Still easier to manage one connection between two players than two between two players and a server, especially when you now have to sync 3 game states instead of just 2. Why do you think GGPO is p2p.
Oh no I have to wait all the way until Thursday! 
Hopefully the online works decently from Australia. I’ve heard that SSFIV is supposed to have good netcode, but it is probably the worst to play from here, practically unplayable even against Australians for me. Whereas many say UMvC3 has bad netcode but it’s the second best next to BBCS for me, so I’m reserving true judgement on netcode until I get my hands on it.
Ahhhh…GGPO’s kinda the Godwin’s Law of netcode.
There’s way too many variables (being in 3D, not built to play with it before the late beta stage, console versions of it have been neehhmmmmralright, and such) to continue that road of discussion.
Does this still have that aerial movement shit (where they can move in the air out of combos)? I hated that shit.
Yeah, yeah, hate it till you need it. Can you imagine what could happen to you under tekken 6’s rules (i’m surprised there’s no ground-bound follow-ups, just bounce bounds) in this game if you left the ground? That shit would not be pretty. It would look awesome, yeah, but it wouldn’t be pretty.
Extremely playable on the PS3 version, I don’t know if I can chalk this up to the fact that literally no one else was online except me and my friend. We both have cable modems and are across town from each other though. Slight hitch between rounds, maybe a tiny tiny tiny slight lag but overall it seemed to be smooth sailing for casual play. I was hitting Pyrrha’s just frame moves well enough, for example. At least this is my experience…can’t find anyone across state or country for that matter to try that.
Local mom and pop stores…now you know why you need 'em 
I’m still playing SCV right now. Tune in.
Also the online is great.
Wow, just saw Ivy make a bow and arrow out of her sword, I think that’s new.
I’m pretty sure both consoles can do either peer-to-peer or dedicated servers.
So far the netcode is really good. 3 bars in SCV would be a 5 bar connection in SC4, but why would you be playing someone on 3 bars to begin with. If you stick to 4 or 5 bar connections, you will be fine.
5 bars would be as good as it is in SF4, but we still need to wait until Tuesday to see what happens.
Also, here is the archive from the stream yesterday with me, Jaxel, Ramon (Best NY SC Player, won the SCV tournament at NEC, beat the shit out of Daishi), Woahhzz (Best SC player in the world) and some others.
I have a question.
I per-ordered this game via Amazon about 2 weeks ago. Does anyone know, through past experience with Amazon/pre-ordering/whatever, when I’ll get the game? Will I get it tommorow by some chance? A few days after? A long time after? (I just got standard shipping.) The only other game I’ve pre-ordered online was Catherine, and I got it like 5 biz days after release date.
With standard shipping you will probably get it at the end of the week.
Depends sometimes if you pre-order stuff on amazon even with standard shipping you get it the day of. At least when I want books day 1 I typically order them with Prime (<- student so it’s free) and get them on the release day.
Really convenient can go to class and comeback and shit is just waiting for me.
On SCV defensive options:
Playing the game right now … Just Guarding seems a bit OP at the sec. Testing it since I saw that vid on the front page. This is gonna kill some basic stuff and make some shit really stupid. High level really might end up insanely defensive as between that and 8G, throws are about the only way to break guard period without taking a lot of risk. At least lows work on wake-up still as 8G can’t jump immediately.
Played last night and was doing that 8G stuff and it was funny how stupid that stuff is. Namco needs to tone down the defensive options in this game ASAP as when defense is really mindlessly strong on day 1 there is a problem. Characters that can really abuse this like Hilda are probably going to be really strong.
FYI when ordering via Amazon in a pre-order, see if they have the 99 cent release day delivery. Whenever I’ve used that, it’s been there day 1 or earlier.
Anyone have any vids of Omega Pyrrah?
Check the stream archive. There was a lot of her.
I played pyrrha omega all day yesterday on stream so if you have any questions, hit me up or check 8wayrun.com
As for the defensive options, its ok because of how strong offense isin this game. We will see.
My question is does Kilik have a second costume or is just a recolor?
8WayRun is really turning into a shitfest. Now they are raging that SRK posted on the front page that they voted to ban Devil Jin before release and its “embarrassing” to the community that Jaxel participated. Then the admin (or were his admin privileges stripped?!! :o) hurls insults at other members.
http://8wayrun.com/threads/edit-the-freaking-front-page-article.10129/
This is getting so good.
Just wait until people realize Algol is just as good in SC 5 as he was in SC 4. Whew. Cant wait.
Didn’t see that. Will be on the lookout though. thanks.
Off topic but can you hook me up with free Prime? I mean like, teach me how to do that? I’m a (college) student too and was unaware I could get that.