>See pic related
>Interested
>Buy it
>Fricking thing has a square gate
Honest fricking question, how did this shitty crap become the 'default' that every stick ships with?
I know for a damn fact that it can't be price. They purposefully fricking choose to ship with this garbage despite octagonal gates being no more expensive.
Is it just a racket to get you to buy the extra gate so they can get more money?
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Square gates are what you use for fightan, which is why most people are buying these, which is why the majority of sticks come with a square gate.
But it sucks for fighting especially, how the frick do you do a circle input on this dogshit. You NEED a octagate or a circle gate
you don't play fighting games, do you
I'm sorry, I mean you CAN do a circle input but fricking horribly and innefisiently
square gates are better for fighting games imo, and most arcade games. Only shmups I think are better with octagonal. Even fricking tetris grandmaster is played with a square gate.
Fricking moron.
Stop embarrassing yourself since you have no idea what you're talking about.
>how the frick do you do a circle input on this dogshit.
by doing a circle
moron, square gates are how you do z motions consistently - by having diagonals be corners
If you can't figure out how to qcf on a square gate just return the stick, an octagonal gate won't help you
>Gateriding
Gatewhat? Yeah you use the stick like you would a normal fricking joystick moron, using the walls as a guide. Thats how literally every single d pad and joystick ever fricking worked you inbred.
A z input makes actual sense and works fine on octagonal and circle gates, moron. Squares make it hard
>A z input makes actual sense and works fine on octagonal and circle gates, moron. Squares make it hard
>rawdogging the gates
True fightan pros only need enough pressure to trigger the cherry in a swift accurate motion.
Are you moronic? Yeah that is how you're SUPPOSED TO USE THE STICK
You are the restarted one anon I am agreeing with you nignog. Drink less flouride.
No, I mean "rawdogging the gates"
Yeah
LIKE YOU USE LITERALLY EVERY STICK EVER MADE moronic INBRED homosexual
If you ever actually play a fighting game with a stick for more than 15 minutes, you'll realize what a fricking moron you sound like.
Verification not required.
morons, just because chinks used cost cutting measures that us americans didnt need to deal with doesn't mean that the square gate is better. If america used square gates and japan circles you'd be shilling for that instead gays
moron
I've never been to an American arcade. And if Japs used circle gate, that would mean that it was better.
look OP you're a fricking absolute moron and I know you'll never accept it. Just get a fricking square gate with rounded edges since you're an absolute mongoloid you cant control his hands or greent text.
>Buying a stick without knowing what the components are that make it
>b***h that you didn't get what you wanted
OP, YOU'RE the casual
>octagate
those are trash and you're moronic. you sound like a complete moron right now.
certified "hide thread" moment
nta but you guys use square gates?
I tried rolling with those for a bit, but I had to switch to octagonal.
>the majority of sticks come with a square gate
They do? I've never seen one.
>square gate
>bad
*sigh*
Square gate shouldn't stop you from doing anything but you can just remove it if you want.
This is bait, right?
It's hard to tell these days.
for some reason i can do amazing combos from the right side with a stick but some super basic stuff will be 50/50 from the left side and sometimes even worse. it didn't matter how much i repeated the moves in training, they just would not come out any more consistent from that side. square gate btw, never tried the other ones.
Completely normal
Most people are the opposite of you. You just gotta practice your weak side, there's not much to it
Stop being an ignorant shit, OP
You're not supposed to ride the gate, it's only a guide. Everyone in this thread (but you) knows it, everyone that plays fgs knows it and has known it for 20+ years but you just come and open this turd of a thread intuitively 'thinking' you know better
what happens if you always ride the gate?
Getting stuck in the corners is the most common issue - in general terms gateriders exert too much force which results in uncontrolled and non-refined movement. It's something to consider in an autistic genre where execution at the frame level matters
I ride the gate and do fine in fighting games.
Movement is a 9x9 grid and each location has the same probability. Circle gates are horrible once you actually learn the game ESPECIALLY for charge characters, and octagon is a crutch that will develop bad habits. Square is the only valid thing.
Because accurate corners are paramount. Just buy another gate if you don't like it.
>octa
lol even a circle gate is better than that CLACK CLACK CLACK shit
Just get used to the square
Just use a battop with a stronger spring
I didn't know Ganker was such a square gate board.
All the japs use it.
square gate was standard in japan. japan sticks became industry standard in 2008 or so. hence square gates. square gates is the best for FG's though. you just aren't used to it yet, EVERY new player complains about the square gate until they get used to it.
An octo gate is $3. If you wanna use it then go ahead.
are some gate types objectively better than others or is it all preference? i don't know anything about fightsticks
Square gate is just better once you get used to it. If anything the real question is should you use a ball or a battop.
Ball top, all the way
no not really. its just preference. some other gates might be worse for different genres. I prefer playing square gates on fighting games. I prefer using an octo gate when I play metal slug games so I can lock into up and down inputs so I dont accidentally move when I dont want to.
octo is more intuitive but it also encourages shitty technique imo. one day in training mode is all it takes to be completely comfortable with a square gate. the actual lever and switches matter much more than the gate
it takes 3$ and 3 minutes to swap a gate
if this is somehow a problem for you you might as well go play on consoles
On paper one would think that an octagonal or circle gate would be superior over a square gate. But potential advantages of those gates are negated by the fact that the dead zone on a digital joystick is square-shaped due to how the switches are arranged as opposed to the circular dead zone on analog joysticks.
how often do you replace the gates? i imagine their is durability issues from being plastic
They don't break, I still use one from 2011
If you smashed the stick around as violently as possible, the stick would break before the gate would.
It's a part that's designed to be cheap to produce, easy to replace and durable enough to handle hundreds of people manhandling it. If just one person's using it, even regularly, it can last quite a bit.
On a lever, the gate is the most reliable thing, along with the ball/bat top. The spring wearing out and the actual switch assembly dying are the real issue. And the good news is that both of those components can be replaced easily and cheaply and if you don't want to frick with the c-clip to replace the spring, a brand new JLX ships to your door for like $30.
>why
nips use them and nip arcades use them. if you have a good quality stick square gate is totally fine
Ok here's my question:
Why don't they make WIDER square gates? Gateless levers play like a dream, but obviously that's not good for the switches to get directly smacked by the actuator. So why don't we have gates that get as close to that boundary as possible?
Pointless, the switches activate very easily.