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I would've preferred Alpha 3.
Yeah, I've played with the settings and it's still very hit or miss.
Sadly, I think the game finder is bad enough that even a lag free game would still be a mess.
The only easy way to find a one-on-one match is via ranked...and then you're one and done and back to searching again.
The only results you can see in non-ranked are the top 10...which are always rooms filled with 7-8 people.
If you finally narrow things down and hunt for a marathon match, you can't leave! Whoever finally exits the match first gets a "disconnect" on their profile seemingly no matter how long you've been playing.
The other 4 online SF games (Hyper, Remix, SF4, Super SF4) all have 100x better matchmaking.
Plus, the music playing over and over and over when you're hunting for matches is enough to make you poke your eyes out
The other 4 online SF games (Hyper, Remix, SF4, Super SF4) all have 100x better matchmaking.
Plus, the music playing over and over and over when you're hunting for matches is enough to make you poke your eyes out
I think Alpha 3 (or any of the spin-offs with more characters) would be a lot more online friendly than 3 is. The frame data isn't as tight, there are more options to choose from, and unlike 3 and 4 - supers/ultras are the end-all-be-all so latency doesn't force you to turtle every time someone has a super. Lots of normal attacks can beat them out, so you're a bit safer in opening up. The whole "custom combo" thing would also be nice for blowing through spaz attacks without insta-killing people, too.
To me, Alpha 3 is the 2nd best game in the series behind Super Turbo.
There you go with the tournament-level stuff again
Of the people playing online on a regular basis the odds of running into a tournament-level player is about 1 in 500. I've probably run into less than 50 over the course of the entire run of online Street Fighter games and that's with probably 10,000+ matches. I like the odds of not running into that problem very much.
Disregarding best case scenario 50-80% damage CC's (which aren't quite as common as you make it sound - most of the massive ones for 2/3 of the case revolve around a corner), the game is far more online friendly that SF3 which is flat out broken when you can't precision parry with any lag at all.
You even know it yourself - online play has nothing to do with tournament players. It's typically casual to medium-high level play at best, and that's where Alpha 3 excels.
and unlike 3 and 4 - supers/ultras are the end-all-be-all so latency doesn't force you to turtle every time someone has a super.
Lots of normal attacks can beat them out, so you're a bit safer in opening up.
The whole "custom combo" thing would also be nice for blowing through spaz attacks without insta-killing people, too.