom deals with the issue, if at all. Will El Fuerte be the first Street Fighter IV character to be banned in tournaments, or will his "broken" infinite combo be fixed? This has got to be frustrating for the developers, who doubtless spent a lot of time attempting to level the playing field.
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10:48 AM on 09.01.2008
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i want it now
Go back to England for your tea and crumpets, lad.
So people, next time you are playing SF4 or even MVC2 and some cheap ass just juggles you in a corner or infinite combos you the whole time thinking thats what makes him good,let go of the stick, face your opponent and DRAGON UPPERCUT THAT MOFO!!!!!!!!!!
Also, cocks.
@ darktetsuya
you're late. that's been posted and re-posted too many times already.
Also Capcom will fix it in the home version as long as they hear enough about it. People gotta fill their inboxes with videos and bullshit. As for the arcades...i just dont fucking know.
Arcade games are "patched" when the production company releases another "version" of the game. Often, all that has to be done is have some form of data (from a CD or USB device) loaded into the system and it updates. Most of the time this is free to arcade oweners who have already purchased the machine.
Tekken 6 currently has been updated about a dozen or more times and is done so through tekken.net since T6 has an internet hookup for updates and uploading stats and such.
No doubt this will be fixed though infinites really don't effect the tourny scene since the infinite itself is banned and not the character.
fuck the tourneys, all i care about is my casual arcade play. nobody wants to belimites to not having to pick a certain character
They get some British kid to crawl inside? Every time someone abuses the infinite combo the kid leaps out and punches the player in the balls.
Mental institutions have internet access, now?
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It has to do with something called "tone." Or whatever the internet equivalent is. Cube almost kinda sounds like he means it. The rest of us don't mean it.
...I think.
Uh, I think the El Fuerte player just screwed up his timing or something. But you'll notice that the Akuma player was playing extremely defensively, no doubt thinking, "Oh, God, I can't get hit by that infinite combo" the entire freaking time.
The only thing worse than broken characters in fighting games are the people who actively look for and exploit them, because they do it every damn time and the thought of just playing for fun is alien to them. They just want to hit the "win" button over and over, and then pat themselves on the back for their "skillz."
I hope there's a special videogame-free section of Hell reserved for them, personally.
seriously you lose all credibility as a writer in my eyes when your so blatently racist. im done with this site since im not a KKK gamer. some of you are so ignorant especially jim sterling.