While it’s not grave enough to cause a Capcom Pro Tour delay, yet another hiccup has manifested as a result of Street Fighter 6’s latest update patch.
This issue is a little lighter than concurrent ones, and is actually a little on the humorous side, perhaps for everyone except Ed players.
Ed was widely seen as one of the best characters on Street Fighter 6’s roster before this recent update, and as such wound up squarely in the sights of Capcom’s nerf gun.
The Psycho-Powered pugilist is among the hardest-hit on the roster, and one of the many ways developers achieved this was through an extended hurtbox on his retreating Kill Box maneuver.
Ed will now have a harder time evading incoming attacks with Kill Box, and this truth is harshly highlighted in the game’s tutorial mode. Street Fighter 6 Demonstrations show how each characters’ most important tools are applied in the midst of battle, and this is depicted via AI recordings of characters.
Ed’s latest change causes him to get hit instead of successfully evading when showing off Kill Box retreat, however, which then places both him and his AI counterpart in the wrong places for the subsequent part of the demonstration.
This is a relatively minor issue, if one would even be inclined to call it that, but @NezsKillerQueen, the X user who shared this finding on social media, feels it’s a piece of larger and more pressing picture.
The Ed player suggests that the implemented nerfs have begun to remove Ed’s identity as an SF6 character, which very well may be the sentiment the majority of the Ed chorus sings here in the game’s updated landscape.
The character guide is malfunctioning because they ruined kill rush backwards .
This is what I’m talking about with this change. It’s removing the character’s identity. He can’t even do what he was designed to do within the game’s tutorial.
Begging Capcom for it back pic.twitter.com/9m8tvi4MmA
— Nezs (@NezsKillerQueen) December 5, 2024
For comparison’s sake, here’s how the Tutorial is supposed to play out during this particular sequence:
If you’re interested in hearing more of what Nezs has to say about Ed’s latest changes, he has en entire 17-minute video on the subject here:
What do you think of Ed as well as the current, admittedly turbulent state of Street Fighter 6? Do you feel this will all be sorted out in short order? Chime in with your thoughts on the situation in the comments below.