Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26781209-20180316144524/@comment-14761947-20180405041143

Nicholaz, The Space Magi wrote: Again, that would be literally Strife! without the fighting. It'd be just 24/7 kill-the-kactus-men-on-ye-old-magic-floating-training-island. Hell, just call that "Harmony [Alpha!]" since that would literally be just what it is. And it would still distract players from the main game.

Look at it like this. Do you really even NEED to train? Is slaughtering helpless masses of Kactus Men REALLY helping you improve your skill at the game, versus playing the actual game and learning how to fight against REAL players and developing an understanding of classes on your own? oh boyyy

look at it from a perspective like you would a fighting game

yes, you can jump straight into a match without training

yes, you can try to learn combos and understand the class in a match without training

just like how training mode in strife where you just kill fucktons of kacti men, the training mode in fighting games have you just beating the shit out of an inanimate dummy

does that help? not to you, but to me, its pretty much a catalyst to git gud.

training helps you understand a class better than just going straight into matches only to be instantly bodied numberous times because you still don't know what to do at that time.

in training mode, you get to play as the class continuously instead of waiting for a couple of minutes to play as said class again because you got rekt in elim. continous gameplay means quicker understanding. having to wait just to play again unless its dm is just slower.

but its not like anyone would want you to test moves and practice combos on them right? training mode also gives you the opportunity to do that and this helps to contribute to getting a feel of the class. muscle memory helps a lot in executing combos and you get that part down by repeating the same thing over and over again. the practicality of the combo is where the fight comes in.

training mode also helps you warm up before the round starts.

so overall, can training make you good? not necessarily, but it can certainly help you to improve. ofcourse, you still need to fight against real players (no shit). but that doesn't make training mode obselete. its monotonous but it does help a lot. in other words, the training mode compliments the actual game itself. after all, its better to know of the class beforehand in training than going in blind in a match.

but sadly the issues with training mode is inevitable so i typed walls of text for nothing xdd

tl;dr training mode helps u git gud quicker