i believe that was confirmed but i dont know how it was confirmed.
Indeed, there's no mention of Mitsurugi meeting Edge Master during SC1. That being said, it's never really stated what Mitsurugi was doing during the events of SC1, so his story for that game was always a bit of a blank slate.
A lot of characters had their stories changed from the original. Voldo, Yoshimitsu, Taki, Sophitia, Mitsurugi, Siegfried, Cassandra, Raphael, you name him/her it’s changed. Granted, many of the key events still remain the same.
Well, I don't disagree: that was was a predicate in my own observation. But without some kind of empirical reference point--the code itself or testing against some sort of benchmark beyond how it inutitively feels--I don't know if we can properly attribute it to net code. The best we have are side-by-side today, like you describe:
I can't say as I have had exactly the same experience. I will say that the last time I was in a position to do some comparing was about a year and a half back. Up until that time, I had been playing both games semi-regularly with a couple of friends since their respectively releases. At that point, I felt that SCIV was just as reliable as SCV, provided I played only with those regular friends who had decent connection. Both games were a bit of a nightmare with regard to getting randomly matched for ranked (a situation which has continued until today, and worsened further by lackluster matchmaking). Unfortunately, I can't do a side-by-side today, much as I'd like to, as the only machine I own a copy of both for is the 360, and I let my gold live account expire a while back. But if we have such radically different impressionistic takes, we're back at square one, without a better test.
Granted. But there was also a lot of variability in which games' communities included a higher portion of the hardcore, and who thus took their connections seriously. There's also, as you indirectly referenced above, the variation that comes with different platforms. I'm not saying your wrong about the netcode, particularly as it bore out in ranked as a practical matter, just that I don't think we have strong enough evidence that i would personally feel comfortable saying it is definitely the netcode that was responsible for the lion's share of the issues with SCIV. It's a perfectly plausible explanation, but I just don't feel confirmed in it.
I'm with you on all of this.
That would be a pretty big blunder, even near the inception of the online fighting game market. That would serve no real pragmatic purpose with the kind of system you describe. It would also create a noticeable latency effect over even good connections, and I definitely know I played thousands of matches on that game that ran relatively smoothly.
Well, one would expect not just UDP but also custom protocols for a game today. At the time, I think it was probably still more of a mix of UDP and TCP depending on functions, rather than overwhelmingly UDP as in games today. But I honestly don't know: that kind of detail of the state of netcode at that moment in time for the industry is beyond my firsthand knowledge.
Hahaha, NyteStick, coming to an Injustice 3 DLC, soon!
Very much this more than anything else, they’ve fleshed out every character to make them all relevant to the story in one way or another, making them all canon, instead of having each character “win” their own personal wish fulfillment story. It’s a lot more cohesive this way, and better narratively speaking. Most of the “new” stuff was always tucked away in bios that people didn’t read, however. There are a few new things legitimately, but those new things aren’t directly clashing the established original story either. Some things were moved around slightly, but it makes sense overall to have done this, in the bigger picture.
I mean, at the very least, the Second dealt the killing blow to the First. It might have been a mercy kill or a ritual kill, to pass on the curse blade Yoshimitsu, but it’s loosely implied that Voldo and Cervantes may have had something to do with the First’s end as bearer of the blade, due to the Second’s wish to “avenge” the Chief when fighting those two, which would likely be referring to the First.