Noooo! Ermac needs buffs this time around.
Well, players are just people. They can be biased, they can be misunderstood, they can be outright wrong. Paolo (and whoever else makes final balance decisions) have to take everything they hear/see from every source (not just the people who say they're qualified) and distill it into actual changes in the game. A consensus amongst "top players" would be the best way, but how do you qualify top players? What if they disagree? What if nobody plays character x or uses move Y? There is always human error.
No matter how many times they patch it "one more patch" wiil always be a thing.
In fairness, I don't travel much but I'm very in-touch with Bane's mechanics and inner workings. I'm not what one would regard as a "top player" or even a "good player", but very few can say that I don't know my character. Other top players (Max, Bipolar, Biohazard) are better with their hands, but I would think that I've affirmed myself as a solid Bane tech monster.
Great post. I'm really starting to like you.
are your retinal aids flaring up? Did you take your pill this morning?
Nice to see you on the forum again with your excellent contribution, you are an invaluable asset for the community
.Are there other methods that exist to balance a game after it's release, besides the one you mentioned? And given what you've stated, would you be inclined to say that ultimately patching has no real value beyond patching glitches and inifinites? Since it's obvious that any adjustment you make to one moves' property, would have a ripple effect on the rest of the moves in the game.
Good points all around. While maybe not realistic, I think ideally a top player would maybe be someone that realizes the pros and cons of every single match-up (or at the least, someone who understands all match-ups against a specific character), thoroughly and that looks for feedback from a community like this. And if such players say a certain match-up is an 8-2 for whatever reason, we can then assess these observations as a community and try to form a consensus on it. So I don't it's just about something like tournament placings to be honest. Also, since I never really got too deep into MK9's meta, what were some of the primary reasons for bad match-ups?
Unfortunately, the last (and most difficult) hurdle in the balance equation is time. The truly "top players" would love developers to adopt a similarly long term pov on balancing because it takes time to figure out the pros and cons of every single matchup, but unfortunately that's just not how the development world works.
Thanks Cossner! It's nice to know I'm accepted by you and all the other egotistical, arrogant, two faced pricks on this site. Of course not everyone on here is, but you wouldn't know anything about that would you now?
agreed. I'd like them to take out horizontal instant airs completely. Leave in stuff like superman's sweep lazer or akuma's air diagonal fireball maybe for the sake of interesting zoning, but i think nrs would have enough things to worry about balancing properly without having to worry about something that's given them such trouble in the pastDo not... under any circumstances... put something like this in MKX. It ALWAYS leads to balance issues in NRS titles.
If instant air fireballs are a thing, they need adequate recovery.
Not to mention they are boring as fuck.
How do you make the game better and more balanced? You may start by disregarding comments made by scrubs such as the ones above.Do not... under any circumstances... put something like this in MKX. It ALWAYS leads to balance issues in NRS titles.
If instant air fireballs are a thing, they need adequate recovery.
Not to mention they are boring as fuck.
no offense but I think cossner has a valid point, it's really not worth it to talk balancing moves when we have no concept of how they work within the engine of the game as well as alongside the other character's tools outside of a few gameplay trailers and reveals where neither character ever blocks. No talk about the more general points (which moves look useless) or the more tangible (the start up frames of said moves) can possibly hold any weight when we've yet to experience and learn the game in practically any capacity
Maaaaaan
I make a post in the same vein and I don't get a shoutout scrub post?Yeah and that's what I explained to him in the same post you quoted. I just don't think there is a reason for insults. And this isn't the first time I've seen him bash new players on this site without taking into consideration that we are all new to games at some point.
