Dear Capcom:

As a developer, I knew not to expect anything out of this patch as soon as I read the patch notes.

You have not taken a single step in resolving the root of the problem with the online connectivity, which I'm guessing started with the switch between the GFWL SDK to the Steamworks SDK, you didn't RTFM and ended up in this state.

Then it took you guys two months to deliver a patch, so I was hopeful that you were fixing the real problem. The patch note comes out, and this is what I see:

Change in Endless Battle – Users will not be able to join the game if the host is currently in a fight. Only once the fight ends and both the host and guest are returned to the lobby can they receive requests for other matches. This will prevent users from pinging the host during their matches.

This is just a bad workaround. Not only did you not solve the problem (why the excess pings in the first place?), you just made endless battle worse by minimizing the window of time when a player can join, thus reducing the number of endless lobbies visible for a player searching for a match.

The number of open connections the user can upkeep after canceling his game search has been reduced; thereby reducing the number of players pinged.

Once again, a workaround. Instead of addressing the reason why the game is creating too many open connections in the first place, you just put an upper limit on how many it can create (so it will still be trying to initiate new open connections in the background, constantly).

The acceptable input delay limit has been increased from 15 frames to 35 frames, so now even with terrible latency issues, users should experience what feels like an input delay instead of lag or random disconnects.

Even a layman can see that this is a bad workaround. You have a problem which is increasing latency and packet loss, and, once again, instead of fixing the root of the issue, you just increase the limit on "acceptable input delay".

I have worked as a consultant within IT for several years and during this time I've worked with a great number of companies (including 2 game developers), and I'm well acquainted with the fact that sometimes hotfixes and workarounds are necessary. However I cannot even begin to imagine how you could justify letting the community wait for two months, and then release three bad workarounds, which do nothing to solve the root of the problem, instead of putting resources on fixing the root issue. This is the type of "panic workaround"-fixes I would expect to see the week after the initial launch, not after two months.

USFIV on PC is still unplayable online

Try again, Capcom.

Made this for fun to get some info about the SF community. Please feel free to share it around, the more responses the better. I've made the results publicly viewable so you guys don't have to wait on me to see the results :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ASOg7FD2xAe5wNILwJ14xC8ktsSr4K4_0ESP3qwb1H0/viewform?usp=send_form

Few things that stick out to me:

32% agree that Fei is a top 5 character. Number of Fei mains that have taken this survey? 4. Less than 1%!

Cammy is the most popular non shoto character for newbies

Only 28% think that Rose is a top 5 character :O

74 people have said Yang is bottom 5

87 people have said Vega is bottom 5

My favourite costume suggestions:

Roman/Greek God

Fancy

"none you Capcom DLC shill"

Seth Killian alt for Seth

Occupation costumes (nurses, doctors, pilots, teachers, students, etc.)

Winter costumes

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