You will never retain or gain any new players. This game is fun. But it is also complete trash at the same time. Players that consider themselves "high level players" arent anything but character abusers and have lost all sense of the art of what this style of fighting should be. When was the last time I played a fun duel? Quite some time. Its turtles and abusers that use the same characters which im exceptionally tired of the LB and free hits that have no skill involved in completing and if attempted to dodge a free GB. Sure make a character with full control over the fight makes sense

1.) parry for free GB is a nonsense structure. The rewards should be a free light on heavy parry and free heavy on light parry.

2.) its pretty clear which characters everyone chooses to playbas in a high level fight and its clear that they use them for 1 single purpose -theyre ****ing cheap. Raiders with stun abuse that cancel into stuns way after launches of heavys or zone attacks. The transitioning into a stun feint needs slowed down. Or how about LB with free hits and free GB after shoves. Yeah that makes perfect sense. Put a turtle in their and whats the point of even trying to fight. Thats all this game is anymore is playimg a cheap free hit characters and seeing how many times you can do the same **** over and over for free hits. Or lets talk about warlord and vikings in general? I dont even need to go in depth about their whole lineup with the most versatile and rediculous buffed stats novother team compares to. Lets talk about bs

3.) your leaving several characters seriously lacking in options and or power to get the job done. Conqueror? Or better yet my favorite most readable character the orochi. A once amazing character thatbwas nerfed to nothing. Hahahahahah good luck landing a heavy attack unless you have got your timing on point. How fast would you say it is? 900ms? Or more? Yes centurion gets heavys fast as light attack spams. But an assassins heavy lets leave at the speed of the conqueror or slower. And we will make the lights the slowest out of the assassin class. Oh wait and lets make the strike and rush the most readable for mile moves that have no recover time so youll get ****ed in the ***. Point is there are many characters lacking in ability and orochi is one of the biggest ****piles right now. Yet here we are with 5 or so characters that are the #1 unfair play like a ***** choice of play becausw ubisoft doesnt care about skill based fighting but who can play like more of a *****

Therefore i take my leave until things get seriously adjusted.