Rollback netcode?

[SonofTzeentch9]

The previous Sky Arena games always played great, but this game looks like you have a lot more interaction with your opponent, kind of like a fighting game?

In that case, are you guys considering rollback netcode?

[TheRibbonRed]

Sky Arena wasn't a fighting game? Sure, it was clunkier, but pretty sure it was a fighting game.

[SonofTzeentch9]

I wasn't challenging that notion - it did, however, have less of a focus on melee than this upcoming game.

Sky Arena was dope, so I hope this one gets rollback netcode ^^

[Ace]

Originally posted by SonofTzeentch9:

The previous Sky Arena games always played great, but this game looks like you have a lot more interaction with your opponent, kind of like a fighting game?

In that case, are you guys considering rollback netcode?

It's......there's not enough action going on to warrent rollback. As someone who refunded the game due to the stiffness, I can tell you right now to just stick with 11.5. It's the primo fighting game experience for a Touhou fan.

If you're after a real bullet-hell VS game though, Try Wartech: Senko No Ronde. It's tops when it comes to competitive bullet hell, even has some awesome mechanics like the B.O.S.S Engine, letting each player turn into a stage spanning boss with unique attacks means you get that "Danmaku! GRAZEU!" vibe each and every set, especially if you're playing against really good players who hold their BOSS tokens until the end to enter final boss form.

[SonofTzeentch9]

Originally posted by Ｃｙｐｈｅｒ:

Originally posted by SonofTzeentch9:

The previous Sky Arena games always played great, but this game looks like you have a lot more interaction with your opponent, kind of like a fighting game?

In that case, are you guys considering rollback netcode?

It's......there's not enough action going on to warrent rollback. As someone who refunded the game due to the stiffness, I can tell you right now to just stick with 11.5. It's the primo fighting game experience for a Touhou fan.

If you're after a real bullet-hell VS game though, Try Wartech: Senko No Ronde. It's tops when it comes to competitive bullet hell, even has some awesome mechanics like the B.O.S.S Engine, letting each player turn into a stage spanning boss with unique attacks means you get that "Danmaku! GRAZEU!" vibe each and every set, especially if you're playing against really good players who hold their BOSS tokens until the end to enter final boss form.

If you look at the footage of this new game, you can tell that the gameplay has changed a lot from Sky Arena; basically it has a higher focus on melee and plays in a more constrained space with the characters linked to each other (rather than the free-flying previous Sky Arena games, which I've played ~10 hours of). I think this warrants rollback netcode, as it is much more of a 1v1 experience (in fact, the game will initially just have 1v1).

I'm not sure what you mean with "11.5". If this was a Touhou reference number, there is no such game. If you meant 12.3, i.e. Hisoutensoku, yes, that does have rollback, but I've also have enough hours in that - more games is better in this case in my opinion.

...now the real reason for my long response: in terms of VS Bullet Hell games, I think Senko no Ronde is actually pretty low in terms of quality - it's a good game, but you don't really use bullet hell skills to deal with bullets.

If you are interested in that, I'd recommend Maiden and Spell as well as Acceleration of Suguri 2, both available on steam. I assume you know Touhou: 9, Phantasmagoria of Flower View - this game is actually based on Twinkle Star Sprites, a game easily accessible via Fightcade, as well as the stranger game Change Airblade - two games that inspired Rival Megagun, also available on steam.

There's a handful of others, but al of these 6 games provide a superior bullet hell vs experience to Senko no Ronde, so I thought I'd mention them. In any case, thanks for your response and time ^^

[Patric20878]

GGPO rollback netcode will likely be added in the future. Please look forward to it.

[SonofTzeentch9]

Thanks for the info, that's great to hear!