In diamond. Overtime. I was Magneto, with a Groot. Enemy iron man ults. I Magneto ult to eat it. Our Groot gets a 5 man ult as a chuck the photon blast boosted Magneto bomb into the clump. We win. Whole team starts cheering over voice. Absolute cinema. Was the moment I realized this game was special. I hadn't felt that in overwatch in years.
Mag is my favorite character. I hope you liked the plays in this video. Outplaying ults is certainly baked into MR and part of the depth I'm referring to. I love eating Punisher ult, but tossing it to kill him before he can pop it.
I didn't play OW. I been on the BR kick for years. What drew me in was the art style and the team up abilities. The character designs and kits are just so fucking cool. I'm having a blast playing MR. Its the only game to peel me off THE FINALS in months.
Then the enemy Luna snow use her ult and nothing happen, or cloak and dagger use her suzu and nothing happen, or locki use his invincibility field and nothing happen
@@ni9274or they're on cooldown and they die You've also named three supports Highly unlikely they're on your team All circumstantial. Sound like you need to learn to play around cooldowns
That's when I lost respect for the dev team, ngl. I realized that they genuinely thought their players were too stupid to know what they wanted / needed.
I don’t think there’s a bigger fuck up than how blizzard has handled overwatch, taking it from one of the most promising IP’s to basically the agreed upon laughing stock of gaming, blizzard is so shameful
@@perennialcomaAt least concord was an instant fuck up and no one really cared, overwatch hurts more cause it had so much potential to branch out to be super big, shows,movies,comics,spin off games, and they did nothing but slowly ruin themselves more and more until people didnt care anymore and now its a laughing stock with people praying on its downfall
@@AgentOrange502 what do you MEAN "your Overwatch" lmao I hate Overwatch so much, and uninstalled it quite a while ago. Not planning on playing it ever again either :)
Overwatch doesnt need bans… there are no op characters in overwatch and you can rank up no matter what type of comp your team or the enemy team has. How are u just gonna say smth like that with nothing to back it up… the games are different, why does overwatch need a ban system. Just get better and learn how to play against every hero. Its not the game its u
@@egorbor5713you are so ignorant. You know how many oppressive metas there have been in ow? Almost every season has had one. Widow has been a problem in high ranks on certain maps for almost EVERY season. Have u forgotten the sojourn meta?? You must be low rank to say ts. The game becomes stagnant with oppressive metas like that. Every game feels the same. With hero bans, low rank enjoyers like you can ban junkrat and we can ban widow. Everyone wins
@@egorbor5713 it would alleviate balance issues from every single meta we’ve ever had rather than wait for the midseason patch to fix things. And it just gives better player agency. If widow is oppressive at my rank i can just ban her. If reaper is oppressive at my rank i can just ban him.
Yep, I loved OW1, and they said we'd be able to play with OW2 players. I remember when they scratched that I was like wow, guess things are a changing. Then they said 5v5 and I was like I don't like that at all.
@@Raytheman581 They never "scratched that" you're just slow and misunderstood the initital OW2 announcement. It was always going to be the same servers and same updated engine. The only thing OW2 players were going to have that OW1 players were not were the OW2 redesign skins and access to PvE. PvP was never going to be a separate thing. Go back to school.
Thing is we really don't need nerfs, as a lot of characters are losing their season buff in January. Hela for example will be losing her 20% dmg bonus, Hawkeye loses his dmg bonus as well, Hulk and Groot 200 hp bonus, etc. Looking forward to see what heroes are strong next season.
Hawkeye will still be able to one-shot. The loss of the buff will mainly affect body shots to tanks. Hela will still pop heads, too. Magik is the main and only loser of the season buff loss. I don't think she'll be able to one-shot combo anything anymore.
how does that work? I thought the same heroes would be getting buffed since its the teamup achors and those wouldnt change? Isnt the buff a means to give something to the anchor who otherwise doesnt get anything from the team-up?
@@SpyralKingno you are thinking about the teamup abilities, the seasonal buffs are passive stat boosts that show up when ppl select their hero, like luna +15% heal buff.
@ that’s not how people work though. I don’t have time in my life to “get good”. I will most likely be in silver/gold forever but I also don’t want to keep bashing my head into a wall.
I do agree that one problem Overwatch suffered from is that they nerfed hero’s or buffed hero’s to the point where they ruined hero/team identity and expression. Balancing for esports was so bad.
@@beeree14they actually tried doing both. They tried making all heroes viable while also listening to the complaining casuals. They watered everything down. Do you really think goats meta was a problem in any rank below diamond? It wasn't. So if they didn't care about competitive, they wouldnt have cared so much to implement a role queue.
For the final father fucking time. They haven’t and do not balance around esports or high elo. Please. Read the dev blogs where they talk about how they balance. They consistently talk about balancing for ALL ranks which is why the balancing is always iffy. It’s hard to balance for everyone.
Yes but the thing about this game is there is very little skill expression as the skill floor and ceiling for many characters is very low (besides maybe spiderman). It's an easy to play game, not much micro which makes it boring imo.
Only complaint is the performace really. Going from 240+ at all times in ow to sometimes dropping below 100 in marvel just feels terrible in a shooter.
marvel rivals is just a casual game that is all they will never care about the optimization much or balancing or visual clarity and such like overwatch does, ive said this since i played the first beta (which i did hit like top 20 in too i played a lot)
Yep. BUT they are working on the game. When I first started playing, I was barely hitting 200 fps, with massive stutters and fps drops, but now I'm averaging around 240fps on MOST maps and the fps drops are less frequent, so thats good. I just wish it was as smooth and responsive as OW....
Yeah the Game used to just run half a frame after exiting a match, and in game it would fluctuate hard during the Beta, this was even worse in the Alpha, I partially blame the devs but I also blame the horrible Engine running most games nowadays UE5, it makes 4090s cry tears of pain.
@@jokered1133 ue5 is not at all poorly optimized thats just crazy to say. please tell me what other engine thats not in house you would use for a project using high poly graphics with really intense vfx. you want them to use unity engine? godot? they are just focusing more on making the game look nice than if it can run.
Bro I went to play 6v6 a couple days ago and the queue times for supports were about 20 min in comparison to tank and dps being 3/4 min, The r34 of this game carries so much its crazy
@@rezaruki3912 Not even us nsfw animators give Blizzard any money, at least, most of we don't. We can rip the new skins models and use them for better purposes without paying for them.
Freedo really revising his own channel's history with his video. He did play a role in defending OW, Blizz, and the Dev team (even if he would admit he was gullible enough to do so at the time) and attacking other entities ("news sites") when he did the same thing at the same time. The guy who played a part in beating a horse to death now wants to champion it's competitor to save his own face and to say he was always right. This post isn't about hero bans yay or nay but the channel's overall false character it presents.
Yea bro he wanted to be the white knight for OW and OW2, but now sees that the players finally have something else to play and now he wants to get on the bandwagon.
Kinda what he does, remember when he called out the whole community and equated us to flat earthers? He flip flops a lot, and sometimes I think ok it’s gotten better and he will probably stop jabbing at us so I start to watch his stuff again but you know It’s what ever in the end, if he wants to say stuff then let him.
I can’t stand this guys self righteous tone in this video « I did this, I gave overwatch my life » chill bro you make videos on TH-cam. I’ve been watching this guy from the start but will not be watching any videos of his again.
you know what Freedo... I get it now. I've been watching this channel for years, and I'm not proud to admit that I was in the crowd 6 years ago calling hero bans a stupid idea. I praised role queue because I was tired of people insta locking 3, 4, 5 DPS and hard feeding. but since Marvel Rivals came out, I haven't played a single match of OW2, and I didn't fully grasp why until this video. without role queue or aggressive balancing, I can just play my funny Iron Fist, then switch right to Venom if we need to get beefier, and not have to worry about either of them being gutted by a balance patch... it feels good. I miss when I could pick Genji and actually do meaningful damage. he literally FEELS patched. 3 whole years of lame, wet noodle, 110 per swing dragonblade. not to mention only 6 seconds to make use of that worthless thing. the character's identity is pretty much dead. could you imagine if NetEase put a cap on how many resets Bucky could get with his ult? that'd be such a huge blow to his character identity. but no, they just let the character do what it was designed to do. not the case with Overwatch.
I absolutely get your second paragraph. I've had so many matches where the enemy team would be pushed up so far into our spawn that my teammates didn't know what to do and old habits from OW1 kicked in where I pick high damage characters and sit inside spawn and hunt for heads to push them back. None of the new players knew how to handle it, so I had to step it up and swap off strategist to pick Hawkeye, Widow, or Hela just to make the enemy team freak out for a bit, then swap back to strategist characters.
I'm more of a tank and support player and I play Psylocke as my only dps like Tracer in Overwatch. She just feels great to play because she feels strong enough where I can make an impact when I execute well enough. Tracer, while still really good in the right hands, doesn't feel fun to play as anymore with all the heavy sustains and how bad DPS feels as a role to play. Tanks feels really great to play even when solo tanking when you play your cooldowns and engagement right and I can say the same for supports. You really gotta be on point with the healings otherwise your teammates just insta dies but you can also contribute with aggressive plays as well! Game feels really good atm. It gives me 2016 - 2018 Overwatch feels.
I never thought hero bans were stupid in fact I advocated for it and was told it would never work in Overwatch. But I admittedly did praise Role Queue when it first came out like a sheep and I feel bad for that.
@punkypony5165 hero ban in overwatch was applied really weird back then where the DEVS decided what to ban LOL Its not the players, its the devs themselves ban certain heroes to decide what meta players should use
It's worse... Blizzard HQ is in Irvine, CA. Disneyland is 15-30 minutes up the freeway from them. They could have been the ones to make this game and they dropped the ball so hard it's unbelievable.
tbf they really had the hero shooter genre by its balls for 8 years straight and even got a GOTY award. If anything they blew all their prize money on bs it didnt need.
Imma be honest, as a huge fan of Overwatch (the first one) I am really loving Marvel Rivals. Its bringing back the fun I use to have, and with their unique characters, I'm having a lot of fun with DPS than I did in Overwatch. When I tried Overwatch 2, as a Reinhardt main, I found it difficult and just outright chose not to use him. That made me sad, ngl.........I spent literally hours on him, only for him to feel useless in the 5v5 setting. I know they now are entertaining 6v6 again, but I'm no longer interested....which is sad to say
@@IMXLegedaryBard I relate with you my OW brotheren. Let’s embrace this as a new beginning and be glad to the fun and special moments we experienced. As an 8 year OW feen I’m moving on to rivals. They are giving us players the experience WE want, not what their wallets want
there's a reason the dps queue for ow is like 5x shorter than support. nobody wants to play that role, nothing dies, and you're required to play PERFECTLY to get a pick in high ranked lobbies, and you're not getting that pick if the enemy team plays around you even if your execution is perfect. In Rivals people die to a rogue moon knight ankh you forgot to shoot at for 1 second. You die from a panther that slipped your mind and you get bursted in a second. Overwatch needed a faster TTK, instead they went for "pick rate" balance which led to the most boring times in a hero shooter ever.
I stuck with overwatch through everything, the years of no updates, all my friends telling me the games dead, them never listening to us, the canceled story mode, and then finally they decide to do a 6v6 tear AFTER MARVEL RIVALS RELEASES we have been asking for this back since the beginning of OW2. Its really just too little too late I think I speak for a large majority of the player base when I say that overwatch just left such a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t even want to touch it with a 10ft stick now.
If I was Freedo, it'd drive me nuts to be considered a flip-flopper when I've been saying the same thing for 6-8 years. Even in the 6v6 vs 5v5 debacle, he never advocated for 6v6. Only pointed out that there would be trade offs.
He is finally snapped after seeing rivals like Imagine being gaslighted for years in overwatch Overwatch community are fkng sucks, they always defending blizzard every their wrongdoing
I also think the ban phase is vital for the health of the game, but i see one problem with it in the future of the game: They're gonna add heros and when the roster gets bigger, there's going to be characters that would get banned sometimes in the past that would just never ever get banned anymore because there's not enough ban picks for people to care about removing them. When the roster reaches 60 for example, and the fantastic 4 becomes the most op for some reason, Hela will almost never get banned and even if she's not top tier at that point, she still dominate certain characters that are going to get played rarely because of that. What i mean is if the roster grows and grows, we are going to need 6 bans to keep things intresting and unique, and eventually 8 at like 5 years from now and so on
Agree that Rivals is definitely unoptimized & unpolished in a lot of aspects. But outside of that, I still find it fun. A diamond in the rough that I enjoy more than current Overwatch. I hope to god they polish Rivals to perfection. I haven’t felt this way about a game since the early days of Overwatch.
@@kurousagi1339 I am new to both games and OW feels better mechanically. The feedback on abilities, aiming, doing damage, killing feels much better than MR which feels more like a mobile game.
When you balance a game based on competitive play instead of the 98% casual players, which Overwatch was, it ruins the game. Notice how NetEase allows the competitive scene to form itself like Fortnite instead of forcing one.
@@jnw85 I pray that Project L brings A LOT of players to the fighting games scene. I'm so hyped up for it! Edit: Sorry! 2XKO, I really don't like the name. LOL! I want the fighting games community to put down their differences and controversies aside and succeed. The platformer vs 2D aka "Smash Bros is not a real fighting game" and the SNK vs Capcom vs French Bread vs Arc System Works. DNF Duel and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising even with free to play died for being "too easy" to pull off combos and specials. The FGC wants higher skill ceiling bigger rewards like ASW's Guilty Gear or Blazblue Series.
@@jnw85I love fighting games, but they are the least played genre of competitive gaming. FPS and MOBA games are so much more popular. That said, FGs are the most difficult to play. So, you can argue that the skill required to play at the highest levels proves that eSports/Pro level gameplay is what causes most people to shy away from the commitment needed.
I think some attention needs to be payed towards what's actually under the hood here, because it's now been made apparent that many abilities and character movements are literally tied to the framerate, and when the performance of the game itself is so bad most people barely get above 100FPS, it makes them play even worse. This is nigh-unacceptable for me, and until they can get this fixed I won't be playing competitive any time soon.
@@yume5338 you should look into it more. The only thing that makes a little difference so far is Dr strange movement when he flies. The other changes you will not notice unless you’re getting 30fps or lower. If you’re on console and concerned then just switch to console only and done. I play with pc and console and haven’t had any issues with anyone running the lobby with a 4090. With 60fps and up you have nothing to worry about and I’m sure they’ll patch it.
@@ajl6854 Even still, it widens the already disadvantageous gap of fremerate and performance even more. Wolverine can literally miss out on entire elims because his combo sometimes doesn't finish them off with lower FPS, even on a curve, not just on 30. Not even mentioning Dr.Strange's portal which tanks everyone except Nasa PCs. In a game like this, game logic NEEDS to be on deltatime. I have faith they'll patch it, but the question is how long will that take.
@ you’ll need to check your facts on Wolverine. That’s at 30 fps, not 60. How long will it take? It’s too soon to know but based on the hype around the game I’d bet on a shorter timeframe. Either way the exact issue you mention is not game breaking and will probably not cause you to lose any games whatsoever. Sucks for those at 30fps but there is always someone with a potato machine and the 30fps hurts more than the benefits of dr strange and Wolverine at high fps will hurt you.
There is a difference between 60 and fully unlocked. Strange, Wolverine, Magik (you can see the vid I posted), etc still show noticable differences. Not only that, but movment feels more clunky, wheras fully unlocked it smooth and responsive.
You're not wrong about anything you're saying, but I feel like you're missing Overwatch's biggest failing and Marvel's greatest strength: Players' demand for lore. That's why we wanted a PVE mode; it's the best way to deliver lore to players in a video game. Overwatch dropped the ball on that over and over again, and then Marvel Rivals comes out with literal decades worth of pre-packaged lore about its characters for players to dive into. That's why Marvel Rivals will attract and hold onto the players that Overwatch failed with.
Really good point actually, the Hanzo lore got me into overwatch and I’m currently masters so I got really good. I don’t care much about lore these days in overwatch but I know it’s an important aspect to a lot of gamers. Arcane made me really interested in league of legends cause the lore they have for their characters is amazing
You nailed it. The main reason I'm hesitant to pick up Rivals is because I love the OW characters so much, and have invested so much time in them, and they game play (which I still like, despite it not being perfect). Blizz made a hero shooter, then (not so much to the fans) quitely turned the volume down on stories behind those heroes.
One of my favorite things Rivals does is if a skin is connected to an outfit in the comics, they put the exact date and where it came from. Just makes you want to go to the nearest comic book store and buy everything lmao
One thing I noticed is that after playing on rivals for a little bit, anytime I try to play and OW match and kind of just get.. exhausted, the game feels slow and dull. I find it difficult to remember as to why I played it so much. Then i remembered it was the only option
My biggest question would be what if overwatch takes from marvel rivals like hero bans, and changes balance philosophy? Do people stick with rivals because they did it first? I think OW has the IP to steal back players if they play their cards right because people love OW just hate the direction
@ for movies and shows sure. But gaming no. I should’ve specified. People resonate with ow characters in a way I don’t think they could as much with marvel characters. So much so that they would come back if the game was better
Hero bans is just a bandaid fix for overpowered heros and this guy is clueless. Go play league of legends and youll see why bans dont do anything. Because after a certain period of time you cant ban all the new overpowered heros that come out with only 2 bans
I love ow and it's characters but I definitely hate how the game plays now compared to how it played when I first played it. Its not the same expressive hero shooter it was years ago. I'd say it less expressive overall now as all heroes feel the same which is boring
You do realize that people like Fats, Sam, and even you Freedo, have to shoulder some of this blame? So many of you preached and wanted balance, you wanted nerfs, you wanted various forms of changes, make things more competitive, that lead the development teams go all over place. Not to say that Blizzard didn't fumble too, they did, hard at times. But if you guys wanted Overwatch to be over the top.... then literally let them balance the game however they want and not try and be a voice for the game. Let Kiri be busted, let Brig be busted, let the whole roster be a massive mess. Sam is a huge disruptor in this, and Sam should shoulder this as well for wanting all these changes. I'm glad you enjoy Rivals, it's over the top, not balanced and does not have role q. Literally all the shit Overwatch once was, but EVERYONE made it change.
I don't know I still like Overwatch more, rivals doesn't help with giving me understanding of who does what, everyone does their own stuff no tanks or healers. And some take forever to kill or die so fast in rivals.
Its unfair to compare OW with marvel rivals cause OW has like 10 years old. People get bored. I wanna see Marvel rivals how long this honey moon phase last. The problem with OW 2 is not about balancing and heroes, its more about blizard decisions witth the game and support. OW core game is better in my opinion than marvel rivals. Its gameplay is better designed and polished in my opinion
@@ajewishham2076not really…. He was definitely praising the state of overwatch a few months back. I’m ngl marvel rivals is super fun. But this guy just seems to be hopping on the bandwagon.
@@angelolouis9345 u get it. Both of the games are good in their own way. We can compare the games but none of the games is better than the other. So many bums calling overwatch trash bc theyre bad and are just riding the hype of marvel rivals. Ofc the game is gna be fun when its brand new…
People saying games like these have to be balanced are out of their depth, look at league, totally unbalanced yet still on top of the hill since forever.
Overwatch slowly stripped away everything unique about it while not listening to the community. The lore has been reduced to comics. They keep leaning harder and and harder into it being “competitive PVP game” as possible while having the heroes locked behind battle pass until 2024. They got rid of archives and instead pump out hero mastery missions. Endless horrible decisions. Took forever to bring back 6v6 and who knows the future of it
People are just tired of the same heroes after all these years and liking Marvel Rivals because all of the heroes are basically new. That's like Overwatch releasing 20+ more heroes in a season. Once they settled in and the sweats come out, it will be just like overwatch. I see some are already complaining about the lack of role queue. I'm just glad because I have more games to play. I'll play the other when I'm kinda bored with one.
Even worse tho. This is grifting Marvel Rivals is fundementally broken under the hood. Like fps tied movement and fore rate? Attack speed breaking animation cancels? This game has the code rigor of a 2008 korean game... How long till people figure out to force themselves outside of CC and people fogure out an exploit for someone to mag dump fire rate 10 times faster. And those arent easy to fix issues
@@pasteldad39 One thing he said in the video that made me really weirded out was that the game feels like pumped up mobile game and that is the only cons marvel rivals had over overwatch. Like bro that is the one thing that makes the game feels good to play. I was confused as hell.
You're making so many insane assumptions based on a game that hasn't had literally any balance patches to show how they plan to balance. OW1 was the same wild west on launch, before they committed to their shit design philosophy.
It’s great to hear you be passionate about a game after all these years of being frustrated with OW! I don’t know if rivals will stick around for years to come but I do know I haven’t had fun like this in a while.
Tbh I started playing Hela and never even knew the buff existed until this past weekend. So I started learning Squirrel Girl as well JIC the nerf feels that drastic. That’s all you have to really do
@@lockednloaded9867 no sh!t, we will see how that's gonna impact on actually gameplay (see if this two heroes still can delete tanks through the heals for example) and not just on paper.
so tired of this hard comparison of these games. yes, marvel rivals is fun. is it better than overwatch? does it “win?” honestly thats so subjective the question doesnt really matter. for me personally, the games feel so different that rivals doesn’t really scratch the same itch overwatch does and i still play and enjoy both games
11:50 Thank you for speaking up about this, the content creators being brain numbingly complacent is driving that game into the dirt. Any time any criticism of the game gets brought up around them, they get their entire community to flame you
Not sure why everyone is excited to see overwatch fail. I enjoy both games and they would flourish better competing against each other. Rivals was smart and learned OWs from mistakes, I hope OW will grow and learn from Rivals. MR has the same problem I had with Paladins (but not as bad) where the game feel is kinda nebulous. All the weapons feel similar even when they’re mechanically very different. Not sure how to explain it better, it’s like if everyone was shooting nerf darts, it feels floaty? Regardless, I’d give Rivals some more time in the spotlight before declaring it king, it’s been out less than a month, we’re all in the honeymoon phase still lol
MR is fun because it’s new and has marvel characters in it, but it’s not a better hero shooter than OW. After MRs honeymoon phase is over the complaining will start as usual
Well, marvel rivals is the first real competition to overwatch in a decade....Chill my dude, let the discussion flow, it's anew game, it's fair for people to discuss these two games, just do it respectfully
I'll be honest, I thought the thumbnail was trolling, but I couldn't agree more to 90% of what you are saying. I'm a casual player and have been having a TON of fun with Marvel Rivals. Reminds me of when I started playing OW1 back in the day. So, OW is dead to me, that's never going to change.
the OW devs are a JOKE. alec dawson needs fired. Metro is mega toxic, and it's wrong for someone with his reach and audience size to identify and pick on a dev by name but I won't lie, when I saw his alec dawson flaming video earlier this year... I agreed with him lol. as toxic as that may sound. I have nothing but LOATHING for Blizzard devs. WoW devs. OW devs. Diablo 4 devs. All of them are PATHETIC
Is balancing the game necessarily bad though? I think people are still a little blind to the reality of balancing a video game. Its fun now even though its unbalanced because people haven't "solved" the game yet. Goats was around and possible for a long time before it was actually implemented in overwatch. Once it was figured out, it was hard meta. Double shield is another great example of the game being solved, though people figured that one out really quickly. Eventually, people are just gonna play these hard meta heroes/comps to win and get rank even if they aren't as fun. I don't think that overwatch's balance team necessarily tries to balance everything to be "equal" like you're saying. I think if anything, they balance the game to make sure that one meta doesn't remain meta for a long period of time. The game becomes boring if you don't shake things up at least a little bit and tune some heroes to be better if they're underperforming. A lot of the time they clearly over-buff weak heroes and over-nerf strong ones just to shake up the game. Trust me, they are not trying to make everything equal in the slightest. We would never have mauga meta if this was the case.
making hero bans exclusive to diamond and up is dumb. league has a whole ban phase from iron up lol. platinum players are oppressive to golds. Golds are oppressive to silvers.
Love the game. But, personally, I feel Dr. Strange is overtuned and does a little too much damage compared to the other vanguards. Could use a little nerf, but don't really care. Would just like to see more variety of characters during tournaments since almost every team is Strange, Luna, Mantis, and Psylocke with Hela and Hawkeye always banned.
I think both games are fine. I just like overwatch more because it feels better to play, and the characters feel more interesting. And that’s coming from a huge marvel fan
Great video. As a diehard ow players since 2017, Rivals has felt like a breath of fresh air and makes me wanna invest hours learning new heros. I was massively disappointed by ow2 launch and have no desire to play it now that a funner game has dropped
Overwatch feels better to play and has smoother and more satisfying gameplay. Dont you think that is important though. Feels like it's being downplayed. Arguably game feel is the most important thing.
Overwatch was released in 2016. It had 8 years of refinement and what you see now is a product that. Rivals will inevitably be refined and get better as the years go by.
Game feels more responsive sure but if the teamfights are boring abd characters all feel the same to play whats the point?. I want my support symmetra back and torb with his level 3 turret, that was freaking fun and made me want to play more because niche heroes like them existed but now everything feels generic and boring
The game is in Season 0, to me, I sit at a solid 150fps every game unless I go out and aren't connected to my Ethernet. Then it drops to 120 lmfao. Game feels great, and with how it blew up, I'm sure they'll keep refining it as it ages
This man spent the entire year bashing the Overwatch community for wanting 6v6 saying it sucks and now is claiming that he was right all along now that marvel rivals is doing the very thing he was against. You cannot make this stuff up 😑 Pro Overwatch players destroyed Overwatch by making it sweaty and are now flocking over to marvel rivals putting in their two cents on how marvel rivals can improve. Please don’t listen to them developers🙏
Pro players don't make a game sweaty, they are good so they play what the game allows them to win with. It's the games fault if it feels disgustingly sweaty
I haven't played Overwatch since Rivals released lol but tbh my playtime of OW had been decreasing from hours a day to a couple times a week. This is the first time I haven't checked out new content at the start of a new season. You'd think Blizzard would know by now to stop screwing up games to cater to a specific demographic. Oh well. I'd been waiting for something to replace Overwatch, so glad it's a marvel game.
Not having role queus is a blessing. It makes finding a game so fast. Also, it’s so satisfying when you are the only support and everyone is complaing by the lack of heals, just change to a DPS or tank, leave the team without support and watch their frustration
Dead and burried, can't use and abuse your community for years and dripfeed them bs. Now everyone has something else to turn to and did they turn waauw...
I agree. I feel like marvel Rivals is a love letter to early OW1 (what we all loved). They have added a lot of great ideas and it feels like maybe what OW1 might look like if it was conceptualized in the modem era (like hero synergies and seasonal hero buffs is a genius idea in promoting team comps and shaping what is played for a season without actually changing the hero's base line stats to do it.)
I think Fredo's going to have to create a new channel without the name "Overwatch" in it. I can't even play that game anymore and I've been playing it since 2017.
The fact that you unlock Bans in tournaments and in full diamond+ rank lobbies is such an amazing choice. Who needs balance when you can just get rid of the problem child
2016 Overwatch is probably the best game I've ever played, hell I met my fiance in Overwatch and together we haven't played in about 5 years. This video has persuaded me to install Marvel Rivals and to get her to do it too.
Played ow1 since 2017. Torb main. I also have 1000+ hours in Paladins. Being someone who plays from a different perspective than 99% of everyone else, I can agree marvel rivals is everything I'd want in a hero shooter. Im not here to play CSGO. Im here to live a hero fantasy. Stop destroying hero kits for balance.
I never gave a shit about PvE, I never gave a shit about consistent updates, I never gave a shit about the 6v6 to 5v5 change, I fucked with ow heavy, I played a shit tonne of rivals on launch because of all the “It’s so much better than ow”, but after 10s of hours I realised something. It’s the same game, OW and MR both fail at the same hurdles, there’s a couple MR does better and a couple they fail at. OW has abused their players with false promises, lack of updates etc. promising so much more. OW promised a thousand things and delivered 100, MR promised 100 things and delivered 100 things. My point is, if someone who’s never played either picks up MR or OW in 2025, whichever one they prefer will be 50/50. OW promised shit that would fuck those scales, make it 90/10, 99/1, but they just fucking lied, and this new game with no experience is taking their spot. Blizzard fucked up, and overwatch will drown out. Even if overwatch gets enough updates to be objectively “better” nobody will play because of the history, it will take a miracle for players to remove their warranted prejudice and treat the games as equal. I guess my point is, because of its history, everyone says MR is so much better than OW, but in actual game play, they are very close.
Overwatch 2 had worse launch than rivals. After three years of hiatus, overwatch delivers very badly and making people mad. Every single decision overwatch 2 took that seemingly benefitting players, are actually only benefitted Blizzard AND making player experience worse And dear god, Microsoft didnt gave a single fucking care about overwatch. They just keep cutting corner everywhere. And itd still work because the community is a fkn masterclass as gaslighter
Except in my opinion MR hero skill ceiling is far lower than OW. The top 5% widows/tracers are far beyond the 95%. In MR the third person, game design, and hero designs make it much easier to cap that ceiling on roles. This is not a bad thing per se, but this relies more on team performance(ult economy and synergy) rather than individual performance.
@@HandsomePrat I agree with your post also. I was able to pick up marvel and literally get to diamond with one loss(leaver). So the games are similar. I would say MR is like early OW with hero synergy like nano blade, grav/dragon, nano reaper… the difference im thinking is of course the dev teams approach such as not nerfing but rather buffing and seasonal buffs. With overwatch2 it was more focused on each individual character dynamics rather than team synergy and I think marvel will be a pure team based pvp fps game that OW struggled with(due to 12 players and unique hero dynamics). In a season or two I don’t think you will see much solo Que comp on MR (they already have clans as well). Overwatch reputation has been garnished and with the complexity of the game now having 40+ unique characters a new player will not feel welcomed in the game unless they can dedicate several hours.
@@wowitsruss yea, I always liked the fact that no matter how shit a team is in OW, a good Zarya/zen/tracer could just flip the odds, that allows people to play by themself so long as they have the self confidence, but in rivals, if your team is shit, you could be the one above all and there’s nothing you can do, the role of team comp in my opinion is too important and to get out of the shit tier in ranked, or really any tier for that matter, you need friends and coordination. I just feel like MR leans too heavy and I just don’t enjoy that aspect, I’ve got one friend who plays actively but no others, solo queue in MR is stomp or get stomped, and I just think that really sucks.
hulk is fun but i hate when hes banned. id give MR a year or 2 to see where its at since its at its honeymoon phase. Devs wont nerf heroes so im expecting them to buff the weaker ones so bans would be actually diverse. it seems at lower ranks everyone just wants to dps and in quickplay
Overwatch has one option to come back. Bring back the free loot boxes with cash shop skins in it per level up. It’s cash shop hurt the game so much it’s so anti casual gamer. Imagine getting a game as a new player and being charged 20 bucks for a 8 year old skin. Oh cool they have my hero academia skins… 60$? That’s not casual friendly. They need to also stop censoring ppl behind an endorsement system imagine being new and not able to type or speak to other players !? Like bro that’s not cool. Bring back mvp cards that’s great for casuals “ oh wow guys look I got 27k heals !” “ omg our rein got 23 shatter kills ?” They need to make the game casual friendly this cash shop bs needs to stop. Or they won’t have a player base to sell too
Think the other problem Overwatch had is they tried to make the heroes so different to each other that it made players too reliable on said champions whilst in Rivals you got variants and can transfer skills.
He would quite literally be in violation with the FTC if he did not disclose a sponsor and made a video like this. I know you’re too stupid to realize, but he just enjoys marvel rivals more than overwatch
I'm also one of those people that always was in favour of hero bans but was never fully on board because I didn't know entirely how it would play out. After playing rivals with the bans it's amazing how good they are and I doubt I'm going to play OW again until they add bans. All of the good sides of bans does happen and little to none of the downside happen it's pretty much the perfect system.
Fredo has always been asking for hero bans but don’t play on your words you always ask for balance as well you have lots of videos shown that you have changed your opinion so many times on what you wanted it’s ridiculous and when I watch this video, you always think you’re right which is just hilarious can’t you admit that sometimes you were wrong? You will actually change your own words and some of your videos sometimes the way you phrase some of your sentences it makes it seem like you think you’re often write and maybe you like that but it just sounds obnoxious
???? No ow is not cooked. Marvel is fun but is terrible. Ow is like having a firm solid grip on a hammer, marvel is like holding a piece of paper with your finger tip. You cant type free taiwan in chat... It get censored. Ow is quality, marvel is not
You can't type anything in overwatch chat. You'll get AI banned. You must be relatively new to OW to have the opinion of it being a balanced and quality game. Overwatch is like a temu advertisement; it looks great online, but once it's in your hands, it's a huge disappointment.
"free taiwan" westerners still on that pretending to care about china crap. Taiwan is a state built on genocide from corrupt people from the republic of china, who fled from the revolution and killed indigenous people. China's claim to taiwan is valid. Unlike the united states' to hawaii and puerto rico, and frankly the entire thing.
@@M47H15cause its the novelty of a new game before people figure out the annoying characters and the players understand the meta. Ow classic won game of the year but that game mode was trash compared to the 6v6 tests.
Man, I play both games. Avid OW player, 1500+ hours since 2017, sunk about 25 hours into Rivals. They are both fun! I enjoy both; one feels more polished, the other more arcadey. Does it matter which is the king if you enjoy playing video games because they're just fun???
People have been saying OW2 is dead for a while now and my que times are still just fine so. Not everyone enjoys Third person or the marvel IP so. It will still have its base. Both games will exist side by side just fine. When are you people going to learn the only thing that kills blizzard games is WW3 when the nukes drop. No matter how much people declare them dead they still get millions of players and never die lmao. That being said. I play both. They scratch entirely different itches. And the di** riding for MR while overlooking its glaring issues at launch is wild and hypocritical if you ask me.
the game has increased in player since ow1, and ow2 launch people just want to hate to hate the game isnt going anywhere. I still get like 15 minute queue times in the mornings but ow1 i would be getting like a 25 minute ngl
There are weirdos out there, me for one, who love Mystery Heroes and queue times have never been better. It's really weird. I know matchmaking isn't the best/tightest for MH, but barely waiting keeps me playing because I'm an impatient bastard. The only thing that'll get me to switch would be long queue times. I'm way too old to learn the ins and outs of 40 new heroes at once.
@@pompidoudog q times in both games are going to still be quick af, but marvel rivals high elo q times can be multiple hours for some players while ow is like 30 mins at worst times even if your rank 1.
I've been *WAITING* for this video. Thank God Freedo said everything we are all thinking. This game is *COOKED* and i'm all for it. Marvel Rivals is the wave!
Grand master lobies in this game feels way better and fun experience then most competitive games. Even with randoms you feel like your team is an actual team , and there is LOTS of different play styles each of them will be rewarding. Blizzard could never
Just switch your channel name to Your Hero Shooter and cover what you feel like, can’t tie your brand to one game anymore
Or ExOverwatchAvidPlayer
That’s me, my content is whatever I feel like uploading lol.
Honestly I agree. But the name is iconic so maybe he can keep the name as an ironic thing.
sounds a bit better than "Your Marvel Rivals"
yup
Time to rebrand to Your MarvelRivals
It depends on what game brings money and views
200 iq is making two channels and making bank off the hype of both lol
@@_Tygon_ matter of time vs income.. 300IQ biz consultant lol
200IQ play the more fun game
Just "your rival" would be a dope name ngl
In diamond. Overtime. I was Magneto, with a Groot. Enemy iron man ults. I Magneto ult to eat it. Our Groot gets a 5 man ult as a chuck the photon blast boosted Magneto bomb into the clump. We win. Whole team starts cheering over voice. Absolute cinema.
Was the moment I realized this game was special. I hadn't felt that in overwatch in years.
Mag is my favorite character. I hope you liked the plays in this video. Outplaying ults is certainly baked into MR and part of the depth I'm referring to. I love eating Punisher ult, but tossing it to kill him before he can pop it.
I didn't play OW. I been on the BR kick for years. What drew me in was the art style and the team up abilities. The character designs and kits are just so fucking cool. I'm having a blast playing MR. Its the only game to peel me off THE FINALS in months.
Then the enemy Luna snow use her ult and nothing happen, or cloak and dagger use her suzu and nothing happen, or locki use his invincibility field and nothing happen
@@ni9274or they're on cooldown and they die
You've also named three supports
Highly unlikely they're on your team
All circumstantial. Sound like you need to learn to play around cooldowns
@@ni9274 luna snow ult doesn't stop one shots. The other two that you mentioned will, but i believe they were running Mantis Adam
Remember when fans wanted Hero bans, and Overwatch let a legit cat pick which hero would be banned lmaoo
fr like we wanted hero bans and then they were like "yeah so we'll be the ones deciding what gets banned, not the players"
That's when I lost respect for the dev team, ngl. I realized that they genuinely thought their players were too stupid to know what they wanted / needed.
That was hero pools, they never actually did hero bans
Funny thing was those bans the cat did were one of the better ones. At least that's what flats said
@@kaint8974 S tier pfp fire artist
I don’t think there’s a bigger fuck up than how blizzard has handled overwatch, taking it from one of the most promising IP’s to basically the agreed upon laughing stock of gaming, blizzard is so shameful
MILLIONS of players bought 60$ game. Then they decided to ruin overwatch. What a brilliant move blizzard
When holding M1 got you to gm for free in an fps……Ow has been cooked since then
Let me tell you about Concord
@@Noxau-o6q *Laughs in concord*
@@perennialcomaAt least concord was an instant fuck up and no one really cared, overwatch hurts more cause it had so much potential to branch out to be super big, shows,movies,comics,spin off games, and they did nothing but slowly ruin themselves more and more until people didnt care anymore and now its a laughing stock with people praying on its downfall
10 years down the line, playing rivals with the 140 characters really trying to decide what your teams 14th ban is going to be
No there will be rivals 2
10 years down the line, Marvel Rivals veterans making videos about Overwatch 3 being the Rivals killer.
@@neoshenlongdoubt it, we've seen how Blizzard handles sequels and their player base who supports them :)
@ you made me smile
I actually laughed out loud at this 🤣
Bans should start in plat not diamond because as soon as i hit diamond i had a significantly more fun time lol
yea im in low plat/high gold. and some heroes are just oppressive down here
I caved yesterday and just abused Hela after not touching her until I hit plat
there should be in every elo
Why stop at plat make it all in ranked play even in bronze or silver
@zichirichi I only say plat due to that is when it felt like the hela players could kinda hit their shots
Playing Overwatch after playing Marvel Rivals for a week straight is like that first day back to work after a long weekend. Soul crushing
It is soul crushing seeing how easy it is for the dev actually listen and taking player advise
@@3takoyakis You think the Marvel devs are gonna balance their game? 💀
3rd person to first person shooter can do that to ya especially comparing one of the greatest optimized engines for fps (ow2) to marvels.
@@Elion-c8t holy shit you can't make this up. Your Overwatch is roasting you in the video lmaoo. you should watch the video to see what I mean
@@AgentOrange502 what do you MEAN "your Overwatch" lmao
I hate Overwatch so much, and uninstalled it quite a while ago. Not planning on playing it ever again either :)
you know overwatch is cooked when even a chanel called your overwatch says rivals won
This game is living proof that hero bans have been needed in overwatch for some time now.
It almost makes more sense to do hero bans from bronze to plat, then no hero bans afterwards.
Overwatch doesnt need bans… there are no op characters in overwatch and you can rank up no matter what type of comp your team or the enemy team has. How are u just gonna say smth like that with nothing to back it up… the games are different, why does overwatch need a ban system. Just get better and learn how to play against every hero. Its not the game its u
You mean that thing even paladins has had since day 1? Lmao
@@egorbor5713you are so ignorant. You know how many oppressive metas there have been in ow? Almost every season has had one. Widow has been a problem in high ranks on certain maps for almost EVERY season. Have u forgotten the sojourn meta?? You must be low rank to say ts.
The game becomes stagnant with oppressive metas like that. Every game feels the same. With hero bans, low rank enjoyers like you can ban junkrat and we can ban widow. Everyone wins
@@egorbor5713 it would alleviate balance issues from every single meta we’ve ever had rather than wait for the midseason patch to fix things. And it just gives better player agency. If widow is oppressive at my rank i can just ban her. If reaper is oppressive at my rank i can just ban him.
I quit overwatch when they reveled they killed overwatch 1 for no reason. Over a year and half of no updates just to go to 5v5. Absolutely awful
So many of these TH-camrs wanted Overwatch 2 too and brought this on themselves.
Yep, I loved OW1, and they said we'd be able to play with OW2 players. I remember when they scratched that I was like wow, guess things are a changing. Then they said 5v5 and I was like I don't like that at all.
Tbf half of the draw for OW2 was the PvE which never happened.
@@Raytheman581 They never "scratched that" you're just slow and misunderstood the initital OW2 announcement. It was always going to be the same servers and same updated engine. The only thing OW2 players were going to have that OW1 players were not were the OW2 redesign skins and access to PvE. PvP was never going to be a separate thing. Go back to school.
@@SirenRyanI don't know why you're this angry but its not that serious.
Thing is we really don't need nerfs, as a lot of characters are losing their season buff in January. Hela for example will be losing her 20% dmg bonus, Hawkeye loses his dmg bonus as well, Hulk and Groot 200 hp bonus, etc. Looking forward to see what heroes are strong next season.
Praying for cap seasonal buff
Hawkeye will still be able to one-shot. The loss of the buff will mainly affect body shots to tanks. Hela will still pop heads, too. Magik is the main and only loser of the season buff loss. I don't think she'll be able to one-shot combo anything anymore.
how does that work? I thought the same heroes would be getting buffed since its the teamup achors and those wouldnt change? Isnt the buff a means to give something to the anchor who otherwise doesnt get anything from the team-up?
I cant wait for ultron to be released. I can tell he's gonna be alot of fun to learn
@@SpyralKingno you are thinking about the teamup abilities, the seasonal buffs are passive stat boosts that show up when ppl select their hero, like luna +15% heal buff.
My only complaint with rivals is that bans only exist at high level play. I’m bad, please let me ban iron fist for fuck sake
no because you need to learn and develop the skills needed to deal with the character.
@ that’s not how people work though. I don’t have time in my life to “get good”. I will most likely be in silver/gold forever but I also don’t want to keep bashing my head into a wall.
@@Warmag3that is how it works. I barely play and when I do I still do good. When I play I play to learn and have fun. I actually try.
@@Warmag3it’s not hard to get better. It don’t take that much time
Agreed. Iron fist is a menace at low ranks. He's a 1v1 monster.
Blizzard truly needs a wake up call and have been extremely lucky and confident of no new actual competitors showing up
Well this is the wake up call and the actual competitor. Rivals is gonna take their market share in no time
I do agree that one problem Overwatch suffered from is that they nerfed hero’s or buffed hero’s to the point where they ruined hero/team identity and expression. Balancing for esports was so bad.
Exactly. There was zero reason for them to rework heroes like torbjorn and symmetra as well they were fine as they were
they literally balanced for casuals. wdym balanced for esports lmao
@@beeree14they actually tried doing both. They tried making all heroes viable while also listening to the complaining casuals. They watered everything down. Do you really think goats meta was a problem in any rank below diamond? It wasn't. So if they didn't care about competitive, they wouldnt have cared so much to implement a role queue.
For the final father fucking time. They haven’t and do not balance around esports or high elo. Please. Read the dev blogs where they talk about how they balance. They consistently talk about balancing for ALL ranks which is why the balancing is always iffy. It’s hard to balance for everyone.
Yes but the thing about this game is there is very little skill expression as the skill floor and ceiling for many characters is very low (besides maybe spiderman). It's an easy to play game, not much micro which makes it boring imo.
Only complaint is the performace really. Going from 240+ at all times in ow to sometimes dropping below 100 in marvel just feels terrible in a shooter.
Yeah performance is quite big issue for me also. Easy 160fos on ow and now i have to keep 100fps and sometimes it just drop for no reason to 60fps??
marvel rivals is just a casual game that is all they will never care about the optimization much or balancing or visual clarity and such like overwatch does, ive said this since i played the first beta (which i did hit like top 20 in too i played a lot)
Yep. BUT they are working on the game. When I first started playing, I was barely hitting 200 fps, with massive stutters and fps drops, but now I'm averaging around 240fps on MOST maps and the fps drops are less frequent, so thats good. I just wish it was as smooth and responsive as OW....
Yeah the Game used to just run half a frame after exiting a match, and in game it would fluctuate hard during the Beta, this was even worse in the Alpha, I partially blame the devs but I also blame the horrible Engine running most games nowadays UE5, it makes 4090s cry tears of pain.
@@jokered1133 ue5 is not at all poorly optimized thats just crazy to say. please tell me what other engine thats not in house you would use for a project using high poly graphics with really intense vfx. you want them to use unity engine? godot?
they are just focusing more on making the game look nice than if it can run.
As someone with the Overwatch logo permanently inked into my left arm, here is MY review: I deleted Overwatch
Shit man... this gives me abusive ex vibes. 😱
Natson is that you?
@ negative ghost rider
rivals tattoo next lol
insanely cringe, i hope you feel horrible about it forever
Bliz won't hire the developers they need to make Overwatch thrive. They will continue to lay people off and wonder why there is no profit.
No. It's more like the devs they need aren't interested in working for Blizzard, rather than Blizzard not wanting more people
@@hugo-zi6gm This is accurate, the people that left either wanted to or had to leave.
People thinking they aren't making money off OW are deluded and I can't think of where this info comes from except some rando yt documentaries.
Well there is a TON of profit on OW because half the shit they put out are recolors. The overhead on OW must be so low right now.
They're making tons of profit with the kiriko skins lol as sad as it sounds
The only people left funding overwatch are the mercy and kiriko mains.
You mean the sfm animator in rule34 that funding within patreon? xD
100% agree
Bro I went to play 6v6 a couple days ago and the queue times for supports were about 20 min in comparison to tank and dps being 3/4 min, The r34 of this game carries so much its crazy
@@rezaruki3912 Not even us nsfw animators give Blizzard any money, at least, most of we don't. We can rip the new skins models and use them for better purposes without paying for them.
"LOOK AT THE KIRIKO GRIPPERS PLEASE BUY" i could not believe they actually posted that.
Freedo really revising his own channel's history with his video. He did play a role in defending OW, Blizz, and the Dev team (even if he would admit he was gullible enough to do so at the time) and attacking other entities ("news sites") when he did the same thing at the same time. The guy who played a part in beating a horse to death now wants to champion it's competitor to save his own face and to say he was always right. This post isn't about hero bans yay or nay but the channel's overall false character it presents.
Yeah, I stopped watching the channel when the water-carrying for Blizzard got too clearly egregious.
Yea bro he wanted to be the white knight for OW and OW2, but now sees that the players finally have something else to play and now he wants to get on the bandwagon.
Kinda what he does, remember when he called out the whole community and equated us to flat earthers? He flip flops a lot, and sometimes I think ok it’s gotten better and he will probably stop jabbing at us so I start to watch his stuff again but you know
It’s what ever in the end, if he wants to say stuff then let him.
I can’t stand this guys self righteous tone in this video « I did this, I gave overwatch my life » chill bro you make videos on TH-cam.
I’ve been watching this guy from the start but will not be watching any videos of his again.
I would recommend you don't watch his channel if that's how you feel
you know what Freedo... I get it now. I've been watching this channel for years, and I'm not proud to admit that I was in the crowd 6 years ago calling hero bans a stupid idea. I praised role queue because I was tired of people insta locking 3, 4, 5 DPS and hard feeding. but since Marvel Rivals came out, I haven't played a single match of OW2, and I didn't fully grasp why until this video.
without role queue or aggressive balancing, I can just play my funny Iron Fist, then switch right to Venom if we need to get beefier, and not have to worry about either of them being gutted by a balance patch... it feels good.
I miss when I could pick Genji and actually do meaningful damage. he literally FEELS patched. 3 whole years of lame, wet noodle, 110 per swing dragonblade. not to mention only 6 seconds to make use of that worthless thing. the character's identity is pretty much dead.
could you imagine if NetEase put a cap on how many resets Bucky could get with his ult? that'd be such a huge blow to his character identity. but no, they just let the character do what it was designed to do. not the case with Overwatch.
I absolutely get your second paragraph. I've had so many matches where the enemy team would be pushed up so far into our spawn that my teammates didn't know what to do and old habits from OW1 kicked in where I pick high damage characters and sit inside spawn and hunt for heads to push them back. None of the new players knew how to handle it, so I had to step it up and swap off strategist to pick Hawkeye, Widow, or Hela just to make the enemy team freak out for a bit, then swap back to strategist characters.
I'm more of a tank and support player and I play Psylocke as my only dps like Tracer in Overwatch. She just feels great to play because she feels strong enough where I can make an impact when I execute well enough. Tracer, while still really good in the right hands, doesn't feel fun to play as anymore with all the heavy sustains and how bad DPS feels as a role to play.
Tanks feels really great to play even when solo tanking when you play your cooldowns and engagement right and I can say the same for supports. You really gotta be on point with the healings otherwise your teammates just insta dies but you can also contribute with aggressive plays as well!
Game feels really good atm. It gives me 2016 - 2018 Overwatch feels.
I never thought hero bans were stupid in fact I advocated for it and was told it would never work in Overwatch. But I admittedly did praise Role Queue when it first came out like a sheep and I feel bad for that.
"Aggresive balancing" Yeah thats exactly what RIOT and BLIZZARD often does
They wanted it to be balanced but never consider a fun factor out of it
@punkypony5165 hero ban in overwatch was applied really weird back then where the DEVS decided what to ban LOL
Its not the players, its the devs themselves ban certain heroes to decide what meta players should use
Blizzard has won the lottery with Overwatch, but they threw the winning ticket away.
It's worse... Blizzard HQ is in Irvine, CA. Disneyland is 15-30 minutes up the freeway from them. They could have been the ones to make this game and they dropped the ball so hard it's unbelievable.
This is by far the best quote I’ve ever seen about overwatch
They were winning HARD
They were uncontested for YEARS
Every hero shooter died except overwatch and TF2
tbf they really had the hero shooter genre by its balls for 8 years straight and even got a GOTY award. If anything they blew all their prize money on bs it didnt need.
Bro what… how?? Bc ow doesnt have hero bans? Ur just ass
Imma be honest, as a huge fan of Overwatch (the first one) I am really loving Marvel Rivals. Its bringing back the fun I use to have, and with their unique characters, I'm having a lot of fun with DPS than I did in Overwatch. When I tried Overwatch 2, as a Reinhardt main, I found it difficult and just outright chose not to use him. That made me sad, ngl.........I spent literally hours on him, only for him to feel useless in the 5v5 setting. I know they now are entertaining 6v6 again, but I'm no longer interested....which is sad to say
@@IMXLegedaryBard I relate with you my OW brotheren. Let’s embrace this as a new beginning and be glad to the
fun and special moments we experienced. As an 8 year OW feen I’m moving on to rivals. They are giving us players the experience WE want, not what their wallets want
there's a reason the dps queue for ow is like 5x shorter than support. nobody wants to play that role, nothing dies, and you're required to play PERFECTLY to get a pick in high ranked lobbies, and you're not getting that pick if the enemy team plays around you even if your execution is perfect. In Rivals people die to a rogue moon knight ankh you forgot to shoot at for 1 second. You die from a panther that slipped your mind and you get bursted in a second. Overwatch needed a faster TTK, instead they went for "pick rate" balance which led to the most boring times in a hero shooter ever.
Rivals gave me this wonderful feeling of fun and exploration I felt all those years ago with OW1 open beta.
I stuck with overwatch through everything, the years of no updates, all my friends telling me the games dead, them never listening to us, the canceled story mode, and then finally they decide to do a 6v6 tear AFTER MARVEL RIVALS RELEASES we have been asking for this back since the beginning of OW2. Its really just too little too late I think I speak for a large majority of the player base when I say that overwatch just left such a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t even want to touch it with a 10ft stick now.
Have you tried Thor? It feels like Reinhardt but only the fun parts of it. As a Reinhardt main, I've been enjoying it so much.
The sheer amount of vindication I feel as a long time viewer is unreal. I can't imagine how good you must feel mate
Rivals needs to get rid of the seasonal buffs, though. It‘s such a bad mechanic.
If I was Freedo, it'd drive me nuts to be considered a flip-flopper when I've been saying the same thing for 6-8 years. Even in the 6v6 vs 5v5 debacle, he never advocated for 6v6. Only pointed out that there would be trade offs.
He is finally snapped after seeing rivals like
Imagine being gaslighted for years in overwatch
Overwatch community are fkng sucks, they always defending blizzard every their wrongdoing
Great video and you couldn't have been more right about bans, take that victory lap
hello samito
I also think the ban phase is vital for the health of the game, but i see one problem with it in the future of the game:
They're gonna add heros and when the roster gets bigger, there's going to be characters that would get banned sometimes in the past that would just never ever get banned anymore because there's not enough ban picks for people to care about removing them. When the roster reaches 60 for example, and the fantastic 4 becomes the most op for some reason, Hela will almost never get banned and even if she's not top tier at that point, she still dominate certain characters that are going to get played rarely because of that.
What i mean is if the roster grows and grows, we are going to need 6 bans to keep things intresting and unique, and eventually 8 at like 5 years from now and so on
League of Legends has been doing fine with just 5 bans per team and they have 150+ characters.
I know OW2 was a mistake of a move, but overwatch still feels way better to play than Rivals. Just little touches of polish that Rivals doesn't have.
6v6 feels great! No pure power creep and a large hero pool is awesome.
Agree that Rivals is definitely unoptimized & unpolished in a lot of aspects. But outside of that, I still find it fun. A diamond in the rough that I enjoy more than current Overwatch. I hope to god they polish Rivals to perfection. I haven’t felt this way about a game since the early days of Overwatch.
@kurousagi1339 I agree, rivals has huge potential if they stick with it.
@@kurousagi1339 I am new to both games and OW feels better mechanically. The feedback on abilities, aiming, doing damage, killing feels much better than MR which feels more like a mobile game.
That polish can come with time tho
Esports ruins everything
When you balance a game based on competitive play instead of the 98% casual players, which Overwatch was, it ruins the game. Notice how NetEase allows the competitive scene to form itself like Fortnite instead of forcing one.
Fgc is doing just fine
@@jnw85 People are delusional and like to cry about things.
@@jnw85 I pray that Project L brings A LOT of players to the fighting games scene. I'm so hyped up for it! Edit: Sorry! 2XKO, I really don't like the name. LOL!
I want the fighting games community to put down their differences and controversies aside and succeed. The platformer vs 2D aka "Smash Bros is not a real fighting game" and the SNK vs Capcom vs French Bread vs Arc System Works.
DNF Duel and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising even with free to play died for being "too easy" to pull off combos and specials. The FGC wants higher skill ceiling bigger rewards like ASW's Guilty Gear or Blazblue Series.
@@jnw85I love fighting games, but they are the least played genre of competitive gaming.
FPS and MOBA games are so much more popular.
That said, FGs are the most difficult to play.
So, you can argue that the skill required to play at the highest levels proves that eSports/Pro level gameplay is what causes most people to shy away from the commitment needed.
I think some attention needs to be payed towards what's actually under the hood here, because it's now been made apparent that many abilities and character movements are literally tied to the framerate, and when the performance of the game itself is so bad most people barely get above 100FPS, it makes them play even worse. This is nigh-unacceptable for me, and until they can get this fixed I won't be playing competitive any time soon.
@@yume5338 you should look into it more. The only thing that makes a little difference so far is Dr strange movement when he flies. The other changes you will not notice unless you’re getting 30fps or lower. If you’re on console and concerned then just switch to console only and done. I play with pc and console and haven’t had any issues with anyone running the lobby with a 4090. With 60fps and up you have nothing to worry about and I’m sure they’ll patch it.
@@ajl6854 Even still, it widens the already disadvantageous gap of fremerate and performance even more. Wolverine can literally miss out on entire elims because his combo sometimes doesn't finish them off with lower FPS, even on a curve, not just on 30. Not even mentioning Dr.Strange's portal which tanks everyone except Nasa PCs. In a game like this, game logic NEEDS to be on deltatime. I have faith they'll patch it, but the question is how long will that take.
@ you’ll need to check your facts on Wolverine. That’s at 30 fps, not 60. How long will it take? It’s too soon to know but based on the hype around the game I’d bet on a shorter timeframe. Either way the exact issue you mention is not game breaking and will probably not cause you to lose any games whatsoever. Sucks for those at 30fps but there is always someone with a potato machine and the 30fps hurts more than the benefits of dr strange and Wolverine at high fps will hurt you.
There is a difference between 60 and fully unlocked. Strange, Wolverine, Magik (you can see the vid I posted), etc still show noticable differences. Not only that, but movment feels more clunky, wheras fully unlocked it smooth and responsive.
@ there is a difference yes. But not a difference that will win or lose games.
You're not wrong about anything you're saying, but I feel like you're missing Overwatch's biggest failing and Marvel's greatest strength: Players' demand for lore. That's why we wanted a PVE mode; it's the best way to deliver lore to players in a video game. Overwatch dropped the ball on that over and over again, and then Marvel Rivals comes out with literal decades worth of pre-packaged lore about its characters for players to dive into.
That's why Marvel Rivals will attract and hold onto the players that Overwatch failed with.
Very true man. The feeling of playing a character you’ve loved for a decade already is unmatched
good point i waited 8 years for zen lore and it came and went and didnt care at that point
Really good point actually, the Hanzo lore got me into overwatch and I’m currently masters so I got really good. I don’t care much about lore these days in overwatch but I know it’s an important aspect to a lot of gamers. Arcane made me really interested in league of legends cause the lore they have for their characters is amazing
You nailed it. The main reason I'm hesitant to pick up Rivals is because I love the OW characters so much, and have invested so much time in them, and they game play (which I still like, despite it not being perfect). Blizz made a hero shooter, then (not so much to the fans) quitely turned the volume down on stories behind those heroes.
One of my favorite things Rivals does is if a skin is connected to an outfit in the comics, they put the exact date and where it came from. Just makes you want to go to the nearest comic book store and buy everything lmao
The game's been out for like a month dude we don't really know what the nurf and balance are going to look like years from now.
I think all your takes were on point. Marvel Rivals did everything OW didn’t and is now cooking with fish oil
One thing I noticed is that after playing on rivals for a little bit, anytime I try to play and OW match and kind of just get.. exhausted, the game feels slow and dull. I find it difficult to remember as to why I played it so much. Then i remembered it was the only option
My biggest question would be what if overwatch takes from marvel rivals like hero bans, and changes balance philosophy? Do people stick with rivals because they did it first? I think OW has the IP to steal back players if they play their cards right because people love OW just hate the direction
OW is still decades behind lore and every other thing
@ for movies and shows sure. But gaming no. I should’ve specified. People resonate with ow characters in a way I don’t think they could as much with marvel characters. So much so that they would come back if the game was better
Hero bans is just a bandaid fix for overpowered heros and this guy is clueless. Go play league of legends and youll see why bans dont do anything. Because after a certain period of time you cant ban all the new overpowered heros that come out with only 2 bans
@@11Dethroneleague has 150 characters. Thats a very bad comparison, ill be a long time before we reach that problem.
I love ow and it's characters but I definitely hate how the game plays now compared to how it played when I first played it. Its not the same expressive hero shooter it was years ago. I'd say it less expressive overall now as all heroes feel the same which is boring
You do realize that people like Fats, Sam, and even you Freedo, have to shoulder some of this blame? So many of you preached and wanted balance, you wanted nerfs, you wanted various forms of changes, make things more competitive, that lead the development teams go all over place. Not to say that Blizzard didn't fumble too, they did, hard at times. But if you guys wanted Overwatch to be over the top.... then literally let them balance the game however they want and not try and be a voice for the game. Let Kiri be busted, let Brig be busted, let the whole roster be a massive mess. Sam is a huge disruptor in this, and Sam should shoulder this as well for wanting all these changes.
I'm glad you enjoy Rivals, it's over the top, not balanced and does not have role q. Literally all the shit Overwatch once was, but EVERYONE made it change.
I don't know I still like Overwatch more, rivals doesn't help with giving me understanding of who does what, everyone does their own stuff no tanks or healers. And some take forever to kill or die so fast in rivals.
Hero bans might’ve saved doomfist from being nerfed to oblivion
24:48 I miss Eddie and Liam :(
Its unfair to compare OW with marvel rivals cause OW has like 10 years old. People get bored. I wanna see Marvel rivals how long this honey moon phase last. The problem with OW 2 is not about balancing and heroes, its more about blizard decisions witth the game and support. OW core game is better in my opinion than marvel rivals. Its gameplay is better designed and polished in my opinion
Rivals also just came out so if it’s already almost par with OW then OW is definitely worse upon the next update for rivals
weren’t you the one praising the “state of overwatch” just a couple of months ago tho?😭
You really missed the point bud
@@ajewishham2076not really…. He was definitely praising the state of overwatch a few months back. I’m ngl marvel rivals is super fun. But this guy just seems to be hopping on the bandwagon.
@@angelolouis9345 someone can say a game is good and fun and also still believe it could be made better via new systems
@@angelolouis9345 u get it. Both of the games are good in their own way. We can compare the games but none of the games is better than the other. So many bums calling overwatch trash bc theyre bad and are just riding the hype of marvel rivals. Ofc the game is gna be fun when its brand new…
@@angelolouis9345 agreed
People saying games like these have to be balanced are out of their depth, look at league, totally unbalanced yet still on top of the hill since forever.
Overwatch slowly stripped away everything unique about it while not listening to the community. The lore has been reduced to comics. They keep leaning harder and and harder into it being “competitive PVP game” as possible while having the heroes locked behind battle pass until 2024. They got rid of archives and instead pump out hero mastery missions. Endless horrible decisions. Took forever to bring back 6v6 and who knows the future of it
People are just tired of the same heroes after all these years and liking Marvel Rivals because all of the heroes are basically new. That's like Overwatch releasing 20+ more heroes in a season. Once they settled in and the sweats come out, it will be just like overwatch. I see some are already complaining about the lack of role queue.
I'm just glad because I have more games to play. I'll play the other when I'm kinda bored with one.
Even worse tho.
This is grifting
Marvel Rivals is fundementally broken under the hood.
Like fps tied movement and fore rate?
Attack speed breaking animation cancels?
This game has the code rigor of a 2008 korean game...
How long till people figure out to force themselves outside of CC and people fogure out an exploit for someone to mag dump fire rate 10 times faster.
And those arent easy to fix issues
@@pasteldad39 One thing he said in the video that made me really weirded out was that the game feels like pumped up mobile game and that is the only cons marvel rivals had over overwatch. Like bro that is the one thing that makes the game feels good to play. I was confused as hell.
You're making so many insane assumptions based on a game that hasn't had literally any balance patches to show how they plan to balance. OW1 was the same wild west on launch, before they committed to their shit design philosophy.
They've made comments explaining it already. Not going to aggressive balance.
It’s great to hear you be passionate about a game after all these years of being frustrated with OW! I don’t know if rivals will stick around for years to come but I do know I haven’t had fun like this in a while.
Last time i played overwatch was in 2018. Overwatch 2 PVE would have brought me back to the game but you know how that ended up...
Οv.1 gave us a lot of hours of glory.Even if Ov2, was good 9 years the same game is enough.People forget the good days.
Tbh this was just half season we don't know how good would be hela and Hawkeye without the 20% bonus damage, will see.
Well if you only play because of op characters, you are missing the real fun on the game, even if you are a competitive player
Tbh I started playing Hela and never even knew the buff existed until this past weekend. So I started learning Squirrel Girl as well JIC the nerf feels that drastic. That’s all you have to really do
We actually know exactly how those heroes will be affected. They will be 20% less OP.
@@lockednloaded9867 no sh!t, we will see how that's gonna impact on actually gameplay (see if this two heroes still can delete tanks through the heals for example) and not just on paper.
Imagine being Punisher and seeing Captain America AND Black Panther role up on you LMAOOO fucking terrifying
so tired of this hard comparison of these games. yes, marvel rivals is fun. is it better than overwatch? does it “win?” honestly thats so subjective the question doesnt really matter. for me personally, the games feel so different that rivals doesn’t really scratch the same itch overwatch does and i still play and enjoy both games
Rivals is nigh unplayable on anything less than "above average pc" soo till they fix that im sticking with buttery smooth overwatch.
Hero bans is also famous in Dota when come to tournaments, is a great feature
11:50 Thank you for speaking up about this, the content creators being brain numbingly complacent is driving that game into the dirt. Any time any criticism of the game gets brought up around them, they get their entire community to flame you
Not sure why everyone is excited to see overwatch fail. I enjoy both games and they would flourish better competing against each other. Rivals was smart and learned OWs from mistakes, I hope OW will grow and learn from Rivals. MR has the same problem I had with Paladins (but not as bad) where the game feel is kinda nebulous. All the weapons feel similar even when they’re mechanically very different. Not sure how to explain it better, it’s like if everyone was shooting nerf darts, it feels floaty? Regardless, I’d give Rivals some more time in the spotlight before declaring it king, it’s been out less than a month, we’re all in the honeymoon phase still lol
@Mondegreenest ok 👍
Because Blizzard keeps screwing over their fan base over the years. That’s why even fans are happy to see the downfall
MR is fun because it’s new and has marvel characters in it, but it’s not a better hero shooter than OW. After MRs honeymoon phase is over the complaining will start as usual
Cope
@ Or I prefer fpv 😄
where was concord honeymoon?
Goal: Make Overwatch a better game and return it to its golden years but renewed.
Obstacle: Overwatch.
marvel rivals players trying to be not obsessed with talking about overwatch: IMPOSSIBLE
Well, marvel rivals is the first real competition to overwatch in a decade....Chill my dude, let the discussion flow, it's anew game, it's fair for people to discuss these two games, just do it respectfully
Remember Hanzo’s scatter shot arrow? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I'll be honest, I thought the thumbnail was trolling, but I couldn't agree more to 90% of what you are saying. I'm a casual player and have been having a TON of fun with Marvel Rivals. Reminds me of when I started playing OW1 back in the day. So, OW is dead to me, that's never going to change.
the OW devs are a JOKE. alec dawson needs fired. Metro is mega toxic, and it's wrong for someone with his reach and audience size to identify and pick on a dev by name
but I won't lie, when I saw his alec dawson flaming video earlier this year... I agreed with him lol. as toxic as that may sound.
I have nothing but LOATHING for Blizzard devs. WoW devs. OW devs. Diablo 4 devs. All of them are PATHETIC
OW player from 2016 here. I've been enjoying Rivals since launch. I'm already like you, 40+ hours already
I still prefer overwatch as I hate 3rd person shooters
Is balancing the game necessarily bad though? I think people are still a little blind to the reality of balancing a video game. Its fun now even though its unbalanced because people haven't "solved" the game yet. Goats was around and possible for a long time before it was actually implemented in overwatch. Once it was figured out, it was hard meta. Double shield is another great example of the game being solved, though people figured that one out really quickly. Eventually, people are just gonna play these hard meta heroes/comps to win and get rank even if they aren't as fun. I don't think that overwatch's balance team necessarily tries to balance everything to be "equal" like you're saying. I think if anything, they balance the game to make sure that one meta doesn't remain meta for a long period of time. The game becomes boring if you don't shake things up at least a little bit and tune some heroes to be better if they're underperforming. A lot of the time they clearly over-buff weak heroes and over-nerf strong ones just to shake up the game. Trust me, they are not trying to make everything equal in the slightest. We would never have mauga meta if this was the case.
making hero bans exclusive to diamond and up is dumb. league has a whole ban phase from iron up lol. platinum players are oppressive to golds. Golds are oppressive to silvers.
Love the game. But, personally, I feel Dr. Strange is overtuned and does a little too much damage compared to the other vanguards. Could use a little nerf, but don't really care. Would just like to see more variety of characters during tournaments since almost every team is Strange, Luna, Mantis, and Psylocke with Hela and Hawkeye always banned.
I think both games are fine. I just like overwatch more because it feels better to play, and the characters feel more interesting. And that’s coming from a huge marvel fan
Great video. As a diehard ow players since 2017, Rivals has felt like a breath of fresh air and makes me wanna invest hours learning new heros. I was massively disappointed by ow2 launch and have no desire to play it now that a funner game has dropped
Overwatch feels better to play and has smoother and more satisfying gameplay.
Dont you think that is important though. Feels like it's being downplayed. Arguably game feel is the most important thing.
Overwatch was released in 2016. It had 8 years of refinement and what you see now is a product that. Rivals will inevitably be refined and get better as the years go by.
Game feels more responsive sure but if the teamfights are boring abd characters all feel the same to play whats the point?. I want my support symmetra back and torb with his level 3 turret, that was freaking fun and made me want to play more because niche heroes like them existed but now everything feels generic and boring
Yh fr Marvels optimization is dogshit. Felt so nice going back to a stable 144 on OW lol
The game is in Season 0, to me, I sit at a solid 150fps every game unless I go out and aren't connected to my Ethernet. Then it drops to 120 lmfao. Game feels great, and with how it blew up, I'm sure they'll keep refining it as it ages
@ wish everyone had you’re luck/experience then.
So many ppl saying it’s Optimization is poo
This man spent the entire year bashing the Overwatch community for wanting 6v6 saying it sucks and now is claiming that he was right all along now that marvel rivals is doing the very thing he was against. You cannot make this stuff up 😑
Pro Overwatch players destroyed Overwatch by making it sweaty and are now flocking over to marvel rivals putting in their two cents on how marvel rivals can improve. Please don’t listen to them developers🙏
The number of heroes is the tip of the iceberg. It alone doesn't solve the problems.
none of this video was praise for 6v6 as a superior format. we must have watched different videos.
Pro players don't make a game sweaty, they are good so they play what the game allows them to win with. It's the games fault if it feels disgustingly sweaty
Utter scrub take
I haven't played Overwatch since Rivals released lol but tbh my playtime of OW had been decreasing from hours a day to a couple times a week. This is the first time I haven't checked out new content at the start of a new season. You'd think Blizzard would know by now to stop screwing up games to cater to a specific demographic. Oh well. I'd been waiting for something to replace Overwatch, so glad it's a marvel game.
Not having role queus is a blessing. It makes finding a game so fast. Also, it’s so satisfying when you are the only support and everyone is complaing by the lack of heals, just change to a DPS or tank, leave the team without support and watch their frustration
Marvel is ok nothing spectacular imma give it sometime to mature and all the new hype to die down a bit before saying it's a overwatch killer
Dead and burried, can't use and abuse your community for years and dripfeed them bs. Now everyone has something else to turn to and did they turn waauw...
OW needs to adapt some ideas from Rivals in the way that Rivals adapted ideas from them. 6v6 being the most important.
for me, Belive It or not, most valueble Thing Is to HAVE RANDOMS IN VOICE CHAT, Blizzard and their nazi woke policy and silence for everyone
I agree. I feel like marvel Rivals is a love letter to early OW1 (what we all loved). They have added a lot of great ideas and it feels like maybe what OW1 might look like if it was conceptualized in the modem era (like hero synergies and seasonal hero buffs is a genius idea in promoting team comps and shaping what is played for a season without actually changing the hero's base line stats to do it.)
@@ncascini01 speak for yourself, early overwatch was being screamed at by 5 dps for not healing enough while being the only support on the team.
OW had 6v6.
I think Fredo's going to have to create a new channel without the name "Overwatch" in it. I can't even play that game anymore and I've been playing it since 2017.
The fact that you unlock Bans in tournaments and in full diamond+ rank lobbies is such an amazing choice. Who needs balance when you can just get rid of the problem child
2016 Overwatch is probably the best game I've ever played, hell I met my fiance in Overwatch and together we haven't played in about 5 years. This video has persuaded me to install Marvel Rivals and to get her to do it too.
Played ow1 since 2017. Torb main. I also have 1000+ hours in Paladins.
Being someone who plays from a different perspective than 99% of everyone else, I can agree marvel rivals is everything I'd want in a hero shooter.
Im not here to play CSGO. Im here to live a hero fantasy. Stop destroying hero kits for balance.
“different perspective from 99% of everyone else”
you just voiced the perspective 90% of the players have
I never gave a shit about PvE, I never gave a shit about consistent updates, I never gave a shit about the 6v6 to 5v5 change, I fucked with ow heavy, I played a shit tonne of rivals on launch because of all the “It’s so much better than ow”, but after 10s of hours I realised something. It’s the same game, OW and MR both fail at the same hurdles, there’s a couple MR does better and a couple they fail at. OW has abused their players with false promises, lack of updates etc. promising so much more. OW promised a thousand things and delivered 100, MR promised 100 things and delivered 100 things. My point is, if someone who’s never played either picks up MR or OW in 2025, whichever one they prefer will be 50/50. OW promised shit that would fuck those scales, make it 90/10, 99/1, but they just fucking lied, and this new game with no experience is taking their spot. Blizzard fucked up, and overwatch will drown out. Even if overwatch gets enough updates to be objectively “better” nobody will play because of the history, it will take a miracle for players to remove their warranted prejudice and treat the games as equal. I guess my point is, because of its history, everyone says MR is so much better than OW, but in actual game play, they are very close.
Overwatch 2 had worse launch than rivals. After three years of hiatus, overwatch delivers very badly and making people mad.
Every single decision overwatch 2 took that seemingly benefitting players, are actually only benefitted Blizzard AND making player experience worse
And dear god, Microsoft didnt gave a single fucking care about overwatch. They just keep cutting corner everywhere. And itd still work because the community is a fkn masterclass as gaslighter
Except in my opinion MR hero skill ceiling is far lower than OW. The top 5% widows/tracers are far beyond the 95%. In MR the third person, game design, and hero designs make it much easier to cap that ceiling on roles. This is not a bad thing per se, but this relies more on team performance(ult economy and synergy) rather than individual performance.
@@wowitsruss I completely agree with you, that does not contradict my point at all, tracers skill ceiling is like infinite
@@HandsomePrat I agree with your post also. I was able to pick up marvel and literally get to diamond with one loss(leaver). So the games are similar. I would say MR is like early OW with hero synergy like nano blade, grav/dragon, nano reaper… the difference im thinking is of course the dev teams approach such as not nerfing but rather buffing and seasonal buffs. With overwatch2 it was more focused on each individual character dynamics rather than team synergy and I think marvel will be a pure team based pvp fps game that OW struggled with(due to 12 players and unique hero dynamics). In a season or two I don’t think you will see much solo Que comp on MR (they already have clans as well). Overwatch reputation has been garnished and with the complexity of the game now having 40+ unique characters a new player will not feel welcomed in the game unless they can dedicate several hours.
@@wowitsruss yea, I always liked the fact that no matter how shit a team is in OW, a good Zarya/zen/tracer could just flip the odds, that allows people to play by themself so long as they have the self confidence, but in rivals, if your team is shit, you could be the one above all and there’s nothing you can do, the role of team comp in my opinion is too important and to get out of the shit tier in ranked, or really any tier for that matter, you need friends and coordination. I just feel like MR leans too heavy and I just don’t enjoy that aspect, I’ve got one friend who plays actively but no others, solo queue in MR is stomp or get stomped, and I just think that really sucks.
Feels like rivals is hosted on some crappy server with how players are always rubberbanding
You're not actually trying to claim OW is "ez" because of dev team trying to balance? If so you might have about 700K subs too many.
Since when is iverwatch balanced??? Overwatch 2 has the most unbalanced heroes... No matter what u do the heroes, it will be boring
But they nerfed genji bc he was too op 😂
hulk is fun but i hate when hes banned. id give MR a year or 2 to see where its at since its at its honeymoon phase.
Devs wont nerf heroes so im expecting them to buff the weaker ones so bans would be actually diverse. it seems at lower ranks everyone just wants to dps and in quickplay
I appreciate what was said, but majority of this speaks to the top 3%.
Just play hela until you get there. It's easy.
Guys, Freedo said its over. Turn off the servers 😔
I think one thing people don’t talk about is the destructive terrain the map constantly is changing and you have to adapt and it feels pretty good.
Overwatch has one option to come back. Bring back the free loot boxes with cash shop skins in it per level up. It’s cash shop hurt the game so much it’s so anti casual gamer. Imagine getting a game as a new player and being charged 20 bucks for a 8 year old skin. Oh cool they have my hero academia skins… 60$? That’s not casual friendly. They need to also stop censoring ppl behind an endorsement system imagine being new and not able to type or speak to other players !? Like bro that’s not cool. Bring back mvp cards that’s great for casuals “ oh wow guys look I got 27k heals !” “ omg our rein got 23 shatter kills ?” They need to make the game casual friendly this cash shop bs needs to stop. Or they won’t have a player base to sell too
Think the other problem Overwatch had is they tried to make the heroes so different to each other that it made players too reliable on said champions whilst in Rivals you got variants and can transfer skills.
Right, double jumping is a perfect example of this. Marvel Rivals has 3 heroes who can double jump while Overwatch still only has Genji.
OW is not cooked. Reveal your sponsor
So your logic is he can't like Marvel rivals unless he's sponsored. Come on, dude....
He would quite literally be in violation with the FTC if he did not disclose a sponsor and made a video like this. I know you’re too stupid to realize, but he just enjoys marvel rivals more than overwatch
I agree with everything you said. Overwatch just feels so dull compared to marvel rivals right now.
I'm also one of those people that always was in favour of hero bans but was never fully on board because I didn't know entirely how it would play out. After playing rivals with the bans it's amazing how good they are and I doubt I'm going to play OW again until they add bans. All of the good sides of bans does happen and little to none of the downside happen it's pretty much the perfect system.
Fredo has always been asking for hero bans but don’t play on your words you always ask for balance as well you have lots of videos shown that you have changed your opinion so many times on what you wanted it’s ridiculous and when I watch this video, you always think you’re right which is just hilarious can’t you admit that sometimes you were wrong?
You will actually change your own words and some of your videos sometimes the way you phrase some of your sentences it makes it seem like you think you’re often write and maybe you like that but it just sounds obnoxious
???? No ow is not cooked. Marvel is fun but is terrible. Ow is like having a firm solid grip on a hammer, marvel is like holding a piece of paper with your finger tip. You cant type free taiwan in chat... It get censored. Ow is quality, marvel is not
ow quality my ass
You can't type anything in overwatch chat. You'll get AI banned.
You must be relatively new to OW to have the opinion of it being a balanced and quality game. Overwatch is like a temu advertisement; it looks great online, but once it's in your hands, it's a huge disappointment.
How can a game be fun and terrible at the same time 😂 it's a game lil bro, what else do u play it for besides fun?
"free taiwan" westerners still on that pretending to care about china crap. Taiwan is a state built on genocide from corrupt people from the republic of china, who fled from the revolution and killed indigenous people. China's claim to taiwan is valid. Unlike the united states' to hawaii and puerto rico, and frankly the entire thing.
@@M47H15cause its the novelty of a new game before people figure out the annoying characters and the players understand the meta. Ow classic won game of the year but that game mode was trash compared to the 6v6 tests.
Man, I play both games. Avid OW player, 1500+ hours since 2017, sunk about 25 hours into Rivals. They are both fun!
I enjoy both; one feels more polished, the other more arcadey. Does it matter which is the king if you enjoy playing video games because they're just fun???
People have been saying OW2 is dead for a while now and my que times are still just fine so. Not everyone enjoys Third person or the marvel IP so. It will still have its base. Both games will exist side by side just fine.
When are you people going to learn the only thing that kills blizzard games is WW3 when the nukes drop. No matter how much people declare them dead they still get millions of players and never die lmao.
That being said. I play both. They scratch entirely different itches. And the di** riding for MR while overlooking its glaring issues at launch is wild and hypocritical if you ask me.
the game has increased in player since ow1, and ow2 launch people just want to hate to hate the game isnt going anywhere. I still get like 15 minute queue times in the mornings but ow1 i would be getting like a 25 minute ngl
There are weirdos out there, me for one, who love Mystery Heroes and queue times have never been better. It's really weird. I know matchmaking isn't the best/tightest for MH, but barely waiting keeps me playing because I'm an impatient bastard. The only thing that'll get me to switch would be long queue times. I'm way too old to learn the ins and outs of 40 new heroes at once.
@@pompidoudog q times in both games are going to still be quick af, but marvel rivals high elo q times can be multiple hours for some players while ow is like 30 mins at worst times even if your rank 1.
I've been *WAITING* for this video. Thank God Freedo said everything we are all thinking. This game is *COOKED* and i'm all for it. Marvel Rivals is the wave!
I just love that they're deciding to balance it in a casual way rather than in a competitive one
Grand master lobies in this game feels way better and fun experience then most competitive games. Even with randoms you feel like your team is an actual team , and there is LOTS of different play styles each of them will be rewarding. Blizzard could never
I noticed that, I’m gm in overwatch and somehow I feel less directed than my diamond matches in Mr it’s strange