Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact Is Off To a Rough Start, With Netcode Issues Plaguing the New Fighting Game

The long-running Hunter x Hunter bid precocious received a caller video crippled adaptation with Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact. With a beloved marque and a notable warring crippled developer connected board, you mightiness anticipation this would spell disconnected without a hitch.

Yet successful the days since launch, Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact has been the taxable of sermon and disapproval wrong the warring crippled community. Its gameplay hearkens backmost to the benignant of scrappy, seemingly overpowered bouts galore bask successful this peculiar environment, but respective issues person been holding Nen x Impact back; namely, the netcode.

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is simply a tag-team warring crippled that went unrecorded 5 days agone connected July 16 and, astatine the clip of writing, has a small implicit 140 full reviews connected Steam. While the ratio of positive-to-negative reviews favors the former, it's astatine a astir 2:1 ratio, leaving Nen x Impact astatine an wide "Mixed."

Multiple reviews, adjacent the affirmative ones, enactment issues specifically with the netcode. While determination are issues taken with a slim single-player offering and different points, netcode is simply a superior concern.

On the flip-side, the bulk successful affirmative reviews bash bask the warring rather a bit. "I can't assistance it man, its my favourite warring crippled ever. thing other comes adjacent successful presumption of however freeform you tin be, however explosive it is, however awesome it feels and looks to bash well," 1 reviewer wrote.

netcode broke https://t.co/ukuyS7K9Ep pic.twitter.com/J6NDWuJEzP

— Broskі (@broskiFGC) July 15, 2025

Within the broader warring crippled community, Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is receiving akin criticism. Even those who person been anxious to play and compete, who spot the imaginable successful Nen x Impact, are hitting a partition with its online play.

Nen interaction has immoderate 2011 netcode lol what is this

— dekillsage (@dekillsage) July 15, 2025

just to clarify one inactive truly similar the halfway gameplay of nen impact, had a batch of amusive labbing stuff, but the netcode perpetually fluctuates 3-6f of rollback adjacent against radical adjacent to you, it doesnt enactment close and one dont deliberation its a bully user merchandise arsenic of the existent patch

— Broskі (@broskiFGC) July 15, 2025

It's honestly a shame, due to the fact that Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact does person immoderate unthinkable potential. It's based connected Hunter x Hunter, for 1 thing; an anime bid that has a wide formed of characters, each with their ain unsocial powers that could marque for a affluent situation of playstyles and designs. Seeing Biscuit Krueger, Hisoka, Kurapika, and much face-off is already fun, particularly since shonen warring games tin scope from stellar to less-than-stellar.

Nen x Impact besides inherits a bequest from its developer, Eighting. It's a workplace known successful warring crippled circles for its contributions to the craft, astir notably with its enactment connected Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. Watch immoderate clips of Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact, and it's not hard to spot the MvC3 influence.

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— PO1 | ピチカート (@pizzicatokai) July 19, 2025

This should beryllium a lucifer made successful Hunter x Hunter heaven. But instead, Nen x Impact has struggled to find a foothold owed to online frustrations. It's the benignant of contented that is, arsenic warring crippled commentator Sajam enactment it, thankfully an outlier these days, but tin inactive beryllium a large blocker for immoderate crippled trying to support an audience. In-person and section contention is inactive immense for warring games, but online play has been a halfway portion of keeping a game's assemblage live and thriving. Bushiroad and Eighting adjacent pushed the archetypal 2024 motorboat day of Nen x Impact backmost successful bid to instrumentality rollback netcode.

The developer published a connection connected July 16, confirming some an contented wherever "excessive rollback frames hap during matches" and 1 wherever "matches forcibly terminate owed to desynchronization errors." The squad confirms it's investigating these issues and is moving connected a resolution. Meanwhile, the workplace is recommending players combat nether "a unchangeable and reliable net transportation whenever possible," and volition present a diagnostic successful an upcoming update to presumption "more elaborate information" regarding an opponent's transportation prime and region.

The question present is whether these fixes tin get accelerated enough, earlier different games bargain the spotlight. The tag combatant genre is starting to get a small crowded, arsenic some Riot's 2XKO and present Arc System Works' Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls loom connected the horizon. It would beryllium breathtaking for MvC3 fans and Hunter x Hunter fans alike to spot Eighting get Nen x Impact to a unchangeable place, but it seems similar the roadworthy determination could beryllium longer than immoderate would hope.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.