Patient Gamers

I don't like it very much, but the price is right.

I used to play Overwatch, and abandoned it shortly after the Overwatch 2 debacle. A bunch of my friends kept up with OW2, and when Rivals came out they made the switch so I figured I'd give it a go.

Season 0 was rough. It's on Season 1 now and things are a bit better.

Hitboxes are bad. Maps seem confusing, although that might be that my game sense hasn't figured them out yet. Lag is an issue a lot of the time, and the game crashes more than I feel it ought to - but I'm on Linux which I feel isn't officially supported.

I saw an article the other day criticizing that you can't type "Free Taiwan" into the chat. I guess I haven't actually tested it to confirm, but gosh that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't go in for the battlepass, but my friends usually do when they play a game and they say it's fair. They do have a model that allows you to purchase the battlepass and then continue to fill it out even after it's no longer the current season. So if it takes you a long time to finish content, you're not forced into playing more games for fear of missing out.

When it's fun, it's a lot of fun. When it's bad, my goodness, it's bad. I guess it depends on how willing you are to gamble with your feelings. But hey, I guess you're coming from League, so you might be ;)

I don't understand the hype around it. Played it briefly, but found it clunky feeling. Characters are so big, they had to tone down their speed, so everything feelings sluggish. And the abilities just feel mostly useless.

But it's F2P, why bother being patient with a game you don't have to pay to try out?

dota replaced league of legends for me years ago now im more into deadlock for moba energy. rivals is good fun

I'm playing it, I really enjoy it and I never played Overwatch. I was and am still a Heroes of the Storm player, which is fun and I like.

I think at the end of the day it's just fun. 6v6 and you get to mess with your ults. There's characters that you don't need good aim for and need to be strategic instead. You can also go ham like Wolverine, Iron Fist and Cap. It's just fun to dive in and go for it. There's only three classes: tank, DPs and healer or Vanguard, Duelist and Strategist. You'll pick it up quickly and the help menu is just F1 so you can read about the abilities at any point.

If you prefer a third person game that's more MOBA, there's Deadlock. It has multiple lanes and minions to push. Marvel Rivals is more like ARAM and people using their ults to do insane cheating-like moves.

Heroes of the Storm is free to play and shockingly still great

I mean, they're very different games... If you're looking for something like overwatch, then seems like it could be a good match.

And yeah, the League new player experience is god awful. Even by people who still play it, it's known for its toxicity. Riot let it degenerate into a cesspit because moderation was too difficult/costly, which caused all the friendly players to abandon ship. That means that the only people who still play are either clueless, toxic, addicted, seeking to profit, or somehow immune to vitriol.

Sadly, if you want a casual moba, I'm not sure it exists right now. Maybe ones that were never obscenely popular and still have passionate communities could be more friendly, at least? Smite, HoN, Eternal Return?

If you just want a casual game, then yeah, best to get in with a game that has a lot of other casual players, and Rivals fits that bill right now.

I suppose it looks fun, but I always preferred games that didn't lock you into official servers like DRG and TF2. Hopefully this isn't too much of a derail from the question being asked :).

I played for a bit. Then i read an article about them putting you in bot matches if you lose two consecutive matches. Then i tested if it was true and once i confirmed it was i stopped playing.

I don’t mind playing against bots to learn the game if that fact is stated. I do mind being lied to about a game in which i think i’m playing against humans when in reality i’m playing against bots just to keep engagement up.

100% not judging anyone who prefers mobas or MMOs. I just feel that as a patient gamer (with a huge backlog) I can't no more try or play another one.

The time sink alone and psychological methods like daily missions/battlepasses/FOMOs they use to make me get hooked just now days make me want to skip all of those kind of games even when I'm really into the game/idea.

I can experience 10 single player games (that I already have) instead of one GaaS game. I'm happier this way.

I think it's quite good but it also makes me miss launch overwatch, because it isn't quite as good as that was.

It has some really cool additions, like destructible terrain, but the overall "shooting feel" isn't quite as tight as overwatch imo.

I also think it has some very irritating characters to play against like iron man. They're not necessarily OP, they're just a pain to deal with. I'm kind of a noob, so take it with a grain of salt!

If anyone is in the same situation as I am, just found out about Supervive: https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/supervive-hands-on-excitingly-unique-but-intimidatingly-ambitious/

Similar isometric view than MOBAs, so that can be interesting