I'm usually able to join a game after selecting quick match a couple of times. I heard that it's better to just create your own room, then limit it to two people to minimize lag, but I'm not sure that actually works, since I've experienced even worse lag in ranked matches.

We should all set up a day to play some matches online. My PSN is TrueHD.

i saw some goofy characters online, i especially laughed when I broke someones helmet to reveal a huge afro.
I tried creating a character and the default costume turned out like the witch from soul eater like this,

Then I got the idea to create a few more characters from that anime despite having minimal gear that i unlocked through story mode.

Black star who came out....well not so great but a little close ~_~

And maka

I really want Namco to patch this with Trophy support. I know it's probably not going to happen though, huh?

Just opened my Soul Calibur IV shirt. Is everyone in America fat, or what.

What's within your soul.

Clogged arteries.

I didn't open mine because well...I like the vacuum sealed thing where it fits in the box nicely. I have too many fucking shirts anyways.

where have you been >_>

I played with CobaltKatze yesterday. it wasn't so bad considering my connection, it was less than a second of lag. i was even able to pull off some darth vader counters and made him earn his victory. Still he totally owned me ~_~
his characters were interesting as well. The joker, harley quinn, someone from no more heroes whom I didn't recognize.
I decided to create more characters after that since my roster was pathetic. Then I jumped online and I've come to hate azaroth people. Then again I haven't come to try and master more than 3 characters.

Oh and the 11th floor totally pissed me off until i found out how to easily cheat with Taki.

Yeah, once I saw all the jester stuff I totally went for Harley Quinn, named her Harle (Chrono Cross) but its totally awesome.

I kinda wish you could use a skull for a head, but then again everyone and their mother would make Death/The Grim Reaper.

My connection was finally good enough to play online today, but it took so many tries. I couldn't connect to anything on Player Match, not even friend invites. Ranked Matches are the only ones that worked for me, only if I chose quick match, custom match doesn't work it either says it failed or the room is full.

once i got into a match, it was silky smooth, there was no lag at all except for one match out of the 5 i played, and it was just a huge lag spike. i hate my internet connection, there are times when i can't even sign on to the PSN and times where it was lag free.

i'd like to play with you guys but i cannot connect to friend invites at all

anyone play as yoshimitsu? i'm still trying to learn him and he can be very tricky with his many stances

sometimes i just forget that he's there but he is an awesome fighter. You can especially get accustomed to him rather quickly if you were already used to him in Tekken. It kinda sucks that some basic movements like the side twirl take some of his blood.

Actually, Yoshi plays totally different than his Tekken self. Moves that are amazing in Tekken, are not so great in SC and vice versa. This is the 2 sword version that was introduced in Tekken 6 though. He's also really high tier according to the early tier consensus.

I've made like 25 characters with the Character Creation tool. I don't have a decent camera to take pictures with, but I've made Link, Ganondorf, Cloud Strife, a Black Mage, Ichigo and Ikkaku from Bleach, Afro Samurai, Grey Fox from MGS, Bruce Lee, Shao Khan, Grandad from The Boondocks, Crono, Lenneth, and a few others I can't remember. I've got it until this sunday if anyone wants to hit me up on Live.

I made the cast from the original Battle Arena Toshinden series earlier today, and trying to figure out what else I want to make. For what I actually use, I made Nel from Star Ocean 3 to use Taki's style, and Georg Prime from Suikoden V to use Mitsurugi's style. Toshinden had a lot of katana-based characters (Eiji/Sho/Kayin) that I can cycle though too.

I tried to make a Lenneth, but it seems like this game makes it impossible to create shit with the limited armor sets. Still, it's a bit of a step up with the other creation tools.

Yeah, most of the characters I make are more for arcade/standard play because well...they totally blow when it comes to special.

I'm surprised that Soul Calibur didn't put team battle back in. With the whole switching thing, that would definitely make things VERY interesting.

I made quite a few as well. I put that big cat suit on a character to try to pass it off as a kupo like yuna wore in FFX-2. When you break the armor it reveals yuna with something similar to the dancer dresssphere.
Also made Zoro from one piece, Claire from Claymore, tried to make zabuza and haku. Also made trunks and gave him Amy's style in swords so he looks pretty damn gay so it fits him perfectly. Oh and my newest one, princess peach. Only characters I copied were trunks and peach I tried to make the rest something not many people would make since I'm tired of seeing ken's and snakes all over the place
Oh and the biggest flaw of trying to make guest characters is that they're stats will really suck if your trying to be precise so they're almost always better off in standard matches

I <3 Yoshimitsu. He's currently one of the characters I'm working on.

Stances I still need to get used to, but he's one of the best characters to decend with in the Tower. A+G<- spam? Take life when you lose it. The moment you drop your opponent, you could almost immediately pick them up. Just be careful of the opposite direction. You could give life back. o_o

I haven't attempted to make any game characters or anything special as of yet, but I'm waiting until I unlock all the parts to start doing so.

And I just downloaded that customizable extras pack. I <3 Nightmare's SCII helmet.

I played around with Yoshi when I fought Shenlon the other day. Stabbed myself a couple of times lolol

Speaking of Nightmare's Helm, the last helm looked the best for me. I think it was one of the concept helm that didn't make the cut in the past games. Gundam like <3

Hey, I just want to clarify, the 1.99 download pack is the same as the pack that you get with the CE, right?

Different pack. The LE pack came with school uniforms and suits, while the download pack 1 gives you Soph's old breastplate, and 8 helms (Yoshi/Voldo/Nightmare/etc).

And I got both packs free >__>

Nope, The download pack is items from the previous versions of Soul Calibur. The CE pack is a bunch of stuff Japanese people would wear (Business Suits, Typical Anime School Uniforms, that kind of stuff).

Dammit, Scarlet! And the download pack one comes with the CE? :gonk:

:gonk:

Oh, son of a bitch. o lucky bastard u.

Going off the PSN note, and back on to the DL Content.

Do you honestly have to be connected to Live or PSN to actually USE the equipment?

Since my connection at home is still pretty bad, I can't get online. When I edited my character, it said "One or more equipments that are unavailable at this time were removed."

Seriously. What the fuck. I want my SCII Nightmare Helmet. :gonk:

I didn't have to connect to PSN to use those items. All PSN was needed for is to download the packs. Install the mini add-ons, and you have it in your HDD. Maybe you should get the PS3 version instead :p

If only I had one. <_<

But I'll test my theory out on Sunday or something when I go back to my friend's house. Either way, I don't think that's the case that I actually have to be connected, but we'll see.