Gaming

10 days after Street Fighter 5 launched, the fighting game's online portion is much improved.
I've put time into the PlayStation 4 version of the game this week and can report online play works well, although there is still much work to be done.
Street Fighter 5 launched with a raft of problems, among them spotty online that prevented a lot of people from playing.
Now, I get a steady stream of ranked and casual matches, the majority of which run with minimal lag. That's not to say the odd match isn't ruined by characters teleporting all over the place, but it's maybe one in six or seven.
It feels like matchmaking time is where it should be. It can take longer to find a match in the morning, when fewer people are playing, than the evening, but that's to be expected. Overall, though, the wait for online matches is manageable.