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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I just want a chill class shooter with good movement tech and larger team player numbers

Not a competitive 6v6 hero shooter where everybody moves the same, except for that one ability on cooldown right now

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I wasn't going to play a hero shooter anyway, but fuck this. I just want to go back to arena shooters, server browsers and no stat tracking.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 21 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I too yearn for the Quake 3 days.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

They also seem to be following CCP censorship rules. Yay.

Edit: What are the downvotes for, its objectively correct.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/marvel-rivals-chinese-censorship-controversy

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[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 102 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Being punished for leaving bot matches is the only issue I'd have with this.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 45 points 1 week ago

The article says that you do indeed get punished for leaving.

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[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 67 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What people are missing in the comments is that you can choose to play a bot match if that's what you want. But you CAN'T sign up to play against people and guarantee that that's what you'll be doing. And they are not transparent about it.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago

That and also penalizing you for disconnecting from Bot matches is wild

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you queue competitve you're guaranteed human players. And no Crossplay. Not the best solution, but yea...

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[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is this problem? Think it make sense and way to learn more mechanics of game.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm conflicted with this. But it's a problem because the game is not clear about it and you can't choose, the game just put 4 people + 2 bots against 6 bots.

I "tried" to get a bot match yesterday after getting 2 loses in a row, playing with things that I normally don't play and not caring too much with the objective. Took 5 loses in a row to get 1 bot match.

For a person to get a lot of bot matches they need a lot of loses, at that point the person is probably better playing against bot to improve a little bit. But I think the game should suggest to the player to do that instead of forcing and hiding that they are playing against bots.

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obfuscation. Corporate figures telling or giving people the option will hurt their feelings so they'll stop playing. A player who quits is no longer a tier two type with the potential to spend money, so they'll only do this if it becomes a PR nightmare that affects their bottom line.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, they don't care if the player is improving, they just want people to not tilt and quit the game.

And I don't think this will be a PR nightmare, played a lot of the game, mostly quick matches and got 1 bot match, not only some people will not get a bot match easily but some people will not even notice.

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[–] Revonult@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I sign up for a match expecting to play against players and get matched with bots I would be upset.

Like most games have options like vs bots or vs players. I think it's a bit ridiculous to not have even that basic control over your game experience. Regardless if you just get crushed.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Statistically, people are more upset when they get crushed by other humans.

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It’s a problem if you think you’re learning techniques for killing humans but in reality you’re learning tricks to kill AI. There is already a bot match option if people want to learn with no pressure.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

It gives people a false sense of being good even if that day was simply not their day. Bot match alone is fine, and it's relaxing in a way, but hiding the fact that they're not fighting against real players is manipulative.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I would actually try the game out if you could purposefully select to play against bots.

[–] Bearbi3@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Then try it, because you can do exactly that.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's rather common Knowledge that NetEase does this exact thing in Narala: Bladepoint, so yeah, not surprising, at all.

I also vaguely remember this being a thing in Pokemon: Unite, not sure if that's also a NetEase game.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pokémon Unite does it sometimes after lose streaks. But not always! It's common in casual modes but much less common in ranked.

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's unsurprising, I don't bother with multiplayer games at all because always getting stomped so bad you don't even learn how to fucking play isn't worth the time. One assumes they have to come up with some sort of strategy to keep players like me on a pvp only game.

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[–] hisao@ani.social 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Last time I played Fortnite it was also like this. It was bots + other weak players like you. It felt quite okay, early in the match you got some easy bot kills and later you had some challenge dealing with actual players of your skill level.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell I'm okay with that. I don't play with any of you people anyway

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i swear pokémon duel would do the opposite of this. you’d get on a win streak and then suddenly a player with a very generic name and the EXACT counters to your deck fucken SWEEPS your ass with seemingly psychic precision. you could even trick it by switching to a deck with no synergy and just playing like a psycho whenever you got ~5 wins in a row.

i miss that game so much. taken before it’s time o7

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Makes sense why the game feels soo easy, And i like it this way.

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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 week ago

Standard mobile practice from a mobile publisher

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