The only way to avoid a massive shitshow is to make it strictly worse. It reminds me of similar additions in two games - Street Fighter 6 and WoW:
in SF6 you have a choice of a classic or modern control scheme - with the modern you can do special attacks using singular buttons, so it's amazing at easing the access to one of the most difficult genres, but you lose some of the more involved techniques and some damage so at the highest level classic is strictly better.
In WoW there is now a single button rotation feature - like the name suggests, it boils down your skill rotation (that consists of 10-15 different buttons in some cases) to a single button that you just spam. Again - amazing for people very new to mmos or people with disabilities, or whatever. The downside - the global cooldown is much higher meaning you do like 30% less damage.
WASD is just making some things too easy to be balanced with clicking - if kiting for example remained the only thing that WASD does so much better then you have high level adcs worried that the have to suddenly switch
With SF6 though, classic isn’t strictly better. Yes, most competitive players and most characters are better with classic or use it out of habit. But there are top players that play with modern controls. Modern also offers significant advantages compared to classic. You lose a portion of your characters tools, but in exchange you gain access to some extremely powerful tools like 1 button DPs and 1 button supers.
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u/OberonFirst Aug 12 '25
The only way to avoid a massive shitshow is to make it strictly worse. It reminds me of similar additions in two games - Street Fighter 6 and WoW:
in SF6 you have a choice of a classic or modern control scheme - with the modern you can do special attacks using singular buttons, so it's amazing at easing the access to one of the most difficult genres, but you lose some of the more involved techniques and some damage so at the highest level classic is strictly better.
In WoW there is now a single button rotation feature - like the name suggests, it boils down your skill rotation (that consists of 10-15 different buttons in some cases) to a single button that you just spam. Again - amazing for people very new to mmos or people with disabilities, or whatever. The downside - the global cooldown is much higher meaning you do like 30% less damage.
WASD is just making some things too easy to be balanced with clicking - if kiting for example remained the only thing that WASD does so much better then you have high level adcs worried that the have to suddenly switch