Do you try playing Yellows? I set my latency preference for 3 and up, but I’ll pretty much try any yellow connection as well to see how it goes. Most of them are solid. Connection indicator is something they mention in the patch, the only ones I try not to bother are reds, and I rarely see those.
If I set the latency preference that high, I usually get no match found.
Just do custom searches at “any” and see what pops up. I’ve seen 4s in custom search, joined the room and it said Yellow, session played great, joined alot of yellows in custom that were green when I got in. Try hosting too every once and a while. I host most of the time and rarely get to select a stage in practice before somebody joins up. Stay away from quickmatch-it’s confused most of the time.
i always laugh when people bitch about netcode and they are playing FG on PS3.
Haven’t played online yet, just got the game.
Is it better or worse than UMVC3? I’m actually getting used to that now. Managed a 910k combo with Viper no xfactor or assists.
Well I play a TON of Umvc3, and with two people on proper connections you can have some great matches.
I finally decided to pick up my own copy of KOF last night (my brother already had it so I just went there), we decided to play online (xb360) last night…he lives roughly 12 miles away from me…and it was horrible! 
I’m still in shock that we had such a bad experience being so ridiculously close to each other. It listed both our connecitons as a 3 bar connection. In Umvc3 I’m almost always at a perfect 5 bar connection with no problems. I really really really really really really really really hope that maybe for some insane reason it was just a bad luck day, and/or that the upcoming patch does something to make it playable online.
Kei
The matchmaking is the main problem. It pairs you with the same skilled players no matter where you live… so same skill U.S. could end up and it DOES… with same skill in Russia… horrible lag so it’s not worth playing. Your best bet is just going to player matches, opening a room and make it “4 bar connection ONLY allowed to join”. Ranked needs to be more customizable but if not, it should let you connect to players in your country first before it looks outside that area…
The matchmaking is not the only problem. The netcode is far worse than SFIV. I tested it with my neighbour with both games, no contest.
Ranked is a complete disaster for me :tdown: horrible matchmaking and input lag, good thing i have an offline escene of the game and some friends with decent conections in player matches.
Im pissed, I have no one local to play and I live in the biggest city in usa this is bs. We have a HUGE fgc with 300+ players on our facebook, even some people picked up the game for like a week n dropped/ignoring kof now. Im fairly new to kof but not unfamiliar, this my 1st serious kof and online is shitty so what the hell do I do? I dont want to go back to mahvel and fuck street fighter. Give it up and wait for soul cal??
Wait for the patch, if the patch fails play SCV with your friends in your local scene 
and KOF casually, are you playing on X360? PSN was complete garbage for me, i play on X360 now and i have better matches, anyways the online experience in this game is a complete mix bag.
Xbox, im on live right now getting drunk and crying lol. GT is N30M4GNUZ
I agree that there does need to be region filtering the netcode is still miles away from fine. I have small groups of friends I play online regularly with. We play SF4/BB/SF3 & there’s no noticeable lag. We try to play KoF13/UMvC3 & its awful. I don’t think that should be passed off as “fine”.
As far as the patch goes it seems like it’ll be another KoF12. I read every word of the annoucement & there’s was no mention of them improving the netcode. It will geared towards improving stability & consistentcy. My online exp with KoF is pretty consistent now. The problem is it’s consistently unacceptable.
I just got really annoyed playing online today and not at the game. Please stop blaming the game everytime its laggy. Ive had excellent 3 and 4 bar connection matches that were very playable. There are a lot of things on the user end of the spectrum that really effects the connection between 2 players. While there is a patch on the way, it doesnt meant its gonna fix everything especially if you are running torrents in the background and your little sister is streaming HD 1080p music videos on youtube. Oh and all you college a-holes and ur shared connection. Dont even come online, thank you.
I just set the latency preference to 4 only and mess around in the online training room until someone joins. Usually takes about 5-10 minutes for someone to join.
Hey we have to start playing each other regularly PJ. Its Final Goose. We’ve played before & since we’re in the same city we actually have a playable connection. Gotta start grinding them match-ups! Jersey City Unite Lol
Hey Final! Yea we have had some good matches. We need to play more, didnt know you were from JC too! We are planning to have a game night with the crew soon. Ill hit u up with the info once I have it, you should come. We are planning to play AE 2012 and KoF13. Planning to record the matches for the NMO website.
The netcode in SF4 is actually better. I stick to playing people in Canada and US only and only 1or2/10 matches is laggy. Maybe it’s your shared connection at home. But we all know KOF13’s netcode and matchmaking is fcking horrible. That’s why almost nobody is playing it online EVEN in player matches… lol.
I’ve noticed almost all of SNK’s games on console have sht netcode and nobody plays online. Just look at KOF 98UM, 2002UM, Samurai Showdown, Fatal Fury Special, Garou, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum.
I’ll send you a friend request on Naga Plz. My Final Goose account is only silver at the moment.
I played against a friend of mine who lives 1 hour away, we had a blue bar connection, and there’s was still a significant amount of lag.
I can adjust to lag, but lag in KOF means that your opponent has a tons more options now.
You cant react to hyper hops and that changes the match SIGNIFICANTLY.
People shouldnt be jumping at you that much.