The disconnection problems that started after I updated to 24hH2 and happen in every single game mid match make the game unplayable for me and I wait for over a week now for a patch. It is a known problem for weeks now and still no fix.
@Pridesin5 I hope they fix it next update but this situation is unreal. We are not talking about a small bug, this makes the online unplayable and no fix for weeks now, that is unacceptable.
They should’ve trimmed the roster to 30-40 added co op and other elements. Just makes no sense just 1 v1 only mode . Should’ve added some xenoverse elements instead of letting us create story’s and all that bull crap
Im on the PS5. I play a couple times a week and have never had an issue finding a match. Most times are under 2 minutes. Now that I'm getting better, I have noticed some rage quitting, which honestly made me stop my session early the other night. I wouldn't mind so much if I got my points for winning, but having a match where I'm playing really well only to have my victory and reward stolen is frustrating.
@@dontmindmejustyourlocalret3029 it might be something about your match settings like how good of a connection you want or something like that or if you have a bad connection that could be why cause most people have it set to find people with good connection sense no one wants to deal with lag cause of the other persons bad internet not saying its definitely those things just that there possible reasons
Absolutely, sometimes it is funny tho. You figure out the bs that they’re on, kill the one trick pony of the team and then everything fades to black 😭😂
I dislike how they hyped up customization but didn’t give some of the easiest costumes from the anime/ movies like it is a layup they didn’t even add anything original like some of the older games
You know the “variants” that have almost minimal changes in the costume? I didn’t care how, I just wanted little gohan to have his white headband. Goku and his bomber jacket would’ve been dope, and how the hell does vegeta not have the badman shirt?! 😂
The fact that the devs didn't think of a simple "forfeit" button instead of the possibility to just rage quit without any influence on your rank is baffling to me. This should be a basic feature in an online competitive mode.
I'm gonna be honest, fhey should do it like they do in dbl. If you leave a match, the other person gets points, you lose some, and there's a penalty time period to be able to play online that increases if you keep doing it.
95% of the general public have gold fish memory because if they didn't they'd remember a game called Jump Force that was pretty much the same thing... I take that back... it WAS the same thing Period
I’ll admit that I stopped playing…. There’s just nothing interesting to do anymore besides online play and even then it’s just everyone using UI and Fusions
Been a dbz since childhood, 90s kid. Only game I play is pubg, however this game is awesome haha. Tried xenoverse 2 years ago but that game was nearly there, sparkling is the dbz game. Imagine in 1 year time with more updates, server fixes. Online tournaments. Game will require great skill to win, knowing every move. Being unpredictable. Awesome game. Problem is people are to easy to quit these days. Nothing wrong with saying I suck at this, I need to improve. Having a growth mindset is what dbz taught me, worked well in life. It's a fighting/battle game. always F with people's egos. Who cares if it's a ranked match, I lost 100 games in a row when I started. Don't give a shi! Lol
You'll have basic characters beating the best characters or something, and it will be because of skill. Hurts the ego when that happens. Awesome haha. I am assuming someone has created a brucefaulconer soundtrack mod? Anyone have a link?
Ever since this game was announced I knew that the online wouldn't last long, in my opinion, Tenkaichi will still be Tenakichi and is going to be carried by offline and modding.
But this game does offline mid. It hae custom battle, its cool. But then split screen is an afterthought. Only have one map as it of now. We don't know if we will have new maps from a dlc or free update. But this game is 70$
I'll never understand why you can't play bonus/custom battles with other ppl and no crossplay is crazy on a 2024 release. Also where is 2v2's and 3v3's
Honestly I’ve had a bunch of fun with the game. I think it’s player base is down because only really big dragonball fans care to play a dragonball game for more than a month and they have moved on to some other game to play. If you grew up with this series, the game is slammin my dude, I only wish they used overworlds for the levels like previous entries, and I only hope they add more episodes and what ifs. In the ranked department, I am on Xbox, and have had very few of the rage quit issues or DP battle issues others have had, I only play DP and it’s quite obvious that someone is gonna quit when they load in as broly or vegito or MUI Goku. Also the online community thing is not really how games make money, it in fact is a cost to keep that type of thing running for 100000 people all the time. It’s quite possible they anticipated a smaller online community and want a smaller one. Like it’s a purposefully unbalanced nostalgia trip,and it’s a fighting game. It’s super duper niche. The games not amazing but it’s exactly what I was expecting aside from the single player being a menu, which comes off as a cut content kind of thing, but even that menu is very pretty and does a good job of displaying the levels and what ifs in a clear and concise manner, so it could be worse.. Honestly they just need to give the win to the person who doesn’t quit the game and call it a day. The babies don’t lose points and the adults get their points.
If it was "meant to be played offline", local multiplayer wouldn't feel like an afterthought added to the game. Why is it that can we only play in hyperbolic time chamber?
As someone who is thoroughly enjoying this game, I agree with everything you said. Several things need to happen. 1. Crossplay would be top of my priority list. Join the player pools between pc and consoles, less wait time, more people to play with 2. We need a Quickplay queue. There is no reason to restrict everyone to room based matchmaking if they dont want to play ranked. Even the sweats need a break, and may just want to play without having to worry about losing points. 3. On the topic of ranked, there needs to be a leave penalty, period. If you disconnect you forfeit. Or at least, put a time penalty on the player who keeps disconnecting. "Youve disconnected from too many matches, you can not play for 30 minutes" etc etc. Something to discourage disconnecting. Again, I love this game but hate the state its in, and am genuinely dumbfounded that all of these features weren't included on release.
XV2 is balanced enough that no matter the cheese you face, there are counterplay options available. I've seen videos of people taking down literal OP-broken modders just by using the right counterbuild and strategy. 🥴🥴
@@dangerousdays2052It's a lot more tempered. Xenoverse 1 is like the beta version of Xenoverse 2. And i have this feeling Sparking Zero will go down the path of 'the next version will fix/improve everything'.
@@dendo20p Knowing Bandai, this is probably THE Dragon Ball game till at least 2030. This is probably the most money they've put into an anime IP, and I don't think they want that to go to waste.
as someone who hasn't touched ranked once and sticks to single battles/tournaments, i will say there is a HUGE problem with people just sitting in lobbies or joining and leaving repeatedly. speaking from a Xbox perspective
I agree players should be penalized for rage quitting but they also gotta make it easier to play unranked matches ain’t nobody tryna wait 3-4 matches before you can play
That's what happens when the community over hypes a game and allows no criticism. It was always going to be a next gen tenkaichi game. An arena fighter that prioritizes fun over competitive balance. That's not a bad thing but the people acting like this would be game of the century were delusional.
In DBFZ I had a situation where I was about to rank-up and the person rage-quit on me. I don’t know what happened but I still ended up somehow getting the BP experience points to reach the next level. I was relieved knowing I still got the points even though the other person left the match (because it was very down to the wire and I just clutched a last-hit wins victory). My belief is that if you rage-quit you should lose points automatically and those points are added to your opponents. Disincentivizing players to rage-quit and rewarding those who didn’t.
The only problem with this game is the lack of maps for offline multiplayer, how do the players that have actually been playing the Budokai Tenkaichi series with friends on the couch for 17+ years only get the the blandest of maps is beyond me
I think some people prefer playing offline, but the problem is the CPU even on Super is too easy. I think Bandai needs to fix CPU behaviour and make them more challenging. They cant even vanish more than twice.
I dont get what the issue is. In what fighting game is ranked.. fun? That's where you go.. to try hard. When you want flashy fun, you join a community of like minded players. Why must the community complain so much ?
They made the online trash. Ranked has auto search opponent. Rest of the online puts you in an outdated lobby system. Normal online alsoneeds auto search battles.
Its fun in fighters, tekken, sf8, and mk. Sparking zero doesnt require that much skill to play its more so pick the strongest characters or characters with cheesy gimmicks thus why people arent playing anymore.
Video is nice but people rage quitting is not the main issue. You can’t even finish a DP battle without time running out and people constantly swap out to heal their players. It’s not fun if you can’t finish the fight. I’m surprised you didn’t mention this as a main problem. While there is also 180 characters, only a fraction are played because their moves are just much better. Why use a blast for 4 bars when characters have the same power for 2? Why use regular beams when you can just use unblockables? Players like broly can’t be staggered, will pick world tournament and spam full power buffs and unblockable ultimates. Rage quitting a legitimate fight is poor sportsmanship. Rage quitting against a gogeta or broly that has used 4 unblockable ults doing 25k damage is another. I don’t blame people who do that at all. The timing and button inputs often don’t register with me having to press 3-6 times to do something as simple as transforming. There is far more issues than rage quitting. And also B tier does lose points it’s only C and D that don’t.
Namco just had to Follow and Add Quests and Raid Battles and Customization for all Characters( Xenoverse 2 had Custom items and Dbz Battle of Z had Custom Colors for Every Character) to Sparking Zero like they did to Xenoverse 2
@@hurricane7727 this isn't xenoverse 2 that was never the blueprint for this game and xenoverse 2's customization was mainly for the OC not characters from the series
There are some gameplay things that need to be tweaked. Super counter needs to be more limited and do no damage. Right now it's like if Killer Instinct gave you unlimited Combo Breaker that you could use any time for any reason. Vanish duals are also boring, something needs to be done to put a limit on that too.
I’ve been almost insta getting games so that’s no issue but like I’m A1 legit like 10 points off S1 and I’ve “won” the past 5 games just to get disconnected on last second cause I managed to counter their afterimage strike, completely unplayable. The fact that leaving isn’t an instant loss is genuinely embarrassing for the devs, how do you in any universe think to not put ANY penalty for leaving mid match
Another thing people don’t mention is most people don’t rematch regardless if they win or lose sending you back to the practice range cutscenes and then waiting and then the next game starts with unskippable cutscenes and then rinse and repeat 😭 when people one and done and I gotta go through the whole cutscene movie again half the time I just go do something else bc there’s more downtime than up it feels like
This game was designated for online play it wasn't until a lot of fans were asking about local multiplayer that they added multiple multiplayer and it's the hyperbolic time chamber showing that local multiplayer was never the focus. So I understand people's reasons for not liking the game online when the expectations were high based on how they talked about the game. But a lot of people who do talk or majority of the voices are people who are wine and complain about the game You need to get better at the game if you want to completely have fun and understand it. You have to put practice into it. But for hating the game for its rage quitting ,its bad internet connection and servers, lack of stages and lack of content that's complete fair and should be criticized in a respectful way.
@sonicgen20 That's half true. I had some so so matches when the game first came out when it came to internet connection and then for a long time it was really great and then with the latest patch they've had in the last week or two there's been lag all over the place even when both I and the player have a green connection ( steam users can see the connection quality in the bottom of my corner)
Honestly? Meta & rage quitting are the biggest issues this game has, and the Meta is annoying to a point where I’m NOT saying it should be nerfed, but I would like an option to see it less. Plus, there’s no real penalty for rage quitting, they just wait longer, but that’s it, no suspension or a serious penalty of any kind, and I hate that. As an experiment, as well as a massive lack of my own skill back in the D Rank, I’ve DC’d numerous times and to nobody’s surprised, there’s no actual punishment for it when there obviously should be. If anything, the “long wait time” for Ranked if you rage quit constantly actually goes away after doing it 20 times in a day, but it will actually unironically get longer if you stop, and I don’t know whether to laugh or be annoyed by this inconsistent yet ineffective “punishment.” There are many things I desperately wish this game has, but I’m at a point where I play this game with a select group of people of mine, and it’s fun that way, Ranked stopped being engaging for me once I reached high A Rank due to seeing the same characters over & over & over & over again. To anyone that likes Sparking Zero: I do too, I’m glad to see people still wanting to at least enjoy their purchase, I am as well, one of the best I’ve ever made in my gaming life, there’s a lot I wish for this game to be better than it currently is, I have realistic expectations, and I just hope a patch can address the many things we all take issue with, even if it’s just the important things. Everyone, have fun with your friends in the meantime, stay off Ranked if you value your sanity, ignore those who don’t wish to understand your points about this game and would rather mock you for your experience, just enjoy the game you bought with those who wanna do the same. Ggs ya’ll, let’s pray for a better future for this game.
Changing my settings for Dragon Ball Z when I get my account unsuspended in seven days so no one can message me that I’m not friends with the amount of shit talking people do in this game and the amount of harassing people do in this game is really really out there
I’m still having a blast , but I wish we could get a full fleshed out story mode with cutscenes and everything . Rarditz- Jiren and everything in between . Would be beautiful in this game . And I haven’t played the story since budoaki 2 lol. ALSO, add higher difficulty for CPU. I never lose to CPU
Yes, CPU needs to be more challenging. I get tired of offline sometimes and I want to fight the CPUs but the fun of fighting CPUs is just not there.. i really hope bandai fixes this issue
I enjoy the game a lot except for the fact that I keep 'losing connection'. It's upsetting when I'm about to win and the game just disconnects even when my connection says it's stable. I don't even mind accepting a loss - it's just unfun not being able to see a match finish because of poor connection.
Im a huge DB fan and love this game a lot, grew up playing nearly every DB game u can think of even imported a few. But the reason is quite simple really why its player count has taken a nosedive, the biggest suspect i guarantee is the unbalanced gp especially online. Its WAY too ez for ppl to score wins with insta sparking, insta teleportation moves that allows free lotioning up your backside, unblockable ults, and certain characters having higher hp than others mainly the top tiers like the fusions, it was only a matter of time b4 it started dropping fast seeing the same dozen or so broken ppl.
Bandai dont give two shits 😂 they got they bread already💯 i will say by mid January they will try to address rage quitting an by that time there will only be about 50 people left playing online then they will try n say we fixed rank rage quits an we have DLC characters to try n get people to come back to the game an some will come back but most wont even bother by that time it will be too late 🤦🏿 my prediction is this game will turn into another JUMPFORCE in other words a dead game ✌🏿
Yeah, I’m like 2nd rank Hirudegarn player on PS5 and my god, it doesn’t matter what rank I come across, it’s constant quitting and constant Ki blast spam or unblockable spams. It’s got to the point to where I write people and thank them for not quitting. I got one Z rank player named Itzemma.. something but he quits on sight, ever single damn time.
If I had to take a guess # 1 everyone wants to focus on: Rage Quit = Banned for life My actual guesses that revolve around the game instead of that supremely focused logic: Story was ass (i love it, just wish it wasn't nodes like Raging Blast 2 and there were a few more what-ifs, or a few more characters to play with.... Sucks Vegeta doesn't have T.O.P story) No other offline options besides the custom battles (which are fun but can get boring after awhile, I wish that mode Budokai Tenkaichi had returned, enter that room where 17 & 18 told you the many options and had that mini venture like mode next to the challenges) It's not crossplay Game has lots of characters but could've had a *FEW* more (Several more Giants like Begamo, Ribrean, Meta Cooler, etc.) Too many unlockable ultimates and easy to cheese/spam mechanics (that isn't a problem to me but annoying how it's hard to properly counter another character, like Z Broly who has no right to he that OP, since it's supposed to be lore accurate and he's weaker than Buu) And I'ma take a shot and assume people are also mad thatthe counter(s) are too OP. Personally it feels more like a DBZ/Martial Arts thing, counter upon counter upon counter till someone's timing is off. Makes it more competitive and better than most games. I wish They need to tweak it so it costs Ki, and the more times someone uses it, the more Ki it'll cost so the countering the counter doesn't last for too long. Might as well drop that controller like in FighterZ when stuck in that corner by thirsty assholes Least in Sparking 0 I *KNOW* I have a chance, just messed up, and prepare by saving Ki to counter, and hard punish people who abuse Ki/Super/Sparking and wasted it, an actual *comeback*
@@ThatFunnyPlacewell this was their chance to actually tell the DragonBall Super story through games, it's the first game that has Super characters as the main focus instead of Z.
@Pickled_Dil you do know they still update kakarot right ? Do you know how sick the tournament of power dlc is gonna be on kakarot ??? Have you even played kakarot ?!?!?! It's amazing. Highly recommend if you haven't played yet
@@ThatFunnyPlace it isn't about the story, it's about the What-If's and hidden story bits that would've been nice to see It was nice to see Vegeta resist Babidi's control, wish there were more *choices* but if it's between What-If's vs Choices, I want more what-ifs since those would (probably, I'm no game developer) easier to make and appease fans: LOVED Goku saving Krillin from Great Ape Vegeta Kakarot is amazing for cutscenes
@HebiSaru21 yeah I won't lie. My favorite what if is when goku went super saiyan fighting great ape vegeta. Then vegeta becomes super saiyan on namek and fights goku. That one and gohan black was awesome.
Yea i’m not gonna lie i’ve been playing sparking for a while now and i love it but like you said the only problem is the online, if someone rage quits i rather still get my points or have a chance to get some points vs having to start up a whole new match and wait like 12 years just to get into another match, i hope Bandai addresses this problem lowkey
I want to add as well, single player mode is fine, but having nearly every soarking episode be activated by “defeat the enemy quicker” is boring as hell. Game is literally wanting you to go full power and spam as much as possible to unlock alternate story routes and it’s quite boring and frustrating.
The game has other major problems than quitting. 1. Charakter dosnt lock on enemy after certain moves or if new one spawns after you defeated one lost me games. 2. Endless vanish loops 3. Spawning on the other side of the map with your charakter after one is down > instant sparking for the opponent no counterplay > already big disadvantage. 4. 80% of the cast is unplayable in ranked because its so unbalanced. 5. Insta Sparking abilitys are to cheap for their impact 6. unblockable Ultimates
Rage quitting is bad, yes, but let's not act like it's the main reason why many aren't playing the game anymore. It's the lack of anything else to do but fighting. The story mode was lackluster, the custom battles are incredibly limited, and the customizations are non-existent. Pair all this WITH the rage quitting and you have a game nobody's really interested in playing everytime. Other reasons could be the game being hard for people to pick up, i remember everyone freaking out about Great Ape Vegeta and how to do Z counters, these things turn players off especially when they're coming from a game like FighterZ or Xenoverse where button mashing is actually effective agaisnt players and CPU.
In their most recent announcement of Sparking Zero tournaments, Bandai wrote in their video description "Also, we’re gearing up for a patch to adjust some battle mechanics in December 2024, post-Online qualifiers. Stay tuned for more details!" There is hope 🙏
people quit cause we cant have fun online eveyrone just uses the same meta cheap moves and pummels you no one trying to make the fights looks flashey with cool doges and beam battlers and distruction like the game should be played
so has nobody gotten their data wiped ? 100% story completed and everything in the game unlock i loaded up the game to the tutorial im lvl 1 any fixes ?
For me, it's too hard to find a match. If I'm going to play games, I want to actually play. Not sit. And it's always been like that from the beginning, not because of this drop. Second, it's the extremely unbalanced BS you encounter online. Everyone is playing the same 3 characters in singles and DP teams are dominated by afterimage strike cheese. When you finally do get into a match it's just not even fun because of these people. Honestly, I think the RQ problem wouldn't be near as bad if they did something about the extremely frustrating elements like these. Yeah yeah, you can cry "get good" or "learn to adapt" but there isn't much of a point when beating these people still feels more like a chore than an award. I beat them all the time and still groan whenever they come up because it's irritating and monotonous. Hell, I don't even care about rank. I'll play only player matches and be fine IF they allow us to customize matches more. I'd love to play some tournaments where the overplayed, overpowered characters aren't allowed. Imagine a bunch of matches with cool theme teams that aren't "the fusions plus UI". If it's my custom lobby let me actually tweak more than the very most basic elements. This is why I can't stand it when people say that the game doesn't need patches because the problems are caused by the players. Exactly. It doesn't matter what game it is. If you allow extremely broken elements to exist people WILL exploit them to get wins. That's just the reality. It's why balance patches exist in the first place. If it was as simple as "get better" then updates like these wouldn't exist. You can't just trust the players to be cool.
I also think the problem is todays current gamers. Find something to complain about or it grabs their attention for like 2 weeks & then move onto something else. Todays gamers are hard to satisfy
I will say as well 46,000 isn’t bad. I’m sorry. We’re talking about a game that if you do have a good signal, and are here to enjoy and not build self esteem you will enjoy it. Most people who played didn’t even do the training mode, take part in the story mode, or enjoy a custom battle. and im saying this as someone whos complained until i just started to enjoy the game and learn more and more what it had to offer. and its a month guys. a month. thats not enough time to say the game is bad when people are constantly finding new tech still.
I can care less about rage quitting until they address all thess cheesy tactics. All i see are after image strike teams , timeout setups, and giants and unblockable spam. 160 characters literally not being used. Never mind im starting to auto checkout during vanish battles.
Truth is the game is half baked pie of perfection. One half of the game is the best this series has to offer the other half is a train wreck that should've never been published in this state as a triple a game. Had they spent another year on this game adding in all the features and qol changes that were needed I'd be playing this game till I die. But they didn't . This game should have released as a live service game. It needs to much work to be called finish in the slightest.
Your mic has this dreadful bassy hum around 30Hz that's driving my subwoofers insane. It's always humming in the background. Makes it really unpleasant to listen to your videos. Can you please apply a high pass filter to your mic audio to get rid of this hum?
It’s been what a month? How about giving them some time. And what can they say to you besides we’re looking into it? This really is the coddled generation. I need constant communication and updates about my video games. “Bandai doesn’t care. It’s been about a month and they haven’t said anything. They do not care.” The game dropped October 11th, so how about everybody calms down. Take a break from rank and see what happens. Every game has a settle period before developers start hammering out huge changes in updates. And where is everyone going to go? Back to Xenoverse 2, is there another Dragon Ball Arena fighter I don’t know about? Is Bleach or something going to fulfill your need to play Dragon Ball? No.
Bandai has a history of bad communication with their community. Save files been getting deleted since the 3 day early access and bandai still hasn't said anything or offered anything to players affected. The company got the money they wanted so don't expect much from them at this point besides a slow drip of DLC to keep a community around.
@@grandpaeyebrowsThey patched the senzu bean rather quickly. Not to mention gave numerous balance patches and fixes to Xenoverse 2, Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, Naruto Connections, Shinobi Striker and other games. What they don’t do is your hand a long the way. At most all they’ll say is we’re looking in to it or we’re working on it. What you want is to feel like you’re having a direct impact on the changes being made in the game by complaining. And as you acknowledge, that’s now how they work. Also I’m not holding my breath waiting for anything. I play other games and will come back to Sparking Zero later. I already dumped 40 hours into the game.
@@noahknight4039 All of those games are still incredibly unbalanced, and all have a niche community sparkling zero will fall into place with them. I just don't think alot of the people coming into sparking zero have any idea how bandai is with there games lol also me neither , my save file got deleted around 32 hours and haven't really touched it since.
@@grandpaeyebrowsThat’s true, they’re not balanced. I wouldn’t expect Sparking Zero to be completely balanced either. No anime arena fighter is really, save for maybe Kill La Kill because it only has like 8 characters. At best they’ll tone down some skills like After Image lasts 10 seconds instead 15 or something. Maybe stronger characters build ki slower after super and ultimate moves. Make the window of vanish smaller and use more ki for pacing, ect. But for the most part the top characters will remain the top characters as being somewhat more accurate is one of their priorities.
How online needs to be is everyone starts at base form. No SSJs, no other forms, no fusions just base form. if you want fusions, pick those characters and fuse mid fight. if you want SSJ do it mid fight. also DP fights are fucking dumb to me. 1v1 is alot better if you both start off at base form. then if you want to fight again then you can start right where you left off (if you were base, SSJ, ETC.) i understand the connection issues and that is a major problem but my problem is the combat system
Im not tryna say you're the pessimist here, but you are literally the only person I've seen make videos on the game being bad. It gives me the feeling of when i used to play raging blast, tenkaichi, and xenoverse 1 as a kid. Ive been whooping ass and having fun, ive definitely raged but thats with any fighting game be fr. I played a shit ton of ufc and this is finally a fighting game that gives me a break from that. And ill rather fight super spammers than someone that doesnt let you charge and is constantly dashing at you trying to put you in backshots.
Some of y'all just play the game way too much and burnt yourselves out in the process. I haven't even completed all of the story modes. It's about pacing.
I personally have rarely experienced rage quits and I’m S5. However I do agree that it is annoying to play the same spam characters and not enjoy the vast amount of different characters. However I will say your missing so much to enjoy within player match and even buying the anime music. I get your content creator and everyone wants to share there moments, but there is so much to enjoy outside of rank. Me and a few random people have enjoyed the game with the music background making the game enjoyable. To many of you want to feel important from a win, or create content instead of getting back to the soul of the game. Have fun. Player matches are lit. And again I’m S5 and all ranks have been open to me playing with them.
Well this generally happens just after a game releases, typically, i'm a very early 90's person 89' over here, so yeah growing up with games and living in 2024 almost 2025, I've gotta say I see this all too often with games that come out and everyone jumps online. Which isn't bad, but this is actually just something I figured I would wait on trying out because of how new the game was I just wasn't going to deal with the BS that online functions typically have after game releases. For me I wasn't having hindsight this time around because I'm used to game releases and well due to experience this should blow over due to a multitude of players complaints & reports thus obviously being worked on in the next few weeks to a few months and boom it's taken care of for a temporary time till eventually the devs in some games start getting too nitpicky and start "over-balancing" a game where every single day is a way to look at a nerf as a method of cope rather than hope, haha blizzard I'm laughing at you buddy, to wishing you could find just get online and chill with friends and find unique methods to play the game and keep interest in it rather than realize the game is just torn apart till nobody really cares about it just so something else can be released. ---- basically I play 1p vs 2P on my computer without login other than my steam with friends & family at home and it's very fun if you know how to get the controllers in your computer configured perfectly. (which isn't too bad, but somethings the game can confuse the 1p & 2p from time to time.) This video alone proves it'll only take a bit of time for things to get fixed, but I seriously loath developers that believe in over complicating the words "gotta be balanced" or "oh sorry it's for balance reason" or "yeah now it's perfectly balance... (for me ha ha I complained enough)". Yeah that, that got old with blizzard games, but with games like the one in this video it's just a simple matter of working on it after release because online features need more time for experimentation and testing obviously.
I didnt buy the game because its really 97 characters and 87 copies of the same characters. I also hear theres a lack of content outside of ranked. Ill just wait til the games on sale
This is the worst dragon ball game ever made. Inconsistent, cheese, unblockables, button inputs not working, input lag, horrible lock on mechanism. The list goes on. The darn kick button doesn’t even work
I'm sure it'll be open to exploit, but if you penalize players who rage quit by deducting points from them and awarding them to the one who didn't quit, it might disincentivize people from quitting?
I don't care about ranked or points but I rage quit only against those instant sparking ultimate spammer, and I couldn't care less about consequence f these people off
I found that I like creating my own tournament and lock the character selection to certain sagas... then you can kinda filter out the op characters if you don't wanna deal with them... plus I've been doing that and setting the cpu to super and locking the CPU to boss characters only for training lol. It seems to be paying off. The tournament online, I haven't tried yet, but it's a suggestion.
They did a great job with story mode and custom battles but they need more than just that. CPU is fun sometimes but I’ll get bored because I don’t have the fear of losing. Even on Super. Yes online needs to be fixed but I also think they need more game modes in general. What I really wanna see is a coop mode where you play with your friends instead of against them. I’ve always been much better at fighting games than my friends so sometimes it sucks that I can only whoop on them. I have two friends that bought the game but don’t play with me cuz they know what will happen. So I wish we could fight together against an enemy so our different skill levels didn’t really matter. Even if it was just like team battles but each character is controlled by a different person. Anything really
I work from 9-5 pm come home and have dinner with my girlfriend, watch movies, bro by the time i get to play its 11:15pm at night. Talking ab no one is playing bro you cant get a match 😂 maybe bc most people are actually at work just like you said in your video. in all seriousness or literally cannot be online that much. YALL FORGET THAT WE ARE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME OF A 40 YEAR OLD FRANCHISE NOT EVERYONE IS A FUCKING STREAMER AND GETS TO PLAY 200Hrs in one month.
Since announcement of the game i was so hyped to play battles reminiscent anime as much as possible and it is possible but without so much sweat. Im felling like im playing FIFA when every game is must win for my enemy. Man i just want to chill sometimes. If i get in a chain of belly punching by Janemba once more i swear i just throw my xbox out of the window. PPL didnt want to have fun those days, everybody must be perfect in everything lol. They rather spam one punch and get a win than just have a fun. That is a main problem imo.
It's literally impossible to queue in a match now I hardly find any lobbies now even if I do people just quit mid way and I have to queue another half an hr for another match I'm literally in the virge of giving up on this game which saddens me cuz I love this game the only thing it dissapoints me that I couldn't find any matches to queue with when I play online
Online gaming killed gaming im a primarily offline gamer and my favorite game franchise dbz cod 2k all abandoned fun gameplay to appease mostly online gamers it’s sad
all this 2024 talk and 2025 and im just in 2002 happy to hold a budokai game again. all online gets toxic on every game, ive had youtubers disconnect on me on darksouls, and even pokemon lol. i record everything and i usually just send them a screen shot of their L.
This game is for cringey adults that play easy Fighting games like this for easy wins because they cant handle actual fighting games like FighterZ or Street Fighter.
The disconnection problems that started after I updated to 24hH2 and happen in every single game mid match make the game unplayable for me and I wait for over a week now for a patch. It is a known problem for weeks now and still no fix.
@@GamerWelfare i believe they will fix next update but is scary they havent even adress it yet
@Pridesin5 I hope they fix it next update but this situation is unreal. We are not talking about a small bug, this makes the online unplayable and no fix for weeks now, that is unacceptable.
Same with me
Bandai cashed out damn
Damn have not had a DC yet. That sucks ass
Too be honest, all I asked for was a cool db game where I can play as my favorite characters. What can I say? I'm a simple person
nothing wrong with that at all, its just that you are in the minority where as the majority arent having much fun and are turning away from the game
Same here 😂😂😂
If you don’t play online then yeah it’s great. The ragequit issue is a massive problem
You paid so much money just for an unbalanced dead game with so little offline gameplay
They should’ve trimmed the roster to 30-40 added co op and other elements. Just makes no sense just 1 v1 only mode . Should’ve added some xenoverse elements instead of letting us create story’s and all that bull crap
Im on the PS5. I play a couple times a week and have never had an issue finding a match. Most times are under 2 minutes. Now that I'm getting better, I have noticed some rage quitting, which honestly made me stop my session early the other night. I wouldn't mind so much if I got my points for winning, but having a match where I'm playing really well only to have my victory and reward stolen is frustrating.
A rage quit should be a loss for the quitter and a win for the other player. Problem would be instantly solved.
im on the ps5 and it takes forever to find matches?? like wtf why does it take so long
@@dontmindmejustyourlocalret3029 it might be something about your match settings like how good of a connection you want or something like that or if you have a bad connection that could be why cause most people have it set to find people with good connection sense no one wants to deal with lag cause of the other persons bad internet not saying its definitely those things just that there possible reasons
@@FangZ_07 thing is though my connection is good, idk what it is man i just hope they fix this bullshit. appreciate the help tho brotha
Absolutely, sometimes it is funny tho. You figure out the bs that they’re on, kill the one trick pony of the team and then everything fades to black 😭😂
I'm Z rank on singles, but DP is impossible everyone rage quits on me mid fight, and i waste almost 10min of my life for nothing 😢
Childish behavior they need to grow up
@@wblebonfr dude lol very childish. They quit a lot in player match too btw. I have around 20 to 30 recorded rages.
To be fair, your wasting 10 minutes in life just beening on a game for 10 min
@@lifebfdeath6294 i like to play is not a waste, its fun for me to try reach higher ranks
@@kos-mosshion2027 ahaha good, today honestly did one since it was the same guy that did to me 10min ago 🤣
I dislike how they hyped up customization but didn’t give some of the easiest costumes from the anime/ movies like it is a layup they didn’t even add anything original like some of the older games
Agreed. Videl in Dragonball Xenoverse 2 has more Outfits than Sparking Zero Videl as well as Android 18 etc.
You know the “variants” that have almost minimal changes in the costume? I didn’t care how, I just wanted little gohan to have his white headband. Goku and his bomber jacket would’ve been dope, and how the hell does vegeta not have the badman shirt?! 😂
Give the game time. They plan to drop large updates coming.
We NEED team battles. Let me hop
in a queue with my homies and have us fight other teams of players in tag team style mode. That would be HUGE.
Then play xenoverse lol
The fact that the devs didn't think of a simple "forfeit" button instead of the possibility to just rage quit without any influence on your rank is baffling to me.
This should be a basic feature in an online competitive mode.
they would still ragequit, its about the ranking points not the act of getting out of the game
@yep agreed that was what I meant by without any influence on your rank
Doesn't help the emphasis that "it's not a real fighting game" 😂 opinion
Once again I don't think you people understand it's not a competitive game but a party game. If you want competitive go play fighterz
I don’t think any fighting game has this..
The main problem is the lack of content theres not much to do and thats it ...
That’s how fighting games are, they’re purely for fighting most of the time.
@@immashadownot a fighting game. “Arena fighter”
@@FrostDrift69 So Sparking Zero isn’t a fighting game? Dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
@@FrostDrift69 An Arena fighter is a TYPE of fighting game.
@@immashadowFinally, someone with common sense.
I'm gonna be honest, fhey should do it like they do in dbl. If you leave a match, the other person gets points, you lose some, and there's a penalty time period to be able to play online that increases if you keep doing it.
95% of the general public have gold fish memory because if they didn't they'd remember a game called Jump Force that was pretty much the same thing... I take that back... it WAS the same thing Period
This game is an absolute gem to the tenkaichi series and comparing to jump force is absolute nonsense. Jump force is 10 times worse.
@@RealRich-w7xjump force was much better lmfao cope
@@FrostDrift69 You bumped your head as a baby huh
@@RealRich-w7xthey both nice
@@FrostDrift69cope harder
I’ll admit that I stopped playing…. There’s just nothing interesting to do anymore besides online play and even then it’s just everyone using UI and Fusions
Been a dbz since childhood, 90s kid. Only game I play is pubg, however this game is awesome haha. Tried xenoverse 2 years ago but that game was nearly there, sparkling is the dbz game. Imagine in 1 year time with more updates, server fixes. Online tournaments. Game will require great skill to win, knowing every move. Being unpredictable. Awesome game. Problem is people are to easy to quit these days. Nothing wrong with saying I suck at this, I need to improve. Having a growth mindset is what dbz taught me, worked well in life.
It's a fighting/battle game. always F with people's egos. Who cares if it's a ranked match, I lost 100 games in a row when I started. Don't give a shi! Lol
You'll have basic characters beating the best characters or something, and it will be because of skill. Hurts the ego when that happens. Awesome haha.
I am assuming someone has created a brucefaulconer soundtrack mod? Anyone have a link?
Ever since this game was announced I knew that the online wouldn't last long, in my opinion, Tenkaichi will still be Tenakichi and is going to be carried by offline and modding.
But this game does offline mid. It hae custom battle, its cool. But then split screen is an afterthought. Only have one map as it of now. We don't know if we will have new maps from a dlc or free update. But this game is 70$
Problem is they are banning mods. Clearly they don't understand gamers
I'll never understand why you can't play bonus/custom battles with other ppl and no crossplay is crazy on a 2024 release. Also where is 2v2's and 3v3's
Honestly I’ve had a bunch of fun with the game. I think it’s player base is down because only really big dragonball fans care to play a dragonball game for more than a month and they have moved on to some other game to play. If you grew up with this series, the game is slammin my dude, I only wish they used overworlds for the levels like previous entries, and I only hope they add more episodes and what ifs. In the ranked department, I am on Xbox, and have had very few of the rage quit issues or DP battle issues others have had, I only play DP and it’s quite obvious that someone is gonna quit when they load in as broly or vegito or MUI Goku. Also the online community thing is not really how games make money, it in fact is a cost to keep that type of thing running for 100000 people all the time. It’s quite possible they anticipated a smaller online community and want a smaller one. Like it’s a purposefully unbalanced nostalgia trip,and it’s a fighting game. It’s super duper niche. The games not amazing but it’s exactly what I was expecting aside from the single player being a menu, which comes off as a cut content kind of thing, but even that menu is very pretty and does a good job of displaying the levels and what ifs in a clear and concise manner, so it could be worse.. Honestly they just need to give the win to the person who doesn’t quit the game and call it a day. The babies don’t lose points and the adults get their points.
Said a whole bunch of nothing lmao foh
If it was "meant to be played offline", local multiplayer wouldn't feel like an afterthought added to the game. Why is it that can we only play in hyperbolic time chamber?
Room of Spirit and Time. Funimation is dead and their shite dub died with them. 💀💀
Because of the Xbox Series S not being able to handle any other maps
@@dangerousdays2052 Weirdo.
@@dangerousdays2052 not the fucking point dude
As someone who is thoroughly enjoying this game, I agree with everything you said. Several things need to happen.
1. Crossplay would be top of my priority list. Join the player pools between pc and consoles, less wait time, more people to play with
2. We need a Quickplay queue. There is no reason to restrict everyone to room based matchmaking if they dont want to play ranked. Even the sweats need a break, and may just want to play without having to worry about losing points.
3. On the topic of ranked, there needs to be a leave penalty, period. If you disconnect you forfeit. Or at least, put a time penalty on the player who keeps disconnecting. "Youve disconnected from too many matches, you can not play for 30 minutes" etc etc. Something to discourage disconnecting.
Again, I love this game but hate the state its in, and am genuinely dumbfounded that all of these features weren't included on release.
Over a period of days I lost at least 100 fights in a row, never won a single one, then when I was finally close to winning… they rage quit 🤦♂️
What ifs could have been so much better if they weren't absolutely abysmal to unlock.
XV2’s cheese was more fun to go against than Sparking Zero’s cheese
XV2 is balanced enough that no matter the cheese you face, there are counterplay options available. I've seen videos of people taking down literal OP-broken modders just by using the right counterbuild and strategy. 🥴🥴
Facts
@@dangerousdays2052It's a lot more tempered. Xenoverse 1 is like the beta version of Xenoverse 2. And i have this feeling Sparking Zero will go down the path of 'the next version will fix/improve everything'.
@@dendo20p That would be nice actually. Sparking really does feel like a released beta in a lot of ways.
@@dendo20p Knowing Bandai, this is probably THE Dragon Ball game till at least 2030. This is probably the most money they've put into an anime IP, and I don't think they want that to go to waste.
as someone who hasn't touched ranked once and sticks to single battles/tournaments, i will say there is a HUGE problem with people just sitting in lobbies or joining and leaving repeatedly. speaking from a Xbox perspective
I agree players should be penalized for rage quitting but they also gotta make it easier to play unranked matches ain’t nobody tryna wait 3-4 matches before you can play
I thought this game was going to be generational. But it's just your anual arena fighter. Maybe Sparking Zero 2 will fix everything
That's what happens when the community over hypes a game and allows no criticism. It was always going to be a next gen tenkaichi game. An arena fighter that prioritizes fun over competitive balance.
That's not a bad thing but the people acting like this would be game of the century were delusional.
In DBFZ I had a situation where I was about to rank-up and the person rage-quit on me.
I don’t know what happened but I still ended up somehow getting the BP experience points to reach the next level. I was relieved knowing I still got the points even though the other person left the match (because it was very down to the wire and I just clutched a last-hit wins victory).
My belief is that if you rage-quit you should lose points automatically and those points are added to your opponents.
Disincentivizing players to rage-quit and rewarding those who didn’t.
The only problem with this game is the lack of maps for offline multiplayer, how do the players that have actually been playing the Budokai Tenkaichi series with friends on the couch for 17+ years only get the the blandest of maps is beyond me
I think some people prefer playing offline, but the problem is the CPU even on Super is too easy. I think Bandai needs to fix CPU behaviour and make them more challenging. They cant even vanish more than twice.
True way too easy. Sometimes, i suddenly suck at this game though. Its weird. Mostly, when im nervous fighting people online.
@dylanhagsauce8629 ditto
I dont get what the issue is. In what fighting game is ranked.. fun? That's where you go.. to try hard.
When you want flashy fun, you join a community of like minded players. Why must the community complain so much ?
Most players aren’t even trying to have fun. It’s mostly that they get exposed for being ass at the game so they just quit lol
They made the online trash. Ranked has auto search opponent. Rest of the online puts you in an outdated lobby system. Normal online alsoneeds auto search battles.
I shouldn't have to go online and search for a community to play the game without people being allowed to be dicks
You have to be somewhat retarded
Its fun in fighters, tekken, sf8, and mk. Sparking zero doesnt require that much skill to play its more so pick the strongest characters or characters with cheesy gimmicks thus why people arent playing anymore.
This is literally my last db game. Not going to buy spz 2
If the guys are smart there won’t be a number 2
Video is nice but people rage quitting is not the main issue. You can’t even finish a DP battle without time running out and people constantly swap out to heal their players. It’s not fun if you can’t finish the fight. I’m surprised you didn’t mention this as a main problem. While there is also 180 characters, only a fraction are played because their moves are just much better. Why use a blast for 4 bars when characters have the same power for 2? Why use regular beams when you can just use unblockables? Players like broly can’t be staggered, will pick world tournament and spam full power buffs and unblockable ultimates. Rage quitting a legitimate fight is poor sportsmanship. Rage quitting against a gogeta or broly that has used 4 unblockable ults doing 25k damage is another. I don’t blame people who do that at all. The timing and button inputs often don’t register with me having to press 3-6 times to do something as simple as transforming. There is far more issues than rage quitting. And also B tier does lose points it’s only C and D that don’t.
There’s more people playing street fighter 6 on steam than there are Sparking zero. Keep in mind street fighter 6 has been out for a year
Namco just had to Follow and Add Quests and Raid Battles and Customization for all Characters( Xenoverse 2 had Custom items and Dbz Battle of Z had Custom Colors for Every Character) to Sparking Zero like they did to Xenoverse 2
@@hurricane7727 this isn't xenoverse 2 that was never the blueprint for this game and xenoverse 2's customization was mainly for the OC not characters from the series
@hashi. All Characters here shouldve been Color Customization like how Dbz Battle of Z Does it
@hurricane7727 They are not going to do that because it was not like that in old games
@antoniolee2109 I liked that part of Dbz battle of Z
Online sucks,moves break,lock on is inconsistent and rage quitting is frequent
There are some gameplay things that need to be tweaked. Super counter needs to be more limited and do no damage. Right now it's like if Killer Instinct gave you unlimited Combo Breaker that you could use any time for any reason. Vanish duals are also boring, something needs to be done to put a limit on that too.
I got a video coming out tomorrow talking about both of these things
I’ve been almost insta getting games so that’s no issue but like I’m A1 legit like 10 points off S1 and I’ve “won” the past 5 games just to get disconnected on last second cause I managed to counter their afterimage strike, completely unplayable. The fact that leaving isn’t an instant loss is genuinely embarrassing for the devs, how do you in any universe think to not put ANY penalty for leaving mid match
@@jasonr5288 it’s literally insane bro. I feel bad for you guys who wanted to actually grind and put in effort
Another thing people don’t mention is most people don’t rematch regardless if they win or lose sending you back to the practice range cutscenes and then waiting and then the next game starts with unskippable cutscenes and then rinse and repeat 😭 when people one and done and I gotta go through the whole cutscene movie again half the time I just go do something else bc there’s more downtime than up it feels like
one thing is you cannot play "with your friends" only against them which is disappointing
It’s a fighting game….did you expect a mmorpg?
@RealAnimeBadGuy could had 2v2 battles
@torhugomartins2250Dbz Battle of Z on the Ps3 has Coop Missions as well as Xenoverse 2.
Should had a mode for tenkaichi tag team on psp
This game was designated for online play it wasn't until a lot of fans were asking about local multiplayer that they added multiple multiplayer and it's the hyperbolic time chamber showing that local multiplayer was never the focus. So I understand people's reasons for not liking the game online when the expectations were high based on how they talked about the game.
But a lot of people who do talk or majority of the voices are people who are wine and complain about the game You need to get better at the game if you want to completely have fun and understand it. You have to put practice into it.
But for hating the game for its rage quitting ,its bad internet connection and servers, lack of stages and lack of content that's complete fair and should be criticized in a respectful way.
Dude, bad internet connection falls on the player, not the game. Internet connection is beholden on the people using it, not the game server.
@sonicgen20 That's half true. I had some so so matches when the game first came out when it came to internet connection and then for a long time it was really great and then with the latest patch they've had in the last week or two there's been lag all over the place even when both I and the player have a green connection ( steam users can see the connection quality in the bottom of my corner)
@sonicgen20 If the game had rollback I wouldn't even comment on the internet unless it was a crazy mess like fighterz lol
Honestly? Meta & rage quitting are the biggest issues this game has, and the Meta is annoying to a point where I’m NOT saying it should be nerfed, but I would like an option to see it less. Plus, there’s no real penalty for rage quitting, they just wait longer, but that’s it, no suspension or a serious penalty of any kind, and I hate that. As an experiment, as well as a massive lack of my own skill back in the D Rank, I’ve DC’d numerous times and to nobody’s surprised, there’s no actual punishment for it when there obviously should be. If anything, the “long wait time” for Ranked if you rage quit constantly actually goes away after doing it 20 times in a day, but it will actually unironically get longer if you stop, and I don’t know whether to laugh or be annoyed by this inconsistent yet ineffective “punishment.” There are many things I desperately wish this game has, but I’m at a point where I play this game with a select group of people of mine, and it’s fun that way, Ranked stopped being engaging for me once I reached high A Rank due to seeing the same characters over & over & over & over again. To anyone that likes Sparking Zero: I do too, I’m glad to see people still wanting to at least enjoy their purchase, I am as well, one of the best I’ve ever made in my gaming life, there’s a lot I wish for this game to be better than it currently is, I have realistic expectations, and I just hope a patch can address the many things we all take issue with, even if it’s just the important things. Everyone, have fun with your friends in the meantime, stay off Ranked if you value your sanity, ignore those who don’t wish to understand your points about this game and would rather mock you for your experience, just enjoy the game you bought with those who wanna do the same. Ggs ya’ll, let’s pray for a better future for this game.
Changing my settings for Dragon Ball Z when I get my account unsuspended in seven days so no one can message me that I’m not friends with the amount of shit talking people do in this game and the amount of harassing people do in this game is really really out there
I’m still having a blast , but I wish we could get a full fleshed out story mode with cutscenes and everything . Rarditz- Jiren and everything in between . Would be beautiful in this game . And I haven’t played the story since budoaki 2 lol. ALSO, add higher difficulty for CPU. I never lose to CPU
Budokai 2 Dragon Universe was Fun as well as Babadis Spaceship.
Yes, CPU needs to be more challenging. I get tired of offline sometimes and I want to fight the CPUs but the fun of fighting CPUs is just not there.. i really hope bandai fixes this issue
I enjoy the game a lot except for the fact that I keep 'losing connection'. It's upsetting when I'm about to win and the game just disconnects even when my connection says it's stable. I don't even mind accepting a loss - it's just unfun not being able to see a match finish because of poor connection.
Im a huge DB fan and love this game a lot, grew up playing nearly every DB game u can think of even imported a few. But the reason is quite simple really why its player count has taken a nosedive, the biggest suspect i guarantee is the unbalanced gp especially online.
Its WAY too ez for ppl to score wins with insta sparking, insta teleportation moves that allows free lotioning up your backside, unblockable ults, and certain characters having higher hp than others mainly the top tiers like the fusions, it was only a matter of time b4 it started dropping fast seeing the same dozen or so broken ppl.
As a modder and someone who loves others mods. Them banning people over said mods. Is the breaking point
I only stopped playing because my controllers shoulder button made its way inside itself from mashing the block button!
It has some avoidable problems.
However I dislike how there is no real communication from bandai which is sad
Bandai dont give two shits 😂 they got they bread already💯 i will say by mid January they will try to address rage quitting an by that time there will only be about 50 people left playing online then they will try n say we fixed rank rage quits an we have DLC characters to try n get people to come back to the game an some will come back but most wont even bother by that time it will be too late 🤦🏿 my prediction is this game will turn into another JUMPFORCE in other words a dead game ✌🏿
Yeah, I’m like 2nd rank Hirudegarn player on PS5 and my god, it doesn’t matter what rank I come across, it’s constant quitting and constant Ki blast spam or unblockable spams. It’s got to the point to where I write people and thank them for not quitting. I got one Z rank player named Itzemma.. something but he quits on sight, ever single damn time.
If I had to take a guess
# 1 everyone wants to focus on: Rage Quit = Banned for life
My actual guesses that revolve around the game instead of that supremely focused logic: Story was ass (i love it, just wish it wasn't nodes like Raging Blast 2 and there were a few more what-ifs, or a few more characters to play with.... Sucks Vegeta doesn't have T.O.P story)
No other offline options besides the custom battles (which are fun but can get boring after awhile, I wish that mode Budokai Tenkaichi had returned, enter that room where 17 & 18 told you the many options and had that mini venture like mode next to the challenges)
It's not crossplay
Game has lots of characters but could've had a *FEW* more (Several more Giants like Begamo, Ribrean, Meta Cooler, etc.)
Too many unlockable ultimates and easy to cheese/spam mechanics (that isn't a problem to me but annoying how it's hard to properly counter another character, like Z Broly who has no right to he that OP, since it's supposed to be lore accurate and he's weaker than Buu)
And I'ma take a shot and assume people are also mad thatthe counter(s) are too OP.
Personally it feels more like a DBZ/Martial Arts thing, counter upon counter upon counter till someone's timing is off. Makes it more competitive and better than most games.
I wish They need to tweak it so it costs Ki, and the more times someone uses it, the more Ki it'll cost so the countering the counter doesn't last for too long. Might as well drop that controller like in FighterZ when stuck in that corner by thirsty assholes
Least in Sparking 0 I *KNOW* I have a chance, just messed up, and prepare by saving Ki to counter, and hard punish people who abuse Ki/Super/Sparking and wasted it, an actual *comeback*
If you wanna play story play kakarot. Why would they go deep into story for two different games at once
@@ThatFunnyPlacewell this was their chance to actually tell the DragonBall Super story through games, it's the first game that has Super characters as the main focus instead of Z.
@Pickled_Dil you do know they still update kakarot right ? Do you know how sick the tournament of power dlc is gonna be on kakarot ??? Have you even played kakarot ?!?!?! It's amazing. Highly recommend if you haven't played yet
@@ThatFunnyPlace it isn't about the story, it's about the What-If's and hidden story bits that would've been nice to see
It was nice to see Vegeta resist Babidi's control, wish there were more *choices* but if it's between What-If's vs Choices, I want more what-ifs since those would (probably, I'm no game developer) easier to make and appease fans: LOVED Goku saving Krillin from Great Ape Vegeta
Kakarot is amazing for cutscenes
@HebiSaru21 yeah I won't lie. My favorite what if is when goku went super saiyan fighting great ape vegeta. Then vegeta becomes super saiyan on namek and fights goku. That one and gohan black was awesome.
Yea i’m not gonna lie i’ve been playing sparking for a while now and i love it but like you said the only problem is the online, if someone rage quits i rather still get my points or have a chance to get some points vs having to start up a whole new match and wait like 12 years just to get into another match, i hope Bandai addresses this problem lowkey
I want to add as well, single player mode is fine, but having nearly every soarking episode be activated by “defeat the enemy quicker” is boring as hell. Game is literally wanting you to go full power and spam as much as possible to unlock alternate story routes and it’s quite boring and frustrating.
dp battle is the most balanced way to play but that's where the most rage quits happen and it just kills the fun
The game has other major problems than quitting.
1. Charakter dosnt lock on enemy after certain moves or if new one spawns after you defeated one lost me games.
2. Endless vanish loops
3. Spawning on the other side of the map with your charakter after one is down > instant sparking for the opponent no counterplay > already big disadvantage.
4. 80% of the cast is unplayable in ranked because its so unbalanced.
5. Insta Sparking abilitys are to cheap for their impact
6. unblockable Ultimates
Rage quitting is bad, yes, but let's not act like it's the main reason why many aren't playing the game anymore. It's the lack of anything else to do but fighting. The story mode was lackluster, the custom battles are incredibly limited, and the customizations are non-existent. Pair all this WITH the rage quitting and you have a game nobody's really interested in playing everytime. Other reasons could be the game being hard for people to pick up, i remember everyone freaking out about Great Ape Vegeta and how to do Z counters, these things turn players off especially when they're coming from a game like FighterZ or Xenoverse where button mashing is actually effective agaisnt players and CPU.
In their most recent announcement of Sparking Zero tournaments, Bandai wrote in their video description "Also, we’re gearing up for a patch to adjust some battle mechanics in December 2024, post-Online qualifiers. Stay tuned for more details!"
There is hope 🙏
This was on the Bandai Namco Entertainment America channel
it has unmeasurable potential. but bandai did their money. next dlc 1-2 new chars + 1 stage for 30$ instead of improvents incoming :,(
Wish Namco did Outfit Packs like Streetfighter does for their Characters
All kind of Outits for every character would be so amazing, true
This game was never going to have longevity when it isn't consistently entertaining to spectate.
people quit cause we cant have fun online eveyrone just uses the same meta cheap moves and pummels you no one trying to make the fights looks flashey with cool doges and beam battlers and distruction like the game should be played
Not having a penalty for quitting a match is crazy
So question to the community. Is it the rage quitting or the attitude of the community that is toxic ?
so has nobody gotten their data wiped ? 100% story completed and everything in the game unlock i loaded up the game to the tutorial im lvl 1 any fixes ?
2k25 lmk if you tryna play i need a good C
Put your data on a Usb Stick Drive
@@hurricane7727 too late bruh💀
For me, it's too hard to find a match. If I'm going to play games, I want to actually play. Not sit. And it's always been like that from the beginning, not because of this drop.
Second, it's the extremely unbalanced BS you encounter online. Everyone is playing the same 3 characters in singles and DP teams are dominated by afterimage strike cheese. When you finally do get into a match it's just not even fun because of these people. Honestly, I think the RQ problem wouldn't be near as bad if they did something about the extremely frustrating elements like these.
Yeah yeah, you can cry "get good" or "learn to adapt" but there isn't much of a point when beating these people still feels more like a chore than an award. I beat them all the time and still groan whenever they come up because it's irritating and monotonous.
Hell, I don't even care about rank. I'll play only player matches and be fine IF they allow us to customize matches more. I'd love to play some tournaments where the overplayed, overpowered characters aren't allowed. Imagine a bunch of matches with cool theme teams that aren't "the fusions plus UI". If it's my custom lobby let me actually tweak more than the very most basic elements.
This is why I can't stand it when people say that the game doesn't need patches because the problems are caused by the players. Exactly. It doesn't matter what game it is. If you allow extremely broken elements to exist people WILL exploit them to get wins. That's just the reality. It's why balance patches exist in the first place. If it was as simple as "get better" then updates like these wouldn't exist. You can't just trust the players to be cool.
I also think the problem is todays current gamers. Find something to complain about or it grabs their attention for like 2 weeks & then move onto something else. Todays gamers are hard to satisfy
I will say as well 46,000 isn’t bad. I’m sorry. We’re talking about a game that if you do have a good signal, and are here to enjoy and not build self esteem you will enjoy it. Most people who played didn’t even do the training mode, take part in the story mode, or enjoy a custom battle. and im
saying this as someone whos complained until i just started to enjoy the game and learn more and more what it had to offer. and its a month guys. a month. thats not enough time to say the game is bad when people are constantly finding new tech still.
rage quitters are a community problem and the thing about taking alot of time to find a lobby is because nobody is playing
The problem is after image strike and people spamming roshis lightning surprise attack. Every time they win with roshi i alt+f4
I can care less about rage quitting until they address all thess cheesy tactics. All i see are after image strike teams , timeout setups, and giants and unblockable spam. 160 characters literally not being used. Never mind im starting to auto checkout during vanish battles.
Truth is the game is half baked pie of perfection. One half of the game is the best this series has to offer the other half is a train wreck that should've never been published in this state as a triple a game. Had they spent another year on this game adding in all the features and qol changes that were needed I'd be playing this game till I die. But they didn't . This game should have released as a live service game. It needs to much work to be called finish in the slightest.
Your mic has this dreadful bassy hum around 30Hz that's driving my subwoofers insane. It's always humming in the background. Makes it really unpleasant to listen to your videos. Can you please apply a high pass filter to your mic audio to get rid of this hum?
I just play single player,online is not fun
It’s been what a month? How about giving them some time. And what can they say to you besides we’re looking into it?
This really is the coddled generation. I need constant communication and updates about my video games.
“Bandai doesn’t care. It’s been about a month and they haven’t said anything. They do not care.”
The game dropped October 11th, so how about everybody calms down. Take a break from rank and see what happens.
Every game has a settle period before developers start hammering out huge changes in updates.
And where is everyone going to go? Back to Xenoverse 2, is there another Dragon Ball Arena fighter I don’t know about?
Is Bleach or something going to fulfill your need to play Dragon Ball? No.
Bandai has a history of bad communication with their community. Save files been getting deleted since the 3 day early access and bandai still hasn't said anything or offered anything to players affected. The company got the money they wanted so don't expect much from them at this point besides a slow drip of DLC to keep a community around.
@@grandpaeyebrowsThey patched the senzu bean rather quickly.
Not to mention gave numerous balance patches and fixes to Xenoverse 2, Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, Naruto Connections, Shinobi Striker and other games.
What they don’t do is your hand a long the way.
At most all they’ll say is we’re looking in to it or we’re working on it.
What you want is to feel like you’re having a direct impact on the changes being made in the game by complaining. And as you acknowledge, that’s now how they work.
Also I’m not holding my breath waiting for anything. I play other games and will come back to Sparking Zero later. I already dumped 40 hours into the game.
@@noahknight4039 All of those games are still incredibly unbalanced, and all have a niche community sparkling zero will fall into place with them. I just don't think alot of the people coming into sparking zero have any idea how bandai is with there games lol also me neither , my save file got deleted around 32 hours and haven't really touched it since.
@@grandpaeyebrowsThat’s true, they’re not balanced.
I wouldn’t expect Sparking Zero to be completely balanced either. No anime arena fighter is really, save for maybe Kill La Kill because it only has like 8 characters.
At best they’ll tone down some skills like After Image lasts 10 seconds instead 15 or something. Maybe stronger characters build ki slower after super and ultimate moves.
Make the window of vanish smaller and use more ki for pacing, ect.
But for the most part the top characters will remain the top characters as being somewhat more accurate is one of their priorities.
How online needs to be is everyone starts at base form. No SSJs, no other forms, no fusions just base form. if you want fusions, pick those characters and fuse mid fight. if you want SSJ do it mid fight. also DP fights are fucking dumb to me. 1v1 is alot better if you both start off at base form. then if you want to fight again then you can start right where you left off (if you were base, SSJ, ETC.) i understand the connection issues and that is a major problem but my problem is the combat system
Im not tryna say you're the pessimist here, but you are literally the only person I've seen make videos on the game being bad. It gives me the feeling of when i used to play raging blast, tenkaichi, and xenoverse 1 as a kid. Ive been whooping ass and having fun, ive definitely raged but thats with any fighting game be fr. I played a shit ton of ufc and this is finally a fighting game that gives me a break from that. And ill rather fight super spammers than someone that doesnt let you charge and is constantly dashing at you trying to put you in backshots.
Some of y'all just play the game way too much and burnt yourselves out in the process. I haven't even completed all of the story modes. It's about pacing.
I personally have rarely experienced rage quits and I’m S5. However I do agree that it is annoying to play the same spam characters and not enjoy the vast amount of different characters. However I will say your missing so much to enjoy within player match and even buying the anime music. I get your content creator and everyone wants to share there moments, but there is so much to enjoy outside of rank. Me and a few random people have enjoyed the game with the music background making the game enjoyable. To many of you want to feel important from a win, or create content instead of getting back to the soul of the game. Have fun. Player matches are lit. And again I’m S5 and all ranks have been open to me playing with them.
I'm still playing, the Lone player.
Theres a lot of people still playing this game
@@antoniolee2109facts
Well this generally happens just after a game releases, typically, i'm a very early 90's person 89' over here, so yeah growing up with games and living in 2024 almost 2025, I've gotta say I see this all too often with games that come out and everyone jumps online. Which isn't bad, but this is actually just something I figured I would wait on trying out because of how new the game was I just wasn't going to deal with the BS that online functions typically have after game releases.
For me I wasn't having hindsight this time around because I'm used to game releases and well due to experience this should blow over due to a multitude of players complaints & reports thus obviously being worked on in the next few weeks to a few months and boom it's taken care of for a temporary time till eventually the devs in some games start getting too nitpicky and start "over-balancing" a game where every single day is a way to look at a nerf as a method of cope rather than hope, haha blizzard I'm laughing at you buddy, to wishing you could find just get online and chill with friends and find unique methods to play the game and keep interest in it rather than realize the game is just torn apart till nobody really cares about it just so something else can be released. ---- basically I play 1p vs 2P on my computer without login other than my steam with friends & family at home and it's very fun if you know how to get the controllers in your computer configured perfectly. (which isn't too bad, but somethings the game can confuse the 1p & 2p from time to time.)
This video alone proves it'll only take a bit of time for things to get fixed, but I seriously loath developers that believe in over complicating the words "gotta be balanced" or "oh sorry it's for balance reason" or "yeah now it's perfectly balance... (for me ha ha I complained enough)". Yeah that, that got old with blizzard games, but with games like the one in this video it's just a simple matter of working on it after release because online features need more time for experimentation and testing obviously.
Exactly what you said. penalties for rage quitting
I rage quit once because I kept hitting the find new opponent and was getting the same guy.
I didnt buy the game because its really 97 characters and 87 copies of the same characters. I also hear theres a lack of content outside of ranked. Ill just wait til the games on sale
I’ve ranked up to A5 and haven’t fought a single rage quitter for the last 2 weeks I’ve been playing the game. Does it happen on S rank or what?
I don't like how everybody is blaming rage quitters, maybe the servers just bad
If i see another person power up just to spam ki blast and ult I’m gonna lose it nobody has skill anymore not even trying hard just ki blast spamming
This is the worst dragon ball game ever made. Inconsistent, cheese, unblockables, button inputs not working, input lag, horrible lock on mechanism. The list goes on.
The darn kick button doesn’t even work
Because the game is boring, but people blinded by nostalgia refuse to see that. Xenoverse 2 couldn’t come soon enough after this disappointing game.
I'm sure it'll be open to exploit, but if you penalize players who rage quit by deducting points from them and awarding them to the one who didn't quit, it might disincentivize people from quitting?
DP battles need serious balancing, people stalling out games with after image strike is annoying af
I’ve had games that go to time when we aren’t even camping. We are just playing ultra defensive. The matches should just go to 10 minutes instead of 6
I don't care about ranked or points but I rage quit only against those instant sparking ultimate spammer, and I couldn't care less about consequence f these people off
I found that I like creating my own tournament and lock the character selection to certain sagas... then you can kinda filter out the op characters if you don't wanna deal with them... plus I've been doing that and setting the cpu to super and locking the CPU to boss characters only for training lol. It seems to be paying off. The tournament online, I haven't tried yet, but it's a suggestion.
They did a great job with story mode and custom battles but they need more than just that. CPU is fun sometimes but I’ll get bored because I don’t have the fear of losing. Even on Super. Yes online needs to be fixed but I also think they need more game modes in general. What I really wanna see is a coop mode where you play with your friends instead of against them. I’ve always been much better at fighting games than my friends so sometimes it sucks that I can only whoop on them. I have two friends that bought the game but don’t play with me cuz they know what will happen. So I wish we could fight together against an enemy so our different skill levels didn’t really matter. Even if it was just like team battles but each character is controlled by a different person. Anything really
Fuck all that. A month in and still no Beast Gohan is diabolical af.
We'll get GTA 6 before beast Gohan 😂
I love this game. I am ranked D and I don't give a shit, I am having fun. People don't rage quit on me lol!
I work from 9-5 pm come home and have dinner with my girlfriend, watch movies, bro by the time i get to play its 11:15pm at night. Talking ab no one is playing bro you cant get a match 😂 maybe bc most people are actually at work just like you said in your video. in all seriousness or literally cannot be online that much. YALL FORGET THAT WE ARE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME OF A 40 YEAR OLD FRANCHISE NOT EVERYONE IS A FUCKING STREAMER AND GETS TO PLAY 200Hrs in one month.
Since announcement of the game i was so hyped to play battles reminiscent anime as much as possible and it is possible but without so much sweat. Im felling like im playing FIFA when every game is must win for my enemy. Man i just want to chill sometimes. If i get in a chain of belly punching by Janemba once more i swear i just throw my xbox out of the window. PPL didnt want to have fun those days, everybody must be perfect in everything lol. They rather spam one punch and get a win than just have a fun. That is a main problem imo.
It's literally impossible to queue in a match now I hardly find any lobbies now even if I do people just quit mid way and I have to queue another half an hr for another match I'm literally in the virge of giving up on this game which saddens me cuz I love this game the only thing it dissapoints me that I couldn't find any matches to queue with when I play online
Online gaming killed gaming im a primarily offline gamer and my favorite game franchise dbz cod 2k all abandoned fun gameplay to appease mostly online gamers it’s sad
all this 2024 talk and 2025 and im just in 2002 happy to hold a budokai game again. all online gets toxic on every game, ive had youtubers disconnect on me on darksouls, and even pokemon lol. i record everything and i usually just send them a screen shot of their L.
Meanwhile nobody has even touched custom battles
I’m waiting for disconnection penalties. I’ll be back then they implement that
BANDAI WHERE IS MY SECOND COMING Z BROLY SKIN?!!!!
Characters should be balanced for ranked
Game desrves to lose players when they still ain't add a DC plenty at least
This game is for cringey adults that play easy Fighting games like this for easy wins because they cant handle actual fighting games like FighterZ or Street Fighter.