A New Era Of Smash Bros - Melee Will Never Be The Same Again

With the advent of Project Slippi, Super Smash Bros Melee is primed to enter a new era of online competitive play.

Created as a passion project by Jas ‘Fizzi’ Laferriere and his team, Slippi online boosts the quality of multiplayer online Melee using features such as rollback netcode that cuts down on lag.

With the addition of a matchmaking system and an unprecedented amount of post-match statistics, the people behind Slippi are helping make the international Melee community feel more connected than ever before.

In today's video, we take a look at the history of Super Smash Bros. Melee's online experience and how Slippi will be changing the future of the game forever.

Chapters

0:00 The Melee community

1:33 A history of competition

2:22 From Dark Age to Platinum

3:48 The challenges of 2020

4:57 Logistics and CRT reliance

5:54 Modernizing Melee mechanics

8:02 The rise of netplay

9:30 Netplay's limitations

11:25 Project Slippi and rollback

13:42 The diamond age of Melee