I bought this game on release, I came back a few months ago. My Thoughts on it now.
I bought this game on release, and even played in the Beta. I quit playing because of the obvious issues.
I should also add that I'm not a bad player, and quickly picked up controls and do decently in games.
A friend talked me into coming back, so I did. Here are my thoughts:
The new heroes are interesting, well designed, and incredibly unique. That is literally all the good things I can say.
I rarely enjoy playing this game, having resumed playing it a few months ago and put in an addition 100+ hours into the game, I can honestly say that I find myself more frustrated and angry than having fun. The community is still garbage and the game play fuels toxic behavior. I'm guilty of it myself.
The developers apparently still struggle with balancing and finding a good middle ground in between metas because this light spam meta is just pure cancer. Kensei, Valk, Nobushi, Aramusha, or Orochi light attacks are near impossible to react to, and if you get hit by one, you're 9.9/10 going to get hit by the entire light combo.
Also, I should ask... Why the hell would you give a character with hard hitting heavies and a 3 hit light spam combo dodge heavies? Kensei is supposed to be a vanguard, not a damn assassin, also his HA is such a cruddy thing to give an already busted hero.
Warmonger is also insanely busted, her feats will literally wipe an entire team or bring them below half health in a manner of seconds and the AOE takes up half of a CP. So she has busted feats on top of an already incredibly powerful moveset with shocking damage out put also her bashes have ridiculous tracking.
Conq and Warlord are also too strong. I just felt like I was playing the game on easy mod when playing them. It was laughably unfair. I have been able to 1v4 as conq and take minimal damage thanks to zone.
Highlander is my boy. My man. My daddy. But his Offensive lights are just so badly animated and as bad as kensei or nobu light spam, if not worse. His defensive stance I feel is in a good place.
Why is Peacekeeper so insanely underpowered? She's an interesting hero with a neat concept, but she is just so lack luster. I mean, Shaman is basically a better PK. PK has the weakest heavy attacks in game and her attacks are just so easily telegraphed and slow unless it's her bleed light. She has been long overdue for a complete rework.
I'd also like to add to the fact that despite having dedicated servers for this game, I still get dropped, kicked, or have lag spikes in game. Although I've seen a lot of lag switchers in game so there's that.
Why is this game still so insanely grindy? It's been out for years and each effect or execution can cost up to like 7-14USD. That's insane.
What happened to kill sync? Kill sync was just so much fun! I heard it was removed because it interfered with Breach (for some reason?) But I tried to play Breach multiple times and I think I only ever played three matches after waiting over 45 minutes in queue. At that point you might as well either trash the game mode or just change the minions to a different type so Kill sync in dominion can come back man.
I like the new Viking and Samurai minion skins. They're really well made and actually fitting with the aesthetic. However the Knight minions are actually... Well, trash. The Viking minions are wearing proper armor and the Knights just wear gambeson coats with ugly kettles. I really think they should be changed.
The Horkos soldiers look incredibly good, though.
Faction Wars. Why? Why is this still a thing? The Knights never win because Vikings and Samurai have more players, so what happens? Knights never win of course. Honestly, this could be fixed easily by awarding knight players more soldiers after each match, or giving them buffs to conquests/faction war as a whole. OR YOU KNOW, do away with the 3 factions entirely and just make it Horkos vs. Alliance faction war, that way the factions would be somewhat balanced or easier to balance.
Lore. Literally... Like, what? The lore bits on the loading screens are just terrible. I'm a writer as a hobby and honestly, my unfocused and sporadic notes can tell more of a story than some of those terribly done loading screen snippets. Please get a new writer.
There's a few complaints about some feats being insanely broken or just unusable, so there's that. Kensei shouldn't get a feat that makes all of his attacks unblockable, that's dumb. Warmonger's feats are busted, enough said. HL's feats are... Pretty lackluster, if I'm honest. His Tier 1 stam regen feat is probably the best he has. Hitokiri's insta execution feat is... Also kind of dumb. There are some spear throwing feats that deal too much damage in my opinion compared to other ranged feats.
All of this is mainly my very scattered opinion, but it seems I share the same sentiment of a lot of players. There's nothing else like this game, and honestly it still has an incredible amount of potential, the devs just need to listen to the more level headed members of the community and address the problems that are causing even bigger problems for the remaining community. I'll still give this game a play every so often, but I feel it'd be better for my health if I didn't play if often in it's current state lmao
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