Ninj
Each press of the green buttons is considered to have happened in sequence and will execute the CatWoman combo. Be advised that this illustration shows the minimum time needed or rather the fastest possible speed to do this combo. There can be multiple empty frames between the inputs. If you do it faster though then you get the blue example which results in the 2in1 input and the interactable being used.
There is a big, huge difference whether you are doing the string inside a combo within range of an opponent or not. The first example shows that doing 2in1 outside of a combo is difficult to do. You have to be fast enough and lucky enough to press both buttons within 1 frame. You will not be able to do this reliably. It is also important to understand that if there is no interactable nearby then the "2" is swallowed by the engine. The combo won't happen. So if you do the blue example without any interactable nearby then you will only get "1". You were too fast for the game.
If there is an opponent in range then the whole thing changes dramatically. If you press the "2" in "1,1,2" within 99.9 ms or three frames then you will get a guaranteed interactable. If you press it within 99.9 ms and 133.3 ms then there is a chance you get the interactable. Your normal combo is only guaranteed if you delay for at least 133.3 ms. You essentially have to delay your input for at least 4 frames to avoid the usage of the interactable during a combo.
Good question. My tests were done with simple normal strings like 1,1,2 or 3,3,1,2. For non-combo testing I simply used 1,2 and 2,1. In your example I would assume that it is considered outside because it is not a "dial a combo" situation. I would imagine that the 4 frame window only applies to buffer situations where the interactable acts as a cancel. That being said maybe even the "b" in "b12" could possibly change the properties. I will take a look at situations like this in the next test run. I want to understand how the buffering works in this game.
Ok, I did about three hours of testing with Aquaman. Well, your stuff didn't take three hours to test but I found an input "bug" while doing so and needed to make sure that I did my stuff right. I needed to redesign my testing because of this "bug" and that's why it took longer but more about this on a later date and back to your questions:
Very interesting, thanks. I think bullet point #4 is what causes me to get interact. Even though I disable negative edge I still have a habit to hold down buttons when doing strings. Although if I didn't i'd get B2 anyways which would probably be worse, so /shrug.
Could be two. I didn't want to go into details yet because I didn't have the chance to analyze it properly. The thing is that this doesn't work inside buffered strings but it works in links like the "db2 -> b12" discussed previously. In any case it is more than enough to mess up some combos and jump ins I imagine. It should be only "j1,1+2" but instead "j1(hold),2" works as well if timed badly.
From what I have seen, colt is the batsignal here for confirmation on whether NRS is aware of something like the 1 + 2 issue. To summarize:
Hey that keeps happening to me when trying to learn that combo! Is there anyone to stop doing it?
In past, was possible to do an combo to interactable using 2+4 if you don't want to use the interactable button.
