If there's one thing I particularly dislike about online leaderboards, is when you're in the middle of a potentially decent credit in Score Attack, and this kind of thing happens.
The issue isn't the fact that the game pauses to tell you you've been disconnected, but the fact that it kicks you back to the title screen straight afterwards. I should be thankful at least it did it there at the fifth midboss and not a second before I kill Inbachi, but it still leaves a sour taste in the mouth. Is it so hard to make netcode that allows for later uploading of Score Attack plays? Discuss.
Did it happen while you were recording for STG weekly? that shit luck. EDIT NVM I see you have your own twitch channel. So look on the bright side you have me as a new viewer!
But yeah you would think not resetting your run and just moving to offline mode would be the sensible thing to do. Then again CAVE aren't exactly smart in this area, like having to waste a bomb everytime I pause in Guwange, Akia Katana isn't much better in that respect.
Lucky I rarely have internet dropouts while in score attack as usually I either have a really solid connection or Live drops every 5 minutes because my hub loves to prioritise other PC's that are been used in the house.
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote:Did it happen while you were recording for STG weekly? that shit luck.
I was in the middle of a random stream session, trying to beat my personal best on X360 Mode-Laser. This run would have been potentially 30bil+, 35-40bil before Kouryuu without a chain drop.
Like I said, I was at least thankful it didn't DC at a later point when the run could have been the one, but it still kind of upsetting to know that a chance was taken away from me because of some weird netcode.
That's not a problem with online leaderboards, it's a problem with Cave never putting any work into their online system. I'm pretty sure Treasure got it right the first time, so why didn't Cave ever get a clue?
I think this has only happened to me like once in deathsmiles, but it seems it happens fairly frequently for some people. It's dumb that it completely kicks you to the title screen though.
RegalSin wrote:Rape is very shakey subject. It falls into the catergory of Womens right, Homosexaul rights, and Black rights.
This used to happen to me once every half hour in Deathsmiles and is the reason I stopped playing in Score Attack. I've only ever experienced it with Cave games, you would think they'd have sorted it by now.
Observer wrote:WELCOME TO VIOLENT CITY. That's all the storyline I need.
This is part of the reason I don't bother with the online leaderboards. It hasn't actually happened to me yet, but I'd be so irritated if it did that I'm happier just playing offline and not worrying about it (my scores are never noteworthy anyways, and if I really got something impressive, I'd put in an actual effort to record it).
BareknuckleRoo wrote:This is part of the reason I don't bother with the online leaderboards. It hasn't actually happened to me yet, but I'd be so irritated if it did that I'm happier just playing offline and not worrying about it (my scores are never noteworthy anyways, and if I really got something impressive, I'd put in an actual effort to record it).
TrevHead (TVR) wrote:having to waste a bomb everytime I pause in Guwange
What the fuck? Why are you needing to press B at all? I could've sworn when I paused and played there was a resume button which A worked with just fine.
Also, hubs are oldhat and have collision issues, better off with a switch.
Edit: Fixed my quote bug.
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote:having to waste a bomb everytime I pause in Guwange
What the fuck? Why are you needing to press B at all? I could've sworn when I paused and played there was a resume button which A worked with just fine.
Also, hubs are oldhat and have collision issues, better off with a switch.
Because he's assigned bomb to A for some reason I can't work out.
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BPzeBanshee wrote:What the fuck? Why are you needing to press B at all? I could've sworn when I paused and played there was a resume button which A worked with just fine.
Akai Katana has this problem too if the bomb button is set to A - it has no delay between the menu closing and the game resuming, and hitting A to close the menu will also launch a bomb because it picks up on the input. You have to remember to use the start button to close the menu (or not pause at all) but it's definitely a bug unlike something like Futari where the pause screen takes a half-second to fade out, so it doesn't bomb if A is the bomb button.
I sometimes play with A assigned to bomb when I'm using a pad instead of a stick (X shot, RT rapid, A bomb).
BPzeBanshee wrote:What the fuck? Why are you needing to press B at all? I could've sworn when I paused and played there was a resume button which A worked with just fine.
Akai Katana has this problem too if the bomb button is set to A - it has no delay between the menu closing and the game resuming, and hitting A to close the menu will also launch a bomb because it picks up on the input. You have to remember to use the start button to close the menu (or not pause at all) but it's definitely a bug unlike something like Futari where the pause screen takes a half-second to fade out, so it doesn't bomb if A is the bomb button.
I sometimes play with A assigned to bomb when I'm using a pad instead of a stick (X shot, RT rapid, A bomb).
They should have implemented it like espgaluda 2 does on ps2 (and I assume doj aswell), with the 5 second countdown after unpausing.
RegalSin wrote:Rape is very shakey subject. It falls into the catergory of Womens right, Homosexaul rights, and Black rights.
Yeah Akia allows you to press start to resume the game but it did catch me out alot when I first played it. Guwange XBLA is A button nothing else, which is my default bomb button on pads (X shot, A bomb, Y & RB special, RB or RT auto (thumb covers both X&A) and stick. What bomb button the std mapping in arcades? Y? (shot, bomb, special, auto? thumb & 3 fingers or 4 fingers?)
AntiFritz wrote:I think this has only happened to me like once in deathsmiles, but it seems it happens fairly frequently for some people. It's dumb that it completely kicks you to the title screen though.
It happens to me a lot with deathsmiles....it's odd but it seems like xbox-live is bad about logging out during games that use it just for leaderboards. I've only had it happen once in SDOJ and twice in AK.....but also a few American games have done it to me too....Indie games especially.
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Zaarock wrote:the problem with Cave's online leaderboards* ?
I can't think of any non-cave games that kick you to title screen if you disconnect but I guess there are some?
This. If anybody cared about this genre, I'm sure this would be one of those things that would cause an outcry, and Cave would've fixed it right away. I can't even imagine how anybody could've thought it was a good design decision. I guess the internet in Japan is generally better, but it still goes down sometimes...I think...I actually can't recall it happening while I was there now that I think about it.
TrevHead (TVR) wrote:Yeah Akia allows you to press start to resume the game but it did catch me out alot when I first played it. Guwange XBLA is A button nothing else, which is my default bomb button on pads (X shot, A bomb, Y & RB special, RB or RT auto (thumb covers both X&A) and stick. What bomb button the std mapping in arcades? Y? (shot, bomb, special, auto? thumb & 3 fingers or 4 fingers?)
I got myself a Hori Fighting Stick VX for 360, so perhaps that's why I got a "normal" Xbox-like setup for my buttons. Seems odd though. Doesn't Guwange allow pressing START to resume either?
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