sold its soul to have mass-market appeal. basically every odd element that made the game even slightly unique has been stripped away in favor for more generic or palatable shit instead
Trannies, appealing to a mass audience instead of your core fanbase, and appealing to twitter mobs instead of listening to all of the internet. tl;dr woke capitalism.
I didn't like the tower/floor system.
Strive was the first fighting game I ever tried getting good in, so I was able to work up to floor 9 in a couple weeks as May, but it got to a point where I would win most of my matches on floor 9 and then get promoted to floor 10 and lose 3 in a row.
I think the skill gap between 10 and the top area (celestial floor?) was too high, so a bunch of really good players were stuffed into 10. It was hard to find good matches where I wasn't either dominating or being fricked.
I wish it just had a normal MMR system.
That sort of got fixed when they removed derank protection in season 2 and people shifted down a floor or two on average
It's still not a very good system for ranked though
>Nerfed May because streamer complains about having to adapt to match ups >Listening to input from tourney players to make the super casual fighting game more of a competitive esport >DLC character no one asked for >DLC character that everyone asked for and gets people to look at the game >DLC zoner that is unfun to fight and the only counterplay is to deny matches >DLC character that everyone asked for and gets people to look at the game >troony culture warring >Doubling down on troony culture warring >3 more DLC characters that aren't Johnny
I got stonewalled by celestial challenge and gave up, apparently the older games are better but I don't feel like getting eternally shitterslapped by people who have played them for a decade straight.
The celestial challenge is legitimately difficult, not only are the players up there freaks of natures who've been playing for months but you have to beat 2 of them.
I don't know what you're talking about, the games never been stronger since they brought back the trans icon.
No I will not reply to the inevitable seethe.
>wrong
It consistently has had the most entrants of every single tournament for the past two years. Nice try though.
jews trannies and Black folk
sold its soul to have mass-market appeal. basically every odd element that made the game even slightly unique has been stripped away in favor for more generic or palatable shit instead
Trannies, appealing to a mass audience instead of your core fanbase, and appealing to twitter mobs instead of listening to all of the internet. tl;dr woke capitalism.
>What went wrong
It kept the genre alive while all the big names were still in development and popularized the use of rollback netcode
The gear is no longer guilty.
I didn't like the tower/floor system.
Strive was the first fighting game I ever tried getting good in, so I was able to work up to floor 9 in a couple weeks as May, but it got to a point where I would win most of my matches on floor 9 and then get promoted to floor 10 and lose 3 in a row.
I think the skill gap between 10 and the top area (celestial floor?) was too high, so a bunch of really good players were stuffed into 10. It was hard to find good matches where I wasn't either dominating or being fricked.
I wish it just had a normal MMR system.
That sort of got fixed when they removed derank protection in season 2 and people shifted down a floor or two on average
It's still not a very good system for ranked though
Imma be real besides the server issues and bridget troony pandering it's a very solid game
>Wall breal and gaining +POSITIVE
>When you're already rolling
>A good thing
No.
Skill issue
they forgot to make Sin a real character
Meaningless patches that didn't actually affect game balance
DISMAL lobbies/online functionality
Casual 80% combos and dominant guard break mechanics making setplay comically simple.
Besides the lobbies, everything else is fine.
Daisuke grew tired of living on instant noodles and tried to make some money for once in his life.
They said they were going to release a fix for the online yesterday, did it work?
The Japanese don't know how to network so I doubt it, I also saw that the hacker came back for Asuka and was fricking with streamers as well.
troonyback netcode
Abandoned the heavy metal inspiration in its artstyle and replaced it with the most generic anime bargainbin trash possible
>generic anime
what else looks like strive?
Almost any seasonal isekai anime
DNF Duel for starters. You know, another fighting game ArcSys made.
okay you win
Nothing. It's the only fighting game, other than MvC2, that I put over 100 hours in
>ruins your story
>ruins your balance
I took a month or two off and I gotta say, it's like riding a bike baby, you never forget.
https://streamable.com/267v2k
>Nerfed May because streamer complains about having to adapt to match ups
>Listening to input from tourney players to make the super casual fighting game more of a competitive esport
>DLC character no one asked for
>DLC character that everyone asked for and gets people to look at the game
>DLC zoner that is unfun to fight and the only counterplay is to deny matches
>DLC character that everyone asked for and gets people to look at the game
>troony culture warring
>Doubling down on troony culture warring
>3 more DLC characters that aren't Johnny
Everyone loves Asuka
I got stonewalled by celestial challenge and gave up, apparently the older games are better but I don't feel like getting eternally shitterslapped by people who have played them for a decade straight.
The celestial challenge is legitimately difficult, not only are the players up there freaks of natures who've been playing for months but you have to beat 2 of them.