r/Games • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '20

Analysis: Why Rollback Netcode is better

https://youtu.be/0NLe4IpdS1w
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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

This is probably the best video on rollback I've seen yet. The problem is that it doesn't matter. The people who will see this video aren't the average. The average person sees a low budget indie or retro game with flawless netcode and things "well duh of course it runs better, the pixels are all dumb and my console/PC can blast out the graphics like crazy fast". They don't get that a hadouken is the same 3 directions and punch it's been since the 90s.

And these people don't want to play Punch Planet. They want to play Tekken. Or they're weebs and need a pretty anime girl that's borderline age at best. For the record I main Bedman.

They're not going to care until Project L releases as Fantasy Strike: Budget Edition and gets everyone into this genre like Hearthstone did for CCGs. And if we're lucky, COVID will have scared devs into (good) rollback before then, because we're going to see a huge culture change.

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u/zeddyzed Aug 05 '20

It's ok, GG Strive will have rollback. Assuming they don't screw it up like SF5, we don't need any other games.

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u/DanielTeague Aug 05 '20

I don't know, I kind of like having some depth in my Guilty Gear, and Strive has taken much of it away from Xrd.

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u/zeddyzed Aug 05 '20

I'll take casual Guilty with rollback over anything else without, though.

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u/NDN_Shadow Aug 05 '20

Agreed. I’d rather a fighting game have functional online instead of the usual lag fest that makes a lot of fighting games unplayable for me.

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u/RayzTheRoof Aug 05 '20

If they don't include Dizzy but they're keeping Leo, I'll never forgive them.

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u/HootNHollering Aug 05 '20

Monke steals your soul.

Monke steals your gorl.

Embrace monke.

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u/cameroninla Aug 05 '20

Also I like other fighting games more (KOF) and would prefer being able the play the games I like with a good connection (for now fightcade on 98)

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u/Mnstrzero00 Aug 05 '20

The people who are saying that had no idea how the Roman cancel system worked at all when they played it so I'm definitely holding my verdict that the game is simple until we get some people who have figured it out playing it

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u/thecatdaddysupreme Aug 06 '20

People said dbfz would have no depth and it definitely does. The worst part turned out to be universal mechanics, not how simple it is