I love Street Justice!

I wish they'd add in an extra sound for Rib Cracker: A small, vaguely-male "Yipe!" You know, the girly sound guys make then they take a severe blow to the junk.

I love Street Justice! I played it in Beta and was lucky enough to see what it can do with a nice, expensive build.

There's nothing like seeing Crushing Uppercut knock an AV down on their ****.

Also, I believe that Spring Attack was made with Street Justice in mind!

I had it with my StJ/Shield scrapper. Theres nothing more cool looking at a large mob, Spring Attack into the middle of the pack, Shield Charge, then lay a beating on the Leuts and Bosses. Way too much fun!

Thanks Devs for Street Justice!

I actually think the hit effects on Street Justice are just about perfect. They're not the booming explosions of Super Strength because the set isn't super strength. It's less about brutish strength and more about violence. Yeah, you need strength to do that, but not the "toss cars like Lego bricks" kind of strength.

Super Strength breaks concrete. Street Justice breaks bones.

Actually, "breaks bones" is exactly what a lot of the hit effects sound like, at least out of my speakers. The weaker punches have more of a whiplash sound effect, sure, but the bigger ones like Rib Cracker or Spinning Strike, those sound PAINFUL. Not necessarily super strong, but simply very painful, in a way that makes me wince more than it makes my jaw drop.

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Speaking of Rib Cracker - that's not a knee to the groin. If you look at the hit effect, it's aimed at the enemy's chest. That and the name of the power are hints as to what it actually is - a knee to the rib cage, or at most to the gut. Actually, it's precisely the kind of knee Raditz used to knock out Son Goku towards the beginning of the Dragon Ball Z series. Sure, if you use a very small character, then it looks like a knee to the groin, but then if you knock enemies down and do a Shin Breaker at them, your kick goes straight for their balls as they lie prone. Moreover, with a small enough martial artist, Crane Kick seems aimed at taller enemies crotches.

Maybe I'm biassed, in that I'm honestly not interested in "dirty fight" as that's just silly against most enemies we fight - robots, zombies, animated rocks, ghosts, really angry clouds and so forth. To a large extent, Shin Breaker falls in the same category and... Honestly, that really bugs me. It's why I thought I wouldn't like the power, but it kicks high enough to clip even most flying things.

Speaking of Shin Breaker, I laughed my *** off earlier today when I realised what Shin Breaker ACTUALLY looks like. See, to break an enemy's shin, you want to aim for the leg said enemy has forward. Shin Breaker does not - it aims below the enemy's centre of gravity, or rather below the centre of the character model. What ends up looking is me stomping on my enemy's toes. I almost expect them to grab one foot and start hopping around like in a cartoon

However, as others have mentioned before, Shin Breaker really shines as a "Kick 'im when he's down!" sort of power. That's also true for Rib Cracker. Few things are as satisfying as planting your knee in the mouth of an enemy just getting up off the ground and kneeing his lights out.

There's so much to enjoy about this set

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'm missing the fun atm since i don't have the points to buy StJ but i played it in beta and have a build and name saved for him the minute i can buy it!

The set is almost pure win. Can't wait to play it again.

on my sj/regen brute the only power that i dont use much is the tier 1 attack, i get good combo build out of tier 2 attack, rib cracker, and shin breaker

having said that ive loved this set so far, got my toon from 1-34 in 3 days without PLing because of how much awesome it is lol

I'm still looking at just level 31, but I've been slacking off. It's been quite a while since I've been able to play a character 1-30+ without swapping, so that's definitely good!

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The only thing I don't like about Street Justice...

Where's my dropkick!?

My only beef with it is that it seems unusually endurance-hoggy.
Even my /wp char is wheezing...

That said, if they added some camera-shake like stone melee has it would be even more awesome.

I love Street Justice as well but I can't say it's for the animations since I currently only have three of the attacks.

I love SJ for the concept! I have always had a problem with the Martial Arts/Super Strength gap. I have a character (my tournament allowed me to make another one!) named Absolute Acceleration who is ALL about the speed. I used to make his incarnation as a Martial Arts/Super Speed Scrapper but, honestly, he wasn't a martial artist... he was just a guy who could move really fast.

On the other hand, Super Strength has always struck me as a "I'm really strong and that's good enough... I'll just sort of flail around until I hit something and break it..." sort of melee set. There aren't any skill shots... at all. Even Knock Out Blow is just a really cheesy wind up to a so-easy-to-see-it's-coming-I'll-just-lean-six-inches-to-the-right uppercut. Don't get me wrong, I HAVE characters who are that unskilled in combat, but not Absolute Acceleration.

ALL HAIL OUR DEVELOPER OVERLORDS!

Now, not only can I have my middle-of-the-skill-road Street Justice as melee... I can have Super Reflexes as my PRIMARY!! My newest incarnation of Absolute Acceleration is a Super Reflexes/Street Justice Tank and I couldn't be happier with him.

I may not even delete this one... maybe...