Yeah, only Code Mystics care enough to add rollback to their ports. SNK themselves don't do that (so does pretty much every JP dev)
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Garou: Mark of the Wolves now has rollback netcode (PC/PS4/Vita) [24 hour giveaway!]
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Played way longer than I should have last night. Had no real problem finding matches if I created a lobby and went to training. Pretty much everybody online is a killer. I'm pretty decent at the game and I legit couldn't touch like 4-5 players I ran into even in longer sets.
Netcode is perfect. Port feels amazing to me, but I never put much time into the arcade version.
I'm the kind of person that loves official releases over going on fightcade, so every game that gives me an opportunity to give the devs money for a great online experience is one I'm there for.
Netcode is perfect. Port feels amazing to me, but I never put much time into the arcade version.
I'm the kind of person that loves official releases over going on fightcade, so every game that gives me an opportunity to give the devs money for a great online experience is one I'm there for.
I guess my PS4 version will be patching, but I'm going to get the Steam version now, too, so that I can support this.
To be fair the 360 port was always bad. Like it was basically the Dreamcast port.
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Connection quality (video)
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If anyone is curious about the netcode, here's a match I had. I'm in the eastern Caribbean, my opponent is in North East England - 4,369 miles/7,031 kilometres apart.
With delay/lockstep netcode, we would never have even been matched with one another, as it surely would have been a 1 bar connection at best.
Another example of rollback netcode not only improving the experience, but expanding the number of players that can play together.
With delay/lockstep netcode, we would never have even been matched with one another, as it surely would have been a 1 bar connection at best.
Another example of rollback netcode not only improving the experience, but expanding the number of players that can play together.
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Marco Rodriguez is my main too!
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I got two trophies last night for online wins, so I think you'll likely be able to eek them all out over the weekend.
I've been playing daily with the x360 port of the game on my Xbox One X at work, though only offline matches. I might look into it playing Online matches from home now that this got added. I assume there's no crossplay between the different platforms (Except maybe Vita to PS4?), but what about between the different versions (ie: Steam & GOG)?
All versions except for the 360 version and the switch version are now the codemystics port. There's no crossplay (yet?).
Yeah, there's only PS4 to Vita crossplay. Unfortunately no Steam to GOG.
And I read that you can revert the new version to the old DotEmu version on Steam, for whatever reason.
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I hope so but I really doubt it. That would only be the case if they brought in Code Mystics during development. We've seen them hire Code Mystics to put rollback in their retro titles before, only to continue to release new games with delay-based netcode. It's perplexing. Someone at SNK clearly understands the need for rollback - else they wouldn't bother touching these old games - yet it's somehow not seen as worthwhile for the new games they develop?
The 360 version from XBLA is basically the PS2 version with the guard cancel text display bug fixed. Even now, it has the lowest input lag of all ports, IIRC. Both it and the PS2 version run a smidge faster than the arcade, but other than that they are both very good ports.
I have all three (XBLA, PS2, and Dreamcast), and I have also played the original MVS many times. TBH for offline play the XBLA version is probably still the best port.
But yeah, Dreamcast port is trash.
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Steam page no longer says "mixed" for reviews. Now changed to "mostly positive", while recent reviews are "very positive".
Did they patch it to fix the audio issues and frame skip? Until the native PS4/Vita ports the PS2 was arguably the best home version. At least the demo/trial for the 360 version looked awful and ran kind of poopy when it came out. Not that it matters now of course, but it's nice to hear if they did fix the issues it had.
I'd say the Hamster Arcade Archives version on Switch and the Microsoft Store is the best one for offline play, because it's arcade-perfect.
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You'll find people playing, and thanks to rollback, distance and connection quality isn't much of an issue. You just might run into the same group of people over and over.
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Lol I just woke up, and yeah I saw the 10% sale. Weird, I could have sworn it goes way cheaper than that. Ah well. :)
I assume it's because they know better than to attach a brand-new patch to a deep discount. KOF97 and Sam Sho V, otoh, are down 50% each.
Lol, I almost bought both of those last night. Now I get 2 for 1.
Ended up playing this an extra hour more than I planned. It's good. It's damn good. Did not have one bad match. The worst match I had was one with 4 frame delay and 150ms ping and it was more than playable. Anything below 100 pretty much nearly felt as responsive as in the same room
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bought this on switch, unfortunately it doesnt get the update for online
Yep, tis possible. Let them know on social media!
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The game has now broken it's all-time player peak on Steam. Still a small number, but it's good to see more people playing it now than ever before thanks to rollback netcode.
Hell yeah, it'll be nice to gift it to a friend and kick their ass
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