someone said there is cpu vs cpu mode on beta

[dokoham]

what a good news finally they add cvc mode in this series

[Shaoh_Kahn]

What the point of a CPU vs. CPU mode?... Especially in the rote, dumbot "A.I." environment of an NRS fighting game... 🤔

[dokoham]

fun to play sometime @@

[Shaoh_Kahn]

^ Hmm... Okay. BUT, does it have a specific purpose, other than just for viewing?... Can it, for example, grind for the player, like in Injustice 2's online CPUvCPU mode? Or is it just "exhibition" mode -- effectively what happens when the game is left idle at its main menu screen...?

[dokoham]

cpu vs cpu for offline watch :P
online spectator of course is much better
moreover if they can add a replay match download board is super good

[Shaoh_Kahn]

Really depends on the infamous NRS "A.I." script: if the dumbots just spam each other from afar and / or stand there while the other beats them (as the story mode "A.I." does -- insultingly letting players / casuals progress after a few losses), I don't see the point. If the computer scripts are more 'organic' and varied, CPUvCPU might have something purpose.

The new Samurai Shodown game is using some new "neural network" A.I.[www.gamerevolution.com], that learns from players' gameplay styles. If this ends up working better than, say, Killer Instinct's similar claim of "smart A.I.", it could change the versus-CPU battles into something worth more doing beyond the content grind...

[Dr. Steve Brule]

What’s the point?

[^1BigBossMan1978 [BE]]

Originally posted by Dr. Steve Brule:

What’s the point?

It's an idea he has..
I even doubt if MK11 will have any offline options at all,..
Not much of a point there if so.

[Shaoh_Kahn]

Originally posted by ^1BigBossMan1978 BE:

I even doubt if MK11 will have any offline options at all,..

If player-2 cannot use the game's customisation options -- and is locked to some vanilla version of the chars., as it was in Injustice 2 -- I'll be refunding.

If a fighting game does not have a fully functional, offline versus component, it's literally an incomplete product. It's like those co-op centric games that lack any way to play either local or LAN functionality -- half-baked games with finite life span. An even better analogy would be a sports game, like FIFA, sans the ability to play local versus mode... Just ridiculous. 😒

I got screwed with Injustice 2, in this respect -- because I did not check for this erstwhile obvious, standard functionality's presence before I played for 2 hours; never imagining that a key selling point of IJ2 (its "load-outs") were nothing but a gimmick that could only be [not] used in an online ghost town or against CPU dumbots... 😡

I will NOT be fooled again. ⚠

[dokoham]

how about match replay download board?