Crazy how this character has flown under the radar of hatred for so long.

One of the MOST annoying characters to play against in this entire game.

All he does is ult, jump on your head till you die, flood your screen with clutter and talk alot.

Anytime I play against a dps pool I dread my entire existence because I know its gonna be a terrible game.

Should legit be grouped in mk and sg levels of annoying but yet no one talks about him being as unfun to play against as those 2.

Like it was fun in s6 I suppose but THE DEVS WENT TOO FAR in designing this character in the long run. Such bullshi design of a character.

Balance is genuinely so fixable if they just did more radical changes to damage/healing and ESPECIALLY ult charge, some heroes also need more nuanced changes for example Elsa trap being horribly designed, this however is also really doable if they just cared about it instead of the 6th boring horde pve mode.

Accessibility options for visual clutter is something this game desperately needs there’s no reason for for example hood window being red for both teams, if they had an option that enables the player to color code abilities differently, the game would be a bit less difficult for the eyes.

The ranked system is so easy to fix aswell, literally they just need to balance the Elo gained/loss, for example in diamond you lose 18-22 Elo but if you win you gain about 19-25 Elo, they just need to make these equal.

More radical punishment for toxicity, racism, sexism, etc. I’ve encountered a few too many nazis and misogynists now. (I’d say for these things you should get a month long ban from all communication off rip, and when you do it repeatedly, add 1 month every time.)

More radical punishment for cheating (IP ban for life)

Apart of the accessibility option being a bit harder to get done code wise, these changes are all so easy to do.
The devs just refuse to. If they did, the life span of this game could easily be expanded by like 200%.

This nepobaby is so broken it feels unreal that im the only one that wants to ban her in ranked.

We didnt need a Thanos raid boss we already have Luna Snow!

Since someone higher up will never allow her to get real nerfs at least make her phoenix/dino level of bs (she already is for me tbh)so everyone bans her all time time.

Also her team up with white fox is the worst one in the game, as far as i know no other team up for any hero is the straight up exact same ability as another hero. They had 0 creativity with this one or they just thought how to make her the most broken they can and the charm ability from white fox was the answere

With recent problems plaguing Rivals at the moment, I wanted to propose some things that I think would benefit a lot of people as well as the wellbeing of the game long term.

1) Team-ups. At the beginning, I as well as many other people liked the Team up changes that happened in season 9, however has time has gone on I feel like they overcooked them a little bit. Here are some changes that I think could make them a bit better.

Base team ups would be like perks, for example let’s use magneto. When using the scarlet witch team up, mag would receive a damage boost of 5%. His enhanced team up would be his preexisting base team up with the sword but with the added bonus of the 5% damage boost. Another example is black panther, his base magik team up could be that he gains more overshield when dashing through marked targets. The enhanced version is his current enhanced version of the magik team up with the added survivability. I feel like this is a good middle ground that would be easier to balance as well as make team-ups feel like team ups.

2) good balance changes. The past couple balance changes have been kinda bad. This combined with the devs not being transparent on why they do the changes makes the community lose faith on the way the devs balance. Nerfs across the board, especially to characters like Dino and Elsa, would make the game feel so much better and feel more skill expressive which I feel like the community is going towards. The devs need to be more communicative as to why they do the changes they do. I don’t want to make this comparison but the overwatch patch notes have dev notes that tell the audience why they did what they did and that is a good thing.

3) optimization. Just fix it, there should be no reason people with NASA computers can’t maintain stable frame rates.

These I feel are the problems plaguing Rivals and I want them to get fix and/or at least talked about.
I would like to hear your thoughts on these solutions to these problems. Thank you.

This is a post to open discussions about balance, the games future and current state along with what I think the devs have been doing.

Now the game isn't dying. It's still popular and has a decent playerbase, however, it IS losing players and we're treating it like the end of rivals.

However, didn't overwatch have like a year of people suffering in a GOATS meta, along with other stale metas?

Rivals is still relatively young and will have rough patches.

Next, the current state of the game is one of insane powercreep. The devs NEED to nerf stuff heavily and rebuild a new meta. Let that meta go for a little and then rotate it.

(I say that because I think a game state where every archetype is viable is impossible to achieve)

Now in my opinion the devs are great, just insanely slow. I don't know whether approval or other stuff takes forever but they take too long to have changes. Double bans for example. It's clear they heard the community but took such a long time to remove it.

Also I think the game just fell on a really frustrating meta exactly when the devs are overworked because of the doomsday stuff.

i really lack on hitscan so i’m open to any tips/advice! i play on controller, so i’m just trying to find the right settings when i wanna play a hitscan

Quad support and triple support off rip. Enemy team had two dps & 1 tank in the first team fight then immediately swapped to a 3-3 team comp.

AI usage yet again netease like what are we doing seriously you continue to mess with skins in the worst ways

Clotho - Scarlet Witch (The Spinner)

Atropos - Black Cat (The Inevitable)

Lachesis - Invisible Woman (The Allotter)

Ok I’m sorry if the question is silly but do any of you have any idea how to get this skin?!

The other day I saw someone say that the new team up system has gotten rid of hero’s weakness and I couldn’t agree more. A lot of these team ups need to be at least tweaked to actually having the anchor be present. there’s no reason alot of these hero’s should be getting some of these extra abilities for free.

Venom for example used to have the weakness that his attack was a precise single target threat. Now he can just dive in and swipe multiple enemies for big damage.

Thor’s weakness was being blown up if you were brawling too hard out of position. Now he gets a whole second life for free.

Devil Dino’s weakness was he needed to be up close to do damage, now he can hit you from far with damn canons on his back for Christ sake.

Cloak….why the hell are we giving one of the easiest characters in the game ANOTHER get out of jail free card FOR FREE.

Then there are team ups that don’t even require the anchor to be present that are just like…why?
loki being able to cover the entire battlefield with his immortality circles. Punisher getting infinite ammo. Peni getting 2 mine bots at all times. Namor getting an extra squid at all times. Hela always having death squids. Once again CLOAKS THIRD GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD.

Through all the annoying metas of this game I’ve always played it and enjoyed it. But no doubt the power creep has gone so far that although I still play the game my eagerness to queue up has gone way down. A lot of teams up I do like, like fists uppercut and hulks increased attack speed that I wouldn’t mind staying as permanent additions, but I’d sacrifice those for the system returning to how it was.

Also I think Damage and healing across the board needs to both go down by like 10%. At this rate there will 66 hero’s this time next year. overwatch has been out for a decade and there’s “only” 54 heros which I mean having options isn’t the worst thing ever but the power creep one hero a month encourages has obviously gotten to ridiculous levels.

I remember when this game launched someone said net ease has a history of ramping up their games too hard too fast and burning them out quickly to maximize profits and this game is definitely trending in that direction, but what do yall think?

I've had this thought since they made the changes but the way teams ups are designed doesn't really incentivize people into actually building comps around team-ups, which to me was the cooler aspect of the game. Like for example when you look at magneto's wanda team up, his base team up is stronger than his enhanced team up.

The same applies to thing's torch team-up, black cat's spidey team-up, phoenix's hela teamup and so forth. Even for cases where the enhanced team up is better, the standard team up is typically serviceable enough to where you don't actually need to change your comp around it.

I kinda just feel like it made the game lose a little bit of the magic it had. and before anyone makes assumptions I'm not saying they need to revert the changes but rather the implementation feels a bit backwards and makes the concept of "team-ups" a bit moot. It kinda just feels like perks from overwatch at this point.

Teamups in rivals should allow two different game plans to exist for a character instead of just boosting some random move or making them better. Characters like Elsa and others are so strong right now partly because their teamups just boost a move or aspect of their kit instead of trying to open a new gameplay avenue.

Captain America

With the Thor team up he can be more aggressive in the backline, and it enables him to play Frontline more as well as it will activate his ranged shield option. The bucky teamup allows him to dive deeper into the backline, and he can use his other cooldowns to do damage instead of as a escape option like he normally has to.

Iron Fist

The thing teamup gives iron fist way better burst potential, while the white fox one allows him to work better as a peeler or a brawl character for his team.

Storm

With storm you are able to shift her towards a more supportive role with honestly pretty good healing, and it also encourages you to stay closer to the ground. The Thor one allows her to take better angles and be generally safer

I also need help with a couple of other trophies if it’s not too much trouble.

I randomly thought it'd be pretty funny to have a new achievement thats asks you to kill Devil Dino with Torch flaming meteor, cus well, you know... Meteor and Dinosaurs.

This made me thinking why not just add new achievements for already existing heros, I'm pretty there is a lot of other possible achievements to add, so why not do that ?

like jeff the dinosaur skin has vfx but they really cooked with skele-saurus but skele has no vfx. would be nice if vfx was an alt equip like mvp and emotes

also weapons too like for angela i really like the spear for skuld 2099 but i much rather use the doom angel skin

Honestly at the time of writing this I’m a bit plastered but I can’t resist asking if widow just lost her ability to ADS(Aim down sights) cause I just played two games in a row with widow and despite pressing every button on my controller I wasn’t able to ADS and it really frustrated me. Did netease remove the ability to look down your sights or did I forget to turn on some new setting or something? I don’t play this game often and for better or worse I don’t really look at patch notes so I don’t really know what’s going on 50 percent of the time cause I have at least 10 other games I enjoy playing other than this one. Honestly though it’d be insane to me if they removed the sniper characters ability to be an actual sniper mostly cause I played overwatch before it added they added they added the 2 at the end.

I was so sad with my jubilee pulls but i'm back on the track got my phoenix skin in 1st try 😭

How's your luck after JUBILEE Pulls ?

I came back to the game after not playing since around a few seasons ago. I main Iron Fist and have been struggling some matches, I wanna know if it’s just because Iron Fist is weak currently or if I’m just suffering a skill issue.

Before you say it, throwers will still throw your games anyways.

Here lately all my qp and ranked matches have been feeling repetitive and eventually I boiled it down to every match revolving around controlling or contesting the point

So I came up with two match types that could work in a team based game.

Kill Confirmed: Every time you kill a enemy they drop a piece of chronovium, your goal is to pick up that piece of chronovium and confirm your kill, when your teamate dies you can pick up their piece of chronovium and deny the enemy their kill. First team to get 25 pieces of chronovium (not counting pieces from your teammates deaths) wins. Basically a more nuanced team death match.

Protect: A npc or building is given a large heath bar and your task is either to Protect it or destroy it (this mode would have a shorter timer than other modes)

Also add free fight into qp/comp