Injustice: Gods Among Us - Turn off environment damage, pushblocking, Street Fighter-esque inputs and more

Sounds like a solid effort by NRS. Hopefully the online will be worth a damn. I've heard stories about MK.

Not sure about the meter for push blocking, lets just hope they don't have Flash dash-cancel block strings like Kabal had.

I think its awesome but would'nt that kind of kill the point of the game if we start turning off enviorments? Its not like they automatically hurt you like in brawl, these actually have to be interacted with.

Also what do they mean turn off enviormental damage? If they mean the objects that hurt the player then ok, but perhaps it goes againts my first assumption and there IS things in the background that will hurt players automatically.

Ok this needs to be cleared up.

That's really nice to hear that they thought of the more competitive gamer. I might even buy it now thanks to that.

Love the fact that you can turn off the random feature in order to make it more competitive. Just hope you can skip the 30 sec cutscenes when a character is send flying. And I didn't care much about the tag team feature in MK. They should focus on polishing the key features.

Honestly this game would be perfect with Tag. But I'm still hype.

@6

DITTO!

Let it rock for a few months then decide if it should be turned off.

Im actually happy you can turn them off but I would still use them in the game. Maybe I will switch it up sometimes have environment damage on sometimes off.

no tag thats awful, game would be perfect with in optional tag team mode cuz it promotes people to learn more characters, o well

aaaaand, the game just got playable, i think i'm in there.

I seriously hope stage variables aren't canned for tournaments. They've been the single most innovative idea in fighting games for a long time. No game has fleshed them out like Injustice has.

Knowing NR, Injustice will be at least 3 patches away from being decently balanced *cough* kung lao *cough*

Tag is useless, so stop complaining. Tag in MK( is the excuse for those with an awful record to fix their stats.Other than that, it's a great minority of people that play tag mode exclusively.

So let me get this straight, FGC complains and trashes Smash for tripping mechanics and other random stage stuff, but yet FGC supports the idea of stage damage and mechanics for Injustice?

Come on, son.

FloeFace

Game will be bought with or without this. Just buy the rights to killer instinct.. How bad azz would that be MK vs KI?!?! Can we see a new bloody roar to? NR? Capcom? Namco?! That is all.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. These guys are really putting forth the effort! Much respect.

Why are people against having the OPTION to turn it off... If you want to use them and have fun time with the bros then just don't turn it off... Whether the game was meant to be played like that or not people should have the option to play it as they prefer, and some people won't feel it's competitive enough with environments on. Think of gems in sfxtk, dumb mechanic but it was meant to be a part of the game, still... You have the option to set no gems if you'd like to. Force it and that just makes things worse.

KI's TM is owned by NBC or ABC at the moment.

Absolutely a fan of options. Tournaments can use whatever options they want, but I personally want to play without things I don't like.

Even if I end up liking the game out of the box, the options would be there for me to create a game I would enjoy in the event that I didn't.

Options = 100% upside, 0% negatives.

How can they claim to have more content (...kontent?) than MK9 when they don't have tag and they only offer 24 characters at launch where MK9 offered 27?

[Tournament setting] Stage damage will be kept and tried until something broken, unfairness, complications is seen from it.

Anyway, Ed Boon/NRS/WB take my money.

It blows my mind that people are crying about having extra options in the game.

SF input? Isn't D, F + Attack basically the same as D, DF, F + Attack? Or they are talking about something else?

Exactly, there is absolutely NO downside to have the option.

@27

yes D, F + Attack is the same as you stated but what if they have charge characters? When D +F is the attack I still use it like Sf any time I play MK games. But what if the back + foward + attack turns to charge back + forwar + attack??? I wonder if I can switch this on and off by character!?!?!?!?!

@24 I didn't know they announced the complete roster? THey said the 24 slots were just a set-up and was not final.

I played Tag in MK online for 2 reasons: 1. I could practice 2 characters at once + more matchup experience.
2. People playing tag mode actually used a variety of character. Single mode on ranked would have you fighting 16 scorpions in 20 matches.

@27 It is the same for a pad, but I had some trouble at first doing d,f attacks on an arcade stick. THeres was just something funky about doing the motion consistently in a Sektor juggle.

@27

The non-SF inputs used in MK9 (Down & Forward only) created unwanted input leniency. You could get accidental incredibly punishable specials just by doing a dash-in D+4.

Tag was a gimmick in MK9 (let alone recent fighters having tag like TTT2,SfxT,DoA 5, Mvc3, Skullgirls, etc making Tag feel feel stale)

Glad they are focusing on a solid 1 vs 1 fighter

@29

Under this setting, back-forward becomes half-circle forward. They won't be doing any charges. That's not what they mean by SF inputs. This is strictly for ease of use for arcades sticks and like #31 stated, will also be useful for preventing accidental inputs.

@17

The stage damage isn't a randomized mechanic like the stuff in Smash.

Come on, son.

People don't understand the concept of random anymore....

there is no chance nor luck involved in stage interactions, (as far as we know) they stay where they are and don't do anything till activated. ie. things won't automatically fly out that hit you.

I hope they eventually add tagteam mode to the game again as DLC or something.
other than that I'm still hype for this game!

@6 well dude it's just an option, if you don't like it don't use it yourself, simple as that, it's like saying "Oh damn I don't like that this game gave me multiple difficulty options, I want to play it where it's hard, what's that? The option for hard is already there? I don't care anymore this game sucks because of more options."

Don't care about tag and don't see why it's being shoved into all these games like DoA, MK9, SFxT. Don't need, it and don't care. Leave it for Tag 2 where the system is refined. As for push blocking with, meter, sounds good. Plus the fact you can change QCFs is very much welcome. I loved this addition in Skullgirls but giving us the option to change more moves to SF/KoF style is a bonus.
Injustice is looking great.

At least it's optional, but I see the fun with environments. But stuff like gems were really unnecessary. At least NR cares about certain aspects of fighters to bring everyone on board.
Yet games like SFxT add a bunch of stupid gimmicks, then again the Capcom fanboys will eat any S*** thrown at them.

I didn't know there was guard crushing in this game. Does that mean that if you have something akin to a guard bar that will eventually deplete and leave you vulnerable if you block too much? Or am I just misinterpreting the article?

Watch the tourny crowd turn off the stage hazards and then complain about time outs because they're too stubborn to use something that's in the game to begin with.

LOL NR is doing a great job and people are hating.

#15

Better than 3 patches than 3 renditions. *cough*vanillasagat*cough*superrufus*cough*AEYun*cough*2012seth*cough*

#24

We don't know for certain that 24 is going to be the roster cap, plus we'll get DLC characters. Also, tag is just one mode. We don't know what all modes will be available.

@ #42

Damn right, son.

I still support NR's decision, but I hope they aren't trying to make it too much like Capcom fighters. You're still giving them hell with Mortal Kombat, you don't have to mimic them too much just because a few hardcore fans can't handle a Block Button or Projectiles that don't cancel each other out.

@43

Hell Yeah!!! I don't want the hardcore community destroy this game this is not SF is different and that's the cool thing about this game not every fighting game gotta be the same.

Still gotta bring up my hate for mk9 I respect the community though, I will def buy this game since it looks really good

@45 Why? Just why? This isn't MK, I don't see the need to comment on hating MK. Glad to see you will give NRS's other games a shot though.

Imagine you are having a discussion about NBA 2k and someone just pops there head in and says, "yo I hate Madden! Imma buy 2k though"

They're catering towards everyone, serious and casual; that way all are pleased. No one should be upset that they have options to turn off certain aspects of the game when you can just leave those options on to suit your preferences.

They're doing a fantastic job.

All the little scenes during battle like punching them through several buildings take too long and kill the momentum of the battle. Just my opinion but small things like that ruin it for me. It would be good if things like that could be turned off and keep the battle in one location.

Why are competitive players so afraid of playing anything new? -_-

The problem with multiple options is that it will take a while for everyone to decide on what is the best option if it's not clear. Granted most people just do what Evo does but what if a large enough group of people wanted to do something else? It would really hurt the initial competitive momentum of any game's scene if there is no unity.

More options only really cater to casual players and not competitive players.

Push block costs meter... interesting. Hope some characters have counters or good anti-airs.

So now it's just like any other fighting game? It's No Items, Fox only, Final Destination, all over again.

Though to be fair, the only news I'm disappointed about is that giving the option to turn environmental damage off, will make it the tournament/stream standard. That's practically admitting it's just a dumb gimmick. I thought they could do better than that with that novel idea, and I was looking forward to taking it seriously. Guess not though. It's a gimmick.

Unless they go ahead and force tournaments hosting them to keep it on. But, yeah, if that ever happens, I'll eat my hat.

I'm glad they are showin they can be flexible for capcom fighters, I will miss tag though..... oh well hopefully they have replay available. now no more whinin from competitive fighters. good thing I got the arcade stick edition of this game.

@51

A good half (if not more) of the people at TYM are supporting tournament-use of stage elements. And let's be serious, the TYM crowd is going to dictate the status quo for this game.

Wow so many complaints about you being able to turn off a feature in the game.
It dont mean that it isnt there it means that if you dont wanna play with it (say if you are at a tournament) then you can do that too.
People really do need to calm down...

You can understand why there wouldn't be a tag option from a development perspective. Plus, there is no button to map it on.

It seems like the people at Nether Realms Studio aren't confident with their Environment Hazard gimmick.

@49 at EVO 2008 for Smash brawl they left items on, including smash balls.. Tournaments wont ban new stuff unless its proven to be bad and agreed on later.

the Smash community is different though, i think they banned items in brawl right at the start..

IDK why people are complaining about new options.... lets be honest after you see the animation of you getting your a$$ kicked thru wall and stuff over and over your going to get tired of seeing it... not to mention some animations are just take too much time when your ready to play again and again..

as for the tag feature being kicked to the crib, I dont think thats a good deal at all... especially seeing that the popularity of tag fighting has surpassed 1 vs 1.. however NRS 1v1 style is so quick paced and so satisfying it kind makes up for it...

Yes. Just yes.