Originally Posted by
NotShadow
These reviews are kind of scaring me. Most of them are saying multiplayer is impossible to play. What have your experiences been?
all not recommended reviews involving multiplayer are from salty people who lose online to lag. for PC the netcode has always been pretty bad. but unless you're internet is complete shit, or the person you're playing someone who is using a lag switch it's not as bad as it's being put on to be.
playing ranked myself, even the red bars are not unplayable. it can be frustrating if you get salty when you lose (especially when you lose points online) but endless online seems to lag much less than ranked online. the worst connection I have is with someone who lives in mexico and in general has bad net, and even then we can get minimal lag in endless on training stage. that being said, it's mostly the stages that will cause you lag online.
long story short, the lag has the potential to be bad if you're playing someone who: is far away from you
AND has bad net
AND you're playing on a 'graphic heavy' stage. that's the only way the game is unplayable online.
so to sum it up, it's the best fighting game in terms of gameplay and probably one of the more balanced ones out there. if you are planning on being a hardcore online warrior and only playing for points so you can be the #1 ken online on PC then don't buy it because it's going to be a frustrating experience due to the small lag issues and how people will actually play online. if you are planning on buying it to learn some stuff about fighting games and have fun, you can quite easily hop on endless with the rest of us with minimal to no lag.
tl;dr good game, pretty bad netcode, not unplayable, not extremely frustrating unless under extreme conditions.