maybe Assaults could be tweaked on character basis. If the range of white is too much for Goldlewis but Potemkin maybe needs it, then just make it shorter for Goldlewis.

I cannot contain my excitement to watch players wait a whole patch just for blue Wild Assault to be broken next.

Wild Assault 2: electric boogaloo

I think it's definitely a much better experience then it was before. I see why this change does super juice gold Lewis and give Nago yet another super strong option. But Pot and Bed kinda need some help. Those 2 have struggled quite a bit so having a strong option to close the gap is nice. I think they should start adjusting per character instead of just color overall.

In a game where neutral skips are everywhere, I think wild assault can be overwhelming. But sometimes gives characters the option to use burst for other options which can be better than doing an offensive burst. Like I would argue 2 uses of WWA vs Axl is better than using burst offensively to keep him from converting a close range hit into putting you full screen all over again. Some characters benefit from it more than others (like Goldlewis) and i think the devs should try balancing it amongst characters by making them less homogenous (which is a recent balance direction that I feel like the devs are going away from like getting rid of weight classes and making everyone the same weight).

I think this version is much more balanced and the overall nerf to possitive really makes the game feel much better and pressure the attacker to make something happen after wall break. That said, goldlewis makes me want to evaporate from the world.

WWA helps Bedman a lot, I’m loving it so far.

for me it's only certain characters that WA feels bad on. all the white wild assault characters feel fine until they use it as an advancing dp and get hard oki, them just tossing it out on block and using the plus frames feel fair, even for gold lewis. But now that those players are getting smart about using it, using the quick one instead of charging it, potemkin players do white wild assault at round start and then hard guessing and using potemkin buster, it's not that fun, you can tell very strong white WA character players are using it like the OP move it is now.

i like the game a lot right now. WA is fun and now that the burst reduction/positive gain/red is all more reasonable i really have no complaints, since i can still be a red wa -> fafnir on block clown with sol and my options with anji don't feel quite as limited as before. white WA jumpscares from goldlewis are eh, but nago was jumpscarey anyway and i want potemkin players to be happy even though i'm not one of them. i can't really complain much about it only feeling like a negative for a single character compared to like, half the roster as it was before. people are being a bit dramatic. i'd assume bedman? players are happy to but i never run into them. are they happy? did it help?

current version of the game definitely reined things in nicely i'm surprised they weren't more heavy handed with RWA but considering how nerf heavy this patch was overall, i guess its fair that seemed cautionary about it im a little annoyed that sol seems to be going back to the relative state he was in at the end of s2 but he's still in a better way rn both in terms of character feel as well as balance relative to the rest of the roster than he was at the end of s2 so there's that. very glad i have actual roundstart options against nago and that HC got shot concerned about what arcsys decides to nerf on sol in the coming patch (in march i think???) unless they actually decide to finally hit clean hit HVV in which case it was a very, *very* long time coming

My big issue is the insane burst generation we've got now that WA removes hardly any burst gage. It doesn't feel right that you can read the burst, block it appropriately and win the round but your opponent is already at 75+ gage. Characters with weaker midscreen conversions are heavily disadvantaged by the extra burst generated from wall sticks. It also gives a massive advantage to one player in round 3 unless the player who won round 2 was able to do it without using burst or WA.

i havent played GGST in a minute, but i was like oh, GL and Pot having it isnt the end of the world, it's like, strong but fine, then you said nago had WWA, why the hell would they give that to nago of ALL characters

Way better than last patch. Even at like floor 9 where I was the red wild assault meta was pretty annoying and boring. Obviously as a Bed main I think this patch is good lol but even objectively speaking it feels way better, sans Goldlewis stock rising.

u said only four characters have red wild assault at 11:04, think u meant white

I would like for white wild assault's flash to happen frame 1 so it's a lot more reactable and doesn't necessarily change the balance of the game, by the time the sfx and flash happens and you react to it it's already too late to input anything, but if you look at the startup of the animation frame by frame there's about 4-6 frames of nothing before it, which is kind of annoying, this could also go for all the other wild assaults tbh, besides that I think strive is in a great spot, everyone has counterplay and no one really breaks the game too crazily, even Nago who's extremely strong this patch is much more deal-withable than the previous top tiers that had dominated the game

As a casual I'm def enjoying this patch. I main Nago with zato and Baiken on the side but with all my characters I feel like I can win games and have fun while doing it.

I'm starting to accept that this game just isn't for me, and that I should probably just get into SF for a more footsie-based game. I just wish that the offense in SF was a bit more interesting than boiling down to strike throw for most characters.

Tbh, when it comes to Strive I was hoping they'd push the individual mechanics of each character more instead of going for more universal options. At least some characters get one new special in the coming year but I always felt like the linear gameplan and homogenized characters compared to previous titles was Strive's biggest issue. We've seen in many FGs which focus on system mechanics that it often comes down to who among the cast makes the best usage of those universal mechanics instead of more unique character traits themselves. SF6 falls into this category and also Strive but with the latter I had the hope in 2019 that they'd somehow make up for that during its lifespan. Approaching Strive's fourth year I'm kinda bummed out that this probably won't happen anymore.

If they nerf WWA, all i ask is you give GL an actual advancing move that's not tied to his burst or meter. He's the only heavy without a forward lunging move, and I refuse to be in a position where Happy Chaos, Brigette, Tesatment, etc. can keep GL out while also being able to approach on a whim when I don't have 50 burst for WWA. Even among the heavy characters, GL does not have a forward advancing move. (Nago has dash, Bedman has spin, Pot has tackle and brakes) GL needs WWA for some way to approach and not get his normals hit outside his range by most of the cast.

5:42 how does the CH effect the launcher?!?!

There's still some problems with WA, positive and RC creating a critical mass of too much offense, but it isnt quite as game deciding and oppressive, and deflect shield being better helps find spots to interact with seemingly infinite pressure.

While not a competitive player, I definitely felt like this current patch is very nice in his it feels like there aren’t ‘useless’ low tiers and ‘godlike’ high tiers. The difference has been further decreased. Only thing that’s confusing is how the lower tiers (not bad by any means) have stayed relatively the same, as if they just don’t want those characters to be seen as very good. The only other thing I really really want is then to continue implementing more moves for characters, especially base roster. Or rework certain moves slightly. I say this because with how fun they designed the dlc characters, I feel like to a certain level, that should be incorporated in the base roster as well. One slight rework I want is Ky’s DI (Ky main here). The issue is, I don’t know how it should be done. It is quite literally in most higher levels, not as useful as an option than using RC for mix up or something. But at the same time, increasing the health limit could make Ky too strong with his chip damage. Maybe they could actually rework the way ky plays with DI beyond damage, speed, frame buffs (yes, there’s some extra stuff as well). Change his heavy hadouken be like the dust version in Xrd? Give him additional normals from Xrd (people have made mods that make Ky Xrd version)? Or maybe supers have different properties beyond higher damage? Something that makes DI not only useful, but memorable. And obviously, I want this applied to the other characters that need it. Like May is very fun, but she and many characters feel like they’re missing that one thing to make them standout (and I don’t think her dolphin cancel is that, but it is useful)

only if they give GL drone back and reduce drone and 6h startup by 20 frames

Since they nerfed the Sol several times in a row I stopped playing Strive, this wall-busting meta made me drop the game

Not really a problem, if zoners can burst to send you to the other side of the screen, the heavy bois should have a way to dash. Burst is a finite resource.

I still enjoy the game, but I am tired of and done trying to understand some of ASW's choices with balancing characters. I'm tired of characters like Nago and Ram who have always been strong getting no nerfs or nerfs that come with buffs to other things keeping them high tier. While they give other characters nothing or insignificant changes or at worse nerf characters who didn't deserve it.

I love Goldlewis. His design being scary without forcing armor into the kit was cool design. I really do not think this mechanic is fun at all, just makes characters more similar in gameplan and rounds less interactive. Its kinda fun of course but I really hope it is not a forever in the game mechanic.

Let Goldlewis have something, he needs SOMETHING to move with HC as a matchup.

Hey, what is the name of the mod that youre using to view frame data on moves in training mode?

Never seen any big body use wild assault so to me it's a non issue. However, does the Nerf to red wa mean you can't use it in specific combos anymore? I was working on a Gio Combo that uses it to gain corner to corner carry with wall break and it would suck if all the time spend learning that is wasted now.

I personally think wild assault should not take away opponent burst gauge. Strive is already a 2 combo game if you optimize, and taking burst away screws the defender more than the fact that they are already on defense in GG

WA made the game worse. It is such a frustrating mechanic to face and leads too hard into looping hkd wallbreaks and pressure off of random normals

Overall the patch is awesome, I am back into the game in a big way. But yeah goldlewis is true silly mode right now

I play on the regular against a good (better than me honestly) Goldlewis player, I'm trying to main Elphelt right now so in some ways matches go better for me than when I played Sol but White WA really makes me go "don't blame the beast, reflect on yourself".

White WA is so broken on Goldlewis. I have a friend who play him. He can use it 3 time by round. And if counter you in the air with it its a free combo.

I dont even think the wild assaults need to be tweaked per character, instead just change the characters that benefit from it the most to be balanced in the way the devs were originally intending, like: nerf nago's other options that do similar things.

i mean, the move isn't called "Reasonable Assault."

Hey, Tekken player here. I started playing GG two years ago and im convinced that this game is for people that want a roster of "almost broken" characters which can get boring fast.

we were better off when OWA was the broken one

Neutral skip strive: overwhelming assault

please make blue WA super broken next so budget can be a menace again plase arcsys

I miss Gatling man

Thankfully most of the updated versions have been making the game better, it's not perfect but the overall balancing has generally improved. Here's hoping to more consistent updates.

The bed stays winning

i miss s2

is there a guilty gear mechanic that isn’t controversial

CAN'T DODGE THIS!

hey LK have you been playing some granblue lately?

You could have just said "fighting game players complain" and just ended the video, and I would've liked the video.

Pot can combo his white

White is too much for anji to handle.

Am I hearing wild assault, wall assault or something else? I swear my hearing and deciphering is fucked up right now.

Im sorry I cant get past the use of "it could spell your doom"

I can't lie, I don't even know if WWA is the most controversial thing anymore with how many people are bitching about RISC now

I just wish you retained burst meter when you land a blue burst, like before in season 2. It would make the snow ball effects from WA less common, if you had more opportunity to get out of it. Very frustrating that they changed that.

As a nago player I can see why people complain about white wild assault. I think that it should less be used as a pressure tool after a block string and more of a tool that helps in match ups like hc asuka and axl.

Beyond overall white WA nerfs (of which I saw coming from its initial release), I would personally hope they make the charged version the only one that can hard kd after wall splat, and make it cost 3/4s your burst instead of half.

I’ve been a white wild assault hater since day 1 I knew it was a matter of time before people got annoyed by it

They do animate awkwardly lmao.

On one hand fuck nago and Goldlewis, on the other hand pot and bedman kinda need the extra help. So either only nerf it for those two or give pot and bed more buffs to compensate if all 4 WWAs are getting nerfed.

I'm kinda glad ASW decided to make Strive deeply unfun for me in S3, it made me start playing Xrd again (I started a little in the rollback beta, again for a little with the rollback release) and I have to say I'm having so much fun with that game. Hopefully ASW will finally come right with Strive (and add Jam) and I can come back again. For now, I'll keep working on Xrd, it's hard but rewarding and the beginner activity these days feels pretty high (for a game that doesn't generally over over 100 average daily active users)

I'm just a hater and hate big body characters so whenever they're eating good I'm annoyed

new offensive mechanic? more like new offensive mechanic

Goldlewis main here, for the most part a large portion of the Goldlewis community would agree with WWA being too strong and would be happier with the pre-patch version of it.

He blinks so often in videos but at tournament he's fine.

I have lost all interest in strive until they add Jam, the online lobbies are a joke and there's nothing there for me that's worth dealing with this WA nonsense or top tiers that have been eating glue since day one, still happy for the people that enjoy it.

Why do people call the "Red" wild assault red if its orange?