Fatal Fury: CotW

[Prometheus]

Just wanted to let some of you guys that arent aware know that Fatal fury's city of the wolves is in open beta if you wanna check it out. Really fun mechanics, find myself enjoying it just as much as SF6.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Terrible matchmaking though, seems like KOF15 all over again. Yesterday I waited 20 minutes and lost all patience, I haven't been sitting idle for too long.

[Bumblescrump]

matchmaking seems a lot better today.

[Lysamus]

Sounds like the network test is testing the network.

It's a dense game, and it's nice to see something designed with the super technical player in mind. I would like a feint button though, please and thank you.

[Modern=inferior loser pretender]

The game is great, love everything about it.

[loaf]

who have y'all been playing in it? I've sunk most of my time into rock, but preecha seems fun too

[EnriKO]

that game rocks, beside the problem with match making (which is the reason for open beta).

dev already acknowledged the mm problem and mentioning a second beta.

[Doc Holiday]

Didn't have time to play yet, going to install right now and give my man Kain R Heinlein a go

[Grampire]

Seems really cool. I played the tutorial.

I've never played an SNK fighter seriously but I could see myself spending some time with this one.

[ZERO]

It's probably the most clunky fighting game I've played in years. It's a shame because I loved Mark of the Wolves.

[DinoRex79]

I played extensively last night, both in ranked and in tutorial mode. It's super refreshing not having throw loops, you cannot throw loop here. There's no putting someone in the corner and making them guess 9000x times either like in SF6; the defensive options are much more. There's a lot of back and forward and winning just by opening your opponents through combos and execution. It's a mix of kof15 and SF6, but imo for the better. KOF15 is too execution heavy, and there's rarely a chance to open up your opponents due to super fast recovery times. So you have to run and jump around like a maniac to try to open up your opponent. SF6 is basically put your opponent in any corner and make them guess until you win. Fatal Fury is faster than SF6 but definitely slower than KOF15, which is good.

I didn't experience any guessing games, nor any major corner pressure; rarely any throws. Just a lot of back and forwards, and the jump in is really good. Whereas in SF6 your jump is so floaty shotos spam fireballs because if you jump they have like a whole year to dp your ass. In KOF15 DP'ing jumps is extremely rare because the jumps are too fast, it's almost un-reactable. But in this game, the jump speed and arc is just right. You can react to jumps, but they're also fast enough that it can catch someone and land a big combo. I played it in both my PC and PS5, and on my PC it had a weird input lag even though it was 60fps without any drops. Something with my settings probably. But on my PS5 it felt really good.

[EnriKO]

Originally posted by DinoRex79:

In KOF15 DP'ing jumps is extremely rare because the jumps are too fast, it's almost un-reactable.

wait, in kof aren't you supposed to use lp against those hops ?

[Legendary Mr. Tiddles]

I had fun with it, though it didn't keep me busy for long. I had ZERO beef with anything though. I'm expecting a really polished release product.

[Castyles]

Game will be dead in three months.

[2D神]

Watched some streamers played it and it look okay I guess. Don't really excite me as much.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Unfortunately the match making is complete arse

I'm in UK yet the game insists on giving me people with 200ms most the time, players on the other side of the World, I'm lucky to find someone with under 100ms

and yes I can filter the search to include better connections only but if I do that it takes forever to find someone

Meanwhile, SF6, as master rank, 20 second wait at best, match after match and much better netcode

It's a shame, this Fatal Fury game has potential but if the online experience is the typical trash SNK affair, it's not going to last very long