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Lord of the Drip
Spot on.
Spot on.
I quite like the balance of the game overall. But saying NRS is going the "trade blow for blow" path this time makes me question things like Geras' 1 bar breaker, Sento sandwich and constant 50/50's, Raiden's safe stormcells and safe overhead, etc. and that's from the top of my head. I think if they're going for "fair" then all characters should have this kind of BS, not just selected few because... reasons.
I don't enjoy the touch of death type gameplay unless it's something super rare and insanely hard to do.
well, i can talk only about raiden cause i mained him and i'm sure that NRS is just judging this character weirdly and think players need some L2P. they might overvalue the weakness that he has just one overhead and that doesnt even launch.
fair points. i dont agree about the kameo situation at all though, there are many valuable and underexplored kameos. i gave all of them a deep dive and cant think of an unviable one. well shujinko might be pretty useless sometimes depending on the matchup, like when he copies moves that your base char already has better versions of. but else? nah.
I have an almost touch of death with havik but it requires 2 meter full kameo and fatal blow , id like if crazy shit was expensive across the board
Having a huge, crazy combo under those circumstances is really cool, in my opinion. Geese had at least one touch of death combo in Tekken 7 but you had to have full meter, be on the Howard Estate stage without any walls broken yet and actually have the execution to put it all together.
See i agree with you but im on the fence , i loved 9 to bits and 10 ..i loved injustice 1 , never played 2 cause i was too broke at the time .. i hated 11 so much i left after about 3 months , but this one is such an improvement on 11 that im actually happy with it , i agree with a lot of peoples complaints but the improvement is so great that im givng them time .. the game got pushed out a year early im convinced of it
This is basically what it all boils down to for me. MK should be totally off the rails crazy. It's in this no-man's-land of being disrespected as a fighting game, while also being sort of difficult for true newbies to pick up, and also being boring to watch. I feel NRS has this weird inferiority complex about wanting to be taken seriously as a fighting game, and it comes at the cost of not being as fun of a video game and not being faithful to how ridiculous MK is as a franchise.
Variety is the spice of life and all that. People get super touchy about TOD or huge damage combos, but it's really about the novelty of them . If you can do 80% off every touch, it fucking sucks, if you can do 100% with full meter on a specific hit but only if your back is to the corner (3s makoto), then it can be hype as fuck. Oddly assist fighters are NOTORIOUS for having this because usually they're so overtuned that even one character with a pixel of health and full bar can wreck an opponents team if they get the right read, but MK1 doesn't quite have that.
Wait, it is?
They did buff Baraka. By nerfing Johnny, Kenshi, Peacemaker, and Raiden. That makes Baraka better in the meta.
Know what helped Baraka the most vs those characters? Stryker. None of those characters NEEDED stryker or even had him as their go to kameo.
He's been so polarising, at least for me, because the way he chooses to speak about the game is extreme. He exaggerates so much, to the point it's impossible to understand if this guy loves or hates this game.
WB announced the switch from Triple A to live service games this year, and since mk1 already is, say hello to the foreseeable future of the mk franchise. Season after season of this.
Ah, I see what you mean. It's certainly possible. Time will tell.
You say possible like there's an alternative. If mk fails it gets cancelled or sold, as long as it succeeds, mk1 seasons. It was the plan with Gotham Knights, it's the plan with mk1, it's the plan with suicide squad, it's the plan with the next hp.
The franchise is strong enough as a whole where if this game does bomb, they could indeed produce another. Having said that, I don't believe it is bombing and is still selling well, so the continued seasonal model, at least for a few years, is what I expect.
As a D'Vorah main, the troubled balance history of MK11 left a lot to be desired. However, a soft approach is still considerably more preferred to an entire game-wide meta shift to me. People can love on MKX all they like, but the game being ENTIRELY different every single fucking patch was beyond disgraceful imo. Embarrassingly unacceptable even. Reminded me heavily of Riot with League of Legends where they straight up said they weren't attempting to balance the game and were instead dumpstering meta characters and skyrocketing non-meta characters every major balance patch just for the excitement of it. Stupid as fuck imo.
I remember people freaking out and constantly complaining about that. People wanted slower patching and more time for things to settle and for meta to be truly figured out. People also kept crapping on Mortal Kombat X for being a 50/50 pressure-fest.