I doubt you can do that in any fighting game. Sounds like a lot of people this is their first online fighting game or something.
This comment is a bit ironic. You can do that in plenty of fighting games, including Street Fighter V.
You can watch an online lobby match while its already in play? I didnt play SFV that much but a lot of fighting games dont have that feature.
Yes. If a match is currently happening and you enter the lobby, you will be brought into spectate and it will fast forward through the match until it reaches real time. Many other fighting games have done this, as well.
And which games are those? Not that I think you're lying or anything but I wasn't able to do this DBFZ, SFIVAE, MK, Injustice or KI. You join a king of the hill or endless lobby and they wont show you anything until the next match.
In SFV, the match fast forwards all the time in lobbies while spectating.
It's actually difficult for me to recall the specific ones, since I'm saying this with previous knowledge of games I acknowledged did this at the time but not enough for me to call upon them. I think Persona 4 Arena and some other ASW games might have done this.
In my small time in playing SFV I only did 1v1 without the lobby. Didn't help that the game's online was pretty janky at the time so I just gave up on the game.
That's good to know. Doesn't seem like a popular expected feature in fighting game if only those few have it. I understand wanting it but I dont think its odd to not expect it if you play many fighters.
LOL is different. A lot of fighting games dont have this feature due to technical reasons. As mentioned above only a handful of games have them and its dependent on the developer. So paying for online doesn't mean you'll get spectating mode in the middle of when a match has started in a fighting game.
I was getting good performance regardless of preferred rules on or off. 4 players or 2 players. Day 1 had some big 30 second lag freezes but for the last 2 days I haven't seen any of that. Well whatever is happening, I'm glad it's working for me now. Too bad I'm rusty and constantly get owned as I try new characters.
Its placebo and luck.
Calling me a dick for rightly calling out what a shitshow this online system is a ridiculous. What in that post is worthy of name calling? Because the lobby system isn't a viable alternative to a ranked mode? Because nothing has been updated and people are thinking that Nintendo is magically fixing the matchmaking system when they aren't? Or that workarounds help deal with the problems when theyre not? Multiple people have also been saying it isn't better, whose right? Are they fixing the online or are people just getting lucky and attributing that to a fix that nintendo hasn't made? Whats more likely here? Nothing has changed, unless someone wants to pull up what specifically was patched or fixed, and since were all running on the 1.1 version I'm going to go ahead and say nothing has changed. Note also I haven't called you a dick for disagreeing with me.
So youre super lucky, whats your point? Nothing has changed. And Im not going to let people pretend it has so we let them off the hook with fixing this shit show. When a fix goes through and they address it we can talk about its updated state but getting RNG'd into matches you want while others are saying that isn't happening for them at nearly the same rate as you proves nothing.
Plus you can't gain GSP in arenas which means you cant unlock elite smash, nor can you change characters between matches without jumping out of line. If host quits the whole lobby goes down. Why is it when youre searching for public matches 2/3s of them are locked with a private password, why is that listed public at all? Its just a headache in a very different way than quickplay is.
Yeah you can join in the lobby and spectate before a match starts but if you're not spectating or join when the match has started you cant. Even in DBFZ if you decide to switch character when 2 other people are fighting and you dont finish in time you wont get to spectate. You gotta wait till the fight is over.
I think it's defaulted around 200k or so. I started there and I'm terrible at the game and quickly fell to around 20k. I got less FFA down in the dumpster for some reason, but I've climbed back up to ~200k, and I'm seeing them a lot more again. Hopefully I can git gud enough to climb and stop getting the FFAs as frequently.
I've also had 3 days in a row with only 1v1. Most connections are good too. Easily the most enjoyable Smash experience I've had. Battle Arenas are also cool, but I'm a sucker for rankings, as meh as GSP is.
