Derp.
Been lurking for about a week, since I obtained MBAC. I haven't played it too much yet, few trips through arcade mode on default difficulty (2 or 3) with some trouble. I also got Tsukihime at the same time basically, great game so far.
Needless to say, I'm horribly pathetic at Melty as I just discovered it, and to be quite honest, though I enjoy fighters every now and then, I don't advance too much beyond the button mashing/special spamming/simple combos phase. Most likely this is due to me not having any devoted gamer friends nearby. I have a friend that likes to play Smash, but despite her annihilating most of our friends, I can 4 stock her with no problems. None of my friends are interested in even learning how to do a special move in a game like this. I tried to teach one of them once... he got Third Strike for his Xbox, but despite my attempts, he could NOT perform a 236 special. Hardcore.
I got here shortly after getting the game to look at the guides and stuff, learned a few basic combos with the characters I like, which are...
Arcueid (I'm horrible with her, I just think she's awesome so I like to play as her.)
Aozaki Aoko (not very good with her either, I just think she's awesome too.)
Satsuki (I'm actually good with her compared to the level of suck with the two above.)
As I get farther into Tsukihime the characters I use will probably change. I usually pick characters in fighters based on how I like their appearance/voice/style, rather than their capabilities in the actual game. If someone could tell me a few characters in Melty that are extremely simple to use compared to the rest, that might help I guess.
Part of my AMAZING SUCK FACTOR at this game may be because I'm still stuck using the keyboard, I'm using this as an excuse as to why I can't consistently do the most simple of BnBs anyways. Ordered a PS2 -> USB converter, hopefully that will help. I'm certainly much more competent at Guilty Gear right now than I am at Melty, and I use a PS2 Pad for that... so yeah.
Ok this is going nowhere fast, so.
TL;DR : New to Melty, suck at fighting games, No local players to play with, still learning slowly, maybe in the near future I'll attempt to set up MBCaster and get my ass kicked by you guys