Multiplat Marvel Rivals

[The Clinch]

Trying ranked again, MR really took the worst aspects of OW comp and made them even worse.

 

[KaNesDeath]

However, the report feature seems to work as the MR team responds quickly to reports..

With Kotick gone and Microsoft begging Netease to republish their games in China. Theyre probably making an ungoldly amount of money off Blizzard IP's there to hire/outsource such infrastructure.

 

[Valhoven]

Trying ranked again, MR really took the worst aspects of OW comp and made them even worse.

Bit nervous myself even to dip into ranked because I’ve liked keeping this game fun. Some of the other games I play I’m so serious about that it’s nice to breathe and enjoy this for what it is.

That said, probably trying ranked this weekend.

 

[The Clinch]

Spring event is a poorly implemented Lucioball.

Free skin if you suffer long enough.

 

[Valhoven]

Spring event is a poorly implemented Lucioball.

Free skin if you suffer long enough.

For what char?

 

[The Clinch]

For what char?

Starlord, widow, & fist.

Skin is for starlord.

 

[Valhoven]

Learnt last night that NetEase has bot implementation for Rivals. You can verify whether you’ve been playing with bots or players by checking your match history at tracker.gg.

There may be a max number of two bots per team, I’ve heard but grapevine. I’m in agreement with Meth on this that bots in general make for a play demotivator.

These guys also develop Bladepoint but I’m not sure if they’ve implemented the same there. Put some time into B/p (can recommend) but don’t remember suspecting as much whether by programmed play or AI GTs.

cc: @method115

 

[method115]

Learnt last night that NetEase has bot implementation for Rivals. You can verify whether you’ve been playing with bots or players by checking your match history at tracker.gg.

There may be a max number of two bots per team, I’ve heard but grapevine. I’m in agreement with Meth on this that bots in general make for a play demotivator.

These guys also develop Bladepoint but I’m not sure if they’ve implemented the same there. Put some time into B/p (can recommend) but don’t remember suspecting as much whether by programmed play or AI GTs.

cc: @method115

Wow thanks for the heads up. I don't even understand why they would do this. There are so many people playing this game why introduce bots.

 

[Valhoven]

Wow thanks for the heads up. I don't even understand why they would do this. There are so many people playing this game why introduce bots.

Sure and my thought too; I remember our Battlefield convos back when. Game fire right now and while I get lower MM times = higher player engagement, I’m surprised this successful early into life they’re botting.

 

[method115]

Sure and my thought too; I remember our Battlefield convos back when. Game fire right now and while I get lower MM times = higher player engagement, I’m surprised this successful early into life they’re botting.

Yes apparently the more you lose the more likely you are to be in a match that can have nothing but bots while you have like 4 teammates. Apparently it's only quickplay right now.

It reminds me of a time me and my cousin booted up some game. I think it was Paladins but I can't remember. We went on a kill spree getting like 30+ kills in game after game. Then finally at some point we realized all those matches were against nothing but bots and we felt like such idiots.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Wow thanks for the heads up. I don't even understand why they would do this. There are so many people playing this game why introduce bots.

In games like these the primary game mode improperly becomes ranked. Which bleeds down into other game modes turning them into sweat fests. To counter act this for new and repeat casual players the developer needs to reduce the skill floor by introducing bots to keep engagement metrics high.

 

[The Clinch]

Not shocked to hear there’s bots seeing the play on both sides.

Already at least taking a break from the game as playing with randoms is rather awful.

It doesn’t help that I’ve already played this game a decent amount when it was called ‘Overwatch’, and quit that because the game became an overwhelmingly negative experience.

Can see this game heading the same direction.

 

[Zazen]

Wow thanks for the heads up. I don't even understand why they would do this. There are so many people playing this game why introduce bots.

They’ve already said why. It’s to prevent players from going on huge losing streaks that makes them want to quit. No bots in ranked. Personally I just farm the vs ai bots. I didn’t even realize for the longest time you could do missions this way

 

[Razor]

this game has got a hold on me.

Never even touched overwatch but this game is fun af

 

[Valhoven]

After fire and fury from the playerbase, developer NetEase walks back rank reset at season split:



Thank you for all your passionate discussions and feedback. There wil be NO RANK RESET when the second half of the season begins! Check out the details here!

 

[Zazen]

I don’t play as much as I did when it came out. I’ve discovered that a lot of the missions like “deal x amount of damage with y” or “block x amount of damage” type missions just continue to repeat and attack so if you want until the end of a season you can farm so damn fast to unlock the skins.

 

[Razor]

After fire and fury from the playerbase, developer NetEase walks back rank reset at season split:



Thank you for all your passionate discussions and feedback. There wil be NO RANK RESET when the second half of the season begins! Check out the details here!

Hard stuck on plat smh loving the shit out of this game though and can’t wait for next season with Nightcrawler, Human Torch, Thing, etc

 

[The Clinch]

Rank/competitive pretty much killed my want to play this game. Just total boneheads as teammates 95% of the time and then getting SVP just makes it worse.

But Nightcrawler is my dawg.

 

[The Clinch]

Marvel Rivals layoffs

Game director and other members of the dev team have been laid off.

Wonder if it's only those working for NetEase outside of China?

 

[Valhoven]

On more uplifting news, I thought the Human Torch char reveal today was awesome. He looks great.