It was a Holiday. If it weren't for that, we'd have gotten it way earlier, but the same thing. That's the only reason it was late.
Why he didn't decide to give a slightly different update to note the Wii U is a different story however. Maybe he was a bit drunk.
Either way, I think it's somewhat obvious by now some thought this wasn't worth staying up for, that's all.
I do like the information regardless. But I also like DLC is going on(since new modes were confirmed as DLC period, well...).
Shadow?Because that's the term the competitive community has been using for a very long time. I heard "teching" long before I heard "ukemi."
edited 15th Sep '14 10:28:44 AM by Zelenal
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!Different games have different jargon for different things (I know people who interchangeably use ukemi for more traditional fighters and tech for Smash, because tech is the jargon for Smash specifically). Hell, different people have different jargon for different things (I still use "ghost" for invincibility frames, sometimes). Their origins are probably very vague.
For all we know, it could come down to people preferring to use an English term over a Japanese one, especially if the term was started by people who didn't know the Japanese term. And as Irene said, it could initially have been short of "technique," or maybe "technical."
edited 15th Sep '14 10:40:06 AM by KnownUnknown
<does a brief search> That's pretty interesting: apparently techning was initially used for throw counters, which makes a bit of sense. The term probably got expanded in use, until it started being used for situations that require specific inputs at specific instants to prevent bad effects in general. It helps that Smash teching isn't quite how ukemi traditionally appears in fighting games.
It's still kind of fandom specific, though.
edited 15th Sep '14 10:49:33 AM by KnownUnknown
Depends. The vast majority of people I know who play Namco fighters - and 3D fighters in general - very rigidly refer to it as ukemi (I hear it most often in regards to Soul Calibur, but then that's because I don't play Tekken as much). I only know a couple people who P 4 A, but the of the ones I do call it ukemi there - the same people are the ones who play Arcsys games, so they call it that there too (on the other hand, they still use "tech" when playing Smash). I've played Street Fighter for a long time but I actually don't recall what it's called there (I mostly just hear "roll" for it and Ko F - though now that I think about it, I think Kof players use "tech roll" to differentiate itself from regular rolls).
In Smash I never hear it (it's always teching no matter who I'm talking to), but it doesn't actually surprise me that that's what it's called on the website - I would assume the Japanese devs would refer to it by a Japanese term, and I don't see any reason why the translators would change a term like that.
edited 15th Sep '14 11:01:27 AM by KnownUnknown

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