Kris🌙

(Very long post) Thoughts on Marvel Rivals release day Tldr; Rivals is fucking awesome. 1. Six and a half hours of playtime and I had ONE game server fail to load. No game crashes, no server overloads, no queue times, and one single solitary FPS drop. 2. The monetization is the most consumer-friendly system I’ve seen from a game in a very, VERY long time. A $5 battlepass that you can continue to redeem rewards from even after the end of the season? A 1:1 exchange rate of base to premium currency? No character/map paywalls? That’s absolutely WILD to me. 3. I can’t remember the last time I’ve had trouble getting off of my PC because I find myself saying, “just one more game” over and over again. Actually, yes I can - it was the alpha and beta tests. I cannot get enough of this game. 4. Every character has such a fun learning curve, I’ve never been a DPS main in any game. Ever. But I find myself freely swapping between DPS and support because the mechanics are just so damn clean and everything is fluid; I’ve yet to play a character I didn’t love. Movement is incredibly fun, especially in third person. Which brings me to: 5. I have always hated third person games, especially shooters. I don’t know what it is, but something about the way Rivals implemented it works insanely well. Corner peeking adds so much versatility your play style and I’m absolutely loving it. 6. TEAM PLAY AND SYNERGY IS ENCOURAGED!! That right there is EXACTLY what Overwatch has been missing. We lost so much of that when we did away with double tanks and the game went from a team based FPS to a tank v tank boss raid. Rivals has gone the opposite direction by implementing team-ups that will change every season to keep metas fresh. 7. TTK feels GREAT and I actually have a big impact in every team fight. That kind of player agency is something that’s also been missing from Overwatch for a long time. 8. Nerf Iron Fist.