The sole point of a stress test is to test the online servers. Why would they include an offline mode?

Well to be fair they enabled tower before the end. Having practice mode would of been fine.

Anyways one thing new to address.... Scorpions misery blade needs to be nerfed and here's why... This game has a focus on the neutral game which is really a good thing. With a proper neutral design in the game it helps create balance as well as creates a proper barriers between varying skill levels. The issue with Scorpions misery blade is that it basically creates a frame trap because of the plus frames on block. In my experience against it, mainly using Skarlet, there is nothing you can do as guarantee punish. Best option seemed to me to back dash after block then try to counter the pressure. However you can easily end up in the corner in this game and that takes away the back dash obviously so you're just stuck in a frame trap in the corner with really only wakeup option a being you're only hope. Maybe good one time use interactables on some stages. Fatal Blow with right timing can work but that just isn't practical either. So in the corner you must rely on wakeup game to get out of pressure unless they have user error and you then punish.... The problem with this isn't that its too strong, though it is, but rather that it is basically anti-neutral going against the grain of the intended design. With that said I hope and actually expect them to need misery blade. And it easily can be nerfed to take away the frame trap yet still have its main function of being safe on block and an option for Scorpion to play very safely and still have decently strong game still with a nerf of misery blade.

I'm interested in others thoughts on this, I may make a new thread for this specific topic unless discussion picks up here.

I take it there was no training mode for the stress test but has it been said there won't be a training mode for the beta? I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything. The stress test and beta are two separate things so I fully expected the stress test to be bare.

After they got all the data they needed regarding the servers - which they would've wanted as many people as possible to be using at the same time. Having half the testers pratting around in training mode wouldn't have "stress tested" anything.

As for all the other issues - this could very well be an older build of the game and all those issues might've been dealth with already. Again, the only thing that mattered for this is the stability of the servers.