As one of the oldest esports sports, fighting games are still very popular. The fighting action games led by the "King of Fighters" series and the "Street Fighter" series are also the most bloody and competitive confrontations. To this day, the vast majority of fighting games are fought by two sides, side by side.
At the quarterfinals of the CEO Fighting Game Contest that is currently underway in the United States, SPLOOT, a player in the "Guilty Gear 2 project", appeared with his "new peripherals". This is a Thomas the Train-shaped tent, and SPLOOT was in the tent during the game, opening the game from the perspective of Thomas the Train.
Although SPLOOT was swept 2-0 by his opponent in the end, he also became the most talked-about player before the championship was born.
There are many rules that players need to follow to participate in fighting games, but they don't contain rules about how players dress up and how their controllers are covered. WHILE IT MAY SEEM FLAMBOYANT, SPLOOT IS BY NO MEANS THE FIRST TO DO SO. At the EVO tournament held in August last year, legendary fighter "Kid" (Zeng Zhuojun) put his hand in a cardboard box and eventually won the championship.
Also in this competition, another contestant took a blanket to cover his hand to operate. If the background is not the audience but your own home, this action will inevitably cause ambiguity......
There is actually a saying about fighting game competitions that block hand movements. In some cases, this can really prevent your opponent from using hand movements to predict your next command. It may not make sense for the average player to know this, but in the eyes of a true expert, this advantage may well mean the difference between victory and defeat.
SPLOOT's Thomas Train is bigger than any previous obstruction, but it serves the same purpose. At the same time, the fighters sit together in fighting game competitions, and there is no room for cheating. As for why fighting games still require players to sit together and compete, it has to do with equipment problems.
Last year's "Oil Cup" and "Street Fighter" project in Saudi Arabia used the method of fighting against each other on two monitors. This avoids the risk of being spied on by an adversary, but it also increases the likelihood of a problem with the device. AFTER LOSING THE MATCH, PUNK OF THE UNITED STATES SAID THAT HIS MONITOR WAS DELAYED.
For fighting game matches where the manipulation is granular to the frame, any delay is unacceptable. Therefore, the vast majority of fighting game competitions still choose to let players compete on the same screen.
At this stage, the CEO Fighting Game Contest continues. Players have different attitudes towards occluding handles or joysticks. As an element that is allowed to appear in the rules of the competition, it is not excluded that there will be people who will use the new "peripherals".
So what do you want to say about the use of these "peripherals"?