Ken
2024-12-29T22:45:07.000Z
[hero shooters] Here’s my hot take, having now spent awhile bouncing between both:

While Rivals is great, it’s not actually that much better than the current state of OW2. There are things both games do better or worse, and a lot of the “better” things come with caveats both huge and small.
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Ken
2024-12-29T22:45:52.000Z
Now if that reason is “I prefer third person shooters” or “I prefer the Marvel IP” then like, yeah. That’s subjective to taste. Obviously those are going to be huge decision makers.
Ken
2024-12-29T22:46:15.000Z
But I don’t think it’s a very clear cut “oh this is so much better than that” in a comparison debate.
Ken
2024-12-29T22:46:44.000Z
And the reason can’t be “blizzard sucks” because Rivals is made by NetEase so, like. Next question, please,
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Ken
2024-12-29T22:47:20.000Z
(They both suck, is what I’m sayin’.)
Ken
2024-12-29T22:49:33.000Z
The biggest thing in MR’s favor is the keeping of the battle pass after you buy it which is good, great, and excellent but also it had better be for how horribly time gated progression is in it. Which isn’t so bad in Season 0’s mini-pass but is going to suck ASS come a full one.
Ken
2024-12-29T22:50:36.000Z
Just, I dunno. I keep seeing “oh this is so much better” by some vague metric, when I step back and look at engaging with both and it’s like.

“it’s not that much different if I’m really real.”
Ken
2024-12-29T22:51:57.000Z
People talk about them like there’s this wide gap and tbh there’s really not

You just like Overwatch, it turns out
Ken
2024-12-29T22:53:21.000Z
(And to make it clear I am talking more broadly discussions I’ve seen elsewhere.)
Ken
2024-12-29T22:59:56.000Z
Like this isn’t even wildly swinging either way they’re just both at about the same level.

Or, well. They could be, if Rivals got rid of bot matches and I could ever pick a damage hero without throwing the game because no one else will fucking heal.
Ken
2024-12-29T23:27:36.000Z
And obviously OW had a lot of

Issues

But we also know a lot of those were for executive bullshittery, and the current game is what Rivals is still mostly modeling itself off of so that’s where I’m gonna compare them.
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