Newbie to X-Box live- Observations

Classic Fighting Games Marvel VS Capcom 2
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Long-time MVC2 player here and finally got a 360 last week week(new model, 4GB), and have been on X-box live a lot. Pretty damn cool for the most part, and even though my wireless net connection is the cheapest AT&T has, the netplay has functioned well :tup:

The rage-quitting though…WTF? Its not even the rage-quitting itself that kinda bothers me. You see when one pictures an RC its of some newb out there throwing a tantrum after getting pwned.

From my experience however, only the SKILLED players have been doing the RCing! So many times i’ve gone up against a player who has really tested me, i made a comeback, and just before i’m about the destroy him…disconnect message.

This one dude in particular had the name something like, “Bryan fear” and his Rogue was scary aggressive. Not a newb by any stretch. After about 7 awesome matches i held the lead but most of them were pretty close, on the 8th when i’m about to KO him, he RCs. Yeesh!

Also the strange lag. I thought maybe it was possibly the result of a slow connection on their end at first, but after playing for long enough there has been plenty of times lately when the lags starts & stops at times that seem kinda too convenient for the other player. The whole match will go fine but when i’m in the middle of pulling off decent combos or i’m having a great comeback, suddenly things start slowing down/skipping around and crap.

I’m really out of the loop on this kinda thing, i can only assume they have some device or technique they use, possibly the same thing that causes the RC-disconnect.

Anyone else notice this?

Other than that, X-Box live has been pretty cool. At first i was expecting nothing but High/God-tier whorage, all-day everyday, but its been a nice surprise to go up against plenty of skilled players who utilize a lot of the other characters too.

Anyone know someone by the name of ameilchan here? That X-Box live tag had a pretty beastly Thanos team.

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Welcome to live! You will find the god tier whoring is streaky sometimes it seems to be all I play against sometimes its all low tier. Most times for me its low tier and when I start beating em a few games then I see the gods make a guest appearance. Its just luck of the draw with opponents.

Also as far as the lag its odd sometimes its one sided some times both players have it. I would not rule out a lag switch b/c it is rampant in Modern Warfare 2 but most times it is just a shit connection and nothing more.

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The lag seems to be VERY sporadic. Some games seems very good, then others it’s a teleport fest, and these are all games vs the same person. Can’t take online very seriously, but it does help just for a little bit of practice.

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One thing kinda annoying about online play, is you don’t know who you’re facing. Back in the arcade days of old if a new face at your arcade showed up, likely a newb, one knew better than to go all-out.

Beasting on unskilled newcomers is like an expert samurai taking out untrained villagers. Pathetic and should be ashamed of himself.

Unfortunately marvel ls one of those games that looks extra intimidating to the largely uninitiated, probably more so than any other fighter. Many of the new guys will quit out of frustration and just assume, “its not their kinda game” if they get utterly smashed into the dirt enough times.

Anyhow, plenty of times lately where i’ll have a string of awesome matches against other skilled players, only to end up fighting a newbie in the next match. I’m so hyped up that i steamroll over his team with no mercy before realizing the guy does not know what to do.

I feel guilty then :sad:

If only there was some way to tell the skill level of who i’m up against.

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Geez something recently that annoys me about online play is the counterpickers. As in, players that are so obviously WAITING for you to pick your team first so they can pick a possible counterteam if they think one is needed.

WTF? That is so lame! Just pick your damned team fellas.

If your skills/technique/etc is worth a crap to begin with, in most cases you’ll still be able to do well regardless of what you’re up against.

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Yea it is annoying. Blind picking would be cool in this game just so people would just pick their damn teams and not act AFK waiting for you to pick.

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Anyone here ever have trouble doing moves on x-box live??

Lately i’ve been having on & off trouble doing stuff and having moves come out. I’m a long time player, on a custom Hrap sanwa. When it comes to advanced crap ok i may very well screw up in the heat of the moment, but simple stuff like QCF+PP?!

I wonder that with the various dynamics of online play, possible lag issues on connection quality between both players, etc. If the X-Box live hiccups will screw things up, making some parts of a special motion for example not register if the hiccup occurs during the split second of a special motion causing it not to register.

The other thing is, i’m using a Custom HRAP2 with a converter for the X-Box. I really hope its not the PS2+Converter combo, because i have my stick nicely modded the way i like it.

I dunno after a frustrating session of online play, i spent about 10 minutes in training mode just doing stuff and it seemed to be fine.

So anyone else have issues with online play?

And also i’m a Bison player, and WTF? 60% of the time when i have someone in an air-combo and going for psycho crusher, they will somehow manage to “fall out” of it and be able to block as the super is coming out. Thats B.S…grrr…

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Welcome to online “ITS MAHVEL BABY”, where the bullshit that is suppose to happen, doesn’t happen lol. For example, ROM’s are not suppose to be done that fast. just look at some of Brett’s videos on youtube. They make you ask “wtf?”.

Whats your gamertag? I hardly get on but it would be fun to play a good bison.

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yeah, ive had opportunities to punish stuff like AHVB behind someone doing proton cannon the wrong way but when i did the input for the superjump cancel into AHVB his scimitar came out -_-

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wow nice thread Gave,

i’m sure you found it out already, but to see who your fighting before you get them, you can hit the left button. sometimes the opponent’s data doesn’t show up soon so i just hit (A) ~ (LB) to start the match and have the info show up while the character selection screen is booting. this way you can see who can get your best match without whoopin up on a new guy too bad. and if the data doesn’t show up or the match doesn’t start after a few seconds, i back out of the room to avoid that prequit lockout screen. glitchy but it’s what we got haha.

and i think some people (especially people i OCV’d in previous matches) DO LAG SWITCH. not pointing any fingers but yeah lag consistently showed up a moment or two after i’d get bison’s or charlie’s launcher and when my opponent was on the offensive, it was fine. cable and lagswitching won’t help you if you want wins that bad, ya know? i mean just learn defense FCOL.

on counterpickers-- you kinda earn a moral victory by fighting the way you wanna fight. some folks really need that win tho…

and on ragequiting-- i don’t do it but i understand. this one match i had, my team was wiped and i was down to a 15% tron bonne. but, for the uninitiated that’s kinda all you need. my opponent’s team of three all had between 20 - 70% health. but in the corner, one after another i guardbroke, threw, comboed, lunch rushed. did like 4 lunch rushes total. when i chased down his runaway akuma to the opposite side of the screen, i got another throw off, combo, drill Lunch RU— ragequit. i think he was saying something on the mic, but if people talk too much i just plug my mic in, table it and turn the volume down. i can’t concentrate on trashtalk and DHC’s bruh.

as far as moves dropping off, yeah it’s just how xbl works. i’ve spoiled many a cornertrap with moves failing at the wrong time. lagswitchin’ don’t help none–it kinda trains you to double up on your moves though. no way a sj combo to kneepress to PSYCHO KRUSHA should ever miss haha. i think that even hits on kobun.

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I was wondering when someone was going to post the ninja technique to see who your ranked opponent will be at the matchmaking screen. When i was playing on live I definitely used it to psychic counterpick people.

The whole matchmaking setup is the sorriest POS setup imaginable. Random lockups and freezes 1/10 times made me quit playing online.