[PC] LankyLefty Showcase: New(ish) Stuff!

I gave him more hair. His original hair line I felt was receding after every match, so I basically increased his hairline. I felt if I didn’t do anything I was going to have a shorter Hulk Hogan on my hands. And I didn’t want that. We’re also going to all pretend that hair was always there. No hair plug storyline is planned… for now…

Their logic was tweaked to tone down finishers and auto-pinned moves. With both edits I found they were crushing people, especially power based edits, at an alarming rate despite having point totals that should make them upper mid carders. The logic is now much more balanced, they don’t spam top rope finishers (Hawkins especially was spamming his top rope logic) and the results is they can still tire out big boys, but they are way less big move reliant.

A bunch of logic balancing and a new finisher. I was never sold on the GTS as his main non-submission finisher, and since the inspiration for Vic was some combination of Kurt Angle and Owen Hart, the Olympic Slam made more sense and frankly fit his move-set better. This is another thing I’m simply retconning and not playing out as a storyline- Austin Baron was updated as well to reflect this as well.

Vic has been a struggle to get performing the way I want, his intention is to be a top face, yet he can struggle to beat anyone consistently. Flattening out his ukemi and switching his styles from orthodox to technician has helped, and cutting out his running back switch for a real move has also helped (relying on front grapple to gait the back switch). What was posted today is much closer to what I’m looking for, although there is probably more tweaking in the future.

Machine Gun has, at least by Steam metrics, been my most popular edit. I would assume this is based on his look more than how he sims. He was the second edit I made in world (Logan is the first) and the vision in my head has never really translated to the edit itself. His point total was bloated. His matches seemed to end quickly (via him losing) or go really long (with him winning 50/50). His intention is as more of a OP badass heel, who should work 10-15 min matches and win most of his matches. I didn’t want to use hardbody- I wanted a tough edit, but wanted to build a strong edit before just adding a skill that made him hard to pin. I spent two solid days tweaking and simming before giving up, and deciding to start from scratch.

The results are (in my opinion) a much more focused edit. He’s still not perfect, none of my guys are, but he is more in line with what I had intended of him. His moveset is completely overhauled, with only a few call backs to the original moveset. He is also no longer point bloated (or as point bloated), meaning I think his points are better utilized to get the match I want from him without spending a shit ton to get there. His ukemi still feels… close but not quite where I want it- he seems to sell a bunch mid-late match regardless of where I set the last two values. I’ve also held off on a specific special skill (right now he just has finisher), though I’ll likely add one down the line. His match ending moves are better spread across his moveset, though I still need to tweak frequency (a challenge I feel like I fight with all my edits).