Impressions so far:
This is SFEX2 without Excel and Meteo Combos. It plays great, feels great and, well, it's just great. they even tightened up the juggling system a little (which threw me off a little at first).
Online is solid when it is solid. I feel like the minimum connection request when matchmaking is either not working or not a real indication of quality. I don't expect 5 bars all the time but asking for 4 bars or better and barely getting that once is weird.
So far I've had:
1 person who kept running it back with because it at least felt like they were new to how the games play and were getting the hang of it. Connection wasn't amazing but it was easily 3-4 bars.
1 person who really didn't want to keep playing and rage quite on the 3rd match.
1 person who was pretty clearly lag switching or something similar, since the first match (that I lost) was smooth as butter all 4 rounds, second match I won 2 rounds then immediately after the second round the connection went to shit and stayed there for another few matches until the dude just outright ended the game at the rematch screen.
1 person who lagged REALLY badly while playing Darun and only knew how to do 2 things.
1 person that I tried to play that just outright stopped the match 10 seconds in.
I've found some really weird bugs/issues with hit detection and I feel like maybe the dashing attacks don't need to be there. They do less damage, aren't terribly hard to avoid/block (when there's not a lot of lag anyway), and they at least see to have some higher priority over other standard normals. 2 people almost literally just made it their MO to do dash in attack chains then either a) cancel into their safest super then dash back and do t again or b) dash back and do it again.
Either way, I'm very happy to have this and hope we get more character and system reveals sooner than later, as I wants mah Pullum back. This kind of feels like what SFEX3 should have been instead of what we got (even though I enjoy EX3). Here's hoping this is a good sign of the final game, because what I'm seeing here is fantastic.
