Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting Xbox Live

[Yoshimax]

Different net configurations - same thing happens with DOA - Say you have players A, B and C.

A&B can play each other and it's lagless, likewise A&C can play each other lagless but when B&C play it's laggy and if you get A, B and C in a room together it's the same because there's something between B&C causing it - routers I'd hazard it's why I always plug my 360 directly into the cable modem.

[Simmy]

Think the only lag free experience I've ever had was on Halo, always otherwise been bits of lag here and there within a full game. Difference is in an fps etc a momentery stutter does not cause a problem you just play around it, but with street fighter it can mean half an energy bar gone. I may try hardwiring the 360 when I get my new house and net setup, but I can't honestly see it making much difference with this.

[Psyduck]

Simmy you're absolutely always gonna get "lag", as in a delay, when playing fighters online - there's no other way for them to work. Other genres can hide it, but not fighters. You've just got to try to adapt, and try to anticipate a little...in my experience the delay is usually pretty consistant in SF2 throughout a fight.

[hudson]

Yeah. Plus I don't think this cocks up SF playing legnds that much too as a couple of my friends who are SF demons still give people lessons on this online.

[Simmy]

Just obviously bothers me more than others then, as I find it pretty unplayable most times. I expected lag tbh, and anticipated that it would spoil the game for me, just hoped it would not ! I'm sure I could learn to play the game slightly differently and anticipate the opposition etc, but tbh I don't think I can be arsed, as it's never going to be as much fun.

edit : I have to say though this is by far the worst in game lag I've seen consistently. The game feels like your playing through jam most of the time, where as in an fps that effect may happen for 30 seconds in a 10 minute game.

[randombs]

what really throws me off is playing a lag-free match with someone like phillai after having played a bunch of laggy ones. suddenly the game goes into turbo mode and i'm all wtf for a few rounds. problem with phillai is his internet keeps cocking up so it's short-lived

i find i can tell straight away what the lag will be like by watching the flashing cursors on the character select - if they're flickering at epileptic levels then prepare for the SF goodness. if they're not, then adjust your timing, boys

[Simmy]

That makes me think it is my connection, as the character select screen is always laggy for me !

[Widegoat]

That makes me think it is my connection, as the character select screen is always laggy for me !

Add me to your friends list (Widegoat) and I'll play you next time you're on - see if the lag is still bad. Where in UK are you and what ISP do you use?

[dataDave]

Your one lucky chap then ! I think it may bother some more than others though, as I played a guy yesterday that said "oh its great to get a lag free game" where as to me it was better, but still completely broken by lag ! Once I've got my new 8 meg set up I'll give it another try, but if I can't pull off late dragon punches on oponents then there is no point in the game to me

I'm on 10meg and it's still wank.

[Crimson Day]

does anyone know if capcom are workingon a update to combat the awful live issues?

[Widegoat]

I'm on 10meg and it's still wank.

Me too 1 meg up 10 meg down. We're going a bit off topic but really after a point lag shouldn't have anything to do with connection bandwidth, particularly if the connection is uncontested. Perhaps the problem is with certain ISPs?

[randombs]

I have to say though this is by far the worst in game lag I've seen consistently. The game feels like your playing through jam most of the time, where as in an fps that effect may happen for 30 seconds in a 10 minute game.

but that's the thing. it's cos they can't do all that swanky prediction stuff like with 3D games such as fps's - all the games will be suffering from the same pings, it's just that they handle it differently.

don't forget the speed of your internet is one thing, but unlike the older live sf games, you can't restrict your searches to domestic players.

also, i dunno what the coloured bars mean - are they based on the ping from your own machine or from the live servers? probably explains why people are having good results with red bar players - maybe they're in the uk and hence have slower uploads than their 10mbit-owning brethren, but are closer so the lack of distance makes up for the decreased speed?

[Simmy]

I'm with freedom2surf. Not had any issues with Live other than occassional lag on other titles. Will add you once I'm back on in a couple of weeks, after moving into my new house.

360 is in a draw at my folks atm

[djtickle]

Im on NTL 4mb and not had any problems.

[Crimson Day]

im only on 1mb but normally find the lag fine. every few games theres terrable lag but thats it. all i want sorted is those dam timouts in ranked matchs its like i can only fight 1 evry ten matchsft: