I'm online on PSN right now. Unfortunately I can confirm the netcode is REALLY bad.

Was just on PSN while back and it was a little laggy. Wasn't too bad maybe because my friend I fought is local. Problem is that we can't chat on our mics.
 
Anybody else want to play? I've been at the connecting screen for 1/2 hour now, and I want to play against someone before I give up and go back to SSF4. PSN = realmblazer.
 
Geez and i thought NBA Jam's online netcode was bad! This is a complete disappointment beyond belief. How on earth could they have the nerve to consider releasing the game with the online component being as trashy as this? UNREAL! NRS better patch this because NBA Jam never was, and that game now sits on my shelve collecting dust. :cry:
 
Yeah, European psn still down. And i played 1 match on releaseday, but i did not redeem the online pass and used up the "2 day trial" first. Great choice, now i have to wait for the psn store to be back up, which will most likely take another few weeks. I am so happy about this piece of shit online pass system. Really, great stuff.

I am so glad that the Witcher is coming out soon
 
Finally played my first match online. I won against a Push and Ground attack Ermac spammer.

It took more than 3 minutes to find a game, but when I created a game myself, after just a few seconds, I had like 12 connections all of them 4 green dots.

The game ran smooth for me. It was playable, but a bit slow. About 95% what offline feels like. The initial feeling is different enough that I was a bit confused and didn't play comfortably for the first round. After that I kinda woke up and decimated the other guy + Finish Him.
You just got to adjust your timings a bit. In my experience, it was FAR from unplayable.

About the 2 days pass... anyone knows if you can just create a new account every 48 hours so we can actually play until we can redeem our codes? Thx EDIT: yes it works.
 
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I was playing tonight and I'm still getting the "no game session available" alot. I played one match tonight and it sucked ass! The player was a smoke teleport spammer and what made it suck more ass was the lag was incredibly unbearable. I've been trying to connect to any type of match but it just sits there.. I played Marvel vs. capcom 3 just fine with online with no lag.. I hope NRS fixes this quick cause i'm getting incredibly bored with offline -___-
 
Dark, I understand you... I played so many guys that picked some character against my Kung Lao and got beaten just to select Smoke for the rest of the matches and start the teleport/smoke bomb lag-o-spam fest.

It's actually pretty hard to try to reach a Smoke spammer and punish properly with the lag.

Right now I've had great success with characters that don't require too much timing for decent damage like Sub, Cage and Nightwolf and Scorpion.
 
artofgarduno said:
No need to worry I already talked to Ed Boon today personally here in Las Vegas and he is fully aware of the lag issues and told me they are currently working on the patch for lag
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You should also tell him to tell the team to remove the Region online lock...I want to play with friends and family that don't live in the US.

If anything they should put a filter so for the people that want lag-less matches choose regional play.

To me the region lock for smooth online gaming is just an excuse for bad net-code, because I've played other fighters that can play flawlessly no matter what region you play with as long as both connections are very good.
 
Agreed. Found out tonight bout the region lock, and I'm pissed. There is absolutely NO reason for region lock in today's gaming age. None.

And that "lag" excuse is complete BS on their part, as I've played alot of SSFIV with european friends perfectly fine.

Also seems XBOX version is regionfree too. >: |
 
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Trial pass:
If your trial already expired, you can just create a bogus psn account and the game will allow you another 2-day trial. These account will have their own stats, but it's a good way to practice while PSN is back up and you switch to your main account. Good opportunity to take on those 200/10 players... rage quit...etc :lol:
If you really want to play online until psn is back up, you can do this every 48 hours..


Region lock:
I've had a bunch of "Unavailable" and "Session no longer exist" message when trying to challenge someone.
Would that be because of the region lock? If not, how can you tell when you're being restricted because of it? Thx
 
MoonQuake said:
Region lock:
I've had a bunch of "Unavailable" and "Session no longer exist" message when trying to challenge someone.
Would that be because of the region lock? If not, how can you tell when you're being restricted because of it? Thx
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Logically if a Region lock was present these people in other regions wouldn't be showing up in any lobby/game session presented to other regions. That would make sense but this is NRS and Gamespy match making so who knows what BS is going on.

There still hasn't been any official stated information regarding how Online play is even handled, ie dedicated servers or peer to peer, or how much bandwidth this game needs when connected to just one player if it was peer to peer.

Based on my KOTH playing time it seems now matter who or what room once over 3 players are in a KOTH match the frames per second drop to shit, the game and it's netcode try and play catch up with button inputs and so on. It can be replicated time and time again....

1v1 is the same basically, it's hit and miss, finding an opponent also can take a ridiculous amount of time which points to match making being totally sub par and probably needing tweaks, sad for a 2011 game.

Since my TE came 3 days post MK launch and then PSN went down I haven't used my PASS, but after playing online with the trial I'm actually tempted to sell my Online PASS even for 5$ as the Online play is is freaking terrible. It's a worthless broken feature of the game right now, it's for shits and jiggles trying to just do basic 6 hit combos while frames slow down then you need to compensate differently as to when to input your next string/moves.
 
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After 24 hours of mk telling me i'm disconnected from the net while still signed in i finally got on last night on a proper session and didn't find it too bad! for all those complaining about lag: try smackdown vs raw online sometime! Thats a gamespy system as well. You'll soon be thankful for the speed of mk, don't get me wrong, It needs fixing but its not appaling.
 
Yea it's pretty bad I only found one good match played the guy 3 times won the first 2 then he quit after he won the third, whats the point we were having some good matches...weirdo.
 
I haven't even redeemed my code and I have used up my 2-day trial. Is there no need for codes anymore, cause I was playing some online (granted my combos were ALL thrown off due to AWFUL lag in every match...)
 
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