Unless its a different team than the one that did SF4, I have very little faith in this “mystery” team.
kudos to that. We are suppose to believe they are an awesome “mystery” and better than today’s tournament players. the team that thought Sagat was weak in SF4? How they fail to see him being OP to the rest of the cast but not only that he was considered “weak”
I think the team that was working on the balancing of the original game just didn’t really think through how Sagat would be dominant with the FADC system. Making uppercuts safe on block and making his normals basically do twice as much damage as everyone else’s. Now that everyone can see much better what high level play in SFIV has come to or will inevitably be about I think it will be easier to balance the game around that.
And let’s not forget that when they made the first game, they had to balance it from the ground up. This time they’re simply fine-tuning, and they’ve also been able to follow how the game has grown and evolved over the past year+, at both high levels of tournament play, and in the general public. There will be less surprises this time around.
However, I grant you that I too have no idea how they messed up Sagat so badly.
Setting Sagat aside, here are the decisions that made me lose all faith in the balance team for SF4:
EX Mask/Claw throw. WTF are you for real? Who thought moves like this were even remotely ok?
EX Oicho. Really? Spend a bar for a worse move?
Blanka rolls punishable on HIT. >_<
Rose EX Spiral: Having a gap between the invulnerable frames and the active hit frames was genius guys, really.
Guile. Enough said here, cause I could bring up the hitbox on FK, or his total lack of combo into ultra (except off super for one hit), or flip kick sucking donkey balls, or the nerfed range on his normals…or…or…or…
EX Snake Strike doing 100 more damage than they intended. Yeah, that crack team of mystery players sure did a great job with this…failing to notice that an EX move did as much damage as some Ultras was clutch guys. Keep up the great work.
Nominate?
Viper’s EX seismo is like Rose’s EX spiral except probably even worse. Even slower start up and the vulnerable frames are obvious. It’s not bad for scaring people from using footsies or fireballs at a distance but using that shit on wake up it’s pretty funny to see it actually still hit people considering how easy it is to option select.
EX Seismo is a strange move like that…used in the right circumstances its amazing…but like you said…its definitely not a good wakeup tool unless your opponent is half asleep at the wheel.
Slap on them Raybans though, and all them problems fade into obsurity 
Dude…as a part time Guile player, I was BEYOND pissed at that.
WTF you idiots…taking the time to design, create and code a new TAUNT when there is real work to do???
nobody complained about all the new alt costumes why woudl they about the shades? :lol:
LOL nobody except all Chun players who feel her new uniform looks like ass.
Or it could be a taunt that does stuff…A lot of characters are getting power-up moves and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of them. Or I just haven’t read much because I’m lazy and it was revealed that it is just a taunt…
she looks like a chinese figure skater. I would have liked her Alpha costume. Or, IDK, Chinese policewoman or something a little Crouching Tiger?.
At least both her original and her alt costumes are actually pretty nice so 2/3 isn’t bad.
As long as he has tigershots, tiger knee and FADC TU he can’t be bad. Not even if he had 2 normals.
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Damage is reduced but he still seems like a very solid character. He’s just going to be really good rather than completely nuts.
Jesus Christ…his damage got nerfed HARD… >_>
Everything else about him is really solid, though, like Evil said. Which is good. And he still has Tiger Scar to power up his TUs.
I definitely think Sagat mains will be fine. Just those who are offensive (Like Emblem) will be kinda screwed over.
Holy shit. Hit confirms into TU will be ASS now. wowowowowowow. I wasn’t even thinking about that till I saw the vid.
How are any hitconfirms into any guaranteed damage ever ass, especially from a cr.lk?