I heard the netcode is pretty bad and its not worth trying to get good at unless you have a local scene to play with
unfortunately I dont have one
Is it better to stick to AE and maybe try to pick up skull girls or something on PC ?
No.
Is it better to stick to AE and maybe try to pick up skull girls or something on PC ?
I would say no too because of the online. The net code can be perfect one day and the next it’s retarded. If you can find buddies that will continue to play with you, more power to you. If you want to play a Marvel vs Capcom game but decide to avoid UMvC 3, you can pick up Skullgirls as it plays like MvC 2.
What matters is that if that’s the experience you’re going to play under, do you enjoy it? If you enjoy playing it strictly online and enjoy having success there then got for it. Don’t expect it to translate to offline success should you choose to try that out. This isn’t really a question anyone else can answer for you. It’s about how much you value the experience.
That being said playing AE or Skull Girls PC might be more rewarding because the experience is at least closer to the game that everyone else is playing offline.
if you only plan to play it online, then become a good online marval player. ALL fighting games online suck compared to offline, and Marval net code isnt any worse than most other games. plus you there may be enough players in the area to create a scene. Every serious AE player I know stops playing online before a tournament. WHat console are you playing on?
Not at all. This game’s online is shit.
Only play it online if you have players on your friend list that live IN YOUR STATE, and even then make sure you or/and they have a good internet connection, and play low latency stages only. IF You do all that you should be okay, but make sure you know your dumbed down simple but damaging combos, so you can always have that go to combo that does not have strict timing( Lol it’s marvel 3, what strict timing) to go to incase you have a bit of lag. ( which you probably will)
Ehh, Skull Girls… cough* KoF XIII Steam Edition
No
Online is garbage. If you rely on matchmaking, you’ll be shit out of luck, as you’ll be paired up with record resetters and people 4-5 ranks above you, even if you set the rank limit to “same.”
I will have to say, though, it’s not too terrible if you’re playing people near you (in state, etc.) that you know have good connections.
^Yes. The VHS crew that spawned Cloud805 all played online and all in California; I’ve played Cloud before from all the way in Oregon and the connection was fine. I imagine it’s even better among their group. Likewise, 95% of the connections I get in Japan are amazing; makes sense since it’s even smaller and tighter-packed than Cali. Plenty of strong players train online too.
That said, all these guys make a point of playing offline as well. I think you can become a good player if you make the effort to go to events at least sometimes.
Stick to AE, get KOF, Tekken or Killer Instinct.
It’s not worth trying to get good at any game if you’re only gonna play online.
Don’t listen to these guys, the game is fine online if you have a good connection. Sometimes you get laggy games but then you simply don’t replay that person. Friend people on or above your skill level that you have good connections with and you’re gold. The people who say the net code is shit are the same people who say every games net code is shit. Stick with good connections and it’s not an issue.
Online is a great place to up your game with all the different strategies and competition at your fingertips. Look at evo last year, everybody was bustin that guy clouds balls for bein an online warrior, talking and laughing about it the whole time and then he beats the previous years winner. A lot of training mode and a lot of online with good opponents and good connections can go a long way.
You don’t get any money or championships by playing just online, so a few dropped combos or BS losses due to lag or something isn’t the end of the world like these guys make it out to be. You know if you drop a combo or something due to lag, as long as you understand, its not gonna get to you. With good connections, its very rare. The experience you get from having so many different challengers and play styles is invaluable.
the amount of sheer ignorance in this thread gives me 0 hope for this community.
anyone who says this game is good online doesn’t know how the online works from a technical perspective. umvc3 works online by DELAYING your inputs SEVERELY. Not only is the delay quite severe but it the amount of delay isn’t set, its a variable that fluctuates 100’s of times a round. So for a group of 10f the game may only lag for 6f but the next group of 10f, it will lag 8f. No one can play this game with that shit going on…
the best fiber optic network will NOT allow you to play this game online outside of Japan. It doesn’t matter what grade of internet you have. The internet is the “gas” of the game, the actual “motor” is the net-code. You can stick grade A racing fuel, great internet connection like fiber optic, in the tiny scooter motor that is this games net-code and it will be barely an increase. For this game to be great online, it needs a stronger “motor” or net-code and that is available in GGPO. If current umvc3 online is a scooter motor, I would liken GGPO to like a v8 twin turbo motor. Its just so much more powerful that it shits on the latter.
all games online need GGPO or a GGPO clone because it mimicks offline play the closest thus teaching players how to actually play as they would in tourney.
the cloud805 example isn’t very good. If it were, you would see multiple online players succeeding in tournament play and you just don’t see that for this game. The reason being is that online tactics really don’t have a fundamental place in the offline tournament world when GGPO isn’t involved. You see lot of online players succeed in fps\rts because the use a GGPO type net-code that allows them to approach the game from a competitive stand point.
Online is inconsistent trash but I could spend forever in training mode.
How does 360’s netcode for UMvC3 compare to 360’s AE netcode and Injustice netcode?
I’d rebuff some of that stuff shoultz, but I guess I have to hold that Japan privilege. It is considerably more consistent than the American connections.
If you want to play a Marvel vs. Capcom game on your console that has good netcode, stick to Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
No one plays mvc2 anymore and you can’t be a beginner on it at all. If you do find someone to play, they’ll crush you in 5 seconds.