Netplay Conventions
There are a couple common conventions that are advised when it comes to playing P4U2 online, to ensure the smoothest netplay experience possible for both players.
Netplay Stages
The community agreed-upon netplay stages for P4U2 include:
- Yasogami High School Gate - Night
- Make sure you are selecting just the NIGHT version, not the DARK HOUR version!
- Altar (NO Crystal)
- Music Room (aka "Piano Room")
Here are their images on the Stage Select screen (in the order mentioned), if you are not familiar with them:
Additionally, when you and your opponent first load into a match, you should allow the stage/character intros to play out instead of skipping them. This allows the game some time to sync both players' games, so the beginning gameplay of a match isn't so laggy.
Finally, the most important of all: Please save all of our souls by plugging in an ethernet cable if you can!
With the ease of posting videos and discussion to Twitter, it can be helpful to know how to track this information down. Each character in the game has a specific hashtag which people should aim to use when posting tweets for ease of searching. The current list of these hashtags is as follows: