It does make some sense to have gauge scaling more in line with damage scaling off a Perfect Parry.

gief didnt have buffs... he got GAINS!!!

Even to this day, the damage on Punish Counter Throw surprises me. It makes sense, but it's just SO MUCH more than a regular non-punish throw...

I want to see Snake_Eyez, Itabashi and the others now. Also, AKI is a menace.

As someone who wants to compete more and doesn't always have the time to completely test changes, I appreciate videos like these. 🙏🏾

23:10 Luke straight up grippin the ground with those toes

even though it was on twitter. but i do appreciate (i'm sure the community does too) the devs being transparent on their reasoning for balance changes

I think i fought 50 akumas yesterday lol

I kind of love how carefully crafted sf6 is. Its such a delicate balance of fast and slow and offense and defense.

30:25 I like this change. It'll incentivize players to save their meter to look for riskier and more rewarding openings, which increases depth and probably also allows viewers to see more hype plays. 30:55 HAHA I CALLED IT! Now I'm thinking like a fighting game player!

ty for the explainer brine

I hope the spider on the wall at the end of the video also appreciated the quality analysis on display here

Thanks for the vid boss man. Was waiting for your analysis to the notes

Akuma’s air-fireball is not as good as i think.

All i heard from that drive parry changes was "people are actually just gonna have to play neutral if they wanted to burn you out"

Wake up Drive Reversal is basically a reset button if it lands. Due to this I may not use it much against certain characters like JP. I'd rather deal with him close up, not put him back where he wants to be.

The crossup accidental input thing was something I remember causing me a ton of trouble early on, but I bet like most people, I eventually rebuilt that timing / muscle memory. I hope it didn't break that.

It definitely makes sense that since perfect parry gives so much reward in regards to position (going from holding mixups or oki to having control or OKI pressure yourself) that it shouldn't give you as much reward in terms of resources.

Fantastic explanations, much appreciate the deeper look at potential consequences of the changes

15:31 when I fight against the 20th consecutive Akuma in ranked and start turning into one of the 3 stooges

Aki was already strong, I’m just glad my character got buffed as well

The perfect parry option select is such a DUH moment for me. Thanks for the info.

great video!

Enjoying the Brian f Pixar dad tache arc

Seen tons of ppl mashing DI as soon as they see blue in the Combo Breaker pools yesterday

Love the light scaling change. I always thought it was really stupid that the drive system allowed you get close to the same damage of starting with a heavy, off a frickin jab. It was boring to see any hit go into dr into the same exact combo.

I watched other videos that mentioned the damaged scaling, but it just didn't sink in. But your demos really helped bring the point home

I cant wait for the chaos thats gonna happen in CB

Buffer windows are absolutely broken. I keep getting the break dance with Jamie in neutral. They need to fix this asap.

I hope you continue doing these selective analyses. There are tons of channels who do full patch notes reviews, but I love the in depth explorations into specific mechanics, system mechanics, and stuff like your lab exploration for characters and stuff like that. It's some of my favorite SF content in general. I'm too new to FGs to discover a lot of this nitty gritty type stuff, but it's also the stuff I find most interesting in other games that I have much more experience in, and I can only hope I'll be able to get to your level of theory in FGs in general.

I havent watched the whole thing yet, so maybe you touch on it, but something worth noting is that the change to parry (specifically the forwards hurtbox shift) will make ot way WAY easier to PP projectiles

i LOVE the frame meter

Big street fighter fan so''Love the new update,,great breakdown of it 👏👏👏 ,, the new changes I feel makes rounds last longer with the reductions ,,,,still feel it needs ABIT more tweaking tho 👍

As someone that distanced themselves from the game because I wasn't a huge fan of the previous meta, this new patch actually sounds pretty good. All of the universal changes are pretty well thought out, nerfing the damage from lights specifically seems like a very good change, since they're usually doing work in up close pressure situations, so it incentives the player to pressure with mediums if they wanna make it hurt, making them vulnerable to wake-up dReversal. Coupled with the damage nerfs to a lot of the heavy hitters, I think this will lead to longer matches and an overall healthier meta. also, Aki is definitely going to be a menace this season, her change list looks like a buff Bible.

Thank you

I understand the light damage scaling for more variety of convertions, but I think this heavily hurt some specific characters like ed tipping the scales in certain matchups

The drive gauge regen nerf is pretty cruel for perfect parry. I would at least let them keep that, if not even buff it to compensate for all the nerfs. I think letting people recover their own gauge and putting yourself in a better spot is less problematic than getting a perfect parry and demolishing the opponents gauge.

Yeah, hearing about the light scaling reduction I thought this being a nerf to Ed, changing from a bit Luke to a lot of Ken to Ed, he's so more dependent on his lights and especially light specials than the others I'm familiar with and the boy sure doesn't need nerfs unlike others mentioned in this comment...

When you discover gameplay tech that is being removed...due to its removal...

30:50 trueeee!! Thats gonna make players reinvent themselves and look for resets and cheeky opening, kinda some charactera in sf4 who trives on risky offense

Perhaps the reduction in Drive Gauge damage works together with the increased combo damage scaling to work in favor of the player playing catch-up. Sounds like Capcom is shooting for more entertaining tournament matches. Everyone loves a comeback.

the parry and the drive reversal change are probably the best buff to zangief for this patch

Yo Brian, is no neutral over? Would love to see you get your runback ft10 against rob

I think the damage scaling change is huge nerf to Lily, since basically a majority of her combos/conversions start from double lights.

Can't wait for when you rank theses characters again

This makes me think T. Hawk will make an appearance in season 2 or Haggar

The parry recovery nerf was not a good idea. Excellent video though B.

The universal light attack combo starter scaling combined with the buffs Ryu got to damage and Denjin make him such a menace no. Hitting like a truck on short strings of medium and heavy attacks is his whole thing.

I'm glad with the perfect parry change. At times I felt like the meta was punishing players for initiating.

This game turned into "Akuma Fighter 6"

Something I noticed after this patch was the inability to do Ken's OD dragonlash. Instead I just get his run.

Changes are made

parry hurts my head

Aki gets another wake up option now, right?

ANGRY COMMENT ABOUT SOL

I’m already terrible at teching throws after doing parry and they made it easier… MAN

They had to nerf the scaling to accommodate for akumas low health.

pParry even more solidified as a "for the spectators ONLY" button

I am always getting moves coming out when I don’t want them to. I have lost a lot from it. I don’t know why it happens so bad. I have never had it happen so much in a SF game.

Yay

As Dhalsim only user so far (roster is still @$$) the damage reduction from meter dumping etc makes me happy. Brain meltingly bored of people meter dumping into lvl.3 like they think they are "nice". Hopefully more variation now.

So no more parry into ex DP

My first impression of wakeup DR is that it sucks

Gotta do a update tier list eventually

Good Ole Brian F! still hasnt wont a tournament but hes jump N ship on JP that's for sure! Good luck with your next exploit hopefully you win something.

rip Ed mains

Just saying, play Akuma now before the capcops get him

Am i the only one who didn't see a lot of akumas in ranked ? I maybe fought 3 of them in my last 30 matches

Whoo ah heh 🤣🤣my boy Brian f

"Combo damage reduction" ((laughs in Zangief))

People say the input systems is perfect then literally every single patch tries to fix the inputs.

W

My goat!🐐🙏🏼

Ed got nerfed, so did JP. Why not play Ryu? He got some tasty buffs.

Ed was way too prevalent when he first came out online cuz that ed mirror put me to sleep and I know when I get back online Akuma is gonna be 10x worse in my region

IDK man.. I get what is being said about the PP nerfs but to an extent, it was nice having the option to commit resources to hit the opponents drive gauge. 3 bars for a punish counter combo w/ super that is heavily scaled was such a terrible proposition. Now, along with the regular parry changes, people are going to have much more drive meter to work with on average which means for frequent use of drive rush nonsense which is equally if not more volatile that landing a perfect parry to steal the round. This entire thing goes back to the drawing board where the devs shot themselves in the foot by making drive parry function the way it does and its general ease of use, meaning they have to work around its implemented existence / effect on the core gameplay that changes like this even need to be made. Everyone complained that perfect parry was too low risk / high reward when the reality is what they really wanted was more ways to apply fisher price drive rush offense.

Can you do shortcut brief notes So long clip

wow they slowed the game SO much

I like wen it takes more the 2 to 3 good combos to kill a person…so all this dmg scaling I like….I truly think when a game is at 3 to 4 combos to win is like a perfect combo to dmg scale….im not counting hits in between…at full health….wen a game is at 3 to 4 combos to kill and 5 is max….makes the back and forward more interesting….not someone doing 1 combo and 4 gabs after that to kill someone….no skill in that u just have a character that good cause 1 mistake happen….

Akuma is too weak. He needs HIS DAMAGE BUFFED !!!!!

I'm just gonna assume I was the 100th view. Grats to me!

12:37 "drive gay damage" 🥸

Thank you Brian_fly

Zangief better

Move over luke akuma is the new character to hate on 🙄

They should have nerfed repeating strings with scaling incurring when the same two heavy or heavy into medium into drive rush repeat. Tired of seeing the top characters do the same 3 times in a row into level 3. Make people change up the strings mid combo. Sure it would end in something like Lily where conversions are still linear, but it isn't 3 reps of the same two high damage/advantage buttons.

I think offense is a little too strong in this game. If your in the corner, there isn't an easy way to get out. Being in the corner while having full drive is imo worse than being in burnout while in neutral. burnout

Oh look its mr capcom shill /s

As a john cena main in wwe2k I must admit that I’m enjoying this street fighter game!!!!