I like KOF, but with netcode like this and an inability to consistently get offline play, I'm going to be dropping the game once Blazblue or Skullgirls hits, games I know will play well online.
I can tolerate mediocre netcode,I could tolerate online Tekken, but this falls short of mediocre. I've seen a few guys actively try to lag abuse also.
Have you played either game yet??? If not, you can't be so sure of its performance... Everyone thought that 3SOE was gonna be great online... Well, it sure ain't HDR in terms of netcode performance...
As for BB, it was best during BBCT, and kinda declined as it progressed forward... That's been the view of quite a few players in the scene...
I'm honestly surprised you could bear Tekken 6 online. I have it for both psn and 360, and aside from the 2 frame delay, it worked better on 360 when it came to online matches. Either way, its still not saying much, because the netcode for that game barely passed the performance of T5DR Online...
You shouldn't just ditch something that fast... I'm pretty sure a patch of some sorts is in the works... The same thing happened to MK9, and the game is still getting mad play online...
Well, I haven't had many 1 bar matches. 2 bars, I've had quite a few, but even still, they all performed rather differently. I've had a bit of 3 bar matches, too... What kills me is I face people in Mexico with 2 bars, and it performs pretty good. I fight someone in the states that's not East Coast with 3 bars, and its meh sometimes. Only 2 games dropped on me so far, with no one at fault.
Well, I'm not ditching the game until SC5 at a minimum, so that's two months.
I refuse to play 1 or 2 bars period. As for Tekken, it was bad for doing some things, but the things it was bad at, were the reasons I think VF is a better game, so I didn't mind it so much. I know that will have good netcode.
next year has 3 games that are likely to have great netcode: Skullgirls, next BB, VF5FS.
Tried for half hour to get a match, got one, and the guy was a super lag abuser. Really annoying, only could deal with him by shutting my game down to his level. Then again I bet everything is lag abuse online to a degree. Still, weaksauce. I get more matches even playing Arcana Heart that are good, and that's much more poverty then KOF.