âŠ(trying to be coy)
Iâm not sure Iâve read a more confusing set of sentences in a long time.
I canât even reply to this because I have no idea what youâre trying to say.
Brother you speak the truth. No one asked for what IG has done to this game. Most of the season 1 players are long gone because this game isnât Killer Instinct anymore. 
It used to be a series about mostly close combat, good reaction, a brilliant combo breaker system, fast fierce battles, cool combo ender and finisher, ultras, etc⊠Now this game is about running away, very little close combat, a bunch of people fighting lame and being rewarded for it by the game mechanics, a wtf combo breaker system thatâs made completely void since it can easily be broken, battles are rarely back and forth now theyâre usually lopsided for various reasons, the main ones being insane damage long unbreakable combos you can do nothing about, etc⊠The game isnât terrible but itâs not Killer Instinct anymore.
Donât know where you are coming from with that, but Iâve been playing since season 1, and Iâm still here.
You are one person not everyone. smh Donât address me. Just ignore my posts please, youâre troll fishing to get me banned, not taking the bait, sorry.
No, you did that to yourself.
What I read:
âYouâre just one person, you canât speak for everyone!â
âIâm just one person, so let me speak for everyoneâŠâ
Leaving the âweâ asideâŠ
If this was really âclassicâ KI weâdâŠ
Have corner-to-corner inputs
A locked combo system (O-D-L-D-E)
A 50/50 chance to break, and only on autos
R/P/S special punish system, so you could beat any move, 100% of the time if you predicted it
Projectiles on every character
Mostly rushdown characters
No counter-breakers
No shadow counters
Etc.
Yes, please do that. That would be fantastic. No one asked for KI to be made into a cheese-fest of mind games(but are they really mind games when you can just spam them ie shadow jago teleports), spammers, lame fighting/turtling, unbreakable combos because the combo breaker system is completely nullified by counter breakers, etc⊠Aside from the fact you abandoned the core roots of the game, without realizing it IG, youâve made a fighting game that heavily favors the pro players/tournament/someone who wants to be in the previous two categories, so much so that no one else likes your game much to play it very long or revisit it often. Who wants to get their brains beat in to the point they feel they have no chance at all taking a 70% damage combo because they made a small mistake or some lag made their block not register in time, etcâŠ?
Thatâs not Killer Instinct, itâs something else. KI 1 and 2 catered to all skill levels. If you were pro level, you could make the right reads and be rewarded for it. If you were average or even a relative noob to those games you could still do well enough to feel you competed and you might win a round or two if you started learning the game. Youâve essentially made the exact opposite game the majority of fans of the first two wanted. And, itâs a pretty safe bet to say the majority. You guys have taken way too many liberties with KI. You continue to add more and more fighting mechanics for the top level players and ignore the rest of the players. You donât take the time to consider how it will effect them when theyâre the vast majority of your player-base.
Letâs not forget this game has been out 3 years now and is still heavily lacking in basic features. Maybe you guys should focus on that instead of adding needless mechanics a couple of hundred pro players will find fascinating but will only make the game even less accessible to everyone else. sigh
lol, this guy.
On a related note, Iâm really liking what the new juggles and flipout do for anti-airing. With Jago Iâm finding ~35% off a HK or crHP using one bar of meter (for a shadow DP) and managing to keep it pretty ambiguous â and since itâs a bunch of laser swords mainly, I can cover up a surprise flipout reset pretty well. I donât know how the damage is going to pan out over time, but it should definitely be a sizeable improvement over anti-air damage in S2.
Iâm beginning to think that some people here mightnât like the changes because theyâre just bad players who lean far too hard on jump-ins for their offense, and donât like that they are being forced to, yâknow, not jump so much. Which is friggen awesome, because fighting an opponent who just jumps all the time is just irritating. Similar thing seemed to happen to recapture, which had a similar effect on neutral of saying âno, weâre going to fight on the groundâ.
How are you leaving the we aside in this second statement? Saying âno one else [besides pros and wannabe pros] likes your gameâ is absolutely speaking for others.
It may shock you to know that a vast majority of the people on this site are neither pros nor aspiring pros. I donât know where youâre getting your data from, but this game seems to be doing pretty well, and my guess is that itâs not based entirely upon a small subsection of a small community (i.e. The pro KI players within the FGC).
Youâre absolutely entitled to your opinion, but everything you posted made you sound like someone that doesnât know this version of KI very well and would prefer a 20 year old game reskinned to look modern. If Iâm misrepresenting your opinion, then itâs not my intention, but thatâs how your post reads.
If thatâs what you actually want, then itâs little wonder why this game disappoints you so much. Itâs a great game. One of the best fighter dive ever played. Itâs a shame that your nostalgia wonât allow for growth in this series. You might see what I see.
I donât mean that in a condescending way. I canât force myself to be interested in Final Fantasy XV because of how much it veers away from what I want in the series (a true fantasy setting, full control of all party members in a turn-based system etc). Final Fantasy VII Remake feels like an abomination to me because of it, even as I really want it to be a reskinned of the old title.
I hope that I can be open minded about them when they launch, especially if they turn out really well. So I do see a bit where you might be coming from. I just think new KIâs a great experience once you get over what itâs not and immerse yourself in what it is. At that point, for me at least, it feels like Killer Instinct. It retains that core, while expanding upon it in ways that dwarf the gameplay mechanics of the originals (which I also loved back in the day and still enjoy) and create something truly fun.
Thatâs just me though. If you disagree, then so be it.
I didnât say we, he did. smh Not gonna bother reading the rest of your post as mine was not addressed to you. Your opinion does not matter to me, sorry.
You use Jago yet have the nerve to talk about anyone else being bad. lmmfao Thatâs so classic, my sides hurt from laughter.
Wow â apparently Jago is only the n00b character now? Because despite S3 Jago being very good, competent players should steer clear lest they be mistaken for one of the legions of Jumping Jagos flooding Bronze in ranked?
I repeat: lol, this guy.
What does âcatering to prosâ even mean? Besides not having laughably low skill celling, of course?
Well⊠at least this guy lasted a few hours after his first ban.
Was hoping he could stick around a while longer, but I suppose it wasnât meant to be.
This one single sentence has given me all the reason I needed to never read another of your posts again.
WhaâŠ? Whatâs wrong with Jago? 
Good argument
My apologies for not understanding the context as you laid it out, but while you might not have been hypocritical, the idea of not speaking for others, which Iâm fairly certain I quoted correctly, still stands.
Regardless, if youâd troubled yourself to read the rest of my post, you wouldâve seen someone that was trying to relate to your opinion, even if I didnât share it on this particular game. I guess we both jumped the gun a bit.
Thatâs fine though. You werenât speaking to me, so apparently I canât respond to you, since thatâs clearly how the Internet works.
Honestly, I donât know why my opinion would matter to you in the first place. Weâre strangers on the Internet talking about a common interest. Itâs nice to have a collective conversation on this site, but itâs not like Iâm over here living and dying with every word you say either lol.