My Apologies

I was, apparently, unaffected by this parry bug before this last update and honestly I thought it had to be overblown. Well, I have it now, and I apologize to everyone who has been dealing with it for weeks for even thinking that. Karma is a B I guess.

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DNA3000

I was, apparently, unaffected by this parry bug before this last update and honestly I thought it had to be overblown. Well, I have it now, and I apologize to everyone who has been dealing with it for weeks for even thinking that. Karma is a B I guess.

The "bug" is, as I understand it, a very subtle change that probably involves either a sequence or race condition in the game engine. As a result, it isn't something everyone is going to see in the same way, and many things could affect how you perceive it or even if you perceive it. It could come and go. The literal weather could literally affect this problem. So while a lot of people seem to think the problem is either overblown or half the playerbase is trying to gaslight the other half, in fact this is just one of those things that can happen when you deal with complex game engines, especially complex game engines you didn't originally write yourself and rely on vendors to support.

TheEducation

So you're saying if I just root for some rain and it rains when the word parry flashes on my fighter when I do a well timed block I'll actually stun the opponent? If so, let's go rain. If not, huh???

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

So you're saying if I just root for some rain and it rains when the word parry flashes on my fighter when I do a well timed block I'll actually stun the opponent? If so, let's go rain. If not, huh???

Yeah, most people (including myself) don’t fully understand what DNA says half the time. Just slap an insightful on his post and hope someone else enjoys it

DNA3000

So you're saying if I just root for some rain and it rains when the word parry flashes on my fighter when I do a well timed block I'll actually stun the opponent? If so, let's go rain. If not, huh???

Two factors make tracking down problems like this more complex than some people realize. The first is that the game has a lot of moving parts, but for the game mechanics to work correctly things have to happen in very specific sequences and at very specific moments of time. Parry, for example, is a "well timed block." The game calculates when things happen at 30 frames per second. If you see the defender start to attack now, the moment when you should hold block might be five frames later, plus or minus a frame (Shang Chi's "perfectly timed" actions are probably when you hit the bullseye exactly).

So what happens if your phone gets a little warm and the CPU throttles for a brief moment, not enough to cause the game to studder but enough to where it just doesn't have enough time to do everything it is supposed to do during that one 1/30th of a second frame? The engine has to "cheat" and catch up somehow. It might skip a few steps. It might skip an entire frame and jump to the next one. You might see lag or studder, or you might not notice. But if any of these things causes the game to skip doing something critical to figuring out if you held block at the right moment, that Parry could fail.

Over a long period of time, the developers have probably added all sorts of modification to the game engine to try to smooth this stuff out. But when they yank out the old engine and replace it with a new engine because the vendor says to patch your systems or they will stop supporting you, all the ways in which funky things can happen in random circumstances is now suddenly different. All the fixes you put in now no longer work, because now the problems are different. And different players with different phones doing different things and thus running in a different dynamic environment could see completely different behavior. Parry could literally go funky if it is warmer than normal (which causes the phone to behave a little different). Anything in your environment that could make your phone work even slightly different could take a marginal case in the game engine and push it over the edge into craptown territory.

Negative_100

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?

What have you done, now he may very well answer your question

TheEducation

I do appreciate the well thought out and carefully crafted explanations @DNA3000

I also still apologize to the player base that has been experiencing all this "fun" for much longer than I knowing that I thought it had to be overblown only to find out it isn't...at all

Negative_100

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?
What have you done, now he may very well answer your question

DNA is going to give me a 3 page essay on why now.

DNA3000

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?

Why not?

Negative_100

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?
Why not?

Because reasons

DNA3000

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?

Because other reasons.

SirGamesBond

Apology accepted! Moving on then..

Negative_100

Bruh. What is this??? ^
Why DNA? Why?
Because other reasons.

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