no continue countdown when lose in arcade mode?

[SyntaX_[E]rr0R]

the arcade mode experience is so far so good. but it seems like the arcade mode is just Virtual Frontier but just linear with 8 level progression and without the random mutations. so will it be good if there's a countdown when lose in arcade mode? just my suggestion. thanks.

[Weak Watamelon (Evacion)]

I think that's just a holdover from when arcade machines wanted to suck all the money out of it's players. There's not legitimate reason to add such a feature, which basically amounts to `retry the current stage`.

Even if it was added, what currency would be used to continue it? In game peko which only exists in the VF game mode? IRL money, which breaks Cover corp's terms of service? I legitimately cannot find a good gameplay reason for a countdown.

[Senator Phillips]

Just have an option to try again at the stage you lost at, but with a score reduction. Why would you need a currency of any sort to do that? There have been arcade ladder modes in home fighter ports with free continues going back decades, no need to complicate things.

[masa-spring14]

It's certainly inconvenient not to be able to continue, which exists in games before that, let alone Street Fighter 2. (Sentences may be inaccurate due to machine translation)

[Ultimate Sadistic Creature]

Nearly every fighting game in the past couple of decades has a continue option. Either with a score reset or no cost all. Keeping score is such an archaic feature anyway.