If you thought this was the overwatch 2 killer, you're dead wrong. It is its replacement.
The game was genuinely fun at launch (being season 0), but since then the devs have only made the game worse, and the player base has become more toxic by the minute.
First off, the nerfs and buffs in this game are absolutely insane.
All they do is buff the popular characters and nerf everyone else, making a lot of dps so insanely overpowered over others, that some characters are becoming nearly unviable, especially tanks (altho a few dps and healers suffer from this, especially adam warlock who got nerfed into oblivion) when nobody seems to wanna play healer. Either that happens, or the opposite team will have three healers healing each other basically making winning the match near impossible.
It seems like the studio only seems to listen to the biggest voices on the internet and not the actual community, so they can make some big twitch streamer happy that way their game doesn't sink. On top of this, they're fully aware of people oversexualizing the characters and seem to endorse that by continuing to release what is basically gooner content.
Don't get me wrong, i don't have an issue with attractive characters whatsoever, but i can tell its going to get to a point where it's going to become tacky and tasteless, and it's already starting to be.
It also feels like all the overwatch sweats and tryhard tiktok wannabe clip ♥♥♥♥♥ are invading the game. It feels like every match has at least 2-3 of them ATLEAST, not focusing on the match at all but just trying to get kills, purposefully being annoying, extremely rude, and unwilling to actually help balance the team (and that's just in quickplay, i haven't even touched competitive but i've heard some "stories" for sure).
I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired of being forced to play healer because we have four dps on the team which all happen to be popular, buffed, or tryhard characters, and then we lose the game and either i get the blame for it or get called bad at the game because no synergy ever exists on most teams.
The brutally honest truth is that this whole system of constantly tweaking stats based on what the community thinks is stupid, lazy, and their excuse to keep people invested in the game. We don't ever do this with singleplayer or pve games, not usually, but its completely fine for competitive live-service? Genuinely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ why? Isn't the whole point of Beta testing to make sure everything is balanced and works fine? Shouldn't a game be balanced to begin with before its released or soon after? Why are such large changes made to characters because of people's usually emotional or invalid opinions?
This isn't just a Rivals issue, this is a live service issue. I'm done with this game unless they decide to get their act together, i refuse to sink with this ship.