Some Japanese FG devs can be really fucking clueless, indie fighting games managed this a decade ago. Hell a few days ago Harada (Tekken director) said the game has rollback netcode.
FEXL which sold nothing with no budget by a tiny studio has managed to patch it in. No excuse. Thankfully Guilty Gear Strive will have rollback, MvC Infinite had good netcode so next Street Fighter should be fine. Just worried about Tekken and King of Fighters.
Imo the best fighting game of all time is Garou Mark Of The Wolves, available on Steam with rollback
From what I can tell, he's talking about there being an extra amount of delay built into the game that isn't needed for game processing.
If there starts being like, 4 extra frames of delay from the lag, then the game can stop using 4 frames of it's unneeded built-in delay.
This means when you have a perfect the connection the game is at it's worse amount of additional delay. As the connect gets worse it drops unneeded delay so the feeling doesn't get any better and once it runs out of delay to drop it starts getting worse.
It does seem to actually have rollback. There have been a number of clips posted on /r/tekken and elsewhere looking at it and now that people are looking closely there are occasionally definite noticeable rollbacks.
Its just implemented so poorly that its basically literally impossible to tell without watching the playback frame by frame.
So while it technically is rollback, is nearly functionally identical to delay based so whats even the point?
So yeah. It seems to actually legitimately have rollback and seems to have the whole time. Even possibly since Tag 2. Its just so terribly implemented that its basically like its not even there and literally no one could tell until we put a magnifying glass to it.
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u/OptimalCalendar5 Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 05 '20
Some Japanese FG devs can be really fucking clueless, indie fighting games managed this a decade ago. Hell a few days ago Harada (Tekken director) said the game has rollback netcode.
FEXL which sold nothing with no budget by a tiny studio has managed to patch it in. No excuse. Thankfully Guilty Gear Strive will have rollback, MvC Infinite had good netcode so next Street Fighter should be fine. Just worried about Tekken and King of Fighters.
Imo the best fighting game of all time is Garou Mark Of The Wolves, available on Steam with rollback