The same way players ground out literally 100 variations in MKX: you put in the work to be competitive.
While I feel this is a legitimate concern, it would be easily remedied if the chosen loadouts are visable to both players at the loading screen. I say loading screen specifically because at that point the choices are set, so no “oh I change my mind because they chose X”.
As has already been stated, they’ve got plenty of tools to do so. Increase/decrease slots, shared inputs, move conflicts — and that’s before even getting into the hard changes like properties, damage, frames, etc.
Not at all, I'm not sure if you've ever been an actual competitor at a high level in a FG (I don't mean this in a snarky way) But having to account for so many things is completely impracticable to remember. When I got to grand-master on SFV, I still can't account for alot of the frame data of some set-in-stone characters I play against let alone imagining them having different variable moves all with different frame data properties and combo potential.
But buffed based on what? One character having an OP combination? But then what, we have to worry about all characters having to have overpowered move combinations? But then what if these particular combinations completely break the matchups vs other characters? So then what, we have to rebuff those characters? So eventually we're just going to get to the point where every character has 100 percent combos and infinite zoning potential? Sounds like a pretty shitty fighting game to me.
Then maybe (just maybe) consider that the entire CONCEPT of variation is A HORRIBLE IDEA?!
I mean, this has been my entire argument the whole time. I don't really give a shit if they're used non competitively though.
Its almost like NRS are trying too hard to chase two crowds and they're not going to get either one at the end of it. And people wonder why NRS games never have a long lifespan despite starting out strong.
Make no mistake (and don't let any delusional e-sports fans tell you otherwise): Mortal Kombat is largely intended for the casual market, because that's where the vast vast majority of sales go.
The same way you currently do. The number of variation special moves you will need to be familiar with will remain largely the same. Every variation move is not tournament-worthy. The cream will rise to the top, and the top tiers will largely become known and predictable.
This sounds like some SFV-era scrubquotes shit. There are times, even in tournaments, where you will be surprised, caught off guard, or unprepared for something. That is the beauty of fighting games. Go look up Kusoru UMVC3 Final Round footage.
Again, scrub talk. More moves to choose from enhances competitive play and leaves nothing on the table.
This is real smash bros-level scrubquotes. Better players will maximize the variations most effectively and find the real broken cheap shit, whereas currently their skill and creativity is held in check and balanced down to worse players' level.
Custom variations literally do the balancing! The game is UNBALANCED NOW ! More options = more balance.
QF-MF-T
Are you really going to come at me with such backwards thinking? How does more variables equate balance, it literally makes NRS have to go look deeply at every single custom variable move and figure out how it works in conjunction with everything else. Also, I was never saying 'being caught off guard' is something that won't happen in a game obviously, my point is you should have the option to prepare in a reasonable manner for various options.
More options= More broken unbalance things we have to wait for them to fix SMH
This kind of talk makes me know I'm dealing with a young person who was never around during the arcade scene or the heyday of competitive fighting games. Your whole attitude of waiting for the game developer to figure out their game and change things is so sad and wrongheaded and goes against all of fighting game history. The players figure out the game. The players break the game. The players shape the gameplay and take it to places the developer may not have intended. THAT is fighting games.
You do know like 90% of the people playing are "not playing serious" right
Are they? It seems to me that lots of characters have one decent or good loadout and one crappy loadout while some have two subpar loadouts and maybe a couple have two decent ones. There are 25 characters in the roster - do you think that someone who wants to use a competitively viable character would have 25 options to choose from, let alone 50?
I come from a Tekken background as far as high level play goes (I've competed and did fairly well at a local/state level). I know full well of how daunting it can be to memorize frames and properties for 60-80 moves per character. That said, it's not at all impossible.
