Virtua Fighter Engine

I looooove Virtua Fighter, but honestly I think the new fighting system for Shenmue 3 is a great foundation to build upon for Shenmue 4.
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Fix whatever causes the moves to sometimes trigger half-a-second after finishing your combo, add in grabs/throws, and you've got yourself a solid combat system for S4, in my opinion. Other improvements I'd like to see:

Move left/right evade to the bumpers or right analogue stick. Keep double-tap to move back if you have to, but man, double-tapping left/right to dodge on the same stick you use to move around the field is not great.

They need to come up a wider variety of AI to contend with. I shouldn't be able to spam one good kick over and over on Normal, but I did because it was effective.

And my God, remove the short-distance knee as one of your basic attacks. It feels so ineffectual and sloppy. If you want to just bash singular buttons, they should all be fast and effective moves, even if they don't do much damage.

The VF engine is a distant memory now. Even if SEGA handed it to YS for free...it doesn't work on modern hardware...it isn't compatible with a game built in UE4...it's just never gunna happen.
 
orient said:
Fix whatever causes the moves to sometimes trigger half-a-second after finishing your combo, add in grabs/throws, and you've got yourself a solid combat system for S4, in my opinion. Other improvements I'd like to see:

Move left/right evade to the bumpers or right analogue stick. Keep double-tap to move back if you have to, but man, double-tapping left/right to dodge on the same stick you use to move around the field is not great.

They need to come up a wider variety of AI to contend with. I shouldn't be able to spam one good kick over and over on Normal, but I did because it was effective.

And my God, remove the short-distance knee as one of your basic attacks. It feels so ineffectual and sloppy. If you want to just bash singular buttons, they should all be fast and effective moves, even if they don't do much damage.

The VF engine is a distant memory now. Even if SEGA handed it to YS for free...it doesn't work on modern hardware...it isn't compatible with a game built in UE4...it's just never gunna happen.
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If this is going to be the combat system moving forward, I have a few more suggestions.

- Improve the hit stun animations.

- Bring back parries

- Restore move properties (such as causing large amounts of hit stun with a proper Counter Elbow Assault) or giving frame advantage on counter hits.

- Allow one to cancel out of one move and flow into another creating combos.

This new combat system has potential in my eyes. For example, I like the guard mechanics and the arcade style Battle Rally. However it needs to be fleshed out more.
 
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