Discussion: The Timer (Poll)

[SaltShaker]

Figured I'd start this discussion since I hear it a lot but not in one place. What is everyone's opinion on this 240 second clock? Seems like with so much time we'll never have a timeout or pressure to scrabble with the clock winding down. Do we even need a clock if it's 240? Some of the best round ending hype close outs in Inj1 were the players scrambling to land their hit and win before a timeout.

Has anyone experimented on what a match feels like with a shorter clock? If you think a shorter clock would be better how much shorter would be the suggestion? If like it how it is what makes it better than a clock that forces scrambles?

Trying to gauge the overall opinion if people feel the clock is better not factoring in, or if they prefer the clock being a factor in matches.

 

[Dankster Morgan]

Was the clock less in the beta? I was getting time outs in the beta but not once here.

 

[SaltShaker]

Was the clock less in the beta? I was getting time outs in the beta but not once here.

Don't quote me on this, but I think it was like 90 or or 99 or something like that in the beta but 240 on release.

 

[Rathalos]

It seems so ridiculously high that it makes me think it was set like that for testing purposes and they forgot to set it back to a normal sane time limit.

 

[FoughtDragon01]

The problem is that unlike in MKX, the timer doesn't reset after an opponent loses their first lifebar, so back in beta, it wasn't 90 seconds to finish a round, it was 90 seconds to finish a match, so timeouts happened all the time. 240 seconds feels like too large a step in the opposite direction, though. 120-180 sounds like a decent middle ground.

EDIT: Actually, wait. Are these seconds actual seconds or NRS seconds where they're like, 1.5 or something? That'd just make 240 even more overkill if it's the latter.

 

[Sage Leviathan]

Timer should be either 200 or 180. This seems reasonable given how fast the game is in practice.

 

[Awkward Sloth]

I think 180 would be a good amount of time honestly. That's 2 90 second rounds. I kinda get why they have it at 240. Because its almost three rounds but they expect both players to take some damage inbetween.

It just counts down pretty slow honestly.

 

[LEGI0N47]

It seems quite high yes. I'm curious if it's like that for all the multiverse stuff. You would think that can be separated but maybe not.

 

[Wavy]

It def needs to be reduced. It's really high right now. If I were them I'd keep track of every match time at combo breaker. Average it then add 10-20 seconds. The closer the match finishes to the timer the more hype it can be in my opinion.

 

[CompleteMadness]

Yeah I remember in beta the time went so quick it was almost impossible for comebacks and seen a lot of timeouts. Haha, they made sure it wouldn't happen on release.

 

[trufenix]

It is seriously unfortunate how fast people start thinking the game needs to be changed.

 

[Take$$$]

No, I want it to stay the way it is for now for my own reasons, but I think it could go to 120-180 in the near future.

 

[Temetias]

The last sentence of the video pretty much sums up what I think about this. A timeout in any of those matches would've been such a hype killer. This was maybe one of the best sets I've ever seen tbh.

 

[Zoidberg747]

On one hand I agree that the timer is super high.

On the other hand I don't think it would be a great idea to change it right now. Zoning is incredibly strong in the current meta, and for a lot of characters it takes a lot of patience and time to get anything going against Fate/Deadshot etc. I don't think these characters need any extra advantages, which a shorter timer would certainly be one.