The online in this game is fucking SHIT! The fights are okay, but searching for and joining a ranked fight takes ages. Every time I try to join, it just tells me to fuck off and search again. But then you have the player matches with chums. You can only have 2 people in a lobby!? I was in an Xbox party of 4, so we had to keep sending invites to each other. It's fucking ridiculously retarded! They had a much better system in SFHD where loads of guys could wait in the lobby and watch the fights until it was their turn. How the fuck did Capcom fuck up this badly!?

And I want my fucking replay save feature already!

Yeh it is quite amazing really. Reeks of corporate business decisions. Every single thing past the Xbox Live menu option was better in SFHD, i'm hoping the patch they release fixes this shit up. I liked how the Quick match function in SFHD finds a match for you so you don't have to do it yourself and click past 10 failed tries each time. I like how they ditched that in order to implement their own shitty system that's just in the way. Yeh i'd rather have unlockable text lines and a cute smiley in the lobby that I can change emotion on rather than say being able to find matches easily. Thank you capcom.

I'm telling you, the best, fastest, and most fun way to get matches, is to enable that Challenger thing in Arcade mode. Not only does it work like a charm and gives you a match before the level even loads most of the time, if there's any dead time, you get to beat some CPU and watch anime cutscenes and unlock shit at the same time. Usually I never even get into the first CPU match, it's interupted every single time.

That doesn't help when it comes to friend matches. SFHD improved a lot of things in the series and Capcom just ignored the changes completely. And remember how we were going to get GGPO netcode? Lots of promises but online is mostly shit.

I hope the patch fixes all this stuff, I can barely find ranked matches and when I do they don't have any bp for me to steal anyway.

It is funny that it doesn't lag when I play you though Bisse. For me at least there is no noticeable lag whatsoever.

No not for me either, we're only half the planet apart and I seriously have 0 frames lag it's quite amazing.

For ranked matches I just create my own matches. Works every time. Sometimes I have a challenger before I even enter my own lobby! So that's fine, but not being able to get a group of chaps in the player match lobby all shouting "WHOA! DID YOU SEE THAT!?" is fucking annoying! When I have the chums round my house and I pull off Gouken's Ultra, everyone goes mad, but there's none of that online. BAH! BAH TO YOU, CAPCOM!

holy shit
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=177151
"I might be going crazy trying these links but it seems like the health bar is showing you when to link.
Whenever you hit there's a pulse that flashes above the enemy's life that goes from left to right, when it hits the very end, you link."

m,m,my god
the trials are possible now that i know this, fucking thank god this is in the game

edit: uh or not  maybe it's a placebo effect idk

Challenge mode needed a lot more work imo. Pretty useless.

Actually I tried it and I have no idea what that flashy thing is really supposed to be but, it works! The flashy thing disappears at the same time the animation for your move ends. So the flashy thing has to disappear completely before you can input your next move. So just time your next move for right a millisec after the flashy thing goes away. It's only useful for linking normal moves though, like MP -> MP etc. It doesn't help a lot for spamming c.LP because they cancel into each other, not link.

Yeah, I simply can't stand the trials. Surival and time attack are good fun and I enjoy them, but the trials are a bit frustrating. I won't attempt any more trials unless you unlock a colour or two in them, otherwise I'm sticking with the other two challenge modes.

You don't unlock any colors in Trial mode as far as I've heard. Just titles.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=6127509&postcount=14
There's the list.

Ah, just titles.. I'm not too interested in them anyway since, for some reason, I have a ridiculously difficult time playing online. I tried for about 30 minutes and could only get a game with some Japanese guy who lagged terribly.

Ah, just titles.. I'm not too interested in them anyway since, for some reason, I have a ridiculously difficult time playing online. I tried for about 30 minutes and could only get a game with some Japanese guy who lagged terribly.

TURN ON THE ARCADE CHALLENGE.... THING.

Press LT/LB on main menu to reach the menu where you turn it on.

I use PS3, not 360.


And turning off that arcade challenge thing can prevent me from being able to play against people more easily? I've had it off since I brought the game home because all I've done is unlock characters, a few colours, and fought with a friend in versus for a while.

No the thing is, that arcade challenge thing, is like the best way to find matches. You turn it on, play some arcade mode, and I swear it doesn't even take 5 seconds before it finds a match for you. I rarely even get into the first CPU match when I have it on.

Just start your own ranked game. I usually get a fight within 5 seconds of opening my own lobby.

This game is trully fucken awesome. If you want a game sometime on Xbox 360 just send an invite to Gi j0int. I'm not the best player but I can sorta hold my own. Still new to Street Fighter in some ways.

The arcade challenge (or whatever) definitely helped. I slaughtered a Chun Li with my Rose, but then my alcohol starting kicking in.. And I fought them again only this time the connection was bad so visual impairment + lag = UPRC loses horribly.

Ho ho! Just beat it on Hardest on both PS3 and 360 without using a continue. I have the game for both consoles 'cause I'm fucking stupid.

Have fun unlocking all the characters and achievements twice!