thisiscourage Wrote:
I thought the unbreakable variation looked much better than I initially anticipated. The ice armor can be useful and the ice shield will be a great asset. I will use this variation for sure.
For me the point that would've changed everything with Unbreakable would've been first hit armor. I read someone posting that it had stun armor and I was excited but taking some grains of salt until I could see gameplay.
During the stream when I saw that Quan Chi had first hit armor in one of his move I was excited to check if Sub-Zero had it too, but then he used the armor and it didn't stop the first stun which disappointed me. And the guy using the variation stopped using all the variation moves after that, which made it look like it was worthless to even try them.
The Ice Shield only works on the front side (previous parries worked in both direction) wich made it even worse as it's already a move that depends a bit on prediction and opponent behaviour instead of your own strategy. The Ice Armor seems to reduce the damage a bit, but not too much. It doesn't seem to have a very long casting time, but still not worth losing the advantages of Cryoancer (overheads, air assault with this new move, long reach on oponers and uppercuts...) and Grandmaster (scenario control with the clone).
Everything could change until the game releases, but right now Unbreakable needs a couple of improvements IMO.
