Yes, I remember Tom and REO saying the same thing as Ketchup when Injustice first came out. "Let's not overreact and have kneejerk reactions. Let's not make the same MK9 mistakes."Great post.
Uuuunfortunately...we know everyone will forget in 24 hours...
I know this is a borderline unrealistic argument, but this is such a huge reason to make PC's the dominant fighting game platform. Patch the game to balance the meta 5 years down the road or to just keep the game fresh. Where would quake3 have been without OSP or CPMA?
If there's anything close to vanilla Kung Lao in MK10, everyone has the right to scream for nerfs. Not all nerfs and buffs are necessary, but some are imo. I just hope NRS does a better job at differentiating the two this time around.... necessary and unnecessary
So you have to service them to tell them apart? I guess fun is subjective.
MK9 zoners were only good bc they had sick pressure up close aka kabal and kenshi. The rest of the zoners were weak and it was mostly about rush down and major chip damage. Lets not get it twisted!In the end though, MK did end up being dominated by zoners, and low hat was pretty dumb.
I think there's a difference between complaining about things that are just annoying and don't need to be fixed (like Green Lantern's lift) vs. things that are actually problems for enjoyment of the game and do need to be toned down (Vanila Skarlet daggers, Cyborg block infinite, DS gunshots, f23, Doomsday's original splash hitbox etc).
In the end, although no community will ever have a perfect response, I'm glad we stood up for Injustice; because it resulted in a better game and a much better and more enjoyable run of tournaments with a higher quality of play and more diverse character representation.
For anyone who would like to see a top 8 with all teleports, gunshots, divekicks and instant air gas blasts, just play Marvel
P.S. -- It also seems that people haven't realized yet that not every nerf is for you or TYM; if something is causing an issue for the millions of people that bought a game or the thousands who play online, it will be dealt with accordingly by the developer regardless of what TYM User 346 has to say about it. DS gunshots fall into this category and so does Kano's upball.
Although we can be helpful in identifying issues, we shouldn't overrate/inflate our own importance.
Most of Kenshi's 'pressure' is his zoning, though. He has good footsie tools; but nothing remotely close to Kabal or other characters in terms of actual pressure.
Free get out of jails is what made kenshi a good zoner and kabal exnmdc plus 40 on block but most zoners were really weak.
Noob and Sindel weren't the best, but you can't argue that Freddy, Kenshi and Kabal didn't dominate the majority of the cast with a keep-away game. Kabal and Kitana are hybrids; but Kenshi and Freddy are zoners to the core. Even Kabal was considered most powerful on the bigger stages.
A couple more frames of start up and recovery.
Scorpion's MB teleport was +8 on block.
