Actually should have checked before taking
Icymanipulator
post at face value. Seems you still need to charge but you don't need to press forward, just charge back and press a button.
So my original opinion still stands. Lol
Yes, are right about the charging, I was wrong about that, but! If you’re applying pressure in a corner situation and don’t ever need to let go of back to hit forward, that’s a huge advantage. It reduces the complexity of combos to the point where we’re seeing huge 10+ sec combos that are not extremely hard to pull off and the “damage reduction” goes out the window at that point. This also still leaves the issue of instant reaction to moves with supers. Just watched Hitani (very high level Japanese ken player) get blown up by another player using modern controls. Being able to react to moves with just a combination of buttons (direction + button) is far far faster than having to input the motion yourself, so fast that it makes nearly all moves unsafe to even do, forget about being negative or positive on block, the move will never even get the chance to connect.
Watching high level players (diamond, platinum, ect) being stuck in a corner with no ability to respond just seems wrong on so many levels. It’s not like the modern control user is some genius mastermind calculating all the right moves, they can just go hog wild knowing that they can easily react to any attempt by the opposing player with ease. Not sure how this makes the game fun or balanced.
And just a side note, I’m not actually angry or anything at you personally. What’s frustrating is seeing what playing against modern controls is turning the game into. I hope this is just early beta play and that tactics will evolve or something will happen that weakness modern. But it doesn’t seem likely as it stands now. There was a tournament that LIjoe put on for the beta, think it was called beta bash, that guile in the video I linked above did lose to a chun li player using classic controls but the level of play and control on display from the classic player was almost unreal, it usually won’t go down that way imo.
Most players will not have the mental fortitude to deal with this, and modern control tactics will also continue to evolve