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purbeast0

purbeast0

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cmdrdredd said:
The whole thing for the easy fatalities boils down to one thing for me. I enjoyed knowing the moves in previous fighting games. Being able to pull off the fatality was icing on the cake. Kind of like a motocross winner doing a big whip on the last jump to show off or a fighter pilot doing a flyby. I feel the same about being able to pull a big combo to an ultra in killer instinct. Doing it with easy button combos would lessen the impact and make it feel worthless to me. I guess I just remember how many times I failed to do a fatality and how long it took me to master the button combo and distance from the opponent.

I have read many conflicting reports about the net ode and online play. Some people say it's smooth and some people think it's not that good. I dunno who to believe right now.
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believe the people who say it's not good. they are the ones who know what they are talking about typically.

there are many people who think that mk9 and sf4 have "great" netcode. sf4 is definitely playable, don't get me wrong, but i've heard people say it's so good they can't tell they are playing someone online. that it's like playing someone in the same room as you.

that is just flat out false. some people simply aren't as succeptable to the input lag as others are. i know that before i had my 10ms input lag monitor that i gamed on, i didn't even know that my DLP had any lag on it. but now going back to it, it's incredible laggy.

i think that many people are just used to the crappy play online, so to them it's "great".

but after playing KI so much online, playing anything else is painful. hell even sf4 i pretty much don't play anymore because online is so bad now (compared to KI).

EDIT:

i also did read yesterday on neogaf, but this is just from 1 poster, that ign and another site (i think gamespot) were holding off on their reviews because there was a day1 netcode patch that was supposed to drop. not sure if there is any truth to it or not.
 
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Bman123

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I got a update for the game already, I've only been playing the story mode so far trying to get feel for it.
I'll play a online game next and see how it goes
 
cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

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Yeah I just installed it and got an update too. The first update makes it so you can't farm easy matches for kombat points. You get a lesser amount of points when you repeat the same thing over again. I didn't see anything about netcode listed but could be.

Again though some people say it's fine, some people say it's bad online. You can't compare this to Killer Instinct really because that game was made by a team with direct access to the people who designed Xbox Live on the XB1 so there really was no excuse not to have excellent netcode if you ask me. I know Injustice was terrible, I mean totally unplayable. I tried that before. Street Fighter 4 was/is playable but I'd never say it's as good as local play, no way. Even KI isn't that good. I can still detect little bits of lag here and there in KI. I guess if this is as good as SF4 or better I could deal with that.
 
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Bman123

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People have to quit comparing it to KI on Xbox one, that game is a totally different beast
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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yeah if it's on par with SF4, then i can deal with it and be happy about it. but i really doubt it's that good considering how mk9 and injustice are.
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

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IHateMyJob2004 said:
I'm thinking that just watching youtube for an hour will remove any desk for play this game.
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You must not have wanted to play it that badly to start with then. I certainly wouldn't buy it if watching a YouTube vid satisfied my desire to play. That would just be stupid.
 
cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

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Played GTA 5 on PC for the last 6 hours so I didn't even start this game up. I'll probably put some real time into it friday night. Got a friend kind of interested in seeing it. If he shows up we'll start unlocking stuff then.
 
sze5003

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I was able to try it out via shareplay. Its fun but not something I would buy right away. I'd probably get it on sale. I'm no good at getting all the combos. I did however pull off some fatalities some how.
 
CZroe

CZroe

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One of the local Gamestops got robbed leading up to the midnight launch. Thieves took money, wallets, car keys, many copies of the game, etc.

I wonder why they took the car keys. Do they plan to use the addresses found in the wallets to come back for their cars?
 
sze5003

sze5003

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CZroe said:
One of the local Gamestops got robbed leading up to the midnight launch. Thieves took money, wallets, car keys, many copies of the game, etc.

I wonder why they took the car keys. Do they plan to use the addresses found in the wallets to come back for their cars?
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Ridiculous.. Its not even that big of a title but I guess if you are gonna rob people a midnight release would be ideal. Especially in some shady areas where some gamestops are located.
 
CZroe

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sze5003 said:
Ridiculous.. Its not even that big of a title but I guess if you are gonna rob people a midnight release would be ideal. Especially in some shady areas where some gamestops are located.
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Honestly, I was more surprised to learn that this particular title got a midnight release and assumed that it must've been a marketing gimmick attempting to duplicate the original game's "Mortal Monday" console release. It was a limited midnight release so it was only at their prime locations (none of the ghetto stores).
 
cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

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sze5003 said:
Ridiculous.. Its not even that big of a title but I guess if you are gonna rob people a midnight release would be ideal. Especially in some shady areas where some gamestops are located.
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Be bad news of I was there. I carry concealed.

A midnight launch party I think depends on how many copies they have reserved. I know my store had over 150 reserves for the game on ps4 and maybe 60 on XB1. That's kind of big.
 
cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

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purbeast0

purbeast0

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cmdrdredd said:
I assume you have played a bit online and determined it is pretty much shit then? Not a joke, I'm seriously curious of you think it's really that bad. Doesn't sway my opinion because I think I'll get enough out of it without going online.
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no i haven't played it at all yet to be honest, but just from hearing people talk about it, it's terrible. and i'm talking about people i played sf4 with locally and have played KI online with before. there is just a constant input delay of like 10+ frames, regardless of how good your connection is to the other person. and that is a best case scenario.
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

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purbeast0 said:
no i haven't played it at all yet to be honest, but just from hearing people talk about it, it's terrible. and i'm talking about people i played sf4 with locally and have played KI online with before. there is just a constant input delay of like 10+ frames, regardless of how good your connection is to the other person. and that is a best case scenario.
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Yeah, that's about how it is. I played some online last night and it was playable, but the lag is definitely annoying.
 
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Bman123

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I played against 3 people today online and didn't notice any lag at all. I got my ass whooped but it wasn't laggy. Obviously 3 people isn't shit for the whole community but it does show the ping before you accept the match so if it's shit don't play them and search again
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

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Bman123 said:
I played against 3 people today online and didn't notice any lag at all. I got my ass whooped but it wasn't laggy. Obviously 3 people isn't shit for the whole community but it does show the ping before you accept the match so if it's shit don't play them and search again
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What I experienced wasn't exactly lag in the traditional sense. It was more like a constant delay that was intentionally put there as a buffer to prevent the hitching and stopping associated with actual lag. Perhaps the game automatically increases/decreases that buffer according to the connection quality though. I only played 6 matches against one person before going to bed, so it could be better against someone else.
 
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