I noticed while playing online quite abit that the old line of “The counters ruin the game” that you hear around here has really lost most of its merit. The addition of the Forward+Free to counter kicks has drastically changed the pacing IMO. In almost all the games I’ve played. Blocking has far outweighed the amount of counters.
Also you see alot more mid kick combos being thrown out as people are taking advantage of people still instinctively going to back+free to counter everything mid.
I think that adding this change has really changed the game far more than if they had just gone back to the old arcade counter commands (foward, back+free)
I kinda wished they made the counters like the arcade setup standard. Oh well your right, it hasn’t made much of a difference since you can tell who has a good grasp of the game and who doesn’t. Newbs who try to counter abuse usually get worked worse since a whiffed counter adds extra damage.
That’s DOA 2 counters to some people.
I wouldn’t quite say that tho. I played DOA2, & DOA2 LE on the Dreamcast and never had to do forward, back+free for any counters.
I’m just finding more and more that there is no point in throwing mid punches at all. No one is countering mid kicks at all. Its like free hits on kick combos.
in DOA2 you can set up the counters so its forward back free for mid punches, back forward for mid kicks i think, forward up/back for highs, forward, down/back for lows. That really takes the ease out of countering…but way too many people would complain…its still fine though, since mid kicks and mid punches have diff counters now…
Been practicing mid kick counters by set up back, forward+free. But, it gets annoying pulling them off aggressively from delay… :sad:
Yeah, timing counters gets really fucked in lag. I have trouble doing mid kick counters too. Not just cuz I’m still getting used to it but, lag won’t let you get out the ones you can even see half the time. I really have to have a good connection going to get a mid kick hold connected.
Yeah I suck at countering mid kicks, I just can’t get used to countering forward… I don’t liek the change to the countering system, but I know it was for the better, I just have to adapt.