When Samurai Shodown was revived with a model new sport on PS4 in the summertime of 2019, followers of SNK’s lengthy standing collection have been understandably excited. The fighter was met with optimistic evaluations, and there was a buzz concerning the franchise for the primary time in a long time.

Nonetheless, the extreme title was massively let down by its netcode, which was spotty to say the least. And, with on-line play being an important issue to the continuing success of recent preventing video games, Samurai Shodown was left behind reasonably rapidly. An actual disgrace, provided that the sport itself supplied one thing noticeably completely different from its combo-heavy rivals.

Anyway, we have nice information: Samurai Shodown is getting a rollback netcode replace in spring 2023 — which ought to enable for a significantly better on-line expertise. That’ll be near 4 years after the title’s launch!

Some might really feel as if it is too late, however we will truthfully see Samurai Shodown choosing up a little bit of steam as soon as the replace is out. Both method, it is good to see SNK decide to an enchancment like this.

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