VF5FS - Anyone for games?

I'm on XBL too guys so yeah, we can have some games. My GT is: LeprekaunTM.

Anyone for games today?

Anyone for games later today? Like 6-7 PM?

I don't gamble and I'm not in Ireland, I don't fancy paying €50 every time I go down to Dublin but when I'm back, I'll play you offline eventually. My play is legit. Stop being salty, it's really showing now.

Cool Chris . Yeah, I usually play around that time myself so it's perfectly fine. When I see you go online, I'll send you an invite for room match.

raze wrote: »

Jun's connection is laggy. It can't be any other way and he's said as much in the past. The problem is always at his end because of where he is and the distance it is away from the exchange.

First of all, my connection is FINE against Kuro-Tao. I get at least 2 bars most times I play him so I would not define that as laggy. Most of my matches against Kuro-Tao (including our most recent encounter) were when I'm in Egypt, where I have a proper wired DSL connection that has excellent ping, 2Mbps DL and 512Kbps UL, more than enough to play online. If VF or PSN (which VFDC members will gladly confirm) gets laggy, it's nothing to do with my end.

In online the worst quality connection benefits from the netcode - an arbitrary delay has to be added which can momentarily be effective for up to 7 or 8 frames of disadvantage to the host player. In a partiularly bad game (not against Jun) I once saw a throw beat a punch, it looked bizarre, and should have been impossible. I apologised to the guy after it happened, bad way to lose a round.

My play is simple. If you pay attention to how I play, I can be beaten and when I play against a top VF player, they expose my play and destroy me. I have a certain law in my offense and if that law is exposed, I can be beaten. For example, if I do P then Knee (both are guarded), technically, my knee can be considered a 15f move because the P before it gave me +2 on advantage for the knee so if you go for a mid that is more than 15f, I'll most likely beat it with my knee because of that advantage. When my knee is blocked, I'm at -13f disadvantage. This means that if you can find a move that is 13f or less and I chose to go for, let's say, dashing elbow, I will eat a yellow counter but if you choose to go for a move that's more than 13f, my elbow will connect, it's simple as that. All it takes to interrupt my offense is a standing P or a timed 2P, that's it... With Kuro-Tao, I assume he was going for mids between my moves and Jacky has no 13f mids so it definitely won't interrupt my offense.

Cherry on top is when the guy with the bad connection spouts off holier than thou when people get salty about it, like his connection somehow isn't his responsibility, like it's fun when abare that would fail offline is a bankable strategy.

All I can say is that I back up my statement on VFDC. If Kuro Tao is going to be all disrespectful instead of saying "gg" or whatever, I won't play him. I see games as a form of sport. This isn't exactly the method of good sportsmanship. If he shows disrespect, it's simple, I won't respect him.

Aside from that, I don't think it was a very good idea to bring in the VFDC post because all that does is feed the flames but it doesn't matter, like I said, I have nothing else to say to Kuro-Tao.

If Kuro is salty all that should mean is that he doesn't play Jun online - and that's his call to make. I won't play the guy for the reasons above, I never play anyone if I know they've a bad connection to me. It's not personal, it's general, and in general I think if someone plays online with a weak connection they have no right to demand any respect because parity clearly isn't a concern for them.

If I play someone and I win/lose through a wall of lag, I immediately send a message to the other player apologising for it. My circumstances in Ireland aren't perfect so when people b*tch and moan about me having a laggy connection, I'm sorry that I can't live in the city and get super-fast broadband. My connection is intermittent, sometimes it's pretty good and sometimes it can be bad. If I didn't play online, VF would simply die for me and out of all FGs, VF is the game I enjoy most so pardon me for having a few games. There is no offline Irish VF scene like there is in Norcal or Socal or Tokyo. I think there are only 4-5 people who play VF and that hardly is a tournament worthy number so the next best thing is to just to find online matches, whether the players be in France, Germany, Italy etc. or on the other side of the pond in the US. And the whole coming to Dublin thing, well, I don't exactly have €50 to spend every weekend to go play some casuals/tournaments, it's simply not feasible. I hate the lag but there is nothing else because there is no VF community.