RTTP: Street Fighter V

CharlesAznable said:

-Matchmaking is wierd. I'm regularly placed against people who are either too good, or too bad. Very rarely do I get someone rank appropriate.

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What rank are you? Because, honestly, SFV must be one of the best fighting games when it comes to online matchmaking based on skill level. However, in Rookie and lower Bronze, things get nebulous because of smurf accounts and that kinda stuff.

Funny enough, Survival Mode is actually pretty decent now with the update. Probably the best single player mode in the game.

It's a good game now. Regarding speed, it's pretty bloody quick on PC in terms of loading etc. Like, literally, it's about two seconds for me to go from a match back to training mode, then while in training it searches for a new match. PS4 load times are still pretty slow comparatively though, but still improved over vanilla. It's worth keeping in mind you can skip the VS screen animation by hammering start, which improves time-to-match quite a bit as well.

RE colors - it's just they want you to play, and spend fight money. You can get colors through survival, but you can also buy them from the store with FM (not real cash), and you can also get colors from the loot box/gacha purchases, which also gives you consumable items to use to make survival easier. This stuff is all weird as it feels like something they'd use to squeeze money out of people, but since you can't spend real cash it's really just encouraging you to play more, complete the FM missions, etc.

Started playing recently and have to agree it takes ages from the PS4 menu to an actual online fight.

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CharlesAznable said:

Super Bronze.

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Yeah, that's unfortunately probably still in that range, because Bronze is so vast that skill levels within it can vary substantially. I think once people hit Silver, the stratification gets much better.

FluxWaveZ said:

Yeah, that's unfortunately probably still in that range, because Bronze is so vast that skill levels within it can vary substantially. I think once people hit Silver, the stratification gets much better.

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Big smurfing problem at that level too, I guess.

Punishing shit is fucking annoying online tho. And PC vs. PS4 matches like to gimp out some rounds.

Optional Objectives said:

Mayor Cody saved the game.

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Yeah, the only character I really enjoy playing as. Abigail was ok tho.

But the game really becomes addicting once you find a character you truly like playing as.

APZonerunner said:

Big smurfing problem at that level too, I guess.

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I highly doubt it. Real smurf accounts tend to level up to Diamond pretty quick. Fighting in the lower ranks is difficult not because there are smurfs. Fighting in the lower ranks is tough because opponents are way more unpredictable, making it very difficult to approach them strategically. You have to play a patient, reactive game in the lower ranks, anti-airing and punishing YOLO moves. This is hard to do in SFV because the game rewards you for taking big risks.

The netcode is so shit like seriously.

The teleporting player garbage ruins any fun you can have online.

Shortcuts been a thing since sf4 but it's more lenient in sfv. Blame it on folks who struggle to do the simplest of motions.

JusDoIt said:

I highly doubt it. Real smurf accounts tend to level up to Diamond pretty quick. Fighting in the lower ranks is difficult not because there are smurfs. Fighting in the lower ranks is tough because opponents are way more unpredictable, making it very difficult to approach them strategically. You have to play a patient, reactive game in the lower ranks, anti-airing and punishing YOLO moves. This is hard to do in SFV because the game rewards you for taking big risks.

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Nah, there's a lot of smurffs

A lot of folks streaming or doing challenges and what if you

Especially when new characters come out and the account is literally new and named after the character, I don't think anyone is saying its mostly smurffs. But I think the notion that your account levels up collectively instead of character by character lends itself to people wanting to start new accounts to learn new guys or to fuck around, instead of just loosing points. Like if all characters leveled by themselves, you would solve a lot of this problem. I just think folks wanna learn in ranked but don't wanna loose points to do it

Better than SF4 Ryu. I love SF4 except for fighting online shotos. Their shoryukens are abysmal and Ryu can punish trades. :(

CharlesAznable said:

Forgot to mention my biggest issue with the game. Too many damn Ryu's online. It's 2018 and people still only pick Ryu? It's not even that I have trouble against them, it just gets boring playing Ryu after Ryu. No lie 3/4s of my matches are against Ryu's. I know it's probably because of my rank, but shit...

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Hey man
I feel you.

And if it was ryu in a cool costume it would be whatever. Its just normal ass normal costume ryu

That shit is like picking mario in mario kart

Smurfing is a problem in Casual. Some guys won't play ranked and stay in Bronze/Silver so that they can maintain a 90+ win percentage. I remember seeing a post one time at SRK exposing a bunch of these guys. I reposted it here because I was so baffled by it. It's not like these dudes have just 50 matches, they've played thousands of matches in Casual. Some even had over 10,000 lol.

CharlesAznable said:

Forgot to mention my biggest issue with the game. Too many damn Ryu's online. It's 2018 and people still only pick Ryu? It's not even that I have trouble against them, it just gets boring playing Ryu after Ryu. No lie 3/4s of my matches are against Ryu's. I know it's probably because of my rank, but shit...

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Ryu is common in the lower ranks because he's always been the most popular character and he's easier to play than most. If you start climbing the ranks though you'll hardly ever run into Ryu. I'm Diamond and I rarely face him nowadays. But if you like Cammy, Urien, and Ibuki then they'll be here waiting for you.

CharlesAznable said:

Forgot to mention my biggest issue with the game. Too many damn Ryu's online. It's 2018 and people still only pick Ryu? It's not even that I have trouble against them, it just gets boring playing Ryu after Ryu. No lie 3/4s of my matches are against Ryu's. I know it's probably because of my rank, but shit...

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Ryu, Akuma and Ken are the vast majority of my fights online. So annoying.

I don't think I'll ever come around to this game, it has many things I don't like :(. Tons of 50/50's, AA jabs, throw loops, inconsistency in character modelling/animations, 'simplified' mechanics for newcomers (removing moves from the characters and assigning them to vskill/trigger), most characters only have one 'right way' to play and so on.

At launch, I had high hopes for this game, since it kind of followed the same model as Killer Instinct on Xbox (and that one improved a ton over time), I believed that this would eventually get there, but I played through Season 1 and gave up around when abigail came out since I didn't see any substancial changes and I wasn't really enjoying playing the game. During this time though, I did open myself to try out other fighting games, which is something I'm thankful to SFV for, enjoyed T7 and I fell in love with KOF14 (my main fg for now).

I think you can spend your hard-earned fight money on colors in the in-game store.

selo said:

I don't think I'll ever come around to this game, it has many things I don't like :(. Tons of 50/50's, AA jabs, throw loops, inconsistency in character modelling/animations, 'simplified' mechanics for newcomers (removing moves from the characters and assigning them to vskill/trigger), most characters only have one 'right way' to play and so on.

At launch, I had high hopes for this game, since it kind of followed the same model as Killer Instinct on Xbox (and that one improved a ton over time), I believed that this would eventually get there, but I played through Season 1 and gave up around when abigail came out since I didn't see any substancial changes and I wasn't really enjoying playing the game. During this time though, I did open myself to try out other fighting games, which is something I'm thankful to SFV for, enjoyed T7 and I fell in love with KOF14 (my main fg for now).

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Weren't most of the throw loops nerfed in Season 3?

Silver here, some thoughts:

-Really, I don't see many Ryus. And is not that difficult to fight against them. Actually, I'm afraid from people who use characters that are not popular.

-The new Survival is cool. For me, the best changes are that battles are now random and that you can carry the red bar... but I think it would be more logical that you get red bar at the beginning of the round depends on how much health you have.

-The online code is good. Not the best, but I have too few problems with it.

-As for waiting for online matches, well, my routine is to play arcade or survival while I let the game find a match for me. When I finish the single player game, I turn the pc off. Sometimes I last 2 hours because how many online matches I get... even sometimes I turn the option off because I got other thing to do.

-In PC the game loads notably faster than PS4. My problem is that I have some hiccups, especially on Vega's stage.

-I find cool playing on PC, I use my old Tekken 6 wireless stick to play against my friend, who use a PS4 hori arcade mini.

-I don't get tired of learning new stuff from this game. I watch tournaments and try to apply some moves from there. (Except Sako's Menat, I don't know how he does that)

-I bought Season 1 with real money, but Season 2 and three I've been buying some characters with real money and some with FM. For my play time, I find it fair.

In general, I'm happy with this game. Street Fighter 5 and Overwatch are the only games I constantly play now.

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