OW gets better updates than rivals

General Discussion
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I am not a hater, I got 160 hours on marvel rivals and will keep playing it, I’m just speaking facts

Okay so normally OW gets 3 heroes in a year and Rivals gets 8. We’re toast, right?
Let’s just compare the most recent ones though,
Rivals

  • Invisible Woman
  • Mr. Fantastic
  • Black Widow
  • Wolverine
  • Hawkeye
  • Moon Knight
  • Cloak and Dagger
  • Psylocke

OW

  • Venture
  • Hazard
  • Juno

Of the marvel ones, I’d say maybe 4 of them have interesting kits that aren’t just spammy or fps archetypes, And of those Moon knight is still incredibly spammy just a fun type of spam, Mr. Fantastic feels pretty cumbersome, Wolverine is somewhat of a gimmick character where everything is just buildup to the one cool moment where you lunge their tank away.

Invisible woman is honestly the only one where the entire kit feels as fluid, cohesive, and creative as an Overwatch character. I’d say all 7 other marvel characters are inferior to these 3 Overwatch characters in those terms. Like all 3 of the OW heroes carved out these entirely new niches in their roles which feel unlike anything in the genre before (except maybe Hazard who ironically feels reminiscent of The Incredible Hulk, the best designed hero in rivals, but still has quite a bit unique to him).

I’d say character designs are the only thing Rivals really has over rivals, the IP is a huge advantage of the game. But OW still does have excellent character design as well

But then if we ignore gameplay and just focus on character, the marvel people are so boring. Moon Knights craziness is fun just because he hams it up so hard, having a husband and wife duo is pretty interesting, but the rest is just generic grizzled tough guys and heroic dogooders. Now I will say that OW’s recent showing wasn’t quite as good as usual, Hazard isn’t the most interesting personality, but still Venture alone clears all 8 of these guys.

I’m not saying the rivals heroes are bad, I have fun as moon knight and Psylocke, the difference is if I tried to onetrick one of those characters. Rivals is dependent on its quantity.

And as for things other than heroes, I’d say it’s a bit too early to judge rivals (other than cosmetics which OW always sweeps on), but so far there hasn’t really been anything special

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Venture alone clears all those “recent” heroes, huh? Uh huh.

Yep. Just speaking “facts”. They have nothing special over at MR at all. Totally legit.

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Definitely too early. Rivals it has a lot of good foundational pieces, but it depends on how the build up on it.

Just my opinion but a lot of rivals characters just feel one dimensional. I haven’t played as much of the game as some others because every time I play a hero they basically just feel the exact same. All the flyers feel kinda the same. All the flankers feel kinda the same. Idk.

I do kinda wish overwatch could make heroes a bit more often but if that’s the tradeoff, that when a hero DOES come out it’ll probably be fun and interesting rather than 4 heroes I don’t really care about then whatever I guess