A very cool video. I'm a French player since the previous opus and I play Phonon (Indiana Jones fan since I was little, I'm 41 years old, if there's a character with a whip I have to play him). This new version made me want to get into it more seriously. I'm also a lover of Jojo's ASBR. Glad to have discovered this channel, I'm subscribing. Peace ✌️
I don't know if you can make a video about this, but I was looking on the EVO website to see when UNI would be streaming and from what I saw, it's not even on the schedule. Maybe I am reading it wrong, but I do want to watch the tournament, and I legitimately can't find when it's streaming anywhere. This is incredibly frustrating to me...
Im going to make the attempt to pick up UNI2 again during or after EVO. Hopefully, more new players will give the game a shot during that time. How long this will last is up to speculation.
I'm a Hyde main and even I can say his chip damage is broken af. In BBTAG, it's kind of a different ball game because many of the characters have cheap and bullshit gimmicks that can down one of your characters at full health during the beginning of the match (NAOTO!) So you have to play cheap with Hyde's chip damage in that game. UNI is a lot different because (if I remember correctly), Hyde is the only character in the game that has massive chip damage. That alone makes him incredibly broken, and because the majority of his start up moves lead to massive combos with very few ways to punish Hyde if he misses. Yeeeah, to me, he is one of the most broken if not THE most broken character in the game. The only way I can see them balancing Hyde better at this point is to get rid of his chip damage entirely. Unless French Bread incorporates a mechanic somehow where Hyde is punished for applying chip damage to a blocking opponent. I don't see how they can fix this unless they make the majority of Hyde's moves more punishable and he's their MC, so there totally not going to do that. He really does have no flaws at this point and that's going to hurt the meta later down the line where characters like Orie and Mika needs some serious help.
Niche game but I always find SOMEONE when I've gone looking Edit: definitely a game that's better if you have a friend also playing or discord to access group chats full of people willing to play tho
There's no point in looking up guides for characters if there's not an adequate amount of new players to fight and practice with. That is the main problem, along with the game not having cross console play online. Until French Bread or the UNI community tries to push this game more towards casuals. It will never succeed, and that's just the fact of the matter. It doesn't matter how many 'easy' characters they put into UNI2. If the UNI community consists of nothing but veteran players who will beat down new players without mercy. The UNI community will never grow.
Agreed. This mentality among veterans of thinking that mercilessly destroying new players is just part of their learning experience is one of the reasons why new players don't stick around. "As a new player, you're going to lose a lot, over and over, that's normal. Keep getting demolished until you get better." That is legitimately one of the most smooth brained ideas that somehow stuck around. That's not how humans work. People who just lose over and over will feel like they can't do anything, they will not understand anything, not have fun, get frustrated and quit. Telling them to just tough it out is not the way.
tldr for both this comment and the first reply comment: "YO WHERE THE NEW PLAYERS AT? I WANNA BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA NEW PLAYERS CAUSE THE OTHER PLAYERS ARE TOO STRONG" next time when you get your ass kicked, go find out why instead of typing out all this bullshit. this what happens when you only care about winning and not improving
@@Icekin23 Exactly! And I'm not someone who is new to fighting games either. I have put thousands of hours into BBTAG. A game I had to completely learn from the ground up through RU-vid videos and that, for me, took time. But the difference is BBTAG is about 7 years old now...but there are always new players coming in. Yes, the pool of players is EXTREMELY small, but that game heavily pushed itself towards EVERYONE. Not just veteran players who have years and years of experience. Because of that, BBTAG, to me, is still very much alive and you can find players to play with every day (mostly at night.) With UNI2, new players are nonexistent, and as someone who really wanted to get into this game and I mean it. I REALLY wanted to learn UNI2...there is no one that is my level to practice with. This is the only way (for me) that makes learning fighting games fun, and that's just it really. I want to have fun AND learn the game! Getting destroyed by S rank players every single match (and the same people in a row mind you) isn't fun to me, and the people who push the "you have to lose over and over to succeed" mentality when pro players are the only ones playing the damn thing is just a horrible message. As a gamer, you want to see yourself improving, and if your new and you keep getting destroyed by the same pro players over and over again. It doesn't become fun and I give up on the game completely. But you have to understand, I WANT to support this game! From the few matches I have played where me and my opponent were learning UNI2 as we went along, I had a blast! It was super fun, but finding those type of matches for me now is pretty much nonexistent. I went online yesterday on my PS5, late at night mind you, to see if anyone was online. To say that nobody was playing the game is an understatement and I'm not buying the game again on PC for $50 when I WANT to play it on my PS5...
@@Icekin23 also, nobody saying to just tough it out, if that was the only thing then that would only lead to people smashing their head against a wall. like i kinda said in the first comment, u gotta find out why you are losing and figure out a way to not lose against whatever you are having trouble against. the game itself provides a lot of help for new people, u just gotta hope the new people are willing to learn the game.
@@h0nterr584 Oh man. You do not understand this at all. How long have you been into playing UNI? You don't have to say that everything is fine when it really isn't. Many people play and learn the game differently. That'a the part you really don't understand. I am not here to start and argument and it's not about winning matches 100 times in a row. It is the fact that new players cannot learn properly from veteran players because they will just defeat them over and over, which, in turn, pushes new players away. New players NEED other new players to experiment and learn the game at a steady pace. That's what you don't understand. So you can talk all you want, but your mentality is killing what is left of the UNI2 fanbase. Go look at one of Lighting Hearts other videos discussing this. Literally less than 200 people are picking up this game at any given time, but the numbers don't lie. Keep that mentality going and NO ONE will ever support your game. Your definitely turning me away from UNI2 with this conversation...
Ive bought a lot of fighting games but I tend to only dump a few weeks into each one before I eventually drop it entirely. Pretty bad spending habit on my part. that being said, is this game still pretty active on playstation? I'm terrible at fighting games which is probably why I end up dropping them but im trying to be smarter about this purchase. You think this gane will be too hard for a noob, will the online be too sweaty for me to enjoy it?
@@jkdwarrior3 if I’m begin honest under night is a discord fighter so u have to boot up the game a Specific time of the day late night (7pm) is where u find people most active. The game is kinda difficult to understand if u haven’t played the old one. It’s going to take u awhile before u start really understanding the mechanics. Veteran players are the Most active in this game so if u new to fighting games in general U WILL GET YOUR ASS KICKED. u can enjoy under night in birth but that depends what u want from the game. I don’t like bullshiting people when I comes to this uni 2 I like begin 100% Transparent. This game will be a grind if u Decide to pick it up. Hope I answer u questions Brodie and stay blessed
@@lightningheart3133 Thanks man, i really dig the aesthetic of the game but thats probably not a great reason to buy it, especially at full price. thanks again
I'm someone who is new to UNI2 and really, REALLY wanted to learn and play it after spending thousands of hours with BBTAG. It's extremely unfortunate that THIS is how French Bread decided to create their sequel, their last game in the series. Like you said, they should have revamped it from the ground up and that's just not what we got. Instead, for me personally, everything involving UNI2 is worse in comparison to UNICLR. I have sunk in a dozen or so hours into that version...but's its enough to recognize UNI2's flaws. The horrific art work, the missing music tracks, the opening that's missing a hype song, the terrible UI, the character portraits not being in the opening, IP being essentially useless because everything is either unlocked or we have already seen the same artwork prior. Hell, even some of the moves to the characters I main are kind of just like "Did Hyde really need another spacing tool? He has like four or five other ones that do a better job." Also, giving Hyde and Linne specifically multiple different endings feels like such a copout to me. Linne had forced Hyde to promise to kill her after Keon was taken down and the fact that was never followed through to the end is really upsetting to me. I thought Under Night was more daring than this. I wanted to see Hyde come to terms with killing Linne...but I guess not. This is just one of the endings, or multiple endings in Hyde's case, that I take issue with But for me personally. What killed my enjoyment of the game are two or three things. 1.) The lack of new, casual players to fight so I can properly learn the game 2.) The lack of new and interesting character interactions during arcade mode instead of the same characters talking to each other AGAIN, and 3.) a single player mode or modes that are not just me going into arcade or training mode for the upteenth time. I'm not saying UNI2 should do something to the scale of Brawl's subspace emissary, but I would have liked to have some sort of a story more where we saw more of the characters develop and interact with each other. Street fighter didn't start off with a story mode either I believe. Those connections and friendships took YEARS to develop, so I feel UNI2 incorporating something like this, especially if this will be the last game in the series, would have been extremely nice to see. Especially since the majority of the characters like to stay in their friend circle and that is something I wanted UNI2 to push away from. The last thing I will say is I bought the PS5 version of the game...oops. Honestly, I'm not really sorry about it because I don't particularly enjoy playing fighting games on my laptop. If I play video games, I want to see them on my big ass tv in full view, not an eighteen inch wide screen that I am afraid to knock over and break. I'm not saying it's wrong for people to flock to PC gaming, especially if the UNI community is more active on steam...but if that's the case. French Bread really needed to warn players about this somehow since cross console play is not a thing...or just put the game only one PC. I still maybe want to learn the game one day...but I'm not spending another $50 on a game I have already bought. Times are tough unfortunately and I just don't have that kind of money. I did my part and bought the PS5 version and ATTEMPTED to play. I am not going to speak much about the UNI discord. I had multiple problems with finding the right people to fight who are also new and have the PS5 version, so in the end. It didn't work for me...
If this trailer is anything to go by. I feel like the sprites for these new characters are going to surpass the old characters. I'm just speculating, I'm just not sure how to feel about it. Edit: Now if UNI pulls a smash brothers and the DLC characters are all better designed and potentially more top teir then the og characters, THEN I'll probably put up a stink. I hate when fighting games do this. It's just something that bothers me...
Great vid man! UNI seems like a wall of mechanics but you broke down the more confusing parts to the core of what they do and why you need to be aware of them.
As a Carmine main, i probably shouldn't get 70% corner carry, into 4k+ without vorpal and double bomb oki, because you decided to get hit by 2B in neutral. Huge aggree that the damage needs to go down. Stuff like bonus GRD break damage, and IW minimum damage make people pop even before celestial is introduced. I like characters being able to convert more, off more, in more ways, but the damage needs to get toned down.
Thing is the PC port was such a tragedy. I'm a GBFVS guy but i was playing UNI a lot before then. When both games had their sequels coming out people were asking which to play. GBFVSR has so much more going on even if people complain about the balance and 66L and above all the free version to try our the game. UNI2 however almost always won out in the eyes of players who were looking to play either. If the PC launch wasn't so bad, if the content cycle wasn't so slow and if the game had more single player content and for better or worse a carrot on a stick to chase regardless of skill level, UNI2 would have blown up way more imo. Sure timing wasn't great but the actual release outside of that was tragic. New FG guys wanted to play this but the door wasn't nice to open.
Played UNI 1 last year for the first time and just picked up UNI 2 no one ever told me Akatsuki was a troll character 💀 I picked him up and genuinely loved his style and was fucking people up left and right 💀
Creeping Edge is good imo if your opponent is fullscreen carlessely using projectiles or big recovery moves like Phonon 3C. A successful Creeping Edge gets you 1 GRD block and your opponent loses 2. You close the gap faster than simply dashblocking and it can make you win the cycle. Sneaking one of these can be worth it but definetly don't abuse it.
For pho info: - the reversal is 623C not 22C, 22C is an overhead tho - the overhead is 66[B] - 6FF~A vacuums you in, ~B is an overhead that’s -8 iirc, ~C she throws out 4 more whips
When I first picked up this game I'm not going to lie I thought it was not going to have any DLC or any extra characters or anything but I was kind of lied to
man really hated how bread and its partner handled this for pc... released 2 days before tekken, expensive more than tekken, bad rollback pc port, no crossplay, the DLC release sched also is laughable,4 character per year is becoming a staple to these fighting games .... was really excited for this when it got announced, hope it does a comeback tho, so much potential wasted
as someone somewhat familiar with uni (200ish hours, mostly on gordeau and carmine) this was a great stepping stone into the new game. just picked it up on the steam summer sale and i wanted to try someone totally new. He looks dope af
Thanks for making a tier list for UNI 2. I currently plan to make this my main game for a while and it's cool to have a reference of which match ups are more important to learn.
Coming from a long time Chaos player the 5a change was somewhat warranted. In cl-r it was so hard to kill Azhi in some MUs people didn't even bother trying. The bigger issue is the other universal change to objects, now Azhi can be killed by attacks Chaos *blocks* . This is much worse, you can frame trap or space Azhi to deal with 5A mash, but this change kills alot of his pressure and neutral. If you try to use Azhi against most zoners they can kill him for free with a beam. He used to be one of the best at counterzoning but now you're better off rushing down. And this change even hurts that part of his gameplay. Frame advantage is his whole thing, but this change heavily mitigates the risk of disrespecting it. If you dp most frame traps you're guaranteed to kill Azhi, whether you hit Chaos or not. When Any other character baits a dp they just take a little chip and then get a beefy punish. Chaos loses 300 health and gets locked out of optimal punishes since he can't use Azhi. So his zoning is worse, his rushdown and mixups are worse, his defense was never good but even that got worse (he can only cs startup of Azhis specials after the first 10 frames instead of 3). I don't necessarily blame the devs for nerfing him, but at this point it's clear that they went a little too far.
Chaos is broken as fuck. Horribly broken. He needs to lose a couple moves. They need to hit him heavier. I can't believe you just said this nonsense about chaos have you not fought someone who knows how to exploit chaos
Sounds like someone's never really played any other fighting game with a puppet character. He's quite literally the worst just in terms of the archetype. The guy can barely keep is puppet out if YOU actually know how to play to boot, so this sounds like a skill issue. He's easily in the bottom half of the cast. Y'all seem like the type of MFers to dash in when someone sets Ahzi right up under you, huh?
