Update — 3 September
Update — 3 September
A big day on the engine and the character data. Most of it came from chasing flagged fights and finding the reasons behind them.
Fights between ordinary people no longer end in a draw. Two fighters who can each kill the other used to sometimes just stop. Now whoever is harder to hit and quicker to read the fight comes out on top. Agent 47 edges John Wick, Ahsoka edges Darth Maul, Solid Snake edges Black Widow. Genuine stalemates between beings who can't end each other are untouched — that's a real result, not a shrug.
The engine can now handle being killed without being hit. A death spell, a name in a notebook. Toughness is no defence against it; only not being alive in the ordinary sense is. Ainz Ooal Gown's death magic works properly for the first time.
23 characters were given a real weakness. They previously had nothing that could be used against them at all, which is why some fights ended with neither side able to win. All Might, Captain America, Master Chief, John Wick, Agent 47, Darth Maul, Ahsoka, Wesker, Predator, Michael Myers, Kratos, Agent Smith, Walter White, Arthur Morgan, Battle Beast, Conquest, Sun Wukong, Ichigo, Vecna, Gurren Lagann, Mob, Optimus Prime and Rick Grimes.
Saitama and Giorno deliberately got none. Nothing has ever been demonstrated against them — that's an unknown weakness, not proof of invincibility, and inventing one would be worse than leaving the gap.
Batman is rated properly at last. His fighting skill, gear and preparation were all sitting at 1-3, which is why he'd been losing to people who have never been in a fight. He now beats Light Yagami and John Wick, and Deathstroke is a much closer thing.
Doomsday can finally finish a fight. His strength was rated too low for him to hurt anyone with tough enough skin — which is odd for the thing that beat Superman to death. His bone spurs now cut through armour too.
Combat intelligence has been rebalanced across 61 characters. Being clever now counts for much less in a fight. Only characters who genuinely out-think opponents mid-combat keep a high rating — planning something brilliant beforehand is a different skill. Nine characters lost the rating entirely.
Zeus, Allen the Alien, Ainz and Asura all had abilities added that were missing, and a few removed that were double-counting the same thing twice.
Sonic's Classic and Movie versions have been folded into one. They were the same character with the same abilities. His speed now actually does damage — the Spin Dash goes through armour rather than him just running fast and being unable to hurt anyone.
Two canon results restored: Kratos kills Zeus, and the Death of Superman is recorded as what it was — they killed each other.
A big day on the engine and the character data. Most of it came from chasing flagged fights and finding the reasons behind them.
Fights between ordinary people no longer end in a draw. Two fighters who can each kill the other used to sometimes just stop. Now whoever is harder to hit and quicker to read the fight comes out on top. Agent 47 edges John Wick, Ahsoka edges Darth Maul, Solid Snake edges Black Widow. Genuine stalemates between beings who can't end each other are untouched — that's a real result, not a shrug.
The engine can now handle being killed without being hit. A death spell, a name in a notebook. Toughness is no defence against it; only not being alive in the ordinary sense is. Ainz Ooal Gown's death magic works properly for the first time.
23 characters were given a real weakness. They previously had nothing that could be used against them at all, which is why some fights ended with neither side able to win. All Might, Captain America, Master Chief, John Wick, Agent 47, Darth Maul, Ahsoka, Wesker, Predator, Michael Myers, Kratos, Agent Smith, Walter White, Arthur Morgan, Battle Beast, Conquest, Sun Wukong, Ichigo, Vecna, Gurren Lagann, Mob, Optimus Prime and Rick Grimes.
Saitama and Giorno deliberately got none. Nothing has ever been demonstrated against them — that's an unknown weakness, not proof of invincibility, and inventing one would be worse than leaving the gap.
Batman is rated properly at last. His fighting skill, gear and preparation were all sitting at 1-3, which is why he'd been losing to people who have never been in a fight. He now beats Light Yagami and John Wick, and Deathstroke is a much closer thing.
Doomsday can finally finish a fight. His strength was rated too low for him to hurt anyone with tough enough skin — which is odd for the thing that beat Superman to death. His bone spurs now cut through armour too.
Combat intelligence has been rebalanced across 61 characters. Being clever now counts for much less in a fight. Only characters who genuinely out-think opponents mid-combat keep a high rating — planning something brilliant beforehand is a different skill. Nine characters lost the rating entirely.
Zeus, Allen the Alien, Ainz and Asura all had abilities added that were missing, and a few removed that were double-counting the same thing twice.
Sonic's Classic and Movie versions have been folded into one. They were the same character with the same abilities. His speed now actually does damage — the Spin Dash goes through armour rather than him just running fast and being unable to hurt anyone.
Two canon results restored: Kratos kills Zeus, and the Death of Superman is recorded as what it was — they killed each other.
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