In season 3 they are going to remove the airborne detection so characters like TJ don’t get the best specials for the situation. They are also adding a directional input for doing an opener which will remove a lot of people issues with being able to US CAM to OS crossups, this will also negate some other option selects since you will be forced to intentionally execute the opener. It will also negate new players from being able to mash pokes into combos as they will need to press a direction to start the combo which personally I never thought was a big deal, but I know there are numerous people who were salty about it.
With these changes in place there theoretically is no logical advantage to using CAM as CAM users are subject to the same rules as non-CAM users.
Another change included in the season will be making the opener, linker and ender specials the same for the button. In the current system using Jago as an example, forward and heavy punch will give you a DP damage ender if done in a combo or a heavy laser sword if done outside a combo. This means of you should happen to drop your combo (say if you were doing a manual before the ender and missed the link) you will get a special move which is plus on block rather than them blocking a heavy DP and being free to punish.
The devs originally picked the two best enders and chose them as the two CAM enders, so Jago will go from having endokuken and tiger fury enders to having wind kick and laser sword enders. This change actually means that players will have incentive to learn to input the special moves manually to get access to their best enders.
Losing to CAM means you have holes in your own gameplay. It would be better to analyze your defense and countering choices than to blame a system that may/may not give a new player an advantage.
I’ve played against several of these new CAM players, they mash lights standing or crouching in place. If that doesn’t work, they’ll jump until they get to me. They have no idea how to use specials and normals for pressure. Instead of being mad about them, use them to work on your blocking, find the right spots to come back with your own attack pressure.
Anything else I can say has already been mentioned above, like going in to practice for a while first. I’ve been playing for more than a year now and I can honestly say, I’m still ■■■ at the game.
I have never blamed somebody’s use of combo assist for my losses. I earned them by failing to break and mistiming my attacks. My opponent is not to blame for this. And I won’t get better by expecting my opponents to handicap themselves. CAM is perfectly fair.
Combo assist is apparently here to stay. As one who has put a lot of hours into learning how to do combos properly I find it annoying that people with zero of this skill are on par with me. I bet others feel the same, but I think I have a solution. Make the “Combo assist Disabled” setting do ten percent more damage. That will give people motivation to learn how to play the game how it was originally was meant to be played, and will give us veterans the edge we deserve for going old school.
Veterans need an edge? That they feel they deserve??? Because noobs won’t drop combos anymore???
Lmao usually it’s the noobs getting help fighting against veterans lol not the other way around. That’s certainly the first time I have ever heard this…
I’m at the killer rank, & I have played against my kids with CAM on & off…the only real difference was with CAM on they felt more confident & enjoyed playing more because they were doing a few flashy moves & that looked cool…even though they were losing just as badly. CAM doesn’t make a noob good at spacing, or timing, or breaking combos, or counter breaking…that all still has to be learned.
While we’re at it, make ARIA’s hover faster when you input it with down,down,[up] instead of just [up], and Laser Sword frametrap harder when you use pretzel motion instead of quarter-circle. That would be consistent with this “oldschool” idea of inputs for the sake of inputs.