Hello Infendo readers. I come today inquiring information on the state of Brawl’s online mode. There’s no other way to say this, but online has crapped out…big time. Unfortunately I have yet to connect to a single random match. That’s right. It has been over a month and a half and I can hardly login without getting error code 85010. I try twice a day, but to no avail. I know I’m not alone.
Yes, I know Nintendo fans have been known to be impatient, picky complainers, but you have to admit this is a bit ridiculous. Call me crazy, but when I purchase a game that has online support clearly implemented I expect the mode to work. I realize servers/connections are going to overload/fail at the start, but again a month and a half! Thankfully many can connect via friend matches with ease. Though for me it’s unplayable when it takes 3 sec to throw a shield up or jump into the air due to immense lag.
Nintendo, I’m really trying to think of an acceptable excuse for these issues, but I really can’t think of any. I really wish I didn’t have to type up such a disgusting post, but I’ve had my fill. I love ya, Nintendo, but you’re killing me here!
Have you been able to connect to any random battles?
i am always able to connect to random matches, it takes a bit of waiting sometimes but nothing major. I have had lag in a few matches but for the most part its fine. iguess i am lucky
I have been all over the random battles. In peak times (5 pm in my neck of the woods), inwhat I consider off-peak times, all in all, I’d say I’ve played about 30 random battles. Never once got an error code.
My worst experience was a battle on 50M with Ike that was so laggy it took about 8 minutes to go through a minute and a half of game time. Then, mysteriously, with 30 seconds left, things ran smoothly and I dark-dived that mofo into oblivion.
So, I can honestly say that I have a huge grin on my nearly 100% of my time doing random battles. Maybe I’m just fortunate to live in the megalopolis that is the eastern seaboard, where nearby opponents are plentiful.
Maybe you should try yourself a wired connection Jake.
Also too the waiting thing can some times be blamed on your connection.
I think the problem is nintendo does not know about stuff like throttling by the ISP or other tricks to conserve bandwidth for a node. I mean they could get with net gear or linksys and make a Wii router that automatically detects a Wii and sets these things up. The more people with out lag means more random fun!
This is why some people have no problem and some people do. If the game truly was broken then we would all have problems all the time even when two good connection connect.
I think this is the reason why payed online is coming. It may use the friend code to log on to that network but they will then have gamer tags or some thing along with Miis too.
So far I played all last night and this morning me and my brother. Usually we play some thing on the PC till 2 then go to work. luckily I had these days off and could get brawl working.
So far some lag here and there yet once I run into people with no lag at all it’s great! Also too random match are fun because you don’t know what your getting into! I can’t wait for mario kart!
Heh, I actually almost gave up playing Brawl online one day because I was so frustrated by the button delay. It was ridiculous, I had to do every move at least 2 second ahead of time, and sometimes, that’s not enough time to dodge something that you’d normally dodge with ease. I didn’t play online for about a week after that. Anyway, somebody told me about the lag alleviation thread on Smashboards, so I followed those steps and it seemed to help quite a bit. Also, there were like 4 people leeching off of my wifi, so kicking them off probably helped.
As far as getting into with anyone matches, I’ve never had a problem. Although, it can take as long as 5 minutes before it finally finds someone, which is a pain in the ass. Also, I wish they’d give you the option to deactivate computer players for ‘with anyone,’ because I hate when I think I’m going to be 1 on 1 against some random person, but then it sticks 2 computers in there. In fact, they should’ve included 1 on 1 basic brawl as an option.
Overall, the online could definitely be better, but after taking those lag alleviation tips, it made me go from almost giving up Brawling online to not being able to not play it all the time.
I’ve been a long time Nintendo fan, but the Brawl not working very well online thing kind of ruined it for me. I love playing games online, but Nintendo has crippled it so much with all these measures to protect the kiddies, that they’ve ruined it for everybody else.
I was not able to connect to a random match even one time and always got the error code. I became so frustrated (and I know that this is extreme) that I sold my Wii and DS and used the $ to build a gaming PC so that I could play online games like Team Fortress 2, etc. I’m having fun with these PC games, but had Nintendo not made it so hard to play online, I wouldn’t have made such a drastic move.
I could very well be in a minority on this, as far as taking such bold measures, but I had had enough and unless Nintendo starts making a more balanced and less complicated approach to online gaming, they will not have my business. Period.
I ain’t had no trouble at all with random matches. Maybe only a few lag issues, but nothing too bad at all. Don’t know what’s goin’ on with you.