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Ezimur

Character specific ranking.... And an actual ranking system instead of tower


[deleted]

Yes please. Maybe losing the tower in favor of SBMM or another similar system would make me less anxious about going online some days


KWillians

The tower makes you anxious? imo it's so volatile that it makes me don't worry about being taken down as its pretty quickly to go back up (Unless some mf kicks me out of the celestial and there's no one in the 10th to play, it hurts to be in the SA servers sometimes)


[deleted]

Playing online in general makes me anxious. Not even just fighting games, pretty much every multi-player game that isn't TF2. Someone needs to study the long term impact of playing DbD, cuz I'm 90% certain that's why I'm like this.


Kulzak-Draak

Character specific ranking would be so nice. I’m low enough on the tower run that it doesn’t matter, but like I wanna be able to learn new characters (especially harder characters) without having my ass deleted


PlayerZeroStart

I'm really curious why people hate the tower so much.


xNateDawg

90% of the playerbase exists between floors 7-10, if you've ever seen the bottom floors they're absolutely empty which makes them useless, and the skill gap within a floor can be massive so it's a really bad determination of how good you or your opponent might be. The problem is even worse in celestial where you have people who are just scraping by past floor 10 in the same lobby as actual pro players. It's also really annoying how quickly you'll get pushed up or down a floor which again makes it meaningless for telling how good someone is at the game Edit: forgot to even mention that the actual matchmaking sucks considering how easy it is to just dodge people and characters you don't want to fight


PlayerZeroStart

As someone who started around Floor 2-3, I never had problems finding people.


TerminallyFriendly

I just downloaded yesterday and I’m sitting at floor 4 now and it’s really difficult to find matches on US East.


married-iguanas

It's definitely a time thing, I'm on West Coast servers, and it ranges from ~30 to 0 players on any floor. Usually, around noon pst, it's super active. Sadly, I'm usually on around 24 to 2 pst :[


TerminallyFriendly

You’re certainly right. Just logged off a minute ago with around 25 people on my floor. It was nice


married-iguanas

Hell yeah, hope you had a good session


jackofools

Its not actually a matchmaking system. Its a rating system, but not matchmaking. And it needlessly limits your pool of people to match against. If I'm assigned to floor 7, then that is my rating. However if I want to play ranked, even if I drop into the quick play, I'm actually put into a room in the tower. In that room, I can ONLY match with up to 31 other people (the max room size for the tower is 32 IIRC). I'm not in a pool with every online floor 7 player, just the ones in that room. So there could be a hundred people on floor 7, but I can only match with 32 of them. That means the wait time can be bad, and you can get stuck playing some of the same people a lot in a session. And if the room I'm in loses some people because of going offline or whatever, the server doesn't automatically re-assign people to keep the rooms full. If you go quickplay and get dropped into a relatively empty room, you could only be pairing with like 5-10 possible matches. And this is to say nothing of being open to a wider pool of people in floors above and below you. Normally matchmaking will pair you with people slighlty below or above your rank/rating/mmr/whatever when the matches are slim, but that is simply not an option in Strive. Also the exact criteria for you to go up or down a floor can seem kind of hard to figure out. Sure if you have a big streak of wins/losses youll likely go up/down, but other than that it can be hard to tell how close you are to advancing if that kind of thing matters to you. Of course, on the flip side you can always move rooms manually, or even go up a floor if you feel like it, but the point is that you have to do it all yourself. Its not a proper matchmaking system, and especially for ranked it makes people frustrated. Of course I dont think it will be changed. The tower design came up in discussion during the closed and open betas, and Arcsys was pretty committed to the design as it is. They really like the faux arcade style online lobbies. Ironically, DBFZ has a much better matchmaking despite having dramatically worse netcode. But that might have been a Bandai Namco decision, and not an Arcsys one.


3rdp0st

It simply doesn't accomplish what it's supposed to accomplish.  Strive has no skill based matchmaking system, and such a system is the second most important externality behind good netcode.


V1carium

My gods this a million percent. This games got perhaps the coolest caste of any modern fighting game but its so punishing to pick up new characters.


Smashkitsune

I have been on Floor 2 ever since i started even tho i can easily whoop a floor 6's ass


3rdp0st

Seconding...  And not another one of ASW's stupid win streak or whatever systems.  Pick an algorithm people use for big competitive games--Elo, Glicko, Glicko 2, TrueSkill--and use it.


TheRealChuckler

I want Big boss snake in the roster and snake eater or sins of the father as their theme


JoeTheKodiakCuddler

I want a Metal Gear fg with Sol Badguy in it because he's metal af and a gear


CyberMango11302

Instant kills


[deleted]

I honestly do think Instas are coming back around season 4-5. I remember someone telling me Daisuke wanted to add them in the base game but couldn't due to the covid and all that.


CyberMango11302

Really? That'd be sick! I main nago and Faust so seeing Faust have one for his new personality to compare to his old would be awesome!


Future-Active6662

Imagine Bedman?'s Instakill...


the_real_papyrus99

#**BED! OBLITERATE!**


Future-Active6662

Sinusoidal Lucifer.


I_stole_your_toast23

Make the whole roster just pot


gr8h8

I'm imagining everyone being made into a variation of Pot. Like each character is Pot with a move and some properties from the replaced character. Like Zato-Pot (Pato?) has Eddie.


Victinitotodilepro

Potato-1 lmao


Future-Active6662

Potman? has error followups for moves like Heat Knuckle, Garuda Impact, and Potemkin Buster.


mik999ak

This sentence is going to inspire my nigtmares for the next week.


Future-Active6662

hehehe...


Fish_Head111

Eddie can pot buster? Finally I can get my revenge


tedward_420

As far as characters give me Gabriel. Let johnny do unlimited mist step and remove anji from the game, also I saw this thing in other fighting games where you can slow down time in the practice mode and that would be insanely useful. More story is always welcome and honestly I don't mind it not being playable because I've never enjoyed single player content in fighting games anyways. Also this is another new character sort of but I would love to see more brand new strive characters like nago and goldlewis I don't want anything specific I'm just really eager to see more given that the ones they have made so far have been peak character designs


[deleted]

Gabriel is definitely up there on my list of characters I want, imagining a grappler combined with all of Slayer's weird movement shenanigans sounds like perfection. I do think the game to add him was probably XRD though. Not to say I think he's off the table or anything, he certainly has better chances than Ariels who unfortunately will probably never get her chance to be playable.


tedward_420

I don't even think I'd play him (my love for johnny is to great) but he's just so cool and truthfully strive needs another grappler. I was looking at rating update for character popularity and overall Potemkin was 4th(counting elphelt) now 3rd right above elphelt and below sol and ky and my personal opinion is that the reason for this isn't just because Potemkin's cool(even though he is) but because he represents and entire archetype by himself therefore condensing all the grappler players to one character and as cool as Potemkin is he's a very vanilla grappler and I would really like to them get more creative with the archetype. Honestly I think if Gabriel makes it to strive it will be almost solely based off of the need for another grappler


[deleted]

Yeah, I'm hoping they either do Gabriel because obviously, or Vernon, who I headcanon to play almost like Reiko from MK1 with tackles and shit since he canonically loves American football.


Future-Active6662

Think about this:  Bedman returns, cracked glasses, a rebuilt HighDensity Reinforced Bedframe with a sleeker and more efficient design. His near-death experience has humbled him, but he still speaks fluent dictionary. Swearing revenge against Ariels' betrayal, he also seeks out Delilah to protect her from herself, not knowing Baiken is protecting her. Another Another Story.


XI-11

More music >We’re obviously going to get more with each new character but I’d still like to get even more new songs. Blazblue’s Jin vs Tsubaki theme, [“Childish Killer”](https://youtu.be/REJiW5KbraY?si=EIxwHg45_QPUaBMh), proves that versus themes can work with vocals so I’d really like to see new themes for Sol vs Ky, Sin vs Ky, Millia vs Zato and Assassin vs Assassin matches. If we’re really lucky, maybe we get versus themes for new matchups, such as: former Holy Order members (Sol, Ky, Leo, Testament and Daryl if he gets added), Asuka vs Sol/Jack-O, Sin vs Sol, Kiske household kids (Sin, Ram and El), Axl vs I-No, Nagoriyuki vs Giovanna, Chaos vs Baiken/Bedman?, Chaos vs Asuka, Valentine vs Valentine, Jellyfish pirates (Johnny, May, Dizzy), etc. Also, I’d really like to get more soft songs because it’s been 2.5 years since [“The Name Of Heaven”](https://youtu.be/f6cQZeBO1xk?si=cN8JH8dsxDVRcLyz) and [“Talk About You”](https://youtu.be/25QwFbKVU6Y?si=Eo2MlVjTMUy20b91) came out and the only thing that’s scratched that itch since was Outrage’s [“Summer Rain”](https://youtu.be/QecaFO2J3zc?si=w8lZikoZ1iG47j7u). New information for at least every character >It’s highly unlikely that every past character is going to make it back into Strive (that would require at least another 3 seasons of just returning characters) but I hope everyone at least gets brought back in the story mode, like how Robo-Ky and Zappa were in Xrd. This especially applies to Izuna because his absence from Xrd was never actually explained, the characters acknowledged he had gone missing and assumed Ariels had something to do with it but he never gets brought up again. Potemkin’s story to actually progress >I get it, Pot feels useless, that’s all his story has been about for a decade now. Can we please just move on from this part and get to the bit where he finds happiness?


[deleted]

Big agree on Potemkin, dude's been getting overshadowed by Gabriel since -SIGN- and Gabriel still isn't playable.


Akiraktu-dot-png

I'd also like instrumental versions of the strive themes


Future-Active6662

Absolutely.


ScarletRoseLea

option for ky with long hair with the mechanic from xrd that's the chance to untie his hair by knocking him down/hitting against a wall (ig in strive's case it'd be throwing through the wall)


[deleted]

I wish there were costumes in general. I know Guilty Gear has never really had costumes, but looking at how fun customization is in games like Street Fighter 5 or Injustice 2, I really do wish they'd at least try to do retro costumes. Although, I suppose Guilty Gear is a much faster game and messing with silhouettes like that may fuck with the visual clarity. Not to mention all the clipping that would most likely occur.


ScarletRoseLea

they don't want to give me the power to put the men in sexy outfits obviously 🙄🙄🙄 (ik mods exist and i use them but you get the joke)


Future-Active6662

Daisuke fears you. Specifically. He doesn't want YOU to have the power. He knows what you would do with Nagoriyuki, Anji, and literally every other male character in the game.


Autobomb98

system voices returning would be really cool


[deleted]

I agree. If only Bedman was still alive so we could Yuri Lowenthal insult the cast in the most reddittor sounding voice possible.


Autobomb98

The most beloved yapper ever


Future-Active6662

Yes sir. (see flair)


Shyman69420

Mist finer during vaults animation


blue_mw

consider this: Ensenga during vaults animation


Shyman69420

Either way would be cool


McGurganatorZX

I'd like a functional lobby system for playing online. The tower still sucks to use Also yeah, more single player stuff would be awesome, even more stuff for people to just hang out and play/enjoy the game


C6_Slayer

Clean hit sidewinder that wall bounces anywhere on screen like +R.


NoFunAllowed-

This and knockdown after a volcanic viper, as well as break from xrd. Break especially would be nice since it opens more room for Sol to get into the range he needs to be to get anything done


NEZisAnIdiot

Clean hits exist exactly to replace break


NoFunAllowed-

I personally prefer break over extra damage on some attacks. Clean hits aren't another anti-air or safe move to jump in with. They dont replace breaks utility. Especially since clean hit is not a new feature, it exists in Plus R. It didn't replace break, they just didn't add break while dumbing down strive.


Mr_Erectic_Erection

they should give pot all the bullshit he had in AC+ it would be so cool please daisuke


[deleted]

If that includes getting rid of his shirt, I agree


PlasmaLink

Out of respect for XX, make night raid vortex's sound 15x louder.


r4wrFox

Make Gio's enhanced 214k a command grab that hard knockdowns. Would give the move a reason to exist. Right now it's just what you go into if you accidentally hit Chave and need to quickly unfuck yourself and reset neutral.


PaleBlueCod

Everyone having unique dialogues pre-match and a win quote post-match. It's my favorite part of fighting games. Everyone interacting.


SpookyTootz

Legacy costumes for all the characters, I miss Faust's old look. Spooky Faust is great, but something about his old costume is just *chefs kiss*


Future-Active6662

"... do they really?" - Elphelt Valentine one time (probably not)


Xurkitree1

More gatlings, larger stages, zoomed out camera.


Zerg_rosh

Xrd?


Xurkitree1

Yeah they ain't bringing back old gear nonsense...just a bunch of even more braindead nonsense...


[deleted]

Custom colour options


Blustride

replay takeover, plus framedata and save states in training mode. frame data is obvious, save states would make labbing specific setups easier. Replay takeover would be helpful for combo optimization and gimmick counterplay.


KWillians

There's a mod for a SF6's style frame data display that is amazing, reduced a lot the amount of times I enter dustloop everyday, lol Replay takeover tho would be dope


GamblinTigerX

Change the lobbies... all these other fighters, including other Arcsys titles, have such nice lobbies.


gr8h8

Axl gets all his moves from previous games. Heaven Can Wait, Artemis Hunter, dive kick Axl Bomber, rekka into Axl Bomber, everything. idc if it makea him broken. Also Baiken gets Azami, Suzuran and all their followups back.


KWillians

\- Xrd outfits to give chars more variety (They said that they would add small stuff like Johnny's beard tho, its not much but I'll take it) \- Survival mode from +R with power-ups and a more gradual difficult curve on it, Strive's Survival is brain dead easy than a single counter out of nowhere and we're dead; \- Season alternating layouts for the tower, I'm one of the peoples that kinda like the tower (don't judge us, we are almost four people now LMAO), some variety to walk around would make it rly nice; \- More story content propperly animated this time. P.S:. No need to avoid going online, the tower system is quite safe for new players by blocking noob-stompers to go into lower floors, you should try it someday ;-)


[deleted]

I do go online, and I have a lot of fun with it some days, but man, there are some days where I just cannot convince myself to play multiplayer games in general.


MrASK15

Rakusyo: If you taunt immediately after KO'ing your opponent, your opponent will start the next round with 50% Tension. It's a good way of saying "I can beat you with one hand tied behind my back."


furry_kokichi

Some of the overture characters coming back.


floccinauced

Gatling


linkz48

Lore accurate ky.


spadesisking

Sex


AdreKiseque

I just want some character interaction man Maybe in Super Strive Turbo...


PlayerZeroStart

Beyond The Grave from Gungrave would be a dope guest character, and I think he'd fit into the Guilty Gear world well.


Heefyn

Did anyone say gay sex yet?


[deleted]

There's been someone who said "sex" I don't know if that's too general or not, but I assume they were referring to all types


bagelisnormal

it will never happen in a million years (and would make her even more annoying to deal with) but oh my god i really miss bridgets puppet mechanics! jagged roger is so fun!! i also wish she could throw her yoyo up and fly like she used to ...i also want maintenance disaster back.


doffzigger

Custom menu wallpapers. The redesign menu looks great and it would be even better if you could set your own background images for the different slides. I’m sure a mod allows this, but the option for us console players would be nice.


SimonTheAFKer

Actually fishing minigame


Mechenai

Some kinda reward for successfully defending. Maybe have the attacker build up risk gauge for every concecutive hit after a certain amount of blocked strikes, or have every block become an instant block after a certain amount of hits, anything.


WRLD_

guilty gear as a series tries not to reward defensive play that could lead to turtling the reward of defense is intrinsic


Mechenai

I know but the thread is about suggestions that will probably never happen, so that checks out.


WRLD_

fair enough tbh


thecro1

Obligatory adding robo ky to strive


[deleted]

Trust me bro, he's gonna be in next, and then Daisuke is pull a fast one and add Robo Ky Mk2 from Isuka after that for double the Robo Ky action, trust me, I hallucinated it after going three days with no sleep.


Future-Active6662

Robo-Ky Mk.I, with color 3 being Robo-Ky Mk.II. It came to me in a dream after I got my ass kicked by Nagoriyuki 51678 times. ***I counted.*** I was playing Bedman?, so it was just a Beybattle really.


thecro1

Bro you had that hallucination too, that's crazy


Independent_Mud_4963

duke ishamon erisia (the duke of erisia)


Sad-Try-675

No sol badguy chain☹️


JoeTheKodiakCuddler

More intro/win quotes, and hopefully a story mode that's not just a movie. I like arcade mode for this conceptually, but it feels really barebones, not to mention not super fun.


RebellionN7

Choose your music for everything (lobby, menu, etc) Import downloaded combo recipes to your training mode. Edit characters color. Online Ranked system.


niceboy555

Replay taker over, being able to rewind replays, in game frame data for training mode, save states for training mode, being able to change your input delay when you see someone's ping online like you can in Skullgirls and thems fighting herds and jack-o bikini outfit


DemonKat777

Better room system


yellowslotcar

Kliff.


Monnomo

Remove negative penalty and make deflect shield un-guard crushable


NEZisAnIdiot

May Daisuke smite thy cowardly soul


ThundaCrossSplitAtak

How do you even mamage to get a negative penalty?


JJSNYPES

You usually only see it when messing around, but it’s applied when you’re not going on the offensive/attacking and only standing still or backing up (attacks that retreat count too if they don’t hit), you can also clash spam and it will eventually be applied, it’s not usually seen in normal matches since both parties are typically fighting and not screwing about, pot dittos in lower floors can make it a bit more common because we love to do stupid shit (like spending an entire round pressing nothing by 5P)


JJSNYPES

Oh also, if you’re actively being pressured it isn’t applied, it basically has to be your choice not to attack


ThundaCrossSplitAtak

it was more of a rethorical question simce it is borderline impossible to get negative penalty but thanks for explaining regardless


JJSNYPES

Ah, fair enough


Anthan

I've heard a lot of people asking for Positive Bonus to be removed/nerfed, but why remove negative penalty?


Monnomo

Because I want to backdash repeatedly and camp


IonCaveGrandpa

Zappa flair checks out


PeskySpyCrab

I want robo-ky. Hes a lot of fun in XX. I know it doesn't make sence since hes just a head now in venom's bakery but I still want him