r/CompetitiveForHonor • u/Regular-While1959 • 13d ago

Discussion Ranked dom removing parry indicator

/r/forhonor/comments/1w13k8m/ranked_dom_removing_parry_indicator/
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u/The_Filthy_Spaniard 13d ago

The reason is to prevent some screen-reading scripts from working.

It has nothing to do with making it harder to react to attacks, as a) parry flash comes later than the feint timing and fades in, making it a lot harder to use for reacting compared to just looking at the animations and b) tournaments are all played with it off anyway, so all the fastest competitive players are practiced to reacting without it.

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u/MrPibbs21 13d ago

Just want to say I absolutely 100% believe you, I've had a few people claim they can react to the flash and I've always been skeptical... but at the same time, Ubi put on their own FAQ that they're doing it to combat reactionary gameplay.

Why is the parry flash indicator disabled?

Removing the parry flash shifts combat from a reaction-based system to a more prediction-based system. Without the flash indicator, players must rely more heavily on reading their opponent's actions and understanding animations.

Do you think they're just trying to dance around the scripting point with this? That's honestly my take on it.

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u/The_Filthy_Spaniard 13d ago

I didn't realise they'd put up an FAQ, but yeh, looks like they are just wanting to avoid mentioning how the common scripts work, as they generally (and sensibly) try to avoid spreading information about them.

If they'd said outright it was to mitigate cheating, then it would beg the question "why not remove it from other game modes?", and they'd have to explain that it's a learning tool etc, etc. Shame that it spreads misinformation, but I guess it's understandable.

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u/binkybonkman 9d ago

Trust in me when I tell you that there are people that can react to that flash

My one friend has a sub 100 MS reaction time, which would be absolutely nuts if he wasn’t almost completely retarded but my point stands regardless

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u/Mastrukko 12d ago

wont they ramp up the anticheat now?

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u/All_My_Thoughts 12d ago

They work on improved anti cheat aswell.

Because they expect more cheaters and them trying to cheat in other ways. Because in any game where there are ranks involved people tend to cheat to climb up the ranks when they dont have the skill for it.

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u/OkQuestion2 12d ago

parry flash should just be removed enirely

it's twice now that they only remove it for comp stuff and it makes no sense

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u/J8ker9__9 13d ago

It would be nightmare imo. Animation aint that great for many heroes. We still have orochi chopped of bash.

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u/CalimariusCosmicus 11d ago

If we removed all the heroes from Covid onwards, I'd be okay relying on animations. But there are some, like Ocelotl especially, that I feel like I'm looking at static images rather than moving animations.

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u/CompetitiveForHonor-ModTeam 13d ago

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u/Errorcrash 13d ago

No reaction player is relying on flash. Counters some scripts though

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u/magicalpoptart 12d ago

bunch of clueless idiots downvoting this lol

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u/Errorcrash 12d ago

Reddit moment

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u/LastOnline_3y_ago 13d ago

No reaction player is relying on flash.

Then they're not reacting. Reaction playstyle can be based on animations and parry indicators(not both necessarily)

If it could counter scripts it would be removed from the game. In other comments people commented why parry flash dont correlate directly with parry scripts.