netplay: knowing the ping would be nice
Perhaps going: start>run>cmd>ping 'the host's/client's IP', is good enough?
Did you guys know that in direct connect mode, the person hosting, after starting the host side, has his IP and port copied to the clipboard? So he can just ctrl V it into text? Or that the client side can use the connect from clipboard option? Meaning the client can select the host's IP and port that they pasted into text, hit ctrl C, and simply connect from clipboard. Typing IPs? Pshhhhh! Who needs a lobby system? IRC, ctrl V, ctrl C, done. Hell if you remember someone's IP you can connect from history! Fucking sweet!
If you're having trouble with port forwarding, and you really want to host, simply bypass your router by unplugging the Internet/WAN cable from your router and plug that cable directly into your PC. Then plug it back into your router's Internet/WAN port when you're done playing Melty for the day, or someone else needs to use the internet.
"Please make your netplay work properly so people stop looking at me to be some sort of savior I'm not interested in being"
I mean were we all really expecting them to release PSN style netplay with the matchmaking option? On their 1st time making netcode? With regional lobbies? For a Japanese only release? Was anyone really expecting them to put up the server boxes to support that type of network? They'd have to have the servers physically in the regions they'd support, have offices and staff to support them, ect. Who honestly thought that they would have more than one server running the matchmaking, and thought that server would be anywhere but Japan?
I don't think they made this netplay for anyone but the Japanese. They were however, good enough to give everyone else the option to direct connect. I honestly was not even expecting that. I was hoping they would, and am thankful for it's existence. It is at a minimum, better than the matchmaking option for everyone outside of Japan.
Seriously, I'm complaining about the complaints in the complaints thread for our BRAN NEW GAME! Half of the complaints are not actual problems, most of the rest are asinine complaints about the matchmaking service that is not even meant for people outside of Japan. How about more complaints about the direct connect option? How can they possibly make it more kick ass than ctrl V, ctrl C? Maybe if it chewed bubble gum too...
-TexasTim-