Devs: Please rethink the crowd control popups

[MachTackle]

A small request for the developers:

Please get rid of the large, crowd control popups or at the very least please offer a toggle to disable them or make them more subtle.

I've watched a number of gameplay videos now and the popups temporarily pause the action, killing momentum and are extremely invasive. It becomes a problem as they are very frequent as well. Just make it a small popup above the character's head or perhaps a small popup under the combo counter if you want it to stand out without covering the whole screen and pausing the action. Maybe limit the large popups to when you defeat bosses. It already has the announcer declaring "crowd control" or "special KO" so it's not like we won't notice it anyway.

The game as a whole looks fun but this is one of those features that needs a rethink imho.

[KenjiN4]

BIG agree there, the popups look really disruptive, they could at least appear as a "notif", icon or a jingle to represent you got an extra bonus, just like in some instances in RCG.
Game looks cool indeed, but the crowd control feature looks like it's going to be invasive

[JIN]

This crap got on my nerves already in the promotional and pre-release vidios. it's just awful and if they don't remove it on release I just won't be able to play it.

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by JIN:

This crap got on my nerves already in the promotional and pre-release vidios. it's just awful and if they don't remove it on release I just won't be able to play it.

I can definitely imagine how this can grind someone during casual play, really hope the dev team tweaks this issue right away

[Titan]

Absolutely needs to be made a toggle or removed altogether. Just looking at preview footage I can tell it's going to be annoying enough to make me not buy the game at all if it can't be turned off.

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by Titan:

Absolutely needs to be made a toggle or removed altogether. Just looking at preview footage I can tell it's going to be annoying enough to make me not buy the game at all if it can't be turned off.

Don't know if they can remove it since they put work making specific assets to it (the icon and sfx), but I'm very sure it can flow much better considering how it can be laid out.
Pausing the game to say you defeated 3+ enemies at once is not a good idea at all, so they can at the very least make a toggle to it for their work not to be thrown away if they can't rework it for some reason

[Expiom]

They did the same thing in streets of red. It gets annoying extremely fast. The harder the difficulty the more you want those heals, but it constantly stops the action and I couldn't stand it anymore. I really hope we can toggle it off.

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by Expiom:

They did the same thing in streets of red. It gets annoying extremely fast. The harder the difficulty the more you want those heals, but it constantly stops the action and I couldn't stand it anymore. I really hope we can toggle it off. :alexgrumpy:

Yikes, I don't know why someone thought this was a good idea for them to actually do it again on a later title
Seeing it like that actually makes me think if they're going to address it, this is quite worrisome :/

[Tourette's Guy]

Yep, agree. They feel like an intrusive AD when you are navigating internet.

[Grimdaddy]

Agreed, a toggle would be very welcome. The pause seems to drastically break up flow, which is really important to me in a beat-em-up.

[View The Phenom]

Definitely needs a toggle, having the game pause every time you kill 3+ enemies at once is going to become incredibly annoying.

[limelight1210]

+1

[Enoby]

I genuinely do not know how this was seen as okay. Do the majority of players actually like having the game pause repeatedly?

[sleepy toad]

I don't mind it as much as other people here do, but i can see it becoming annoying the more you play. A way to make it subtler or disable it outright would be nice.

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by sleepy toad:

I don't mind it as much as other people here do, but i can see it becoming annoying the more you play. A way to make it subtler or disable it outright would be nice.

Played it here too and I oddly got used to it, but I still see it as a flaw nonetheless, making it more suble or give it a toggle would be way better indeed

[MachTackle]

From what I've heard, as you become more skillful at the game, the frequency I which you will get the crowd control popup naturally increases. So it will become even more tiresome.