If you honestly believe what you say then you won’t give a shit what Capcom do, and just keep playing.
The game can be played in multiple ways, simply because Capcom acknowledges this does not make them evil.
Went to the FAQ and I didnt found that this forums are for competitive people… And not, the patches are not bullshit…
What we can learn from this is that it only matters if a character is bad if made so after the initial launch of the game.
The patch allows Sentinel to do all the stuff he could do pre-patch without removing any of it.
Deal with it, Hyper Sodium nerds.
Hugh Mad.
This kind of logic is flawed because Sent could have easily come out of the gates at 905k health then where would that have left you? Would you have still said that the game is “not even crawling” yet and it’s “only 1 month old”? This patch has only been out for a couple of hours and people are already saying it’s such a terrible thing. Game balance is an ongoing process so crying about it and relying on circular logic to assume that patching things now is bad isn’t the way game balance will happen. Another silly thing is thinking that catering to all skill levels will somehow hurt the competitive arena. The fact that Capcom is actively making changes should be encouraged, not discouraged. This will ensure a healthy community and return business that will undoubtedly avoid having to wait another decade for MVC4
People aren’t even bitching over the “nerf” (he’s the exact same character, you just have a smaller margin for error), but rather the principle of it.
That being said, I’d like Capcom to address the glitches that are being revealed by the day it seems.
inb4 sentinel is now garabge/free…uhh nevermind
i dont even play sent anymore, dropped him awhile back… only used him as training wheels to get familiar with the game…
but this is the stupidest nerf ive seen in awhile. sent wasnt broken to begin with.
as someone earlier stated its just a PR patch. and sent had to take one for the team. 1.1 k would have been fine. i HATE this nerf. only good thing about it is that a larger variety of characters will be seen on teams now, especially at the 3rd spot.
but the game should have been patched post evo, not pre evo.
but atleast the patch came a few months before evo so everyone will be able to adjust easily. well owning sent just got even easier
LOL poor robot, mutants should know there place.
-dime
If Sentinel had 900k health from the get go no one (at least in tournaments) would play him. She Hulk beats him like 9-1 now. Who the hell is going to pick Sent when characters like She Hulk and Ama just rape him now? He’s just done. It’s a lazy nerf that doesn’t really fix anything but pretty much fix him away from tournament play instead of doing a real thurough balance that would keep him competitive for tourneys while still making the online kiddies happy. Capcom just removed a character from tournament play basically instead of doing what would keep him competitive.
wow talk about over reacting thats like saying “if they nerfed vanilla sagat’s hp to chun li or sakura you would never see him again”…maybe now you know how stupid that sounds
He’s the same, just can’t get hit as much.
“bawwwww I can’t fuck up 1000 times with Sent now, I have to actually learn the character instead of mashing S and cr.M!! Fuck you Capcom, how dare you make a character take skill!!”
2 fuckups against me and sent is dead.
if the guy you are playing against needs to fuck up 1000 times to lose… it doesnt say anything bad about sent or him… it says some REALLY bad things about you though…
-dime
You could fuck up with sent 1 time against a competent opponent.
Now you can’t fuck up at all.
He’s the same. Huge hit box that gets instant overheaded by most of the cast and shot at all day by Wesker for free. It’s nice that he’ll still do big damage but I just dont see someone with that big of a hit box doing well with 900k health. He doesn’t have enough things that Hulk or Haggar dont to stay competitive at 900k. Everyone’s just going to take advantage of his huge hit box when he gets out and kill him way faster at high level play. I just dont see it.
Not that I play Sent or anything but if they gonna nerf Sent by something as obvious as destroying his health by a 1/3 it makes me wonder what they gonna do to anyone else that looks good. 1 million or 1.05 million I would have been good no complaints. 900k? Like…just break one of his legs off too.
I would have rather seen them give him a damage nerf on his power level/attacks and then bring his health down to 1.1 or 1.05. That would have been better for keeping him competitive. Someone with that big of a hit box is gonna get rocked now by anyone offensive.
Sentinel doesn’t even really win matchups. He’s only good if he fishes you pressing buttons. Most characters in the game on paper beat Sentinel and that health and power kept him strong. Now he loses to everybody, still has a huge hit box and has no health. It’s not like he has a lot of technologies or anything either. All he has is his zoning. He can’t lock you down with offense or even really lame u out as well as some of the other characters. He’s just lost now IMO competitively.
I usually agree with you, but I don’t here. Sentinel is still Sentinel, now with 25% less health. He has still has the insane and easy damage output, still has one of the best assists in the game, still has Level 3 x-Factor, etc.
Just now, you need to play smarter.
half the cast cant fuck up at all and nobody cared but now that sentinel cant people complain? what does that tell you
Sentinel has a number of weaknesses that are very exploitable. His only real defense was his massive health bar. The characters with low health typically have some very powerful tricks they can use for their defense( such as having ridiculously strong offensive abilities). Sentinel, having been balanced and release at 1.3 million health, was not given these. Now he has low health AND no tricks. All he has is damage, which everyone has.
With his reduced health, his assist is actually one of the worst in the game now.
Sentinel stays on screen so long, it’s almost impossible NOT to punish. He loses half his health the first time he’s caught, which makes it incredibly risky to ever use it that second time.
Yeah my point is…the smarter way to play Sentinel now is to just not play him. He’s going to die way too fast with that huge hit box. The only thing people are learning with Sentinel is how to beat him and his faults. He can’t really hit u unless u stop blocking or press too many buttons at him. He can’t force you into bad situations. His assist is still good but there’s a lot of other good assists. I’m just saying competitively I think he’s done. I just dont see people still running him in tourneys with that low health.
Am I glad people wont be playing him all day online? Yeah sure. Just dont like it being at the cost of him pretty much not seeing much light in tourneys anymore unless a ton more things get figured out about him. I just dont see what other technologies people can find out about him.
He seems tapped out to me pretty early at a time when all that people are finding out is that everyone can beat him.
Most of the cast put in that situation have the tools to compensate. Sent was built around having good health, which served as a buffer to cover some of his glaring weaknesses and make his bad matchups playable. Sure it made his good matches hard for the other guy, but it wasn’t gamebreaking.