Parries!<div><br></div><div>Hopefully they stay and hopefully they’re worth all the complaining they’re already getting. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)b</div>
Big Band has all the ingredients for some serious hype, parry out of a super and then play a song.
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/61423/ghosties">ghosties</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”>Parries!<div><br></div><div>Hopefully they stay and hopefully they’re worth all the complaining they’re already getting. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)b</div></div>
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Huh? Parries? What’s this about parries?
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/58346/Darlos9D">Darlos9D</a> said:</div>
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/61423/ghosties">ghosties</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”>Parries!<div><br></div><div>Hopefully they stay and hopefully they’re worth all the complaining they’re already getting. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)b</div></div>
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Huh? Parries? What’s this about parries?</div>
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That’s the new troll. Mike was on stream showing off how the game could support parries if they ever wanted a character that had them. So everyone spammed the chat with “SQUIGLY HAS A PARRY??” until Mike blew up.<br>
Well consider me… trolled? Though I was less mad and more just curious.
If big band has parries, I will be so hype.
Well, it was less that and more that people were complaining about the parry mechanic in general. Mike wants to give Big Band a parry (it’s one of his plans) and he demonstrated the mechanic being possible with Squigly. A lot of people got weren’t paying attention and assumed Squigly had the parry.<div><br></div><div>So (hopefully) Big Band gets a parry. It’s apparently not going to be as good as 3S parries, there was talk about it costing meter or only being able to parry projectiles, but either way I think he needs it since he seems like he’s going to move pretty slow. Peacock would be hell for him if he didn’t have a parry or loads and loads of super armor.</div><div><br></div><div>There was also talks of a defense boost super in the same vain as Q’s taunt. Which I’m also all for. I hope they make other nods to Q, like his stand -> crouch animation being throw invincible or his command throw being jump/super-jump cancellable. ;)</div>
As long as they throw in tons of references to jazz and etc., I think I’ll play him no matter what rofl. Half the reasons I loved generalivan’s impression of him is because he mentioned things like Coltrane, Satchmo and “Bang!”, lol.<br>
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/61423/ghosties">ghosties</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”>Well, it was less that and more that people were complaining about the parry mechanic in general. Mike wants to give Big Band a parry (it’s one of his plans) and he demonstrated the mechanic being possible with Squigly. A lot of people got weren’t paying attention and assumed Squigly had the parry.<div><br></div><div>So (hopefully) Big Band gets a parry. It’s apparently not going to be as good as 3S parries, there was talk about it costing meter or only being able to parry projectiles, but either way I think he needs it since he seems like he’s going to move pretty slow. Peacock would be hell for him if he didn’t have a parry or loads and loads of super armor.</div><div><br></div><div>There was also talks of a defense boost super in the same vain as Q’s taunt. Which I’m also all for. I hope they make other nods to Q, like his stand -> crouch animation being throw invincible or his command throw being jump/super-jump cancellable. ;)</div></div>
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Those last two features you mentioned… that’s just wacky! Sounds like they’d help make a grappler better, that’s for sure.<br><br>In general, a huge guy with an exclusive parry feature would be pretty awesome. I tend to like to bide my time and grab an opportunity for a huge punish, so that sounds right up my alley. Though chances are doing a parry will force you to drop a charge, so I can see you having to make some hard decisions in that regard.
I’d like a command taunt, but it just puts him in a stationary stance where you can press any of the buttons to get different notes/sounds, so you can freestyle your own Sax Solo.<div><br></div><div>Do the command again to cancel out of it.</div><div><br></div>