The one Balance Patch a Year cycle is over - Street Fighter 6
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- So we had another installment of Capcom TV and while there was no dlc or character announcements or anything like that for street fighter 6, there was important news from takayuki nakayama the SF6 game director himself, the 1 patch a year cycle is over!
If you want to check out the capcom tv stream for yourself check here (about 2 hours, 18 mins in): • 視聴者の皆さんとジャイアント豪鬼に挑戦！カプ...
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So quick video for you today(check out the lidia trailer too if ya didn't, posted during the night). Its not a lot of news, but its kinda important news if you have been following along with this whole crazy Street Fighter 6 thing. The infamous decision for only 1 major balance patch for the first year of SF6, that won't be going forward come Season 2/Year 2 of the game, simple as that. All in the vid so give a watch, link to the capcom tv segment in the video description if you wanna see it for yourself, and enjoy!
(Don't have to answer btw, I am a guy who has yet to actually get into fighting games) Rooflemonger, does balance patches broaden the potential longevity of a fighting game? An argument I can make is that beloved fighting games such as Third strike and Dark stalkers have existed for a long time though still have a die hard audience regardless of the state of its characters (think Q, Victor). My point is they haven't been updated for a long time. Would having more consistent balance patches or bigger but further spaced out balance patches be the way ensure longevity of a game? Personally the fact they took a long time to make patches to the game can only be a good thing. Looking at KOF XV, big balance changes happened all the time. Though I don't know how it was for the people playing, I could only imagine for a semi-casual player base it can almost be 'hard' to adapt to. (Majin Obama: "war has changed" [you can no longer just pick the top tiers])
@@adriakkoartisto5567 those games existed before patching was a thing. You just simply bought the new version of a game. The state of MvC2 balance would never be acceptable in todays landscape and the game would quickly die if it was left as it was.
@rooflemonger so I have seen some reviews talking about the game circa 2000-2010 to now. All in all, you are right in your statement from what I could find. I guess balancing is very important and the more the better. Capcom making smaller but more consistent balance patches during upon the release of new dlc does seem like a good idea moving forward. Thank you for your time.
I'm still glad they took the first year to learn. The latest patch shows shows how specific they're willing to be with some of the changes, and that probably means they know exactly what makes the game tick.
They're not reacting to the most kneejerk and terrible solution suggestions, so I think I can trust what they do.
Facts
I do. SF6 has been stellar thus far.
I will trust them to make good decisions with SF6 because its in their best interest too to not make another SFV
Since the beginning they offered us a very food game with outstanding new stuffs. Since day one i trust the new team of SF6
"Jamies drinks should carry over each round"
Also tried to get the Akuma guide up today but just so much work to go just yet. 95% likely though it will be live for tomorrow morningish. It will be a BIG ONE, with tons of good stuff in it for everyone at all levels of play so stay tuned for it. Also im not done editing yet but expect it to be an hour long at minimum lol
Im psyched to see the fucked up raging demon setups
Lets goooo!
I'm here for it baby!
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Thank you for your hard work once again Roofie! We don’t deserve you 🥲
I prefer quality to quantity, so I hope Capcom keeps up its quality work at its own pace.
We all want that but just to freshen up the game and switch the meta I think three or four a year would be good.
@@grahamjl766 I'm kind of confused by this. I remember back in SFV, people were very critical of many patches for this same reason. People felt that patches in SFV were just to shuffle the roster around so that different characters were meta. Now, people want more frequent patches to... shuffle around the meta.
@@crazymumboSome people are just never happy
@@crazymumbo I didnt play sf5, but one patch a year is insanely stale especially when the extra content sucks like their crossovers that look terrible and can only be used on custom characters like Yor lmaoo
@@iAmSeverein terms of content and characters i agree but balance nah frequent patches regarding that is a headache
Having Ed style balance patches would be the best sprinkled throughout the year during character releases and then having the big balance patch once a new season starts. Do agree though the spacing for dlc characters needs to be better. The wait between Aki and Ed was torture. Thankfully they're both super fun characters
Thumbnail Ryu Has Hatched A Devious Prank.
Would make a lot of sense if they just did a mid sized patch every time a new character is released
HELL NO. Thats like 4-5 patches a year which feels like way too much. 2-3 patches a year sounds ideal.
@@trippersigs2248 yes but I said medium sized patches, not as big as this one. Not every character would have to get a change every patch. Some could just be quality of life changes too.
Was a interesting test for season 1
I’m happy they switch it up
I really hope it's some stuff like every time they add a character they have a small patch and then a final retooling at the end of the year. too many patches is dull but one patch every 2 or 3 months sounds about right.
Thank goodness. I read this earlier and I said a stern "yes." Keeps the game fresh and healthy!
I originally thought 1 patch a year was good because people get to learn about matchups and not have a random knowledge check, but with how big the patch is i now realize it's bad, especially for mid level players. All the combos you may have learned and practiced for up to a year have changed, or in some cases completely removed. High level players will be able to change easily, low level players generally won't know but the mid level it's tough having to relearn things
Just about everyones combo routes are still intact with the new balance patch. The only character that had a combo route or two altered was Deejay but they've done good making sure combo routes don't get altered. And they even added brand new routes for people to learn on top of that. That's how you do it imo
Wouldn't we have a bigger issue if we have more frequent patches though? That means we need to be constantly keeping up and catching up and re-learning our muscle memory. I don't think that's a good thing. Not everyone has time to grind over and over again in training mode just because combo routes have been invalidated. Just to answer the @ADreamingTraveler, you generally want to do the best combos for the situation and that means you need to learn the new combos to be competitive, not to mention sometimes old combo routes have massive scaling changes meaning their damage is now reduced, e.g. light confirms got a 20% scaling now in season 2, which means *everyone's* combo routes got significantly changed.
I'm sure who you main plays a big part in how happy you were with such an extended patch cycle. I can't imagine many Ken, Luke or JP players were in too much of a hurry to see a balance adjustment!
They probably did that to see how the game is for a year.
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its shit
now they know
@Senumunu cry harder. You probably can't play the game anyways
@@Senumunu The FGC when glorp shittos 4HK does 1% more damage per piss rush cancel than they'd like
@@limelight58ableI bet you play modern controls
Hot take: Balance patches isn't supposed to be content and its bad that people would rather have more changes just to "make things interesting".
From the combo videos I have seen changes that I thought were minor or would prove insignificant to changing that character's ranking in the tier list; like manon, e.honda, chun li, etc it made the tier list closer to the middle now.
Heck even akuma while oppresive af is pretty balanced
I don't know how they should implement this, but they really need to do something about the problems with the World Tour mode and the avatar system.
not sure why, but Ryu's face in the thumbnail killed me
I don't like the idea of having a ton of patches just to get casuals to play more. There are better ways to do that. More costumes, maybe exclusive limited time colors etc. I like one patch a year and I think there shouldn't be more than two patches a year personally
Yeah, any of that crap matter when your character is in the bin
@@OhNoTheFace Bro what are you on about? No character in SF6 is that awful. One of the "worst" characters just won combo breaker and most casual players aren't even good enough for tiers to matter anyway.
Costumes were huge for keeping SFV alive. But the content pipeline for this game is agonizingly slow and I'm not sure why it takes them so long.
@@xravia79 oh yes the strawmen argument
@@ygorknowles5681 Elaborate. Because I'm convinced you don't even know what a straw man argument even is.
I still like they let the game get figured out for a year. Although more patches is good now that the playerbase has decent understanding. Agree with patches + DLC character being a good pace. I'd also be ok with patch then a few weeks later DLC to maintain a more consistent level of interest.
Game was figured out after 4 months
@OhNoTheFace since beta 2. Seriously ken players just stayed mashing on drive rush and we thought that mechanic would get nerfed for how strong it is. How wrong we were
I think 2-3 patches a year should be fine.. and if they don’t Buff or Nerf someone sometimes that cool too.. it feel like they’re going in the right direction and I don’t want them to drop the ball over and over again.. cause then you’ll just fuck some characters all up man 🤦🏻♂️
4-5 patches a year is the max I'd want tbh
In my dream scenario we'd get 1 big seasonal patch and then 3 smaller patches every 3ish months or so.
My biggest gripe with the patch is that we still got the same clunky ui with not much creativity behind it. I liked when sfv got a new season the whole menu changed with it. Felt like a fresh game
A decwnt balance patch with every new dlc character makes the most sense imo
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I personally stopped competing in tournaments after about 8 months of year one. I didn't want to deal with the game's meta anymore. I am currently enjoying the season 2 changes. Let's Go Gief!
Good, I'm glad the 1 balance patch a year thing is no more. Hopefully, with Year 2/Season 2 of SF6, they will add more DLC characters to the slate and shorten the time between each one.
Sf6 really needs to up that dlc pace. I can't lie, mk and tekken have larger rosters and what feels like more frequent dlc and those kept my interest a little longer than sf6. Tekken 8 could definitely run into that dlc frequency issue down the line but they seem to patch more so we'll see who keeps winning my time. I hope sf6 reels me back in with some awesome evo announcements.
If they keep their current pace, then they’ll easily surpass their previous rosters.
But will it be balanced?
@@pn2294 the game wasn't that balanced with fewer characters so Im not really worried about balance. There's always going to be a character that edges out the rest. They seem like they know how to make sure the disparity is smaller than larger.
@@tavianfloyd6589but this game was incredibly balanced.
One of, if not the most widely agreed on by the community to be a fighting game that is the most balanced with its vanilla version.
I mean, Lily won a recent tournament.
Yes it has is top tiers characters, but the gap between characters has been reduced.
@@pian-0g445 The game is fairly balanced but there are definitely some stand out performers and weak characters.More characters would have done a better job of keeping me interested. I do commend street fighter 6 for the balance but Capcom is a big company that could give us more characters if they made it a priority. And too your point, the Lily that just won a major tournament was post patch Lily so maybe they should patch the game more often too lol.
Rooflemonger always Nails whats on my Mind about SF6, yes WE NEED more Patches and Fresh Air otherwise the Game feels dry. Only SF Boomers like the Idea of waiting another Year for Patches and fixes and new DLC Characters. Keep the Game fresh and exciting is the right Move!
I've been meaning to get back into SF6 recently and the patch was a good reason to. Been scooping people with Gief and the game is still fun!
I think 2 smaller patches per year like the Ed update would be good and then a big season update once per year.
2:14 I 100% agree! Tekken has been giving me whiplash with the amount of patches it's gotten already, but hopefully, SF finds a healthy balance so that they can have time to analyze actual issues and possibly address them. Dont want them taking too long to patch things, but at the same time, I don't want them changing things just because! Because there have been times in other fighting games (including previous SFs) where SOME changes feel unnecessary like that.
It would be crazy to drip feed content/patches going into year 2. I think the patient approach paid off, and now anything more than a drip feed will seem like a lot. Especially if it's 5 characters this season. Hard to mess this up at this point...
I havent been playing these past two months just cause i was waiting for this patch. Now learning lilly and having a blast
For my manon players perhaps its hope for us yet . 🙏 🤲
yeah manon needs more
Not too frequent hopefully. It took >4 months for people to settle on the meta. Chun Li took several months to climb to top tier.
I'm not that happy how the big balance change turned out to be but I still think waiting a year, letting a lot play out and making educated desicions to fix the core of certain problems was the better move instead of hastingly fixing symptoms, keeping the problem and creating other ones. And it's totally fine that they now come faster, I think at the beginning this is great for the players and the developers when they all know that something won't be fixed up until the first year they'll make sure it goes out working as old console generation games had to.
I am glad they stuck to their guns for the first year and let everyone get used to the game before doing any drastic changes until they were sure they wouldn't screw up the game like some companies. But I think more frequent updates is good, like 2 major patches for year 2, and 3 - 4 major patches going forward.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have a smaller patch for every ranked phase, which should also coincide with the character releases.
Every time I've seen somebody talk about wanting more patches I don't see them saying *how* many.
Like with the conplaints about the Luke and Ken army. (Also do we remember how much JP was complained about? How did that *actually* shake out in the end?
We've seen how they go about doing patches. When they change things there's actual thought put into it. So if it's done too many times I think some of that will be lost because you lose the time to actually see how a character pans out. I argue it should be 2 patches max. *Maybe* 3 but I feel even that is pushing it.
The way that JP complaints ended up was JP being nerfed, I don't see that being an argument against more frequent patching.
Seems reasonable, to better monitor how character's are performing and help lower tiers get a shot for appreciation and keep the higher tiers from being domineering. Good overview, appreciated.
Two a year would be fine, maybe with a small one for emergency cases but I think they more than proved the game could live on just one a year. The meta in SF6 has just been up and down constantly over the past year. Sure Luke stayed up there but Japanese players were putting Ken lower in the tiers, AKI went from low to mid tier even before her buffs and Blanka was suddenly considered top 3 towards the end of the season with no huge changes. I still think they should let the game sit for a while in between big patches.
3-4 balance patch in each year is sweet spot for me. Not too long not too frequently.
I still think that they need to swap around 2 moves for Jamie in the drink order. They need to move Hakkai anti fireball break dance kicks to drink level 1 and move dive kick to drink level 2, that would swap the Break Dance kicks with the Dive Kick, and I think that is a super valid thing to ask for!
It's honestly a testament to how much time they must've spent on balancing the game before launch as to how SF6 was mostly ok without a major patch for a whole ass year.
That being said; maybe every 4 months would be a lot nicer, especially if those smaller balance patches can be used to catch up the weaker characters before big events.
So what's the ideal cadence (apart from a bug fix or some unintended strategy that needs to be fixed quickly). Once a year seems too infrequent; once a month might be too often.
I think some hurt/hit box adjustments would be very welcoming!!!
I don't mind the one big balance patch per year ideology, but they really should've done at least more quality of life changes. Manon's supers were inconsistent until the Ed patch...
Best news to hear.
Good, because 1 year means that thier misses in the patch (Lily and manon) is even more pronounced.
Ideally still gaps, but like 3 or 6 months
This is super irrelevant to the video but Roofle i absolutely love your content and you as a creator. thank you for all the videos you make, you are definitely one of if not my single favorite FGC creators to watch and keep up with the FGC with. Doesnt matter if its MK, SF or DBFZ I love watching your coverage always. Even when I step away for a while, when i come back its always for your videos for some reason. Love you dude, glad you are always here and seemingly thriving :)
I am literally writing this because I was looking for FGC music for my own videos and I heard your outro song and told her about you for like 10 minutes. You are the man
With them updating the game with patches, when do you think they will introduce the season 2 characters in the later months of this year?
More than one patch a year, Akuma, and if they fix the whole Costume price gauging thing I’ll finally hop on board.
Nature is healing.
To be honest I like when patches come attached to dlc characters with bigger patches coming with new seasons. The problem is that many of these developers often drip feed us new characters so slowly when I think every two months is fair. We so often get sucked into buying season passes for the better price forgetting how long it actually takes to Benefit from it all if we re still playing by then. Obviously the answer to a lot of gaming issues is to stop preordering so much stuff until developers catch on that we re tired of it
Now THIS is what I'm talking about that one major patch was not it. I'm really hoping for 2 to 3 BIG patches a year and small fixes throughout
Idk, i kinda liked it. I dont play too often and it was nice to know the game was pretty much the same when i came back a month or 2 down the after i beat a game or 2.
Not the fornite thumbnail 😂
its really hard to think of a thumbnail for a small news video like this, so I kinda just let jesus take the wheel on this one
Smaller patches for each dlc would be way healthier for the game
I’m going to reserve my opinion until we see how this patch shakes out. It still had top tiers, but I still think the last patch was balanced better then most other games I pay attention to.
To your point about not enough patches messing up the meta, i must disagree. Within this first year the discussion of best in the game shifted many times. Juri, Deejay, Ken, JP, Luke, Blanka and Chun have all been tossed in that discussion throughout that year. I think the game was plenty healthy even without patches. Obviously some really made a strong case and needed work but to say that the lack of patches stalled the meta isnt accurate imo
They realized they didn’t make Lily ass enough to not win a tournament so they’re gonna have to nerf her some more..
I dont feel too many patches will ruin the competitive scene. Just by looking at League of Legends (i dont play it but used to), there are frequent patches character buffs/nerfs/fixes, item buff/nerf/fixes and many other things in like a monthly basis. Competitive scene still strives.
Same goes for Tekken 8, the game is just 5 months old and it had many patches since launch, yes most of them were bug fixes and behaviour changes but some characters got some buffs and nerfs nonetheless. The game is still a mess at the moment but the competitive scene is going very well imo.
The little people won here! Yay!
I trust them enough to believe they won't overdo it. I trust them enough that id rather them make changes as they see fit than wait. I'm happy with this.
Edit - I was still playing daily and would be without this patch or Akuma 😁
@rooflemonger no comment on Lily winning combo breaker?
I havent even gone back to sf6 yet lol
Hallelujah
they should drop a patch tomorrow that reverts the ken priority over od moves change 😁
i remember when sf6 came out. the meta was so different if compared to the end of 1st season. everyone (including me) were complaining about jp... blanka was a mid-low tier, etc etc. then everyone developed a gameplan around JP and menard brought an insane blanka to tournaments.
i wonder what would happen if capcom were constantly listening to the community bitching about everything and releasing patchs constantly to satisfy them… lets let them do their jobs! 😂
let the meta reach full potential before releasing patches. look at what happened to t8 and mk1.
sf6 is in a good moment. don’t know why is good to be constantly rebalancing the game only for the sake of doing it.
Im happy with the current philosophy but il take more patches ig
I was still playing sf6 pretty frequently before the akuma patch
This is great news for Lily.
Okay okay, Capcom like is fixing it's mistakes on launch, it seems! Music not everyone's jam? Here is a Jukebox! Not really incentivised to go to Battle Hub? Here is an Akuma raid boss to get more Drive Tickets! And yada yada, you get it, I hope we fix the future costumes monetization and what we get in the Battle Pass, cause I still have gotten neither lmao
Adding a mid season patch is good enough.
Idk how I feel about this
No music lel
That weird coming from you man
This is enough for me to want to play SF6 again.
YEAH!! GOD! THANKS FOR THAT CHANGE!
GOOD.
I much prefer having gameplay changes be only once or twice a year. It's insane to me seeing Tekken 8 players say "well Jun just got nerfed after the game being out for 3 months so I'll just stop playing her until the next update in 2 months where we already know she's getting buffed." I'm not a fan of that system at all, especially when fighting games are all about learning and the information is subject to change every 6 weeks.
It's not the lack of balance changes that does it for me, though I will admit the recent one piqued my interest. Really there just aren't any characters I feel that excited to play in this game. Some new faces a little more often would be nice. We've known about all the characters+dlc for so long it feels like the game's gone unchanged in this area for all its life.
Good to see Rooflemonger is still alive after Lily won Combobreaker last night. Was worried he might have died of shock.
Panda won a tourney once too
@@OhNoTheFace Yeah but this was the first major after Akuma dropped and everyone except Lily got way better buffs (or at least that was everyone's assumption). That's what makes it that much crazier. It's not even that people doubted a Lily player could win Combobreaker, because for that to happen people would have had to be thinking about Lily in the first place. That's how out of nowhere her win is.
@@pdragon619i mean. Combobreaker wasnt that stacked. And it was a few days after the whole new season so a lot of people were just messing around tbf, playing Akuma or suboptimal buffed characters. Plus Noah obviously had absolutely no matchup knowledge on Lily lol. He was letting her get away with murder for no reason. I dont think chalotays win implies that lily is any much better. Hibiki has already been wrecking house pre patch and so forth. Just shows El chakotay is a damn good player if anything
Just a diferent perspective as a casual I watch your patch video not because I became more interested in the game and more because I want to know did the combos that I had a hard time learning stop working?do I have to learn a new combo?the pokes that now I have a muscle memory will get me punished more easily ?that kinda of thing. Yeah SF6 need it more patches I agree but I hope its not Tekken 8 level of every patch something became entirely different.
Depends. At least with SF6 patch, it focuses on specific moves or aspects of the characters that doesn’t affect everything, but usually leads to a change in optimal combo or setup etc.
Like you can pretty much play Ryu the same as pre patch besides some changes here and there. But at the same time, you won’t be utilising the buffs made to him, which means you lack in damage or something.
You’ll usually figure out just by playing though what feels different
I still believe in the 1 (major patch) per year. Patches shouldn’t be done just for ‘new content’ but actually done with purpose (and lots of testing).
However, there’s the issue that if there’s a prominent issue with a character, you have to wait a year for it to be resolved.
Yes, maybe a new tech or something will be created with them to makes it negligible, however, it’s quite risky when it comes to keeping players engaged.
I think there should be minor patches (personally, only 1 or 2), but only to fix very very noticeable problems, and even then, they should be more of a band aid till the annual patch. It shouldn’t drastically change the character, but at the very least reduce the weakness of the character until the major patch comes.
Well that's pretty Cool. 👊😎
They really wanted Ryu to be SSS Tier -_-", Where are my Ken Buffs 😒 lol
I dunno if i agree with people suddenly leaving because not enough patches when Tekken 8 and MK1 have alot more patches and yet atleast given what we can see from the steam charts have dropped off in players far faster then SF6 and SF6 often has higher player peak times then T8 even though its been out far longer and not to mention MK1 having alot more DLC characters out and already being called a dead game by its own community.
some people just keep pushing this fake idea that SF6 is gonna magically lose its playerbase if it doesn't start putting out patches faster or have characters release faster and all i gotta say is.
SHOW. ME. THE. RECIEPTS.
THANK GOD
They need to address the capcom id issue. 😡
This isn't good news for me, but I hope it's for the better of the game
Amazing
Any of you guys tired of Capcom disrespecting Megaman and inafune like that ? Like why wear Megaman costumes and stuff and keep the IP dormant .
sf6 has now surpassed strive (assuming they do more than like 3 patches a year) (they dont need to be massive, just fix op or worthless stuff please
Say whaaaat!?
chicken butt
@@rooflemonger 🤣
I'VE BEEN SAYIN FOR A YEAR, 1 YEAR PER PATCH IS NOT THE WAY
I want Varian characters. It's kind of boring struggling to get my butt kicked with the same moves. Imagine two different Kens (SF5), Ryus (Kage), and Akumas (Shin). We already have Shin Akuma, so why stop there? They've done it in the past already, and I think that will make a lot of people happy and, on the competitive side, open up new strategies. For example, if this variant is having a hard time winning, I could try switching to a different one with a different strategy.
I already uninstalled the game 😂 there’s way too many games coming out this year for me to be waiting another year for them to fix this janky drive system man im good
We need personality in the game. Every character should have a taunt. Like in third strike. It’s a no brainer.
Every character already has three taunts lol, you have to press every attack button at once tho
@@charlieharrington9555 oh shit lol thanks bro I thought only like a few of them had taunts.
@@StArLioN_ no problem!
I disagree. Games end up dying because of too many patches. This doesn’t allow people to learn. Games are made and die by their casuals. If their casuals are put off, sf6 will end up like sf5
thats very much not the case, games thrive when there is more patches than not. League of legends is the perfect example
@@rooflemonger league of Legends, pro players like Double lift have came out and stated the patches are bad for pro players to adjust. I certainly don’t want patches like league.
League is very different from a fighting game, one small change to any moves frames/hitbox can break so many interactions with other characters, causing you to learn new combos or remove combos completely. There’s a reason why fighting games is niche, many people just don’t have the time to learn the game.
As a causal 30 year old player with very limited time, I’ll drop the game if too many changes happen to frames and hitboxes. I wouldn’t mind damage nerfs since those don’t impact interactions.
There’s nothing wrong with having 4 small patches and 1 big one. The only ones I’ve seen voiced a different opinion are UA-camrs for free content or bad players blaming their rank on lack of balancing.
@@martin99110 Dude League of Legends if 15 years old. You literally cannot say that frequent patches lead to games dying when League has one of the most aggressive patch cycles in gaming and has lasted this long.
Also you said SF6 will end up like SF5, but SF5 started off selling terribly and only built itself up after multiple seasons of aggressive reworks So essentially it didn't get good until it was patched to hell and back. If they had followed your advice the game would have stayed dead as fuck.
@@pdragon619 I never said league is dying. You’re putting those words. League and fighting games are two different games. Balancing affects these games in totally different ways.
In sf6 a change in frames will break many interactions. Cause characters to lose combos, What’s league balance? Damage nerf or cooldown nerf. This doesn’t cause you to have to learn to play Zed in a new playstayle. Zed is still zed at the end of the day even with a small damage or cooldown nerf. Meanwhile if Ryu gains more frames in his medium punch, that can break him into a trash character. It can cause him to lose combo routes. Things that people have practiced for hundreds of hours. In league those hundreds of hours you practiced don’t get tossed out the window because your ultimate does 50 less damage.
I also stated pro players like doublelift have came out and said league patches and changes the game too much. This in no way equals game is dead.
Unpopular opinion: I personally liked the game not being patched for the first year. I come from Melee so I’m used to a meta evolving naturally without patches. Also, I didn’t get a chance to play a lot every week so it was nice being able to stay up to date with the game and not feel like I’m falling behind with new patches.
I know other people will have had a different experience if they played SF6 more or are used to a faster update cadence. I’m sure I’ll enjoy year two as well :)
Same I used to play Mlbb and it always gave patches almost every 1-2 month, since the game is simple so I'm kinda okay but imagine that for sf6 is freaking crazy, I need to learn new combo route and +on block for every characters for almost every 1-2 month is exhausting!
@@adamhart2020 Actually, Major patches comes every season to the normal server. They only have frequent changes and updates in the advance server. The next major patch comes with the new character Zhuxin which is end of June. Mlbb does seasonal patch notes in the normal server. Imo, SF6 should have a patch every season, I think that would be just right. Not too long so people don't fall off and lose interest, and not too short. Every 4 months or so a patch comes in is nice. Smash bros did the same, a character comes in every 4 months then a patch note releases along with the smash character.
Game was figured out after 4 months. There was no evolution
@@OhNoTheFace you say that but the capcom cup champ was a Juri player, a character most had thought had fallen off after high rankings in early meta. And he used Juri in a way that was advancing her meta, with the extremely frequent use of lvl2 super, lvl1 super to beat specifically timed fireballs in clutch, and having a wincondition extremely reliant on burning the opponent out (which is quite the contrast to early Juri gameplay which was hyper aggro and burned yourself out like once maybe even twice a round)
@@Amaling A Juri and a hundred other Lukes or Kens. What if your favourite character was someone like Zangief, Honda or Kimberly? You had to wait a whole year or bite the bullet and play characters you didn't enjoy. It's not how online games are supposed to be in my opinion.
I honestly can't believe they tought 1 patch a year would be a good idea in the first place but it is what it is. The thing is that even with no patches and massive void between Aki and Ed there was consistently at least 10~15k+ active players on steam at any given moment. I can only Imagine the numbers if we get both frequent patches and hopefully cool dlc.
Add that to PlayStation numbers, and there was always people playing the game
I understand their desire to keep the balance stable for competitive play. But so many live service games and its players treat balance patch like it is new content. So Capcom probably realize it is easier to keep an active player base by putting out more balance patches.
They proved one patch is all the game needed, they had more players consistently than MK1 and Tekken 8, their one patch was also much, much better than any patch that has been released for those two games balence wise.
i mean it worked and it was a good first season
how can you not believe it? it worked for them perfectly. Tekken 8 had way faster updates and such has dropped below SF6 on player numbers even though SF6 has been out longer. T8 hasn't been able to get past 20k players in months while SF6 gets 25K+ peak players almost every day. hell the akuma patch got its peak up to 69+ which is about over 20K+ higher then Tekken 8 entire peak.