Street Fighter III: Third Strike: Online Edition

[Razor Ramon]

My shit is stuck on the syncing stats screen. This happening to anyone else?

[MechDeus]

Your stats are too much for the netcode to handle. Stop being awesome.

[Hero]

I'm quite terrible at this!

On the bright side, for some reason doing lousy at this is making me marginally better in SF4. At least I'm pulling off links and moves a little more consistently!

[FirstBlood]

a quick correction to Mzo's SPECTACULAR review/blog of this

[in SF4] You have three basic options. The first is quick match, which attempts to find you a match, any match regardless of rank or latency, by joining an existing match as quickly as possible. You should also note that it NEVER WORKS.

Quick match in SF4 doesn't quick search, it just does the same thing that custom match does, but with no filters and it only lists three players. Still incredibly stupid but it's not the precursor to the busted auto-matching in MvC3/3SO.

[EDIT] JUST KIDDING, IT TOTALLY QUICK SEARCHES IN AE, WHICH IS HILARIOUS.

[Pineapple]

For someone who seems to hate the way ranked matches were done with such passion, he sure has played a lot of ranked matches...

[FirstBlood]

I hate MvC3's matchmaking with a passion and I've still played almost 1000 matches.

[Pineapple]

Well I guess when it comes down to it if you like the game enough you'll suffer through the gristle to enjoy the meat. Or something.

[Pineapple]

Saw this video while looking for good matches to watch, holy balls at the Urien.

[Mzo]

I can muster up tons of passion, the more hypocritical the better, at the drop of a hat. I just really like being angry about things.

To be honest if they do rig it so more people who use quick match are actually creating matches than what is happening right now, it could tweak it enough to just be ok. Most people will wait and see what the connection is like before accepting a match nowadays. I would prefer the option to search for a list or create a match myself, but I guess that's asking for way too much at this point.

[FirstBlood]

In a recent iplaywinner interview with seth, he talked about how they really plan to start having a unified online feature set for their games, and that right now they just have different teams "competing" (ie: all of them sucking in one way or another) for the best online stuff between games.