u/Eisentefel

Smart Controls

So, I have a question. First some background. I have a disability that makes fine motor control very hard, but I love fighting games. I was never able to give them a good shot until Modern in street fighter 6 came about to help me with combos.

This game has always seemed interesting to me, but I've never been able to get into it because I just can't execute the combos. Even something as simple as 66L - c.M is incredibly unreliable for me. I can get it occasionally in training, but not nearly often enough to use in match.

I can do some stuff - like a simple triple attack into H special into another triple attack into another special - on some characters, but that's pretty much my ceiling.

I recently heard about smart controls being added to this game, and have looked into them some. It's the auto combo system of my dreams, where basically every confirm is automated and it does combos based on the situation instead of just a static combo. The downsides are real, but tolerable.

One of my problems with modern in street fighter is it's clearly built with the assumption that you will be doing some stuff - even a lot of stuff, depending on the character - using manual inputs. Granblue is better in this respect in some ways due to universal simple input specials, but worse in others (like the importance of 66L - c.M).

My question is this: do you think smart controls are balanced enough to let me play at a high-ish level (maybe master) without using manual combos at all? Also, am I likely to get a lot of hate and derision for using smart controls, like with modern in street fighter 6?

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u/Eisentefel — 3 days ago
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a pad with 6 face buttons that's not a Hori? Hopefully one with native PS5 support. Or is the fighting commander my only option? My octa pro just bricked itself after about 8 months, and my old octa is slowly dying, so I'd like another company.

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u/Eisentefel — 14 days ago