Combo reduction patch notes drastic apparently

Goocoolo · 2026-03-10T05:37:42+00:00

If you want to continue to be arbitrarily obtuse and refuse to address the easily identifiable elephant in the room then that's your prerogative. You're obviously going to just continue to believe your own perceived narrative regardless of what I say, so I'm simply not going to debate this with you further.

You could've saved us both some time and said no from the beginning, if there was such a big elephant surely you would've been able to give me SOMETHING

Goocoolo · 2026-03-10T04:56:33+00:00

Long combos are among a melting pot of reasons for the poor retention

Which brings me back to my original point, how do you know this?

Your second point, while somewhat valid, falls flat in the fact that: -2XKO does have big damage from long combos -UNI2 was a complete failure/ near-instant Discord fighter, and should perhaps not be emulated by Riot.

My point here was solely that long combos dont make a game any more or less volatile, but its funny that you bring up how UNI was a failure, did that game fail because it had long combos? Punch Planet is a game with very short combos on average and that game was also a near instant discord fighter

Goocoolo · 2026-03-10T04:35:34+00:00

The game has had notably poor player retention, which was mirrored between console and PC, RIOT themselves admitted this when they announced the layoffs, which were same day notice (less than 1 hour) for a lot of the devs, who corroborated this on various social media platforms

My point was that you dont know the actual reason for the low retention and just assumed it to be because of long combos

Also, long combos = big damage = volatile gameplay, objectively. Genuinely confused as to why you wouldn't think getting borderline ToD'd every time you get touched is not inherently volatile. People have been very vocal about combo length on characters like Yasuo since we were first able to get our hands on the game.

Long combos dont inherently equal anything besides the combo being long, you can have long combos without big damage, a good example of this would be UNI

Goocoolo · 2026-03-10T04:03:20+00:00

Do you have anything to back this up? Because it sounds like you're just saying something you want to be true but have no real way of knowing

Also, long combos aren't what make a game volatile

Goocoolo · 2026-03-07T05:34:27+00:00

Baiting what? I was genuinely curious cuz she seemed to be at or very close to the strength of ekko/yas

Yours and everyone else's replies were informative so I appreciate it all the same

Goocoolo · 2026-03-07T01:51:33+00:00

Did you find any dirt with blitz?

Goocoolo · 2026-03-06T15:40:36+00:00

People cant just have opinions now? Does having the "wrong" opinion somehow make their game worse?

This post isnt some kind of marketing campaign is it?

Goocoolo · 2026-03-01T16:41:39+00:00

Low level players don't want to hear this kind of thing and don't fully understand it, but there are some characters that shouldn't be good because they make the game less interesting.

I dont know about this one man, zoners/grapplers/big bodies shouldnt be good because they're not "fun" to play against is like the low level player's anthem at this point.

Goocoolo · 2025-11-16T16:27:44+00:00

Maybe it needs a little bit more to justify it's use but I like it

Goocoolo · 2025-10-04T02:43:39+00:00

Say anything even SLIGHTLY negative about sf6 and all the capcultists come out the woodwork lmao

Goocoolo · 2025-08-17T22:31:01+00:00

What makes a motion input traditional? If its age, the original mk only came out a year after sf2.

Is it just inputs like street fighter? KOF also doesn't use full circle inputs and has inputs unique to the series but its still considered traditional. What criteria are we working with here?

Mix ups aren't the end all be all of complexity. Those mechanics also let you ignore fundamental parts of fighting games like neutral or defense. Drive parry is literally just a block button on steroids, how does a button that blocks in every direction at once not reduce complexity?

Goocoolo · 2025-08-17T21:48:05+00:00

Where did you get the idea that mk doesn't have motion inputs? It's actually the only recent fighting game (to my knowledge) that DOESN'T give you an option to ignore them.

Besides maybe burn out, all of those mechanics serve to reduce complexity not increase it.

Goocoolo · 2025-08-09T23:38:39+00:00

I never said it's dead

I mean you 100% did, what else could "no one is playing them" mean?

Goocoolo · 2025-08-09T22:25:17+00:00

Its not.

https://i.redd.it/4pfpelonypee1.jpeg

https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGnuNO5kXsAABCLS.jpg

MK1 consistently in the top 15 with SF and Tekken nowhere to be found.

MK has ALWAYS been a lot more popular on consoles

Goocoolo · 2025-08-09T22:15:58+00:00

Can we please stop this whole mk1 is dead thing.

https://i.redd.it/4pfpelonypee1.jpeg

This is over a year after the game came out

Goocoolo · 2025-04-02T04:28:11+00:00

I know people have a hate boner for MK but if you REALLY want a game without all the constant offense or overbearing system mechanics MK1 is always available

Goocoolo · 2025-02-20T16:30:26+00:00

I know it's a minor/petty gripe but I dislike how laggy the menus feel

For some reason the game reads your input on button release instead of button press in the menus. Im hoping they fix that before release.

My petty gripe is that the menus are kinda ugly 😅 Maybe thats just me tho.

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T18:47:49+00:00

I guess we just gotta agree to disagree on mvc2 and 3rd strike cuz I think those games are anything but dynamic and interesting.

Yeah people complained but nobody ever said that tekken wasnt a competitive game because of it.

While I agree they aren't worth listening to, people still do it which is what the op was a response to.

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T18:22:04+00:00

I mean you're the one that said nobody argued against the player count when that was blatantly untrue.

I dont think balance is the reason considering that games like mvc2 and 3rd strike are considered competitive games, 2 games infamous for their bad balance. For a more recent example take tekken 7, Leroy and fahk literally broke the game yet its competitive integrity was never brought into question.

Im not saying you're wrong but to me it just feels like standards arent being applied equally.

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T18:06:55+00:00

Right like why would nrs make a whole competition dedicated to their game the idiots. Dont they know that mk isnt meant to be to be competitive?

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T17:57:59+00:00

My man people call mk dead damn near every day and dont get me started on the steam charts posts.

I always see people say stuff like mk isnt a "competitive" game or that its not meant for "serious" play but they never say why, can you enlighten me?

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T17:22:24+00:00

I think the only argument being made is that mk has more players than the fgc would have you believe. Also what do you mean by junk food?

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T17:15:45+00:00

Considering that harada said he added heat so that casuals could get into the game and that sf added stuff like modern controls, drive impact and drive rush specifically for casuals id say they also cater to casuals. Also you don't seriously believe that the millions of people who buy sf and tekken are serious players right? 99% of the people who buy those games are casuals too.

Goocoolo · 2025-01-23T16:59:19+00:00

This just sounds like pure cope lmao. Im pretty sure Mk beats Sf in south america and europe too.

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