drive impact is a trash mechanic that needs to go

[levibelew927]

not happening in this game but in the next one if that happens it needs to go. way too unga bunga and once your good enough you wouldn't use it much which what's the point in having it in the first place. all it does is add more rng which isn't really fun in a fighting game

[Everchosen]

The only thing that prevents me from being even greedier on offense is Drive Impact.

It provides a universal counter to fake pressure strings, without it some characters really wouldn't have the tools to deal with and for some characters that fake pressure would become real pressure.

[Peddie]

Even at Evo players occasionally got got by a sudden Drive Impact. And sometimes the threat of a Drive Impact is more powerful than the Drive Impact itself, especially in burnout situations. It serves its purpose within the framework of SF6.

But how is it "RNG"? There is no randomness involved, it's a button that gets intentionally pressed with very reliable counters to it and very reliable situations where it's more likely to give results. If it were like Brawl's tripping mechanic then yes, it'd be RNG because it just happens at random without any input from the player.

[X]

I love drive impact, when I'm doing it.
I hate drive impact, when my opponant is doing it.

[yttik]

when man goes red you press man button and guy falls over

[Everchosen]

Originally posted by yttik:

when man goes red you press man button and guy falls over

Must be nice to only have your character fall over, mine gets completely erased when I get too greedy with DI

[fieldmarshalbonespur69]

I honestly only eat DI's because I throw soooo many sweeps. If you've fought me you know; I literally throw sweeps and do nothing with the oki just to try to set up another sweep. I want to ♥♥♥♥ with your head.

That being said sometimes I don't do the sweep because I conditioned you for a sweep and I hit your DI with a DI and feel like a big brain.

[Peddie]

That's honestly the biggest lesson I had to learn in SF6, the Chun-Li sweep isn't as powerful of a check as it is in other games if your opponent is prone to throwing out DIs. Now I know to throw out safer buttons against opponents who like their DIs.

[TheG]

Originally posted by levibelew927:

not happening in this game but in the next one if that happens it needs to go. way too unga bunga and once your good enough you wouldn't use it much which what's the point in having it in the first place. all it does is add more rng which isn't really fun in a fighting game

It took me a while to figure it out, BUT...

Drive impact forces people to play neutral! It forces people to play the game in an orderly way or else they will get blown up!

If you are constantly jumping in or trying to skip neutral with big buttons, those are the moves that get blown up by DI.

If you are on the ground and ready with your defensive options, if someone dares to use DI at the wrong time, you get an instant 3-4K combo.

Its only hard to react to when you are playing unga bunga. Good way to out yourself.

[Peddie]

DI might be one of the worst ways for trying to punish a jump-in because the other player can just start the counter DI the moment they land. Use conventional anti-air methods instead.

[TheG]

Not if you time it right.

[Peddie]

I'm aware but given how tight the window is nobody in their right mind would go for it when there are far safer and surefire anti-air options available, that don't cost any drive gauge either. There is a reason you never see any player worth their salt go for it when a humble 2HP does the same with far less commitment and risk attached to it.

[FromChaosTheory]

Why? It's not very good outside of checkmate scenarios. And if your in that then you did it to yourself.

[Bumblescrump]

I don't think you will find many who will agree with you on this, maybe when the game first came out and people were still having a hard time dealing with it.

[Johann Von Floydmann]

Drive impact sucks and the rules are never clear. Sometimes you can sweep people who DI sometimes you can't. Sometimes you can chain combo into a DI sometimes you can't. It's really only good for exhausted corner pressure or if you're playing in bronze-silver

[Doc Holiday]

I love Drive Impact