so, as i thought, if you have a good forward dash, you’ll have some potential
other than that, the video is basically “anti-air jumps, and jump over fireballs to punish!!”
they don’t talk about those characters that control ken’s dash range super well and can basically stick out normals into ken’s space so that he can never approach, but HEY what do i know. i guess they want you to throw really bad fireballs repeatedly at that range (forgetting that a lot of characters will just v-skill avoid that for free all day), and if they try to stick out buttons, you whiff punish with… ex shoryu i guess? lol
but yeah i really do think this game will be dash throw the game
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at least dash throw is kinda fun lol
edit: so as not to be totally negative all the time, i will say that ken’s ex tatsu anti-air range is pretty neato and shimmying (while super risky if you cancel into run) looks like fun. also not counting ken’s hair or face, he seems really well animated, doing the launching tatsus seems pretty satisfying
good throw mixups make the game fun though. I’m still holding out some hope that the actual shipping version will have everyone reverted to the strongest beta incarnation of their character
now that FGs are regaining control of my soul I’ve been looking at some of my Destiny ranks. Top 0.002% of Destiny’s most popular playlist. Fuck yeah. too bad it doesn’t matter because Destiny is dead, and they don’t let me wear a special set of armor for being a top PvPer like WoW did 12 years ago
so unbelievably upset that launch day i’ll be in the middle of nowhere. gonna have to bring a stick with me… at least they have sweet private game rooms with 70" screens at camp. internet is sooo bad though.
that’d be the Taken King, which dropped in October and really did fix a lot of the game’s problems… at first. The only thing is, that was the last content update they gave us, and they haven’t announced a single thing since then. We still don’t even know when the next DLC pack will drop, and Destiny 2 got delayed to spring 2017 from an original fall 2016 release. There has been zero new PvE content since then, but there hasn’t been a single hint or announcement or anything! Literally nothing, about where this game that many people have sunk thousands of hours into is going next.
in Y2 we have 7 (8 including PS exclusive) strikes and 1 raid
at the end of Y1 we had 8 (10 if you include PS exclusives) strikes, and 2 raids, and the Prison of Elders, so 3 total end game activities.
So we actually lost meaningful content going from Y1 to Y2. That’s not even going into exotics that were gone (their last “major” content update was just before Christmas, and they released Year 2 versions of gear everybody had in Year 1, and a few items that had been datamined before TTK even dropped. There are still more TTK items in the database that they have not announced release dates for)
They could buy themselves a few months just by releasing updated versions of the old stuff, but they haven’t even hinted at doing that. They keep doing more PvP events, which should be fine but they changed their matchmaking algorithm a few months ago to prioritize skill over connection. That works fine for Halo 5 cuz it runs on dedicated servers, but Destiny is P2P and is laggy as fuck unless you have prioritized connection. You get a really unique combination of highly competitive matches and really bad lag, so the PvP experience has been so extraordinarily frustrating lately the population has plummeted, further compounding the lag issues.
Best part is they said they rescinded the changes, but people crunched the numbers and discovered no meaningful difference in matchmaking - they just made it so that the game would give you 5 green bars (ie. good connection) even if your connection was awful. Placebo effect. The game is still totally willing to throw people in Canada, the US, New Zealand and England all into the same match. Also due to Destiny’s netcode, having a bad connection is actually an advantage, to the point I think there is a good chance I’m not actually good and I’ve just been lagging hard this whole time
There is also something like 25 Crucible maps in the game but most playlists only use 4 or 5 of them, Y2 only maps usually. Even the legitimately great Y1 maps do not show up in Y2 playlists.
It’s just so extremely mismanaged it is blowing my mind. And it’s too bad, I think it is still the best shooter out there by miles and miles and miles on the basis of its mechanics, but the content is just not there. Behind the scenes I’m thinking Destiny is such an epic shitshow there will one day be an award winning Netflix documentary about it.