What kills the hype(and game in general) seriously is a tremendous lack of even basic skill. Plenty of other fighter games I've played or watched, have their characters having to in the end, after zoning, face one another and while some may have unblockables, those take some time to charge, and while some have command grabs, at least you could actually tech out of those. Here you have these scrubby interactables that only someone relying on a crutch would say it's no big deal. The only other game I've seen where "items" were used would be SSB, and guess what, you could actually block those, or do a side step to avoid it on reaction, plus you had to be direction specific if you wanted it to hit. Here, you can use meter to make it even more safe than what it already is, it tracks without you even having to work for it, it's unblockable which is an obvious flaw, and it does stupid damage. Transitions as well. I could care less if transitions existed as merely that, a stage transition, but here it does free damage for you. Too much free shit in this game you don't have to work for is depressing. I can guarantee you, if you would permanently remove transitions and interactables, and actually had a "hand-to-hand" fight once more, you'd find the game very different, along with not having to worry about crap being chucked at you and you can't do anything about it in almost every single set up. Sure, you can turn it off, but seems like all players, even top players like using crutches to win
Damage outputs, specials and combos are including in this obviously. Characters that already dish out high combos like Aquaman, shouldn't have specials doing +25%. Like seriously, are you all really that braindead? Have you really lost any sense of dignity and skill this is what you resort to? Of course this is one example, but hey, it's one of many and many of you support them anyways. As well as f23? "Oh it's the player, he played smart, blah blah", gtfo out of your bubble and come to realization its stupid. The range of it, the speed of it, and the mix up after, how much more braindead do you want to be? It's not even like its a difficult input to begin with and you get all that, on top the character's tremendous damage output, and let's be real here, the combos aren't even hard to do whatsoever for that damage. These extremely basic bnb's including characters I use, need to be cut in damage because they do way too much for how simple they are. In this game there are basically 2 routes in combos. One that's optimizing damage through different inputs and specials and in several cases specific timing, and one that's universally too simple that gives you roughly 5% AT MOST, less than that optimized combo. Just all this free stuff is what kills the game. There's hardly any work that needs to be done anymore, the skill/reward factor is tremendously off balanced
