Quit reminding me. D’:
The GameSpy servers only handle the matchmaking and after that it is peer to peer right? How much of this could be blamed on GS?
The 20-minute matchmaking times certainly could be!
I’m not 100% convinced it’s balanced, but without a stable competitive environment online it’s impossible to judge. Even without discernible input lag, the online is just much slower than offline. You can tell the difference when the round starts: offline it’s almost instant that you can start moving, online there’s a huge pause before you can act and noone can adjust to it. Perhaps they just poured a ton of molasses into the netcode, but something’s not right.
So ‘robust, fully featured and lag free’ translates as old netcode from DC implemented before they put everything into the game hosted by crap servers (presumably not owned by WB, if they ever host their own games).
What are the odds of any of this changing anytime soon? Slim to none I’d say. Given that the only person it seems with any insight into what the hell is going on is some guy called Tom Brady that doesn’t even work for NRS and just plays MK a whole lot.
This is pathetic. Still nothing from NRS themselves. I guess turkeys really do vote for christmas.
Well, when you’re in a lobby you are still listed in the player list, only with a ‘vs’ icon, the same if you’re in KoH. So you must still be on the server in order for it to show you as present in the lobby as well as your status. You don’t leave the lobby and return after the match ends. But i’m no expert.
Played online with a friend whos close by. there was like 10 frames of input delay. Its unbelievable at how bad it is. All we could do was random shit and hope it landed. I honestly don’t know how they fucked it up this bad.
Least I know I still can’t trust Midway/NRS with anything so I’ll just be skipping the next game they put out.
Apparently the only reason why the older mk’s had a decent netcode was because they actually modified the moves online to compensate, making it a completely different game in the process, the netcode’s not worse the decent net code of the older titles was just an illusion, what a fucking joke…
I am going to have to start complaining with my wallet, as long as we let these stupid commercial developers get away with this shit they will keep doing it, until fighters are a thing of the past once again.
The ultimate insult is if you buy this game second hand they make you pay another ten bux for this shit.
Lol, you say this like Tom Brady is just some random dude.
I think ghost is a troll. I tried explaining TB to him before.
Or maybe it’s because this generation of gamers are too lazy to research anything, and only take info that is spelled out for them.
I haven’t been able to try the netcode yet, but what the hell.
If they’re charging for online passes I’d expect to see less complaints than this…
Here’s all you need to know. I consider MvC3 online to be basically hopeless considering the fluctuating input lag, the lack of reaction blocking, the inability to punish.
I would pay NRS another ten dollars right now for a patch that made it reach that low standard.
TLDR
MvC3 Online: Closing your fingers in a drawer.
MK Online: Closing your genitals in a drawer.
LOL at TOm Brady actually telling people to stop whining about this games fuck terrible Netcode, and instead go out and join or start a MK scene…There’s no school children here that need to be told to go outside and play "with the other children. There’s grown adults playing this game in their spare time when they have a few hours to themselves.
And telling people to leave the online at home and go out to play people face to face is the wrong advice. Fighitng games need to be brought to the future where other Genres have been for the last fifteen years. Not taken back to the past…
This whole post screams awesomeness.
He’s becoming too much of an apologist for NRS to take his opinion on things seriously outside of straight game discussion. It’s kind of sad, someone should tell him that friends tell friends the truth.
Really Tom Brady is not being realistic here. So in order to enjoy a game I have to start a scene in my area and meat up with people to play? Is that what it takes to enjoy a game at a competent level? I can’t say it’s worth it to me anymore. I used to go to gatherings and tournaments but things are different now. It’s not my number 1 priority but it’s a hobby of mine and I do have a love for fighting games/gaming in general. I have other things I like to do but when I get home I like to be able to have some comp online. I don’t have this problem in any other fighting game if the distance is reasonable unless your name is marvel 3. Everything else is 100% playable at pretty high levels as long as it’s withing NY for me.
Totally agreed. TB is basically saying “this game is awesome, stop complaining that one of the major selling points isn’t at all functional!” A tournament ready game doesn’t have issues like updates only being accessible if connected to XBL, player 1 always having frame advantage, and the worst netcode seen outside of a SNK title.
People were in a uproar that it took a minute to find matches in MvC3, this is 1000x worse.
The video he put out about the game’s netcode is ridiculous. I don’t give a shit who he is or who he thinks he is, that video is dumb.
That said, I listened to him on that Alphaism podcast and he seemed like a much more level-headed guy there, so maybe he just comes across the wrong way in the video he put up.
Difference is, people are gonna try to find every excuse for MK because people hate Capcom that much. The reality is, both are bad, both shouldn’t be played, and if it weren’t for the fact I’m really against selling back any of my games (I always end up regretting selling or trading back a game…never fails…) MK and MvC3 AND SSF4 wouldn’t be here right now…
Tom Brady has done more for our sport than most other players will ever do. I know some people think its cool to hate on Tom Brady because of all the success he’s had throughout the years, but you really need to ask yourself one simple question. What other player in his position, has done more for the other players than a Tom Brady has done? I think we can all learn from Tom Brady, and become better players for it.
so can we stop all the hate please? and just play some, Mortal Kombat!!!