VF5 XBOX 360 First impressions now that I have it

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Is that really true? So if I get to Champion on Quest, I'll be Champion online too? Silly...

And I'm officially looking for a full gamesave now for 360.

 

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I take it you can at least wear your own items online. Right?

 

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To all the people saying "no lag online", can you reliably:
fuzzy guard?
punish -12 moves with a PK?
hit your normal combos?

 

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Yeah you can customise your character exactly as you could in ps3 and take it online like that, but it's a real pain to play through quest when you have real(albeit very slightly laggy in my experience so far) competition available.

 

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It really does feel totally lag free when you play it with someone with a good connection.

That being said

I find myself buffering Knee slightly earlier after tft because I was not getting proper float height using my usual timing.

I was having a hell of a time using /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/uf.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif + /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/g.gif to break rising attacks.

Fuzzy seemed to be working ok but did not playa lot of people who were attempting to punish with throws so while I was blocking mids it's hard to tell if I was actually fast enough to duck the throw consistently.

Was /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif punishing fine with Goh but did mess up /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/b.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/f.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif against a blocked Jeff knee a couple times. Could have just been bad reactions on my part.

Have been able to do all hit throws and Dpod with no noticeable trouble(dpod seems easier than it used to, could be imagining things)

That's just all my impressions so far. Obviously whatever negatives could purely be my connection.

There was always going to be some lag, but they've done a very good job minimising it's effects so far as I've experienced. As long as you don't take the online too seriously it can be a hell of a lot of fun and quite competitive.

 

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Rank doesn't carry to online. Ranking is separate.

 

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I just had my first games online (11-3). Had some really bad lag from one opponent, slight lag from another person, but the rest were awesome (aside from the Jacky player who decided to quit on me when he lost).

The most annoying thing about online is the fact that you have to use the host's controller config. So many times have I been hit by a down attack because I didn't techroll.

Other than that, it's all good.

 

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you have to use the hosts controller config? you've gotta be kidding me.

 

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"You have to use the hosts controller config? you've gotta be kidding me. "

According to one review I read that is not the case. Apparently what happens is for some reason the controls switch to the player 2 control setting. So to avoid the problem just make sure you have both player 1 and 2 controls set to the same config. Haven't tested online yet so I can't confirm this though.

 

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That is not true. If you join a match, then you will automatically fight on the second player side using YOUR second player controller configuration. Just re-configure it, and you will be settled.

 

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this makes alot more sense. I assume that kaiser simply didnt set up his 2p config before going online. whew /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

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The game plays perfect online.
Fuzzies, Buffers etc all work fine.
Ofcourse there is the rare laggy game, but thats like 1 in 10 matches.

 

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Yeah, I thought about changing the 2P side controls when my connection went down and it worked. Had even better matches afterwards.

 

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you know what's got me worried tho?

when all the yanks come online such will be the overwhelming proportion of americans to europeans that we'll be thrown into laggy cross-atlantic ranked matches.

i hope that dosen't happen but i'm prepared for the worst.....enjoying the lag free games while i can /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

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I'm hoping that it kind of branches people off with reasonable connections. Hopefully you won't be paired with us yanks too often lol.

 

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Been playing matches all night, and I haven't found a game where it seriously lagged. I'm pretty impressed.

Been playing random matches as well as matches with some of the people here and from the UK. I'ts like you were playing with the person next to you.

I'm a first time player and I'm loving it so far, I can't wait till I get to the level where I can do stuff 100% for the time. That said I'm using Akira, so he's pretty tough to use.

 

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Yea, I must say it's very fluid only. No lag that I could feel when I got my behind handed to me. It's very responsive.

 

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Some horribly laggy matches (playing an Aussie, woop), a lot with no lag at all and overall very enjoyable. This is definitely gonna be something.

Also, it might be worth disconnecting the mic if you have it, I suspect it might just add to the lag.

 

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I was curious about a couple of things:

How easy/hard is it to move a character profile to another machine, is it true you must transport your Gamertag info as well? The first PS2 VF4 handled this pretty easily, you basically popped the memory card in @ the character select screen, and you could choose any of the profiles on that card from that side.

Also, since it's been reported that there are no Item battles online, can we use the characters created for online play in regular, offline VS play, allowing us to use the same profiles whether playing online, Quest or offline vs?

Is it possible to gain Dan/Kyu ranks in the non-ranked matches which can be played repeatedly between oppts? Can we effect our online ranks during offline vs play?

thanks in advance

Bryan

 

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sorry for not reading the whole thread...

so if I have basic dsl line and I join a match and the opp has good connection, it'll still be pretty lag free?