{"id":1223395,"date":"2026-02-24T01:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5AsmmBx884e2RhhqqccJJm"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:38:58","slug":"invincible-vs-might-be-hyperviolent-but-the-devs-want-to-salve-the-sting-of-getting-combod-to-death-we-want-you-to-be-an-active-participant-even-when-youre-getting-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/invincible-vs-might-be-hyperviolent-but-the-devs-want-to-salve-the-sting-of-getting-combod-to-death-we-want-you-to-be-an-active-participant-even-when-youre-getting-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Invincible VS might be hyperviolent, but the devs want to salve the sting of getting combo’d to death: ‘We want you to be an active participant, even when you’re getting hit’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’ve played Marvel vs Capcom, you may be aware of the touch of death: that most dreaded of fighting game combos where a single hit-confirm can take you from full health to the grave. It’s an edge case, but an emblem of one of the big frustrations any arcade fighter novice has dealt with\u2014getting hit in any game with a robust combo system means you’ll spend a lot of time waiting and watching.<\/p>\n

Mike Willette, once lead producer of 2013’s stellar Killer Instinct reboot<\/a> and now executive producer on Invincible VS, said the game is angled to balance out the breakneck pace of your average tag fighter with some tweaks that favor accessibility.<\/p>\n

“Within our combo structure, there’s opportunities to actually break out. We don’t want you to be passive, we want you to be an active participant, even when you’re getting hit \u2026 similar to KI, as you’re doing attacks and specials and supers, it starts building up combo meter,” he said. “When it gets all the way full, your opponent will drop out of your combo.”<\/p>\n

If you’re on the receiving end, you can call on one of your assist characters (you select a team of three for any given match) to cancel out a combo if you’re getting pummeled, but it’ll cost a fair bit of meter. If you’re doing the pummeling, that might be a buzzkill\u2014but if you catch your opponent low on resources, you can spend some of your own to press the advantage.<\/p>\n

Willette told me you can extend those combos by spending some meter, using a super, or tagging in an assist, the latter of which can be used to tie together huge combos that involve your entire team of three. Your opponent can counter-attack for free to escape as you transition characters, but if they mistime it, you’ll get to bash them for even longer as they open themselves up.<\/p>\n

If all that sounds like a lot of execution to worry about, Willette said that a basic combo is easy enough to spit out across the roster once you know your buttons.<\/p>\n

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