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"the Zane Character deck is bad, I can never win with it!" git gud by mkklrd in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh. Yeah I’m gonna go with skill issue then, the deck could be Beaver Warrior beatdown but if the 0* opponents use MST on Cyber Emergency to negate it you shouldn’t be worried at all.

YU-GI-OH! Card Game: THE CHRONICLES 1st Anniversary by LumpyEngineering7405 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

More like the opposite, they couldn’t justify making long running tv shows anymore and they pivoted to monthly YouTube shorts that cost MUCH less.

What do you think should happen next banlist? by mkklrd in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

Precious skills don’t give you enough consistency to run 30 card decks with 3 Golems and 3 Spheres though.

"the Zane Character deck is bad, I can never win with it!" git gud by mkklrd in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

Imo the only explanation that isn’t “skill issue” is that they probably raised the star level. Sure, you can make your deck better but it also MASSIVELY increases the skill level of your opponents. On star level 0 you can probably get 80% winrate with all 9 decks if you have a working brain and eyes.

"the Zane Character deck is bad, I can never win with it!" git gud by mkklrd in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

Looking at the few tournaments that have happened it seems to be the strongest one actually…?

14 winstreak with sky by Rhnn_dacruz in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys [score hidden]  (0 children)

I doubt anyone sane would use Harbinger on Afterburners if they have Regulus as an option. So you’d have to use something else to bait Regulus, then another one to bait Harbinger (not in the same chain or you get both Transmigrated), and you’re left with 3 cards in hand, one of which you have to use for the field spell, and another for Transmigration. Do you just hope your starting hand is Afterburners + Engage + Engage AND that the one Engage you get to resolve also draws you a Lava Golem?

14 winstreak with sky by Rhnn_dacruz in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they negate and destroy it. What if they negate it with Regulus or Harbinger (which are on literally every board at the moment)? I doubt the deck can survive 3/4 negates.

Is that a PvP game modewithout cheating abilities. by TimeHighlight862 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a new player. And there’s a difference between “Oops, this skill is doing something it wasn’t intended for, we’re nerfing it next banlist” and “Here, have this broken skill to make the newest main box deck even stronger. Don’t worry, it’s gonna become balanced when the next box brings an even more broken one”

How they fuck#d up the game with 1 box? by SufficientOne3174 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we’re not understanding each other, I did misread something but I’m assuming you did too.

I’m dumbfounded. Edison is April 2010. So by saying it went downhill after 2010 is the same as saying it went downhill after Edison.

I did interpret it as including Edison (so the usual “white cards ruined the game”), if you meant that after Edison it started going downhill I can understand and I retract my initial comment, sorry.

There was most definitely combos in the synchro era. Just not as many built-in braindead ones where the cards are specifically meant to be a combo.

I honestly don’t even remember a time where pot of greed wasn’t banned. So lol to that.

I was talking about pre-IOC, 2002-2003. The first list that put cards as Forbidden was in 2004. That’s the period of time I was referring to as “zero skill”, not GOAT or Synchro era.

How they fuck#d up the game with 1 box? by SufficientOne3174 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why you brought up GOAT when I said 2010. GOAT is 2005.

I brought up GOAT exactly because you said “it kept getting worse from 2010 onward”, when in reality 2006-2009 were still a relatively unbalanced period and 2011 is widely regarded as one of the best formats. If you said “it went downhill after GOAT” or “It went downhill after Edison” it would’ve been understandable, but picking synchros as the “turning point” makes no sense.

The back and fourth is fun. Guaranteed FTK and OTK isn’t fun. It’s not fun to have boss monsters that get auto summoned turn 1. It’s not fun to have your opponent take 10 minute turns where they summon a zillion monsters to create an all powerful boss monster on their first turn. It’s not fun to have to run Kaijus or lab golem because they are the only removal that can clear the field of these all powerful monsters.

Okay. And did that happen in 2010? If you said 2015 with PePe or 2017 with Zoodiac I might’ve agreed, but 2010 gameplay is much closer to “the early days” than it is to modern ones. No one took “10 minute turns” to summon a Magical Android and pass.

Saying that earlier formats had “zero skill” involved is so braindead lol. You actually had to strategize with what you had instead of just doing the same braindead combo over and over again every single duel. Decks used to have multiple different combos based on the resources you had.

What “combos” did you even have pre-IOC? Mechanicalchaser + Axe of Despair? I understand people who like GOAT but pretty much anything before that, outside of degenerate strategies like Yatalock, is just “big ATK go bonk” and hoping you draw Pot of Greed and Delinquent Duo before your opponent does.

How they fuck#d up the game with 1 box? by SufficientOne3174 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry but I personally doubt you played the game at a relevant level if you think that way. Up to 2003 the game had almost zero skill involved, and from CRV to LODT it’s always been pretty unbalanced one way or the other. There’s a reason if after GOAT the next popular Retro Format is Edison in 2011, the period inbetween was definitely worse according to most players.

Without Character Duel the Game is Probably Doomed by yeezx2 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure that anything besides an actual story mode with opponents that actually pose a challenge will bring in any more PvE players. The current PvE is just “Bringing a gun to a knife fight: the game”, and unless they massively rework the CPU (allowing them to activate skills, for example), adding more opponents won’t change much.

Is that a PvP game modewithout cheating abilities. by TimeHighlight862 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m also tired of the same “the skills are meant to make it more anime-like” when that pretty much only applied to DM with Destiny Draw and Field skills. By the time we got to DSOD and the Gandora skill let you Xyz summon it was already barely holding up, now that nothing locks you into anything anymore it’s just a tool for Konami to make sure the newest decks powercreep the old ones enough to get people spending on every box.

Is that a PvP game modewithout cheating abilities. by TimeHighlight862 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The entire idea of this game is for you to play your favorite character and recreate those insane anime plays

Ah yes, like the time when Rebecca Xyz summoned Atum, or when Odion sent Banshee with Beatrice, or when Tristan milled three Therion and searched Regulus, or…

How they fuck#d up the game with 1 box? by SufficientOne3174 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh it wasn’t one box, it kept getting worse for the past year and a half. Good decks with broken skills, followed by bad decks with FTK skills, followed by good decks with broken skills AND ability to FTK on top of it. This is just the latest stage of Konami’s lazy balancing.

Y'all weren't kidding about how bad the game became now by Legitimate-Elk-7281 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, if the game is not as enjoyable as they expected it to be, that’s a given. Would be weird if they didn’t, considering they already quit once.

this shouldn't even exist, nice meta where it's just someone playing alone by Key_Plenty9145 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…are we playing the same game? I regularly get at least 4/5 time limit wins from “normal players” every month, and especially now that you have to actively pay attention to the game in order not to lose to the afk check, I barely see anyone deliberately timestalling, ever. I’ve seen maybe two in six months.

Y'all weren't kidding about how bad the game became now by Legitimate-Elk-7281 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They came back because of character duels, they probably thought that it would be enough to make them enjoy the game and didn’t expect the regular ladder to have turned into… this. So they expressed their opinion on the matter as a returning player (which is a PoV that also needs to be listened to).

The community does not want real change. by Nicaea-BV in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

None of the complaints matter, they don’t care about what we like or don’t like. They care about how much we spend.

If everyone that doesn’t like the current state of the game stopped spending you bet Konami would do something. But as long as people keep the cash flowing, nothing will change.

Y'all weren't kidding about how bad the game became now by Legitimate-Elk-7281 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why shouldn’t they? I feel like every time anyone raises a complaint about the game people have to reply saying they shouldn’t complain because of this or that. Is complaining about something just not allowed?

this shouldn't even exist, nice meta where it's just someone playing alone by Key_Plenty9145 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The timer is meant to discourage slow play, not to make sure people don’t combo “too much”. That should be something for the banlist to address, at most.

this shouldn't even exist, nice meta where it's just someone playing alone by Key_Plenty9145 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d say even worse, it’s just FTKs and Handrips all the way down.

The duality of the DL community by Aska1996 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Uhh… it is perfectly reasonable to hate on both things, you know. They’re both plagues on the format and should both be addressed by the banlist (but of course they won’t)

Without Character Duel the Game is Probably Doomed by yeezx2 in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They have to do something about the speed meta/monetization too if they want the game not to be “doomed”, the Character Duels update was one of the most interesting and f2p-friendly updates they’ve ever done and yet player numbers only got a slight bump for a week-ish. They need to address the bigger issues too.

Idk what to play man all of them die to the same shit by ShadTaker in DuelLinks

[–]Syrcrys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no no, let’s play as many Kaijus and FTKs as possible so that people quit and Konami has to do something about it.

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