My first USF4 arcade fight stick has finally bit the dust after a year of learning and button mashing. So I went to buy a replacement and found the same parts as last time with the addition of some white square that I figured at the time was a replacement part for the fightstick. After the first few games, something felt “off” but I figured it was due to the fight stick not being worn in yet.
Interested, I took apart both of my fight sticks and found a square restrictor installed the new one while my old one had an octigonal restrictor plate. Going back to the new spare part I mentioned earlier, I figured out it was an octigonal restrictor plate and swaped it with the new one. Hey! This feels familiar.
So why does it matter which plate you use in your fight stick or not? As the video below will tell you, uneven distribution of gates make it easier to docertain types of motions if you like to make full movements with your joystick.
On a 4 plate, charge motions can be done by just holding the fightstick in one bottom corner then making a back and forth motion to the other.
On an 8 plate, a charge motion would have to make a dip at the down position that would be slower.
On a 4 plate, quarter circle fowards/backwards (qcf/qcb) make a hard dip at the bottom corners thus taking more time than on an 8 plate.
With the new shoryuken shortcut in USF4 (double tap a bottom corner), an 8 plate takes less time to hit than on a 4 plate.
360 motions for grapplers take less time as you don’t get stuck on corners.
A guide for anybody converting from a controller/pad to a fightstick
For more USF4 beginners guides, take a look here
Video Guide:
Interested, I took apart both of my fight sticks and found a square restrictor installed the new one while my old one had an octigonal restrictor plate. Going back to the new spare part I mentioned earlier, I figured out it was an octigonal restrictor plate and swaped it with the new one. Hey! This feels familiar.
So why does it matter which plate you use in your fight stick or not? As the video below will tell you, uneven distribution of gates make it easier to docertain types of motions if you like to make full movements with your joystick.
On a 4 plate, charge motions can be done by just holding the fightstick in one bottom corner then making a back and forth motion to the other.
On an 8 plate, a charge motion would have to make a dip at the down position that would be slower.
On a 4 plate, quarter circle fowards/backwards (qcf/qcb) make a hard dip at the bottom corners thus taking more time than on an 8 plate.
With the new shoryuken shortcut in USF4 (double tap a bottom corner), an 8 plate takes less time to hit than on a 4 plate.
360 motions for grapplers take less time as you don’t get stuck on corners.
A guide for anybody converting from a controller/pad to a fightstick
For more USF4 beginners guides, take a look here
Video Guide: