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Superbeard

PSA: Red Focus

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Honestly not sure how well known it is, but last night a bunch of friends and I got together to mess around with the new game and found that you could do Red Focus by pressing and together.

We don't understand how or why it works, but we did it multiple times deliberately (and sometimes by accident).

This is especially useful to pad players if they don't want to map a button to their controller specifically for Red Focus. Instead if you use the default layout you can simply do it by pressing LB and LT together instead of having to press 3 buttons on the pad!

It also gives stick players a more familiar two-button focus input, but instead of it being MP and MK it's at the end of your stick.

Posted Jun 4, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

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xamdou•

It works because of the command hierarchy in the game engine.

That's how option selects work.

This is how a lot of players would do 4-button techs in previous versions of the game.

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Naast[FR] GFWL: Naast74•

That sounds pretty obvious, though I assume you'd get taunt instead of red focus if they're enabled (or you could just do cr.PPP+KKK) . Not sure if red focus has priority over taunt.

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SuperbeardOPXBL: MrSuperbeard | Wiki Groundskeeper•

That's why I was confused. I honestly expected taunt to come out.

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SuperGaiden<-PSN•

You can just press L1(PPP)+MK

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