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Street Fighter V beta: Initial impressions

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As you likely all know, I’m a Street Fighter nut and my excitement for this weekend’s Street Fighter V beta has been palpable. This past Thursday, when I received confirmation that I’d been hand-selected (by random robotic draw) to participate in the beta was one of the happiest days in recent memory. Yes, I’m easy to please, I guess. Beta downloaded, I was ready to hadouken my way to happiness this weekend, to bring you impressions of the beta today. I am happy to report that street Fighter V is amazing.

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I spent most of the weekend staring at this

Or at least, its title screen is. This was me, when I finally loaded up the beta and saw the Capcom logo load up, and my excitement became stratospheric. I’mma hadouken some motherfluffers!

This was me, when the glorious title screen – modern, crisp and white loaded up. Aww yeah! Shouryuken to the face, coming up!

This was me, not moments later when I pressed the X button to start the beta.

And this was me, when, a couple of seconds later, I was greeted with a message saying I could not connect to the server.

For a bit of context, I use a capped internet package from a decent ISP, and this month, I’ve gone way over cap. I’ve been using some spare bandwidth I have lying about from an unnamed ISP that’s generally accepted as being terrible for gaming, and has seen a rather spectacular fall from grace – so I put it down to the ISP. Credit card in hand, I went and bought some premium bandwidth to ensure smooth one-on-one fantasy pugilism. This time it’d work, right?

Nope.

For a brief moment, I did actually connect to the servers, allowing me the briefest glimpse at the character select screen, before being booted from the server; my first and only successful connection in a weekend of repeated attempts to connect. Not a single match the whole weekend. Not. One. While some lucky players in North America have been able to test the game and its apparently ineffectual servers, those of us in European territories have got nothing.

I went through the entire Kübler-Ross model in my repeated attempts to play the game.

  1. Denial: I’ll eventually be able to play. The servers will be back on in a moment, I told myself.
  2. Anger: HEY! SCREW YOU, CAPCOM! I WILL COME TO YOUR OFFICES AND TIGER UPPERCUT YOUR GODDAMNED FACES
  3. Bargaining: Please, please just let me in. Just training, I’m fine with that! I don’t need to play against a human, I just need to throw one single fireball and I’ll be happy. Please. Anything.
  4. Depression: Why even bother? This is never going to work, I may as well just curl up in to a ball and watch Jean Claude Van Damme “Kick that sonnofoa beesh Bye Sun’s arse so hordt dat de ness Bye Sun wannabe is gunna feelit” while I cry.
  5. Acceptance: Of course, it’s hard to be angry, salty or remotely bitter. This sort of thing is precisely why betas exist, and I’m glad there’s such an expansive one before the game is out.

I hope that I’ll be able to play the beta soon so that I can give you some actual impressions.

Last Updated: July 27, 2015

41 Comments

  1. justlikemo

    July 27, 2015 at 10:38

    Sorry Geoff, we know how much you like the games that company produces, although we dont like that company very much,
    sigh…
    reminds me of the first night of the new Diablo, got all excited went to launch night got my limited edition copy, installed all excited and then came the dreaded message of death

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    • oVg R2million Swimming Pool

      July 27, 2015 at 10:43

      Error 37

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      • Hammersteyn

        July 27, 2015 at 10:46

        That’s what happens when you play it on an inferior platform
        *Runs

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      • justlikemo

        July 27, 2015 at 10:46

        was it 37, my bad, see it affected you also, you were a bit angry there, was it bruned in your memory there

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    • HairyEwok

      July 27, 2015 at 10:50

      #NEVERFORGET

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      • justlikemo

        July 27, 2015 at 11:01

        ever since that week, its been a awesome title, still play it.

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    • The Sten

      July 27, 2015 at 10:59

      Never forget that fateful day

      Reply

      • justlikemo

        July 27, 2015 at 11:01

        o good night, yup, how disappointing.

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  2. Umar

    July 27, 2015 at 10:39

    You know things are bad when you memorize the error code. 21007…That number of the beast. I too was fooled by the title screen. I got so excited. Logging into game server they said. I’ll be able to play the game they said…

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  3. Thinus Swart

    July 27, 2015 at 10:40

    You wanna know what’s even more sad? I was watching some SFV streamers, clicking on the main menu all the time, restarting the game, etc, etc… for about two hours. At least the streamers were entertaining, but that’s what I did… Sad but true.

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  4. Hammersteyn

    July 27, 2015 at 10:42

    Play KI instead, it’s the bestestestest

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    • justlikemo

      July 27, 2015 at 10:45

      dont make me go Super saiyan on your ass

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Skellige

        July 27, 2015 at 10:45

        Sper? Ribs and chips?

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        • justlikemo

          July 27, 2015 at 10:46

          sper ribs yeh.

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        • Dutch Matrix

          July 27, 2015 at 10:48

          I dunno. Sper saiyan sounds like something that could happen in a dodgy Hentai…

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    • Dutch Matrix

      July 27, 2015 at 10:45

      Does KI have Predator and Jason Voorhees???

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        July 27, 2015 at 10:46

        No, only the best fighters.

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        • Hammersteyn

          July 27, 2015 at 10:46

          *fixed

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          • Admiral Chief in Skellige

            July 27, 2015 at 10:47

            HORRIBLE ENGRISH

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:49

            Gimme a break, I still suffer from Second half Saturday

        • Dutch Matrix

          July 27, 2015 at 10:47

          Too bad KI fans cannot compose a decent sentence.

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          • Admiral Chief in Skellige

            July 27, 2015 at 10:47

            It is not his fault, it is the damned second half’s fault

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 27, 2015 at 10:49

            Second half of whis what? Brains? Education? Does he even have any of those…

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:51

            whis? Didn’t realize that you play KI as well

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 27, 2015 at 10:52

            The drop in my IQ is temporary. And it only happens when I am in the company of KI fans.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:54

            You’ll be declared brain dead when the real fans arrive then

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:49

            No, only combos

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 27, 2015 at 10:51

            Oh please. Your combo is as impressive as a McDonalds Junior Burger Kids Special with mineral water.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:51

            Hey, I buy it for the toy

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 27, 2015 at 10:53

            And I read Playboy for the articles!

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:53

            They do have interesting articles though.

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 27, 2015 at 10:56

            Yeah. These days, them girls aren’t so pretty no more, so you can only read the articles…

          • justlikemo

            July 27, 2015 at 10:54

            hey, Bru leave the durban nites alone n ‘ol, what kind with u

          • Hammersteyn

            July 27, 2015 at 10:54

            XD

  5. Pieter Kruger

    July 27, 2015 at 10:54

    KI servers>>>>>>>>>SF servers

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    • K1FF J1MB0B (sizzle edition)

      July 27, 2015 at 11:37

      Awesome.. pity the game blows though.

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      • Pieter Kruger

        July 27, 2015 at 12:08

        Jou sussie blaas……????

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    • Mark Treloar

      July 27, 2015 at 16:34

      Yeah they are good, because everyone is off trying to connect to the Street Fighter servers to play the game they really want.

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  6. RinceThis

    July 27, 2015 at 11:03

    HAHAHAHA! This ‘review’ wins the internet today.

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    • justlikemo

      July 27, 2015 at 11:06

      too good rite, shaq n cat, man, too funnny

      Reply

  7. Jonah Cash

    July 28, 2015 at 09:28

    I could also not get on at all!!

    Reply

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