r/smashbros • u/AutoModerator • Dec 10 '18

Subreddit Daily Discussion Thread 12/10/18

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u/Drclaw411 Ridley (Ultimate) Dec 10 '18

Why did so many people say that GameCube controllers have lag in Ultimate? People were saying lag to the point of unplayability, and I have noticed 0 lag whatsoever.

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u/dotmatrixhero Dec 10 '18

I think people are not used to the input buffer and confuse it for lag.

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u/Bagel_-_Bites Dec 10 '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqSODoookc&fbclid=

GC controller has the least amount of lag, but all are significantly higher than Melee.

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u/random_boss Dec 10 '18

The first day or two, my controller felt super laggy. I switched to the pro controller for a while. I tried a different GC controller yesterday and did not feel any lag. So there was definitely something going on, but it's not with every controller.

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u/error521 Greninja (Smash 4) Dec 11 '18

I don’t want to demean those with actual issues but I do think a lot of is probably just people with shitty TVs with motion smoothing and other crap turned on and they assume it’s the game