I'm pretty sure you can do that. He's referring to ranked matches, where you can only play against random people. There are no lobbies for ranked matches. For unranked, there are lobbies and there is no reason to assume that you can't make it private. It's just that all those matches will be unranked at all times.
True, true, especially since DOA5 has very good chances of bringing in a brand new audience. And this brand new audience isn't going to jump straight into the tourney scene, so guess where they're going to get impressions of the community?
You don't get how that works, do you? Servers run smoother before they're heavily populated, not worse. You think reviewers are going to be playing on servers that are running like garbage pre-release? Come on. I get optimism and the game itself is otherwise phenomenal, but don't be delusional.
Yes you can. They are Lobby matches, Simple matches (random unranked) and Ranked (random...well, ranked).
On the opposite side of the coin, don't take experiences with the first week of online play as precedent. The servers will be seeing the highest amount of traffic (well, unless something of EVO '04 caliber happens for DOA5) on release and we should expect to see the WORST of DOA5 ONLINE for a little while. Sadly.
If you mean after launch, absolutely. Servers get hammered for a bit after the launch of a new game. If they're ready for the traffic it won't be an issue. I've let the right people know the online needs attention, so I'm hopeful it'll be handled. Like I said, the game itself as an absolute blast to play. Rikuto and I fought for a solid four to five hours yesterday, though not all of it was straight versus. Good times, though the bastard adjusts to shit too quickly for my liking...
Good stuff, needed to hear that. It's probably waaaay t0o late to make significant, safe netcode adjustments but hey, the Online mode is always a wildcard when it comes to fighting games. Even if the lag is, at worst, constantly threatening the gameplay, as long as it keeps players interested in taking their game to the next level is what I care about....
You cant really compare a FPS to a fighting game because fighting games run so heavily on frame rate and timing. The complaints are about the overrall quality of the matches which i hope becomes better when the games released. From what im hearing its hit and miss some people are having a decent experience others arent.
Thank you sir i had the impression that the online was setup similar to TTT2 where there were no lobbies and this is very good news. Now i guess the only thing im really worried about is the quality of the netcode and if it isnt up to par hopefully it will be patched SOON.
Its true but all you have to do is go to sites like virtuafighter.com to find players who will be on to add to your friends list. I always find ranked matches for the most part but i do wish more people were playing the game. I like you am not really interested in SCV or TTT2.
