Buffs for Cammy and Nerfs for Juri? Seemz legit
During the Top Eight of yesterday’sStreet Fighter VNorCal Regionals, Capcom relayed to the stream’s commentary team that a balance update was coming to the flagship fighter this week. The commentators were instructed to specifically mention it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke.
Later that day, an entire list of patch notes forStreet Fighter VVer.3.5 dropped on official blogCapcom Unity, listing changes that have gotten many players thinking that it might be a joke. Top-tier monsters like Cammy and powerful folk like Menat received new buffs buffs, whilst struggling bottom five fighters, such as Juri, receivedfurther nerfs.
Alongside balance changes implemented for the entire 30-strong roster, the new update plans to overhaul the game’s Crush Counter system, notably adjusting the scaling for CC combos. Also of note, once again, throw techs and V-Reversals have been tweaked.
It’s apparently all quite legit. AlthoughSFVis generally in a somewhat better place right now than it ever was, the fact Capcom can drop a full list of patch notes, and leave the community so confused about the balance changes that they think it might be aprank, simply writes itself. Even a bunch of the world’s best playerstook to twitterto shrug at the whole affair.
Street Fighter V 3.5will reportedly go live on April 3, no beta this time, just going straight in, it seems. You can find the full list of patch notesright here. Sucks to be Ryu, or Birdie, or Mika, or…
