Old Brawl

What specifically do you want to see changed?

 

Easier said than done. It is very easy to get rid of the attack cooldowns and we can get blocking working like normal very easily (it just won't have any visual cues that someone's blocking), but in 1.9 there's hitbox changes, and in later versions knockback and range is calculated differently. It is possible to simulate 1.8.9 PvP in 1.14.2, but it would be difficult to do accurately. We already simulate 1.7.10 PvP on Brawl and it isn't perfect, and the change between 1.14.2 and 1.8.9 is much bigger.

There would also need to be some other changes added so the meta doesn't change too much. End crystal PvP honestly doesn't appeal much to me and I think it would change the meta way too much. Due to soup, totems won't be very useful (especially given how rare they are - they're not renewable, so there'd be as many totems as there would be woodland mansions), but this could easily be fixed by buffing them or adding totems as KOTH rewards.

You'd also be able to kite a lot easier with elytras and fireworks, which would not be ideal. Bows and levitation arrows would also let people kite fairly easily. Enchanted golden apples are no longer renewable. Chorus fruits would allow you to find bases much, much more easily. Ravagers are very difficult to fight without shields (which would most likely be removed to replicate 1.8.9 combat), and this could be abused in fights. Phantoms would make surviving the night a lot more difficult for new players with low armour, especially since they won't be able to sleep and skip the night, so phantoms will always be spawning at night. As far as I can tell, these are all the non-combat related changes which would have to be mitigated.

Then there's also the 2 unavoidable disadvantages of upgrading to 1.14.2 - people who play 1.8.9 servers will have to change versions to play on our server, and our current players would have to adapt to 6 major updates all at once. The difference between 1.8.9 and 1.14.2 is the same as the difference between 1.8.9 and 1.2.5, which is huge.

 

To be fair, it's not the community's fault that Mojang messed up the combat update. They've already confirmed that an upcoming version is going to be reworking the combat, and it's the only time ever Mojang has had to rework an update like this. They haven't had to completely scratch the Nether and start again because the Nether updates were bad, and they haven't had to completely scratch Oceans and start again because the Aquatic Update was bad - the new combat update will be the very first time they've ever had to rework things added in full releases of the game.

 

everything, just like he said old survival pvp. Just change it to spvp and more popular server

 

Why is the name so important to you?