The matchmaking sucks. Itâs very basic and just tries to match you with whoever.
Donât play any matches with less than 3 to 4 bars. You live in Edmonton, which is kind of far away from everyone else. Lag happens and you should find the best connections available to minimize it. Send friend request to people in your geographical vicinity, or people you play who donât lag too much. If someoneâs on an improperly configured wireless connection or torrenting pr0n, youâre going to get unusual lag spikes in your match.
Youâre going to rage even harder if you keep playing Ranked Mode. Avoid it if you can. Player matches are where itâs at on the PC version, as you can find someone with a good connection, get in multiple rounds until youâre pooped, then move on. Also, people are more likely to accept friend request when arbitrary point values arenât on the line.
I think itâs because not many people play on the PC. I would agree with the player matches suggestion and say aim for a 4 bar connection, but 3 bars isnât always so bad. Iâve never been able to play a 5 bar connection for very long. I always get booted for skill level differences, so donât get your hopes up if you see one (actually, about half the time either the other player doesnât select âreadyâ or boots me before we even play. I donât get it.). Iâve also found that creating a lobby somehow gets you better connections. Might just be a coincidence, though.
Whatâs worse than bad connections is when people play on slow computers and the game crawls. I donât understand how people can enjoy playing the game at half speed. You canât even tell if someone has a slow computer until you play them.
SF4 on the PC is my first fighting game, and at first I was having trouble beating anyone. If youâre in the same situation, Iâd suggest trying G3 championship mode out. The connections wonât be any better, but at least youâll be scraping the bottom of the barrel for players. Every once in a while youâll run into someone who doesnât belong there, but the majority of the matches should be of pretty low quality (lol). Itâll change once you hit G2, so youâll have to work a little bit more for those wins if you continue in CM. But just getting some wins in G3 is nice for the self-esteem when youâre starting out.
I didnât suggest playing championship mode to find oodles of players. I actually suggested player matches for simply finding games. I suggested CM if heâs new and is having trouble getting wins. There are people playing it, but you might have to play arcade mode to pass the time when finding a game after you win a few in a row.
U like wide generalization?
In my area (Europe) champ mode on pc is pretty densely populated and there also is a good competition. There are rarely some that really âspam stupid shitâ. And if, how do you know if the topicstarter will learn to deal whit that âreally fastâ, too?
So please donât generalize that much, itâs just your unique opinion.