The lack of roll HD kinda sucks, is jump HD and bypass HD still in there?
I'm sure They are still there as they were intended to be in the game and are made reference to in the Mook. The roll cancel HD was kinda left field.
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Interesting discovery on the mechanics of HD bypass (Thanks to Ash for helping me pinpoint what exactly it was was):
-When doing light hit chains into HD, e.g d.B x2, s.B, HD here are the conditions--
1) if you press BC
as soon as the s.B hits (
early), it'll cause your player to activate HD but
auto dash forward so you have to press s.C/D manually.
2) if you press BC a little
delayed (
late), it'll cause your player to
do a s.CBasically, if you just wanna do d.B, s.A, HD (s.C), --> hit the BC slightly delayed but if you're activating off a far poke like Shen, Iori, Vice etc...you'd want to auto-dash and hence press the BC as early as possible.
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UPDATE:
Same mechanics apply with strong hits. So s.C, (slight delay) BC yields-->
s.C, BC, s.C (one less input)