That’s somewhat annoying but it kind of makes sense since it’s supposed to be a ranking match and you shouldn’t be picking your battles, I guess. I recall all fighters but SF4 doing that.
Still, I hope they try to match you with decent connections, or at least that the game is somewhat playable in 2~3 bars.
cvs2, hsf2, and 3s on the original xbox allowed you to pick who you fought. They should at least just show you a list of connection bars then have you choose that way.
Hey, do you have to unlock any characters like Akuma or Ogre?
No fighters unlock, all are playable from them start.
a friend of mine will be happy to hear that.
OH THANK GOD!!!
I thought I was having problems with my TV or system but its good to know that everyone is experiencing audio lag too.
So far the netcode is awesomely good, BBCT good.
Is it just be, but I do not find the netcode good at all. It is mad buggy right and we should reserve judgement until the day 1 patch is released.
Yes it is really buggy with people who have unstable connections. It’s like the alpha version of ggpo. But when you play someone close it’s really good.
im having a totally opposite experience online. it is total ass for me. even full connections are bad. can definitely see frame drops cause moves simply are not coming out for me quite often. i’ve also been hit by attacks that i flat out don’t see animations for. like i faced a balrog and i jumped in, and next thing i know he is in the air headbutting, at the peak of his jump and im getting nailed.
additionally, the sound bug is REALLY annoying the F outta me. i hope there is a patch for this on tuesday.
EDIT:
yea … this game is like SSSSSOOOOOO fucking terrible online for me right now. like i am pressing the lp/lk buttons to throw, and the animation flat out doesnt come out 1/2 the time. same thing is happening in middle of combos and stuff. it’s terrible. and this is on a full connection.
this is EXACTLY my same experience.
it’s like out of nowhere I’ll time-travel 1/2 a second into the future and Ken is DP’ing me, where the previous frame was on his wakeup animation.
combine this with the dropped inputs, plus the sound effects cutting out 60% of the time, and I don’t know what the f*ck is going in during most of the online match.
edit: and these problems are consistent among different connections, some of them were with people i know are in NY (and i’m in philly). and I have always had smooth connections with NY people, even in marvel
this might be a good sign that it’s using a rollback system. If so, then the bugs should be patched. We’ll see on tuesday
It is using a rollback system. It really resembles ggpo back in it’s alpha stage, but a little worse.
Netcode aint that great, folks. I actually think it’s a little worse than SF4. Sound bug is very bad as well. Like some kind of chinese water torture. I have to put everything on mute and listen to music.
well i gotta say, after having a shit experience all afternoon online, i had a much better experience this last room i was in. i wasnt really lagging with anybody at all. had 2 full connections and 1 that was 1 bar short of full. it was MUCH better than my prior experience, so i hope i was just getting some hiccups earlier.
but the sound thing … wow. as a software dev myself, how the fuck that got into the retail release baffles the shit out of me.
Im gonna go as far and say the netcode is garbage. The only decent games are with full bar connections. Everything else is a laggy mess. Even on full bars it’s not that great…please patch this:(
lol there are already that many copies around that you can valuate it?
The only thing that will change with more copies is that I will have more people near me to play. At least in SF4 I couls play people on the east coast without too many issues.
I played against my friend and the connection was decent. With the patch, I’m sure it will help a lot!
The game isn’t out, so I can’t exactly judge the online based on what I’ve played so far. But every ranked game that I’ve played has been near unplayable. Tremendous amounts of lag even on 3 bar connections, not to mention the random and jarring sound and effects that cut in and out. I’ve played around 10 matches so far and every one has been this way.
Hopefully there will be some kind of patch to address this. If the game launches with the quality of online that I’ve seen, it’ll be a huge disappointment.
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