Recent content by infomon

I totally agree with your *general* point but I think you picked a bad example. Frigate Orpheon is a perfectly valid stage, hazards on, and was a legal counterpick throughout most of the lifetime of Brawl. The layouts are all fine (even better now than in Brawl, because all ledges are...

Best case: It gets patched day-1. Second-best case: The behaviour of the bottom as either a solid or thin platform is deterministic and based on spacing. In which case it can look funny but there's no actual problem. Worst case: It's random. Like say 50% solid 50% thin. In this case, still...

Yes, his objective is to balance the characters by making each stage choice "different enough" and reasoning about the counterpick meta. And as much as I like the intention, I think it's arbitrary and bending the game to our own will. That a type of layout is so widely represented in the game...

If the game had 10 different triplats then obviously triplats are an important and fundamental part of the game, and the idea of getting to ban them all as one, is ridiculous. It's not our job to manipulate character-balance and "FD as starter" is proof that we'd be doing an awful job of it...

So what is actually a league? Does this just mean they're running their own tournaments? Or working with existing tournaments? Is there more to it than that?

Yipes, check this out. I did some more testing of my Hori BattlePad, and I'm also seeing some crazy snapback!

I'll be getting my PDP Wired Fight Pad Pro on Friday, and will post up a test for sure!

Too bad. Thanks for the test!

If you have a Switch, can you please go to the menu to test the control stick and see if you have "snap to axis" type dead zones the way I saw in my video? I'd love to see if that's how they all behave, or if I just got a lemon. Thanks!!

AMAZING breakdown, thanks very much!!!

Logistically, how would you suggest people do "blind voting"? We're already terrible at even doing blind-picks for characters going into game 1.

Testing the Hori BattlePad with PC-Melee is a great idea. I don't have Melee set up on my computer though, frankly this isn't important enough to me to not wait until Ultimate is out lol. I've already ordered my PDP Wired Fight Pad Pro so I'm crossing my fingers for that!!

Finally done:

I tweeted @ the TO for Frostbite this question, and his response was "Super banned". But you can rip out the Turbo button. I did it with mine, now there's just a big hole in its place. If I shove the button back in, it is capable of re-activating the turbo, but since that's not really...

The structure and pacing of the final direct was poor. But the idea that reveals need to get "better and better" probably isn't good strategy from a marketing perspective. SO much hype and positive impression of Ultimate ever since E3 was because they put so much power into the early...