Posts made by Frikcha

Seconded, I now there are always gonna be launch difficulties for a game but I really would like to know what my MS is for a competitive action game where timing is important, also if there are even servers close to australia

All it needs is a longer stun or some mechanic to guarantee that you get a free combo started from it, at that point you restore half a bar and the enemy has to waste one to escape your attacks which makes it a parry well used.

100% depends on how the devs respond to our feedback because they sure as hell have a head-start to being a great competitive game, just needs a little more time to find itself.

Using some color blind settings you could probably change the color of the blood and you can mute character voices individually to avoid the swears.

I do like your suggestion for 2 player Dojo though.

@Omid-RG Gigantic was cool but it was like Bleeding Edge on release only somehow worse, there was potential but they tripped themselves over out the gate and didn't have anywhere near enough basic balancing for people to want to play more than 4 games. Everyone says they missed it so much but from my experience of playing on launch the game was barren after like 3 days

Have played a few days of bleeding edge including betas and release, came because I have a long history with competitive/multiplayer action games and consider them to be my favourite genre.

I'll start by saying this game has huge potential but obviously has some issues that I will try to address in order of importance.

[NECESSARY]

General lag: pretty sure a week old game with cross-play on release and OCE servers isn't going to be putting me with unfavourable server's 24/7 so that means its probably not an ms issue more an net-code issue.
I love so much about this game but it really does have one of the worst on-launch latency issues I've seen for a game in a few years: Every time an enemy jumps or dashes without fail they will just disappear and you won't know which direction they went, they just disappear off your screen because they jumped or hit dash and the server can't handle telling me which direction they dodged in.
On top of that if there have been wayyy too many times where something crazy as a death reset just happens, like you'll kill someone and then they'll do the death animation and it will make the noise and then they'll just flicker back to being alive, the same has happened with me before where I have straight up died and come back to life for a second only to get hit and die for real because of the confusion.
The lag also makes chasing incredibly difficult x as an enemy running away will break out of combos even if you seem to have been close enough.

Combat consistency: There should not be guesswork to the combat, it should be consistent and fair, so why does every different enemy (tank, dps, healer) somehow possess the ability to magically avoid being knocked down sometimes? Seriously some players just do not get staggered when they should giving them free room to escape for no reason despite landing multiple melee combos on them.
On top of that, the ones who are already ignoring staggers (tanks) need to have all of that cleaving power reduced in some way, their damage is fine but they should not be able to just bully two other players by virtue of having uninterruptible melees, they should have their resistance to being staggered tied only to a cooldown ability so that other characters may fight them without ganging up.
PARRYING should also give some kind of other benefit, half a stamina bar is not good enough for how rarely you can use it. Landing a parry should allow you to immediately follow up with a combo that the parried enemy cannot escape from without using an evade and it should restore an entire stamina bar to ranged characters so they have a reason to use it at all. This also makes escaping rarely possible for certain characters like Gizmo if they can land their parries well.

The ranged issue: I really do think its this simple, people have an issue with ranged auto-aim, so simple make a 'marking area' taking up like 50% of the middle of the whole screen where you can only basic attack as a ranged to someone you have slightly centred on your display, this can trick both the camera and player in tricky situations where you're low and slowly melting to death from an unavoidable death turret and dash to break LOS, this will also make ranged characters more skill expressive and give them an excuse to to some cool things they normally couldn't to compensate.

[IMPORTANT (but not necessary]A

More mods: 3 ain't enough, having 4 or five would passive increase TTK for each character in a specific way and allow more varied builds, I think this is a two-birds-one-stone implementation as you'd feel like you can do a little more as an individual player and can create fun, single-ability-heavy builds for replayablity's sake. If you find that it makes certain aspects of a character too OP you can micro-tune the numbers or better yet disable more than 2/3 mods of the same color/type to avoid the stacking being the problematic part. Also a new ultimate for each character would be fairly easily, give the game some lasting power and be an excuse to make more mods for a character.

Individual expression: I fully understanding wanting to lean this game to a more team-oriented style of targeting/grouping/coordinating etc, but you're not winning any prizes by focusing so hard on the concept while ignoring how some character are put-off / punished by this style of play. Healers are abused and I can't imagine why you'd want to play with it being the most important/focused role in the game, you're completely and 100% reliant on your team and not the other way around. If healers healed less and did more damage you could have the best of both worlds, the team fight is equally as skill oriented as before and you have more freedom in target selection both as a healer and when targeting one. To compensate you could give one or more healer's a passive that increases their healing when they pickup attack boosts ooooor increases the heals they do the more teammates are around them: this incentivizes grouping and reduce's the power of a healer who is out of position/hasn't been healing their team well enough.

[WOULD BE NICE]

Balanced 1v1s: as of now you can't usually call 1v1s balanced despite the parry system in place, I think for the sake of pure enjoyment and welcome depth there could be a multitude of changes made so that the two people 1v1ing to the side feel like they could have each done something. I think the parry changes I suggested earlier fit here perfectly on top of having more mod's so that they can do more with each aspect of their kit to turn the fight. Your very first or first two basic attacks to an enemy should be low but they should come out as quickly as possible so you can use the game's mobility system in unison with the stagger system to secure the opener of a combo and force evasions more consistently, it would also be worth having more mods to reduce healing in general as I've found very few for how impactful a decent healer can be on their own by kiting and never dying.

Critical Parry: A critical parry would be a player's option to counter being jumped on by multiple enemies that isn't just spamming movement abilities and hoping to run into your healer. A critical parry would trigger when you manage land a parry while in melee distance of 1 or more other champs, it will essentially give every enemy the 'parried' animation but for slightly longer and will refill the stamina bar based on how many you hit.

Nuke / Train: On some maps the train literally comes out of nowhere with no warning and likewise the nukes can completely destroy the comeback of a losing team on power cell modes. The nukes should deal a bit less damage on their own and the train should honk before it enters the map (is it is effectively invisible until it crosses the gate.

I know this is a long one but I sincerely hope there's just one dev writing even 1 or two of these things down for future consideration, I love games like this and I will do anything to make sure it doesn't die and make sure it at least sets a good example for the future of the genre or god-forbid it get polished to the moon and back and becomes a solid competitive game of its own

The game is designed for a controller and its the better way to play most characters, you ignored that and are complaining about a secondary system people don't have an issue with on average, 60fps cap is due to the game being both competetive-action and cross-platform, it almost impossible for a dev to just bain-aid that issue, it requires an immense amount of animation tuning and overall consistency fixes to keep it consistent across the platforms.

Also you already gave them what they want, you bought their game's pass and gave them a dollar, this game was designed for the game-pass, they do not care so please try to keep your criticism on-topic

I can't wait for ranked, but for a game like this they 100% need to do a few things differently.

(1) Of course but only if the penalties for leaving are immediate temporary bans from ranked.

(2) Individual skill rating system that grades you based off your positive impact on the game (getting cc that leads to a kill, winning 1v1s, attacking targets who attack the healer, keeping your teammate's as high as possible as a healer, etc) If your improvement in ranked tiers is based on something as basic as winning or losing then no one in their right mind would play ranked without a 4-stack because otherwise you're leaving your own rank up to the other 3 players on your team.

(3) Having more mods. Even if its just for ranked having only one more mod slot would create a huge amount of build variety for each character and reduce time to kill which would allow/challenge each individual player to both team-up effectively and prove their individual worth in each fight being able to do more on their own

I have the same issue, don't know if I'm playing with other Australians or what because the lag is so dodgy in every game. Every time an enemy jumped or evaded all I saw on my screen was them teleporting, and yeah I get pulled back in time to die and then come back to life