You ever get those times where it feels Melee is non-functional?

[MrWeavile]

I get these certain periods when I try to play Melee where literally nothing, that I tell the game to do, actually happens.
Most times it's fine and we have lots of fun all night and everything's fine. But there are times where it feels like Melee literally is not functional at all. Times where a OOS-jump>c-stick down, comes out as spot dodge. Or a dash>crouch>d-tilt, is read as "crouch 3 times".

Anyone else get those times?

 

[Thor]

Yeah. Sometimes my opponent will unplug my controller, and then I'm trying to tell Falco to Fire Bird so I don't die, but nothing happens...

Seriously though, you might need a new controller, or else you're moving a bit too fast... and so the precision of your movements suffer.

 

[Bones0]

1. You are misjudging shield stun and trying to jump -> dair too early. The jump input gets eaten by shield stun and the dair input turns into a spotdodge (C-stick buffers rolls, spotdodges, and jumps OoS).

2. You can't crouch during dash, only out of run.

Melee doesn't lie.

 

[Naughty Pixel]

does that mean it's the truth?

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

I have these moments all the time. My fellow players typically tend to put it off as controller issues, lag, not being prepared to play, and other assorted johns. I just put it off as me being bad ;p

 

[Kadano]

Oh, come on. Those are human errors. Melee is exact; it will do just what you tell it to. There are (with a few minor exceptions) no input buffers like in Brawl, so a small input mistake will cause an in-game output mistake.

 

[HodgyDot]

Melee is the Truth

 

[Iguana]

It has happened to me before, but like people have already said, it's not Melee being non-functional, it's me basically not doing things right.

Except when I try to grab the edge with Peach in Battlefield. And like, she doesn't.

Because Battlefielded.

 

[Bones0]

It has happened to me before, but like people have already said, it's not Melee being non-functional, it's me basically not doing things right.

Except when I try to grab the edge with Peach in Battlefield. And like, she doesn't.

Because Battlefielded.

Nope, that's still you. Don't let your back ledge grab box connect with BF's ledge.

 

[Iguana]

Nope, that's still you. Don't let your back ledge grab box connect with BF's ledge.

Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Kitsune91]

When I get the "non functional" feeling it feels as if I'm playing on an HDTV. It's definitely not the game though, I know that it is me not doing things right. Usually when I get to that point I need to take a quick break (sometimes changing characters helps) or I need to focus on the actual inputs I'm doing and adjust accordingly.