Care to elaborate? Enlighten me as to how FBs have consequence (and I can refer you to the many sources supporting my argument), you offered nothing constructive.
Care to elaborate? Enlighten me as to how FBs have consequence (and I can refer you to the many sources supporting my argument), you offered nothing constructive.
maybe i'm missing something, but i don't get the hate for the extra 2% on the throws. It's like one extra jab worth of damage.
Well, for starters they are very unsafe on block. If your opponent is drunk enough to go for a raw fatal blow, they will be full combo punished. Now, if said character is Noob, Erron Frost, or Geras you need to have long range tools to punish them. Scorpion can break the rules of neutral all day and punish raw fatal blow attempts from these long rangers.
My apologies, this is exactly what I was referring to, thank you for allowing me to clarify. If they were neutral or safe on block/whiff, that would be ridiculous and should go without saying. Completely agree with your post I should have chosen my words better. The one saving grace of this standalone mechanic is it is limited to once per match, but I agree that once you activate it, that should be it. Either that, or make its cost higher somehow.
Hell yessssss I pray to Kali that this will be the name of the update - for old times sake. MK XL was a shitty name, NRS!!
As I have said before, this criticism is fair so your point is well-received.
With the exception of krushing blows, Mortal Kombat X throws have all those properties too. In addition, the throws in Mortal Kombat X recover twice as fast as the throws in Mortal Kombat 11. Seriously, whiff a throw in both games and hold the block button and I assure you will be surprised. I used throws a lot in Mortal Kombat X because Tremor's mid strings were relatively slow. So I checked low pokes with d+1s and throws. Depending on screen positioning, Tremor could also get guaranteed follow ups because of the running. Nonetheless, throws were seldom used in Mortal Kombat X because 50/50 mix ups and pressure were the superior offensive options. Most characters in Mortal Kombat 11 have neither so the default mix up is strike or throw, and I fail to see what is unbalanced about this design. I do not understand this particular criticism whatsoever.
You don’t lose wakeup options at all. You still have short/long delay, hold up, and wakeup buttons. Ironically, they’re the better wakeup options lmao.
Breakers were absolutely not more prevalent than Breakaways. You AUTO REGEN your meter in MK11. In MKX, you actually had to think about your meter and whether or not to use it for EX moves or save it for Breaker. If you think meter was gained quicker in MKX than it is (automatically) in MK11, then I honestly don't even know what to tell you, man.
That makes sense. I'm in the camp of thinking that strike/throw still offers plenty of chances for depth. Especially when having something like flawless block mechanic and strings with exploitable gaps. If you're attacking or defending, as long as you can read your opponent, you have options and counter-play options.
I would agree with you on breakaway if bat didnt auto refill. With defensive bar being separated and refilling automatically, if you have 2 bars you may as well just break, nothing to lose, that's what the defensive bar is for. At least in MKX it was the for bar for everything, and you had to build metre, so so there was some kind of metre management there. Should I break the combo and then have no bar to do any combos? Or keep the bar, take the damage, and cash out on a big combo for the comeback. While I prefer how breakaway is used, the way the resources work take out any depth for me. Injustice 2 had it right.
In what way is movement anywhere close to MKX? And how do the amplfy movements add any depth whatsover once you've memorized them?
..beside of your wakeup options or the ability to use stage interactables...
I think Breakaway could be improved upon...I don't think there's much you can actually do to make breakers a good mechanic, though.
Good players understand risk/reward to combos that can be punished by breakaway and end up pressuring the opponent after they breakaway. As opposed to a game like MKX where your combo just gets broken and you lose all momentum.
Did you really lose all momentum when they broke in mkx though? Unless they were sitting on an x-ray, they had nothing left. I always salivated when they used two of their three bars to break. It was go time. Their offense was hindered, and all they had wakeup-wise was to delay. Which they would do, and you knew they would because it was the only option they had.
You can argue semantics guy but it's a reset to neutral. And I know some characters have to be more careful but I rarely stop my combos short, I just go for slightly less damage and "hit confirm"it.
THIS..! For me, this game quickly feels like constant tedious RPS if I play it too much, but when I dip in every other day as a side game to Tekken it's 10/10.
Reading something like this makes me wish I lived on another planet. How the FUCK can you say something so stupid and get that many likes? Mk11 feels rushed compared to Mk9, wtf lmao??
I only meant to talk about mkx breakers, but got carried away. I just can't stand this mechanic, even though I use and abuse it to the best of my ability. The guy that opened me up does not deserve to be getting punished because I dropped out at the right time. Feels wrong to me.
