Fix the Intercepts!!!
MavRCK_
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Why is this bug still up after a month?!
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MavRCK_
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Faltered the defender with Prowler. In theory, there is no way for a defender to "beat" my intercept. In this case, tried the intercept and "fresh aired" the defender.
Means that if they weren't faltered; the defender would have hit me.
It feels like the attempted intercepts are falling into some game telemetry where they simply don't exist.
I've noticed it mostly since the 60fps introduction (but I do not use 60fps, worse experience for me).
The next question will be... why don't you post evidence?
1) I can't possibly record every fight in the hopes to catch an intermittent issue. As it is, I'm constantly deleting videos off my phone each day because I'm running out of space. I'm not going to fill it with gameplay videos at the cost of memories.
2) The game is already sluggish as is when there is transparency, particle and projectile animations, layering that with more processing just going to make it worse.
My problem with intercepts is that I know how to Medium Intercept, AND I know what it looks like when a Defender Light Intercepts my Medium attempt, at which point I get hit by the Defender because they countered my intercept.
That is a correct game mechanic.
The issue is that often in the game as it is currently, (ie a few months and around the time or right when 60fps got introduced), I will go in to Medium Intercept with my champion, and suddenly I am countered with a Medium Intercept from the defender in a way that shouldn’t be possible.
It’s frequent enough that the game becomes unreliable to safely play with certain styles of champions and just makes for an overall frustrating experience that’s been ongoing for months now.
I have also noticed this just in the last few weeks or months.
It's not a glitch. It's just an issue of the AI being overall much more difficult to fight.
It is harder to intercept, it is harder to parry, it is harder to avoid being parried, etc.
The game is more difficult for sure.
So let's frame our complaints like that.
"Hey, Kabam, why have you made the AI more skilled and more difficult to fight? It's frustrating, especially when the game is so ruthless already in terms of resource expenditure and pay-to-play. We feel like you're bleeding us dry at every corner."
I will say from my own perspective, I just can't get behind the "AI is broken" narrative, especially from people who either can't even elaborate, or when they do, they reveal that they don't even understand what an intercept is.
My experience is this: I can still parry successfully, I can still intercept successfully, I can still dex successfully, but I have to FOCUS, I have to be PERFECT, and I have to TRY REALLY HARD.
If the argument is that this is bad (and greedy on Kabam's part), then sure, I can get behind that....
When my Dash intercepts inexplicably fail, that's exactly what it feels like: like I whiffed an attack that years of perception have taught me should land.
I really do think there's an issue (as do Kabam, apparently): I'm pretty aware of my own fallibility. And when I throw an unintended Heavy or fail a Dex, my short-term proprioceptive memory usually tells me that my finger stuttered, or came down a fraction slow, or something.
When the vast majority of fails/errors occur, I know it's because I've tapped or stroked the screen slightly wrong.
This feels different.
Not only is the AI/intercepts almost unplayable, but we have defenders recovering unusually fast, frames that are just plain cheating, parry/blocking is unstable, frame freezes and choppy gameplay, in addition to other bugs and auto-ejects from fights and the game.
Has it ever been worse? No.
Will it ever get better? Probably not.
Guaranteed not when they stick their heads in the sand like an ostrich, hoping the problem goes away on its own.
We used to be compensated back in the days when the game was unplayable, now we don’t even get that.
Its just like punishing specials! Evade an punish multiple times during a fight, then all of sudden i go to attack an the defender instantly recovers an smashes me. This happens alot with more then just specials too. Heavy attacks, blocking, evading an combos. Instantly recovering an being able to move.
Usually after i experience these problems happening an notice it more an more, i check forums an see if theres other players experiencing the same problems. An i see post after post of players experiencing the same. An describing what happens to them and its the same. So many players noticing the same problems an saying the samething. But theres always the one guy, the elite promaster! Everyone else is wrong an dumb an they dont know what they are talking about....you know who you are. Theres obviously a problem, does it really matter what players refer to it as? AI, bugs, frame rate, dropped inputs, glitches or lag!! Does it matter?? It doesnt, theres obviously a problem. All of those things could be causing it.
I know when my timing for an intercept is good and when it’s not. There are plenty of times where the opponent wins the intercept that are perfectly legitimate and I have no issue with. But there are times where, using the same timing I’ve used for years and even used earlier in the same fight successfully, I lose the intercept.
That’s the intercept bug. It’s not an AI issue, it’s a hit detection issue. My only AI complaint from my first two runs through Epoch were when Ares would just ignore his special and swipe at the air until he got his sp3. That’s frustrating, but that’s been happening with passive power gain opponents for forever so them’s the breaks.
But by the same token, I almost never miss a light intercept when I use him. The non-contact reach and speed of his light attacks is something else...
What keeps you hooked if you truly suffer through such a negative gaming experience with MCOC?