I only remember Super Turbo/HDR, but that’s because Akuma was literally broke as fuck.
If you go straight into Arcade Mode, yeah. I unlocked them after a couple of hours playing offline versus.
Hell, you could even unlock them in training mode.
give it a week or so and they will all be playable. its mainly laziness and probably a bit to do with idiots complaining ‘the secret characters are too strong’ (aka sent)
No character should ever be banned in any Tournament for a Marvel game. Its a freaking Marvel game!
While everybody else jumped the gun, I’ll be the one to ask:
Where did you notice this? Which tournies tipped you off and is it possible for you to share links?
Somebody already pointed out that taking small samples and blowing them up is annoying so more of us should be critical about ‘news’ like this. We need more fact checkers and I will volunteer myself.
start with no banning and continue from there
“Banned” no. But for the midnight launch release tourneys, 9/10 the employees won’t let you sit there playing arcade mode to unlock guys. I’m pretty sure they just want to finish the damn tourney and go home. So the 4 unlockables won’t be used. I always hated this. the SF4 selection was terrible for Gamestop tourneys because you couldn’t use unlocks cuz they won’t let you unlock them because of time constraints.
This thread was made to get peoples thoughts about banning. I agree that banning is sort of dumb and sent may be cheap but all the characters have a 85% life combo. If this thread is dumb then mods please feel free to remove. I just wanted to know what others thought.
I am not gonna name the tournaments that banned unlock chars. Please keep that to yourself
I’m guessing this thread might get locked, but…
It is honestly far too early in the game’s life for us to declare any character is either hopelessly overpowered, or choking the game’s roster usage. A day one ban would require any of the following to be true:
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Unreasonable requirements for tournament operators to unlock. An hour run through singleplayer per system is annoying, but not unrealistic; they could no doubt get a few players to help with this task.
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Character is paid DLC and the operator cannot pass on these costs to the players for some reason (e.g. not allowed to increase entry fee by $1.50 or so per player to offset the expense). Nobody on the roster currently satisfies this criteria.
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Must be blatantly, overwhelmingly, unquestionably dominant. I mean that this character would need a genuine ‘I Win’ button. A super-fast jab with full screen range that does 100% damage to any character it hits, and it might even be unblockable; the character would be amazingly unfair. None of the unlockable cast satisfy this; even the apparently (this is still week 1 of the game’s life span) most powerful of them, Sentinel, is not this strong.
None of the challenges or concerns presented by using/enabling unlockable characters is so great at this time as to justify a ban.
Later down the line, a ban might be merited if the character demonstrably chokes the metagame. While I’m a little more willing to go for that than most people are, we have yet to see any signs that it might be warranted in this game. I can only think of a handful of cases where it has happened… …actually, only one immediately comes to mind: Japanese tournaments for Super Turbo where Old Sagat was socially ‘banned’ to encourage roster diversity, or so I’m told. If tournaments 12-18 months from now degenerate into Sentinel vs. Sentinel, then we might have a case for banning it. That’s a pretty big ‘if’ however.
While I can appreciate your concerns, it is simply too early for any ban to be justified. The burden on tournament organizers is not great (and they can easily shift it over to the players; “Hey, help me unlock these four characters on these systems” “Okay”), and none of the unlockable four have anything even close to an I Win Button. It’s too soon.
QFT. I don’t think there will be any banning unless something insanely comes out that makes a character over the top. The only issue is that the 4 unlockables will probably not be used in any of the midnight releases because of time constraints.
well, they can always have the systems on training all the night before the tournament to unlock the chars and problem solved
dang we talking about banning characters already?? next thing you know we are having tournaments with low damage,can’t use teleports,no X-Factor,and can’t use lvl3 hypers.sigh
Even if Sentinel is the best in the game, teams will be built to defeat him, and teams built to beat those teams.
This is a TEAM game.
No you made this thread in reaction to alleged tournies banning characters. Where did you “notice” this? Simple question. Were you talking about Wal-Mart/Gamestop tournies?
The game isn’t even out yet and people are already talking about banning shit? Fucking retarded.
I’m on SRK right? Not smash boards?
final destination only :wow:
sadly srk hasnt been the same since 2009
I concur with other people saying this is stupid. Do people even think now a days when posting?
:wtf:
This isn’t the DaVinci code, secret squirrel.