So...now the AI is expert on Dexterity
MachoNacho
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Great...so now the AI is becoming a pro at dexterity. So now not only do we have to deal with a passive safe guard that seems to pop up every other fight, leaving the AI with 1%-3% health after it takes a full combo with special attack while suicides and assassins is on to the face, but now we get the "joy" of having to deal with a passive dexterity.... was this intentional or just another coincidental/accidental bug that will not be fixed or looked in to? My money is on the latter. Prove me wrong.
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Prove me wrong.
I tried to track this one down a while ago, and I couldn't find conclusive proof of it happening. The only thing I did find was that the game doesn't display 0% unless you're dead, which means having 1 point of health is 1%. That means there range of health that you will show 1% is larger than any other percentage value.
What I find interesting about this particular issue is that a lot of people believe there's a "safeguard" but no one questions the accuracy of the display bar. I think it is just as likely if not more likely that "1%" problems are due to display errors than invisible safeguard mechanics.
(Of course, it doesn't help there's currently no complete description of damage mechanics either)
Conspiracy - a secret agreement to do something harmful or unlawful.
Theory - a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation.
(Source: Merriam-Webster dictionary)
That is not my position.
In my experience, I have had multiple cases where the ai "sidesteps" my medium dash attack, or intercepts me from a blocking position and hits me with a combo. This never happened to me in my 2 or so years playing this game prior to about a month ago.
I have also noticed many times where I thought my Hyperion's sp3 would k.o. the opponent, based on number of furies and percentage of health taken by the first hit (the second hit of his sp3 does double the damage of the first hit), but instead leaves them at 1 or 2%. That said, you can't tell the exact number of HP the opponent has by the percentage.
Are these coincidences? Are they unintentional bugs? Is it a conspiracy? I don't have enough information to say for sure, only anecdotal evidence that myself and others have experienced. In any case, it is definitely something that is worthy of discussion and not simply being dismissed as "conspiracy theory," which itself isn't even a valid reason to dismiss someone's concern.
Also you are proving your logic is not very well. An appeal to authority is one in when you reference someone or some thing as an authority of something so therefore they have to be correct about it. Such as claiming a lawyer has to be correct about the law because he is a lawyer, ignoring that they are fallible. In this cause I used my education to counter your comment about some of us needing classes in logic. You do not get to set up something, then when they list that they have what you claim they may need you accuse them of using an appeal to authority.
Notice how I said "a lot of people here." I wasn't referring to you specifically or at all, which is why I was curious why you felt the need to even bring up your resume in addition to your incorrect statement. Again, even IF my comment wasn't quoted as an example of "conspiracy theory" statements, the other users that DNA quoted did not state that these issues are a conspiracy by kabam as the basis of their argument, only a possibility. The other possibily they suggested are that these are unintentional bugs/changes in behavior, in which case it would not be a conspiracy. Therefore bringing "conspiracy theory" into the conversation as a reason to dismiss the possibilty of bugs is totally irrational.
So while you can choose which definition you want to honor, that would only be meaningful in an academic argument. In an argument over what passes for acceptable discourse on the forums, the current colloquial definition is the operative one.
Also, @Lormif is correct: I quoted your post because I was replying to you, and specifically to your statement that the potential problem being asserted in the thread was not a conspiracy theory. However, the OP's own framing of the issue uses the same language as most conspiracy theories that float around the forums: there's the element of infalsifiability (if you don't see it you're wrong or lying), there's the implication that what's happening is deliberately by design in a way intended to mislead or confuse players while doing harm, there's the position that the burden of proof is on everyone else to disprove the assertion, and there's the backpedaling from asserting the problem is blatantly obvious to being extremely elusive to demonstrate in practice.
Post that tend to follow this pattern tend to get called out these days, and posts that push the agenda beyond a certain point tend to disappear into moderation. There are people who think the "safeguard thing" might be an actual thing, and they aren't necessarily promoting conspiracy theories. I investigated the issue myself and reported on the forums. It is the position that the reported issue exists and is obvious, and everyone else must therefore either be in on an exercise to discredit that report that makes it a conspiracy theory. That is, in fact, the conspiracy element in most conspiracy theories including this one: the notion that both the developer and all players who disagree must be deliberately working against them out of either malice or ignorance.
Also I never said you referred to me specifically, why the additional strawman, even still it did not exclude me.
Again your post was not quoted as an example, you seem to just not know how message boards work.
Stating something as a possibility is a conspiracy theory, all that needs to satisfy it being a conspiracy theory is one is a theory that explains an event, it does not have to be a direct accusation, even though it really was one here. You chose to list the definitions for 2 words desperately, I am not sure why since Merriam Webster has a direct definition for the phrase:
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Definition of conspiracy theory
: a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy theory
Note all it requires is a theory that explains, not a direct accusation, so please give it a rest, you are just making yourself look foolish