Really? I’ve been playing a bit of KOF XIII ranked online. When I join people and I lose I still play 2-3 matches but considering I’m outclassed most of the time, I look for others where the skill level is a little bit more equal (because I have about 20 matches online in, while my opponent had over 1000).
Now, my stats in ranked are total crap since when I lose, I take the loss. When I win, I had 4 people consecutively ragequit on me and then continue to insult me on either “the connection is sh*t” or random ragevents (from a Mexican insulting me with every word in the book).
It kinda annoys me that my stats are bad (because I prefer having a positive ratio, don’t care about the amount tbh) but I live with it.
The only thing online that annoys me is that there’s barely anyone with good connection in Europe, and if they are, they are quite high ranked (rank #20 French guy who was nice with 1k wins as stated above). Otherwise, getting 1-bar connection matches isn’t motivating to play online…
I love running sets but I never get to do it everyone just quits out or leaves. The problem with online today is the records. I hate records because people always judge you based on that ranking or those points .You may get blown up one match, and then the other dude boots you, not even a rematch. It’s a bit annoying to know that games today still do this, "one match and your out " thing as far as ranked goes. I’d rather play the person till I have to make a decision if I wanna continue sacrificing my record/Points or if i just would like to flee. I run back EVERYTHING even when it’s something that is completely one sided and hopeless, I run it right back and you end up learning a lot, it’s a shame that learning isn’t what takes priority when it’s rewards are the driving force for winning.
I’ve had people disconnect in the middle of a match because I beat two of their characters. There should be a penalty for disconnecting during a match.
That pretty much summarizes it. In all honesty, I can’t stand losing. It not a good idea to worry too much about it though. If you win. Fine… If you lose. Fine… In the end, learning from your mistakes is beneficial to the competition - the gets stronger and stronger overtime. Will power, skill, and the ability to learn is the only way out.
If I lose and I feel that there’s something I can learn from said loss, I’ll save the replay and watch it a few times. You learn a lot from the losses (that aren’t from lag) and especially from mirror matches.
I’m at the point where I can’t even PAY ATTENTION to any of the A.I. matches anymore, and still win the match taking little to not effort or damage… Hell, even Saiki/Dark Ash are a lost cause even if he is an SNK boss.
I’ve been playing the survival mode some and that gets harder than the AI in arcade mode after a while. I wish I knew more people that played KOF but my only friends that play fighting games at all only want to play Alpha 3.
It seems like the difficulty on XIII isn’t any where near as hard as the MVS difficulty for the other games.
Indeed, Is human nature that people remembers more their losses, this is the internet era and is really common to see all kind of bad attitudes when you play in any competitive environment, some communities have better luck in these areas but is impossible to get rid of such people, this case is even worse when you play games with the “everyone is a winner” phylosophy (COD, WOW, LOL).
I never really understood why people get so upset about it. There are people that have been playing since '94 came out on the AES/arcade of course they will probably beat you.
I’d have to say that’s a pretty good point. The gap in skill and experience is the main issue I’m mostly dealing with. I’m actually used to losing all the time, lol. I usually keep a bunch of the replays to critique myself on what I did wrong. Perhaps I’m not seeing the whole picture of the mistakes I make…
I keep playing anyone for as long as possible if we have a good connection. The problem is my internet is weird and sometimes I’ll get really bad lag spikes and even drop a connection for no reason, even when I’m on LAN. The other day I found someone with a good connection and we were pretty close in skill, but I was dropped during the match with no indication if it was due to my internet or his. The online in this game is like any other FG except it gets exacerbated by the questionable netcode - my online matches in Marvel are consistently better.
I’ve been in a lot of ranked matches where the lag is so bad that special moves won’t even come out. I’m talking about one’s I can do consistently in arcade/practice.
I played a set with someone in UMvC3 that went 51-6 his favor. That was the first long set I played, and I learned more from it then an entire year’s worth of playing random ranked matches. If you can’t suck up a couple of losses and learn from them, there’s not much point playing fighting games, even just for fun, because you’ll always be pissed off.
