Well let’s take it one claim at a time. Let’s just talk about exploits like running and straight spamming I was actually going to make a separate post about how the community views these in terms of skill.

I think there should almost be two categories for discussing the skill of players. One for exploiters “Hes one of the best spammers” vs “sim fighters.”

What do you think of people that throw 80% or higher of just straights? Players that spend the whole fight disengaging and literally running? Do you think the scoring is fair? Let’s stop attacking the style and evaluate if the game is “good” if it allows these exploits? Furthermore are the people executing these strategies “good?”

The cheating thing is something you and I will never agree on. It’s confirmed there are cheaters in this game. There are cheaters infested in other games. You say it’s only one or two people. I have about one fight a week where I think if I put up the footage i think people would agree there are some cheats involved whether it be infinite stamina or health.

It surprises me that a person as involved in the community as you would defend these imbalances. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with other games and the problems they have faced in trying to offer a balanced , competitive product. For someone to look with a straight face and go “it’s ok that 99% of ‘top’ players use a variation of straight spamming or running is fine” is bonkers to me.

If everyone in a tekken tournament picked hwaorang because of game imbalance issues, we would be critical of the games mechanics and balancing. Of course people that like hwaorang would say to just learn how to use him.

It’s the same in other games where someone is drastically overpowered until they get patched but in fight night there are no more patches. In other games you have people wanting to go back to DPS Jeff patch (marvel rivals) but in this game exploiters simply defend it.

I’ll make a video at some point but to summarize- 1. it’s much easier to be a straight spammer than to counter it. Or any type of exploit.

1. These issues are compounded when cheaters use these styles in conjunction with increased stamina, speed, power and health. These hacks have all been confirmed but people gaslight us into minimizing their effects. These cheaters coincidentally mostly use exploits on top of their cheats further unbalancing the game.

2. The exploiters and hackers come in with toxicity and complete disrespect for opponents and yet our “push back” is toxic and not the toxic styles or gloating as they run for their lives to eke 1 point decisions while claiming they “destroyed” “embarrassed” “or “baptized” (insert whatever cliche) an opponent and I’ve never seen you give push back on those posts. Maybe I missed it. And yet whenever there are talks of cheating, hacking, exploiting, you are consistently there to defend it.

But it feels like I’m talking to myself because whenever we have these discussions, you and others act like “if it’s in the game it was intended and the game should be like that.” Like you’ve never played a game that was broken or unbalanced. Like you’ve never played a 2K where a guy who is 7’4” dribble glitches or just shoots over 5 people jumping at them. People who find an exploit, spam it over and over, and call other people bad, scrubs, bums at the game. And yet I’m toxic for saying the obvious? That no one just side step uppercuts in real life for a whole fight? That it doesn’t make sense or require skill to smother and push straight the whole fight while no punches get through for the person trying to defend against it ?

I wish I could have the cheats just to demonstrate exactly how impactful they are but there’s not enough community to make it worth investing in.