Well, we do know some of their ideas by now. When one set of specials looks like Kenshi's spirit stuff and another is probably more like acid hand / slide / MS~1 (or something to that effect, mostly speculating ofc), it already makes all kinds of differences.
We actually do have a Prime example. Ferra/Torr. One variation Homeboy ditches his little companion and gains an entire new moveset. Sooooooooooo.
Then go play ultra Kappa
but what if i wanna play ice clone gief or hyper armor hawk
Uhm... Get Mugen?
i think NRS should add an option of Hidden Select Character Variation to prevent counter pick at the beginning of a set
Or like in kof selecting your team, set each variation to a button lol
Your OP seems to work on premise that variations should be treated like different characters, but not here.
Yeah I know that, but I didn't know if its was confirmed if he got an entire new moveset. Like I thought a lot of his normals were the same and he just lost his special moves involving Ferra? I mean I haven't obsessed over the footage that much but do any of his normals use Ferra? and therefore change in Torr only mode?
I did not know this. I was mainly going by the descriptor under each style at character selection which made it just sound like 2 of their special moves change.
How would this be any different from just letting the winner pick an entirely new character? Is that still not counter picking if we let him do it first?
I just suspect that a lot of the variations are created as a specific counter to a style, I know the same can be said of characters I guess, but I think that certain variation match-ups are going to be horrendously lopsided. I guess I underestimated how much was changed in each variation
I thought it was closer to different Ultras than to a new character.There are definitely going to be a lot of useless or MU specific variations, I ain't never seen a fighter with 72 well balanced characters in it. But we've already seen enough disparity between the variations to call them characters and that means they need to be locked.I just suspect that a lot of the variations are created as a specific counter to a style, I know the same can be said of characters I guess, but I think that certain variation match-ups are going to be horrendously lopsided. I guess I underestimated how much was changed in each variation
Loser "advantage" just keeps the game interesting. You lose, you get a chance to adjust your tactics and its fair because if you beat me after that, I get to do the same. In my eyes, its the same principle as giving the loser the ball after the other team scores in 90% of professional sports.
How come in an injustice tournament if I win game one someone can counterpick me with superman and im not allowed to counterpick that counterpick with raven before game 2 starts?
OFC it'll be locked, what are we talking about
I'm a fan of character locking, not variation lock. Winner has to pick first. Same theoretical advantage for the loser, more interesting for the winner and likely more hype for the audience.
But what if the stage favors power..............oh......oh wait a minute............stage doesn't decide the victor is this game, does it?
Heh heh....heh heh... Heh heh...
Roof top counter pickers, God help you all...
Why should this be a factor?
nuh uh, ragna killed the time loop so it never happened.
