Gah I hate it when like it can be running smoothly from like two people in the room, then you face another player only to have it lag on THAT same player. Breaks up my winning streaks grrrrrrr…
T5 DR is not exactly what I expected it to be. I knew there would be lag but even with very fast internet there is still bothersome lag and people are very cheap. Last week someone beat me while they were playing with paul and the just kept doing his somersault move and I couldn’t do shit. Very annoying.
I’ve seen people kick me for beating them and i’ve seen a couple disconnect when they lose, it’s sad. I make my own room most of the time cause I have pretty fast internet and the lag isn’t that bad so there’s only about 0.5 sec delay.
I use King and never use shitty tactics. Once there was someone who wasn’t at their ps3, I just stood there until they attacked me and then started the fight. I don’t give a crap about rank and the problem is that everybody else does.
@ Critical King
As long as you have NAT 2 you should have no problems. Nat 3 is the one to worry about. Nat 2 is where all the ports are open and everything is breathing fine and you can see incoming connections while NAT 1 is where you are sending out connections as well. As long as you’re receiving connections then you should not have any problems. Thats what I was told.
Blah I mounted a winning streak and got booted today 
well at least I got the last laugh.
Well you cant go around playing games for FUN you know! :lol:
Wow, are you serious? According to Tekken Zaibatsu I’m not supposed to throw, do lows, 10 strings or select stages? And then run away and dance around when lag hits me? Why don’t I just get a headset and tell you exactly what I’m gonna do (b+4, d+3+4, 2, 2, d+1, 2, 4, d/f 3+4, etc.). Oh wait, usually I’ll miss my juggle due to latency.
Gimme a break! This is like the old school days of SFII, where throwing was “banned” in certain arcades and you got mugged for it if you didn’t comply!
I somehow doubt it’s the Tekken tournament-worthy players that write this stuff. Lag sucks, but turning matches into alternating mid/high attack strings is boring.
Heh, it’s still goin on, who would’ve thunk.
Haven’t had the chance to play online in DR recently (on a friends PS3, no less), but good grief, even a tiny bit of lag when one is on a roll will ruin people.
Namco needs better servers or something. Or have they forgotten?
DR is probably the worst fighting game I’ve ever played online, 90% of the time. It rivals even playing any fighter on Kaillera with someone with 200+ ping. There are a few rare occasions where I play someone without yellow or black lining it, but still…
Sorry, but West Wonderland on Excellent setting and GGPO have spoiled me half to death. The only worthwhile games that have seemingly worked the best on the PSN have been FPSs like Resistance, U3 or CoD4 (most of the time for CoD4).
I have to agree that the lag is bad in this game. The thing that fucks you up most is how inconsistent connections are. The input delay constantly changes randomly throughout matches along with random lag spikes. That type of shit usually only happens in online fighters when you have rats chewing on your ethernet cable. Sure other games have lag but at least they’re consistent for the most part. I don’t think they really put any effort into the online mode in this game which is disappointing.
Also the matchmaking is horrible for some reason. I have to refresh like 5 times before I get a decent amount of rooms to choose from. On top of that I randomly get disconnected half the time I join a match. That shit is really fucking annoying.
Not is all bad though. I’ve ran into a few players where the lag is almost unnoticeable which is nice. I just wish it was more consistent. Funny thing is I’ll get an awesome connection with someone but then next time I play the same guy and it will lag. I really don’t understand this shit.
I was checking out tekken zaibatsu earlier and notice people not using throws to keep the game fun cause the lag is so bad. Why even play in conditions like that? It’s not even fun.
I rarely play it now because it screws up my timing offline so much that I can’t even hit easy juggles. Lag tactics…meh…and no throwing rule from TZ? Haha, I see their point since throw breaks get tough online (I mean I’ve even hated how it throws off my low parrying) but I just got annoyed with all the people using lag tactics so I started throwing…a lot. It is nice when you do meet some good people…I’ve spent quite some time up late because I ran into good players and didn’t want to leave.
I’m finding that knowing and using Eddy is a lifesaver most of the time in lag situations. Usually a character has a move that will be better under lag but Eddy…well he’s downright scary in lag. Why? Because I can hit all of his juggles regardless of the connection. All Eddy’s shit is okezime and that owns people for free.
I seem to have problems with Nina and Asuka (Ephidal I’m lookin at you) still…but I can generally beast on the level I’m currently at regardless. I need to play this game more but it fucks with me offline (it makes me forget my offline strategies, because none of that applies online) but maybe I can just strike a balance.
I know once a tournament is near tho…I ain’t goin near DR online for at least a week before.
Ah man that eddy is a beast, I dunno where to block then I panic and throw out anything costing me many matches. Sigh, I need more practice also - but gg’s though 
Ephidel, just d+4 him out of the relax-stance with most of characters. Then capos might stop relaxing so much so you can play a decent game. The key is to annoy the Eddy player :lol:
Oh there are other ways good sir…other ways… And plus my Eddy has the giant fro w/ the ray bands so he wins on sexy factor alone. :wonder:
Yeah who cares just throw them, when they try to throw you back, just duck, or just fuzzy duck in the future, and that will condition them to use mids instead of throws which you can just block.
lmfao speaking of “to throw or not to throw” I just got this message from FEARLESSFLAMINGO, and I’m copying it verbatim for effect.
From FEARLESSFLAMINGO
Subject full of BULLSHIT
fucking grabbing with black bars to reposition. fuckin back up when the bars are black bitch or don’t fuckin grab. weakass eddy
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Oh they mad cuz you be stylin on them.
Well apparently they’re saying over at Zaibatsu that you really SHOULDN’T do throws unless you’re in green bars, because they can’t be broken on reaction. Meh I’ve broken throws with a red bar before. People need to stop bitching so much. There ARE lag abusers, such as blatant Lili spammers, but they can simply be kicked…no need for bitchy messages lol. Wow, that made my night tho. Now he’s claimin he plays tournies and shit and that I’m super scrubby…so I told him I’d kill his ass offline as well and that he should quit his bitching.
You should make friends with him so you can invite him repeatedly and rape his face.
I think that this whole gentleman’s rule is really a girly way to complain about their abilities. It has good intentions, but if someone’s out there just using throws (and boy are there), a good player should be able to see right through that and devise a tactic to avoid it, even with the lag. I guess as players, we have to accept that online fighting games will always have lag and have to learn to adapt.
Exactly! And usually if I know the person won’t do shit, I run up + throw. You best believe if I saw that coming on me against my Eddy niggas would get a uf 3+4 to the face every time. There are ways around gettin thrown.
Well also most people don’t diversify their throws and after the first or second throw you realize they are doing the regular throws, I just start mashing 1 or 2…the two button throws are a killer though…
I however love low abusers…Asuka+low parry=1+2 into 1,4 into 1,2,3 combo (Or was it four?)…Asuka players are blatant about this with her one low sweep (Forgot the notation but it can be done 3 times in a row). All of the ones I meet do it more than once so it makes for fun times.