After checking out some other characters and translations, it looks like "Time has been increased rigidity of the technique," definitely refers to execution speed, in this case it's been slowed down. By how much is still to be determined. Still unsure what, "Was short, the timing of the attack roll," means as I've only seen it on Dragunov's page.
Similarly "Early decision was the timing of the attack," doesn't seem to appear on any other character's page (for the ones I've checked). I've looked at about 20 and all of them seem to be pretty clear what they mean, even with the poor auto-translations, but "Early decision was the timing of the attack" still evades me.
Edit: Finally found one in King's page. Went over to the King forums and they're discussing
4. WS+2,2?: haven't tried yet. looks like it's faster now. hopefully it's now safe
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7. quicker recovery from crouch grabs or quicker execution
But then later someone says "it is quicker execution of crouch throws, and TS damage isnt very noticeable~ probably +6 damage. ws+2,2 thought it was better on block, not it being faster?" and someone agrees with him, but from what I've seen the word "guard" has to be in the sentence (specifically "Increase the rigidity of the technique was time when it was guard") to refer to guard frames.
I am leaning toward "Early decision was the timing of the attack" meaning some type of execution speed though as throws have universal frame data and only differ on impact speed. So it would seem 1+2 is now faster but does less damage, a good change.
Explanation 2: Looking at more examples, it might mean "Time has been increased rigidity of the technique" means it's worse on block
but safe and "Increase the rigidity of the technique was time when it was guard" means it's worse on block and
not safe. Which is a really messed up way of describing things when the actual values aren't explicitly stated, instead is being hinted at. I personally hope that this isn't what it means, but who knows, this is just my second explanation/guess.
Last edited by tyler2k on Mar 30th, 2012 at 00:03