Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
TheFightingFish said:Man, just when I was starting to get a little down on the game, I just hit a perfect match. Just ran into some random fellow scrub in a player match and we were just about at the exact same skill level. His Chris / Chun / Iron Man team took it over my Trish / Dorm / Hulk crew 3-2 but just about every match came down to the wire or just a pixel of two of health.
This game really does get quite strategic when you are in close skill matches like this. Every last bit of red health, every bar of meter, and every inch of screen real estate matters. This game really nails it when everything clicks right.
This is true. I think the only failing of the game in its current state, is that the mid-level game is a little too easy for people - especially online - to devise easymode projectile-sentinel spam and rushdown rape teams. These leave little room for one to actually learn how to get better against. Especially when dealing with input lag situations that favor the rushdown pattern versus the defender who is trying to execute advancing guard, etc, correctly.
I just came from about 30 online matches this morning. 28 bad losses to a nearly infinite string of rape teams, most of which had Sent, Wolvie, or Akuma on them with a Zero sprinkled in for flavor. The last two matches: I actually had a guy and even did much better than usual... and he disconnected at the last second. And finally, I had ONE good match against another player using my exact team comp: Ryu, Arthur, Haggar. I lost, but it was down to the wire, and we were both at the same level of skill.
It was great because it was clear we were each trying to learn how to play out characters "correctly" and experimenting rather than trying to execute a basic lag-proof character loop over and over.
I am getting better and haven't lost hope. I know I'm going uphill with the characters I am using online (especially Haggar). For the moment, I do cringe when a team pops up with Sent and Akuma in it, because I know exactly what is about to happen.
Ironically, I have not fought one single Sentinel/Magneto/Storm team online yet!
Edit: I am also learning how to use Haggar's nearly invincible spinning clothesline assist and OMG, am I ever expecting to trigger rage quits with that thing when putting up a wall with Arthur.