Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition is out now as a free update for existing Street Fighter 5 owners and includes new single-player options including special boss battles and a much-requested proper arcade mode complete with unique character-specific endings.
PC users will continue to be held to PS4 load times when you fight a PS4 player online using cross-platform matchmaking, so they'll only see the benefits online when playing other PC users - but the benefit will of course be constant offline. These may seem like small gains, but if you play several matches in a row this'll quickly add up. The PC version now gets close to 10-second loads, which is pretty decent all-told. The longest wait prior to Arcade Edition was 18 seconds on PS4, while the slowest is now 15 on the same platform. My question is if I pre-order the PC version of the game from Gamestop will I still get Ryu's costume or will I get Chun-Li's costume because I have to actually download the game through steam(Gamestop doesn't have hard copies of SFV for PC) I went to the store and asked.
We test out a few stages with different characters, and the result is generally that the game is around 3 seconds faster on PC and around 2 seconds faster on PS4 Pro on average than vanilla SF5. I want to pre-order the PC version of Street Fighter 5 but I want the Ryu Alternate Costume. In the above video we take a quick look, comparing Vanilla Street Fighter 5 to Arcade Edition on both the PS4 Pro and PC. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. It's a small difference of a few seconds, but when matches of Street Fighter can be over in just a minute or two, it's going to add up fast. Through a combination of reducing the amount of flashy pre-match music and animation in the menus and improving load times, Capcom has managed to shave some time off how long it takes you to get from your final decision-making button press on the character select screen to the actual match. Street Fighter 5 was never quite the fastest-loading of fighters initially, and though it didn't quite have the painfully slow loads of Tekken 7 or Injustice 2 they were still significant enough to occasionally leave you tapping your foot. Maybe you have friends over, or maybe you're hopping online in a brief window of quiet around your house. Sometimes you just want to boot up Street Fighter and get into a match fast. While Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition is mostly being touted for how it's a version of SF5 that now has the content that the otherwise excellent game sorely lacked at launch, it's also making some nice quality-of-life changes to the game in areas like loading. Capcom has announced a collectors edition and pre-order bonuses for Street Fighter V, which is due out for PlayStation 4 and PC worldwide in spring 2016.
As well as extra content, Arcade Edition's tweaked menus cut down on the waiting between matches.