During Velvet's second and third phases, how am I supposed to block her projectiles without losing all the distance I closed towards her?

The part with Fred should be a first person cinematic like Valentine's Level 3 in Skullgirls.

I really wish I could use these functions without having to start up Big Picture Mode each time. The biggest issue I have with the game is the controller not accepting diagonals, resulting in non-functional special moves, and it sounds like this would fix it.

I think when the game is out of Early Access there should be a Steam Workshop for trials.

I use a controller, but I also have this problem. Checking in training mode shows that you need to press the diagonals and that if you do the motion too fast it might not count (on the controller, it's because I don't push the stick far enough to count as a diagonal).

The duck disguises itself as headwear and secretly feeds off its victim's brainwaves until it is mature enough to make an opening to access the brain itself.

The new patch notes say "input for specials have more consistent and lenient timing", but I'm still not getting my quarter circles unless I take special care in pushing the joystick straight down and keeping it pushed to the edge while I bring it to the left/right. Of course, I don't have time...

They actually showed the two players standing still mid-fight in one stream, and the music changed to the idle mix. So I'm pretty sure the idle music was intended to play when both players stand still.

6 5 5 4 2 1 3 11 Will the word replacement AI overlord see through my impenetrable word cypher?

I just opened the game's folder and looked around. A lot of the files are in an easy-to-open format like .png or .wav, so no hacking skills are required.

By looking in the game files, there's some interesting stuff to be found. Discuss your findings here. "Scripts/Announcer/CselVersus" contains voice clips of the announcer saying every character's name. This includes the non-playable predators, but, most interestingly, "Devourer" and...

When I'm playing as Pom I'm having a hard time summoning my dogs because the quarter circle motions don't always work. According to training mode, the diagonals aren't being detected by the game, so I get :2::6: instead of :2::3::6:. I'm using an Xbox 360 controller, if that's relevant

Right now when you leave a lobby, you lose all your salt, which makes it hard to get new hats (that might be intentional to give players more pride and accomplishment). Is this a permanent feature or just a temporary thing until the pixel lobby can be finished?

The lack of Pom palettes is a crime. Mane6 pls :olliesad:

Good. I was waiting for an explanation. I'm worried that the "incomplete" version might harm the "full" game's reputation since many gaming channels are already doing first looks and are not all likely to come back for the patched version.

I've heard a potential explanation that the version they planned on releasing still had bits of unpresentable story mode and that they couldn't remove them in time, so they had to release a less complete beta build instead. I trust that we'll get the "real" early access version this weekend...

Yes. If you don't want to walk backwards, you can hold :1: instead to crouch and block, but that won't block jumping attacks and certain other attacks (known as "overheads"). However, crouch-blocking is the only way to block certain low attacks, so you need to figure out how to block each...

Is it just me or are quarter circles more strict in this game? Unless I start straight on down and end straight on forwards/back, the specials don't always work.

Unfortunately OP's worries were right, it seems. The 0.95 release is essentially a glorified beta, although it seems like the missing content will be coming in a couple of days.