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It'll need some kind of Evo moment. It's a much better game now, but it's not enough to draw new people in. The damage has been done which is why it needs something hype like 3rd Strike did. I find SFXT at this middleground where it can be hard to spectate. It's not slow in the sense where you can appreciate long amounts of footsies, and the hit confirms or combos aren't something to write home about if you've seen them before.
It's definitely a better game than it was before, but it has some qualities that make it a bit boring to watch. Time outs are still somewhat common in high-level play, and once people optimize combos off hit confirms, you tend to see a lot of the same stuff repeated ad nauseum. Chun-Li and Rufus are on a lot of teams because they're that good. Basically, it has all the same problems Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has, but since Street Fighter X Tekken is slower paced, it's easier to see. Don't get me wrong, it's actually fun now, but spectating can be dreadful.
If you're saying what I think you're saying, no. At the moment, it's just a balance patch like Lyth said (no idea if characters will be added). I can't really see them doing a Hyper SF4. It wouldn't really be balanced.
My thoughts on this are pretty close to yours. My biggest issue is how low the damage is and how that just causes too many timeouts. Maybe it's my time with Tag 2, but damage even on footsies feels pathetic in Street Figher X Tekken.
They said they had just started on working on it. There are feedback weeks for certain characters that will be going on for a while.
I wouldn't say that the damage is low. For example, Chun-Li can shave off half your health in a meterless combo, and two thirds of it if she blows all of it in one combo. The changes to recoverable health speed and throws definitely helped, but I think the game is just too lenient on runaway.
I agree, I think damage isn't a problem at all in SFXT since it takes just a few combos to kill a character. To me, the current timeout issues are mostly attributed to things Capcom was stubborn on or couldn't change like supers not freezing the clock and the stage size (one of the things I really disliked).
I don't know if I would say tough. It's different from 2D fighters, that's for sure. Still, the thing I like about Tekken is that the damage for pokes is just right. Not too low to make defensive play invalid, but not too high to make keep away dominant. Also, Magic 4 rocks.
It was really amazing and definitely worth watching it from beginning to end.
I need to get DSR. I actually own the first one on PS1 and I main John Talbain.
It's all right. We all know the Marvel fighting games are known to wind up being really well balanced.
And yet they balanced the game to do that and sponsor EVO...
My argument wasn't about whether is difficult or time consuming, but about throwing away assets. They put time into making the stages, and they aren't going to shorten the stage (even if I do find the stages way too big). It'd be like if stage size was an issue in BB, they wouldn't cut it in half to make it GG sized just for the hardcore players.