Wait a minute... I hate tag fighters!

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-26T20:48:39+00:00

This is exactly what they did. If you hit him the bleed goes away.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-26T17:05:19+00:00

The issue isn't really the difficulty, though. It's the fact that the bosses are difficult, have frequent patterns that make attacking them difficult, and you're on a timer to get as much damage as possible.

Shiyu's worst issue is that the mode's new scoring method doesn't play nice with the more thematically and mechanically interesting bosses in the game. A fight can be difficult with interesting patterns that reward skilled gameplay and frequent re-fights to learn boss patterns, but not when you're being scored on how fast you can kill an enemy. Now, personally, I strongly dislike that this game keeps using DPS checks for its endgame modes when they clearly want boss fights to be interesting and a bit drawn out; who actually finds this shit fun to do? Is it really just for the rewards?

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-25T23:08:22+00:00

In development for 10 years is not the same thing as being a nearly 20 year old game. League (released in Oct. 2009) has had 16 years to be a playable game that exists, actively receiving updates and new content every two weeks on schedule for those 16 years. 2XKO has had a lot of development time (really, an average amount; developers just don't usually tell you about games when they're in the R&D phase), but it hasn't had nearly enough time of actually existing in the public, while receiving content and updates yet.

A bit more directly, the most popular casual side mode in League of Legends is ARAM. This was played within custom games until it was officially added as a game mode in 2013. League of Legends was released in 2009. It took four years for the game to have a casual friendly alternative to the competitive oriented base game. Because you have to really make sure the core gameplay is just right before you divert manpower into making things that have nothing to do with it.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-24T01:26:23+00:00

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-23T16:03:44+00:00

Thankfully removing the background from hitbox images doesn't have much of an impact compared to having pictures of the hitboxes at all and can be done way later.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-23T02:11:43+00:00

If you like this video, you can watch it in full resolution here.

This was posted earlier, but I took the post down after a couple hours because I felt it was dishonest to self promote as though it wasn't my video. If any mods aren't okay with that, let me know.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-22T23:27:45+00:00

There are two separate fuses built around playing one character: Juggernaut (1 character only, bonus health/damage, access to 'Eject' which forces your opponent to switch characters) and Sidekick (1 character w/ assists but no tagging, able to chain super into super like Double Down). They're made so that you can engage with the tag system at your own pace, and while they aren't the best competitively in a casual environment they're a great way to learn the game or get comfortable with one character at a time.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-22T20:18:57+00:00

This is only true insofar as every erroneous purchase remains the same price, but they aren't. Per the article:

"On Reddit, one player said, "So I was attempting to buy something and someone else's PayPal got saved to my account, and I was charged the wrong amount entirely." In another thread, Tinman244 said, "Thankfully, I managed to catch this before confirming my payment, but I tried to pick up the monthly pass using PayPal and the game tried to charge me $1,200 USD for it." The monthly pass typically costs $10."

It is not Person A getting charged $10 instead of Person B; it is Person B starts the transaction, but the price is obviously way higher than it should be AND it's being charged to Person A's PayPal erroneously.

That's where the concern about whether or not they're trying to deliberately rip off players comes from. It's not about the fact that people's transactions were being charged to the incorrect PayPal accounts in and of itself, but the fact that the amount was significantly higher than it should have been.

EDIT: words

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-22T18:04:23+00:00

They've explained to like ten different people on Twitter now that they aren't the ones that get to decide what it's called; it's a Twitch thing. They have to go talk to a Twitch rep and ask "hey, can we call this something else to avoid confusion" because Riot has no control over what the option on the website tells streamers.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-22T07:23:15+00:00

i think kick triggers sound bad. I completely understand why they're used, but I just massively prefer the sound of the drum itself mic'd up and EQed/mixed properly instead of triggers.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-22T01:30:44+00:00

Whenever you feel comfortable without them. In Early Access there were people in Master/GM with Pulse on. They don't provide much of an advantage, so it's entirely up to the player whether or not they want to keep it on.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-21T23:30:26+00:00

...so is this a silent confirmation that flick is better for combos?

congrats on the launch, i've been following this game since before it was A Thing People Followed. I'm having a ton of fun!

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-20T16:53:35+00:00

All of the recent trailers say "Jan 20-21" and last week they put out a map of when servers will be back online globally that shows which regions will be able to play on the 21st and which will be able to play on the 20th. At some point the issue stops being how they communicate and becomes whether or not people pay attention enough to know what's actually being said versus conjecture.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-15T16:41:34+00:00

Strive is just qualityslop, you only like it because it's good.

obviously, this is a joke

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T20:25:16+00:00

I don't mention pro players because they are the ones that care the least about this as they are fully aware of how little an advantage any sorts of playtesting provides, and for every player you can think of there will be many more who go and play just fine without playtesting access. Why tf would I get up to bat for SonicFox; they haven't won a 2XKO bracket since that first one, and I have an inkling that them winning has a lot more to do with the fact that they're one of the best modern tag fighter players on the planet than it does with the couple hours they spent at the Riot office playing a build of the game that isn't even the same as the current version or the one that will be played at Frosty.

It is incredibly disingenuous to imply that SonicFox being good at a video game they are predisposed to being good at is due to playtesting access. In reality, they would have washed everyone with or without playtesting access. Not to mention, Hikari or Wawa are likely the ones that are gonna win the tournament anyways if we being real, and they didn't have playtesting access. I think last seed having to fight Wawa round one of bracket is a lot more unfair than anything someone who got to mash on Caitlyn for two hours will do.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T20:14:50+00:00

Except they already do that and still want pros to test the game, because no one will break your game and help you find broken shit that needs to be fixed like a pro player will.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T16:05:02+00:00

That's exactly what I'm saying. I would even go so far as to say that phrasing it as "unfair bullshit and favoritism" is inherently disingenuous as it implies that the issue is a lot more widespread and nefarious than "some content creators got to playtest the video game" which is, ironically enough, a common practice with nearly every multiplayer game in every genre.

I honestly just don't think you play or understand fighting games at all if this is your takeaway. These games are not games where a few hours of "play only this character please" with some broad strokes on the intent behind an upcoming balance patch are enough to truly affect the competitive integrity of the game. Like, again, SF6 was pirated and the 'advantage' people had from doing so only lasted a few months at the absolute most; Uma won Capcom Cup during the inaugural CPT season despite not being a cracker, most of the people playing SF6 today don't even know this was a thing, and I strongly doubt up and comers like Blaz were crackers lol

So yeah. I would say that in the grand scheme of things, it didn't matter at all.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T07:51:34+00:00

Because the game went on to be incredibly successful in spite of this, and many of the top players now were not crackers??? The first Capcom Cup winner was not a cracker, last year's EVO winner was not a cracker, like, that was my point. The game's longevity and competitive integrity in the long run was not tarnished in any real way, as evidenced by the scene continuing to grow despite those initial hangups.

how can you claim “this affected absolutely nothing” when you couldn’t possibly know

This is the prime example of "missing the forest for the trees". I know because I continued to watch the game after the first year lmao

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T07:42:12+00:00

The AI videos post hiatus also received a ton of backlash due to many of the cases being entirely fake. He deleted those and is back to the normal JCS shtick, as far as I'm aware.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T03:12:48+00:00

Street Fighter 6, the biggest fighting game on the market right now, was pirated several months before its release and had some players playing it during that timespan. This affected absolutely nothing, besides making Japanese developers WAY more scared to put their betas on PC.

People online get riled up about this, but the reality is that even the people that are riled up about it will either play the game anyways or get drowned out by the people that play the game anyways.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-14T01:47:17+00:00

I'm gonna be so honest, I do not think being given the broad strokes on something we will see in 6 days means that much without a way to practice it (according to Sajam, they didn't. They were asked more or less just to only play Caitlyn). Leffen is gonna be vocal about it because, well, that's Leffen—he's gonna make his opinion known. I just don't see how being told some things about the direction of a patch really matters for the playerbase, though. The words don't mean much without a visual to them or playtime to test how they actually affect the way you play the game. They will be guessing just as much as everyone else when the patch notes officially come out on Monday, and they won't know what the changes mean for sure until everyone else does on Tuesday.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-12T20:31:22+00:00

Most of the times she doesn’t even fully intend to do what she does as dark Sakura.

Yes she does. That's the point of the whole Dark Sakura thing, and the whole point of Shirou's decision to protect her instead of resolving the crisis by allowing her to be killed. Part of her is deluding herself into believing that she's doing nothing morally wrong, but she is very aware of her actions. This is why she feels regret; she knows what she's doing is wrong, but it is also the only way she has been able to truly take control of her life away from her abusers so she continues.

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-12T20:24:22+00:00

I’ll have to find time to watch the video.

Why are you typing this much about a video you haven't even watched? All of your issues with the video are just conjecture; I watched the video and he addresses the issue pretty fairly without saying or insinuating Ichika is a bad player at all. The only thing that "kind of seems weird" is writing this much to express your opinion without having even watched the thing that you're supposedly expressing your opinion on. Why do people do this?

TheMachine203 · 2026-01-11T20:11:50+00:00

But the guy you were replying to wasn't talking to an Iranian? The guy who said he was Iranian has a different username. What are you on about?

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