Perhaps no genre of gaming has been scuppered worse by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic than fighting games. 2020 saw practically an entire year of tournaments and events canceled on local, national, and international levels. Once the honeymoon period is over, fighting games essentially live or die by their competitive scenes, and the FGC thrives on the myriad of meet-ups that take place, whether for specific titles or the genre as a whole.
But with a year of canceled tournaments -and with 2021 already looking extremely fragile – the scene’s only course of action has been to rely on that shakiest of competitive platforms, Online Vs. As such, it has become vital for the life-force of every fighting game that its online stability is as tight as possible, improving matchmaking, reducing lag, and keeping the online community populated and engaged.
Source: Destructoid Tekken 7 team continues to push for online fight fluidity