Goonhub
05-02-2014, 04:38 PM
I relied a lot on luck on the old system, like 70% of the fights I ever won were won by random chance.
The thing is, when "Skill" is involved, the people who can figure out all those little tweaks and twists will dissect the hell out of them until it's like clockwork for them. For those of us who don't want to devote that kind of time and energy to learning how to fight in a 2d spaceman game, we get steamrolled. It's already like that for a lot of key shortcut exploits, some of which may have been nerfed but damned if I can tell (grabbing for instance, I still manage to get grab-choked in less than a second or two; I've seen a changeling power through 5 bodies in under a minute). My only weapon against any of that has always been that I might be lucky enough to get a cheap shot in at them and knock them the heck out so I can get away in time.
It's going to change whether I like it or not but I might as well say why I don't like it if you're asking. So whatever.
The thing is, when "Skill" is involved, the people who can figure out all those little tweaks and twists will dissect the hell out of them until it's like clockwork for them. For those of us who don't want to devote that kind of time and energy to learning how to fight in a 2d spaceman game, we get steamrolled. It's already like that for a lot of key shortcut exploits, some of which may have been nerfed but damned if I can tell (grabbing for instance, I still manage to get grab-choked in less than a second or two; I've seen a changeling power through 5 bodies in under a minute). My only weapon against any of that has always been that I might be lucky enough to get a cheap shot in at them and knock them the heck out so I can get away in time.
It's going to change whether I like it or not but I might as well say why I don't like it if you're asking. So whatever.