Characters look great, some look even better than in FS, imo the only major problem of the game is netcode and matchmaking.

I don't think I'll keep play online more than a week at this rate, yesterday was the most terrible day of vf5us, too long to find a match and once find they all crazy laggy. If Sega don't fix it next week GG Strive will drop and it's gonna be my main fighting game online.

matchmaking should be fixed as soon as possible, it's more important than invitation.
They should do some miracle with netcode, because a lot of people will jump on GG Strive bandwagon just because of rollback...

In my opinion, it could be the same for other characters, Sarah sometimes I guess depending on the angle, facial expression, could look as if she needed improvement, but other times looks pretty decent.

EDIT: Also any idea when we could expect more content to be made available, such as customizations items, costumes, maybe even more modes hopefully single player ones? Anything to expect or hope at E3?

If they're too lazy to implement rollback and plan to let the netcode in that actual shitty state, they can at least try to add some solo content like Quest mode.

NRS has done it for MKX, i'm sure it was hard and cost them money, but it was worth it to keep their community alive and engaged. And for a such legendary franchise with so innovative gameplay as VF having one of the shittiest netcode is quite a shame if i want to be honest.

Sure it's hard, but at some point they will have to make the move for rollback, it's already proven to be the best way to make solid netcode, and another thing is once they optimize the tech for VF5US, it will also serve for VF6, in other word they won't have to do everything from scratch to make a rollback netcode for a VF6 (it they will make the game in the future).

And they need to act fast, the game doesn't have much solo content so once players will have issue playing online they will just leave the game and go play something else, like some other fighting game with good netcode or some Fortnite, COD or Apex. And once they leave it won't be easy to make them come back i think. Sega need to act wise and fast.

Disagree my matches are great or decent with a few bad matches here and there. But then again... Sega uses discriminatory netcode lol

MKX sold 10 millions copies, so even if 5% play the game online it means 500,000 playerbase Online, which is huge.

You're probably right that Sega may never add rollback to vf5us, specially considering the lvl of lazyness of Sega, its already a miracle on itself that they released a new game, but my personal optimism always push me to think the best things will eventually happen even when it doesn't seem likely. I think if you care about something you should always hope for the best.

And yes in the worst case where VF5US will never improve its netcode, VF6 when it will ever come better have rollback since start or they should just call it instead of ultimate showdown, but Ultimate Fail.

you make it sound like netcode is a disaster, while it's really good, and personally apart the first two days when matches were really bad, I'm having now a good experience similar to rollback based games (that are far from perfect, even rollback games can have heavy lag depending on many factors).

Reading online, I think people are just convinced that netcode is bad just because it isn't rollback.

Nah the netcode of VF5US is legit trash, T7, SC6, SFV are much better and those don't even had good netcode like MK11 and Skullgirls.

SC6 was decent, T7 depending on the day, SFV was really bad.

While I was really disappointed by rollback, giving all the marketing push I expected a flawless experiences...

So I really like the game. Maybe enough to purchase the Legendary DLC. Says you get 2000 characters customization items. I cant find in game where this feature is. Will it "open up" after I get the DLC?

Yes, it's under the Customize Characters icon (the two shirts) in the middle lower right.