your own offensive options.

And again, sorry for the huge essay lmao, but at least read the 3 points or the TL;DR lol.

motions inputs without being forced into fast-falling, this wouldn't be a problem if you could use the C-Stick for said motions, but the C-Stick immediately makes you go and attack, so it's a no-go for this thing unless it was reworked.
C-Stick also has another problem in this mod, it makes your character being able to bypass the whole input system and also lets you access to Bair which is currently impossible to do under normal circumstances (bugs and other compatibility issues of the mod non-withstanding), this could be easily fixable by having the Buddy read the C-Stick as a simple input Macro for L, M or H + whatever direction you're holding.
That aside, I LOVE the cancel system you have in place, although I wish you could do Bair by maybe having it tied to a j4M input?

And on second thought, actually just don't reverse Bair at all, just have it there as an option if your opponent dashes below you while you're jumping, so you can catch their offensive option with 1 of your >>>

actually balanced and adding bair would make it more balanced or not, lol]).

Anyway, overall a great mod I just wish it addressed the fastfall problem that most command-input fighters tend to have in platform fighters, it honestly doesn't sound like a big deal but it actually is and it's one of the most (if not THE MOST) annoying issues that makes me turn my head away from command characters in platform fighters like smash or rivals (ultimate also making it worse thx to its already ugly af buffering and input system lmao).



Anyway TL;DR: Having motions tied to Down as a directional input is EXTREMELY ugly both for recovery and execution purposes, because you're now forced into fastfalling for executing purposes, this limits both recovery and combo-game, as well as neutral all for the sake of a motion, this wouldn't be a problem if Down didn't force your character into fast-falling but instead you had a dedicated button for fast-falling so that now you could perform motions >>>

because he doesn't really care about fastfalling since the pillar gives him some height and puts him back into stage's height somewhat, also blastzones become automatically a bit higher when recovering because you're forced to fastfall for at least 1 frame when recovering, but anyway, onto the next point, but this is easily the worst offender overall.
2.2) D-B being tied to 22 motion also makes recovery a bit more gimmicky, lessening recovery mixups, but this problem is also kinda present in the inputs for N-B and S-B too, just less depending on which of these Specials are integral for the character's recovery.
3) I LOVE the cancel system, it really makes it feel into a fighting game, although I wish Bair was also part of the moveset, maybe have it coded so that doing a j4M does a reversed Bair? (The character reverses direction and performs Bair at the same time so they have access to an extra move and option deepening the current system [or dumbening, lol idk if this is actually >>>

the motion) to recover is extremely ugly.

Anyway onto the actual feedback for this: after testing it out in Practice mode for a bit, i have to delinate some of its flaws, so here we go, here they are:
1) Using c-stick gives you the right tilt or aerial without having to use the actual directional input of your system, this means having access to back-air, which under normal circumstances shouldn't be possible, I suggest you either rework c-stick into being just a macro for L or M or H + whatever direction.
2) As I've said in the premise, having to do a shoryuken motion (and thus being forced into fastfall unless you've just started jumping) to recover is EXTREMELY ugly, some characters just lose more chances to recover from this alone than not doing everything at all and just going towards the stage lol, this isn't just an execution issue, as you're basically forced to fastfall and thus this changes the entire recovery meta, Kragg now has both an easy and good recovery, because >>>

Honestly inputs just don't work in platform fighters (unless you have a dedicated button for fastfalling and pressing down on the control stick doesn't just make your character fastfall), smash is the prime example of this, tbh Ryu wasn't even that bad in Smash 4 control-wise, but Ultimate's Input system is just some of the ugliest I've ever seen in a game functionally-wise lol, like having your character being forced into fast-falling just to activate their recovery sounds really bad and ugly, that isn't to say I'm downplaying this mod ofc, this actually looks amazing, but I'm just saying I really hope sakurai drops the whole "fighting game inputs" for character fidelity because it hurts the game and it's not even worth it for the next smash if we even have a next smash game, I could see command inputs working in platform fighters if adjustments to the overall input systems were made to accomodate for them, because as it stands having your character fast-fall (while doing the >>>

Be cool if there was a buddy that only forced your direction towards your opponent. Looked around couldn't find one. If you found one tell me and/or if you created it cause that would be rather epic.

Very good.
I have been waiting for this for a very long time.

I didn't mean forcing compatibility. I meant that without any type of compatibility, it would default to the inputs shown above. I'm saying it should be optional for workshop creators, and base game characters could have their specials mapped to different inputs, since projectiles tend to be executed with the hadoken input, but a lot of Rivals characters with projectiles tend to have them assigned to side special like Zetterburn, Ori, and Wrastor. It doesn't have to be mandatory.

As I said in the description, I wanted to make this universal instead of forcing compatibility. A future version would include a fully customized moveset for each character, (in fact, I've already developed the logic behind it) but I can't say when or if that'll happen.

I suggest adding a compatibility function to assign specials to one of the four regular special inputs. For example, Zetterburn should have his side b mapped to the hadoken input for obvious reasons. And some workshop characters might work better with different inputs. This is a great buddy, keep up the good work!

ok thanks

It's a buddy. Just attach it like you would any other pet.

How do I activate this? I want to try it but i can't

FINE
I GUESS I'll just get good instead >:(

Pretty please make down taunt a recovery button bind I suck at the shoryuken input but I love this buddy

This is REALLY REALLY cool! though it is just a proof of concept, i will probably be playing with this buddy often. I do wish you could also allow the up special ( Z input ) to also be done backwards to allow people to get back on stage when jumping off and trying to recover.

This is a really fun mod as a fan of fighting games. I even noticed a bit of unintentional uniqueness in Forsburn's neutral special in this state as doing light doesn't let you hold, medium lets you hold, and heavy doesn't let you hold but pushes you forward (My thought is that it reads the dash attack input but then cancels it). It was really cool.

I like it! It's unique!

i have found that forsburn has a ladder combo when this is in effect (just JH)

i think most vanilla characters' fspecials would fit better as quarter circle forwards instead of backwards, and vice versa for nspecial. Nonetheless, great buddy!