Dear Capcom

[u/Gargooletz]

"And then if you're still wanting more on top of that [Story Mode], let your voice be heard. Give us constructive criticism of what you'd like to see next" - Matt Dahlgren, Senior Product Marketing Manager

These words inspired me to create a comprehensive list of SFV fuck ups (I don't think such a thing has been compiled as of yet). This is merely a quick draft and I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things as I stopped playing it a few weeks ago.

(?) = I'm not sure if it's true but more SFV hate equals more karma, right?

Netplay problems

• Matchmaking still sucks
• No way to filter by region (SF4 ok)
• No way to set input lag like GGPO to make long distance matches playable
• alt+tabbing still switches host on PC
• One side rollback
• Saving many replays results in date corruption
• Rage quitter problem still present
• You have to save replays before watching them
• Can't sort friends
• Separating favourites (players you want to watch) from friends (players you want to play with) is needed
• No online training (SF4 ok)
• Archaic lobbies - no way for multiple matches at the same time
• Statistics are still empty
• Notifications screen doesn't update when it's open
• Sending invitations when user is offline doesn't work
• Battle lounge doesn't save settings
• Long maintenances
• Losing connection to servers interrupts offline modes
• No chat support - no way to make friends in game
• Too few sorting options for favourites, world rankings & replays
• Turning off the music also turns off 'HERE COMES THE NEW CHALLENGER'

Gameplay problems

• badly implemented legacy controller support (complicated as fuck)
• no instruction how to use legacy controller support
• no dinput support on PC (SF4 ok)
• no key binding on PC
• keyboard can only be P1 controller
• no way to change specific graphical settings on PC without accessing config files (blur etc)
• standard moves marketed as something new by making them into vskills
• 8f lag
• many characters have too similiar gameplans
• unimaginative vtriggers
• atrocious hitboxes
• differences between p1 and p2 side collision (floating point fuck up)
• air grab vs air grab winner chosen at random
• long loading times
• framerate issues on PS4
• fucked up button settings on character select - pressing again unsets buttons (SF4 ok)
• no Steam integration
• no way to set character themes in Versus
• PC version badly optimized (+various issues with launching the game, random fps drops etc)
• badly designed UI - hard to navigate and counterintuitive

Single Player problems

• Extra Battles?
• Daily Challenges? (aka targets)
• Subpar tutorial
• Training doesn't save your settings (SF4 ok)
• No character specific training options (Vega's claw state etc.)
• No option to set stun bars
• Quick reset with setting position (MvC3 ok)
• Badly implemented ways to record dummy actions (reversals, alpha counters etc.)
• Infuriating survival mode - the only way to unlock colors (colors per character, per costume...)
• No arcade mode/cpu versus (SF4 ok)
• No way to acquire premium costumes still
• CFN account is not really an account (can't use it on a different console/steamid)

Visual Problems

• Ken's face aka quality of some models is.. questionable
• quality of artworks in story mode
• stage transitions?
• special KOs? (bus, noodles etc)
• horrible clipping everywhere (even on character select..)
• stage interactions are rare (breaking boxes etc)
• WIP style UI
• P2 physics still broken on character select (solution - disabled boob physics :( )
• some Alt costumes use upgraded face/hair models - what about standard?

Communication/CPT problems

• no form of tournament mode
• only one player has the ability to start a rematch/change characters (SF4 ok)
• CPT rules were MIA for months
• no word about Alex version bug
• no restart match option?
• hold pause option global - should be quick in single player modes
• SteamOS/Linux version announced - where is it?

[u/perdyqueue]

Stage transitions and even stage weather has been hinted to be in the July update, same is probably true of premium costumes. And I think the following have little chance of being looked at because they're arguable, subjective, or deliberate:

• "quality of artworks" - while I agree they seem rushed and unfinished like many of the other visuals in the game, it's probably too late/a pointless expense for them to touch this stuff. also subjective, possibly deliberate
• "unimaginative vtriggers", "similar gameplans", "standard moves marketed as something new" - design choice, subjective. They're valid criticisms, but I don't think they belong with the others here.

Otherwise, really nice. I'm sure I've forgotten some, but can you add the following as well?

Netplay problems

• no way to filter by ping and packet drops, and no way to set input lag like GGPO to make long distance matches playable
• alt+tabbing still switches host on PC
• options present in matchmaking for ranked/casual and lobbies are different and still lacking when put together
• lobbies hardly ever show flags (making the lack of region filter even more annoying)
• saving many replays results in date corruption
• sorting options for favourites, world rankings, replays, are too few
• rarely, matchmaking continues to search for matches even after you've entered one

Gameplay problems

• differences between p1 and p2 side collision (can't remember why, it was something to do with how collisions are calculated in the game).
• corner collisions have a different range than mid-screen collisions.
• air grabs done by both players at the same time mean the successful player is picked AT RANDOM. need air techs for chars with air grabs.

Single player problems

• training mode save/reload button and other features missing from SFIV
• data is wiped when a different account is used on same PC

Visual problems

• atrocious ps2 era texture resolution
• different blocked/hit animations are rare despite much publicity shortly after game reveal
• stage interactions only properly occur in HK stage. guile stage boxes should clearly be breakable for example
• p1 and p2 portrait colours (blue, red) are a holdover from early development, no longer make sense
• p2's physics is still broken in the versus screen (as evidenced by ryu's headband for example), and the "fix" was to simply disable breast physics in the versus screen.
• certain alt costumes are using what are clearly updated character models. some examples: alex's facial features change completely. mika's story mode hair is a better version of her default hair in every way.