Mortal Kombat X's netcode is embarrassing.

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Across three systems, MKX's netcode has had a variety of connectivity issues that hinder it from being an enjoyable online experience. To begin;

-The PS4 version of Mortal Kombat X is region locked. Meaning players can only play in whatever region they live in instead of worldwide. This is not the case for the Xbox One and PC versions of MKX. They said this was done to 'ensure' a playable experience. This isn't the case after the game has settled in the market/players hands.
-MKX uses input-delay based netcode instead of rollback based netcode, which leads to a variety of input issues between both players. (A brief explanation on rollback-based netplay vs input-lag here ) This is bad because MKX is apparently undergoing an officially sanctioned online tournament with the very same netcode that has the same input-delay issues that were present in MK9 and Injustice.
-The two current gen fighting games available now, Killer Instinct and Guilty Gear Xrd both possess rollback-based netplay that makes it's online experience tolerable, with the former being capable of holding multiple 32/64-man online tournaments without breaking a sweat and the latter being able to do smooth netplay between both the PS3 and PS4.

An independent developer like Iron Galaxy and a small Japanese developer that has DLC practices worse than NetherRealm/Warner Bros. is managing to beat the shyt out of it in what matters most for fighting games in this age; which is tolerable online play.
 

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This is a shambles on NRS's part. Every game with online multiplayer should have global network options. It's disgusting that a fighting game is region locked in 2015.
Its disgusting that you nikkaz act like PSN is a suitable service to begin with. This the type of bullshyt they routinely pull on you nikkaz and all of you just turn the other cheek :wrist:
 

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Its disgusting that you nikkaz act like PSN is a suitable service to begin with. This the type of bullshyt they routinely pull on you nikkaz and all of you just turn the other cheek :wrist:

Really? I'm comfortable with PSN and it isn't causing me any grief. Besides i'm still on the ps3 and PSN is free... so that's good enough for me.

Oh and link says it all lol > http://www.listwar.com/ps-plus-vs-gold/
 

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Damn and I was hyped to play this :francis:
 

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This is a shambles on NRS's part. Every game with online multiplayer should have global network options. It's disgusting that a fighting game is region locked in 2015.

The game's online component is already shytty when east coast is fighting west coast, no need to further that terrible experience by allowing global connectivity.:scust::scust:

IDK about yall but a lot of the times I play a game against someone overseas, they lag their asses off and skip around. No thanks. :pacspit:
 

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The game's online component is already shytty when east coast is fighting west coast, no need to further that terrible experience by allowing global connectivity.:scust::scust:

IDK about yall but a lot of the times I play a game against someone overseas, they lag their asses off and skip around. No thanks. :pacspit:

Region locking is proven way of improving your multiplayer experience and I'm glad we have developers like NetherRealm who have gamers' interests at heart. :troll:


They literally shot themselves in the foot. Instead of making competent net code they just region lock the multiplayer to avoid Latency issues.

The FGC is global and i think it'll just harm the game's online community in the long run more than aid it.
 

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have like 36 losses because the the input lag is unbearable just fukking sad, its 2015 why are we still dealing with this

Otherwise mkx is the best fighting game out right now
 

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I gotta cosign this. When its good, its not very negligible, but when its bad :merchant: moves wil out right refuse to come out sometimes or come out seconds later. At worst, the game will freeze after becoming a slide show.

My ps4 is wired to 150+mbs connection also :francis:

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Really? I'm comfortable with PSN and it isn't causing me any grief. Besides i'm still on the ps3 and PSN is free... so that's good enough for me.

Oh and link says it all lol > http://www.listwar.com/ps-plus-vs-gold/
First off, the fact that it was free is why it kept going down, why every NEW game that was a AAA game had online issues on PS3. You still rocking a PS3 says you don't really care about online gaming too much so this topic doesn't even apply to you like that. Name a AAA PS3 game that came out without lag issues, I'll wait :popcorn:

Finally that list you posted :stop: Cuz that is a fake list. The titles on PS4 all suck. Nobody rated Towerfall Ascension an 87 :laff: I don't give a fukk if that is what it says on the official site, nikkaz get paid off. Also, not all the games that xbox got are listed. Sony games get rated higher because their fanboys always overrate anything exclusive. Killzone had the most preorders, gotta be good right?

@Fatboi1 and @GoldenGlove who is a mod, told everyone for months how great killzone was. So the review scores at the time were pretty high. Now everyone says the game fukkin sucks. The scores dipped a bit since then, but the initial bullshyt rating still remains.

Now, you and the rest of the world can overlook that very real FACT I just dropped, that would be best if I was a sony stan. And now you have caught up to reality. If you want to game for real, get an xbox. If you wanna talk about how sorry xbox games are while you wait til 2016? Get a playstation
 
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