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All kidding aside though, I know exactly what you mean. Transitioning from a pad to a fightstick is rough, especially if you've actually gotten pretty good on the pad.
All my friends and roommates had sticks ready for when SF4 came out but I didn't, so I learned my main Vega on a gamepad. Later, when my roomie let me borrow his Hori, I couldn't play worth a flying crap.
The weird part was, even though I had never used a stick to play it, the second I plugged it in and played Soul Calibur 4 on it I became almost godlike, that surprised me.
And a note: if you're playing SF4, make sure you go in to your button settings and change it from controller to joystick. SF4 does this weird thing on controller setting where it kind of interpolates moves for you, like you can do Gief's piledriver with just a semi-circle instead of a full 360, and you can do a shoryuken by going right-down-right instead of the real motion.
If you keep that on and use a fightstick, you'll get weird results.
All my friends and roommates had sticks ready for when SF4 came out but I didn't, so I learned my main Vega on a gamepad. Later, when my roomie let me borrow his Hori, I couldn't play worth a flying crap.
The weird part was, even though I had never used a stick to play it, the second I plugged it in and played Soul Calibur 4 on it I became almost godlike, that surprised me.
And a note: if you're playing SF4, make sure you go in to your button settings and change it from controller to joystick. SF4 does this weird thing on controller setting where it kind of interpolates moves for you, like you can do Gief's piledriver with just a semi-circle instead of a full 360, and you can do a shoryuken by going right-down-right instead of the real motion.
If you keep that on and use a fightstick, you'll get weird results.
Actually those shortcuts you mentioned can actually be done on a pad as well its just that they come out more naturally when you use a stick. For example that sk shortcut is actually as simple as df,df capcom put in shortcuts like this to help the newer players but it ends up screwing people cause they have a habit of coming out accidently way too often.
But yeah only realprob with fightstick at this point is im still retraining my muscle memory, gotta learn what buttons to reach for on reaction now that im back to actually having to think about what moves im doing its noob time all over again lol.
