By that Logic what makes it right for it only being in Endless Battle? o_O
Think alittle before making post please…because that made little sense. People don’t want (Auto)Assist Gems in any form of competitive play…
Endless is not ranked your loss or win has no impact on the leader-boards and you can fight the same person multiple times also in endless most people try out new things or beginners go their to learn how to play the game.
Having assist games who’d be like training weals for beginners.
Ranked is ranked and only people that want to test out their skills vs serous opponents should take ranked seriously.
While i do understand that most serous players dont use assist games fact is having the Ultimate defense auto-guard gem makes you practically immune to cross-ups and if you are half decent this gives you a serious advantage vs a player that isn’t auto-guarding cross-ups.
I really love how they’re pushing these assist-gems in the PS-store:
“These gems are for seasoned players!!”
“these gems will win you matches for sure”
Ok Dan, LOL
In fairness, IRL handicapped people would benefit a lot from assist gems.
“These gems are for drooling players”
“Now, you can block while mashing your face onto the stick”
Sounds right
This is a General Consensus on SRK about leaderboards…Who da fuck cares?
I agree with you on people play ranked to find good competition, that is completely legit and understandable. However, Ranked is Busted right now so deal with it. you have 3 options…
-Accept Auto Gems and fight against them(some of the strong willed Online Warriors tough it out)
-Learn to Organize Endless Battle with people here on this board(there are alot of high level players here)
-Stop playing the game online or in general
It’s really that simple, Not trying to be a douche but that’s really the current situation.
Eh… they just… shouldn’t be allowed, honestly. Maybe that’s the “Old Man Grumpers” in me but having the game play auto-defense and destroy mixups doesn’t even sound fun in practice.
Pretty much me right here lol. I do brave Ranked every once in a while but I mostly make endless lobbies with mostly private slots (and 1-2 open slots), and just practice matchups and different teams I want to try. Of course I still see lots of Ken/Ryu/Kaz :bluu: , but lately I’ve been running into a bit more variety… even some Marduks and Yoshis.
True, and while I’m having games more accessible for all players sometimes there are just things able-bodied people can do that handicapped people cannot. A guy in a wheelchair can’t do a cartwheel. That doesn’t mean we should take cartwheels out of gymnastics, it just means we need to think of something that both of us can do.
The assist gems are neat because they help out bad players, but in the hands a good player it removes a lot of the meta-game that makes higher level play enjoyable, it really does make every match stale, like playing against a CPU - never going to crossup or get a dirty mixup at all.
If people are debating there is a debate. The Blocking assist gem isn’t broken. If you are using the level 3 blocking assist you are going without two other gems that could give you more health, damage, meter when you are doing something active. The blocking assist only kicks in when you mess up and even though it only takes 1/6 of a meter, you can’t tag cancle or do an ex move with 5/6 of a meter. You are trading away some of your most powerful moves. If someone has the gem and you land a hit, finish the combo becausse you are robbing them of meter and building your own. Plus everyone has access to the gem regardless of what character u choose, so the comparison to akuma in SF2 does not apply.
Meter builds so fast in this game I swear you build it standing still, so that auto block eating 5/6 really isn’t robbing of them of anything. Not to mention that if they have 2 meters…well then yes they can do all those things.
Yes, they can’t equip other gems, but look at it like this. Would you rather a gem that increases your health, one that increases your strength, and one your speed? Or a single gem that blocks every mix-up, cross-up, lets you walk forward block, eliminates the threat of frame traps, let’s some characters block in usually unblockable situations, and because of how fast you build meter, is effectively active the entire match?
I play extra stupid and lame when someone is using an auto-blk/tech gem. I would usually get 1 hit and literally just run the whole time with vega/chun
I’ve played autoblock users who super, EX, alpha counter, etc. There’s always more meter where that came from. Remember that these players are still blocking correctly 90% of the time, building more than enough meter for the other 10% of the time. Lots of meter to spend.
And you’re losing out on gems that give you more health? Are you joking? Every time you see a flash, that’s a combo that you didn’t get because of autoblock. Multiply that by 5-10 times in a round and it’s basically a “+1000-2000” fortitiude gem that is active for the whole round, except the first 3 seconds of round 1.
I can’t believe this game is failing.
I beat someone using the 1/6 or whatever auto block gem last night. It wasnt EASY but I did it.
flash flash flash flash flash flash flash flash lol
the best strategy is to not rush down someone with these cheap gems, all they do is literally wait for a mistake then just punish.
The best strategy is to kick them out of the lobby
Yeah, pretty much. We can all at least discourage the use of these gems for now via kicking users, and sending hate mail and such.
There’s a 4th option. I’ve started creating a list of people I run into that abuse assist gems. I just bail if I see someone on that list. As long as I remember not to mash start, problem solved.
I always send some kind of troll mail to assist users, I believe it’s the way forward.
how does kicking these people and sending them hate mail make any sense at all
how is this different from people who ragequit when you throw too much and send you mail afterwards like “I don’t give wins to throwing bitches learn to really fight”
auto tech and auto block are in the game. if you wanna say “that makes this game stupid” I’m sure plenty of people will agree. but that doesn’t mean you start sending hate mail, that means you find a new game to play.