In my opinion

Attempting to nerf backdraft intercepting broke the game. Changing recovery time off the block and wall has affected every champ and mode negatively. With different animations, different dash spacing, and overall champ design (size, how much space they take up, etc), there was NO way that a fix such as described could have been a one all. And it seems as though as you try and balance this between all the different champs, the game breaks more. Parry is unreliable as ever. Not to mention every bug imaginable. In my opinion, u saw something that players adapted as a threat to your business. I quit the game last time because of the bugs it brought about. And it's getting worse as time goes on

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SpideyFunko

they nerfed backdraft intercepts when did this happen

Moot4Life

Ok

they nerfed them by making the AI more passive so it is harder to get them (them=backdraft intercepts)
btw AI is the opponent in case you dont know

Artoria77

Your opinion is TrAsH
Jk

Question, how is parry unreliable?
Is this like an endgame thing with block damage or am I just not in my element anymore 🥴

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Fluffy_paws

Ive had no problems reliably backdrafting. Reasonably long fights too.

J_jones_41389

1. Stop trying to black wall me by ignoring the main subject or making snide comments. The better players know what im talking about
2. You have no idea what I mean fluffy paws so try again. Yes you can do the modified backdraft but thats not true backdrafting. And you can't tell me you can do it reliably after hitting into their block because...
3. You all have no idea what I mean. You weren't here beforehand obviosuly and if you were you are ignorant to the changes. They did not make the a.i. more passive (or so they claim that they never change a.i.. the passive
stuff came later than this nerf). When you backdraft and miss the timing and hit into their block you were still able to back up and intercept. Now the a.i. recovers faster after hitting their block and off the wall and after a special. Means they can dash faster. Hence, nerfing it from its 100% guaranteed intercepting to what we have now
4. This increased recovery and faster dashing capabilities have affected the game. Try and argue but it's true

J_jones_41389

And these changes were stated by kabam as their way of "fixing" what was perceived as a problem. It was in ORANGE writing

Artoria77

Woah woah calm down.
You may as well start living with it as it won't change anytime soon.
You creating a thread won't do shite to change anything.

I'm terrible at intercepting so I wouldn't know 🤷‍♂️

Starlord27

Been this way since the month they released Nick Fury. You can 4 hit combo intercept someone that way, but no longer able to hit twice into the block - dash out - dash in to intercept. The AI is already at your feet by the time you are dashing in to intercept. There’s a guy on YouTube who made the clip of the change (unless it’s been taken down...because of, well Kabam).

Watch any footage from Magik back in the day and she just used to destroy people through intercepting when they were blocking against the wall using the method mentioned above. Pretty clear it’s changed and it is a huge issue. But ah well

danielmath

you definitely can't backdraft reliably like you used to, but it was never 100%. I remember even using my 4* SL in lab years ago getting smashed trying to backdraft. It was more reliable then, but never 100%. Also, what's the parry issue? i haven't seen that

J_jones_41389

Unio77, i ignored your joke. And comment...because parry is absolutely unreliable. Not only does it not connect when it should, sometimes "parry" pops up in green om the screen and there is no stun and no AA reduction in play

FiiNCH

I think saying it’s broken the game is a stretch to be honest. I don’t see how it’s affected every game mode negatively as you say.

Ycats

It seems like you're making correlations between things when there are no correlations. I don't know how you figured that the change to backdraft intercepts which occurred quite a while ago affect's anything happening now.

Artoria77

Unio77, i ignored your joke. And comment...because parry is absolutely unreliable. Not only does it not connect when it should, sometimes "parry" pops up in green om the screen and there is no stun and no AA reduction in play

This legit is the first time I'm hearing of this.
The only party problem I know of is with the Magneto (House of X) pre-fight ability.

If parry is not issuing the stun or parry is not applying when you parry then you should put in a ticket. Have you put in a ticket?

J_jones_41389

And this is the problem. There are posts. Videos. All types of things. And yet you guys are telling me you know better? You don't think there have been tickets upon tickets and videos about this? Man you guys pop up in here for no reason to have someone to talk to. Go to the bugs and known issues and thumb through that. Not this discussion forum

J_jones_41389

Click on the rich the man video in the thread above or below this one. Enough said.

Lvernon15

All the people saying backdrafts are fine, go watch gameplay from before april 2019, and show me someone reliably backdrafting from hitting the opponent’s block like you could back then

FiiNCH

Have you seen how many insightful’s @Unio77 has? Of course he knows better.

MCOCHazza

I intercept regularly, whether it’s backdrafting, stand up, or just dash intercepting in the middle of the screen. All of them. Yes the opponent may be more passive but that’s not backdrafting, that’s just generally. You’re either too early on your backdrafting so you don’t wait for the opponent (and you don’t see them blocking) or you’re too late and they see your dash from a mile away.

Either way, that’s my experience and I haven’t noticed many changes. But your experience could be different

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Starlord27

All the people saying backdrafts are fine, go watch gameplay from before april 2019, and show me someone reliably backdrafting from hitting the opponent’s block like you could back then

This guy gets it

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Starlord27

https://youtu.be/U9f7MZF-Y0k

Watch from 0:42. I’m not talking about the missed light attacks whilst Magik is dashing back. We are simply referring to the now inability to dash out and back in after hitting into the block. You hit into the block twice and dash out in today’s game, the defender is at your feet and you can’t intercept them. If anyone has gameplay of them being able to do it in today’s game then please do show it.

Must be a 2 hit into the block intercept. I get that you can somewhat do it by light attacking and getting lucky. Kabam aren’t looking into this because it no doubt helps there wallets (potentially ignorant claim I know)

danielmath

Unio77, i ignored your joke. And comment...because parry is absolutely unreliable. Not only does it not connect when it should, sometimes "parry" pops up in green om the screen and there is no stun and no AA reduction in play
Not to sound like I don't believe you , but I've never had a scenario where parry pops up and not stun unless a valid reason

same

Kill_Grey

Nowadays, there are literally only 2 Champs that I know through research that can reliably draft back from the opponent blocking. Darkhawk, and g2099. With darkhawk, it's like the old days, but with g99, you'd have to do 2 hits and go for the intercept only with a light attack. It takes a lot of practice to do so.

Back in the day, backdraft was something almost every champion could consistently do freely. Nowadays, draft backs with medium attacks can risk you getting intercepted by your opponent, and draft backs with your light attack can lead to you missing your light attack due to late reaction from the AI. Guess what happens next...

As for any backdrafts from blocking, they are completely unreliable. As for the examples I mentioned above, it is only about a 95% success rate.

Holros

Unio77, i ignored your joke. And comment...because parry is absolutely unreliable. Not only does it not connect when it should, sometimes "parry" pops up in green om the screen and there is no stun and no AA reduction in play

This has happened to me twice,I parried, the text appeared but nothing happened and there was no node in play