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Nerf	comment	A "nerf" is a term in video game lingo that describes a change to a game that weakens a particular item, ability or tactic. It's usually done to fix something perceived as a Game-Breaker, and is almost always a subject of controversy in gaming communities. Occasionally, it's not a change in one game, but rather a change in an equivalent item, ability, or tactic between one game and its sequel. In the past, nerfs for console games were all but impossible due to lacking the ability to patch them. Modern consoles, however, provide this ability, so they now join computer games in this. Many games, especially MMORPGs and other online multiplayer games, are constantly adjusted to maintain balance. Sometimes, that requires taking something powerful down a peg or two. Of course, users of that item will not be amused, and will inevitably flock to the forums to complain, resulting in a Flame War about whether or not the nerf was justified. On the other hand, rants from Scrubs that something should be nerfed are just as common. Either way, the subject is a touchy one. A "buff" or "revamp" is a change for the better. These are as controversial as nerfs; a buff or revamp to one unit's Hit Points is effectively a nerf to the damage of anything attacking it. A Flame War can even develop on whether a given change is a buff, revamp or a nerf, much less an improvement in the game as a whole. So why are nerfs perceived as being such awful things? Well, human beings and even other great apes have a tendency towards loss aversion. For example, if playing a game of chance where you could lose $100, most people would only play if there's also a chance you could also win $200 or more. It works the same way with favorite characters or tactics; perceived losses simply hurt more than perceived wins. These days, the term has been expanded so that "nerf" is any downward adjustment, not just an unduly crippling one; similarly, the "nerf Bat" is no longer what the player is issued to take on The Empire with, but what the developer whacks him with. Anything subject to these kinds of nerf might still be useful, but it won't be a Game-Breaker anymore. Nerfs are sometimes a necessary evil for the good of a game's long-term health, particularly competitive games with long ongoing support. If left unchecked, developers will keep adding new things that are stronger and better than the old ones to both keep players interested in the new content and to give them a reason to use them. This phenomenon is known as Power Creep, and nerfs are the most effective way to combat this besides the more nuclear option of outright removing them. Distinct from Nerf Arm, which is a weapon that the player can intentionally weaken themself by using. We also have a page on the Nerf Brand of toys from which the name is derived. Compare Drama-Preserving Handicap.
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Nerf / int_10c71f4	comment	Wizard101: One of the few explicit examples of this being the Waterworks equipment compared to the best equipment from the the previous release. Previously in to balance Ice school's horrible attack power (literally less than the The Medic), Ice was the only school that could equip gear that granted resistance to all attacks. Other schools gear gave them resistance to spells that were either their own school or the other school in their on their side of the element/spirit line. Waterworks gear not only gave all other schools resistance to all attacks, but it also gave Ice less resistance to all attacks than the previous gear. Although Ice school still has greater resistance to attacks and blocking critical attacks than the other schools, the next closest schools resit is only 3% less and three other schools have a little under 2% less chance of blocking critical hits than Ice does. Compare to the boost other schools received from their gear.
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Nerf / int_10ddd3d5	comment	Starting with the 3D games, fairies would fully revive Link if his hearts run out. It was later changed to only restore a handful of hearts. Also, Red Potions would fully heal Link, but by The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the potions only restore a handful of hearts while Blue Potions became the max heal item. Milk was also nerfed in Twilight Princess by only restoring 3 hearts instead of 5.
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Nerf / int_142657fa	comment	Thunder Force VI nerfs the game-breaking Free Range weapon from Thunder Force V, decreasing its range and damage output. It also nerfs Over Weapons by reducing your speed to 25% while one is active, making you a Glacial Glass Cannon.
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Nerf / int_169f043b	comment	The StarCraft games go through continuous buffing and nerfing to improve game balance, given the franchise's incredible popularity in the Professional Gaming scene. For example, StarCraft: Brood War's Corsair, an air-to-air Space Fighter flown by the dark templar, features a power called Disruption Web that targets an area on the ground and prevents ground units and towers from attacking while inside it, helping with airdrop deployments among other things. This ability's duration was severely reduced in the 1.08 patch, which also gave several nerfs to other protoss powers and units, buffs to the terrains, and a mixture to the zerg; the Corsair nerf is notable because it has noticeable effects on the difficulty of the unit's introductory mission in the protoss single-player campaign.
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Nerf / int_187d5708	comment	Devil May Cry 2: Compared to the first game, Dante's Stinger has a stronger knockback, but its general effectiveness is bogged down by its shorter range and a noticeably longer delay before he stabs.
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Nerf / int_19350db9	comment	Master of Orion 2 had the 1.3 patch, which nerfed one racial ability (Creative) and three weapons (the Gyro Destabilizer, Ion Pulse Cannon, and Plasma Cannon) that were perceived as overpowered. However, the patch game out relatively early in the game's history, when neither players nor developers nor gaming magazines truly understood what was overpowered and what wasn't. Since then, it has been acknowledged that, even pre-nerf, Creative was more of a crutch for new players than a top-tier racial ability, while the Gyro Destabilizer and Ion Pulse Cannon suffered Crippling Overspecialization - though the Gyro's singular use case (spinning the Guardian of Orion to death) still provided a game-winning advantage to whoever did it first. The Plasma Cannon was genuinely overpowered, but usually arrived too late in the game to make much of a difference.
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Nerf / int_1a1a594f	comment	In the Battlefield series, at least one character class or vehicle per game tends to be overpowered at release. In Battlefield: Vietnam, it was an American character that spawned with an M60 and a LAW, giving it the best anti-infantry and anti-tank weapon at the same time. In Battlefield 2, it was the Blackhawk helicopter, which had crazy powerful miniguns and captured points in seconds when fully loaded with soldiers. Both were toned down in subsequent patches.
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Nerf / int_1a8d488a	comment	A couple of cards in Munchkin required a Nerf (though, really, what else would you expect in a game about that kind of player): The Kneepads Of Allure got nerfed. Originally, they could compel anyone to help you in a fight. Now, they cannot be used to win the game, and the target cannot be lower-level than you. Loaded Dice originally allowed the player to ignore the result of any one roll and call any number they want. The Exact Words meant that soon enough people were calling numbers like 10 million or negative 30 thousand, which ended up breaking the game in really weird ways; newer versions changed it to allow the player to physically reorient the die the way they want.
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Nerf / int_1af341a1	comment	Disgaea: Every installment after Disgaea: Hour of Darkness seems committed to weakening the Gun as much as possible to the point that's it's becoming a Running Gag. The first two installments had the Gun relying on HIT to deal damage. While the weapon wasn't designed to deal out major damage, it was still marginally useful in Combos. Disgaea 2 added a slight damage penalty compared to other weapons, as well as reducing it's attack range to a straight line. (Fair, given that only two classes properly specialized in the Gun and the best one had a trait that acted as an offset) The Gun became a worse weapon once Disgaea 3 transformed it into a split-stat weapon, adding SPD to it's damage formula, and giving it some of the weakest skills in the game. (With one sole exception) While many of these skills became multi-target skills, the weakness the skills suffered from made them barely useful, even in Combos. Disgaea 4 saw the Gun at it's weakest, having no skills stronger than 'C' Grade, and these skills were out-shined by any other weapon skill learned in the same time-frame. Come Post-Game, Guns were all but useless in any situation other than combo-starting. Disgaea D2, whilst providing one skill above the Power Level of 'C,' (Which required a vast amount of in-game currency to retrieve) added a modifier based on how close the attacker was to the enemy. This means that Gun-toting characters, almost all of whom have low HP and DEF to balance their long-range and evasion prowess, had to be in direct danger to deal the most damage. This was devastating early on in the game, since counterattacks now applied to Special Skills as well as regular attacks. If your Gun-toter was fighting an enemy it was statistically on-par with it couldn't one-shot at close range, you better believe that character will be punished for it. This forces Gun-toting characters to fight at at least half of their strength if they aren't overpowered compared to their target (To be fair, the second-strongest Gun skill "Point-Blank Blaster" moved the Gunner out of harm's way.) What brings all of these weaknesses home is the fact that Gun-Toters from Disgaea 3 and onwards tended to specialize in one required stat and be "meh" with the other. So adding to the Gun's inherent weakness is the chore of having to continuously customize and balance the character's HIT/SPD ratio, which further deteriorates the Gun's already horrid damage potential, which is little more than a handicap in a game that's about big numbers. (The only exception to the rule is Asagi in Disgaea D2. note Relatively decent DEF, equalized HIT and SPD Aptitudes, and ability to attack more than once in a Combo. Oh, and she can be recruited mid-way through the main story instead of just the Post-Game. She's just short of a Game-Breaker. Disgaea 5 seems to be reversing the trend as the new Pirate class deals more damage the further they are from their target when they use guns due to their evility and the nice addition of skill upgrading also increasing a skill's Grade (with SS+ being the highest). The Majin class. Starting out as an absolute Game-Breaker in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, the Majin class (and in 4, its Expy the Android) saw cut after cut of it's stats per gamenote Disgaea 2 changed the Majin into a "last resort" class with balanced/moderate stats across the board that was a chore to level up compared to all other classes, had a special ability that would rarely see use due to the infrequency of staying in battle with only one unit remaining and gave it the movement ability of a disembodied torso. Disgaeas 3 saw the Majin at it's worst: It's Aptitudes chopped in half, very gimmicky Evilities that had no real in-battle use and most importantly, rendered it entirely Weapon Forte-less. That meant either A) another errant Reincarnation into a class with Weapon Skills and back again or B) grinding for hours in Chara World for basic attacks. Literally any role a Majin could perform on the battlefield could be performed by much stronger, more capable characters. The only saving grace it possessed was the Evility Violence, which was a free, permanent 50% stat-boost to a character. (It also cut EXP Gain in half, but for a character at Level 9999 already, it was just free cake-icing.) The Android class in Disgaea 4 was only a slight improvement, in that it could learn...two...Weapon attacks on it's own. Unfortunately it still had the uphill EXP-gain ratio, absurd Tier-unlocking requirements, borderline-useless Evilities (Sans Violence!) and pitiful stats it's predecessors had. to the point that it was out-shined by the starting classes in base stats. It got so bad that Disgaea D2 and Disgaea 5 omitted the class outright.
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Nerf / int_1b56abaa	comment	While Champions Online goes through the same regular nerf and buff cycles as other MMORPGs, particularly notable was the Gadgeteering On-Next-Hit debacle. Developers weren't happy with the moves Sonic Device, Toxic Nanites, and Miniaturization Drive, because players could combine all three into a single, overpowered attack, and the abilities were too effective against multiple opponents. So, in a single patch, the two weaker abilities had their cooldowns raised to match the stronger Sonic Device, all three were given a shared cooldown(effectively removing any point in getting more than one), and they no longer triggered on attacks that hit multiple opponents(destroying their usefulness with numerous players, considering the emphasis CO puts on multitarget fights). Needless to say, no one liked any of these changes, much less getting hit with all three at once. Amusingly though, the announcement of these changes weeks earlier wasn't met with vitriolic hate, but with pages and pages of calm, rational discussion about much smarter ways they could've solved the same problems without rendering the three abilities completely worthless. Fortunately, it wasn't long before developers realized what a moronic move they made, and redid the changes, using some of the same suggestions users had provided, but had gone ignored.
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Nerf / int_1cc09117	comment	Between Bleach: The Blade of Fate and Bleach: Dark Souls for the DS, several characters had a radical toning-down. Byakuya Kuchiki now uses up a Spirit Power bar for each Senbonzakura, preventing him from sitting on one side of the screen and spamming it until victory, and Aizen's moves were juggled to prevent him from being a Perfect Play A.I., among others. Sadly, in the crossfire several balanced characters took hits as well (sorry, Orihime).
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Nerf / int_1cc11947	comment	Descent: Fusion Cannon was significantly nerfed in Descent II, only dealing half the damage of its D1 counterpart, and losing its damage increasing glitch (fire through an enemy and it gets stronger). The Plasma Cannon and Mega Missiles were also weakened somewhat. In the third game, the Vulcan and Gauss cannons were replaced by the Vauss cannon, which is weaker than the Gauss, but stronger than the Vulcan. The Gauss cannon was a major Game-Breaker in Descent II.
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Nerf / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny: Bungie has done a lot of nerfing in an attempt to balance out the game's PvP mode the Crucible. The first year was dominated by Assault Rifles which proved to be an all-around good gun at any ranges. The SUROS Regime one of the game's exotic Auto Rifles was a big indicator of this problem; it was capable of gunning down enemies at long ranges and was able to compete with Scout Rifles at those distances and win. Eventually the gun class' range and damage were nerfed in order to slow down their time to kill and bring them down to ranges where they were supposed to kill at. This nerf was so severe however that Auto Rifles were non-existent in year 2 and bungie revised their nerfs making them viable again but nowhere near their Year 1 glory. Year 2 was likewise dominated by Hand Cannons much like Auto Rifles these weapons were good at any range and was in some ways even faster and more annoying. Hand Cannons were monsters in PvP and like Auto Rifles could take down Scout Rifle users with 2 or 3 head shots at long ranges. Eventually the class had it's range nerfed and damage reduced. The class had one of the most controversial guns in the exotic gun called the Thorn. This Hand Cannon boasted good damage and range and was capable to 2-shotting players on any part of the body not just the head. The damage and the range were not the 2-hit problem; it's unique perk was. The Thorn perk meant that it's victim suffered damage over time and made the gun a guaranteed 2-hit kill regardless of range or placement and; it was a slow death meaning the victim was unable to do anything as they watched their health reach 0. Killing with it was very easy and it was an extremely common sight in Destiny's highly competitive PvP mode Trials of Osiris. Eventually the gun was nerfed to hell so that it wasn't able to guarantee a 2-shot kill. Moreso that gun was nerfed a second time just to spite it and make it an even less than good option in current PvP. Bungie even made a joke at the Thorn's expense during one of their twitch streams just proving how much of an annoying problem it was. Year 2 also had the Pulse Rifle class nerfed. Though not as a harsh of a degree as Auto Rifles or Hand Cannons they were proving to be too good against Auto Rifles at short distances and Scout Rifles at long distances. Bungie lightly tapped Pulse Rifles with a nerf and the changes were mainly to give Autos and Scouts a better chance at fighting them. Fusion rifles were prone to being nerfed at regular intervals as well since they were 1-hit KO's at short to medium ranges; these were nerfed to make them hard to use effectively. It was to the point that there was a Fusion Rifle nerf on every single weapon update even when no one was complaining about them. Shotguns had a perk known as Shot Package which made shotguns even easier 1-hit kills at short to medium ranges and far outclassed fusion rifles as weapons of choice. Eventually the Shot Package perk was removed entirely and shotguns had their ranges nerfed so that they can only rarely kill at medium range. Snipers themselves were not immune to nerfing and had many of their perks either nerfed or changed. Their perk Final Round was capable of killing with a body shot and eventually this was changed so that it only worked on headshots; and Snapshot had it's effect reduced. Eventually Bungie got sick of special ammo (shotgun, sniper, etc.) in general and nerfed it entirely: reducing how much a player begins, how much they can hold, and how long it takes for special ammo to spawn.
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Nerf / int_1ebbf613	comment	Minecraft Dungeons: The Deflect Enchantment used to offer a maximum of a 60% chance to reflect incoming projectiles. While this was handy at handling the high-damage Pillagers, it made encounters with Skeletons even more trivial, and could even deflect high-damage boss projectiles. While it still can do all of those things, its maximum proc chance was reduced to 45% in October of 2020, making it unwise to try tanking high-damage projectile attacks and instead making it work more as a defense against projectile-using Mooks.
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Nerf / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In the Jugdral games Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, the Bard class were a better version of mages, with higher speed and defense. In the Elibe games they became a Spear Counterpart to Dancers, who were also nerfed by taking away their swordsnote not that dancers were ever combat units, but they could defend themselves a little bit rendering them a non-combat class. Mages are usually a combination of Fragile Speedster and Glass Cannon. The Tellius series (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn) downplayed both the Speedster and Cannon parts. This resulted in the massive lack of use of them and many Character Tiers having them very low. The FE Nerf most fans remember is the Luna tome, a Dark Magic tome that negates the enemy's Magic Resistance. This is 'balanced' out by the weapon having 0 Might, so you're effectively doing fixed damage equal to your Magic stat. Except the spell also has an ungodly high critical rate (very rare for a magic tome), and the final two bosses have such massive Resistance stats that negating them makes a HUGE difference. Add the fact that Canas and Athos, the two characters who can use Dark Magic, are both Game Breakers, and you get, well, this. In Sacred Stones its critical rate was cut in half and its hit rate went from 90% to 50%, immediately taking it from game breaking to practically useless. Another weapon nerf, Javalins went from 7 might in Shadow Dragon to 3 might in its sequel New Mystery. Their damage output is now comparable to actual Nerf Bats. in Fire Emblem: Awakening the weapons from prior games returning lost many stats and usefulness. Awakening also nerfed the forging system from Shadow Dragon and New Mystery, where the amount you could buff a weapon was really only limited by how much money you had. Awakening imposed a hard limit of 8 'increments' per weapon (so you could buff Might 5 times and Critical 3 times, or Might 3 times and Critical 5 times, but not both 5 times) Of course, forged weapons used by enemies can and WILL break these rules. The way parents pass on stats to children has also been nerfed from the Jugdral games. Instead of Child's growths = same gendered parent's + 1/2 * opposite gendered parent's, their growths are now the average of their parent's growths and the child's "base growths", which means they may end up with worse stats than their parents in some areas. It also means that the difference in stats between pairings is nowhere near as dramatic as in the 4th game, so Shipping is more down to personal prefferance than gameplay benefits. The famous Forseti tome from the Jugdral games granted its wielder +20 Speed and +10 Skill (+20 Skill in Thracia 776), instantly shooting whoever wielded it straight into their own "God" tier. In Awakening, you can fight two wielders of it, Lewyn and his son Ced, but in order to give you any chance at winning the fight Forseti lost that huge bonus and just gives +5 Speed instead. The other Crusader weapons were similarly nerfed. The pair-up mechanics were also nerfed between Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates. Partially by the system being expanded so only offensives or defensive bonuses could be active at one time (as opposed to getting all or neither), and mainly because the enemy can now use them too. With the abolition of Breakable Weapons in Fates, stranger weapons which previously used fragility as a balancing factor generally had additional drawbacks added. In addition to an accuracy drop, steel weapons now slow you down (in Fates, -2 speed is -2 speed, no ifs, buts, or maybes), silver weapons lower stats for a while after use, and mixed-range weapons weigh you down immensely. The Resolve skill in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance multiplied the user's Strength, Skill and Speed by 1.5x when below 50% HP. This was so powerful, especially in combination with Wrath (boosted Critical Hit rate at half or less HP) or Vantage (always strike first at half or less HP), that every later appearance toned it down: in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn it only multiplies Skill and Speed, and in Fire Emblem Engage in simply gives a fixed boost to Defense and Resistance.
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Nerf / int_2400518e	comment	Rainbow Six Siege, being a continually updating multiplayer shooter, has gone through multiple nerfs (and buffs) throughout its life cycle. A few examples stand out however. Ela's Scorpion gun absolutely melted through enemies with its high fire rate, large magazine, and low recoil when it was first introduced. Responding to her ridiculously high pick rate, Ubisoft raised the recoil considerably. Blackbeard's rifle shield, at launch, barely affected his recoil and was rarely destroyed over the course of a round. When the nerf went live, the shield could be destroyed in a handful of shots (though he did get a second one to compensate). His pick rate, however, still remained decent regardless. Lion's detection scan ability absolutely tore through its first run in the Pro League, as the ability to keep enemies still proved invaluable at high levels. The scan was since nerfed heavily: Lion can only use it twice a round with a 20-second cooldown. Plus, the scan stopped working once an enemy stopped moving.
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Nerf / int_261a3cc	comment	Missiles got nerfed in Diddy Kong Racing DS. In the original game, collecting a red balloon three times gave you a full supply of ten missiles, which could be fully replenished simply by running over a red balloon again. In the DS version, you only get five missiles, and they've been reduced to the second-stage weapon, meaning hitting another balloon upgrades you multi-missiles into a single homing missile instead.
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Nerf / int_28b2079a	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando reintroduced five weapons from Ratchet & Clank (2002) that you can get for free if you have a save from that game. The catch is, they were so weakened they're maybe useful against weakest anklebiters, but nothing else. Even formerly powerful weapons such as Visibomb Gun are practically useless.
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Nerf / int_28b53408	comment	The Combat Shotgun in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin was reduced to a Short-Range Shotgun. The game did have the longer range Automatic Shotgun, although that was less powerful.
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Nerf / int_2a04866b	comment	Because of its highly competitive and balanced PvP, skills in Guild Wars are almost constantly being tweaked, adjusted, buffed and nerfed to keep things balanced; some skills were even split into PvP and PvE versions to make them balanced in 2 totally different game modes. However, a controversial change saw the balance team blatantly destroy the PvP version of one skill (Smiter's Boon) by nerfing it as absolutely as is physically possible (maximum energy cost possible which is 5 times the previous cost, duration nerfed to 1/6th of its previous length and recharge changed to a ridiculous 45 times its duration). They openly admitted their intention was simply to stop people from using the skill in PvP at all and they succeeded since it is now completely and utterly unusable under any circumstances whatsoever. There was much rage. Heck, the S-Boon nerf became SO well-known that they turned it into an Ascended Meme and had one of the enemies use it on your characters!
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Nerf / int_2a6eefe5	comment	Unlike in Metroid Fusion, the Varia Suit in this game doesn't protect Samus from low temperatures (which is ironic, considering that the Federation tried to give her the Varia Suit so she could immediately deal with a cold environment) and only provides protection from high temperatures. Instead, that immunity is bestowed by the Gravity Suit.
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Nerf / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike: The AWP sniper rifle is an interesting example. It was one of the most frequently banned weapons on modded servers due to its ability to kill with one shot to the body. The first nerfs applied to it date all the way back to version 1.1, where it can no longer one-tap enemies with full health via limb shots (it still left them with very low health). Another nerf in 1.1 is the removal of the targeting reticle when unzoomed, a change that was applied to all sniper weapons. In Global Offensive it was hit with another series of nerfs slowing movement speed and adding a delay to scoping (if you shoot before the scope is in full focus accuracy becomes random). It was also nerfed in more indirect manner. Map pools changed, and maps like Aztec and Dust, full of sniper-friendly chokepoints got replaced by more balanced maps where flanking became a possibility. Also, grenade throw distances were vastly increased, which meant that players now had the ability to blind most common sniping spots with a flashbang or a smoke grenade before entering.
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Nerf / int_2acb12c5	comment	X-Universe: In X3: Reunion the Split Python was one of the best destroyers in the game: average shields, top-of-class speed and maneuvering, and great weapons coverage. It was the victim of a serious nerf in X3: Terran Conflict that removed its ability to mount flak weapons, forcing it to use corvette guns for fighter defense. In X3: Reunion, Paranid M3-class fighters could mount the Phased Shockwave Generator, a stupidly powerful Wave-Motion Gun that could be used against ships ten times the size of the fighter and win. The Phased Shockwave Generator was nerfed so that only Paranid capital ships (frigates and above) could mount it. Likewise, in Terran Conflict a properly flown Split Panther frigate could solo a Standard Starship Scuffle against heavy capital ships (it does take fancy flying, mind you), since it has excellent weapons coverage and selection, average shields, more fighters than some full size carriers, and maneuvering and power generation stats equal to its fighterless sister design the Tiger. The weapons generators were nerfed in X3: Albion Prelude, to the annoyance of Panther-lovers. Up to the 3.0 Terran Conflict patch, the Terran Tokyo carrier was somewhat of a Game-Breaker because its weapons generators were strong enough for it to fire its anticapital guns indefinitely. The 3.0 patch nerfed said generators, but nobody really minded since carriers aren't supposed to be able to do that.
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Nerf / int_2bb7a48d	comment	Dawn of the Dragons had several items that were quickly nerfed, largely due to massive imbalance. "Omer's Collar" was an equippable item that was rewarded in a World Raid for hitting a high-enough tier of damage, and was likely intended to only give a chance at double attack to Human-class raids. Instead, the item gave a double proc to all raids, thus allowing people who had obtained to autolevel several hundred levels in a short time frame. The item was quickly patched and had its description reworked to add the limitation after it was discovered by the devs. "Guster's Fault" was a magic that dropped random boxes at a 20% hit rate, with items inside that ranged from low-tier skill books, minor potions and legion materials to high-level stat boosters, volatile pots (which restore 25% of the user's energy) and powerful skill books. The problem came in implementing the hit rate - it was a consistent 20%, regardless of whether the user hit a raid with a "1-hit" or "20-hit" attack. As a result, the servers lagged constantly for a day, users farmed raids in order to get hundreds of boxes, and new users soon found themselves swimming in tens of thousands of stat points, along with boosters that normally aren't available to anyone except high-level players. Despite the devs originally claiming the magic was "working as intended", it was quickly patched to remove the high-level items and limit the drop rates on the boxes.
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Nerf / int_2dc12aeb	comment	NetHack: Yeenoghu's confusion attack as originally implemented had its own proper effect combined with that of Death's deadly touch due to an improperly coded switch statement. This bug existed for a surprisingly long time before being patched.
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Nerf / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: Traditionally in the series, attacks with the Expel element (sometimes known as Light-elemental instead) are One-Hit Kills, but in the Digital Devil Saga games, they merely chop off a fraction of the target's remaining HP. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse does this with a number of things from Shin Megami Tensei IV: Smirk has been depowered so that while it still negates elemental weaknesses and makes attacks super-accurate and always crit, it will no longer grant near-perfect evasion. The MP cost of many high-end skills has been amplified, in order to encourage players to take advantage of the new affinity system, wherein, among other things, skill affinities influence the MP cost of skills of the same type. Did you wanna cast Mediarahan to heal the entire party, for example? Well, its MP cost has been raised from 40 MP to 90, if you don't cast it with a user with a positive healing affinity. Affinities can be negative as well, making these already-costly skills cost even more. Some skills that have secondary effects in IV now have those secondary effects only kick in on a Smirk. For example, Antichton, which in IV inflicts "severe"-level Almighty damage to all enemies and reduces their status by one tier, will only do the "Almighty damage" part unless the user is Smirking. IV already has a number of skills that can't be passed on via fusion except with the Demon Fusion Lite app or Demon Whisper. Apocalypse further expands the list of skills banned from being transferred and prevents Demon Fusion Lite from getting around it. No, you and your demons who aren't Alice cannot run around spamming Die For Me! anymore. Shin Megami Tensei V Charge and Concentrate now only multiply damage by around 1.8 rather than 2.5, meaning they're more useful for the final burst of damage needed to finish an enemy, rather than your best source of damage. In earlier games, all the protagonist's stat gains upon levelling up were allocated by the player. Most players would put all their points into a single stat, usually Strength or Magic, creating a Glass Cannon that would decimate bosses. In V, only one stat point per level up can be freely allocated, with the rest being distributed automatically. The protagonist is still very strong, but they're no longer a Min Maxers Delight. Cleopatra and Mephisto received considerable nerfs from their incarnations in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (both are Downloadable Content in both games), especially Cleopatra. Both were Level 99 in Apocalypse, but in V they've been knocked down to Level 61 and 79 respectively and have lost a good chunk of their stats to match. Additionally, Cleopatra has lost the skill that let her continue to be a Barrier Change Boss even as an ally and Mephisto lost the skill that lets him innately pierce through Dark resistance (though he does learn Impaler's Animus, which lets him replicate this effect for one attack). All that said, both are still quite powerful for their level.
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Nerf / int_2f9563e6	comment	Ultima Online is an early example. Developers made a change early in the game's life that turned all melee weapons down to a bare fraction of their former strength. Players compared the end result to hitting the enemy with a Nerf bat, and a new term was coined.
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Nerf / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V also heavily nerfs the Rhino tank. In the past, it was Nigh-Invulnerable and the only way it could be destroyed was by flipping it over or shooting a lot of rockets at it. Here, the Rhino can be destroyed with a handful of rockets and running over cars is heavily advised against since explosions can damage the armor quite badly like a rocket.
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Nerf / int_3193743c	comment	Perhaps the oldest known example, in the board game Xiangqi, there are records suggesting that at some point in history, the General (the most important piece) could move anywhere in any direction. In the modern game, the General can only move orthogonally, and is restricted to a fairly small area. One imagines that since defeating your opponent's General wins the match, trying to hunt down a highly evasive target made for very annoying and drawn-out endgames.
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Nerf / int_31e1eca3	comment	The move Hypnosis is an interesting case. It was buffed from 60% accuracy to 70% in PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, but Game Freak bumped it back down to 60 in Platinum.
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Nerf / int_32098e5	comment	StepManiaX fixed Max 428's Wild and Full charts in the update after its release to contain 1/12th notes at the end instead of the blazing 1/16th notes.
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Nerf / int_3271b543	comment	Burnout Paradise: Before a certain patch, one could go into a Road Rage and the timer would go up forever so long as you kept taking down drivers. People would get in excess of 100 takedowns. After that patch, if you do a Road Rage, the timer will stop going up once you hit the target number of takedowns. Another patching effect was to make beginner cars slower.
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Nerf / int_3314d9a2	comment	Orders were sometimes broken due to how little CP some of them cost, making it easy to put several of them onto one character, who could then in some cases solo missions. Valkyria Chronicles II upped the amount of CP Orders cost in order to prevent this, with some of them now costing as much as 6 CP.
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Nerf / int_3504b88e	comment	Mortal Kombat II featured the then-new Kitana, whose telekinetic "fan lift" maneuver led to one of the most devastating and one-sided attacks in any fighting game — corner opponent, lift, then punch or kick the living crap out of said opponent. Most of the game cabinets were eventually revved with a fix that caused a player delivering an attack on the end of the fight screen to bounce back just out of range of the attack; the fan lift, while still crippling to an opponent, was no longer a game breaker.
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Nerf / int_36343514	comment	Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow let you use Big Freaking Swords with ease, but by Portrait of Ruin, big weapons have become slower and riskier to use than, say, whips or fists.
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Nerf / int_392a827a	comment	The unlockable AW-01 handgun from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the strongest 9mm handgun in the game, hampered only by its tiny 3-round magazine. It returns as a pre-order bonus in Resident Evil Village, with a larger capacity, along with both a faster firing rate and 10% power upgrade over the completely stock LEMI pistol. Problem is, that 10% is a far cry from its ~200% power increase in 7, and the AW-01's stats are completely locked in, as the gun cannot be upgraded in any way; it doesn't even get an option for infinite ammo like every other firearm has. It's an improvement over the basic LEMI when you first get it from The Duke right up until you find and equip the latter's compensator about a half hour later, at which point the AW-01 becomes a waste of inventory space.
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Nerf / int_3a596341	comment	Shin Megami Tensei V Charge and Concentrate now only multiply damage by around 1.8 rather than 2.5, meaning they're more useful for the final burst of damage needed to finish an enemy, rather than your best source of damage. In earlier games, all the protagonist's stat gains upon levelling up were allocated by the player. Most players would put all their points into a single stat, usually Strength or Magic, creating a Glass Cannon that would decimate bosses. In V, only one stat point per level up can be freely allocated, with the rest being distributed automatically. The protagonist is still very strong, but they're no longer a Min Maxers Delight. Cleopatra and Mephisto received considerable nerfs from their incarnations in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (both are Downloadable Content in both games), especially Cleopatra. Both were Level 99 in Apocalypse, but in V they've been knocked down to Level 61 and 79 respectively and have lost a good chunk of their stats to match. Additionally, Cleopatra has lost the skill that let her continue to be a Barrier Change Boss even as an ally and Mephisto lost the skill that lets him innately pierce through Dark resistance (though he does learn Impaler's Animus, which lets him replicate this effect for one attack). All that said, both are still quite powerful for their level.
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Nerf / int_3be31c4	comment	Modern Warfare: The Model 1887s in Modern Warfare 2, were nerfed twice: Once from Game-Breaker to regular gun and then to Joke Gun. Modern Warfare 2 also moved the AK-47, a starting gun from CoD4, to one of the last unlocked weapons for its multiplayer.
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Nerf / int_3c182551	comment	Several spells in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords were drastically nerfed in the port from consoles to the PC. In particular the Knight's Stun and the Wizard's Fireball, which were both give two-turn recharge times and slightly reduced damage.
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Nerf / int_3c6e7f9f	comment	Vilkiss' base evasion is no longer the highest in the game at 130 instead of compared to V at 140.
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Nerf / int_3caeeb6f	comment	SimCity 2000 had the hydroelectric power plants, which, unlike other power plants, didn't need to be replaced every 50 years. That meant that one could build a city dependent entirely on hydroelectric power plants and, as long as you had some sort of positive cash flow, leave the city running overnight and come back to find your treasury pleasantly loaded with funds from thousands of years of tax revenue. It was removed entirely in Sim City 3000, with its spiritual successor being the far less game-breaking wind power plant.
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Nerf / int_3cf15492	comment	The MechWarrior games have seemingly swayed back and forth on which weapons receive nerfs in a series update and which get buffs. The first MechWarrior game saw the use of hitscan energy weapons and missile/ballistic weapons with some travel time to them. This made PPC-carrying 'Mechs a game-changer, especially since it was the game that also offered some of the the easiest cockpit kills in the series. MechWarrior 2 rather literally changed everything; 'Mechs now had cockpit 'panels' rather than heads, to prevent a 100-ton monster from going down from five shots from a 20-ton light 'Mech's medium laser. All energy weapons now had a travel time, with PPCs in particular seeing a distinct speed and damage nerf. Most ballistics were nearly useless because of the way the game read damage, and missiles became a mainstay. Enemy 'Mechs now took considerable time and effort to bring down, above and beyond whatever the tabletop game or fiction mythos might have suggested, and your double-PPC rig could no longer reliably decapitate an 85-ton Assault 'Mech. MechWarrior 3 changed several things again. While missiles went unchanged, lasers returned to their original hitscan status. Ballistic weapons saw a much-needed boost, and even the PPC class of weapons got improvements in speed and damage. Strangely enough, Mech survivability itself received a nerf as a result of the game's engine. While the second game allowed a Mech to survive (if futilely so) with just one leg, the third installment considered any 'Mech with a severed leg as 'destroyed' and out of the fight. This made the game both surprisingly easy or frustratingly tough, depending on what you were facing at the time (Operation 2-4, anyone?). MechWarrior 4 changed things up once again. Strangely enough, the biggest nerf from a strictly canonical angle was the hangar phase. This was where you could go in and change the loadouts, armor, and equipment on your Humongous Mecha to suit your own tastes. Prior games since 2 gave you the ability to change your design considerably. 4, however, introduced the slot system, a move that was not universally beloved. Where previous games would allow, say, a six-PPC Assault 'Mech to be piloted, 4's system limited 'Mech loadouts by weapon type, and the multi-PPC machine was usually just a dream. This became most unusual when some of the largest 'Mechs in the series could only mount a single PPC while having weight for several more even when a design 25% lighter could carry four of them. Furthermore, the weapons in their entirety seemed to suffer from raw damage limitations while survivability has increased. For instance, the Autocannon-20 class weapons in 3 were nightmarish armor-slicing buzz saws, capable of shredding any 'Mech's armor with worrying speed and usually annihilating smaller 'Mechs outright with a single shot. By the end of the 4th generation games, an AC-20 shot could not penetrate the intact centerline armor of the smallest 'Mech in the game. A Mech that weighs just 6 tons more than the AC-20 itself. Similar damage nerfs followed practically all the weapons in the series' generation. MechWarrior 5 has had an almost total rebalance of weapons to try and make all of them viable (a holdover from the interim MechWarrior Online period) and as a result almost everything other than ballistics has seen nerfs. These include nerfs to lasers (by extending their beam times, requiring steadier aim to put all the damage into one space), nerfs to short range missiles (producing substantially more heat than normal for missile weapons), and most critically, nerfs to double heat sinks (to make it harder to carry loads of medium lasers and cheese one's way through combat).
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Nerf / int_41d79599	comment	Dark Forces Saga: The Imperial Repeater Rifle could shoot very accurate blasts machine-gun style and pushing enemies back farther than any other weapon. Did we mention you can fire three barrels at once? The only drawback is you'll get so addicted to it you'll wonder where the heck your ammo went. The version seen in Jedi Outcast, though, has less accuracy, and the shots it fires are much, much weaker than they once were. The secondary trigger fires stronger blasts from a sort of underslung grenade launcher, but they're nigh impossible to aim. It even changed the Repeater from an Energy Weapon to a slugthrower (projectile weapon). In addition, Dark Forces' Concussion Rifle was so powerful it was almost too strong—so powerful you could hurt yourself if you weren't careful. It was powered down for Jedi Knight, unable to trigger its concussion effect on multiple spread-out enemies, being more like an instant-hit rocket launcher but was still powerful enough to be useful—it even gained a secondary fire that used less energy, was more accurate, and targeted only a single enemy. It was one of a few weapons that couldn't be blocked by a lightsaber, though it could be Force pulled. About the only way this could be called a nerf is if the Dark Forces version wasn't broken. The gun was taken out of Jedi Outcast entirely. Jedi Academy brought it back, and while it still did hideous amounts of damage, the gun was very nearly nerfed. Rather than being instantaneous damage, it fired a projectile that, like rockets, could be Force pushed away—but it was much, much quicker, requiring split-second timing. Unless, of course, you try to use it on a computer Jedi...
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Nerf / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP-3108 is a modified Nerf dart gun created by a member of the anomalous artist group "Gamers Against Weed" that can nerf real-world objects, transfiguring them into things believed to be inferior by the wielder. It was used to turn a dollar into a quarter, a can of Coca-Cola into Pepsi (and back again by a different user), a copy of Mass Effect 2 into Mass Effect 3, and so on. Things went south however, when the Foundation decided to test its effects on living things, first turning a dog into a cat (that retained the dog's mind and size) and two D-Class into a Neanderthal and various species of primate respectively, until the latter was reduced to a worm by repeated usage. Upon learning of this, its creator (who intended for it to be a joke) was so disgusted with the Foundation that he stopped cooperating with their interviewers.
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Nerf / int_43f52aa9	comment	Between Morrowind and Oblivion, many changes were made to rein in the insanity of abusable exploits. The biggest one was the Alchemy skill; In Morrowind, it was possible to use intelligence-boosting potions to give your character godlike intelligence, and since intelligence affected your alchemy skill, each subsequent potion only got stronger. But since all skills are affected the same way by their base stats, this could get ridiculous quickly. The changes in Oblivion are obvious from the start; You can only have four potion effects active at a time, skill boosts past 100 (the set maximum,) have no effect, and stats don't affect skills nearly as directly as in Morrowind, the sole exception being Speed. In Morrowind the Fortify Skill spell could be used to increase the caster's Restoration skill for a short period of time. Because the Fortify Skill spell was a Restoration type spell, using subsequently increasing magnitudes of the Fortify Restoration spell (up to 800) could allow for the exploitation of the Enchant (or any other) skill. A ring could be enchanted to allow the caster to jump across half of the map. Using a combination of a damage effect and Fortify Enchant, the maximum amount of damage over the maximum range could be dealt hundreds of times with one charge of a ring. This was rendered impossible in Oblivion because the stats were limited to 100 even with fortification effects.
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Nerf / int_45602249	comment	The Assassin in Monday Night Combat was never very good at actually assassinating anything (since doing so requires that the enemy team ignore you while you do a five-second grapple on your target), but her cloak, speed, and high DPS made her useful for controlling bot lanes and pub-stomping. Naturally, this led to a bunch of complaining from pub players, and she was nerfed into the ground, making her useless against teams with anything resembling coordination. Not that this has stopped people from complaining about her, of course.
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Nerf / int_49a87cb3	comment	The "Chocobuckle" in Final Fantasy VII is an early obtainable enemy skill costing only 3 MP. It deals damage based on the number of times the party fled from battle multiplied by the user's level. It got nerfed in the Western and International versions for being a Game-Breaker. Instead, the damage is equal to the number of times the party fled from battle.
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Nerf / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII initially gave everyone the same license board, thus allowing everyone to learn everything and become absolute powerhouses. The Zodiac versions revamped the license board by making several smaller boards designed around job types like White Mage, Archer, and so forth so that no one character can master everything. Guest-Star Party Member Larsa was laughably broken due to having an infinite supply of Hi-Potions and X-Potions, so the Zodiac versions nerfed him by having him use your supply of potions. Larsa does come with the Cura spell to make up for the nerf.
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Nerf / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has Holy, a powerful spell for White Mages that can do massive damage (if the user has Cleric's Stance on) and cause Stun to all enemies caught in the blast. People started to rely on Holy to clear out cluster of enemies, which outpaced some damage dealing classes like Dragoons and Black Mages. Square-Enix nerfed Holy's power so that White Mages would stick to their role as a healer instead of a damage dealer. However, Holy would get nerfed a 2nd time by using diminishing returns for its power. In other words, the more enemies that the spell hits, the less damage it does to each target beyond the first target. The Black Mage's Flare spell received a similar nerf and both Black and White Mage players were not happy having their most powerful spells being weakened.
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Nerf / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat had the Quick-Maneuver Air-to-Air Missile, starting in Ace Combat 04. While restricted to three aircraft, it was the Game-Breaker anti-air missile, which could chase a plane constantly until the missile gave up or ran out of fuel. Later games had this weapon nerfed, though it's the weapon everyone likes to use in 6 because certain aircraft carry it in spades, up until Ace Combat: Assault Horizon where the missile finally got a needed re-buff.
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Nerf / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: World of Warcraft has been through many nerfs and buffs over the many years it has existed - to the point that people who take a break for a few years find their old class requires a new learning curve. There are endless debates as to what Blizzard is or should be balancing for. It is often claimed that Blizzard balances around the current tier of raids, leaving casual and PvP enthusiasts with their playstyle distorted by something they are not interested in; however the developers insist that their tweaks for raids do not affect casual players because they see much shorter fights where only self-healing matters, and that PvP is balanced separately by selective tuning of abilities (PvP is dominated by control abilities and burst damage, unlike the sustained damage and healing that matter in raids). In the early days, shamans were dreaded in PvP for their toughness, slows, and Windfury; this was a passive that would sometimes cause additional attacks, and could trigger off itself. With a slow, high damage weapon, a shaman could kill a player of the same level in a single flurry of blows. Windfury was nerfed and weapon damage was "normalised" (a weapon being slow no longer added damage to special attacks relative to fast ones), and their damage became less spiky. Until The Burning Crusade, the game had an inversion of Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards whereby weapon users benefited more from gear than spellcasters. This lead to a series of nerfs to those weapon users as raids opened up better gear. This was in time addressed by putting more Spell Power on gear, and in Cataclysm Spell Power was changed to come from base stats just as Attack Power did. Prior to the introduction of The Burning Crusade shamans were essentially designed to act as near counterparts to paladins in terms of functionality. While difficult, it was entirely possible to have a shaman cover all three roles in a party: Tank, heal, and damage. When paladins and shamans became available to both factions, the talents and stats required to make a shaman tank were removed, while new talents and skills were given to paladins to make them into tanks a the same level as warriors (which until then had been the only viable tanks in the higher raid tiers). With every expansion, each class in the game (and in fact some basic game mechanics) gets a complete overhaul, in preparation for the raising of the level cap. The developers try to balance these newly-changed classes on their Beta realms, but these Beta servers just don't have enough players to get a broad statistical sample. As a result, when the overhauls do go live, there is at first a great class imbalance (e.g. retribution paladins in 3.0, fire mages in 4.0), followed quickly by a flurry of nerfs, followed slowly by occasional buffs here and there until the game settles down. Individual spells, and entire categories of spells, can go through cycles of varying effectiveness. This is especially true of control spells (various stuns, Fear, Polymorph and so on): they could easily lead to Controllable Helplessness in PvP, and so were given both a maximum duration when used on players, and diminishing returns so that the same player could not be subject to a chain of such attacks. In an odd case of a widely perceived nerf that was actually a buff, shadow priests in 4.2 had their direct damage spells buffed by 12% and damage-over-time spells reduced 12%. It looked like a severe drop in damage for a class that used damage-over-time so much. However, with the addition of Dark Archangel and Shadow Orbs implemented at the start of Cataclysm (4.0), direct damage spells grew in power exponentially with their buff while damage-over-time was nerfed linearly. Now, shadow priests could compete at the top of damage meters. In Mists of Pandaria, warlocks got a talent called Soul Leech that gave them a damage absorb equal to a percentage of the damage they deal. Said damage absorb was renewed with even more strength each time the warlock did damage, eventually stacking up to 100% of their health. Due to the imbalance this brought both PVE and PVP, including warlocks being able to No-Sell many boss mechanics, Soul Leech's cap was eventually brought down to only 15% of their health and made a baseline ability along with having a shorter duration. In Battle for Azeroth, one of the new Allied Races, Zandalari trolls, were given a racial ability called Regeneration that healed them to full health over four seconds and could be used every two minutes, far stronger than the two other racial heals availablenote Draenei had "Gift of the Naaru" that healed a target for 20% over five seconds and Undead had "Cannibalism" which let them consume an undead or humanoid corpse for 35% of their health over seven seconds, both with a three minute cooldown. Even those not playing the beta immediately called out how overpowered the racial was. Come the live release, Regeneration had it's cooldown increased to two and a half minutes, duration increased to six seconds, and was interrupted by any damage taken.
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Nerf / int_4b434423	comment	Starting in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, Grassy Terrain, Electric Terrain, and Psychic Terrain only boost the power of their respective type's moves by 30% instead of 50%.
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Nerf / int_4b76755b	comment	Improbable Island's food system received a major overhaul in August 2012 to solve the problem that cooking the meat you get from monsters was much less effective than simply buying food from restaurants. One of the changes was that restaurant food was nerfed. It now gives less stamina, costs more and is not always available.
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Nerf / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac: The Book of Belial, in addition to already being a really good item that gives a savage one-room boost to ATK, also guaranteed that a Devil/Angel Room would appear after the boss. You didn't even have to use it, just carrying it was enough. Since these rooms are the go-to way to get really powerful and normally getting to them required skill-based feats like beating an entire floor without taking any red-heart damage, and Judas gets to start with this item, it turned him into by and far the best character in the game if you managed to survive the first few floors. As of the Afterbirth DLC, it was nerfed to a still-good-but-not-great 12.5% increase to your chances of getting one of those rooms. In the vanilla Rebirth edition, having three Pretty Flies or any other such orbiting items basically made Isaac completely immune to all standard enemy projectiles. This in effect made Isaac completely immune to most late-game bosses, and since getting three of these was so easy a winning strategy was "save pennies and feed a slot machine hoping you get three of these things." Later DLCs nerfed them somewhat so, while still very useful overall, an enemy projectile had a good chance of landing if it hit you dead-center. Azazel was indirectly nerfed with the addition of the various DLCs not by weakening him, but by introducing a lot more enemies who he struggles to face. There's a lot more small annoying insect enemies with erratic flight patterns and who attack in swarms, and many more enemies who counter-attack when killed with a burst of shots or an explosion. Since they appear much earlier in the game now, even in the first stage, Azazel has lost many of the early game advantages he had over other characters and now has to fight much more defensively with Hit-and-Run Tactics rather than how aggressively he could be played in these levels in the original Rebirth. Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ had made Shops increasingly powerful, so Repentance nerfed several of the items in the Shop Item Pool to try to reduce the shopping meta: Humbleing Bundle originally changed all single hearts, keys, coins, and bombs to their double versions. In Repentance, only 50% of the pickups would change to their double versions, and this was no longer applied retroactively. Blank Card no longer copies the effects of both cards and runes, with runes being given a separate item that replicates them. Blank Card, Clear Rune, and Placebo (the counterpart for pills) also change the number of room charges they have depending on the type of card/rune/pill they replicate, with powerful ones taking longer to recharge. Restock, which always has anything bought from a Shop be replaced with another copy of it, has been changed in Repentance so the restocked items get progressively expensive up to the soft cap of 99. Steam Sale itself was never changed — its ability has always been to reduce the cost of sold items by 50%. Multiple copies of it originally doubled this reduction and made all items completely free, which completely broke the game when paired with Restock. In Repentance, multiple copies of Steam Sale instead just further reduce the price by a formula, with it being impossible to get completely free items no matter how many copies are picked up.
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Nerf / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon: In the original game, the pistol could kill a guy with a rocket launcher on multiplayer. Not so in the later two games. Also, thanks to the addition of the Flechete gun, the Assault Rifle's primary fire is useless, though some would claim that the latter was less of Assault Rifle and more of a Grenade Launcher with the rifle attached to it for self-defense in close-range.
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Nerf / int_4f99c8b3	comment	Gears of War 3: The Sawed-Off Shotgun was really nasty because of its wider effect and better one-hit-kill range than the Gnasher. Epic gutted it and made it exclusively a weapon for close combat.
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Nerf / int_512b4b82	comment	In Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, the items you find in out of the way places, completing Bonus Dungeons and fulfilling Villager quests, with a few exceptions, are generally not that useful or helpful.. For example, while beating the Bonus Dungeon in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin netted you the Tome of Arms X and the most powerful item crash in the game, beating Ecclesia's bonus dungeons ultimately gave you boots that let you move faster and a crown that boosts every stat by only 2 points. Also, beating the game on a level one cap...simply allowed you to be able to level up to 255 on subsequent play-throughs.
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Nerf / int_52cac2d8	comment	The Red Shells are also tweaked from Mario Kart DS. In the DS game, Red Shells were smart and attacked drivers from the side instead of behind, making the "hold item behind you for a shield" strategy almost useless. In the Wii version, the shells go back to the old "follow directly behind the target" behavior.
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Nerf / int_53b30902	comment	Valkyria Chronicles In the first game, Scouts had maximum AP and were considered to be a lot more useful than the other classes, especially when given Orders. Valkyria Chronicles II reduced their AP by a lot to prevent them from becoming too broken. Orders were sometimes broken due to how little CP some of them cost, making it easy to put several of them onto one character, who could then in some cases solo missions. Valkyria Chronicles II upped the amount of CP Orders cost in order to prevent this, with some of them now costing as much as 6 CP.
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Nerf / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto: In Grand Theft Auto III the M16 had a ridiculously high firing rate, approaching that of a minigun. It was decreased to a more realistic rate in the following games. Money was also nerfed. GTA 3 had cash rewards from missions ridiculously high (the first mission, picking up someone and returning them home, paid $1000!) and you gained money from ramming other cars. This led to a huge dive into Money for Nothing since there was nothing to really spend money on other than weapons. Vice City reduced the monetary rewards to more reasonable levels and it reflected how people would pay you in the 1980s. San Andreas took it a step further by making some missions only reward you with respect points instead of money. By Grand Theft Auto V, money is barely rewarded at all and the only times you get paid are for the very few heists that you do in the story. Side jobs barely pay anything and while you could make money from the stock market, it's too complex to do casually. This becomes a plot element where the main characters keep doing jobs for shady people with the promises of them being paid for their work. Grand Theft Auto V also heavily nerfs the Rhino tank. In the past, it was Nigh-Invulnerable and the only way it could be destroyed was by flipping it over or shooting a lot of rockets at it. Here, the Rhino can be destroyed with a handful of rockets and running over cars is heavily advised against since explosions can damage the armor quite badly like a rocket. Grand Theft Auto Online has the infamous Oppressor MkII which is the definitive edition of Game-Breaker in this game. The homing missiles track and shoot extremely fast and it is extremely precise, and it is mainly used by griefers to anger players who are doing business and sales missions. This was nerfed in The Criminal Enterprises update in which greatly reduced the homing effectiveness and increased the cooldown of the countermeasures. As of April 27th 2023, the vehicle's price was also increased from 3 million to 8 million with a trade price of 6 million.
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Nerf / int_554058cf	comment	Bikes for Mario Kart 8 can no longer pop a wheelie for speed boosts, due to everyone using bikes only in Mario Kart Wii sorely for the speed boost. Bikes still retain their sharp cornering ability, making them good for sharp turns.
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Nerf / int_55445192	comment	Sacred Earth - Alternative: Unlike previous entries in the Sacred Earth Series, this game gives EX Heal a one turn cooldown to prevent the player from spamming it every round.
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Nerf / int_56bddefe	comment	Combat Arms: The M590 shotgun was epic pwnage at a two-shot kill at medium range, and instant-death any closer than that. Then, in a patch, its power was drastically reduced down to a two-shot kill, even at close range. Suddenly it was almost worthless... The communities problem with the nerf of the shotgun, along with the hundreds of other nerfs they have done, is usually not the nerf itself. The problem is that they purposely lie about what the changed weapon's stats in the shop. They don't release nerf information in the patch notes and hide it for as long as they can, having sales so that the weapons can be bought cheaply with NX cash, the points bought in real life to get in game weapons. They get your money, and once they have it, they nerf it. It is annoying.
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Nerf / int_5779deb9	comment	Holy Water in the original Castlevania and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse makes for an amazing subweapon against ground enemies, not only dealing continuous damage but also freezing enemies. Combined with triple shots, it might as well replace the whip as the Belmonts' main weapon. It was weakened in future installments; it loses its enemy-freezing capability and, in later titles, has its flame crawl forward a short distance to prevent it from lingering on an enemy.
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Nerf / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Standard magical spells got this treatment as a justification for the new Make Me Wanna Shout powers that you can unlock throughout the game. In practice, this leads to spellcasters having a very awkward growth where they struggle with enemies as they scale beyond the set damage of the spell(s) until they have enough to get to the next level (Apprentice -> Adept -> Expert -> Master). When the school (Alteration, Conjuration, Restoration, Destruction, Illusion) reaches master level, that is it; there is no way of making stronger spells, and you have to face against stronger and stronger foes with spells that Can't Catch Up. Shouts themselves only have set effects too, with the stronger the effect having a longer cooldown period. This may have been done to make sure that the completely broken Magic system in Oblivion wouldn't be abused again but led to only weapons scaling instead and improving with Smiting, Enchanting, and Alchemy.
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Nerf / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3, having the Personae Lucifer and Satan together unlocked the Fusion Raid Armageddon, which at the cost of all of the protagonist's SP delivered 9999 damage to all enemies. It became a Game-Breaker once Lucifer learned Victory Cry, which fully restores the protagonist's HP and SP after a win. The FES Updated Re-release made it so Lucifer, now renamed Helel, no longer learned Victory Cry naturally, though creative inheritance could fix that. The second Updated Re-release, Portable, further Nerfed Armageddon by making all Fusion Raids consumable items, and giving Armageddon a ludicrous price to make it Awesome, but Impractical.
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Nerf / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: In Persona 3, Tetrakarn and Makarakarn (and their item equivalents Attack Mirror and Magic Mirror) gave your entire party an Attack Reflector for physical or magical attacks respectively. In Persona 4, both the skills and items only affect one ally. In Persona 3, Counter, Counterstrike and High Counter gave the user a 15%, 30% and 50% chance of reflecting physical attacks respectively. Persona 4 lowers this to 10%, 15% and 20%, which stuck for the 5th game as well. The "standard" Hama and Mudo One-Hit Kill spells got buffed in Persona 4 (likely to make them more useful on enemies weak to them), but the "ultimate" versions Samsara and Die for Me got nerfed from a whopping 80% chance of instant death to all enemies to 60%. "Signature moves" in Persona 3 (ultimate attacks of various elements learned exclusively by one Persona, usually fitting with their mythology such as Surt's Ragnarok or Lucifer/Helel's Morning Star) could be passed down to other Personas via fusion, resulting in super-powerful skills being learnable by end-game Personas with no weaknesses. In Persona 4 and on, "signature moves" are now truly exclusive to the Persona that learns them: they cannot be passed on in fusion by any means. This makes the Personas that learn these skills more valuable. Vorpal Blade is one of the strongest physical skills in Persona 3, especially if the user is in "Great" condition. Since Persona 4 doesn't use the same game mechanic, Vorpal Blade has about same strength as other high end skills. The ability for party members to take a lethal hit for you, which was the first ability you got when you started their Social Link in Persona 4, now needs Rank 9 in Golden, as well as the fifth game.
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Nerf / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 has several: Spirit Drain's strength got nerfed from absorbing 30 SP to only 10 SP to avoid gamebreaking early on. Unlike in Persona 4, most "signature" skills are free to transfer to other Personas. With the exception of Yoshitsune's Hassou Tobi, Alice's Die for Me!, Daisoujou's Samsara, Lucifer's Morning Star, and some DLC's Personas. Victory Cry — fully restore HP and SP after a battle — can only be learned in the second playthrough from Joker's ultimate Persona. Yoshitsune is still as powerful as it was in Persona 4, but one of the needed Personas to fuse it is the Persona you unlock by maxing out the Magician Confidant, which only maxes out near the end of the game. As such, Yoshitsune is only available on Christmas Eve, the last day of the original game. Persona 5 Royal nerfs mental status effects like Confuse and Rage to cause the to end automatically after the target takes damage so you can't just hit an enemy with one then have the entire active team pummel them into submission. They also end much faster even when not interrupted. The Shady Commodities vendor that gets unlocked via repairing the broken laptop also got nerfed— it still sells otherwise rare items, but it no longer carries powerful end-game weapons or armor. Instead, all you can get is fusion items. Futaba's ability to recover HP and SP not only recovers less SP than Rise's ability did, but only works on backup party members, meaning that it won't be as useful for your favorite party members, and will never recover Joker's SP.
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Nerf / int_59da62aa	comment	One of the first patches of Fallout: New Vegas was made to address a game breaking trick that allowed the player to always score critical hits with sniper rifles. One would get 10 luck, the finnesse perk (which grants +5 to base critical chance), wear Boone's Beret (another +5) and equip a sniper or hunting rifle, which had a 5x critical multiplier. A deathclaw was no longer more than fast target practice with an easily displaced head. Since the patch, the hunting rifle has a 2x multiplier, and the sniper rifle a 1x multiplier.
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Nerf / int_5a0daa35	comment	IronKingdoms: Going from MK I to MK II the game over went a massive overhaul. Removing most of the extremely glaring balance issues. The designers have confirmed that MK III is going to nerf more mechanics and rules. Namely those that are frustrating or not fun to play against. Most Heavy Infantry units are having their durability lowered in response to how they've dominated the meta. "Fury Management" is being reduced among the Hordes faction, since its too easy to keep warbeasts from going out of control despite generating massive amounts of Fury. The Tough rule is being changed so that it goes inactive once a model is knocked down. This is to prevent a single model from being able to soak hits and avoid dying just because a player keeps rolling 5s or 6s.
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Nerf / int_5a353ac3	comment	Choryujin and Gekiryujin are permanently combined in Super Robot Wars BX, to prevent abuse of the combination system like in Super Robot Wars W
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Nerf / int_5b95bc94	comment	In Grand Theft Auto III the M16 had a ridiculously high firing rate, approaching that of a minigun. It was decreased to a more realistic rate in the following games.
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Nerf / int_5bd0554b	comment	Warcraft III: Much like its successor, World of Warcraft, the game saw many units and abilities nerfed to balance online play. These occurred via patches and, especially, when the Frozen Throne expansion was released. A few notable examples include: The cooldown time for the Demon Hunter's Mana Burn ability was increased in one early patch when it proved to be too overpowered. Prior to this, when attacked, the Demon Hunter could stand near the Night Elf Moon Wells (which instantly recharged mana,) allowing the DH to deal both damage and drain the mana of the enemy heroes using Mana Burn until the wells dried up. The Witch Doctor's Healing Wards saw their HP reduced so that nearly any unit could destroy them in one hit. Prior to this, it was a popular technique to have a group of "docs" all place Healing Wards near the player's army, healing said army and forcing to the opponent to focus their fire on the wards to destroy them. The additions of extra weapon and armor types in Frozen Throne were seen as nerfing a number of units. No longer could spellcasters, who now did magic damage instead of piercing damage, be relied upon for anti-air duties. (Air units being strong vs. magic damage.) Likewise, Huntresses went from medium armor to unarmored, making them useless as a primary melee unit. (Unarmored being weak to the piercing attacks of most ranged units, and vulnerable to siege weapons. [1]) A buffed example in Frozen Throne is the ability of the Night Elf buildings to defend themselves without uprooting. A popular tactic prior to this was for attacking armies to "rush" the Night Elf player, forcing him to uproot his trees to defend himself and thus, cut off resource flow and unit production until the buildings were re-rooted. Unlike the Orc burrows and Human militia, which could each return to work immediately after the attack, the Night Elf player would be delayed waiting for his gold mine to become entangled once again. Humans were gradually toned down and buffed in other aspects over time for Competitive Balance sake, but the most pronounced change was in the towers they can build; in counter-chronological order, the "Masonry Upgrade" (Building HP) effectiveness was reduced in half for all three tiers which also affects every building the Humans can build, the towers were nerfed to gain 1/2 the armor points from the same upgrade, the tower's initial phase (before an upgrade is selected) was reduced in hitpoints and given ZERO armor mitigation and in The Frozen Throne expansion's release, the towers were changed to an armor class that takes full damage from all attacks, but is vulnerable to magical damage. This was all likely an effort to nerf the effectiveness of using towers to fortify an attack on an enemy town and the annoyance of attacking a human town that is swarming with towers. The Sole EXCEPTION is the Cannon Tower upgrade, which was allowed to keep the "Fortified Armor" attribute.
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Nerf / int_5bd6bb99	comment	Cleopatra and Mephisto received considerable nerfs from their incarnations in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (both are Downloadable Content in both games), especially Cleopatra. Both were Level 99 in Apocalypse, but in V they've been knocked down to Level 61 and 79 respectively and have lost a good chunk of their stats to match. Additionally, Cleopatra has lost the skill that let her continue to be a Barrier Change Boss even as an ally and Mephisto lost the skill that lets him innately pierce through Dark resistance (though he does learn Impaler's Animus, which lets him replicate this effect for one attack). All that said, both are still quite powerful for their level.
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Nerf / int_5bf7c9a3	comment	DICE re-balances Star Wars Battlefront (2015) periodically through updates and patches. Most noticeably, Boba Fett saw a drastic decrease in usage and effectiveness after an update increased the rate at which his shots lost power over distance and removed the homing feature on his wrist rocket, which also now caused a smaller explosion.
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Nerf / int_5c66fff9	comment	In Neverwinter Nights 2 has several nerfs compared to its predecessor. Maximum character level went from 40 to 30. However your character can now have 4 classes instead of 3. Knockdowns have been nerf from the previous game. They no longer cause damage and now have a 2 rounds cooldown. On the upside, it no longer has a -4 penalty to hit. In NWN1, Boots of Haste gave a permanent boost to your run/walk speed. In the sequel, it only works three times per day. Panther animal companions lose their sneak attacks from the previous game, making them less useful. You gain +1 to your AC for every 5 points you invested in the Tumble skill. It's been changed for every 10 points in NWN2. The Armor Skin feat gives you +1 to your AC compared to +2 in NWN1. Vendors have a limited amount of gold to prevent Shop Fodder from making you too rich.
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Nerf / int_5d96b889	comment	Mario Kart: The infamous snaking technique. In the DS version, players snaked by quickly drifting left to right on straight roads and doing mini turbos. Only certain characters could drift this way effectively without losing control and the mini turbos they got were almost like a mushroom. Naturally, flame wars broke out over whether this technique was fair. The Wii version changes the drifting and mini turbo mechanic, making snaking near impossible to do. The Red Shells are also tweaked from Mario Kart DS. In the DS game, Red Shells were smart and attacked drivers from the side instead of behind, making the "hold item behind you for a shield" strategy almost useless. In the Wii version, the shells go back to the old "follow directly behind the target" behavior. Bikes for Mario Kart 8 can no longer pop a wheelie for speed boosts, due to everyone using bikes only in Mario Kart Wii sorely for the speed boost. Bikes still retain their sharp cornering ability, making them good for sharp turns. Mario Kart 8 changes how holding items work. In the past, people would hold a banana peel or green shell behind them and then grab another item box to have a second item on reserve, effectively giving them two shields. While items can still be dragged behind you, the items will still be in your inventory until you drop the item on the track. Mushrooms were extremely overpowered in Super Mario Kart to the point where you could pass by several people at once. However, Mario Kart 64 nerfed Mushrooms too heavily, resulting in speed boosts becoming worthless. It took a few more games for the developers to find the right balance for the Mushrooms. Being hit by bombs or shells were sometimes a death sentence because being hit by said items would send you tumbling sideways and sometimes off the track. Mario Kart 8 changed the tumble mechanic to have you simply fly upwards and cancels all momentum. Additionally, the time of the tumble is shorter than in previous games. Some of the items that return in Mario Kart Tour from earlier games are nerfed. Hearts only protect against items rather than letting the target get the item for their own use, and disappear on their own after a while. Mega Mushrooms do not make drivers invincible; they revert to normal size when hit with an item. They also do not get a speed and off-road boost without a Frenzy.
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Nerf / int_5dfb8aa2	comment	In Sonic Generations some of the returning abilities got a nerf. The Boost's ability to draw rings was severely reduced from Unleashed, the elemental shields from Sonic 3 & Knuckles lost their ability to deflect small projectiles, and Super Sonic costs a lot more rings to use in normal levels compared to every other time the power shows up, including this game's final boss.
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Nerf / int_5e150650	comment	For Exalted, the Twilight caste's overpowered anima banner effect was nerfed in errata (and then totally rewritten into something more appropriate for the caste). The endless string of absurdly broken Charms in "Dreams of the First Age" wasn't so much nerfed as deleted entirely and replaced by a set that was actually balanced. Later, the combat system was rewritten to nerf perfect spam and lethality in one shot, so people can actually be hurt in Exalted without dying instantly and armour is actually useful.
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Nerf / int_5e91c7a	comment	The 2002 remake of Resident Evil cut down the probability of decapitating zombies with your shotgun and magnum from 100% to about 80% and removed the magnum's ability to consistently score a One-Hit Kill on them. Granted, it's not a common occurrence, but few things in the game are more frustrating than putting two shotgun shells or magnum rounds into a zombie's face, and then realizing that you'll still have to deal with it again once it revives as a Crimson Head.
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Nerf / int_5e91c7b	comment	Resident Evil 2 took the reasonably decent knife from the original game and turned into an utterly useless Joke Weapon. The knife in the first game was hardly powerful, but it was entirely possible to take down a single zombie or even Hunter (if you're lucky) with it and live to tell the tale. In the next game, however, it takes anywhere from 20-30 strikes just to knock one zombie down; forget about trying to use it on anything stronger than that. Fortunately, the knife got a minor buff in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (though not enough to make it worth the item space to tote around), followed by a massive buff in every game from Code: Veronica onward.
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Nerf / int_61e400a0	comment	Path of Exile had to rework an entire mechanic to nerf Damage Over Time effects. Previously, DoT effects like Ignite and Poison scaled off the final damage of the hit that applied it, but they could still scale from bonuses that directly benefited it. While this meant any damage bonuses that didn't directly apply to the effect would increase its damage anyway (For example, if you applied Poison with a projectile attack, increasing projectile damage would also increase the Poison's damage), if the bonus applied to both the hit and the effect, it effectively gains the bonus twice. To address double-dipping abuse, DoT effects gained a new classification as "Ailments" and were made separate sources of damage with its own damage bonuses.
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Nerf / int_64561e80	comment	In Poker Night 2, CL4P-TP suggests by name "nerfing" Max when he invites Sam & Max into the Borderlands franchise.
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Nerf / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider: In the third game, the M16 was replaced by the weaker (and much harder to maneuvre with) MP5. Also between the second and third games, the Grenade Launcher was changed, decreasing accuracy by a great amount. Making players even less willing to use whatever grenades they could find. Another downgrade for the third game; the Uzis - a franchise-wide favorite, present in nearly every title - are made slightly less powerful, and ammunition is extremely rare, compared to TRI and TRII. In the fifth game, the Desert Eagle and Revolver (from III and Last Revelation, respectively) are downgraded significantly from their previous Hand Cannon status.
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Nerf / int_67b692cc	comment	One of the more noticeable nerfs in Battlefield 2142 was the steady decrease in the power of "podding," which is the practice of launching a player out of a tube in a pod, which is intended to be a way of getting players from one place to another. Aside from the pod-surfing debate (which was more of an Obvious Rule Patch closing a physics exploit), the damage of podding vehicles was severely reduced. In early versions, you could destroy APCs, damage tanks, and even kill aircraft, if you could manage the funky pod controls well enough to hit them. In later versions, trying to pod ground vehicles will usually kill the infantryman doing the podding, without hurting the vehicle much, and even the relatively weak aircraft can survive being podded.
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Nerf / int_67ce5a04	comment	The pair-up mechanics were also nerfed between Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates. Partially by the system being expanded so only offensives or defensive bonuses could be active at one time (as opposed to getting all or neither), and mainly because the enemy can now use them too.
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Nerf / int_68237790	comment	Paizo's Pathfinder, an update of D&D 3.5E, nerfed a great many things spammed by 3.5 players, including metamagic feats (especially Quickened Spell) and the ubiquitous spiked chain. They also nerfed some options indirectly, by improving everything, but improving some things less. For example, all Pathfinder base classes and monsters got upgrades compared to 3.5, but spell-casters generally got less new crunchy bits, effectively nerfing the casters by not buffing them as much. Likewise, letting players choose any base class as their character's favored class and giving them a bonus for sticking to it, then giving each base class a powerful bonus at max level made base classes more attractive. The effect was a nerf to Prestige Classes. Players are not always thinking of their first five levels as "filling in the checklist for my Prestige Class." Finally, eliminating Empty Levels, the high level bonus, and the favored class bonus nerfed 3.5's ubiquitous "dipping" into classes. How successful these changes are is entirely up to each gaming group, but it's generally agreed that casters still surpass everything by a hefty margin past a certain point.
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Nerf / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars usually does this in every single franchise. However, the most notable example is Second Original Generation where they make two important pilot skills (SP Regeneration and Attacker) skills be unavailable as a purchase for pilots. This means that SP is going to be limited to pilots and attacks are not going to be as powerful as what they should be. However, because of these nerfs, they are offset with new gameplay mechanics that do balance the game out like the ability slot system and the "Maximum Break" mechanic. The "Invincible" Spirit Command in Jigoku-hen; unlike previous SRW games, damage is automatically reduced to one-eighth of total damage taken instead of the minimum ten units of damage. Jigoku-Hen also took Valor away from a LOT of characters. Yoko, Darry, Asuka (who used to get Soul), Four (she has Valor, Love, or both), Ozma, Lasse (he had it in UX), Canaria (she doesn't have it in the Z games but she does in UX and L), Emma, Quatre (he and Hilde are the only Wing characters without it), Kurz, Mao, Clousseau, Tieria, and Shakko. Choryujin and Gekiryujin are permanently combined in Super Robot Wars BX, to prevent abuse of the combination system like in Super Robot Wars W Some skills were nerfed from previous games in Super Robot Wars V: "Attack Again"/"Second Attack" only triggers when the pilot who has the skill has 30 points more than the enemy's skill instead of the usual 20. "Will Limit Break"/"Focus Over Limit" has 3 levels and pilots who have this skill by default only max out at 160 morale instead of 170 morale, thus requiring players to put one more level at the skill. Without it, ace bonuses or abilities that require characters or units who need 170 morale are stuck at 160 morale.note Ryoma's ace bonus comes to mind as well as Eva 01's transformation to Pseudo Evol. Unlike the Tag Tension Gauge where it requires only two stars to activate a skill, players need to gather three Extra Command Gauges to initiate movement again after killing an enemy. Even if equipping the "ExC Laser" partnote Doubles the refill rate of the Extra Command gauge, at some point, players will run out of Extra Commands unless the pilot has the "Zeal"note Additional movement after taking a move or attack. spirit command. Just like in V, there are gameplay mechanics that were nerfed from the previous entries in Super Robot Wars X. Wing Gundam Zero Custom's Rolling Buster Rifle is still post-movement, but only has a 1-2 range rather than its 2-5 range it had in the previous Z games. Lelouch's "Tactical Command"note The commands "Offense", "Defense", and "All-Out Attack" affect allied units in the designated area for 1 turn. Does not affect the user. is no longer post-movement and must be done on that turn. Getting his ace bonus however allows him to use it after movement. Vilkiss' base evasion is no longer the highest in the game at 130 instead of compared to V at 140. X has the lowest amount of characters having the "Zeal"note Allows the unit to move again after movement. spirit command, two of which are on sub pilots. The game does make up for it with the "Resolve" spirit command.
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Nerf / int_68cc5557	comment	Another weapon nerf, Javalins went from 7 might in Shadow Dragon to 3 might in its sequel New Mystery. Their damage output is now comparable to actual Nerf Bats.
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Nerf / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: In 3.5 Edition a primary source of argument is the haste spell, which was changed from being extremely useful to everyone to being mostly worthless to anyone who does not engage in conventional (melee or ranged weapon) combat — meaning most spellcasters have no reason ever to cast it on themselves. Of course, in this particular case, 3rd Edition was the only edition where haste was useful to spell casters in the first place. However, since it affected your caster-level worth of allies within a 30 feet radius, it made for a semi-decent group buff (albeit not nearly as good as it used to be) for the combat characters. Eventually, it was somewhat revived in the form of "Celerity" and its variants. Wizards of the Coast also seems very, very afraid of polymorphing effects. They've reworked the rules so many times that trying to keep track of them is an impossible task. Some of the changes were arguably good, such as changing the spells from Polymorph Self and Polymorph Other, the latter of which could be abused, to Polymorph and Forced Transformation. Other changes were to cover up such "abuses" as the possibility of parrots being able to pronounce command words for wands that the character could use in normal form (something that a Dragon article on the many uses of polymorph spells in 3.0 specifically said you could do). Despite all this, polymorph and similar effects (such as wildshape) are still really good. Shapechange was, bar none, the most powerful nonepic spell in existence and vastly powerful even on an epic scale. The overpowered nature of that spell is, in part, what led to the massive nerf on polymorphing. With the changeover to 4th Edition Wizards of the Coast definitively Nerfed Wizards and Druids from what they were before, where at certain levels, every other character was second fiddle to whatever scroll a Wizard had. Druids were healers, and Fighters, and Sneaky. The new versions in 4th edition are much lower in power and have a different gameplay purpose. 5th Edition saw much new nerfing, primarily to spells with a duration longer than instantaneous. In 3rd and earlier editions, most spells had a duration based on caster level, sometimes as great as one hour per caster level. This mean that a high-level spellcaster could cast a whole load of buff spells on themselves in the morning and have them last all day. The big changes in 5th Edition were to make most spells have a duration of about a minute (plenty of time for a fight) and to also make them Concentration based. A spellcaster can act normally (still cast spells and take other actions) while concentrating, but they may only concentrate on one spell at a time, so if you're using Slow on some enemies and you find you suddenly need to protect yourself with a Globe of Invulnerability spell, your Slow ends. The errata for the 5th Edition's spell Healing Spirit changed the spell from being able to heal the entire party in a minute, to a slightly more powerful Cure Wounds.
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Nerf / int_6b5435fc	comment	In the original Age of Empires II, one of the Teutons' civilization bonuses was +5 range to their Town Centers, which was supposed to make them better on the defensive. Instead, players took advantage of the boosted range to use Town Centers as offensive weapons, building them near enemy towns and fully garrisoning them, slaughtering everything in a large radius with massive arrow volleys. This led to Teutonic Town Centers being nicknamed "Death Stars" by the community. In The Conquerors Expansion Pack, Teutonic Town Centers now get +5 Line of Sight instead of range. Archery technologies were also changed to boost Town Center Line of Sight rather than Range, as they could get really crazy when stacked with this bonus. (These changes also encouraged players to use buildings defensively as intended)
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Nerf / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Mortal Kombat II featured the then-new Kitana, whose telekinetic "fan lift" maneuver led to one of the most devastating and one-sided attacks in any fighting game — corner opponent, lift, then punch or kick the living crap out of said opponent. Most of the game cabinets were eventually revved with a fix that caused a player delivering an attack on the end of the fight screen to bounce back just out of range of the attack; the fan lift, while still crippling to an opponent, was no longer a game breaker. In Mortal Kombat 3, Kabal was one of the strongest characters in the game, with his (dial-a-)combos being some of the most damaging of any character. In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, the damage Kabal's combos dished out was cut by half.
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Nerf / int_6bff288f	comment	In Banjo-Tooie, the Wonderwing is greatly Nerfed from its original appearance in Banjo-Kazooie. In the former, it could be used very often, and in some cases required to defeat certain enemies or pass obstacles without taking any damage. Once the GOLDFEATHERS cheat is acquired, it basically becomes an Infinity +1 Sword. However, in Tooie, most enemies will run away from you when they see it, plus they respawn anyway. There is only one required use of it, claiming the Jinjo behind the super-heated waterfall in Hailfire Peaks. This is likely because you start the game out with the move, the cheat to allow you to carry more Golden Feathers is acquired much earlier, and Golden Feathers themselves are not as rare an item as they were in the original. That said, the move is more useful in Terrydactyland, as the Soarasaurs do not flee at the sight of it and tend to fly over narrow areas, plus it can cross the Stomping Plains as Banjo and Kazooie together to get the Jiggy earlier than intended.
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Nerf / int_6c1d09b1	comment	In the earliest version of Fallout a player with high Barter skill could buy/sell things for ridiculously low/high prices. This allowed buying something at half price and immediately selling it for full price, as long as the trader had anything left. It was possible to buy Tandy and all Garl's weapons and leave Garl with a single cap. The first patch nerfed that.
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Nerf / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Power Armor in general got this treatment immediately after Fallout 2, and seems to get more plentiful across the wasteland with each Fallout installment. At first, Power Armor was nearly impenetrable to anything but endgame weaponry, and could only be gotten through a particularly difficult sidequest for the Brotherhood of Steel. By Fallout 4, even the Raiders have it, and the player can get any armor by simply killing the wearer and walking away with their suit. On top of that, it's also gotten much more difficult to maintain and use.
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Nerf / int_6c47db4e	comment	Many of the entries in the Dynasty Warriors franchise do this, especially the ones based on licensed properties. Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires nerfs Lu Bu, heretofore the most fearsome badass in the game. There is nothing quite like the emotional roller coaster of having Lu Bu defect to join your side ("HELL YEAH! Let the rampage begin!") only to see him get spanked by some generic NPC officer. One Piece: Pirate Warriors seems to be the most guilty of this out of all the entries, for understandable reasons. Since the source material that it's based on is a shounen manga that features extremely powerful characters, it makes sense to take them down a notch for a video game in which they're playable, to avoid making the game too easy. For example, Law's Room only spans a few meters in the game, despite being able to cover entire mountains in the manga.
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Nerf / int_6d10ab05	comment	In Mortal Kombat 3, Kabal was one of the strongest characters in the game, with his (dial-a-)combos being some of the most damaging of any character. In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, the damage Kabal's combos dished out was cut by half.
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Nerf / int_6d62b35d	comment	Res Arcana: The Expansion Pack Lux et Tenebrae nerfs two common strategies from the base game: It weakens strategies that revolve around Monuments in multiple ways. The most notable are reducing the number of them in play (at least for 2 players) and adding more ways to get gold, which makes it more likely that your opponent will grab enough good ones to make it impossible for you to win through Monuments alone. Thanks to the addition of the affordable attack card Fire Demon, it's now riskier to be a Witch player who just aims to grab the Dragon's Lair or Catacombs of the Dead as soon as possible, and then straighten them over and over with the Witch's power. If you try to do that now, resources are tight enough that a Fire Demon's attacks can screw you over.
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Nerf / int_6f1bcb62	comment	The Resolve skill in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance multiplied the user's Strength, Skill and Speed by 1.5x when below 50% HP. This was so powerful, especially in combination with Wrath (boosted Critical Hit rate at half or less HP) or Vantage (always strike first at half or less HP), that every later appearance toned it down: in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn it only multiplies Skill and Speed, and in Fire Emblem Engage in simply gives a fixed boost to Defense and Resistance.
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Nerf / int_6ff9f104	comment	Madden NFL provides several examples over the years: '06 added the QB Vision Cone, which nerfed the players who overly relied on the mobile Michael Vick (because his Awareness stat was so low, he had one of the smallest cones in the game). This backfired — after enough practice, with a normal or small vision cone you could effectively deke a defensive back into covering the wrong player; players with large vision cones such as Tom Brady or Peyton Manning could not, effectively nerfing the best pocket passers in the league. The vision cone was removed two years later. '12 removed the easily abusable option plays from the wildcat formation. In the games from the early-mid part of the 2000s, you could manually move defensive players before the snap into positions which could break the offense's blocking AI, thus creating unstoppable blitzes. Starting around Madden 08, the defensive players would return to their designated spot once they are no longer manually controlled, preventing this.
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Nerf / int_718f3ed1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops II: Toward the end of the downloadable content cycle, the DSR 50 and Ballista sniper rifles received nerfs to rate of fire and increased the time it takes to sprint into aiming down your sights. This caused ugly outrage in the Call of Duty community as quickscoping is seen as a very divisive mechanic in Call of Duty.
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Nerf / int_7309e85b	comment	F-Zero 99, when compared to the original F-Zero (1990): Dash Zones have been toned down to only increase your speed to Boost speed rather than the maximum possible 999 kmph, except on the Skyway. This is actually beneficial in most cases as the reduced top speed makes it so hitting one doesn't make you immediately lose control of your machine. The infamous gap jump in White Land II was shortened considerably, making it much easier to clear at a lower speed requirement and without needing to tilt your machine upwards to get enough height.
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Nerf / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Nintendo Wars In the original Advance Wars Max had a massive 150% increase in direct firepower in return for decreased power and range for his indirects. Because he didn't have to use indirects in the first place with firepower like that it made him the best CO over even the game's Big Bad Sturm. His increase was scaled back to a more reasonable 120% in the first sequel. In Dual Strike his power didn't give him an extra movement space. He is still considered one of the better CO's. Sami received nerfs in both 2 and Dual Strike. She loses her defense in 2 and in Dual Strike lost her increased offense from 2. Her infantry units and her transport units no longer have a boost to her range. This is probably so her tactic of getting an infantry unit to the hq and capping would be a little less viable as the namesake Dual Strike could allow her ally to drop her infantry within striking distance from much farther away, especially if the ally is Eagle who can move a transport twice in a turn. Grit got one as a matter of the gameplay changes in Dual Strike. Before he could hide his indirect units behind low income units so even if someone popped their power to try and rush them they couldn't do to much damage. Using the namesake Dual Strike gives you two turns as both CO's attacked one after the another. So his indirect units can be runover in a tide of assaults. And on top of that the new Black bomb unit does nonconditional damage in a square, so Grit can have his block of defense units and artillery easy pickings for a push. Lash's units in 2 gained an additional 10% attack for each level of defense they receive, meaning a unit on a city or mountain had nigh-impenetrable defense AND inflicted 1.5X the damage. If you used her defensively, she was UNSTOPPABLE. This bonus was dropped to only 5% in the sequel, and that's not mentioning the fact Sonja was considerably buffed and was given the ability to reduce all enemy terrains stars by 1, which made her a hard counter to Lash. Yet she's still one of the best CO in the game. Days of Ruin finally gave the most overly used unit (Infantry) the biggest nerf possible: raise its price from 1000 to 1500. This makes infantry spam tactic a lot less useful. It doesn't help that Mechs are now 2500 and Bikes are introduced for choice of capturing. Even further point is that using infantry as cannon fodder can have consequences such as giving the attacking unit leveling up rank up to veteran and/or fill their CO gauge bar very fast.
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Nerf / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has the Tunic, which is a nerf compared to the Rings from The Legend of Zelda. Rings lowered damage from all enemy attacks and traps. Tunics do lower damage, however, some enemies and all traps deal fixed damage, regardless of what tunic Link is wearing. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: In the Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions, the Boomerang and Magic Rod are capable of killing most enemies in one hit. The former weapon is noteworthy for killing the final boss, DethI, in one hit. The Nintendo Switch Video Game Remake significantly nerfed both weapons, making them less game-breaking and more balanced. Starting with the 3D games, fairies would fully revive Link if his hearts run out. It was later changed to only restore a handful of hearts. Also, Red Potions would fully heal Link, but by The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the potions only restore a handful of hearts while Blue Potions became the max heal item. Milk was also nerfed in Twilight Princess by only restoring 3 hearts instead of 5.
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Nerf / int_7529056	comment	In Super Mario World, the Cape Feather was regarded as a Game-Breaker as you could easily fly through levels with ease. Although the feather has never appeared in a main series game since then (minus ports and Super Mario Advance 4's eReader), some hacks have made the Cape Feather's "flight" feature null, preventing you from easily flying through levels. Still doesn't stop you from defeating Dry Bones though.
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Nerf / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Let's start with the pistol. Dear God in heaven, the pistol. In Halo: Combat Evolved the M6D is an extremely accurate medium-range weapon with an integrated scope and high explosive bullets. It was replaced with the BR55 battle rifle in Halo 2, which was fundamentally different because of its RoF, hit-scan bullets, Aim-Assist, and its three-shot burst. The M6C pistol is regarded as a Scrappy Weapon, even with the ability to go Guns Akimbo. And the fanbase never forgave them for it and clamored incessantly for the M6D's return. Though games from Halo: Reach onward have restored the basic pistol's scope and much of its former power and accuracy, the original CE Hand Cannon didn't make a return until Halo 5: Guardians, though even there it's only available as a special REQ power weapon in Warzone. The Needler was weakened somewhat in Halo 2, decreasing its homing capacity and making it a close-range weapon, though by Halo 5 the needles began to track better again. And the shotgun too — it lost either magazine size or range in every game until Reach. It was incredibly easily to run over people in Combat Evolved even if you just grazed them. Hence, the ability to splatter people was nerfed in Halo 2. However, it seems to have gotten progressively nerfed each game, to the point of it being nearly impossible to ram someone with a Warthog by Halo 4. They also removed the Rocket Launcher's homing ability in Halo 3, presumably to prevent it from breaking the game in multiplayer. It can again lock-on again from Reach onward (albeit only on aerial vehicles now), though it now has to compete with lots of other heavy weapons like the Fuel Rod Gun and Spartan Laser. In Reach's multiplayer zombie mode, the pistols were meant to be a backup weapon to the shotgun. Of course, once people realized you could snipe zombies across the map with it, Bungie decided to "nerf" the survivors by removing it from the mode.
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Nerf / int_764768c	comment	In Trails in the Sky FC, Kloe's Kaempfer debuffed enemy Strength and Defense by 50%, which, due to the game's damage formulas, resulted in enemies dealing Scratch Damage and taking far more. And only the final two bosses were immune to it. In Sky SC it received a massive nerf, debuffing strength by 10% and defense by 15%, and even its upgraded version only raises this to 20% and 30%.
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Nerf / int_7668653a	comment	Several game-breaking weapons from Mass Effect 2 got nerfed for Mass Effect 3. The Viper semiautomatic sniper rifle had its ammo capacity and rate of fire cut, the Locust and Hurricane both became very heavy and much less damaging, the Revenant became even less accurate and had its ammo cut, and the Mattock got a cap put on its rate of fire. The Geth Plasma Shotgun, Widow Anti-Material Rifle, and Claymore Heavy Shotgun were actually the only weapons from Mass Effect 2 that stayed at the same power level in Mass Effect 3.
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Nerf / int_7682fdc7	comment	If you try to exit a level with Yoshi in the Something Rom Hack series, you immediately lose him. This is because Yoshi was a Game-Breaker in the original Super Mario World.
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Nerf / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect Biotic Abilities were often considered a Game-Breaker in Mass Effect, so when the sequel was released it came as a shock to majority of the players that the powers were extremely nerfed. While not useless, the powers could no longer work on enemies who have any form of protection. Fair enough, but on the two highest level of difficulties EVERY enemy is protected in some form and by time you strip them of their defenses a Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? mentality takes hold. However this mentality mainly applies to the control powers that could incapacitate large groups of enemies. Warp's ability to deal damage was upgraded, especially with detonations, and Throw can now be curved around or over cover, giving you more control of the enemies that are vulnerable to it. Several game-breaking weapons from Mass Effect 2 got nerfed for Mass Effect 3. The Viper semiautomatic sniper rifle had its ammo capacity and rate of fire cut, the Locust and Hurricane both became very heavy and much less damaging, the Revenant became even less accurate and had its ammo cut, and the Mattock got a cap put on its rate of fire. The Geth Plasma Shotgun, Widow Anti-Material Rifle, and Claymore Heavy Shotgun were actually the only weapons from Mass Effect 2 that stayed at the same power level in Mass Effect 3. The biotic power Reave was nerfed between Mass Effect 2 and 3. In 2, it inflicted damage over time and, if the target was alive, healed you while doing so. In 3, instead of healing it grants resistance to damage. Given that it was still quite powerful an ability in 3 and an utter Game-Breaker in 2, this was not really seen as a bad thing. The multiplayer mode features balance changes whereby the developers nerf and buff weapons and powers on a weekly (now fortnightly) basis. The vast majority of changes have been buffs, but the few nerfs have been more controversial - in particular, the infiltrator's tactical cloak was shifted in a way that forced players to choose whether they wanted to use it to enhance their damage or go invisible, and the turian-designed Krysae sniper rifle was ruthlessly de-clawed when it was found to make certain types of enemy all but trivial.
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Nerf / int_7b429ebd	comment	In Saints Row 2, the Boss can automatically dual-wield pistols and submachine guns, kill a non-boss enemy with only three or four shots, take a bunch of damage before dying, and consume health power-ups if he/she starts running low. In Saints Row: The Third, the health power-ups were eliminated, the initial damage output of guns was severely reduced, and dual-wielding was no longer automatic, all to encourage the player to use the new character and weapon improvement systems.
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Nerf / int_7ba704de	comment	Star Wars: Galaxies: At its release, and for at least two years afterward, it featured Mandalorian armor, a ridiculously overpowered set of equipment. All crafting relied on a combination of player stats and material stats. While this led to no two pieces of equipment being the same, enterprising industrialists soon discovered methods to create armor with resistance to damage >90%. While fine in the beginning (the price of the armor meant meeting another player with a full set was a rare sight), the entire system of manufacturing the armor soon hit the point where full sets of 99% resistance Mandalorian Armor were (relatively) cheap to obtain. Players soon became immortal. Eventually, SOE responded and dropped the nerfbat in the hardest way possible, limiting resistances to 90% and making anything above 80% or so ridiculously difficult to obtain. In an inversion of this trope, the game featured Bone Armor, a cheap pile of useless armor everyone wanted in the first weeks of the game. No one noticed when the armor was suddenly buffed so it actually resisted damage.
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Nerf / int_7bf640ee	comment	In Medal of Honor: Frontline, the BAR's firing rate was somewhat reduced from previous games.
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Nerf / int_7bff7264	comment	Let's start with the pistol. Dear God in heaven, the pistol. In Halo: Combat Evolved the M6D is an extremely accurate medium-range weapon with an integrated scope and high explosive bullets. It was replaced with the BR55 battle rifle in Halo 2, which was fundamentally different because of its RoF, hit-scan bullets, Aim-Assist, and its three-shot burst. The M6C pistol is regarded as a Scrappy Weapon, even with the ability to go Guns Akimbo. And the fanbase never forgave them for it and clamored incessantly for the M6D's return. Though games from Halo: Reach onward have restored the basic pistol's scope and much of its former power and accuracy, the original CE Hand Cannon didn't make a return until Halo 5: Guardians, though even there it's only available as a special REQ power weapon in Warzone.
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Nerf / int_7c537173	comment	Destiny 2 nerfed all special weapons into to the ground by forcing them into the "heavy" slot, for which ammunition almost never drops. Players now have two "primary" weapons to use instead and have only one weapon slot to switch for higher damage. The game also massively increased the super and grenade cooldowns. This was revised in Year 2, placing more emphasis on the distinction between kinetic weapons, energy weapons and heavy weapons by moving most shotguns, snipers and fusion rifles out of the heavy slot. For several years two weapons dominated the meta, kinetic grenade launcher The Mountaintop (straight shot, wide explosive radius) and the energy submachine gun The Recluse (ramping damage with kills from this weapon and others), as they were legendary weapons you got through extensive gameplay grinding and unique perks, which are normally reserved for exotic weapons. Being legendary weapons, you can pair them with most any exotic heavy weapon for a perfect balance between crowd clearing and boss damage. While other meta changes reduced their effectiveness, it took sunsetting all legendary weapons (capping older weapons to prevent them from being infused to the current power cap, which made for a hard cut-off on their damage) before they stopped being used. Many top tier exotics will spend about 6 months of being the absolute best damage dealer in the game from when they were introduced before Bungie eventually implements direct damage modifier changes to keep them from being as devastating as they once were. This includes Sleeper Simulant, The Whisper, Outbreak Perfected and Izanagi's Burden. But one that stayed on top for over two years was Anarchy, a grenade launcher that uses tagging electrical mines that deal progressive damage over time. Due to its passive and area of effect damage it was seen as just too versatile to not carry into a fight, as you can tag an enemy and switch to a different weapon for dual damage. Bungie had to expressly announce their intention to nerf it, which involved reducing ammo reserves and reduced damage to boss enemies.
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Nerf / int_7f02dd41	comment	Star Wars: Battlefront: Droidekas were nerfed to the sequel game, especially in shield strength and duration. Another was the Republic Gunship on Geonosis, especially versus the computer. They were barely able to hit it, Engineers repaired it constantly, flying near an ammo droid refilled your rockets, the AI was too dumb to destroy the final Republic command post, so a single engineer would be able to get a gunship at the beginning of the game and fly it all game and win, even after the droids had reduced the clones to 1 point.
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Nerf / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout In the earliest version of Fallout a player with high Barter skill could buy/sell things for ridiculously low/high prices. This allowed buying something at half price and immediately selling it for full price, as long as the trader had anything left. It was possible to buy Tandy and all Garl's weapons and leave Garl with a single cap. The first patch nerfed that. Thanks to Fallout changing hands, and its new owners not doing the research, the Enclave's Advanced Power Armor Mk II seen in Fallout 3 is significantly weaker than its Fallout 2 namesake, whose stats surpassed those of the T-51b, the pre-War pinnacle of Power Armor. Instead, its stats are not only inferior to the T-51b: they're identical to the explicitly outdated T-45d, which itself only provides the same level of protection as the heaviest non-powered armor. It also looks nothing like its former self. Fallout: New Vegas includes the original Advanced Power Armor Armor Mk II (renamed "Remnants Power Armor"), revealing that it's just as potent as it always was. The "Advanced Power Armor Mk II" seen in 3 was actually a distinct, crappier armor used after the factories for the original suits were destroyed. Power Armor in general got this treatment immediately after Fallout 2, and seems to get more plentiful across the wasteland with each Fallout installment. At first, Power Armor was nearly impenetrable to anything but endgame weaponry, and could only be gotten through a particularly difficult sidequest for the Brotherhood of Steel. By Fallout 4, even the Raiders have it, and the player can get any armor by simply killing the wearer and walking away with their suit. On top of that, it's also gotten much more difficult to maintain and use. One of the first patches of Fallout: New Vegas was made to address a game breaking trick that allowed the player to always score critical hits with sniper rifles. One would get 10 luck, the finnesse perk (which grants +5 to base critical chance), wear Boone's Beret (another +5) and equip a sniper or hunting rifle, which had a 5x critical multiplier. A deathclaw was no longer more than fast target practice with an easily displaced head. Since the patch, the hunting rifle has a 2x multiplier, and the sniper rifle a 1x multiplier. Also in FNV, the Chinese Stealth Armor lacks the game-breaking Invisibility Cloak function it had in Fo3. The base-game Fat Man only has half the damage and blast radius of its Fo3 counterpart, although the Gun Runner's Arsenal version has the more powerful Big Kid mini-nukes. In 3, the Grim Reaper's Sprint perk fully restored the Lone Wanderer's AP if they made a kill in VATS. In New Vegas, it only restores 20 points, and doesn't even stack if the Courier takes down multiple enemies in one VATS salvo.
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Nerf / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Wing Gundam Zero Custom's Rolling Buster Rifle is still post-movement, but only has a 1-2 range rather than its 2-5 range it had in the previous Z games.
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Nerf / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	Far Cry 5 plays mostly identically to its two predecessors, with a few notable exceptions. Signature weapons in FC 3 and FC 4 are expensive, non-customizable guns with a unique paintjob and vastly improved stats over their basic counterpart. Many, if not most of them, are hardcore Game-Breakers. Prestige weapons and vehicles in FC 5 are still expensive and uniquely colored, but no longer perform any better in combat than their much more affordable base models. The sole reason to buy them is their Disc-One Nuke status. .50 BMG sniper rifles are no longer capable of stealthily killing Heavies with a single headshot, not even from behind while loaded with armor-piercing ammo. The only viable method to One-Hit Kill a Heavy without alerting every peggy in the area is a melee takedown, which makes conquering outposts undetected significantly more difficult unless you can call on Nick Rye to drop a bomb on the sucker. One example that works in the player's favor: aggressive animals deal significantly less damage and are much less resilient than the crazy wildlife on the Rook Islands or in Kyrat. That still doesn't mean they're harmless, but getting jumped by a black bear is now more of an annoyance than a near death sentence, especially since most predators turn tail and flee after a couple of good hits.
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Nerf / int_7f9f892f	comment	Very common in War Thunder, particularly after a new vehicle has been released and it's not perfectly balanced yet. A bit controversial when a premium vehicle is released with performances that are way too high for its battle rating, which is later increased, leading players to speculate that the premium itself is purposely released at a lowered level to attract purchasers.
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Nerf / int_7fb486bc	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: In the Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions, the Boomerang and Magic Rod are capable of killing most enemies in one hit. The former weapon is noteworthy for killing the final boss, DethI, in one hit. The Nintendo Switch Video Game Remake significantly nerfed both weapons, making them less game-breaking and more balanced.
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Nerf / int_81097bd8	comment	Rock Band Blitz: The Flame Notes power-up has downgraded from a Game-Breaker to Joke Power-up in an update... then was restored.
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Nerf / int_817b1a43	comment	Time Crisis 3 introduces secondary weapons such as the machinegun and shotgun. The machinegun inflicts more damage per shot than the handgun and is fully automatic, while the shotgun fires seven pellets while maintaining the same firing rate as the handgun. Time Crisis 4 nerfs these weapons; the machinegun and the shotgun now inflict less damage unless used on specific enemies, and the shotgun has a reduced firing rate.
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Nerf / int_82ca6aa3	comment	DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu: There is a special shot type called Strong Style that gives your ship broken firepower. In Dai-Fukkatsu Black Label, picking Strong Style will turn up the game to 2nd-loop difficulty to balance out your immense firepower. DFK version 1.5 grants you auto-bomb, which fires a Smart Bomb for you every time you get hit as long as you have bombs left. In DFK Black Label, you can switch it off. In DFK version 1.51, auto-bombing will take away all of your remaining bombs instead of just your current one.
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Nerf / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations 2: in vanilla, the Neutral alignment was very powerful because it could just skip the entire Terraforming tech tree and just use all of the squares on its planets from the get-go, leading to massively enhanced infrastructure from quite early in the game; having a really good research point generator, trade advantages, and a diplomacy bonus were just the icing on the cake. The Dark Avatar expansion modified it so that while the Terraforming upgrades would be applied without needing to wait for construction, you had to research the appropriate technologies first.
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Nerf / int_86814e7d	comment	From Final Fantasy X-2, there's the Catnip accessory. It basically raises all of the attack/healing numbers of the wearer to 9,999. When combined with the Gunner's Trigger Happy skill, this made for some serious game-breaking. Later releases made it so that the accessory also adds Auto-Berserk to the wearer, meaning they will only use the basic physical attack and cannot be controlled.
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Nerf / int_86814e94	comment	In Final Fantasy XI, which emphasizes cooperative play more than the average MMORPG, any perceived "nerf" of a job class can grossly affect that class's invitation rates for years to come, often far out of proportion to the actual impact of the change. The most infamous was the "Dragoon nerf", actually a nerfing of multi-hit weaponskills in general that prevented them from being spammed, which happened to hit the Dragoon's most famous weaponskill particularly hard. For years, despite the introduction of enemies that a Dragoon would work well against and some shoring up of the job's most glaring weaknesses, Dragoons had a very hard time getting invited to experience point parties; this state of affairs only changed with a controversially large buff to all two-handed weapons. Ranger was at one point stupidly overpowered. They could used ranged attacks within melee range, while still melee attacking, which allowed them to build TP (used for weaponskills) at an accelerated rate, could subjob Ninja in order to dual wield daggers with bonuses to ranged attack, buy really strong arrows, and generally wreck everything, 'especially' things that were weak to piercing. Non-RNGs complained that RNGs were basically turning gil into damage, and SE eventually nerfed ranged attacks so that they were at their strongest and most accurate from well beyond melee range, so that rangers would actually be a ranged class. The two-hand weapon buff mentioned above had to be slightly nerfed within a month of its implementation. Originally, 2 STR translated to one extra point of attack. The buff caused it to be a 1-to-1 increase for 2 handed weapons, which made WAR, SAM, DRK, and even DRG absurdly powerful. They "adjusted" it back to where 1 STR was worth .75 attack. Square Enix once comically broke the game when they buffed Scholar's unique damage-over-time attacks. They wrote the code such that they stacked exponentially, instead of just doubling every time. The math worked out to 18 SCHs in an alliance all stacking one of those damage-over-time attacks to be doing something like 18 million damage per tick. The resulting nerfed was joked to be the "World's Fastest Patch," as Square Enix (successfully) scrambled to nerf it back to balance. A minor one happened to Ninja. Ninja would tank using the ninjutsu "Utsusemi" to create "shadows" that would absorb attacks for them. One shadow meant one physical attack completely absorbed. Normally, when a player is attacked by a mob, their hate is dropped by a tiny amount, presumably to make tanks actually try. Originally this was not the case if a shadow absorbed the attack, the NIN's hate would not be affected. They nerfed it such that there was a normal hate decrease when the enemy hit a shadow.
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Nerf / int_8962c09d	comment	An in-universe example from King's Quest V 's strategy guide is the spell Ring of Fire. Its noted in the section talking about it that Ring of Fire seems weak in comparison to other flame based spells because its limited to a single target. This is actually an intentional design flaw because the type of fire the spell turns the caster into only affects living targets, leaving everything else untouched. The narrator shudders at the thought of any mage both powerful and insane enough to remove this limitation and turn the spell against, say, a village, or even a city.
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Nerf / int_8da0ea80	comment	The Psychic type was broken in the original games. Psychic-type PokÃ©mon tended to have huge Special stats, which accounted for both Special Attack and Special Defense in Gen I. A glitch made the Psychic type immune to Ghost moves, when they were supposed to be strong against them. The only other type that was strong against Psychic (Bug) had no decent attacks at all. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver nerfed the Psychic type in a number of ways: most notably, it introduced Dark- and Steel-type Mons, the former being immune to Psychic and the latter resistant to it. It also fixed the Ghost-type glitch, and introduced decent Bug- and Ghost-type moves. Finally, the split of the Special stat into Special Attack and Special Defense made Psychic-types much more varied.
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Nerf / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: In Persona 3, having the Personae Lucifer and Satan together unlocked the Fusion Raid Armageddon, which at the cost of all of the protagonist's SP delivered 9999 damage to all enemies. It became a Game-Breaker once Lucifer learned Victory Cry, which fully restores the protagonist's HP and SP after a win. The FES Updated Re-release made it so Lucifer, now renamed Helel, no longer learned Victory Cry naturally, though creative inheritance could fix that. The second Updated Re-release, Portable, further Nerfed Armageddon by making all Fusion Raids consumable items, and giving Armageddon a ludicrous price to make it Awesome, but Impractical. Persona 4: In Persona 3, Tetrakarn and Makarakarn (and their item equivalents Attack Mirror and Magic Mirror) gave your entire party an Attack Reflector for physical or magical attacks respectively. In Persona 4, both the skills and items only affect one ally. In Persona 3, Counter, Counterstrike and High Counter gave the user a 15%, 30% and 50% chance of reflecting physical attacks respectively. Persona 4 lowers this to 10%, 15% and 20%, which stuck for the 5th game as well. The "standard" Hama and Mudo One-Hit Kill spells got buffed in Persona 4 (likely to make them more useful on enemies weak to them), but the "ultimate" versions Samsara and Die for Me got nerfed from a whopping 80% chance of instant death to all enemies to 60%. "Signature moves" in Persona 3 (ultimate attacks of various elements learned exclusively by one Persona, usually fitting with their mythology such as Surt's Ragnarok or Lucifer/Helel's Morning Star) could be passed down to other Personas via fusion, resulting in super-powerful skills being learnable by end-game Personas with no weaknesses. In Persona 4 and on, "signature moves" are now truly exclusive to the Persona that learns them: they cannot be passed on in fusion by any means. This makes the Personas that learn these skills more valuable. Vorpal Blade is one of the strongest physical skills in Persona 3, especially if the user is in "Great" condition. Since Persona 4 doesn't use the same game mechanic, Vorpal Blade has about same strength as other high end skills. The ability for party members to take a lethal hit for you, which was the first ability you got when you started their Social Link in Persona 4, now needs Rank 9 in Golden, as well as the fifth game. Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Because of how the Sub-Persona system works, the P3 and P4 Heroes are not unique Master of All party members in this game. To compensate, every party member gets the ability to equip a Sub-Persona. Sub-Personas do not come with Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors (with the exception of Magatsu-Izanagi, who is paid DLC), preventing the player from making a party with no weaknesses. Unlike in the main series, Personas do not become immune to their main element when they evolve, with the exceptions of Ken, Koromaru, and Naoto, who use light and/or dark. Persona 5 has several: Spirit Drain's strength got nerfed from absorbing 30 SP to only 10 SP to avoid gamebreaking early on. Unlike in Persona 4, most "signature" skills are free to transfer to other Personas. With the exception of Yoshitsune's Hassou Tobi, Alice's Die for Me!, Daisoujou's Samsara, Lucifer's Morning Star, and some DLC's Personas. Victory Cry — fully restore HP and SP after a battle — can only be learned in the second playthrough from Joker's ultimate Persona. Yoshitsune is still as powerful as it was in Persona 4, but one of the needed Personas to fuse it is the Persona you unlock by maxing out the Magician Confidant, which only maxes out near the end of the game. As such, Yoshitsune is only available on Christmas Eve, the last day of the original game. Persona 5 Royal nerfs mental status effects like Confuse and Rage to cause the to end automatically after the target takes damage so you can't just hit an enemy with one then have the entire active team pummel them into submission. They also end much faster even when not interrupted. The Shady Commodities vendor that gets unlocked via repairing the broken laptop also got nerfed— it still sells otherwise rare items, but it no longer carries powerful end-game weapons or armor. Instead, all you can get is fusion items. Futaba's ability to recover HP and SP not only recovers less SP than Rise's ability did, but only works on backup party members, meaning that it won't be as useful for your favorite party members, and will never recover Joker's SP. In the original Persona 5, the diner was an excellent way to build up your social stats, since it gives two points in Knowledge, plus an extra point on rainy days, plus a point in one of your other stats based on what you order. In Royal, the base Knowledge gain is reduced to one point. In the original Persona 5, Swift Strike does light damage to all foes three or four times, with each hit being equivalent to a low-level physical skill like Bash or Cleave. In Royal, it's reduced to miniscule damage, basically Lucky Punch without the increased critical hit chance, and is much less useful. In all previous games, the Omnipotent Orb nullified all attacks except Almighty. In Royal, it only nullifies magical attacks, leaving physical and gun skills untouched. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Once again, S.E.E.S. and the Investigation Team do not become immune to their main elements when their Personas evolve, with the exceptions of Ken, Koromaru, and Naoto, and also Akihiko this time, which is notable because the Phantom Thieves do. Izanagi-no-Okami and Orpheus Telos lose their resistances to physical attacks. Similarly, Izanagi-no-Okami and Messiah do not resist nuclear or psychokinetic skills, which they did as DLC in Persona 5. The Sub-Persona mechanic similarly weakens Joker and the P3 Heroine while strengthening the Phantom Thieves. Two of Rise's most useful skills (Zero Set and Into The Void) from Persona Q are given to Futaba instead (renamed Zero Shift and Final Guard), and the last one (Tidal Wave, which allows the party to act before the enemy regardless of their speed stat) is no where to be found. Similarly, Fuuka's Prayer (restores all HP and removes any Status Effects) is also not in this game. In Persona Q, Yoshitsune naturally learned five passive skills that made its signature Hassou Tobi stronger. It learns none in this game, requiring fusion inheritance to obtain any. Mahakala previously had the unique skill Danse Macabre, which was second to Hassou Tobi in terms of Game-Breaker-ness, and three passive skills to boost it. In Q2, Danse Macabre is given to Dzelarhons, who is 37 levels lower than Mahakala and learns no passive skills to strengthen it.
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Nerf / int_8f32d08e	comment	In RayStorm, the R-Gray 2 is the better ship to use for scoring, as it can achieve 16 lock-on shots and a x256 point multiplier (in contrast to R-Gray 1's 8 lock-on shots and x128 multiplier). In RayCrisis, R-G1's counterpart Wave Rider 01R has the same number of lock-ons as WR 01R, but now the shot multipliers go up to x256 at the maximum of 8 lock-ons, making it a more effective scoring ship than 02R (R-G2's counterpart).
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Nerf / int_8f4731fb	comment	In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red and Blue Rescue Team, all-Castform teams were shockingly powerful. So in Explorers, it was given a "body size" of 4 — since your team is capped at 6 total, this change put a decisive end to that strategy.
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Nerf / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: Earlier editions had a piece of equipment known as the Targeting Computer. This equipment not only made it easier to hit opponents, but also allowed for called shots, otherwise impossible in the normal course of play. Called shots usually took their shot at a penalty, but pulse lasers possessed a hit bonus largely negated the penalty when used for called shots. It has since removed this ability from weapons with hit bonuses to avoid Game-Breaker status. Another thing affected by the Targetting Computer nerf was the use of Ultra and Rotary Autocannons. When firing at higher fire rates, a called shot would place all damage done in one location, meaning an Ultra Autocannon/20 or a Rotary Autocannon/5 could put 30-40 damage all onto one location. The above nerf only allowed those guns to fire at single rate when attempting a called shot. Another piece of equipment that nearly broke the game was the Null Signature system, which in its Maximum Tech incarnation forced opponents to take a +6 penalty to the target number (on a roll of 2d6!) at long range, and even at medium range was still a +3 penalty. This was quickly nerfed in later releases to just +2 at long range and +1 at medium range in the interests of not utterly destroying the range equations. Especially since another piece of stealth equipment, the Chameleon Light Polerization Shield, was added at the same time which can be used in conjunction with the Null Signature System (it can also be used by itself), granting an additional +1 penalty from attacks and medium range and an additional +2 at long range.
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Nerf / int_91684031	comment	Self-Destruct and Explosion lost their defense-halving abilities in the 5th Generation. They're still the most powerful moves in the game, though.
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Nerf / int_9200ac89	comment	Disney Speedstorm: On the initial early access release, Mike Wazowski's "Hold the Door" ability spawned two doors lasting on the track for up to twenty seconds that teleported players a considerable distance ahead (if the player who spawned them used a door) or behind (if another player does). His ability was so powerful that many players used him to win races in ranked multiplayer. A hotfix was released on May 16, 2023, that cut the teleport distances by 10% in both directions, halved the time the doors stay on the track (making charged activations riskier, since they cause the doors to spawn farther away), and made it so that only one door spawns upon normal activation (charged activation still spawns two doors).
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Nerf / int_952797ee	comment	PokÃ©mon Trading Card Game: It normally nerfs cards by releasing a less powerful substitute after the Game-Breaker has been rotated out. One example is Energy Removal, which allows the player to discard any Energy card attached to an opponent's PokÃ©mon. Its replacement was Crushing Hammer, which has the same effect but requires a coin flip of heads for it to work. There is a case of a card being nerfed directly. PokÃ©mon Catcher let the player switch their opponent's Active PokÃ©mon with one of their Benched PokÃ©mon, which became a problem when combined with Junk Arm, which lets the player take a card from their discard pile, effectively letting PokÃ©mon Catcher be used eight times. When PokÃ©mon Catcher was re-released, it was changed to require a coin flip to work. Due to being considered Game-Breakers, Mismagius from Unbroken Bonds and Bellelba & Brycen-Man were banned from the Standard format. However, it was also decided that the two cards would be re-released with new less-broken effects and artwork. As a result, they've been given "spiritual replacements" that are very different from their original versions, effectively being revamps. It also seems that they will just nerf cards in the future rather than ban them outright.
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Nerf / int_97218fa4	comment	This happened to The Bouncer and Shield Charger from Going Commando when they reappeared in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Both weapons had their ammo clip considerably reduced and in case of the former the number of shots per ammo drop got the same treatment. Unlike the above, they're still powerful a plenty though, and yes, they can be also obtained for free if you have the save from previous game.
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Nerf / int_97e6e69c	comment	Foxhole nerfed fists in version 0.2. Originally they were a One-Hit Kill to enemy soldiers since you'd have to risk getting shot to reach melee range to deal it; when bayonets were added the instant-kill was given to the bayonets to serve as a direct upgrade to fists, which now dealt half damage.
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Nerf / int_9ba9abc6	comment	Rockman 4 Minus âˆž: The Balloon Adapter is a version of the Rush Jet Adapter, but Mega Man can only use it 3 times. Hell Wheel was nerfed in one release, before getting buffed in the May 2011 update (namely, taking more projectiles and not getting cancelled by ladders). Still doesn't stop it from being a Game-Breaker, though.
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Nerf / int_9be7a1cb	comment	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, compared to Yakuza: Like a Dragon, saw a few classes/skills and mechanics get significantly weakened. Joongi Han's Hitman skillset no longer includes Head Trauma, meaning he's no longer able to land a guaranteed knockdown on a foe without resorting to Essence skills. While Poundmates can now be used more than once per battle, the cost of all of them goes up sharply after the first summon per battle to discourage spamming them. Also, you no longer get your first summon of each Poundmate for free. Essence of Orbital Laser was replaced with Essence of Dondoko Beam, which is non-elemental as opposed to electric and does less damage.
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Nerf / int_9d12c5b1	comment	The Realms of Arkania series removed the Dwarves ability to use two handed weapons and the Druids ability to use bows in the second game (turning them into second rate Squishy Wizards instead of competent magic wielding rangers). Quite a disappointment if you were planning on importing your old characters.
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Nerf / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls In Morrowind, the Robe of St. Roris initially had a constant effect Restore Health and Restore Fatigue enchantment, essentially making the wearer invincible to anything other than a full health One-Hit KO. Furthermore, it was found in a cave not far from the First Town where a sneaky or just very lucky player could obtain it very early in the game. Bethesda seems to have noticed, as they heavily nerfed it in a patch, making the enchantment "Cast When Used," and it could be cast 5 times before being drained. Between Morrowind and Oblivion, many changes were made to rein in the insanity of abusable exploits. The biggest one was the Alchemy skill; In Morrowind, it was possible to use intelligence-boosting potions to give your character godlike intelligence, and since intelligence affected your alchemy skill, each subsequent potion only got stronger. But since all skills are affected the same way by their base stats, this could get ridiculous quickly. The changes in Oblivion are obvious from the start; You can only have four potion effects active at a time, skill boosts past 100 (the set maximum,) have no effect, and stats don't affect skills nearly as directly as in Morrowind, the sole exception being Speed. In Morrowind the Fortify Skill spell could be used to increase the caster's Restoration skill for a short period of time. Because the Fortify Skill spell was a Restoration type spell, using subsequently increasing magnitudes of the Fortify Restoration spell (up to 800) could allow for the exploitation of the Enchant (or any other) skill. A ring could be enchanted to allow the caster to jump across half of the map. Using a combination of a damage effect and Fortify Enchant, the maximum amount of damage over the maximum range could be dealt hundreds of times with one charge of a ring. This was rendered impossible in Oblivion because the stats were limited to 100 even with fortification effects. From Oblivion: Due to a glitch in the original game, paint brushes aren't affected by physics, and thus don't fall, leaving them floating in midair wherever you place them. They also have surface area to them, albeit a very small surface area. It is entirely possible for a player with a sufficient supply of paintbrushes and good hand-eye coordination to create a stairway made of paintbrushes, or to create the perfect sniper's nest for archers and spellcasters. Needless to say, this was patched up with the first wave of downloadable content. Skyrim: Standard magical spells got this treatment as a justification for the new Make Me Wanna Shout powers that you can unlock throughout the game. In practice, this leads to spellcasters having a very awkward growth where they struggle with enemies as they scale beyond the set damage of the spell(s) until they have enough to get to the next level (Apprentice -> Adept -> Expert -> Master). When the school (Alteration, Conjuration, Restoration, Destruction, Illusion) reaches master level, that is it; there is no way of making stronger spells, and you have to face against stronger and stronger foes with spells that Can't Catch Up. Shouts themselves only have set effects too, with the stronger the effect having a longer cooldown period. This may have been done to make sure that the completely broken Magic system in Oblivion wouldn't be abused again but led to only weapons scaling instead and improving with Smiting, Enchanting, and Alchemy. The modding scene includes mods which purpose is to rebalance the game. Notable examples include: Ordinator â€” Perks of Skyrim is a perks and skills overhaul which reduces the strength of equipment tempering and enchanting. It also makes sneak attacks less powerfull and needing to raise Sneak much more (and spend more perks) to raise its full potential. Among many other changes, the complete overhaul T3nd0's Skyrim SE Redone removes Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing from the list of enchantments that can be learnt and applied on your gear, which prevents to abuse crafting to create overpowered equipment and potions. Weapons Armor Clothing and Clutter Fixes is a rebalance mod for Skyrim which alters price, weight, and various stats of many items (equipment, consumables, clutter) to be more coherent. One of the changes switches the place of Daedric (penultimate tier in Vanilla) and Dragon Bone (ultimate tier in Vanilla) item tiers in term of stats. The rationale for this change is that dragon bones and dragon scales are much easier to find that Daedra hearts, and the Vanilla balance didn't make sense (more powerful items needing more common ingredients than the lower tier).
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Nerf / int_9d88cea4	comment	If an RPG is adapted into a fighting game (examples: PokkÃ©n Tournament, Persona 4: Arena) expect any Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors to not be present in the game mechanics. This is a Necessary Drawback, given that certain characters would simply be nonviable opponents against another with a type advantage over them.
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Nerf / int_9e90b05	comment	One Piece: Pirate Warriors seems to be the most guilty of this out of all the entries, for understandable reasons. Since the source material that it's based on is a shounen manga that features extremely powerful characters, it makes sense to take them down a notch for a video game in which they're playable, to avoid making the game too easy. For example, Law's Room only spans a few meters in the game, despite being able to cover entire mountains in the manga.
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Nerf / int_9ec154c1	comment	Pump It Up fixed various old charts (often pre-Exceed) to newer written charts to make the game much easier and accessible to the masses, most notably Beethoven Virus Crazy. This was done mainly to make the charts make more sense in Rank Mode.
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Nerf / int_9ef055f4	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando reintroduced five weapons from Ratchet & Clank (2002) that you can get for free if you have a save from that game. The catch is, they were so weakened they're maybe useful against weakest anklebiters, but nothing else. Even formerly powerful weapons such as Visibomb Gun are practically useless. This happened to The Bouncer and Shield Charger from Going Commando when they reappeared in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Both weapons had their ammo clip considerably reduced and in case of the former the number of shots per ammo drop got the same treatment. Unlike the above, they're still powerful a plenty though, and yes, they can be also obtained for free if you have the save from previous game.
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Nerf / int_9f02efb1	comment	EverQuest received its fair share over its long (and still ongoing) lifespan. Since the game had a much stronger focus on PvE than PvP, the developers spent most of their time focusing on PvE balance and, as a result, player-versus-player combat was rarely ever balanced. This is but a small list of the more notable and popular nerfs. At the game's inception, Warriors were surprisingly powerful. Even in mediocre gear, a warrior could easily best enemies several levels higher than themselves without assistance due to excellent damage output and very high innate damage mitigation. Their abilities were brought more into line with other classes, and to make them more dependent on healers as was the original intent of the designers. Initially, summoned minions' attack rate would drop to either their default delay, or the delay of whatever weapons they had equipped but still use their level-based damage. Because of that, equipping a minion with a pair of daggers (low damage, fast attack speed) made them attack insanely fast without any loss of damage per hit. This, combined with the Necromancer's ability to feign death and make himself untargetable by NPCs, led to many players farming XP while sleeping as hostile NPCs attacked their new blender-style pets. This was nerfed when the developers fixed minion delay at a set amount regardless of the equipped weapon. Another minion-based nerf was the ability of minions to activate weapons with the "dismiss summoned" line of spells on any type of creature (they normally only work on elemental-type creatures). Dismiss summoned (and its higher-tier version) inflicts a lot of damage and kicks off very often, and the weapons with the effect could be summoned for free by Magicians, making any minion equipped with them insanely powerful. This effect was eventually fixed to work only on the proper target type. Enchanters used to be highly feared in PvP for their ability to charm other players in combat, effectively robbing the victim of control of their character, which then became a fully controllable minion for the enchanter while the affected player could only watch. This led to some enchanters keeping their opponents charmed for hours unless the offending player logged out, or could result in the enchanter sending the charmed player off to attack enemies far too strong for them to kill, resulting in a non-PvP death (and the resulting loss in XP that entails). Player-cast Charm spells were eventually changed to not affect other players. The Manaburn spell, when introduced, would allow a wizard to convert all of their mana into an incredibly powerful one-shot spell. Sounds like a balanced tradeoff at first. Cue entire groups of wizards running to raid zones and all collectively manaburning raid bosses in an instant. The spell was modified so that it applies a temporary debuff that makes the target immune to subsequent manaburn spells for a short period of time. Initially, area-effect spells had no limit to the number of targets they could hit, so classes such as Druids, who had the ability to slow down enemies, speed themselves up, and cast area-effect damage spells, could gather up dozens of enemies and then blast them down for massive XP gains in short periods of time. Eventually, targeted area-effect spells were limited to only four targets, which led to AE kiting being named "Quad Kiting" by the community.
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Nerf / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Generation II: The Psychic type was broken in the original games. Psychic-type PokÃ©mon tended to have huge Special stats, which accounted for both Special Attack and Special Defense in Gen I. A glitch made the Psychic type immune to Ghost moves, when they were supposed to be strong against them. The only other type that was strong against Psychic (Bug) had no decent attacks at all. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver nerfed the Psychic type in a number of ways: most notably, it introduced Dark- and Steel-type Mons, the former being immune to Psychic and the latter resistant to it. It also fixed the Ghost-type glitch, and introduced decent Bug- and Ghost-type moves. Finally, the split of the Special stat into Special Attack and Special Defense made Psychic-types much more varied. The Poison-type was slightly weakened to no longer super-effectively hit Bug types. The Ice-type went from having 2 resistances to 4 resistances. Ice PokÃ©mon also gained a weakness in Steel. In Generation 1, Hyper Beam doesn't require a recharge turn if the user defeats the target with it. From Generation 2 and on, the user always has to recharge if Hyper Beam successfully hits. The Freeze status has been adjusted throughout the first few generations. Originally, being inflicted with Freeze could only be thawed out with a fire-type that had a chance to burn, being healed by a healing item or if Haze was used. Subsequent generations gave it a chance to thaw out during a turn, some moves being able to used while frozen, all Fire-type attacks could thaw out the target instead and sunlight preventing freeze from working. The Ground-type move Dig had a power of 100 in the original Red, Blue, and Yellow versions, but its power was decreased to 60 in Gen II. PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl then buffed it to a respectable 80 power. Wrap, Bind, Clamp, and Fire Spin. In Generation I, all of them prevented the target from executing a move for 3-5 turns. They can switch out, but AI trainers never do this while other players basically had to switch, and as long as the attack's user was faster it was impossible to attack them until the move ran out of PP. Beginning with Generation II, the moves now prevent the target from switching out instead of making them unable to attack, whilst also doing minor damage over time. The Special split in Generation 2 was this to a number of PokÃ©mon, as the original mechanics made it so that any PokÃ©mon that could take a special attack could dish one out as well, and the move Amnesia made its user more or less invincible. Many of them got their old Special stat assigned to either Special Attack or Special Defense, and a new stat that was usually lower than the old one. Tauros was probably the most prominent victim, as it relied on its okay Special stat to handle the Rock-types its Normal moves couldn't - but its new Special Attack stat happened to be thirty points lower. Articuno suffered the exact same thing, turning it into a largely ineffective Stone Wall, which was particularly obvious as it had once boasted the strongest attacks in Generation 1. Another victim was Gyarados, whose Special Attack dropped a whopping 40 points after the split, and thus had no reliable STAB until Generation IV, because all Water-type moves were Special attacks and it couldn't learn any Flying-type attacks at all. Generation III: With abilities being introduced, specific move types may no longer work on PokÃ©mon with certain abilities. The biggest example is Ground-type moves became less effective with PokÃ©mon having the ability Levitate. Generation IV: The move Hypnosis is an interesting case. It was buffed from 60% accuracy to 70% in PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, but Game Freak bumped it back down to 60 in Platinum. Another interesting case is with Thunder and Blizzard, which in Diamond and Pearl when in rain (Thunder) or hail (Blizzard) had a 30% chance of breaking through Protect note this was actually due to a glitch that made it so that moves under a never miss effect had a chance of breaking through Protect depending on the move's normal accuracy, but in Platinum, the chance of bypassing Protect was removed note by fixing the aforementioned glitch. Prior to Gen IV, moves would still hit a PokÃ©mon under the effect of Lock-on or Mind Reader even if it was out of range through use of a move like Dig of Fly. Starting in Gen IV, a move will still miss a PokÃ©mon affected by Lock-on or Mind Reader if they're out of range. Prior to Generation IV, Cut could be used outside of battle to cut swathes of tall grass to make it easier to avoid wild PokÃ©mon. Starting here, Cut no longer works on tall grass. Generation V: Self-Destruct and Explosion lost their defense-halving abilities in the 5th Generation. They're still the most powerful moves in the game, though. Another Generation 5 nerf was how Taunt and Encore went from lasting 4-8 turns to exactly 3 turns. Generation VI: The Fairy type was introduced in PokÃ©mon X and Y mainly to balance out the overpowered Dragon type. Originally an Infinity +1 Element, they used to be rather rare, but as new dragons were introduced in later generations, they ended up becoming Game Breakers who could easily steamroll virtually anything. Indeed, Fairy-types are outright immune to Dragon-type attacks while hitting them super-effectively, much like the Dark-type to the Generation 1 Psychics. Fighting Types, which were left unchecked since Generation II, are weak to Fairies, both offensively and defensively. Starting from X and Y, Steel (the defining defensive type) has lost key resistances to both Ghost and Dark, in exchange for super-effectiveness and resistance against Fairy. This makes the Steel/Psychic types like Metagross, Bronzong and Jirachi gain two extra weaknesses. Even though Dark types can now offensively hit Steel types normally, Fairies being introduced made Dark types weaker both offensively and defensively. Bug types also got slightly nerfed due to not doing much damage to Fairies. Hidden Power has its Power and Type based on the user's IV. In Generation 2 and 3, damaging moves are determined by type. Generation 4 introduced the Physical/Special split, which Hidden Power becomes a Special move. Generation VI set Hidden Power's Power to 60 instead of its potentially maximum power of 70 in previous games, it does make the move a lot more user-friendly since it no longer has its power based on the user's IV (which could get to about as low as 30, which is worse than basic moves like Tackle). In Generation VI, weather summoned by ability are no longer permanent. Instead, they lasted for 5-8 turns just like weather summoned by moves. In Generation V, the gems were introduced and boost the attack's power by 50% if it matches the Gem's type. In Generation VI, the gems had their damage bonus reduced to 30% and only Normal Gem is obtainable. Several moves had their damage slightly reduced in Generation VI. Staples like Flamethrower, Surf, and Thunderbolt went from 95 Power to 90, while Blizzard, Thunder, and Fire Blast decreased from 120 to 110. In Generation VI the move Low Sweep had its Power increased from 60 to 65, which is a stealth nerf because Technician only boosts moves with 60 or less. Generation VII: PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon nerfed several moves and abilities, such as Dark Void now has 50% accuracy and only works when used by Darkrai (a PokÃ©mon banned in most tournaments), Gale Wings only gives priority to Flying-type moves when the user has full HP, Parental Bond's second attack does 25% damage rather than 50%, Prankster won't affect Dark-types and Soul Dew now only gives 20% power boost to Dragon and Psychic moves if held by Lati@s rather than increasing their Special Attack and Special Defense by 50%. A few PokÃ©mon received changes to their abilities, but the most notable example is Gengar, whose only ability was changed from Levitate (which made it immune to ground attacks, which it would be weak to as a Ghost/Poison-type) to Cursed Body (an ability that disables a move when it hits Gengar, but due to its low defense, it won't survive too many in the first place). In Generation VII it became no longer possible to choose which position a PokÃ©mon is sent out in, if it's a double battle and it's your last PokÃ©mon. This was a (probably) unintentional nerf to Ditto, since you could no longer choose which opponent it would automatically Transform into. Confused PokÃ©mon have a 1/3 chance of hurting themselves instead of 1/2 as in previous games. Multiple items heal less HP: Hyper Potions only heal 120 HP instead of 200, Fresh Water is reduced from 50 HP to 30, Soda Pop from 60 to 50, and Lemonade from 80 to 70. Super Potions, on the other hand, have their healing power increased from 50 HP to 60. Generation VIII: Aegislash. For the first time ever, the base stats for a specific PokÃ©mon were actually lowered, with the highest stats being reduced from 150 to 140. In addition, its signature move of King's Shield now only lowers the Attack stat of a PokÃ©mon that makes contact with it by one stage instead of two. Also in Generation VIII, the infamous Moody ability (which at the end of each turn lowers one stat and sharply raises another) no longer affects Accuracy and Evasion, the latter being able to be raised being a big reason why the ability was considered such a Game-Breaker. The move Toxic, which previously could be learnt by each and every PokÃ©mon that can learn at least one TM. As the move was so ridiculously powerfulnote it inflicts severe poison, a status effect defeating almost every enemy within a couple of turns, to an enemy Mon with an accuracy of 90% at no drawbacks; as every PokÃ©mon could learn it there was no way to predict which one would use it, it stopped being a technical machine (TM) so only PokÃ©mon that can learn it naturally will have access to it, mostly poison types. When it was brought back as a TM in PokÃ©mon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, the number of PokÃ©mon that can be taught it was greatly reduced. Starting in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, Grassy Terrain, Electric Terrain, and Psychic Terrain only boost the power of their respective type's moves by 30% instead of 50%. Mimikyu's Disguise ability was nerfed to make it to that it loses 1/8 of its maximum HP upon its disguise breaking. The reason for this was to prevent Mimikyu from stacking the Focus Sash alongside Disguise, which would allow it to survive up to two hits that would've knocked it out. Generation IX: Healing moves have been nerfed from a PP standpoint. Any healing move whose PP wasn't already 5 has had its PP reduced to 5, meaning you can't heal too many times before running out. The Protean and Libero abilities have been nerfed so that the PokÃ©mon's type only changes the first time it uses a move after being sent out rather than every time it uses one. Continuing the trend of lowering the stats of certain PokÃ©mon, Cresselia's Defense and Special Defense were lowered by 10 each to 110 and 120, respectively. Zacian and Zamazenta (probably due to Zacian having been a major Game-Breaker) have had their Attack stat lowered to 120 in their Hero forms, Crowned Sword Zacian's Attack lowered to 150, and Crowned Shield Zamazenta's Defense and Special Defense lowered to 140 each. In addition, their Intrepid Sword and Dauntless Shield abilities only raise that PokÃ©mon's Attack or Defense the first time it's sent out during a battle. Similar to Toxic, Scald was a strong move note a base 80 power Water-type attack that has a 30% chance of burning the opponent, which could cripple physical attackers that was in a TM, which most Water-type PokÃ©mon and a few others could know. In Gen IX, it stopped being a TM, making it so that only Volcanion (who has to be transferred over) could learn it. When it was brought back as a TM in the DLC, the number of PokÃ©mon able to know it was vastly reduced. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red and Blue Rescue Team, all-Castform teams were shockingly powerful. So in Explorers, it was given a "body size" of 4 — since your team is capped at 6 total, this change put a decisive end to that strategy.
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Nerf / int_9fcc8c53	comment	In Super Punch-Out!!, Bald Bull is demoted to the champion of the Minor Circuit; he is notably much slower and easier to beat than in the original NES game. Mr. Sandman (who is usually the champion or at least the runner-up of the World Circuit in other games) is only the champion of the Major Circuit, and consequently this marks his weakest incarnation. Super Macho Man didn't have a tier downgrade (he's still the World Circuit champion, like in the NES and second Arcade games), but he's still easier than in other games. However, for all three characters, the nerf was reversed in the Wii game, where they're back to normal.
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Nerf / int_a0112f3d	comment	The Tekken series started off with easy to perform unblockable moves that could do insane amounts of damage, but they gradually made them harder and harder to pull off. If it wasn't for increasing the amount of time you held the buttons down, it was making them require additional buttons, and in Tekken 7, insisting you were in the newly introduced Rage mode to pull them off. Whilst the game has introduced more easy to pull off combos, there are many who feel the series is not quite as fun as it was.
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Nerf / int_a2add1d2	comment	Special attacks have occasionally been nerfed to make them less dominant. For example, the first game had the Kraken special (which turns the player into an invincible, ink-spreading Kraken with an instakill melee attack) modified to suffer increased knockback from attacks. In a later update, the Echolocator and Inkzooka were also nerfed; while the weapons themselves are unchanged, they take longer to chargenote (prior to the second game, special charge was based on the special weapon itself, rather than the base weapon of your loadout), meaning they can't be used as often.
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Nerf / int_a2add1d3	comment	A common practice in the games involves an observant player timing when an opponent will land from a Super Jump note (the landing spot is visible unless the player uses Stealth Jump, but Splatoon 2 would change that ability so opponents can still see your landing spot if they're close enough, in exchange for it no longer taking longer to do than a normal Super Jump) and opening fire in time to catch them landing, which gives the landing opponent a one-way trip back to spawn nine times out of ten. In Splatoon 2, however the Splashdown special can be activated in the middle of a Super Jump, splatting any nearby opponents, making such tactics without Charger a risky proposition.
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Nerf / int_a2add1d4	comment	Some games in the first two installments can become so lopsided that spawn camping became prevalent - the dominating team would essentially lock down every means of egress from the spawning pool, meaning that without a Squid Beakon planted behind enemy lines, the match could only end one way. Splatoon 3 would switch to giving each player their own off-stage spawning drones that shoot them onto the battlefield, while also being them temporary invincibility after landing, vaporizing spawn camping tactics altogether.
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Nerf / int_a366d0a8	comment	Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Once again, S.E.E.S. and the Investigation Team do not become immune to their main elements when their Personas evolve, with the exceptions of Ken, Koromaru, and Naoto, and also Akihiko this time, which is notable because the Phantom Thieves do. Izanagi-no-Okami and Orpheus Telos lose their resistances to physical attacks. Similarly, Izanagi-no-Okami and Messiah do not resist nuclear or psychokinetic skills, which they did as DLC in Persona 5. The Sub-Persona mechanic similarly weakens Joker and the P3 Heroine while strengthening the Phantom Thieves. Two of Rise's most useful skills (Zero Set and Into The Void) from Persona Q are given to Futaba instead (renamed Zero Shift and Final Guard), and the last one (Tidal Wave, which allows the party to act before the enemy regardless of their speed stat) is no where to be found. Similarly, Fuuka's Prayer (restores all HP and removes any Status Effects) is also not in this game. In Persona Q, Yoshitsune naturally learned five passive skills that made its signature Hassou Tobi stronger. It learns none in this game, requiring fusion inheritance to obtain any. Mahakala previously had the unique skill Danse Macabre, which was second to Hassou Tobi in terms of Game-Breaker-ness, and three passive skills to boost it. In Q2, Danse Macabre is given to Dzelarhons, who is 37 levels lower than Mahakala and learns no passive skills to strengthen it.
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Nerf / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Lelouch's "Tactical Command"note The commands "Offense", "Defense", and "All-Out Attack" affect allied units in the designated area for 1 turn. Does not affect the user. is no longer post-movement and must be done on that turn. Getting his ace bonus however allows him to use it after movement.
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Nerf / int_a4c8f35d	comment	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Because of how the Sub-Persona system works, the P3 and P4 Heroes are not unique Master of All party members in this game. To compensate, every party member gets the ability to equip a Sub-Persona. Sub-Personas do not come with Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors (with the exception of Magatsu-Izanagi, who is paid DLC), preventing the player from making a party with no weaknesses. Unlike in the main series, Personas do not become immune to their main element when they evolve, with the exceptions of Ken, Koromaru, and Naoto, who use light and/or dark.
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Nerf / int_a66b3bbc	comment	DanceDanceRevolution had a few: Drop Out Single Maniac from Solo had a harder section that was a full 1/16th note run. When 4th Mix was released, it cut a few 1/16th every 4th note notes to make it feel like triplet 1/16th bursts instead. To this day, we never gotten this version of the chart available for this song. 5th Mix's Paranoia Eternal Single Maniac was changed in Extreme. While it may have more complex patterns, the execution to them flows better and it no longer has the 2 8th note jackammer stream that was painful for players. X fixed a lot of charts that had the wrong rhythms. Technically, this is a bug fix. In the previous games, songs had rhythms that only match the normal rhythms multiplied by 2 such as 1/8ths and 1/16th. Swing songs that have 1/3 note use would utilize the nearest 1/64th note. In worse case scenarios, they would unintentionally use 1/16ths like Healing D-Vision. The reason why this is painful for players who listen to swing songs to match the 1/16th notes instead is due to getting non-marvelouses and non-perfects previously; this is made worse in Challenge Courses where getting a good or lower loses life bar. X finally fixed all these rhythms and players can actually hit the proper rhythms without misfiring their step timing.
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Nerf / int_a68c19b8	comment	In the Jugdral games Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, the Bard class were a better version of mages, with higher speed and defense. In the Elibe games they became a Spear Counterpart to Dancers, who were also nerfed by taking away their swordsnote not that dancers were ever combat units, but they could defend themselves a little bit rendering them a non-combat class.
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Nerf / int_a6bce733	comment	Astral Chain: In the original version of the game, players could get away with having AED batteries on Platinum Ultimate difficulty by upgrading their Legatus, as certain upgrade levels increase how many batteries are available across all difficulties. However, an update patch changed this behavior so that playing on Pt Ultimate disables revives completely, regardless of Legatus upgrades.
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Nerf / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	This also happens sometimes with Legend of the Five Rings via similar methods to M:TG.
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Nerf / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: The "Chocobuckle" in Final Fantasy VII is an early obtainable enemy skill costing only 3 MP. It deals damage based on the number of times the party fled from battle multiplied by the user's level. It got nerfed in the Western and International versions for being a Game-Breaker. Instead, the damage is equal to the number of times the party fled from battle. Final Fantasy X: In the European/International Version, the ability Quick Hit - an ability that allows the user to attack with virtually no recovery time - had its MP Cost raised significantly from 8 MP to 36 MP. This means it must be used much more sparingly (especially considering that Tidus and Auron, who have the lowest MP-stat, will most likely be the first to learn it). It also had its recovery time increased, making it less effective. From Final Fantasy X-2, there's the Catnip accessory. It basically raises all of the attack/healing numbers of the wearer to 9,999. When combined with the Gunner's Trigger Happy skill, this made for some serious game-breaking. Later releases made it so that the accessory also adds Auto-Berserk to the wearer, meaning they will only use the basic physical attack and cannot be controlled. Final Fantasy XII initially gave everyone the same license board, thus allowing everyone to learn everything and become absolute powerhouses. The Zodiac versions revamped the license board by making several smaller boards designed around job types like White Mage, Archer, and so forth so that no one character can master everything. Guest-Star Party Member Larsa was laughably broken due to having an infinite supply of Hi-Potions and X-Potions, so the Zodiac versions nerfed him by having him use your supply of potions. Larsa does come with the Cura spell to make up for the nerf.
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Nerf / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering goes through this from time to time, with Wizards of the Coast banning or limiting cards that prove unbalancingly powerful. In times past, Wizards would sometimes nerf overpowered cards by issuing errata. Most of them have since been changed back. The current policy is to make all cards function as originally designed (though they'll still issue errata to fix genuine errors, or to bring cards in line with new rules). There are a few different "formats" distinguished by which cards are banned, allowing players to choose what level of nerfage they want to deal with. Occasionally, a de-nerfed card will immediately be banned thanks to their newfound power level. One short-lived tournament environment featured a newly-de-nerfed card that allowed very quick wins. With the right four cards in one's opening hand, the card could be used to win the game at the beginning of the first turn of the game - even if that turn was the opponent's. Magic, because of its rotating set formats, can nerf a card simply by replacing it with a new one. If Lightning Bolt is too powerful, wait for it to rotate out of the main format and then print Shock, which is the same cost for one less damage. Ditto Counterspell, which was replaced with Cancel - the same thing, but with a mana added to the cost. Lightning Bolt and Counterspell still see vintage and casual formats, but since a lot of things are in Vintage, they fit in the end. It is more common for a strategy to be nerfed, rather than an individual card. This is often accomplished by releasing a card which is devastatingly effective against the currently dominant deck type, but of limited usefulness against other decks. Very rarely, an outright rules change can nerf a strategy. Case in point, there are certain cards categorized as "Legendary", which are intended to be unique characters (or items, or locations), so logically, only one can exist at any given time. Originally, there was a "Legendary rule" along the lines of "If one legendary card is in play, and another legendary card with the same name comes into play, they both get taken off the field." With this rule, a player could get rid of a troublesome legendary card merely by playing a copy of it themselves—some players put troublesome legendary cards in their decks just to deal with other people playing the same card, even if it was otherwise useless in their own deck, and Clone was occasionally packed by players reading it as "destroy target Legendary creature". The rule was later changed to only apply to cards on one side of the battlefield. In other words, a player can't have two copies of a legendary card in play at the same time, but two players can each have a copy simultaneously.
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Nerf / int_aba7ffb9	comment	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III introduced a mechanic in the game called "Brave Orders" that allow characters to buff the party using the Brave Points gained in battle. Juna's Brave Order, called "Sledgehammer", that only costs 1 BP and allows the party to break the enemy Break Meter by 300% for four turns while Kurt's Brave Order reduces a party member's delay modifier that only costs 2 BP and lasts for four turns. Cue the game broken into pieces anytime these two are available (and they are available almost throughout the game). Cold Steel IV nerfed this by increasing the costs of their Brave Order and reducing their effects in half until players grab trial chests to somewhat make them viable again (though not to Cold Steel III's absurd levels). Justified and acknowledged in-story; they were fighting alongside Rean in Panzer Soldats right before everything went to hell, causing them to be particularly badly affected by his curse. Both of them notice while they, alongside Altina, are recovering their strength, and express disappointment that their Brave Orders aren't as good as they used to be.
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Nerf / int_ad34ca69	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics A2 nerfed several classes that were overpowered in the prequel by a variety of means: MP starts out at 0 every fight, limiting the higher level spells such as summonsnote This does, however, make the Spellblade ability, Blood Price, which is obtained from the Buster Sword and lets you Cast from Hit Points, an absolute Game-Breaker, though it is exclusive to Viera. On the other hand, most abilities use up less MP now. Status Effects are much less powerful or much less likely to hit, prevent Mezzer classes from locking down enemies with ease (they are far from useless though). Perhaps most importantly, Judges were nerfed. Only one law per battle, and breaking it only forfeits a few advantages, rewards and the ability to revive teammates during battle. Thieves were toned down significantly. All it took in the first game was to inflict Stop on an opponent, and a Thief could steal every piece of equipment they hadnote Except their boots, due to a quirk in the game. as well as their abilities, significantly weakening them. Now they can only steal loot and one accessory (you can still steal armor with a Viking though), and even then they can only steal up to 4 things from one person. The stats themselves seemed to be nerfed as well. Offensive and Defensive stats could hit 400-500 points in Advance, but in A2, they don't go any higher than the 300 range. Damage is also nerfed, making a 999 damage hit impossible unless you use an ability of some sort. The reaction ability Damage > MP from FFTA was broken where even if you had 1 MP left, all damage would be dealt to the MP and would not rollover to the HP. In the sequel (where the ability is now called MP Shield), the reaction ability uses MP to reduce damage and remaining damage transfers to the user's HP. Plus with the aforementioned "MP starts at 0" thing it doesn't effectively give you your entire Max MP in HP at the start of battle. The Beastmaster class in FFTA could control a monster until the Beastmaster's turn came up again. Now a Beastmaster can only force a monster to attack immediately on that turn. This inadvertently nerfs the Blue Mage as well, since it is now much more difficult to teach him all the available moves.
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Nerf / int_aeac03f9	comment	Metroid Dread: Unlike in Metroid Fusion, the Varia Suit in this game doesn't protect Samus from low temperatures (which is ironic, considering that the Federation tried to give her the Varia Suit so she could immediately deal with a cold environment) and only provides protection from high temperatures. Instead, that immunity is bestowed by the Gravity Suit. The Scan Pulse is gained past the halfway point rather than being an extremely early ability like in Metroid: Samus Returns, and purely shows breakable blocks rather than map layout. On the flipside, since Aeion power regenerates rather than being a resource, it can be used continuously.
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Nerf / int_aecbb21a	comment	Wingspan: The Oceania Expansion features a redesigned board that makes the Grasslands less efficient at generating eggs. This was done to nerf the prevalent egg spam strategies and encourage players to use the other habitats (which got Balance Buffs) more.
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Nerf / int_af5967ff	comment	The rocket launcher was pretty heavily nerfed between the first game and 2004: not only it can only fire three rockets at a time instead of the original six, damage was decreased as well so that it can no longer One-Hit Kill with direct hits. That however doesn't compare to the massive nerfing that befell the sniper rifle:
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Nerf / int_b0544c49	comment	Some skills were nerfed from previous games in Super Robot Wars V: "Attack Again"/"Second Attack" only triggers when the pilot who has the skill has 30 points more than the enemy's skill instead of the usual 20. "Will Limit Break"/"Focus Over Limit" has 3 levels and pilots who have this skill by default only max out at 160 morale instead of 170 morale, thus requiring players to put one more level at the skill. Without it, ace bonuses or abilities that require characters or units who need 170 morale are stuck at 160 morale.note Ryoma's ace bonus comes to mind as well as Eva 01's transformation to Pseudo Evol. Unlike the Tag Tension Gauge where it requires only two stars to activate a skill, players need to gather three Extra Command Gauges to initiate movement again after killing an enemy. Even if equipping the "ExC Laser" partnote Doubles the refill rate of the Extra Command gauge, at some point, players will run out of Extra Commands unless the pilot has the "Zeal"note Additional movement after taking a move or attack. spirit command.
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Nerf / int_b0544c4b	comment	Just like in V, there are gameplay mechanics that were nerfed from the previous entries in Super Robot Wars X. Wing Gundam Zero Custom's Rolling Buster Rifle is still post-movement, but only has a 1-2 range rather than its 2-5 range it had in the previous Z games. Lelouch's "Tactical Command"note The commands "Offense", "Defense", and "All-Out Attack" affect allied units in the designated area for 1 turn. Does not affect the user. is no longer post-movement and must be done on that turn. Getting his ace bonus however allows him to use it after movement. Vilkiss' base evasion is no longer the highest in the game at 130 instead of compared to V at 140. X has the lowest amount of characters having the "Zeal"note Allows the unit to move again after movement. spirit command, two of which are on sub pilots. The game does make up for it with the "Resolve" spirit command.
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Nerf / int_b0544c4d	comment	Unlike the Tag Tension Gauge where it requires only two stars to activate a skill, players need to gather three Extra Command Gauges to initiate movement again after killing an enemy. Even if equipping the "ExC Laser" partnote Doubles the refill rate of the Extra Command gauge, at some point, players will run out of Extra Commands unless the pilot has the "Zeal"note Additional movement after taking a move or attack. spirit command.
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Nerf / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, the Robe of St. Roris initially had a constant effect Restore Health and Restore Fatigue enchantment, essentially making the wearer invincible to anything other than a full health One-Hit KO. Furthermore, it was found in a cave not far from the First Town where a sneaky or just very lucky player could obtain it very early in the game. Bethesda seems to have noticed, as they heavily nerfed it in a patch, making the enchantment "Cast When Used," and it could be cast 5 times before being drained.
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Nerf / int_b611aafc	comment	Some note charts can change noticeably when exporting songs between Rock Band and Rock Band 2, making them just a bit harder to pull off, due to the hammer-ons and pull-offs now being decided in the note charts themselves instead of the game automatically applying them. This is especially noticeable in "Thunderstruck", which has an intro section consisting entirely of hammer-on/pull-off notes in the original Track Pack release (making it very possible to play nearly the whole intro with one hand), but in Rock Band 2 half the notes need to be strummed as normal.
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Nerf / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	Granblue Fantasy: When certain SSR characters are ridiculously overpowered, they'll quickly get nerfed by Cygames. Hallessena could apply 40% attack buffs to herself for every turn so it got nerfed to 25%. Given that she loses the buff upon taking damage, it was later changed to 35% and given a cap. Korwa was subject to a nerf because of her buffs being permanent and stronger than any other character released in the game at that time, letting players beat high level raids solo. The nerf changed it so she has to constantly reapply buffs. The Luminiera Sword Omega possesses the passive skills "Horus's Majesty"note +(1+skill level)% Attack and HP up, Omega modifier and "Light's Might"note +(1+skill level)% Attack up, Normal modifier. While the weapon isn't much at base values, the way skill-ups and damage modifiers work makes this a contender for best weapon in the game at max power. The nerfbatting, while not directly aimed at the sword's stats, came in the form of locking the "Light's Might" skill until the weapon reaches level 120note Thus requiring the player to reach level 101, fully uncap a sword, and then perform a material-intensive 4th uncap, making it so only seven swords can be bought with Renown per account, and making the drop rate so abysmal that players often consider the sword a worthy use of a Damascus Bar. Threo's Ground Zero skill was used in the Arcarum mode to clear through enemy mobs since no enemy had HP that went higher then her skill's damage cap. With the Extreme mode update, its damage is now halved whenever playing in Arcarum.
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Nerf / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: In the first campaign, Percy risked becoming extremely overpowered as he is the first person in his medieval fantasy world to have invented firearms. There are several disadvantages placed on being a gunslinger however: Taliesin, the person playing Percy, has to prove to the Dungeon Master that it would be possible for Percy to create his weapons with the materials available to him, and all of his creations have a chance of malfunctioning or exploding in his face in the middle of battle, forcing him to switch weapons or waste time repairing his guns on the fly. Matt also had to rebalance some aspects of the Gunslinger subclass mid-game (par for the course for a homebrew subclass), such as reducing the efficacy of the headshot aspect of his Trick Shot ability to prevent him from imposing disadvantage on enemies continuously.
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Nerf / int_bc907c69	comment	The Tetris: The Grand Master series has combo multipliers that multiply the amount of "grade points" you get for a line clear. In TGM2, due to an off-by-one error, you can get this multiplier with single line clears (which in turn causes Tetrises to be stuck with a 1.0 multiplier regardless of combo). In TGM3, this was corrected so that single line clears will never have a multiplier.
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Nerf / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 2nd edition was at times referred derogatorily as "Herohammer" because of how overpowered the heroes were. For example Mephiston had an invulnerable save, statline of a Greater Daemon and when it worked, his gaze special would reduce an enemy's Weapon Skill to 0 making enemies helpless in melee. Another example was Fabius Bile's self-experiments if lucky could put much of his statline into 10 including his Toughness. This would make him immune to lasguns and bolters. Similarly a Hive Tyrant could take Hardened Carapace and Volt Field to get 9 Toughness making it immune to small arms and giving it an invulnerable save. Additionally Psykers were much freer in selecting powers, leading to some devastating power combinations. 3rd edition and onward nerfed much of this, though recent editions with the Primarchs returning, are seeing a big power spike once again.
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Nerf / int_bfb483af	comment	Splatoon: Special attacks have occasionally been nerfed to make them less dominant. For example, the first game had the Kraken special (which turns the player into an invincible, ink-spreading Kraken with an instakill melee attack) modified to suffer increased knockback from attacks. In a later update, the Echolocator and Inkzooka were also nerfed; while the weapons themselves are unchanged, they take longer to chargenote (prior to the second game, special charge was based on the special weapon itself, rather than the base weapon of your loadout), meaning they can't be used as often. A common practice in the games involves an observant player timing when an opponent will land from a Super Jump note (the landing spot is visible unless the player uses Stealth Jump, but Splatoon 2 would change that ability so opponents can still see your landing spot if they're close enough, in exchange for it no longer taking longer to do than a normal Super Jump) and opening fire in time to catch them landing, which gives the landing opponent a one-way trip back to spawn nine times out of ten. In Splatoon 2, however the Splashdown special can be activated in the middle of a Super Jump, splatting any nearby opponents, making such tactics without Charger a risky proposition. Also in Splatoon 2, the Quick Respawn ability was nerfed so that you have to get splatted at least twice without downing a single opponent, making it less practical for competent combatants. Also, the effects of Quick Respawn are nullified if the person with Quick Respawn is defeated by a Respawn Punisher user as well. These two things basically destroyed the infamous chain jumping strategy that used to dominate Tower Control in the first game. Some games in the first two installments can become so lopsided that spawn camping became prevalent - the dominating team would essentially lock down every means of egress from the spawning pool, meaning that without a Squid Beakon planted behind enemy lines, the match could only end one way. Splatoon 3 would switch to giving each player their own off-stage spawning drones that shoot them onto the battlefield, while also being them temporary invincibility after landing, vaporizing spawn camping tactics altogether.
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Nerf / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: Back in 7th edition, Dark Elf Sorceresses were some of the best mages in the game due to their access to the Power of Darkness spell, which was easy to cast and granted bonus power dice. The spell has not been changed, but the 8th edition of the rules put a cap on how many power dice you can get each turn, making it much less useful. Similarly, the entire army Daemons of Chaos was considered so broken that some tournaments banned it, and many players refused to play against it. Almost everything caused Fear/Terror, everything had some kind of Ward save, and the magic was atrociously undercosted for what it did; in short, you'd find your troops fleeing, dead, or otherwise incapacitated in short order without much chance to strike back. With the advent of 8th Edition, psychology has a much less damaging effect and magic has been capped in many ways. There's a reason 8th Edition has been called 'The Daemon Nerf' by some.
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Nerf / int_c00614a7	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has four races with different specialties, but they can all manage being a melee fighter for solo mode. In Ring of Fates, Clavats retain their Jack of All Stats build, but Yukes are now definitely Squishy Wizards, the formerly Lightning Bruiser Lilties are now a support class with Magikarp Power, and Selkies remain swift but are now archers. (Granted, this seems to have a lot to do with the individual personality and professions of the main cast, but it affects the character creation for multiplayer mode too.) The next game, Echoes of Time, goes back to An Adventurer Is You format and the original builds.
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Nerf / int_c01a7c9e	comment	Spelunky 2 nerfs a bunch of things from the first game: The Jetpack in the first game was a Game-Breaker that trivialized platforming and obsoleted all back items. Now the Jetpack explodes if you take any form of fire damage, which will almost certainly kill you without stacking tons of HP, making it a far riskier item to take. Bomb Paste was extremely easy to find in most runs, as Giant Spiders, which always drop Paste, used to be found in the Mines, the first biome. Now Giant Spiders can only be found in the Jungle, one of two second biomes. You used to be able to fire your weapon while hanging onto a rope without being affected by knockback. This was most commonly used to snipe Shopkeepers safely, especially in the Black Market. Now you'll be knocked back even while hanging on a rope, unless you have the Powerpack equipped. Bomb Bags and Crates can now explode from fire damage and gunfire. This change seems to specifically target robbing Shopkeepers, as they'll very likely shoot a Bomb Bag while rampaging. "Ghosting" is used in high score runs by having the Ghost hover over gems, turning them into much more valuable diamonds, and the Ghost was slow enough to outrun and around the stage easily as long as you had enough space. Now, the Ghost can split into up to four smaller, faster Ghosts if it stays in the stage for too long, making transforming gems and ourrunning them much harder the longer you stall.
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Nerf / int_c0d295c4	comment	The change in Demomen from QTF to the sequel Team Fortress 2 was even more drastic than any of the TF2 changes so far. In QTF, Demos could detonate their pipebombs (which were remote-detonate like stickybombs) at any time after they were fired. This allowed them to detonate pipebombs on top of or immediately beside enemies at any range from close to medium. TF2 demos can do this to an extent, but the tactic was more effective in QTF, as TF2 demos have to wait a second or so after firing before a sticky bomb will arm. This gives the enemy at least a chance of escaping the blast.
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Nerf / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft had several nerfs over the course of the game during its beta stage and even beyond the 1.0 release: Fires caused by lava or the flint and steel used to be able to spread very quickly if the fire were on a flammable object like trees and this was made easy for griefers. An update slowed down how fast fires spread. Swords did quite a bit of damage but once the enchantment system was introduced, swords became slightly weaker to encourage players to enchant them. Golden Apples used to restore 5 units of hunger and gave health regeneration for 30 seconds. The crafting ingredients changed in the 1.1 update to make it easier to craft the Golden Apple, but the effects got nerfed to making hunger recover only 2 points and regeneration last only 3 seconds. They have continued to be changed for balance, now both types cost nine times more gold. Bone meal, which acted as fertilizer for trees and crops, was changed to require several uses before the plants fully grow instead of requiring just one bone meal. Mobs that spawn in with tools/weapons and/or armor (when it was first introduced) was altered to have their dropped equipment be worn down so that players don't farm for free items with little effort.
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Nerf / int_c21cdcdd	comment	The main character in Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. accidentally came across a hilariously broken character build in the game she played by completely maxing out her defenses and using an extremely powerful set of armor that allows her to devour her enemies. After casually No Selling every attack other players threw at her in a Pv P event, the game developers released a patch which allows some damage to pierce her titanic defenses and capped the uses of Devour to ten times a day. However, she continued to stumble upon new exploits...
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Nerf / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: In the European/International Version, the ability Quick Hit - an ability that allows the user to attack with virtually no recovery time - had its MP Cost raised significantly from 8 MP to 36 MP. This means it must be used much more sparingly (especially considering that Tidus and Auron, who have the lowest MP-stat, will most likely be the first to learn it). It also had its recovery time increased, making it less effective.
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Nerf / int_c2d7e755	comment	You can only bubble one or two people at a time, as opposed to having up to all 4 characters on the battlefield bubbled at the same time in Save the Light.
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Nerf / int_c43ed6f1	comment	In Boktai, The Gun Del Sol is your only weapon in the first game, but it's incredibly versatile, capable of blasting solar energy in all sorts of ways (as well as launching grenades and storing tons of backup energy). In the second game, you lose this weapon early on — and when you finally get it back, it's a shadow of its former self. It can't fire spreads, lacks all the extras, and consumes so much energy you can only use it a few times before refilling. It's explained that it was damaged and that there was only enough time for a sloppy repair job, explaining its poor performance. By the third game, it was back to full strength. Not quite up to full strength. The first game used batteries which were refillable, upgradeable, and you kept the old ones which you could swap in a pinch (You had 15 full meters of energy if you had all five batteries). The third uses an MP meter, so even though its consumption is the same as the first, you have much less ammo before you're empty.
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Nerf / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: During a downloadable content cycle for a particular entry in the franchise, every entry will see a period where guns and equipment are patched thanks to community feedback and what the developers observe. The following are the most notable nerfs: Modern Warfare: The Model 1887s in Modern Warfare 2, were nerfed twice: Once from Game-Breaker to regular gun and then to Joke Gun. Modern Warfare 2 also moved the AK-47, a starting gun from CoD4, to one of the last unlocked weapons for its multiplayer. Call of Duty: Black Ops dropped the Stopping Power, Danger Close and Juggernaut perks (think of the latter as the Zombies Perk-a-Cola Juggernog). Juggernaut got replaced by Hardened, which is a mix of Deep Impact/FMJ from the previous titles while the Pro version adds decreased flinching from being shot. The flinch resistance was made into a proper perk called Toughness in Black Ops 2. Whether this is a nerf or not is subjective. Call of Duty: Black Ops II: Toward the end of the downloadable content cycle, the DSR 50 and Ballista sniper rifles received nerfs to rate of fire and increased the time it takes to sprint into aiming down your sights. This caused ugly outrage in the Call of Duty community as quickscoping is seen as a very divisive mechanic in Call of Duty. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019): The weapons get constantly balanced both for Multiplayer and Warzone, but no nerfs have been more significant than the ones given to the 725 shotgun (specially its effective range), M4A1 (recoil and damage range) and Grau 5.56 (particularly the Archangel barrel's range and recoil, which almost made it a laser beam).
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Nerf / int_c5a0ecb7	comment	Mega Man 2: Atari De-Make: The original Metal Blade was regarded as too overpowered. Here, it can no longer be fired upwards nor downwards, and there can only be two blades at the time. Also, instead of instantly killing Metal Man, it deals him a great damage.
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Nerf / int_c63088d7	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs Gundam NEXT was not kind to Gundam F91 at all, no new suits or stages and the F91 lost some bite with his signature's move having to be charged.
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Nerf / int_c6a1e15a	comment	Wisps in Ancient Empires give nearby allied units a status effect that increases their attack. In the first game, this status (which lasts one turn) was refreshed every time something happened: whenever the Wisp made a move, and whenever any other unit made a move. In the second game, the status is only applied when the Wisp moves and/or attacks: units that move into the area of effect afterwards won't get the status.
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Nerf / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo and its sequel have been patched many times. As is typical for Blizzard games, each of these patches came with pages upon pages of class balance changes. The biggest set of nerfs and buffs came with the controversial 1.10 patch for Diablo II, which did things like lower the quality of the loot dropped by two unique monsters (Thresh Socket and Pindleskin) and reduce the efficacy of elemental-resistance-lowering skills against monsters with immunities.
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Nerf / int_c7beb97e	comment	The Resident Evil 4 (Remake) does this to nearly every weapon by doing away with the built-in laser sights from the original, meaning accuracy is now a huge factor in deciding which weapons to use (there is a laser sight you can buy, but it only works on a few specific handguns). Your rifles now do much lower base damage, but they have a multiplier upon hitting enemy weak points, so if you're a very good shot everything's fine, but poor accuracy is punished rather harshly because limb/torso shots do piddling damage now. To add insult to injury, your unlockable guns are either given a huge damage penalty, a huge accuracy penalty, or both. The Handcannon in particular is only a third as strong as in the original game, and is so imprecise outside of point-blank range now that it's basically worthless against any enemy that's fast-moving and/or has a tiny weak point.
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Nerf / int_c8f35288	comment	Ordinator â€” Perks of Skyrim is a perks and skills overhaul which reduces the strength of equipment tempering and enchanting. It also makes sneak attacks less powerfull and needing to raise Sneak much more (and spend more perks) to raise its full potential.
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Nerf / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has the Tunic, which is a nerf compared to the Rings from The Legend of Zelda. Rings lowered damage from all enemy attacks and traps. Tunics do lower damage, however, some enemies and all traps deal fixed damage, regardless of what tunic Link is wearing.
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Nerf / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops dropped the Stopping Power, Danger Close and Juggernaut perks (think of the latter as the Zombies Perk-a-Cola Juggernog). Juggernaut got replaced by Hardened, which is a mix of Deep Impact/FMJ from the previous titles while the Pro version adds decreased flinching from being shot. The flinch resistance was made into a proper perk called Toughness in Black Ops 2. Whether this is a nerf or not is subjective.
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Nerf / int_cb2d2a81	comment	Some of the items that return in Mario Kart Tour from earlier games are nerfed. Hearts only protect against items rather than letting the target get the item for their own use, and disappear on their own after a while. Mega Mushrooms do not make drivers invincible; they revert to normal size when hit with an item. They also do not get a speed and off-road boost without a Frenzy.
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Nerf / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online: A big one was the HAC speed nerf. This eliminated a tactic use by many 0.0 alliance to essentially be invulnerable to damage yet completely dominate targets. Also the Falcon buff and revision. They decided that the best jamming ship in the game needed a boost. This led to fights where half or more of the opposing fleet was out of action because Falcons could jam tagets from far beyond engagement ranges. It took a year and very vocal opponets but they returned it to its orginal stats. Now if they'll just fix rockets... In almost every update of the "Tiericide" ship-rebalancing initiative, some ships end up getting hammered. For example, prior to 2012, the Minmatar Hurricane was one of the most popular battlecruisers around (second only to the Drake, and preferred in PvP), capable of fitting very powerful autocannons or artillery, backed up by paired energy neutralizers that would flatten the capacitors of any ship that got close enough to threaten it. Then with the Retribution patch, suddenly the Hurricane didn't have enough powergrid for its traditional roles, and then battlecruiser rebalancing proposed yet another hit from the nerf-hammer...
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Nerf / int_cc69e03e	comment	VGA Planets: The most recent version of this 4X game, based on the "Planets Nu" site, has done this to the Crystal race's webmines; they now suck fuel from any other race's exposed ships, even if the victim is formally allied to the Crystals.
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Nerf / int_ce615615	comment	Support effects in the Fossil Fighters series were nerfed from the first game to the second. In the first, viviosaurs have their full effects no matter their level, making viviosaurs with crazy support effects—like Compso, who decreases an opponent's attack by 90%—insanely good even right out the gate, and a powerful addition to the team the instant they're available. In the sequel, however, support effects need time to grow to their full potential like any other stat does, meaning Compso is available in one of the game's first areas, and only starts out offering a 9% or so decrease. There's also Sopteryx. In the original, Sopteryx boasted a skill that only cost 100 FP—quite moderately-priced by the time you can obtain it, and capable of being used every single turn—but which had a 100% chance of causing a powerful "gold" Confusion effect and did damage. In the sequel, the skill's cost skyrocketed to 240 FP, making it impossible to pull off with regularity.
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Nerf / int_ce8ae236	comment	Unleash the Light: You can only bubble one or two people at a time, as opposed to having up to all 4 characters on the battlefield bubbled at the same time in Save the Light. The teamwork bars from Save the Light are now merged into one, so when it's filled, you can only pick one out of several Limit Breaks in a turn. Fusions now only last for three turns (five if one of the components is wearing the Fusion Badge), starting on the turn their components fuse, before unfusing. Bubble shields now only block the first attack in a multi-strike move instead of all of them in Save the Light. Amethyst's Just Kidding and Steven's Perseverance skills return from the previous game, but while they're guaranteed to be Auto-Revived with low HP after their first KO, It Only Works Once per battle. Both of Pearl's Holo-Pearl abilities only allow up to two Holo-Pearls on the field, unlike in the previous game, where an unlimited amount can be summoned.
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Nerf / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend had some infamous exploits before the November balance patch. Ironheade's Single Player properties made the hero's army too powerful in Multiplayer. Eddie could use Facemelter to butcher the opponents units right when they walk off the base, they could summon animals anywhere they want with Call of the Wild, and of course, spam dozens of Fire Barons to wipe out enemies in a short amount of time. In response, Double Fine made all the Facemelter solos weaker and unavailable until Tier 2, Call of the Wild only summoned the animals at the base, and Fire Barons became weaker and more expensive. Ironheade was more severely nerfed than the other two armies.
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Nerf / int_d0b0076	comment	In Icewind Dale, the druid spell Static Charge which shock all opponents in the room every round. In the sequel, it only shock one random monster per round.
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Nerf / int_d20d7367	comment	Abyss Crossing: In the 1.39 update, Nehan's buffs no longer restore a portion of the TP spent and Lorin's healing power is lowered.
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Nerf / int_d2bb929d	comment	The Soul Series began with Soul Edge (aka Soul Blade for home ports), in which the axe-wielding Rock was a reasonably fast character. In the sequel, Soul Calibur, the game introduced Astaroth, who is so much slower than Rock that he is impractical to actually use. Similarly, although he still does a good amount of damage, Siegfried/Nightmare is slower than he was in Soul Edge.
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Nerf / int_d4d57ee7	comment	DOTA 2 is interesting in its philosophy of nerfing: If a hero is overpowered, don't nerf the OP ability, nerf something else. This leads to heroes who appear overpowered, but have severe weaknesses to make up for it.
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Nerf / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon nerfed several moves and abilities, such as Dark Void now has 50% accuracy and only works when used by Darkrai (a PokÃ©mon banned in most tournaments), Gale Wings only gives priority to Flying-type moves when the user has full HP, Parental Bond's second attack does 25% damage rather than 50%, Prankster won't affect Dark-types and Soul Dew now only gives 20% power boost to Dragon and Psychic moves if held by Lati@s rather than increasing their Special Attack and Special Defense by 50%.
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Nerf / int_d5166b43	comment	The Needler was weakened somewhat in Halo 2, decreasing its homing capacity and making it a close-range weapon, though by Halo 5 the needles began to track better again. And the shotgun too — it lost either magazine size or range in every game until Reach.
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Nerf / int_d5166b44	comment	They also removed the Rocket Launcher's homing ability in Halo 3, presumably to prevent it from breaking the game in multiplayer. It can again lock-on again from Reach onward (albeit only on aerial vehicles now), though it now has to compete with lots of other heavy weapons like the Fuel Rod Gun and Spartan Laser.
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Nerf / int_d5166b45	comment	It was incredibly easily to run over people in Combat Evolved even if you just grazed them. Hence, the ability to splatter people was nerfed in Halo 2. However, it seems to have gotten progressively nerfed each game, to the point of it being nearly impossible to ram someone with a Warthog by Halo 4.
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Nerf / int_d55c3813	comment	NBA 2K typically nerfs a feature or two every year as the Dev team improves: It was pretty easy to dunk on people up to 2k14; all you had to do was run left and right in front of a defender until you got even the tiniest free step to the basket. Then, you could hammer down the sprint button and charge to the rim, instantly entering an animation and posterizing whoever was there. Come 2k15 and 16, defensive physics were improved so it's no longer as easy to lose defenders, and furthermore, you're much more likely to miss the dunk or get blocked if you charge to the rim when taller defenders are there. It was incredibly easy to draw a charge in 2k14 and 15 because the ballhandler would automatically enter the "charge" animation if they sprinted too close to a guy trying to draw one. In 2k16, unless you build up a lot of steam and go right into somebody, it's more likely that you'll just bump them slightly.
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Nerf / int_d5d1c44b	comment	Eye of the Beholder: The complete disappearance of the stoneskin spell in EotB2, even with an imported party from EotB1, for whom it vanishes from spellbooks (and a stoneskin scroll can't be saved either). The spell being a big Game Breaker explains why. The Turn Undead power also got modified between the two games. In EotB1 it is an automatic function, as long as the character is holding a holy symbol. Starting with EotB2, it becomes an action like any spell-casting, though not limited in use.
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Nerf / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, two champions with extended stealth options, Evelyn and Twitch, were deliberately overnerfed because their abilities were so frustrating for new players to deal with. It wasn't until their reworks were finalized where they were un-nerfed, a process that took approximately one year.
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Nerf / int_d67b1b80	comment	In the original DS version of Meteos, Forte has pathetically weak horizontal matches but incredibly strong vertical ones. With this attribute, Forte could launch massive garbage block attacks on the opponent, as skillful use of its ignition scheme created a technique known by high-level players as a "piston" in which blocks are kept in midair through horizontal matches, scoring points and building up the garbage meter, until the player feels like removing the blocks by making a vertical match anywhere.note Forte is not the only planet that can use the "piston" strategy. Other planets with a viable piston include Grannest, Wuud, Vubble, Boggob, Brabbit, Mekks, and Jeljel. Not every piston is sustained through horizontal matches and released through vertical matches though. In Meteos Wars, Forte's garbage block output is by far the lowest in the game, with less than half of the average planet in proportion to blocks cleared. This change drastically altered Forte's means to victory, from overwhelming the opponent until they're eliminated to outscoring the opponent while timing out the clock. There were other planets nerfed between these two games, but it's the most pronounced with Forte.
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Nerf / int_d810e65f	comment	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019): The weapons get constantly balanced both for Multiplayer and Warzone, but no nerfs have been more significant than the ones given to the 725 shotgun (specially its effective range), M4A1 (recoil and damage range) and Grau 5.56 (particularly the Archangel barrel's range and recoil, which almost made it a laser beam).
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Nerf / int_da2b8efc	comment	Asteroids Deluxe nerfed the original game's weakness (you could rack up points by leaving a large rock remaining from the first wave, sit in one spot and just pick off the saucers one by one) by having the saucers shoot at the rocks as well as the player ship.
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Nerf / int_da6e2461	comment	There was a heated debate in the Oolite forums about the announced removal of the Energy Bomb from the next test version of the game. Ultimately it was left in, but only until the Mythical Next Stable Release.
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Nerf / int_da72cf97	comment	In the Trails Series: The Wild Rage craft trades HP for CP. In the first arc, the most powerful form of that craft gave 150CP, which allowed the party member to have it to be able to use an S-Break that did thousands of HP in damage to every enemy on the screen in one go. This made it easy to smash through most bosses by having Agate alternate between Wild Rage and S-Breaks, with the rest of the party focusing on healing him and each other. Later arcs reduced the maximum CP gain that party members could gain from that craft to 90, which meant that using it wouldn't guarantee the ability to use an S-Break (which required a minimum of 100CP). In Trails in the Sky FC, Kloe's Kaempfer debuffed enemy Strength and Defense by 50%, which, due to the game's damage formulas, resulted in enemies dealing Scratch Damage and taking far more. And only the final two bosses were immune to it. In Sky SC it received a massive nerf, debuffing strength by 10% and defense by 15%, and even its upgraded version only raises this to 20% and 30%. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III introduced a mechanic in the game called "Brave Orders" that allow characters to buff the party using the Brave Points gained in battle. Juna's Brave Order, called "Sledgehammer", that only costs 1 BP and allows the party to break the enemy Break Meter by 300% for four turns while Kurt's Brave Order reduces a party member's delay modifier that only costs 2 BP and lasts for four turns. Cue the game broken into pieces anytime these two are available (and they are available almost throughout the game). Cold Steel IV nerfed this by increasing the costs of their Brave Order and reducing their effects in half until players grab trial chests to somewhat make them viable again (though not to Cold Steel III's absurd levels). Justified and acknowledged in-story; they were fighting alongside Rean in Panzer Soldats right before everything went to hell, causing them to be particularly badly affected by his curse. Both of them notice while they, alongside Altina, are recovering their strength, and express disappointment that their Brave Orders aren't as good as they used to be. Rean's Spirit Unification took a nose dive in Cold Steel IV where after three of his turns are up, he becomes uncontrollable and either he needs to be snapped out by making a character waste their turn to heal his status condition or wait out the random amount of turns it takes before he goes back to normal. Again, justified in-story, because he completely lost control at the end of III and the Great Twilight is exacerbating the problem.
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Nerf / int_dab32be	comment	The Shadow Blade in Mega Man 3 is often considered the nerfed version of the game breaking Metal Blade from Mega Man 2 due to their similar appearances and capabilities, with the differences being that the Shadow Blade consumes more energy, can't be shot downwards, and only travels so far before boomeranging back to Mega Man.
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Nerf / int_dab32bf	comment	Rush Jet was originally fine-controlled by the player. This proved too exploitable, so starting in Mega Man 4, he moved forward automatically and you could only adjust his altitude. Mega Man 8 nerfed Rush Jet even further by scripting his appearances — he shows up in stages designed for him, and Mega Man can't summon him anywhere else. Don't feel bad for Rush, though. He's always getting new modes to play with.
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Nerf / int_dab32c4	comment	The Mega Buster was nerfed in 5 such that Mega Man loses his charge if he takes a hit (although it had a larger radius). Then Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 came along and nerfed the Buster and the slide move clear out of existence (and Protoman's version was pretty horrendous)! Fortunately, Mega Man 11 not only brought both of them back but also had a purchasable upgrade that increased the charge shot's size, allowing it to hit enemies a lot easier.
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Nerf / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X did this with two (technically three) armor sets that were carried over between games. Justified In-Universe by the fact they weren't the original armors, but imperfect recreations created by Alia. Due to both damage taken and the fact the armors are over a century old and designed by Dr. Light, they couldn't be fully replicated, but really it was for balancing purposes since they had become the new starting armor sets.
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Nerf / int_dec5f386	comment	In Raiden II, the Spread Shot's damage was decreased.
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Nerf / int_df318360	comment	Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight: The beta was horribly unbalanced. One particular unit was the GDI Offence Class Striker. Easily the fastest land unit in the game, it could jump cliffs, be upgraded to fire faster, more accurately, and be faster. Plus its laser was strong aginst the heavy armor of the Crawler, your Base on Wheels. Yeah. That was patched VERY quickly, but it wasn't uncommon for whole teams of Nod Players to ragequit as soon as they saw ONE.
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Nerf / int_e02cca8e	comment	In Wario Land 4, Wario has an actual health meter rather than just being completely invincible like his Wario Land II self or being "completely invincible outside of the game's final boss fight" like his Wario Land 3 self.
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Nerf / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II: In the first game, mages were majorly broken, and a mage Warden could be an unstoppable steamroller with the right skills. Most of those broken skills are eliminated in the sequel, which include a lack of access to Storm of the Century, which dealt enormous damage late in the game and no longer having the Arcane Warrior specialization, which had major attack and defense during the game. Some of the skills that were kept to the mage character have been nerfed too, which included Fireball and Cone of Cold having a much lesser area of effect.
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Nerf / int_e25c0528	comment	Grand Theft Auto Online has the infamous Oppressor MkII which is the definitive edition of Game-Breaker in this game. The homing missiles track and shoot extremely fast and it is extremely precise, and it is mainly used by griefers to anger players who are doing business and sales missions. This was nerfed in The Criminal Enterprises update in which greatly reduced the homing effectiveness and increased the cooldown of the countermeasures. As of April 27th 2023, the vehicle's price was also increased from 3 million to 8 million with a trade price of 6 million.
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Nerf / int_e26a1053	comment	Temtem:
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Nerf / int_e26d37ec	comment	In Tetris DS, as well as some other "Tetris Guideline" games, offers a "T-Spin Triple" bonus for using a twist to clear 3 lines with a T piece. Said bonus came out to be more than for a Tetris. Tetris Zone and some other newer official Tetris games attempt to nerf this problem by simply not recognizing T-Spin Triples, counting them as normal Triples instead.
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Nerf / int_e37825ad	comment	Gauntlet bore witness to one of video gaming's first nerfs. The warrior and wizard both took reductions to their upgraded shot power in the nefarious 'Final Revision' of Gauntlet 1, and had their food allotment VASTLY reduced in Gauntlet 2. Annoyingly, they weren't 'too strong', people simply picked them the most often due to stereotypes of warriors and wizards in RPGs.
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Nerf / int_e49fc98a	comment	Unreal: The rocket launcher was pretty heavily nerfed between the first game and 2004: not only it can only fire three rockets at a time instead of the original six, damage was decreased as well so that it can no longer One-Hit Kill with direct hits. That however doesn't compare to the massive nerfing that befell the sniper rifle: The original version was practically a camper's dream: semi-automatic which gave a very impressive rate of fire (compared to similar weapons, anyway), enough damage to kill players at full health with two shots and since UT doesn't have killcam, there's no way to tell where the shooter is firing from. Wide-open maps but especially CTF-Face often degenerated into stalemates due to 1) snipers spawncamping the entire enemy team from back home and 2) the only way to avoid enemy sniper fire is translocator Teleport Spam but once you have the flag, you can't use the translocator anymore or you'll drop the flag. 2003 replaced it with the Lightning Rifle that has a pitiful rate of fire as well as a highly visible bolt of electricity between the target and the shooter, in order to give away the latter's position and attract counter-sniper fire. Epic put the sniper rifle back into 2004 but while the rate of fire is faster than the Lightning Rifle, it still doesn't compare to the original weapon. Oh, and while it no longer gives away the shooter, each shot belches a large cloud of smoke that obscures the scope. Since the Lightning Rifle wasn't taken out between 2003 and 2004 (they use the same engine and 2004 has all of its predecessor's content), preference for either usually depends on which is available on the map (an whether the server has the swapping mutator on): maps ported over from 2003 have the LR, ones that debuted in 2004 have the SR, Assault and Onslaught maps usually have both.
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Nerf / int_e689486b	comment	In the video game version of The Darkness, the Darkness' weakness to sunlight was expanded to include all strong light, since the game was set entirely at night and the lack of any limitation on the main character's powers would make every fight a Curb-Stomp Battle. Further nerfed in the sequel. In the original game lights would rapidly drain Darkness energy but your powers could still be used for a few seconds. In The Darkness II, the Darkness not only disappeared completely when lit but Jackie was nearly blinded by the light, making it hard to even aim. The effect, if not the scope is arguably closer to the comics though, as the Darkness couldn't operate at all under the light it was weak to. Another example is the Black Hole. In the first game it was a power you could activate at any time (if you had full Darkness energy). In the sequel the Black Hole is a throwable pickup that enemies have a chance of dropping.
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Nerf / int_e81feae7	comment	The Scan Pulse is gained past the halfway point rather than being an extremely early ability like in Metroid: Samus Returns, and purely shows breakable blocks rather than map layout. On the flipside, since Aeion power regenerates rather than being a resource, it can be used continuously.
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Nerf / int_e863cc41	comment	Each Mega Man Battle Network game Nerfed something that had been overpowered before (while introducing new game breakers themselves). A few examples: Some chips and Program Advances did less damage in later games. GutsShoot did a whopping 500 in the first game; it dropped to 400 in the second and 300 in the third. Program Advances were the backbone of many a strong folder until BN5, when a new rule was imposed: any given Advance could be used only once per battle. The hardcore PvPers were ticked. You could have ten copies of a single chip in your folder in the first game. This was reduced to five, then four. Tougher restrictions were placed on summon chips too. Many of the popular NaviCust parts became more awkward and harder to combine. BN4 had a particularly obnoxious HubBatch that took up the whole Command Line. The big exception to this trend was the final game, BN6, which was extremely generous — some even found it too generous. (180 damage from an M-Cannon! Everything in * code!)
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Nerf / int_e9e265b6	comment	in Fire Emblem: Awakening the weapons from prior games returning lost many stats and usefulness.
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Nerf / int_ea64cef3	comment	In X-Wing Miniatures, Fantasy Flight regularly releases an "FAQ" that clarifies or changes particularly nasty cards and combinations. March 2017, for example, saw changes to Emperor Palpatine (you now declare you're using him before you roll, stopping you from pulling him out as an emergency save), the TIE/x7 title for TIE Defenders (it's now an Evade action, rather than a free Evade token, meaning it can now be stopped by stress and obstacles), the Jumpmaster pilot Manaroo (her ability to give benefits to other ships now has a fairly harsh range limitation, stopping her from spending the entire battle on the other side of the map generating buffs), and the Zuckuss crew card (which can take stress to penalise enemy defence rolls - but now can't do it if already stressed). It also confirmed that Kylo Ren's crew card (could dictate a specific Pilot critical effect that would hit an enemy ship and bypass shields next time they took critical damage) didn't interact with Darth Vader's (whose ability to Cast from Hit Points to inflict a point of critical damage applies after attacks, and Kylo's condition only applies during attacks).
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Nerf / int_ebc16967	comment	Akuma has been nerfed repeatedly since his first appearance in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, but this was beneficial, as he was brought down from a nigh-invincible boss character to a powerful regular character.
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Nerf / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate Charm and Dominate spells (which allow you to control enemies) last as long as the original Dungeons & Dragons equivalents (ages in game time). Combined with an item that gave you infinite uses of Charm and an exploit that allowed you to use the item while invisible, a player could charm every enemy in the area, and use them to kill each other. Baldur's Gate 2 addressed this not just by removing the item and the exploit, but also by changing the charm and domination spells so that the choice of targets was highly limited, the spells became easier to resist, and the time they lasted was minuscule. Summon wands in BG1 could spam massive hordes of weak monsters to help the player. Enough of those could either kill any major opponent, or distract them long enough for the player to kill them. BG2 not only removed summon wands from the game (there was one in the first dungeon, but by the later stages the creatures conjured by this were essentially useless cannon fodder), but also restricted the number of possible summoned monsters in game to five. Whether or not that was a good nerf is up to the individual player. Summoned monsters were further nerfed by the inclusion of two mid-level Wizard spells (Death Cloud and Death Spell) that automatically killed all hostile summoned creatures in their radiuses with no saving throws, regardless of the strength of the summoned creatures. Enemy wizards usually had this spell ready, though it didn't work on the most powerful summons you gained in Throne of Baal. Skeleton Warriors in BG2 were silly powerful even if they were capped in number, especially against mages and Illithids because they were immune to magic, psionics, and intelligence drain. The Enhanced Edition removed these advantages, removing their main use except as generic summoned Cannon Fodder. The HLA traps in Throne of Bhaal were accessible to both Thieves and Bards (who level up very fast) and could duplicate or outdo the effects of 9th level wizard spells. This meant that, with a little forethought, a Thief/Bard could dog-pile a single enemy with the equivalent of six rounds of being bombarded by the party wizard in one go. The Enhanced Edition nerfed this by capping the amount of active traps one could have out depending on one's Set Traps skill — a skill the Bard couldn't take.
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Nerf / int_ede55421	comment	Doom Eternal: In the previous game the chainsaw and BFG could instant-kill any non-boss enemy if you had enough fuel and ammo. Come Eternal and high-level demons such as Barons of Hell can tank a BFG shot and are outright immune to the chainsaw. The Crucible takes the chainsaw's place as an instant-kill tool but is acquired much later, has very limited ammo and some miniboss demons resist it.
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Nerf / int_ef661e97	comment	One of the most notorious nerfs in Street Fighter's history occurred between Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike, where Sean literally went from the top of the charts to the very bottom next to Twelve in 3rd Strike. Apparently Capcom did this deliberately to hold Sean back to reflect the fact Sean was still a novice but failed to account for 3rd Strike as a whole becoming a staple of competitive fighting games due to the entire III series' lukewarm reception to that point. There were some regrets as a result that they didn't give Sean more balanced tools, if even to lower his potential compared to 2nd Impact.
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Nerf / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: The Shadow Blade in Mega Man 3 is often considered the nerfed version of the game breaking Metal Blade from Mega Man 2 due to their similar appearances and capabilities, with the differences being that the Shadow Blade consumes more energy, can't be shot downwards, and only travels so far before boomeranging back to Mega Man. Rush Jet was originally fine-controlled by the player. This proved too exploitable, so starting in Mega Man 4, he moved forward automatically and you could only adjust his altitude. Mega Man 8 nerfed Rush Jet even further by scripting his appearances — he shows up in stages designed for him, and Mega Man can't summon him anywhere else. Don't feel bad for Rush, though. He's always getting new modes to play with. The Mega Buster was nerfed in 5 such that Mega Man loses his charge if he takes a hit (although it had a larger radius). Then Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 came along and nerfed the Buster and the slide move clear out of existence (and Protoman's version was pretty horrendous)! Fortunately, Mega Man 11 not only brought both of them back but also had a purchasable upgrade that increased the charge shot's size, allowing it to hit enemies a lot easier. Mega Man X did this with two (technically three) armor sets that were carried over between games. Justified In-Universe by the fact they weren't the original armors, but imperfect recreations created by Alia. Due to both damage taken and the fact the armors are over a century old and designed by Dr. Light, they couldn't be fully replicated, but really it was for balancing purposes since they had become the new starting armor sets. X5 made the Fourth Armor of X4 lose its Nova Strike attack and reduce its helmet's ability by gutting its Bottomless Magazines for special weapons for a reduction in energy usage of 50% for special weapons. Justified because that game also had a time stop weapon. Imagine having unlimited time stops. Less justified was reducing the Plasma Shot's stationary plasma balls down to one. X6 in turn made the Falcon Armor of X5 almost next to useless. It loses its utterly broken invincible flight mode (simply having an air dash) and its charged shot could no longer pierce through walls. One consolation prize is that now you could charge special weapons with it. The Ultimate Armor from X4, being basically the Fourth Armor and only accessible via inputted code, got hit with a similar nerf as the Fourth Armor in X5 (although it kept the Nova Strike and was actually accessible in-game rather than needing a code). Surprisingly, it didn't get hit with further nerfs in X6 (aside from going back to needing a code to access). Even other characters see the occasional nerfing. Bass has lost his charged shot as of Mega Man & Bass (he got multidirectional machine-gun fire instead — great for levels, not great for bosses). Zero's buster was originally his main weapon but was replaced by his Z-Saber in X4 to differentiate him from X. In X5 it was a Power Up Letdown due to slow rate of fire, weak damage, and the fact he couldn't move while shooting (plus, it was technically optional and choosing it denied X his Fourth Armor, meaning it was all but encouraged to abandon it), while X6 actually buffed its damage and fire rate, but it never appeared again afterwards.
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Nerf / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing has had nerfings, as with any game of its type, but it also makes fun of the concept with the "foam dart" item, which can be used on any player to give them the "Nerf'd" condition. The condition prints messages that makes it sound like you're doing less damage and getting less item drops, but it doesn't in fact actually do anything.
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Nerf / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Many cards are nerfed in the transition from manga and anime to real life cards. One of the most infamous examples is Card of Sanctity. In the anime, it allowed a player to draw until they had 6 cards in their hand (the legal hand size limit). To put that in perspective, Konami banned a card that allowed a player to draw 2 cards while this one would have allowed a player to draw up to six. Instead of just not releasing it, Konami made it so that you have to remove everything you controlled (hand and field) from play, and only draw 2. The most infamous ones are the God Cards, which plays a huge role in the next arc (Battle City). While Obelisk The Tormentor can tribute summon 2 monsters to destroy all your opponent's monsters and immediately attack, sacrificing 2 monsters will skip your attack phase. Slifer The Sky Dragon affects either attack or defense, depending on the position; the real-life only affects the attack regardless. The Winged Dragon of Ra is a whole different level of abuse; In real life, this card cannot be special summoned, making it the hardest Egyptian God Card to play. Also, its effect is also nerfed in a bigger way than Slifer and Obelisk's. Ra's Phoenix does not destroy all monsters, but only one. And it's impossible to use the Point-to-Point-Transfer effect after using the Phoenix Mode. Most cards were just banned instead of nerfed though. The only time cards are genuinely nerfed is when the cards are mistranslated, like with "Bazoo the Soul-Eater", "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer", and "Skull Lair". Their very powerful effects were very easy to activate, kinda similar to the two Chaos envoys though not as powerful. However, the envoys were banned whereas these two cards were changed. Ironically, many people did not use "Skull Lair" despite it being broken since it was only a common card. Starting in 2011 in OCG and 2012 TCG, Konami has removed the priority rule that supported Ignition effects. Before, you could immediately use the effects of a card that allows you to use their effects immediately. Now, you can no longer use their effects immediately upon summon, so responding to a summon with cards like Bottomless Trap Hole and Torrential Tribute destroy the monster before the player was able to use their effects. Previously banned cards like Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, Chaos Sorcerer, Tribe-Infecting Virus, and Rescue Cat would eventually get unbanned as a result. Starting in late 2014, Konami has begun to nerf long time banned cards so that they can be brought back. Such cards currently include Ring of Destructionnote Can only be used during the opponent's turn and on a monster whose ATK is equal to or less than the opponent's LP; forces the player who activated it to take the damage first, which can lead to a loss if the destroyed monster's ATK is higher than the player's., Crush Card Virusnote No longer lingers for three turns as the opponent chooses which three monsters to destroy in their Deck; also prevents the opponent from taking damage during the turn it is used., Exchange of the Spiritnote Can only be used if the opponent also has 15 or more cards in the Graveyard; can only be used once per Duel., Temple of the Kingsnote Each of its effects can only be used once per turn; the Summoned Extra Deck monster is limited to Fusion Monsters., Sinister Serpentnote Another Sinister Serpent must be banished from the Graveyard during the opponent's next End Phase., Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the Endnote All card effects CANNOT be activated the turn the field and hand wipe effect is activated., and Dark Magician of Chaosnote Spell-recycling effect can only be used once per turn.. Rarely, this trope is inverted. For example, the "Meklord Emperor" cards, which in the anime were rather clunky 5-card monstrosities that could only be summoned if a special "Core" monster card was destroyed by a card effect, became 1-card monsters which can be summoned when any monster on your field is destroyed by a card effect outside of the Damage Step.
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Nerf / int_f5a661a6	comment	Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous: Arueshalae's starting stats are significantly reduced compared to her statblock in the tabletop campaign due to her becoming a member of the Player Party in this adaptation. On the tabletop, the Hellknight Signifier is one of the better spellcaster Prestige Classes, since its Catechesis feature directly addresses (for cleric, inquisitor, and oracle entrants) the most common issue with prestige classes in Pathfinder: missing out on too much of the base class's major features (a consequence of Paizo's efforts while reworking Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition to mitigate Empty Levels). The implementation in Wrath of the Righteous leaves this feature out, essentially costing a Signifier half their class levels in everything but spellcasting unless they raise the level cap via the Legend mythic path or a Game Mod.
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Nerf / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria introduced the Molotov Cocktail back in version 1.2.4: all you needed was some silk, a torch, and 10 mugs of ale—stuff you could craft right in the beginning of the game, with materials you could find anywhere in huge quantities—and you had a high-powered, area-of-effect explosive that (unlike the bombs and grenades) didn't hurt you in the slightest. With a handful of Molotov Cocktails, you easily could clear out a spider's nest or deal with the pre-Hardmode bosses with no problems whatsoever. Version 1.3.0.1 added pink gel to the recipe—a drop from a rare monster spawn—and scaled the damage back from 40 to 23.
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Nerf / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes: "Enhancement Diversification" ("ED"). Pre-ED, you could enhance a given characteristic (damage, accuracy, etc.) of a superpower up to six times for the same cumulative boost (Totaling a tripling of the power's statistic in some areas, doubling with defensive powers). With ED, players started seeing a loss of returns at around the third enhancement (doubled effect for most offensive effects, about a 60% boost for defensive effects), in order to encourage players to spread the wealth around and enhance different characteristics. Naturally, a lot of strategies that relied on powers being pushed to their limits or breaking the game no longer worked. Later, Invention Enhancements were introduced; they could circumvent the limitations of ED in a variety of interesting ways, often resulting in characters much more highly customized and/or powerful than they were before ED with clever slotting. The Devs claimed this was the point behind previous nerfs; they needed to make the absurdly powerful heroes weaker to enable them to do neat things to power them up again. Prior to ED, the Regeneration powerset had been significantly reduced in effectiveness at least once every update. This reduced it from ridiculous, allowing the DPSer to absorb more damage than the tank, to merely very good. And not too long before ED, there was a rather more straightforward nerf to nearly all defensive powers, officially described as a Global Defense Reduction. The lone upside of all this was almost all the defensive powers were reworked so that they stacked. At around the same time, agro limits and AoE target caps were introduced. Before, one could herd/damage every enemy on a map, provided they stayed in range. Now, you cannot damage, mez, or affect more than 16 foes with the most massive AE power (caps usually range from 5-12 on most powers, though), and a single player cannot have more than 16 AI trained on him/her. (This can actually be an advantage in extraordinarily large fights).
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Nerf / int_fab472d2	comment	Dark Souls: At launch, one of the best piece of armor with the best defense:weight ratio was the Antiquated Skirt. The result of this is that Rainbow Pimp Gear was in full effect, and you'd see players (including male ones) rolling around in a dress while wearing armor over their head, hands, and legs. The defense values for the Skirt was nerfed later. The Dark Wood Grain Ring turns your roll into a cartwheel that's faster and had more invincibility frames. It used to require you to be at under 50% encumberance to use, and the roll is a significant improvement over the "medium" roll, so it was just one of the many crutch items min-maxed builds used to stomp PvP with. It was nerfed to require under 25% encumberance. In Dark Souls 2, the pyromancy Flame Swathe was massively nerfed. At one point it could One-Hit Kill Darklurker, but after the patch, it did a fraction of the damage and the casting time was increased, making it easy to dodge. Dark Souls 3 has the Fume Ultra Greatsword (FUGS). It was considered one of the strongest weapons in the game, and delivered a ridiculous amount of damage. A patch reduced it's base damage from 330 to 260, significantly depowering it. This made PvP much easier, as the weapon was notorious for two-hit killing players.
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Nerf / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Left 4 Dead: The VS mode. People who play as the survivors would usually huddle together and spam their melee attack if they got mobbed by the infected. This prevented players using Hunters from being able to pounce on them without being shoved off. A patch now adds a fatigue effect to the survivor's melee attacks; survivors have to wait at least 1 or 2 seconds before being able to melee again. Another patch also reduced the damage done by the special infected in VS in order to keep the game balanced. Another changed the Hunter doing much more damage when on fire in VS to reducing the increased damage and only applying it to fire created by the Survivors. Also not that the issue above was addressed in the sequel by allowing the stunable specials to get a free swipe at you when you shove them. It happens most often when you intercept a pounce and on harder difficulties causes a lot of damage that is near impossible to avoid. When Survival mode was released, people started to get insane times, thus earning medals too easily, by using exploits (such as hiding in the corner of a wall or the like). To counter this, Valve released updates that corrected the problems by placing a random object like a soda machine in spots where people were abusing the exploits. Additionally, in the sequel, getting to a place that was impossible for the Infected to get to in Survival would cause the director to fill the entire floor with Spitter acid. While Valve does nerf things in VS and Survival to make things balanced, they don't touch the campaign mode so that people could exploit all they want. Most likely because it is a co-op game with zombies running after you and the players are not fighting against other players. The sequel applies the melee cooldown to all modes for the sequel (except for melee weapons) and max ammo capacity for the shotgun and hunting rifle is reduced from the first game. Additionally, three new Infected were introduced into the sequel with the stated purpose of making the defensive tactics developed by players in the first game less effective, along with staged events that demanded forward movement, as opposed to the "hit the button and hold out for 45 seconds" events of the first game. The sequel also nerfed the damage Witches do to you. In the first game, a Witch can kill you in about 3-5 seconds while the sequel has her take about 10 seconds to kill. This is assuming you are not playing on Expert or Realism, where the Witch will just kill you in one strike instead. A patch in the sequel nerfed damage done to Tanks with melee weapons. Originally, a melee weapon would do 10% damage per hit to a Tank, thus you could take a Tank down in 10 hits, which could be REALLY fast if everyone does it. This caused tons of frustration in VS where a Tank player could be quickly killed because everyone is running circles around him and smacking him with a frying pan. The patch now makes melee weapons do only 5% damage to a Tank or 20 hits to kill, so now players are better off running and gunning a Tank. Spitters used to be able to incap or kill the whole survivor team by spitting acid into an elevator right before the survivors closed the door. This would kill or cripple the entire team while the survivors could do nothing about it while being trapped in a moving elevator. A patch changed the acid pool effect in elevators where it now fades a lot faster so survivors would have a fighting chance. Shotgun ammo reserves were 128 shells in the first game and were heavily nerfed to 56 rounds for tier 1 shotguns and 90 rounds for tier 2 shotguns in the sequel. The Last Stand update would buff tier 1 shotgun ammo to 72 rounds.
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Nerf / int_fe85bfc8	comment	The Super Smash Bros. series (and, indeed, fighting games in general) gets a bit of flak for this, since their preferred tactic for balancing characters is to weaken or strengthen the power/effectiveness of attacks, rather than balance the characters through speed, ability to combo/be combo'd, or attack changes. Pants Are Overrated "Ness, or the Woes of Change" (2009-05-26) illustrates Ness being knocked down a few tiers from N64 to Melee. Thankfully, Smash 4 has done a lot to buff characters overall (even Game-Breaker Meta Knight got a few buffs on top of several nerfs), but it made a major system-based nerf on ledge grabbing. Not only is it far less effective in denying recovery, it also removed ledge invincibility abuse that was common in Brawl. What would have you auto-grab a ledge in Brawl will likely result in eating a Smash attack during your ascent if you don't space your recovery right.
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Far Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Far Cry: New Dawn (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fargo's Mod (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Farming Simulator (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy III (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy VI Brave New World (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy XI (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem Engage (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem Gaiden (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem: Vision Quest (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fire Emblem Warriors (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Five Nights at Fuckboy's (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fortnite (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Forza (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Fossil Fighters (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Foxhole (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Friday Night Funkin' - Childhood Memories (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Friday Night Funkin': The Origami King (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Gaia's Melody (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Girls' Frontline (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Goose Goose Duck (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Grand Chase (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Guilty Gear XX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Half-Life (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo 3: ODST (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo 5: Guardians (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Helldivers II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hollow Knight (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
HoloCure (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Horizon Forbidden West (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Horn of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
HuniePop 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hunt: Showdown (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
IDOLA: Phantasy Star Saga (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Icewind Dale (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Improbable Island (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
inFAMOUS 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
item asylum (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Judgement Silversword (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Jurassic World: The Game (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Killing Floor (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Killzone (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage- (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kirby: Planet Robobot (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kirby: Revenge of Dream Land (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kirby: Triple Deluxe (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Knuckles' Chaotix (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LEGO Adaptation Game (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LISA: The Pointless - Scholar of the Wilbur Sin (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
La-Mulana 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Left 4 Dead (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Legends of Runeterra (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LEGO Batman (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LEGO Batman Trilogy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LEGO Dimensions (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
LEGO Star Wars (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Lost Ark (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Lost Judgment (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Luminous Avenger iX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Luminous Avenger iX 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
M.U.G.E.N (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mafia Wars (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Manic Miners (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario & Luigi (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Gives Up (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart 8 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart DS (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart Tour (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Kart Wii (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Party (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mario Strikers (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Marvel Heroes (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Max Payne 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man 6 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network 3: White and Blue (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team ProtoMan (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar and Cybeast Falzar (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Revolution (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man Rock Force (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man X5 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mega Man ZX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Megadimension Neptunia VII (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Gear Solid V (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Slug (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metal Slug Defense (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Meteos (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metroid Dread (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metroid Prime Trilogy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metroid: Samus Returns (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Metroid: Zero Mission (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Minecraft Dungeons (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Monster Hunter: Rise (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mushihime-sama (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Mushroom Kingdom Fusion (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
My Little Pony (Gameloft) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Need for Speed Unbound (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
NetHack (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Neverwinter Nights (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ninja Gaiden (2004) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ninja Gaiden II (2008) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Octopath Traveler II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ōkamiden (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
100% Orange Juice! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Orcs Must Die! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ordinator — Perks of Skyrim (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Origin Realms (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PAYDAY 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PAYDAY: The Heist (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PMEX Remix (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Painkiller (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Paper Mario: Dark Star Edition (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PAYDAY 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Peglin (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Persona 3 Reload (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Persona 5 Strikers (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Phantasy Star Online 2es (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Phantom Doctrine (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pharaoh (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pikmin 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pikmin 4 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pinball FX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Plague Inc. (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PlanetSide (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Plants vs. Zombies 2 Reflourished (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pocket Card Jockey (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Black and White (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokemon Blue Kaizo (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon Brown and Prism (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Clover (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Empire (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Squad (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokemon Quarantine Crystal (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Radical Red (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Red and Blue (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon Shuffle (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Stadium (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
PokÃ©mon Unbound (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Pokémon X and Y (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Poker Night 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Power Pro-kun Pocket 8 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Puchiguru! Love Live! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Punch-Out!! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Puyo Puyo Tetris (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Puzzle & Dragons (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Quake III: Arena (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Quest: Brian's Journey (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
RWBY: Amity Arena (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Raiden (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Resident Evil 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Resident Evil 2 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Resident Evil 4 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Resident Evil (Remake) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Resident Evil Village (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rhythm Heaven (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Richman (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
RimWorld (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Risk of Rain 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
River City Girls Zero (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rock Band Blitz (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rockman 4 Minus âˆž (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rogue Squadron (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rune Factory 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rune Factory 5 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rune Factory Frontier (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
SD Gundam G Generation (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
SPV3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sacred Earth - Alternative (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Saints Row IV (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Satisfactory (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shadowverse (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shin Megami Tensei Liberation: Dx2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shin Megami Tensei V (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shining Force II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shiren the Wanderer (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Shovel Knight (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Silent Hill 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
60 Seconds! (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Something (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Generations (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Mania (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Riders (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Robo Blast 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Persona (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Rush (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sonic Superstars (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sons of the Forest (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Spelunky (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Spider-Man: The Movie (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Spiral Knights (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Splatoon 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Control (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Trek: Elite Force (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Wars: Battlefront (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Wars: Battlefront II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Star Wars: Masters of TerÃ¤s KÃ¤si (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
StarCraft II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Stick War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Street Fighter II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Street Fighter III (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Streets of Rage (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Sun Haven (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Castlevania IV (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Kirby Clash (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario 3D Land (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario 64 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario Bros. 3Mix (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario Bros 5 Reborn (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Mario World (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Monkey Ball (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars 30 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars BX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars: Original Generation (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars T (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars UX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars V (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars W (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars X (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Super Robot Wars Z (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Supre Smesh Bras (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Supreme Commander (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Supreme Commander 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Swords and Sandals (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
System Shock (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Crew (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Crew (2014) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Darkness (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Denpa Men (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Division 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Elder Scrolls Online (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Finals (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The King of Fighters 2002 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The King of Fighters XI (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Last of Us Part II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Dark Witch (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The XCOM Files (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
They Hunger (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
30XX (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Thrawn's Revenge (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Tiger Knight: Empire War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Time Crisis (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Tomb Raider Chronicles (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Tomb Raider III (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Total War: Attila (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Total War: Warhammer II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Touhou Gensokyo ~ Lotus Land Story (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Touken Ranbu (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Transformice (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Transport Tycoon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Typical Colors 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
U.N. Squadron (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ultima Online (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ultra Custom Night (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Under Mine (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Unicorn Overlord (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Unleash the Light (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Unreal (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Valkyria Chronicles III (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Viva Piñata (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
WWF No Mercy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
War Thunder (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wargroove (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wargroove 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wario Land (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wasteland 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Watch Dogs: Legion (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Wipeout (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
World War Z (2019) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Worms (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
XCOM: Long War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
X-COM (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
X-Men Legends II (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yoshi's Island (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yoshi's Island DS (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Z (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Zeno Clash 2 (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Zombie Stories (Roblox) (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Zone of the Enders (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
EverQuest II / Videogame / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Five Nights at Fuckboy's / Videogame	seeAlso	Nerf
Lost Planet / Videogame / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Rogue Legacy (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Silent Storm (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Splatoon (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Tetris / Videogame / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
ULTRAKILL (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twinkle Crusaders (Visual Novel) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Fedora Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon: Arena (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Inverse White (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Chatty Crystal (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Vega (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Vietnamese Crystal (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon White 2 (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Twitch Plays Touhoumon & Moemon (Web Video) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Dork Tower (Webcomic) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Smogon (Website) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Superman: The Animated Series / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Money in the Bank (Wrestling) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Property Damage / Fan Fic / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Age of Mythology (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf

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