freestep

just wanted to document some funky tech of the olden DOA2LE (Dead or Alive 2 Limited Edition, the Fightcade one) Normally, the developers discourage Backdashing in DOA by not letting you block during those. Not only that, they are also given an Hi Counter penalty against Strikes! Well with...

In DOA you can block standing in several ways: H, 4, 7. 7 is special because you can block and create space at the same time. This can be used as a defensive maneuver to make the opponent whiff attacks or at least minimize incoming damage. DOA6 slowed down free step movement speed for all...

UPDATE: this is not limited to :8:/:2::h+k:, and works with almost every move that has "Followup interval" I've finally managed to consistently reproduce the free step dash cancel bug, that I've seen long time ago (DOA5LR steam version 1.10C). It seems that if you buffer dash ( :4::4: or...

I've finally caught on camera this extremely rare bug that lets me somehow cancel holds in the middle of them super fast. I swear I've had this happen in both DOAO and DOA3(EU). I can't reproduce it, but as far as I remember it seems to occur with low holds mostly. It's so rare that I get to see...