You probably technically can, but it looks like you’ve got four modifier buttons which need to be held in conjunction with hitting four face buttons and pressing directions on the stick, which sounds almost as much of a faff as learning the combos.

I could be misunderstanding it, but that’s what it appears to be from what I can tell.

Not sure if this will work:

Needs some time in the lab for sure.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

So this can still be played in the old style with quarter turns for fireballs etc, right?

Yep.

Some nice combo displays here. Definitely seems like a slower more forgiving game in terms of frame by frame data. Revisiting III and IV you can see the immediate difference in speed. Also appears to be a much bigger emphasis on smaller/more damaging combos?

Being limited to only 3 pokes/normals is a problem, no one is going to stick with Modern scheme on that basis. Pure fudge, sad.

It just seems categorically weaker to have no access to three whole buttons that a classic moder is going to, unless those buttons are just pure trash in which case... why have them at all.

Lurch666 wrote:

For beginners.

I get this idea but it's never good to learn easy from the start of something if you ever want to get anyway good is it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel you are better picking one style and working with it. Is execution of moves really that big a barrier in these games?

Complexity of controls are an issue tho.
Consider how well SF2 sold. And then consider SF3 popularity and sales.
SF3 almost killed the series despite critical acclaim.

What Capcom wants is to lower the barrier to jump in. They want back the players they lost with sf2. They're looking at stuff like dota2 and minecraft and overwatch and are probably thinking: how can we get our userbase back? Surely we can build an audience like that? Simple controls might be the answer to draw new players in. Whether they'll be able to play competitive and stay with the game is something we'll have to wait and see.

Easy operation with CvS2 didn't really pan out. Let's hope Capcom has learned from the past and comes up with something more substantiable.

Agreed. Capcom should keep tinkering and improving the simplified scheme with every season. They're not going to get it right in one take.

Thing that came out the autocombo system in Jojo ASB was people working out you could do busted roman cancels with, it sort of ruled. I hope that's kept in the remaster that's out later this year.

Maybe it's just cause I've grown up with it, but the basic 6 button control set up with sf and the execution of specials was never an issue. Everyone gets half circle, quarter circle stuff. But whenever I tried to get casual friends to do things called focus attacks, v triggers and parries, that's when the eyes glaze over. The button inputs can be simple but managing the multiple items with the drive meter is arguably more a barrier to entry than whether you have 3 punches and 3 kicks

RedDave2 wrote:

Maybe it's just cause I've grown up with it, but the basic 6 button control set up with sf and the execution of specials was never an issue. Everyone gets half circle, quarter circle stuff. But whenever I tried to get casual friends to do things called focus attacks, v triggers and parries, that's when the eyes glaze over. The button inputs can be simple but managing the multiple items with the drive meter is arguably more a barrier to entry than whether you have 3 punches and 3 kicks

True, I wish more new players were told they can have fun without needing to use all the tools in the toolbox on day 1.

Despite my shitposting I would love SF6 to be amazing and get people playing, but I can't be anything other than pessimistic after how SF5 and MvCi and I guess the sucking started before that with SFxT and the whole gems bullshit and just getting dropped almost immediately after that first round of DLC