Damage scaling is so fucking retarded in this game lol. It literally punishes you for doing hard as hell combos.
1. Timer is too fast
2. Regen HP is way, way too fast / too much
3. Balance of characters is EXTREMELY off
4. Cross-ups glitch so much its just 50/50 on a lot of them (cross up J.MK but land in front of them, middle of screen?????)
5. Comebacks aren't possible hardly at all, but that is due mostly to #1, thus there is NO HYPE in this game. NO HYPE = DEATH in FGC
Balance may be off, and it may be evident, but I think the comeback mechanic is MUCH more important to the game than that, it generates the most hype, Ala XF3. Fix pandora, fix timer, fix regen HP (seriously, these all could be fixed with such a simple patch. Alter pandora time and damage multiplier, alter the speed of the clock, slow down regen), and then work on balancing. Shit I should work for capcom.
Pandora is retarded. It doesn't need fixing. Just fix life regen or make the timer longer. Or fix the gem select so people can use them in tournament.
If something is useless, it needs fixing (coughpoison'soverheadcough). It needs to be fixed or removed. Fixing it will increase hype'd comebacks, that's why I said it. Now Gems, gems are fucking stupid and should only be used for fun and not in a tourny setting, imo.
I don't see why you can't just do the following for gems:
1. Select gem type (power up, defense up, speed up, etc)
2. Select condition (hit opponent 5 times, partner performed launcher, etc)
3. Select gem strength (1 slot weakest -> 3 slots strongest)
And then repeat until all slots filled or exit.
Having to memorize the gem code or having to set them in advance are horrible.
Also another thing that bothered me a lot... why can you only configure your buttons one player at a time? I've been noticing that during streams that during button checks, one player would configure the buttons, he will do it first and then the second player can get to configure his buttons, and they can't do them at the same time. That's just crazy.
I know, it's retarded as hell. This game is just a bunch of crazy ideas piled on top of eachother with no real direction or proper execution.
This drove me fucking nuts, 1) because they took a big step forward by allowing you to set buttons at the character select screen and 2) any game that does not include press-to-set button config post-2011 needs to be chased with pitchforks and torches, and the last game they had put out prior was the 3SOE port which had non-stupid config method.
comeback mechanics shouldn't have existed PERIOD! SF4 having ultras as a pseudo-comeback mechanic is sorta ok, but honestly, capcom really fucked it up by making such a stupid mechanic happen.
Marvel 2 had comebacks and they were actually jaw-dropping impressive. Marvel 3 comebacks are a laughing stock...lol
At least in those games characters deal damage which would actually make comebacks possible if you got on a roll.
So yeah... I had to turn off WNF because this shit was so boring, HOWEVER, on the topic of marvel, did anyone watch Big Two? Holy shit, some crazy hagar stuff, a guy was losing and just got team super'd, wound up triple happy birthday-ing (code name: Merry Christmas'd), then he choked the end when the opposition's hagar won with a pixel left and no XF3. It was pretty fucking awesome, that whole set was awesome can't wait for Spooky to upload it.
http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky/b/316946473
2:35:30
I came here for Roy's video, but I didn't watch it.