Juicebox is currently testing version 4 of the netcode on stream, and he had some very playable matches with a guy in Jersey. Still hope guys
Host advantage or is it equal this time? I just tuned in now.
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Host advantage or is it equal this time? I just tuned in now.
shaowebb
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solidgear91
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He didn't mention host advantage. He just said it felt like the input lag was reduced as the match progressed and that if felt pretty good overall. However the game had to sync for a few seconds before the match started
MezzoForte
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yeah guys The Runback is happening right now, get hype with us.
shaowebb
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Holy crap that was a hype tourney. Reynald went into LOSERS in round 1 vs Trophy Club and later top 3 is Mr Kof, Trophy Club and Reynald.
Insane matches from them and Trophy Club looks legit with his Duo lon/Hwa Jai/Chin team. Especially those last two! No drinks needed from Chin and his backup team managed to really harsh Reynalds Ash team ...Trophy put Chin first, used drinks to keep it scary, Hwa Second doing his thing (Poke Slide Poke Slide Poke Slide GO CRAAAAAAAAZY!~Hwa Jai) and added SHEN WOO in last to deal with the Ash fire.
Great stuff tonight. Catch the archive and watch Trophy Club and Reynald along with all of top 3.
solidgear91
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Cafe ID has also been playing the beta. The online looks very smooth against a 4 bar opponent, but that might also be because of gdlk Korean internet.
Unconditional
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Hopefully they get that net code sorted out. It's the only way I'll ever learn this game. It's mad fun but I'm a training mode rat on PS3.
shaowebb
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So many good matches, thanks for posting.
Looks like Reynald has started experimenting with Ash.
Favorite moment was when he was playing with Ash against an Athena:
- Ash messes up his Sans-Culotte combo
- Athena does Ex fireball
- Ash throws a fireball
- She runs behind her fireball and does an EX teleport
- Ash does the Sans-Culotte finisher and goes through everything and nails Athena out of her ex teleport
shaowebb
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Juicebox just put out something on his stream.
There is no host advantage O_O
Juice beta stream is live! And he is singing along to The Book of Mormon lol
There is no host advantage O_O
Juice beta stream is live! And he is singing along to The Book of Mormon lol
shaowebb
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crimzonflame
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Art posted some impressions of the netcode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgs-GctOnc
shaowebb
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Netcode has... IMPROVED EVEN MORE WHAT IS THIS MADNESS!
1 Bar has gotten near passable! REJOICE!
Still lags and you'll get smashed to pieces but it's improved since day 1 - they're really serious about it. I don't think they can improve it any further and the rest just relies on the user's physical distances between eachother...
1 Bar has gotten near passable! REJOICE!
Still lags and you'll get smashed to pieces but it's improved since day 1 - they're really serious about it. I don't think they can improve it any further and the rest just relies on the user's physical distances between eachother...
MezzoForte
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very good to hear.
v5 hasn't been released has it? Because if it's 4.1 the impressions ive been hearing from most is that it still isn't up to par yet.
This is coming from someone in Aus who barely plays anything serious online due to lag when using most US servers - it's pretty good!
My only complaint is that it still needs a bit of work (there's something that feels off), but then again I'm not sure if that's due to physical distance or netcode. HAVING SAID THAT I don't play KOF competitively and it is my first KOF game so YMMV.
this beta has a looong way to go before it's in a playable state. Judging from most people, 4 bars is almost like offline and 3 bars and under YMMV. It can range from pretty good to unplayable even on 3 bar.
Problem is that it seems that the restrictions for 3 - 4 bars is really tight. 4 bars seems like it's limited to someone around your city, with 3 bars being your state/province and possibly surrounding states depending on connection strength. This would suggest that most people will be playing 2 - 3 bar connections, and if that isn't at the very least playable,(2 bars) then I don't have high hopes for the online come release. It's improving though.
they should've opened the beta up to at least 1000 people. 300 is not anywhere close to enough imo.
Problem is that it seems that the restrictions for 3 - 4 bars is really tight. 4 bars seems like it's limited to someone around your city, with 3 bars being your state/province and possibly surrounding states depending on connection strength. This would suggest that most people will be playing 2 - 3 bar connections, and if that isn't at the very least playable,(2 bars) then I don't have high hopes for the online come release. It's improving though.
they should've opened the beta up to at least 1000 people. 300 is not anywhere close to enough imo.
Juicebox_FGC
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You're right, 300 beta testers isn't enough.
I wonder what will happen at the end of the ~CLOSED~ beta?
I wonder what will happen at the end of the ~CLOSED~ beta?
shaowebb
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Hopefully an open beta and a launch delay to let the feedback from one get implemented.
MezzoForte
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Dream Cancel got some more codes to give away. Jump on dat.
thesolidshark
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Someone tell Juice and the streamers that v5 is up.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222940/discussions/1/864977479733804034/
And also, beta extended until Sept. 6th
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222940/discussions/1/864977479733736946/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222940/discussions/1/864977479733804034/
And also, beta extended until Sept. 6th
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222940/discussions/1/864977479733736946/
shaowebb
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Tried to send Juicebox a message via steam but hadn't friended him yet. I doubt this will remain unknown though. Glad the beta is extended and they are pushing this as hard as they can. I'm gonna check the KoF crews on facebook and dreamcancel to see if there are any impressions on v5
EDIT:
Crap! Someone reminded me on Steam Juicebox is out until Thursday because he's moving. Also I think Cafeid lacks matches because theres not a large pool of players in Korea. They really need to open this beta up to more testers...
shaowebb
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Got some impressions from a few players on facebook. They're claiming the 1 bar has greatly improved. Not much else was said though since there wasn't many people to play and test things
Beta has too small a testing pool :|
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SO THEY ARE GIVING AWAY BETA KEYS ON THEIR KOF-i FACEBOOK PAGE!!!
https://www.facebook.com/KOFiforiPhone?fref=ts
Beta has too small a testing pool :|
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SO THEY ARE GIVING AWAY BETA KEYS ON THEIR KOF-i FACEBOOK PAGE!!!
https://www.facebook.com/KOFiforiPhone?fref=ts
1 bars is not supposed to be playable, it's not a palpable objective. They need to focus on 3 and 4 bars, and as it looks like (I didn't got a key yet...) it's going well and with more beta time, it will only get better
Oh ya, I'm not expecting 1 bar to ever be playable. Since its already been confirmed from multiple people that 4 bars is almost like offline, all they really need to improve are the 2 - 3 bar matches, which are iffy right now. If they could make 2 bars playable and 3 bars good, then the netcode will be a success. As it stands now it seems that 2 bars is unplayable and 3 bars is sometimes playable, sometimes good, sometimes unplayable.
Seems like SNK has allowed those who preordered the game to preload it. Some cafeid guys were saying that they can actually open it, but I can't confirm anything as I'm still downloading.
EDIT: I think I can confirm that those that preordered can indeed access the beta. The same thing happened to horseress and he has access to the beta.
IF YOU HAVE PREORDERED THE GAME YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE BETA!!
EDIT: I think I can confirm that those that preordered can indeed access the beta. The same thing happened to horseress and he has access to the beta.
IF YOU HAVE PREORDERED THE GAME YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE BETA!!
solidgear91
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That's amazing, I pre-ordered but was pretty sure I wasn't going to get in. This changes everything though.
Juicebox_FGC
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GET IN THERE
Terareflection
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So school just started and I spent all of my money on textbooks, and even if I had money I don't have a proper controller to play this with.
3 bar is pretty good! Feels like the best 4 bars on console I've played.
I haven't played a 4 bar yet.
PS3 stick should work with this.
I haven't played a 4 bar yet.
So school just started and I spent all of my money on textbooks, and even if I had money I don't have a proper controller to play this with.
PS3 stick should work with this.
I really wish SNK would drop the damn "bars" for actual ping times. One can use logical deduction to know 1 = bad but 4 = good but HOW good or HOW bad. I'm able to play on GGPO with people who have 210 ms ping with zero input delay and very little rollback, so I want something I can compare the netcode against - I don't want to have to ask people for their IP addresses just so I can get some sort of gauge when it comes to ping times.
shaowebb
Member
You wanna know something specific...CHECK THIS SHIT OUT
Dude who works in IT in real life is in the Beta and has this beta hooked up to shit he uses, posted a full technical breakdown of monitored traffic and connection from his matches, and he shows up to update. Currently he's communicating with SNK Jace directly. Currently 3 bars is anywhere between 0-2 frame difference maximum. Also because someone posted that link now everyone can view the closed beta forums lol
Terareflection
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I play with pad.
To me, playable means zero input delay. Anything above zero input delay is unplayable for me.
then only 4 bar is playable atm. 3 bars feels like a low end 2 bar on sfiv for me.
With SNK extending the beta another week, theres still hope they'll be able to improve the netcode even more.
MezzoForte
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installing now. Can't wait to try it out!
Passive Assassin
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Just picked this up and I want to main Leona, although I never really learned charge characters. Is there charge buffering in this game?
Charges are really short, .5 secs. You can also charge while running by holding downforward when running.
Here is Juicy explaining some of the mechanics of it
http://youtu.be/wSUYStfW56k?t=14m42s
Here is Juicy explaining some of the mechanics of it
http://youtu.be/wSUYStfW56k?t=14m42s