Either the japs don't know what/how to complain or Sega are just lazy. Room wait list, frame by frame slomo rewindable replays (and totally randomizable music please) should have been the way to go. Hope list for new patch, not long, but critical (music part just a preference). Psn also generally lavks but not everything is Segas fault oc...

And while theyr at it, give Jeff 12f safe mid combostarter.

I wonder if any of the Japanese players asked to have the player data shown during replays? I thought that was a big oversight.

No...commentators?

*silent sobbing*

This is good news for Player matches, I tried them once and got p'd off with the wait but will go back now.

Players met functionality would be good.

Also, am I the only one who would like to be able to differentiate between different characters' ranked battle stats on my account? It sucks to have to create new PSN accounts for different characters. SF4 has Player Points and Battle Points so you can see if you are facing an experienced player using a new character.

That too. ^^

As much as I love watching PPP2K showdowns and 3-0 walkovers.

No player match invite???

No being able to see full/in progress rooms or being able to queue to get in to them??

There's a typo in the article as well. Reno typed player matches when he's talking about room matches.

All that is assuming I remember rooms right... I have not played there for quite a while.

For replays, I think the timer only starts counting once everyone has left the victory screen and returned to the lobby. So by the time it starts counting (and thus can be skipped), everyone should have saved their replay already.

To skip turn, you can switch, 1P, 2P, blank. The next 1P and 2P will be the ones fighting.
Did you mean something else?

I'm very much glad it was not included.

The problem there is that at least two people have to ready up. If not, the system will take the highest player that isn't ready.

So if there are 4 people in a room, the the second person chooses anything (1p or 2p) and no one else chooses anything, the system will pit the first player vs the second.

It would be nice to have a "skip" function so I can go grab a drink or something between sessions...

This does also exist on 360...it comes from having an xbox from a different region. For example, I have a japanese xbox. However, all of my location and profile info is US. But sega seems to be matching based on console region because if I select same area, I get 99.9% asia matches with bad connections (again since i'm in the US)..The remaining .1% are countries just outside of asia or decent connections with asia. If I search worldwide, I only get others that listed worldwide as their search criteria. That would be fine but, there aren't that many that use this criteria and even less of them provide a decent match.

Other games must search based on IP location or console settings...not the region/market the console was made for as I've only seen this issue with VF5FS...no other games.

This

This is GIANT. It could break the room play.

I don't see how they could have missed this. People are impatient when they are about to play. People will skip the time A LOT. There has to be a way to see all the rooms that are currently playing and reserve a spot to join said rooms as soon as they go into the lobby.

great patch! We just need a win counter in player / room matches and it's all good. Players met issue on PSN does need to be fix though. Sometimes I want to add / message people, but I can never remember their tag.

All in all it's great to know that Sega really is watching over us and trying their best to make everyone happy. Great job Sega!

This.

I wouldn't have minded it if you could see rooms that currently have matches in progress. The ability to invite people to player matches would have also been nice for the folk that are too impatient to wait 30 seconds.

Glad they are patching the timer. That was a real annoyance.

damn intro movies and laus old throws would of been great cuz his new ones suck

I want the second player configuration to be savable. And button press to config, of course.

Good that they're address that problem since it was a huge pain in private rooms.

Another thing is not being able to see player's gamertags during replays. Makes it harder to know who's who when watching them. Hopefully that gets fixed in the future.

Not a bad patch, but there are a few things I would've rather they fixed. For example, the "Slow-Mo Replay" feature would've been cool, as well as gamertags being visible in replays.

Also...*sobs* I miss the commentary. =(

Darn cool of them to do a patch. I didn't think that they would considering how expensive patches are and that there were no huge issues with the game; Glad I was wrong though!

That timer skip option will be so nice to have. I would basically only use it though when a room was full since people still can't join in the middle of a match. It sucks that we won't be getting the intros though. C'mon, Sega! Release them as future DLC! ...Yeah, I know, not happening.

Oh and are they really not fixing the issue on PS3 with no one showing up in the "Players Met" list? Darn Guess I'll just keep having to remember all those names. Anyway, thanks for the patch, Sega!