r/CompetitiveMinecraft • u/Catmaster23910 • 7h ago
Discussion Would mcpvp really be better off without the 1.9 combat update?
I still remember when 1.9 came out and it was praised by the majority of the Minecraft playerbase except for Minecraft pvpers, I still remember the pvp community panicking on how its the end of pvp as we know it while general survival players thought it was a very good update. Servers like hypixel never updated past to 1.8.9 to this day, and the minigame servers who updated to 1.9 like Cubecraft just died.
1.8 was considered as the default if you wanna pvp back then, the current modern pvp scene only blew up very recently.
But I wonder, what if Mojang never changed the combat system? Most 1.9 features like the elytra, end cities, and shields would still exist but the game would still have Spam click pvp. The closest example to this would be modern bedrock but with 1.8 combat features like blocking.
The 1.7/1.8 comp scene back then was actually thriving, Badlion even partnered with ESL and we even had the talent to be an actual esport (Danteh for example was so good that he ended up becoming an OW pro instead). PvP would have had more years to evolve instead of starting again from zero after 1.9 and the community wouldn't be this divided, and a lot of servers would have updated past 1.8.9
Just think of how pvp would have evolved. What do you guys think?