An-Ran Cheng

Speaking of game balance and playing experience, SFV is top notch currently with its well made roster and balance. Some people might not like stuffs like crush counter, v trigger robery, no chip damage kills&meterless invincible DPs, and lack of defensive options. But in general it is still neutral heavy and a beloved SF game. But knowing that most people can only play the game online, the weakness of its poorly implemented rollback netcode became critical. The game’s online experience is absolutely a failure, although it is widely known to be better than all the former SFs, it is still trash. It is almost impossible to even play online meaningfully unless you play at the peak time period with the most players. As you kept playing you’ll encounter people rage quit or quit after the first game since the connection is terrible on both ends. Ultimately this will cause players to blacklist each other in their region resulting longer que time for a game. As a result, all the positive elements about the game will be overshadowed by the utterly unplayable online experience, making this game an unpleasant fighting game to play.