I'd like to see how things hold up come Guilty Gear Strive's launch in April, but if this beta is any indicator, we should be looking at another strong online landscape for fans to jump into and enjoy. Overall, the experience was consistently strong, with a netcode that comes close to some of the best online experiences we have in modern fighting games. But outside of those handful of delays, the action stayed flowing. We hit a handful of hiccups throughout our matches, with a connection message popping up on the screen for a split second before disappearing. Despite me being in California, our games were entirely playable. I ran games with players from various regions, including major tests such as my connection to our very own MajinTenshinhan out in Sweden. With Arc System Works now implementing rollback netcode into the game, the initial tests we conducted yielded positive results - for the most part. Strive's netcode during the beta period was very promising. It's probably a pretty telling sign too when most players seem to be bummed that they can't play more until April.
Now, they just need cross-platform play with PC, and Strive could become the gold standard alongside Killer Instinct. My hope is this type of rollback implementation can become standard going forward for all fighting games, but we'll see about that.
Games against Southeastern Asia and Oceanic players were on the fence enough to make me believe that the time for worldwide online tournament is not here yet, but I'm sure it's going to be something the community experiments with after the game launches. I had to travel all the way to Japan to find my one unplayable match, which certainly isn't surprising seeing as I'm in Iowa, so I applaud ArcSys on making intercontinental online play viable in a game like Guilty Gear where you have to deal with air dashes and react to other nonsense from Millia, Chipp and Zato-1. The higher the number, the higher the chance that you'll start to see more impactful rollbacks. Matches of upwards of 200ms ping remained largely stable and playable for me though going above six rollback frames would make it much more likely to start seeing noticeable rollbacks in the game state.Īs far as I'm aware, having like three rollback frames essentially means that you might not see the first three frames of an attack coming out, but has nothing to do with input delay. The ping and rollback frame inclusions were a great choice and learning tool to figure out one's own personal comfort zone in terms of what kind of connection they were getting.
#GUILTY GEAR STRIVE INPUT DELAY OFFLINE#
Strive's rollback will likely get you closest to the mindset of playing offline again since I never had to worry about connections being bad enough that would make me change how I approach playing.Īt least 90 percent of my matches in the North American servers went down without any noticeable visual rollbacks, which felt fantastic, and the majority of games against European and Asian players remained perfectly playable as well. On Saturday night alone, I think I had about 10 "one more match" experiences in a row, which just doesn't happen when I play Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, Granblue Fantasy: Versus or Super Smash Bros. This is the first fighting game in probably years at this point that I've managed to sit down and keep hitting matches over and over and over again because it felt so good to do so. I'll be honest up front though and say that I don't have enough experience to effectively compare to other games like Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat 11, but my ratio of near-flawless / great games was better than Skullgirls when I used to play years ago on PlayStation 4. Let's dive into all of our in-depth impressions of Strive's rollback in the beta now.ĭarkHorse's Guilty Gear Strive beta rollback netcode impressionsĪs some of my colleagues and many online have said for the last week, I think Guilty Gear Strive has the best rollback implementation that I've played in a modern fighting game - and it was a breath of fresh air. The dream of running international online tournaments might not be here just yet, however.
Those connections that were played against the other side of the planet show great promise. Everyone's experience will vary depending on location, connection type and other factors, but Strive seems to handle all of them consistently well to provide one of the smoothest rides in the FGC - that is when you're actually inside of a match.ĪrcSys' unresponsive and weird take on their new lobby system could often bog down the time needed to find a game significantly, but the netcode itself showcased exactly why good rollback is so important to the genre's future.
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