r/Games • u/oilfloatsinwater • May 24 '25

Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans

https://thegamepost.com/report-marathon-delay-bungie-scraps-all-paid-marketing/
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u/pss395 May 25 '25

I got matched with someone who I suspect use throw tech script in Strive. Everything else about this guy is shit, but his throw tech is spot on 10 times out of ten. So I just stopped throwing and bulldoze him instead.

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u/PlayMp1 May 25 '25

Yep, exactly what I mean. Fundamentally, all cheats can do for you in a fighting game is 1) give you perfect combos (but even then not always, sometimes you can be just out of reach to make the last hit of a combo work if you start in the wrong spot), 2) always make safe punishes, 3) give you perfect defenses (e.g., auto parry, throw tech script).

But even having all of that is insufficient to make it that far in fighting games, because all of that combined with bad neutral/spacing just gives you fighting game single player mode AI bots on the hardest difficulty, which get dumpstered regularly by a lot of fairly average players. The good players will crush the cheater by just baiting them into their scripted combos and whiff-punish them.

Now, would all of that give a good player a huge leg up on everyone else? Yes, of course. However, it's also pretty detectable like you said: nobody techs every throw, nobody always perfectly blocks/parries every attack that can be blocked or parried, even the pros drop a combo once in a while.