What? It could easily break the balance of the game. I'm not going to comment on injustice scorp, but easy 50/50's are rarely good for a games health, and that's what MK teleports in a back to block game would often be. MvC3 phoenix is one of the only characters who can pull that sort of shit, and she's got a crapton of downsides just to balance it out.
You say this concerning a game that thrives on 50/50s, most of which are safe... and Scorpion's were not, on top of the economic circumstances that you would realistically have to have at least 1 bar of meter or trait ready before cashing in if you were not confident that you could condition them to guess wrong.
Its not so much the existence of a skill ceiling as it is there is no reason to make it back-to-block.
If you ask me it is because of the teleport mechanics in this game. It keeps random teleport from blowing you up every time you move forward.
Wasn't really just UFG leading the anti-Scorp stuff...a lot of players who got beat up by PL and REO pretty much were super vocal, too.
Juuuuuust for the record, you do realize that this conclusion was made literally 2 weeks after he was released right? And was mostly spearheaded by UsedForGlue? A great player mind you, but a serial culprit of convoluted theories. I mean, he's already attempting to draw up in-depth conclusions about Reptile in MKX from the stream shown last fucking Thursday.
Feel free to post where I said I loved back-to-block so much.
I just feel that simply because a move makes it more difficult to play the game doesn't mean that it needs one system or the other. It's more about mechanics. Being able to move back without being put into a block state is a mechanic. Having a hard time dealing with teleports is another matter. Having one system or another should be about mechanics.
A discussion goes where it goes mate. All discussion is fine.
I fleshed out my post a bit ago, re-read it if you haven't.
What the fuck are you even talking about. Like seriously do you even understand fighting games outside of Bane tech?
Why the block button is a thing.
Mind fleshing that out a bit? What I'm thinking in my head might be entirely different than to what you're saying.
I'm most likely misunderstanding your post but I'm not saying MK should be back-to-block. I'm just figuring out what the block button actually does for gameplay.
You're explanation of things in games with B2B are so horribly flawed I fucking fear for anyone who reads this garbage & takes it seriously.
Crossups were still useful in MK9 for some of the same reasons they're useful in B2B games, they allowed you to mess with inputs so people wouldn't get the input they wanted & causing thigns to whiff. THTB has the best explanation for what Block Button does for MK.
I think i've said it.
Thats great and all but unless you can give me an actual example of what the "right" thing is, I can't really take you seriously.
Crossups still give you that added pressure option because it still means there's guaranteed pressure upon having a crossup blocked. In MK, you do not turn around instantly, so your ability to avoid things in crossups is actually much more limited due to that loss of control. And because jump punches in MK9 (and MKX) are overheads, you have to block them standing, which (in MK9) allowed you to land strings on a standing opponent since jump punch cancels into strings and specials, and you were jailed into a standing block position. This meant more options for the one performing the crossup were available, usually ones that left you at more advantage or presented better chip damage opportunities.
Well, in my post, I said that mechanics have some form of benefit to gameplay. In the case of back-to-block, your introducing mechanics like cross-ups. Cross-ups introduce a game mechanic into the system. That's how it benefits the game.
