The more I think about it, why wasn’t Mr Fantastic a Vanguard? This is a guy who’s canonically 6’1 and can literally morph his body into any shape/size. I whole heartedly think that Mr Fantastic could be/could’ve been a fun innovative shield tank.
I feel like this needs to stop YESTERDAY.
Go to any character main sub, and you'll see people acting like the character is hot garbage.
I legitimately believe that huge swaths of the entire Marvel Rivals community has "My character isn't peak Server Admin Bucky" Syndrome, and just asks for/proposes the most egregious buffs for months on end.
Most of these characters in question are not difficult if you just apply a little bit of thought. It's particularly frustrating because mechanically I feel like Rogue is such a comfy character in terms of balance and the design philosophy of the game.
And Iron Man too, people act like the animation in and out of overdrive is the worst thing ever. It's literally a nonfactor if you know how to play around it by positioning behind cover or rotating with a teammate.
">No one can convince me that fatal attraction is so strong that it needs a damn 14 second cooldown. I’m baffled that was 17 on release"
So she already got a buff to it that it needed then? Do you want to use it 6 times a fight in a sea of other displacement tools to procc Tenacity and make it pointless then? This is an ability that can be refreshed from the absorb too btw!!!
Like I don't understand. Just make characters that require some thought and skill, and have weaknesses that need to be outplayed and THOUGHT ABOUT by the player using them. Best match-up character against DD. Versatile movement. Sustain. Multiple ways to buff damage. A great stun tool. Access to important abilities and passives across the roster.
This is genuinely upsetting, you guys are acting like Sue, Ultron, and Adam players. Learn and improve at your character? No. Instead we're gonna chose to complain our way into the devs buffing them unnecessarily with silly extraneous abilities? I'm tired of this trend where enough people can just exploit the balancing team into external meddling and handholding.
Rogue is probably one of if not the most fun and balanced characters in the game. She doesn't need to be idiot-proof. The reality is she's a balanced character in an unbalanced game and I don't want an interesting kit I find fun to be compromised by all this fucking handholding and mass hysteria.
And furthermore you guys already worship the teamup so much when this character already has two ways of increasing her damage input through Southern Brawl and Absorbing any DPS character's granted passive. 2 more ways of you count having a Storm and a Mantis on board. There are multiple ways to get value on this character, she doesn't need to blow up the neighborhood by holding down primary. This sort of thing communicates to me that you're using the team up as a crutch as if that's her whole kit.
Did White Fox need buffs? No. Did Ultron need two drones? No. Did Adam need flight? No. Did Invis need self sheilds? No. Did Jeff need an immortality circle? No. Did Luna need self flake and to do more damage than Hela? Hell no.
But these changes exist to compensate for the fact that the playerbase is too fucking stupid, to understand that being broken and OP ISN'T supposed to be the standard. Characters like Gambit aren't the standard, and trying to push everyone up to that is how you end up with powercreep.
Speak out about any of this, and you get DROWNED in this God-awful stupid site's echochamber format. I'm so fucking tired of Redditors thinking that the game needs to implement a thousand unnecessary buffs to characters when the game is already balanced.
I've been playing Marvel Rivals since Season 0. I've always given it a chance, telling myself: "It's a new game, they'll improve it. They'll balance the heroes. They'll fix the community and matchmaking issues." I gave it so many chances, but things aren't getting better—they're getting worse. I actually uninstalled after Season 4.5 and skipped Seasons 5 and 6 entirely. I decided to come back for Season 7 to see if anything had changed, but it's actually in the worst state it's ever been. My peak was Diamond 3.
Here is why I'm officially done:
The fun has simply evaporated since season 2. I really wanted this game to succeed, but I can't keep giving chances to a project that seems to ignore its own fundamental flaws.
What's the use of all that content if you can't keep up with the amount. No one is forcing you to dish out so much content. Just take a break and slow down and fix previous things please. So many new bugs and the skin not even being able to complete on time. They should just chill out and do some optimization first. Rivals players can live with half or 1 season of no new content
Load into a game, everyone picked an animated lord dps instantly, luckily everyone swapped, but oh hey I'm forced on tank for the 7th match in a row
Pick groot
Spiderman grabs me immediately because i stepped out of the range for a ZEPTOsecond but hey mag bubbled i lived
Wall goes down after another fight, immediately yoinked
Get saved
Then back cap by spidey, he zips above my head, i hit him TWICE while he's flying through the air at Mach fuck, and then he immediately zip uppercut cancels into grab 100 fucking meters
Please stop fucking yanking me around holy fuck. Utterly miserable to fight and even worse when you're stuck on solo mag/strange since you can't swap to Thing. Fuck off.
Bonus points if the Predverine uses a rocket jump pad to send you to across the map or he's got his Hulk/Thing throw teamup for his hairy unwashed midget ass.
Every single creator and commentator i've seen refers to both active hitboxes on a projectile, and damageable parts of a hero's character model (the characters HURTBOX) as a hitbox. It's really starting to irk me as every other community makes the distinction when discussing frame data and what not.
Jesus Christ dps, break the nest. I swear to God if you're playing Star-Lord or Bucky or any poke character, break the peni nest.