This is NOT the same Guilty Gear Strive

Let's go. Look at this. This is insane. These are just new game modes and like new stuff that they're adding, right? I get it. Main menu, UI, character select, training. Yeah. Ranked match changes. Sure. Battle related adjustments. Watch this. I'm going to have to become a a full-time Guilty Gear Strive patch notes stream. And dude, even without that, like so many things of the game have changed. You can no longer RC after an invincible super, block or hit. Wow. That's like a fundamental way the game is sort of played. Here's my question. With all of these big changes, like it doesn't really change my opinion about the game because I'm just not as intimately familiar with the mechanics that happened after like season two, season 3. I understood what Wild Assault was good for and I understand why it's good that it's probably gone. But my question is, how has the game changed? Has it gotten more or less interesting? Is it different for the sake of being different? Or is it a bit closer to the spirit of older Guilty Gears? Is it more defensive? Is it more offensive? Is it heavily focused on like the strike throw aspect of the game? Less 50/50 on wall break. That's interesting. Let's read what the uh the overall battle direction is at the top. The problem is is that I just have not invested a lot of time into the game over the past couple of years. Even though a couple of characters have been genuinely cool. I need to like have a stream where uh if I'm going to jump back into Street Fighter 6 and relearn some stuff because I was having fun. Across the past updates, there has been a steady expansion of offensive and potential combos, meaning that more situations uh could cause a single hit or counter hit to lead to heavy damage. As a result, this made it often the case where a single interaction could largely determine the rest of the development of the match. Well, I mean, that's what happens when like you do a billion damage off of/heavy/ special move. In 2.0, we aim to adjust the battle balance by re-evaluating offensive and defensive to strike a better balance between risk and reward. These adjustments do not aim to supply to tone down damage. Okay, but it made it clear what what actions will have greater effect in different situations, creating a flow of battle where players can gradually turn the tides to their advantage over multiple interactions. So like three interactions instead of two. For these reasons, the adjustments include many changes that make it more challenging to gain major rewards from actions. This includes increasing damage proration, consolidating of startup frames, adjusting the state of after invincible moves, limiting the return on Roman cancel, and more. As a result, the changes may seem more restrictive than before from both a game mechanic and character perspective. Uh the intention is to prevent the baseline from rising further, creating a clear standard for future battle balance. We expect that the overall flow of battle going forward will take shape with the balance of risk and reward established in this version of the core. So, they're toning a lot down and that's so that they can raise the power levels again later. some things were getting out of hand like on some characters like no matter what like characters I guess like happy chaos and stuff like that were always going to wreak havoc on the game and then you can increase the power levels of like everybody else the power levels of the game the power levels of characters to circumvent that but then the game starts to get sort of out of your control where it's like oh things are just all over the place now dude what they're saying is for the sake of the future of the game they're toning down a lot of [ __ ] this is honestly what we wanted from [ __ ] Tekken counter blitz damage state hurt boxes, hit boxes, psych burst, and deflect shield commands. PRC works as a way to create advantageous situations while limiting the opponent's ability to punish you. However, it made it possible to deal extremely high damage upon a successful read from an advantageous situation, forcing the defending player to make highly risky choices. We have adjusted that when PRC is used while the opponent is not taking damage, damage pration is applied for a set duration. Ah, okay. So, damage scaling kicks in really hard. they perfect parried slash, you know, perfect uh defensed it from from Fatal Fury. So, if you do get a PRC situation that leads to a hit, uh scaling is going to kick in pretty hard. The paration does not apply in situations where the opponent is already taking damage, such as during combos, but this limits the damage possible when using PRC and like neutral. Yeah, frame traps or mixups. Throw offense and defense actions with invincibility. We've reassessed the risk and reward of various actions with invincibility for invincible special moves. We have adjusted the situation on hit and block while maintaining the rolls reversals. We have adjusted the blowback recovery of invincible moves so that could lead to into okmi on hit so that they now return you to neutral and now you need to do punisher on block. Damn, this is so many fundamental changes. We have revised the even 6P is getting nerfed. Previously different characters 6P attacks would enter a low profile stance at different frames. This means that only some characters could interrupt certain strings. We've made adjustments to unify these conditions, making this so that all characters start from a slightly reduced upper hurt box as of frame one, and the hurt box shrinks to its smallest size at frame four. This makes your ability to interrupt strings less dependent on the character. Did they make it better? Counter hit damage changes. All right, let me let me let me This is This is getting too deep for me. I haven't experienced a lot of these things to understand like why the changes are cool or different. What happened to you? What happened to you, Lfelt? You're the one that I was hoping would get more sauce or something interesting. So your jab is shorter. Your crouching jab is shorter. Decrease the launch height. Okay. So she these are these are nurse. All right. Change attack kickboxes on certain followup hit boxes. Expanded hurt box backwards during startup. A projectile with different properties now fires when holding the button. What? When holding the startup is 16 frames slower. What the hell? We have added a new mechanic to M Charlotte to explain it to the utility neutral and strings. It also is easier to use up high as mix up against opponents who have invincible moves. On the other hand, we have revised the composition of her combos and strings to make it harder to loop her mixup. We have also toned down her moves that offer high reward with little risk. Miss Charlotte can be held to trigger a second attack hitbox. It performs one hit before the bullet trajectory changes and one hit after. This is weird. That gives Elfelt a significant advantage if the opponent blocks it at close range, making it great for extending her offense. I'm assuming this is what almost every character went through, right? We've expanded the upper box to make it uh a first up high so that it forms a gapless block string against all characters and making them block up high after Here I go. So, this isn't like a Tekken situation where it's like just the character I want to play gets [ __ ] and everybody else gets better. I Is this an actual universal mass nerfing to the whole game? Or is it a Tekken situation where a bunch of other characters have like hidden buffs? The opponent will now tech after they're hit by nailed it. This makes it challenging to recreate the same situation from an overhead low. Miss Charlotte out of repair ends up directly after hitting, meaning the advantage remains the same regardless of position. Makes it harder to punish the unblock from any distance, meaning it works better as a lunging move. However, it creates more distance on hit, making it hard to maintain offense afterwards. We've increased we've decreased the movement speed of bomb bomb. Uh decreasing the forward distance. This tones it down as it was powerful option to mix up and beat out opponent pokes while providing high reward on hit. It'll no longer work as a crossup unless at a closer distance. Interesting. And no longer Roman cancel the super. Really? I'll have to hit some buttons and see what happens. This is a lot. PRC from super was super abused. You can do it on whiff. Yeah, I remember seeing that. I remember I remember actually getting to that a little bit if [ __ ] didn't work. Leo seems like one of the bigger buffs from everyone in this patch. Again, the problem is it's the character I played in XR. Dude, we've improved his pressure in backstance. This is a crazy sentence. Make it possible to jump and perform jumping attacks during the stance. In exchange for this, we have adjusted his central moves he uses to enter the stance, such as Tribulence um and the HS version of Einstrom. Did they make the command grab better? Yeah, Zatoto was good for what, like the first couple seasons or something like that and then he just hasn't been good since. People saying there's a video. Is this it? 14 hours ago. Mankind knew that they cannot change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blame the beasts. Heaven or heck. Heck or heck. I'm looking forward to playing it because it is so different. You know, I think that's their I think that's their idea behind this patch is that they're trying to get people back in some way. And you know what? It does feel like a Strive 2.0. At least from a reader perspective. A lot of this [ __ ] is crazy, dude. Here's my question. Does Does this put the game a bit closer to what it was back near 1.0 with just more moves? Like specifically gameplay-wise? I think we just have to wait and see. Not really. Okay. Jesus Christ. Can we do something to see other stages? Did that go through any changes, chat? I swear to God if I see that drab ass stage in Guilty Gear Strive one more time. Ow. So, there was a PRC punish and wow, that damage proration. Holy [ __ ] That's a big counter hit, dude. Look what the counterhit damage did. Do you see that? Holy [ __ ] me, dude. It's nothing. It's literally nothing. The PRC punish does nearly nothing. All right, so I I'm starting to see what they're talking about. This isn't These aren't small changes. Like that would have put him Whatever this combo was before would have put him into guts. Would have put him into one more touch, right? Uh interesting. Wow, dude. That [ __ ] did 15%. All right, SF6 will be the same game for another year. I mean, I hope not. I hope season four. I hope that [ __ ] changes. I'm looking forward to jumping back and playing this. It's been a while, dude. I had a good time that one night we were playing with um Steven Simmons. It didn't feel good that I figured out the good combos for my character within an hour myself with no help. That didn't feel good. Um so I'm hoping that like some of the new stuff that at least Elfelt has gotten actually really changes her approach and stuff like that. I played I played with Elo and I I hadn't played with her in a year and I just got I just fell back into it like I was riding a bike and I was like, "Huh? Oh, I play this on stick." I'm sure we will, Jay. Yeah, as long as the goddamn lobby does doesn't break, I'll be able to actually engage with the game's uh frigin ranked system. Yeah, Leo's jumping. I see it. He is. I mean, his back stance, he looks about the same cuz he gets the jump now, but it's like his neutral feels pretty familiar. Wow, that did not hit. Holy [ __ ] The curse didn't hit. It is a strike through game still. Yeah. Okay. Casual matches are still in the parks which will break. [ __ ] The game also got crossplay. Wow. Did that get faster? Did that actually get faster now? Did they Are they trying to make his command grab better? Cuz you, Dude, I had I I had to go out of my way to use this move like four years ago and five years ago and it was bad. Like it was not good. I just wanted to see it. I wanted to like win with it, but it was hard to land this [ __ ] dude. Rounds are definitely lasting, you know. These are developer matches, so this is like their intention, you know. But they had the giant finisher moves. No, they did not. Nice block. Holy [ __ ] Danger. Sword and C. Happy Chaos dropping [ __ ] We actually get to hear the later parts of songs. I never thought that that would be an issue. You only hear the first half of songs. That's funny. Cool. Right. Okay. Okay. Oh my god. This crazy ass. I don't know what the hell this kid does. I just want to see Soul use Sidewinder once or twice. Is Sidewinder just as special or does it like actually use his burst or some [ __ ] There it was. It doesn't cause a wall splat. You're excited to try, but I feel May just got worse, dude. Everybody got worse. Like that's what they say at the top. Every character if you start reading like the other characters, like no, no kidding. It's everything, dude. They're doing We just We just talked about this. They're doing to Guilty Gear Strive what Tekken fans wanted them to do to Tekken 8. Everybody wanted Tekken 8 season 3 to be an overall power level reduction from mechanics to character power, right? Needed to come down because this [ __ ] is out of hand, right? Like some characters are crazy. Like, we can't buff characters to match that crazy. This is not fun, right? as the developers of Strive at the top of the patch notes, they were saying that for 2.0 that like the game is getting out of control because of it. They're bringing everything down. Everything just needs to get dialed down. Every single character gets dialed down, which is admirable. And I'm like, so how how what does that mean? Like, how does that eventually play out? We really don't know. still Jesus. SFI beta to release, right? That is that is absolutely true. A good point, but doesn't count cuz it's not it's not an actual release game. You know, again, any fighting game that that you play before its release date, it's not a fighting game. Like that's a thing that exists and that can't influence your opinion, but it is you can't count that against it later on. Let's rock. It looks cool. I don't know what the hell this kid's doing. Wasn't Oscar one of the one of the characters that got changed a lot, too. Yo, Gamer Cafe, thank you. I don't see as much crazy horseshit on the screen. with Asuka. Now I don't see like a billion things happening which always was that and chaos got reworks. I'm not going to lie, I ain't seeing soul bad guy do much here. He's getting a hit every once in a while for sure. I get it. But like this [ __ ] is blocking a lot. Still winning. Welcome back to the stage of history. That was almost a timeout in Guilty Gear Strive. Dude, it's insane to think that this game is five plus years old now. Like we are way closer to the release of the next Guilty Gear than we are to the launch of this one. Oh, I was about to say, what the hell? This is the new thing. Where's the new Blaze Blue? That whole team doesn't work there anymore, dude. The dude that made Blaze Blue left. So, you can't PRC this or anything, right? There's no RC. There's nothing there. That did [ __ ] nothing. I mean, if there's one big difference is that the matches are lasting a lot longer. My did say that he's fully on board with working on Blaze Blue. Should they decide to go that route? He would be willing to go back. That's good. Do you think because of the baseline reset dispatch, Arxis will consider expanding on Gatlings? Uh, I don't know, man. I don't I think I feel like that goes against the fundamental nature of what Strive is as a game. Heat. Heat.