NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!


I'm so glad this has the ability to be patched now. Damn I love this game.

Am I the only one on Dtoid who hasn't played this yet?

You aren't the only one Neobones. my love for fighters died shortly after those awesome high school days playing Tekken 2. i really can't get into them any more. though SCIV does look fun

I have yet to see a fighting game to work online. SC4 is almost impossible to play since you can't see when to block and when to hit yor opponent. So it's more or less luck.

Also I have been able to pull of something similiar with Mitsurugi once.

damn...thats fucked.


Orcist dont feel bad brotha, I havent played it yet. I still play the original on my Dc too, but I'm going to play it today. I have a 28$ credit at play and trade.
and my buddy works there so i can just play games in the lounge all day for free.

@Kryptinite: I'm sorry, but SC4 doesn't work online like it works offline. Even with a full 5 bar connection. The game does a good job at hiding the lag, but it is there.

I don't really have a problem playing online with SC4 until I come across a spammer who just backs you in the corner and does the same two slashes over and over and over (Mitsurugi players. I'm lookin at you).

I did find out though that if your playing against a spammer and your using Cervantes you can end that shit with the quickness. Just do his teleport slam (the one that falls from the sky) by hitting <- Triangle + Circle and it usually ends up being a quick way of ending that nonsense.

@paraparaking

OK, it doesn't work like it does offline. That's not going to happen until we all get fiber/satellite connections ro something. but I think it works well for our current infrastructure.

I've experienced almost no lag. I still lose every time.

Also, fuck Ivy.

i played against mitsurugi the other day, and the guy did almost nothing but (down+a).

he hit with it probably twice in the whole 3 rounds, because as soon as i realised what he was doing i impacted, or blocked it, did nightmares (down+a+g) throw and went to town on his cheap ass.

while it does annoy me that people are more interested in winning than playing properly, there is a counter to almost every cheap trick, and im sure there's a way out of this one too.

Yep, people will find the cheapest shit imaginable. I've seen some of the stuff you guys are talking about as well.

I also played against a guy using Lizardman who put himself in the crawling stance and just tapped (A) over and over again. It shouldn't have killed me.... but it did.

kilik IS cheap, nightmare however is not.

no lag here and I have roughly 60 + plus ranked victories. sure I use Kilik, but a victory is a victory.

Im shocked to see how many of you are having connection issues.

protip: invest in a high speed internet connection.

;)

I'm hoping for patches in general right now. Not releasing an arcade version first means the game couldn't be playtested as good as Soul Edge/Blade and SoulCalibur I and II. Let's hope that they implement any updates at all, instead of just charging us for stuff that's on the disc.

I hope they patch in an extreme volleyball game mode.

I hope they patch an extreme nude volleyball game mode

O wait

I don't know about any Soul Caliber IV online experiences, but my SoulCalibur IV online experience is just fine, thank you.

I hope they patch in an extreme nude beach volleyball game mode.

and send me hookers dressed like ivy.

with "whip-swords"

There's an infinite Taki air juggle similar to this that I've seen my friend unfortunately get caught in =(

I'd tell you what it is, but I don't know shit about playing Taki

Yeah, just adapt to the cheap shittiness.

Wait, no. That's WRONG AND STUPID.

I can guarentee you'll never feel bad if you DO lose to an ivy doing this. the timing needs to be too perfect which especially online is not going to happen. It requires to much skill that a spammer would never even bother with.

Online is fine if your attacking which is why mister Kilik, BIG FILTH, doesn't see the problem. It comes into play when you try and guard and heaven forbid IMPACT.

pressing quick attacks are easy to do online, but if you are not on top of your game and even BETTER at guarding then you really are you will lose to them.

there is imput lag online. for 80% of the moves in the game it doesn't matter. But if you ever try to do a "JUST" move (and if you don't know what that is you are so far from ever understanding why people complain about online you should just stop) It will be based entirely on luck.

when you have to imput a command at 1/60 of a second perfect ANY lag which this game has even if it is 3/60 of a second ruins it.

which is why I gave up trying to guard impact opponents obvious repetitions. Its easy to do offline 100% of the time, but online you'll be good to get even 50% of the impacts you know you should.

so again. BIG FILTH. your not good (well not as good) you just use kilik and use his long range and quick ending lag on his easy moves to pressure opponents where in a offline match they could guard and counter attack in the 30/60 second window that those moves DO have to negate spamming. again your NOT good. online just makes attack spam a much better option then ever fighting the way the game is designed.

I'm not ready. That's the whole problem.

Meh, I only play player matches anyway so I don't run into spammers anymore.