Nope. Thatțs the thing.
Best solution to this is to just quickly choose your abilities from a list via the character select screen, just like choosing variations. And if people are worried about endless counterpicks, then just assign each ability on the list to a button. So you’d press like, square, triangle, R2, for example, to choose those specific abilities. But there would be no visual feedback, so your opponent wouldn’t know what you picked. Kinda like choosing plays in a football game.
You play them, and adapt.
That's ridiculous, you'd spend the whole first game trying to figure out what special moves they have and if they can punish some of your strings. Then after you win a game they can just swap character and variation and you're back to square one!
Keep in mind, you’d have the same exact advantage.
That's the point. Now it's the best time since they are still working on the game: if they see that we want this, they'll balance those moves for competitive, otherwise they'll focus on balacing the pre made variations.
I hope you're right. My worry is that so many aspects are really hard to make competitively balanced and that the variation system's custom bits are where they migrate moves that are an imbalance hazard. I hope I'm wrong though.
Have you read my post on the balancing of said moves? I think they got it if put themselves on it, I'm quite positive!
MKX was harder to balance because variations affected the core of the character (see Sub-Zero having 2 bad variations because the core was crap to compensate for the klone) and each variation needed to get buffs when something got nerfed because everything came together.
But the clone was a separate move, it was only available in one variation? So how can it not have been balanced?
