Great game. Worst implementation of multiplayer I've played in over a decade. Don't touch this with a long pole unless you're planning on playing offline only.

Incessant lag due to the network implementation blocking the game thread when responding to matchmaking pings, both in the menu(Random 2-second pauses while navigating any multiplayer-aware menus.) and during actual gameplay. General sluggishness and lack of responsiveness during online games(Often feels like you're playing with a half second delay on anything you do, plus inputs are randomly dropped.), and network connection rating icons that don't display accurate information(Poorly-rated connections are often good(Bearing in mind the entire game's network performance is awful. "Good" is very relative.), while good-rated connections are often awful. Plus it takes several seconds for the game to decide how to rate most players' connections while matchmaking, usually extended by several more multi-second freezes of the game.).

Additionally, the game's developers have gone from a very good working multiplayer implementation, back in late May/early June 2014, to completely breaking it with the above-mentioned technical problems, to promising a patch to correct issues that did nothing, to deploying a beta patch to correct issues that did a LITTLE bit, to promising another patch to correct issues, that also did nothing.

Additionally, looking at the release notes of the various patches in spring/summer/fall 2014, it's painfully clear that the current development team Capcom has allocated to the game is incompetent and has zero ability to develop software beyond changing variable values.

All this while Capcom public relations personnel post soothing promises of fixing things soon, once the outcry from the playerbase reaches the level of thousands of complaints.

Is it playable, in light of these technical and mismanagement issues? Kinda.

Is it enjoyable, in light of these technical and mismanagement issues? No.

No one in their right mind should spend a dime on this game.

I hate this game so much, but I can't stop playing.

While the game itself is quite good as far as fighting games go, the PC version suffers from horrible network performance. Also some of the new characters are a bit buggy. I wouldn't recommend it on PC until it has been sufficiently patched.

Problems that need fixing before you consider buying this:

1. Random freezes / lock-ups in game. Offline or otherwise, not related to netcode.
2. Buggy netcode, frame-skips, lag and poor matching.
3. Players using bots online.
4. Players can disconnect from ranked matches with no consequence denying other players their legitimate wins.

Not recommended at this time.

If you are going to exclusively play offline, with fight requests off at all times, the game is entirely worth it and I recommend it wholeheartedly. But because I would like to play online and I believe most interested people would as well, right now I cannot recommend this game.

It is a fun game and the community can be really great, but the state of online play is unacceptable and the fixes being released are few, far-between, and are seemingly half-baked and not nearly enough to address its problems and, due to the history of the changes implemented so far, I don't see the online issues being actually fixed soon.

Ultra Street Fighter IV is a great game, but as of mid-October the online portion of it is mostly useless because of bad net code, and it can even affect offline elements of the game if you have incoming fight requests on while playing offline.

laggy multiplayer online,
1. should not have been released if it needed a fix as capcom admits
2. fix still not here.
3. bs

Pretty much what everyone else say. The game is very good, however its online branch is garbage: it runs on a cheap peer to peer system with bad matchmaking, lags and freezes everywhere. It feels like you are playing in the past century with a 56k modem, on a game with strict timing mechanics this is just unacceptable. Five months already passed when most of the problems came out (Steamworks transition)and still they did not fix it. Considering you can truly take full advantage of the game by playing online I can't recommend it.

The developers don't care about the game anymore and have betrayed their playerbase multiple times. The online mode is a bug- and lag-ridden mess that doesn't uphold to modern fighting game standards.

Genre - Japanese 2D Fighting Game
Okay I was always more of a Mortal Kombat / Soulcalibur fan. However, this is the best Street Fighter game I have played so far and the animated cut scenes and graphics look really nice. There are loads of chracters and moves to try out. I tend to play these sort of games on the easier settings as I am pretty crap. However, by doing this I still got to enjoy the game. Also been online and still a few people around to play against. Too many achievements are geared towards online games though. I just watched the latest film by Cine-Asia and this encouraged me to buy the game. Great fun to play through each of the characters story modes and looks sweet at the same time.

This is absolutely unplayable online. There's amssive lag spikes even on green latency. while waiting for players in training mode there's even random lag spikes. this game garbo, no go

Online is jittery, freezes randomly. Matchmaking system is so horrendously broken that it siphons any kind of enjoyment you'd ever have playing it.

I can't recommend this game as is. The online is very shaky and that's the only problem but it's a big problem seeing as how most of the game is centered around online play. It's great for local or arcade mode but 1 out of 3 connections I get are unplayable due to lag. PLEASE FIX THE ONLINE CAPCOM!!!!

Great game, my fav fighting game for sure but absolutely unplayable online. So, would NOT recommend it to buy. If You have this on console- just stick to it.

Great game - dont buy it.

Best mechanics of any fight game ive played, it performs 100% until you try to play people on-line. Lag stutters, pauses make it completely unplayable. Asking for refund.

60% of the time it works everytime.

I truely love Street Fighter 4, but this port is a joke. I would not recommend this to anyone interested in the game until Capcom get's their act together and fix many of the problems that plague the online. Capcom keeps putting out "fixes" but these patches are bandaids that actually effect the game in a negative way, while still not correcting the issue.

Capcom, my reveiw will change the second you hire a real team to correct this port.

Do not buy this game.
Since the transition from GFWL to Steam the online is broken, matches are very laggy, matchmaking is much slower with many timeouts, and it's generally a very frustrating game, and now today I can't even play online, I get "session creation failed" and can't search for games.

Capcom has gone really downhill, and they keep promising to fix it but end up giving out band aid patches which fix nothing, if it's not sorted soon I will be looking to get a full refund and possibly taking legal action as all other pc gamers with this game should do, it's not acceptable.

I urge you to write a similar review if you have had this bad experience with ultra to put people off buying it and giving more money towards this broken game and defunct company.

It's a good game, but I cannot recommend the PC version.

Since the Steamworks' transition (5 months now), the online has been a mess; lag spikes, disconnects and broken connection bars most of the time. We've waited months for the 1.03 patch that supposedly was going to solve these problems, but it did nothing (and actually got worse for some people).

It's a shame, really. Like I said, it's a good game:
- It's easy to pick up, but it also has its depth, so it's good for both competitive players but also for people who wants to play more casually.
- There's a huge roster, moderately balanced I would say. You'll definitely find a character that suits you preferred playstyle.

But... unless you're planning on playing exclusively offline with some friends, stay away from the PC version.

Do not buy this game until Online is fixed. Check steam forums.


Other than that, for local play.. the game is good.

Almost 3 months and online is still broken. Game stutters even offline. Good job Capcom.

Since the migrated from GFWL to Steamworks about 2 months ago. The game can best be viewed as a Early Access game. I was hopefully the release of the Ultra DLC would fix the game. Sadly the Ultra DLC has only come with it own set of problems
Here are some of the biggest issues:

* The netcode is very unstable.
* Freezes and Game crashes
* The five new characters are unfinished. Missing hurt- and hitboxes.
* Lack of polish on the new animations and SFX
* Missing modes: like training mode
* bugs everywhere.


Treat this as a Early Access game without Feedback.