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Street Fighter V Beta Thread: Welcome, future '16ers! (Currently Inactive!)
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biosnake20
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Hopefully it'll only be down for a few days.
MegamanXZero
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It's not only that, but the Japanese tend to apologize for stuff they don't even have to apologize for.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Yeah, this too.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I get paid to test alphas and betas, further away from release than this, they usually go a shit ton better. Other public playable betas have gone way better than this as well. This happening now is also not a guarantee that something similar won't reoccur during launch. In fact, i'm curious, when's the last time this happened? Where the server load during a beta was so bad that the team had to reschedule and the majority of people couldn't play?
Capcom is pretty close to the tournament scene right now, they would not do that.
Stone Ocean
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The game is like 9 months away and there are two more betas to go and this is likely a beta-only issue since the beta is online-only, come on now
stop trying to put out the fire! I wanna see it buuuurn baby!
Not going to happen.
The only reason this beta is online only is because they want to test the netcode and online features. If people would be able to play offline then Capcom wouldn't be able to collect as much data.
but those cases weren't with so many people jamming the servers at the same time, right?
the problem here is that this beta was almost made to market the game, of course a lot of people will make a lot of pressure on the server..
in the end, they could not cover the demand
Infernostew
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The thirst is real. Servers couldn't take the heat. Luckily this is happening now so they'll be covered at launch.
Man, I was super excited for this all week. I really hope the rescheduling isn't that far out.
Also to people saying "lol this wasn't a demo it was a beta" - I think most people here knew that. And I fully expected the servers to go down for at least an hour due to server load. What I didn't expect was for it to be down for 9 hours, which I can't remember happening for any other stress test I've partcipated in. Capcom fucked up.
Also to people saying "lol this wasn't a demo it was a beta" - I think most people here knew that. And I fully expected the servers to go down for at least an hour due to server load. What I didn't expect was for it to be down for 9 hours, which I can't remember happening for any other stress test I've partcipated in. Capcom fucked up.
Muchi Muchi Pink
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Evolve beta was a disaster (At the beginning). BF Hardline didn't work right away either. And those games were closer to release than this.
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
Splatoon.
FadedRevolution
Member
Alot of butthurt people in this thread. It sucks that it's not working but it's the first beta we got two more after this before launch. Let's get these problems knocked out now rather than having another halo launch.
Codiox
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To adjust from pad to stick? One week. But trained almost everyday at least an hour.
Definitely at least 4-5 hours of playing. probably more. Transitioning from pad to stick is frustrating at first because in the beginning you're definitely going to play worse than you did on pad, but eventually it'll "click" and you'll wonder how you ever played a fighting game without one.
Stone Ocean
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Not recently but it took me a few days to get used to it when I first switched.
I honestly don't know.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Actually curious about how many people actually tried to play this.
Karsticles
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Not recently, but when I started 5 years ago, it took 3 months to fully transition.
badgerfan20945
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It's a good thing to have this beta soon to work out the issues. With that said, this beta was to test the netcode and the content delivery, and most people couldn't even make it to the title screen. I have a feeling it's gonna be down for a while.
Primethius
Banned
Ah, sucks that I won't be able to play the beta today.
But what can ya do.
But what can ya do.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Depends on how much you play. The timing between stick movement and button press is noticeably different than with a pad I think, but then once you get used to it you're in heaven.
bumpkin
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I have been a pad user for fighting games since SFII on the SNES. I was never a high-level player, decent enough to hold my own generally. I'd say it took me about a week or two playing an hour or so a day to get to the point that I was as good on a stick as I was using a pad. The only thing I never quite hot a handle on was doing dashes (double-tapping a direction) proficiently. That's probably related to the give/distance-to-engage on my stick's gate though.
I'm using one of MadCatz's SFIV Fightstick Tournament Edition sticks, BTW.
This is the correct answer: took me about that time to get REALLY comfortable with using a stick.
I don't believe all the "only a few days" answers... :3
MMaRsu
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What? Its a beta dude. The game plays great.
Stone Ocean
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Joke's on you, I wasn't too good with a pad to begin with!
It's a beta for a reason, it's good they're sorting this out now.
Haha, fair enough I guess!
Not a disaster, but it sure doesn't look good for Capcom.
I wouldn't assume these issues would translate to the full game. I can think of a few games that had big problems during the stress test that ended up being completely fine at release - Splatoon and Titanfall come to mind. And those stress tests were way closer to their respective game releases than this beta is.
P L A Y A B L E B E T A B O Y S
streetfighter.com/beta said:
Access
Online
Beta.
there is no access to be had.
Saint Gregory
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That was fixed in an hour though. I'm not crying over this since it will help Capcom get the game ready for launch but it's kind of disappointing since I haven't been at any of the trade shows or tournaments and really wanted to test the game out.
Lol same here. First game i learned how to play properly was T5 and i did that on the T5 stick. After that i started jumping to different games so i never learned anything on pad
