Injustice - the request for 3/5 in tournament play heightens after EVO, May change for Video X Game

[STORMS]

Since around the time Injustice: Gods Among Us released one of the biggest complaints was the matches ending too soon. The average time for a match would be about 2 minutes and 40 seconds giving the players hardly any time to adjust. Since Injustice really does not have rounds, only a short pause between the depletion of life bars and only one breaker (clash/wager that can only be activated once per character after you lose your first bar of health), depending who you're playing, it's bad from not only a player point of view but spectator as well.

There was much discussion revolving around this topic today on twitter from many competitors and even NetherRealm Studios' very own producer, Hector Sanchez tweeted, "Injustice should be 3/5 all the time.". Of course, after several competitors voiced their opinions and many retweets later, the Video X Games twitter simply said, "We wouldn't mind doing Injustice 3/5, its a pretty fast paced game. This just was never brought to our attention.".

The voice of EVO is a big one and may be the judge on the future of Injustice rounds leading up to the Video X Games.






Do you agree with this possible new format?

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Credit: EventHubs

 

[DownfouralitY]

I vote yes. 2/3 is not enough time to adapt.

 

[RiverHB]

3/5 all the way. Am I the only person that enjoyed watching Injustice @ Evo?

 

[Groove Heaven]

Absolutely a good idea. I think it should be done for Summer Jam too. You cannot adapt to a new opponent in 60 seconds of gameplay.

 

[lolmark]

The only other games that don't have rounds is Vampire Savior (and KI, but I don't know much about tournament play). To be honest, I don't see much point in changing the tournament format considering that it never seemed to be a problem among VSav players.

In terms of fairly determining a winner: I think the clash system, if used properly, can get players back into the game.

 

[Stew Bones]

Would this mean that grand finals would also be extended to 4/7

 

[rGMatic]

3/5

The more Injustice, the better.

 

[D7MHellcat]

It should be 3/5 all the way through. Injustice matches are insanely quick. Its not easy to adapt in minute and a half sets.

 

[-LD50-]

3/5 and 4/7 Grand finals imo if not 3/5 all the way through. Don't even see how this is a question after the speed of evo top8

 

[Alexandru Pascu]

Don't see any reason why anyone would be against this. Anyone who'd watch or play Injustice as 2/3 would have no problem with the game undergoing the change. Anyone who wouldn't shouldn't really have a say in it.

 

[Kiko]

3/5

The more Injustice, the better.

This.

 

[Justice]

I used to think 3/5 all the way but at EVO I started to see more time outs (I myself won a match this way) than I'm used too. So now I'm kind of undecided on the issue. I do agree that with a Game like Injustice 2/3 is not a lot of time to adjust but there is the argument that if you actually know your shit, 2/3 should be plenty of time to adjust.

I say go 3/5 and re-examine later in case as the metagame develops we start seeing more timeouts and such.

 

[REDRUM]

The people who actually play this game know 3/5 is only right.. This game is too fast for just 2

Unlike eventhubs (lotta haters on there who always sabotage nrs games) poll on this subject is the exact opposite of our poll results so far.

 

[Zyphox]

STORMS could you possibly add the quote from paulo in this thread here as well to the OP also the poll results for this thread were 79% for 3/5 so you could gauge how much the community wants this new format. http://testyourmight.com/threads/petition-for-3-5-for-injustice.35645/

 

[DanCock]

Funny who knew others were bitching about this. Myself and RunwayMafia were doing just this.

My last match up could of been a different battle if this had been the case.


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[KH StarCharger]

This I totally agree with. 3/5 after watching and competing in multiple IGAU tourneys seems best.

 

[Kaymai]

more time to adapt means better matches overall. sometimes its easy to squeeze two quick wins when the other person is only just beginning to figure things out. having more big comebacks can be incredible for the hype of this game, which seemed a bit lacking on sunday.

 

[migosan]

FINALLY, totally agree with this! imo 2/3 formats favor, zoning characters, or characters like supes adam etc, with this one, there is enough time to adapt and we can have more and more great matches! lets do this injustice!

 

[The Gabriel]

3/5 makes no sense for current Injustice. The only random element is interactables and they have been mostly negated in high level play. Superman will dominate regardless of how many games are played because he is so overpowered, not because of some random x-factor-like element.

 

[ghostwriteous]

For whatever reason, I think 2/3 is just fine. But like someone else said 3/5 would give people more time in adapting. But remember as people level up, the game play will get slower. I remember MK9 used to have no time outs at all in the beginning, but now they happen more frequently.

 

[Minh Giang]

3/5
nuff said

 

[Rokinlobster]

3/5 is better for any game.

Any one know how fast the injustice timer goes down? It seems like two or three real seconds for every injustisecond. So multiply that by 5 and see how long it is possible for a match to go, then I would say what ever 45% of that time is would be the average set time.

 

[Le Froglet]

Yea some of those Superman matches were so quick it was insane, it was less than 1 min for both matches to be played.

 

[Rampage254]

As much as I don't like watching Injustice, it should be 3/5. Especially with how some characters can get like 50%+ damage, it makes rounds go by way too quick.

 

[1man3letters]

we had the release tourny in ireland 3/5.
went on bit too long but then again no one knew how to play the game lol

ive much prefer 3/5 the way the game plays and i was trying to voice that from day 1 in our scene but im not so sure TOs in ireland will go for it besides marvel everything run 2/3