I don't believe so. I would like to think NRS has learned it's lessons with Injustice which I didn't even bother playing because of the raw taste of what nrs did to mk9 by... Here it comes... dropping the game so quickly for the support it STILL needed for balances.
don't know if this has been replied to yet but Kano's uppercut is amazing, regardless of variation
They've given more support to MKX then any of their other games. There will always be that "one last patch" needed to balance things out, its a neverending cycle.
I agree. Like I said the amount of patches and hot fixes we've seen is phenomenal. Nor disputing that at all. I'm actually looking to see if there will still be some sort of continuation of this.
I've always fancied Commando more than the other two. Having that tick throw pressure and being able to convert such into damage, always appealed to me for good reasons. Plus, maining Kano since his #LOLLOWTIER days in MK9, makes it even more better.
You are comparing this to the extremely poor standard set by previous NRS games, rather than comparing to good examples of balancing set by other competitive games, hell even other fighters.
Because for some people on TYM, balance = there are more than 5 characters who have a lot of bullshit tools.
the b1 nerf did hurt though. honestly would take the frames of the pre patch b1 and give up the tick throw
Well yeah because they've done even less before. At least they're improving.
Balance just means a lot of characters are tournament viable and can compete with each other, which is true for MKX. Sure thats because they made them mostly the same in regards to playstyles but while it might be kinda boring its still technically balanced.
They have, and it's great that they are improving. But over a year into the games life and characters like Hat Trick still have critical bugs and flaws that stop them from working, and Paulo's decided to throw in the towel for balancing. It's better but it's also just "less lazy than last time" and criticism is fair, you can't try to police that
I didn't try and police that. I said technically the game is more balanced and has more dev support than the last two titles which is pretty close to an objective fact. Ironically its also the only NRS title I didn't see through to the end because the way they balanced made it boring.
I think it would be extremely easy to get many of these variations to a more playable state, and referring to the fact that they weren't even able to balance a regular cast in past games as reasoning to say people should have known what expect, is exactly what I'm talking about. You are right, I didn't expect them to even get the game to the current state that it's in. Doesn't change the fact that objectively, there is still plenty of work to be done before we reach that final state of balancing, where it's just tweaking things slightly but not game altering like out of wack. That's the point where I'd be satisfied with them pulling out, because you are right, there is always more to be balanced, but we aren't at that refining point yet. I've seen and played through many games starting off as messy as MKX did, and slowly evolve through the updates, till they eventually reach the platuea. MKX is still very much unfinished and as dedicated customers it's up us to give feedback on our purchases if we feel so inclined.
We're getting way off topic here but my point about looking at past games was about ALL games that use variation systems. I don't think there is any game that has ever had every variation be viable, so yes everyone should have known going in that NRS wasn't going to magically make every variation viable. That's just a ridiculously difficult task. Could they easily make some variations better? Maybe, but some of them might just have been dead on arrival due to the ideas for them not working in practice.
wait what, Tremor DB1U is +9 on block?
I imagine they are talking about EX cutter/EX bf4.
Cybernetic is considered good? I know Commando is and all, but Cybernetic?
Yeah, the tick throws.
Are you trying to prove something?
Perfect against Sub Zero slide wakeup spammers
