my understanding is that a fighting game logic is handled by framerate, whereas something like a shooter entirely interpolated because it's based on server ticks. in a fighting game, you need those 60 frames, you need all the movement to be exact, but in shooters things are a bit more fuzzy because it's your client sending data to a server that tries to make sense of it and shoot it out to everyone else and smooths out the result to look natural.
lol
its amazingly mind boggling... I hate this topic specifically cause its always the layman vs the specialist. We know why this wont work and have been explaining this to people who don't understand under the hood of fighting games for a while now and they still push back calling us "dinosaurs" or saying "FPS games can do it, why can't fighting games", "or my favorite "you don't need frame specific timing". It's not that hard of a concept to understand. Its been damn near 30 years since the first fighter came out, if a developer has found a way to do it, they would of BEEN done it by now. Fighting game threads on here are the worst...
This. A fighting game made and designed for 120 FPS is going to be better than if the same game was made and designed for 60 FPS but the hardware to actually support any of that is simply too high a barrier for the vast majority of people. And since competitive FGs need everything to be designed, developed and balanced around the universal target FPS, you can't just do both.
THANK YOU!
even with the worlds best netcode and insane network infrastructure from Washington to Florida, not every system may hit 120. Then you will have systems playing online with varying FPS, which will be online hell.
technically it does already. KI runs at 90 FPS but still outputs at 60 FPS. I believe they said it helps with online.
I'm trying to imaging a physics-based fighter and it might be the worst thing of all time.
Certainly indie games have tried something like that — look up Toribash. However it'll never be consistent enough for real competition, it's more of a goofy party game since you can't fully control what will happen.
I have great news for you, unless you're just starting out as a Flowchart Ken every fighting game ever made requires you to constantly adapt on the fly all the time.
if you think all competitive fighting games is learning combos then you're wrong, it's very much the case of adapting on the fly and learning how to control your opponent
It's not about "going against norm".
