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My Thoughts about Smash Ultimate's Online Play
7 years ago
One Question: "Why change something that worked in the Previous Smash Title?"
Ok so, before you do Quick Matches (thats what its called), you can set up yourself preferred rules which means you can set it up to Free for all, Team Battles and 1v1 and couples of other settings such as battlefield type or omega stages etc, the great thing is, the game tends to throw you in free for all matches even though you prefer 1v1 omega stages, and here is the greatest part of it: You cannot exit those Battles unless you did choose for a rematch. So youre basically forced to play casual free for all with items and all that crap.
Also what pisses the crap out of me is you sometimes have the Ruleset "3 Stocks, 3 Minutes" and i fucking tell you, you WILL run out the timer and get fucking rekt by sudden death.
And everytime you lose a game, your GSP reduces. (GSP is explained down below) If your GSP is high enough with a character, this character can exclusivly go into the Elite Mode, meaning there are the pro players in, its a great feature to put you in battles with others who have equal skill level as yourself.
seriously nintendo? i paid 20 bucks for a year of online services and it still manages to lag here and there. come on, i pay for quality ffs.
And the next uninteresting Mode is Battle Arenas, where the only good part about this is, you can use it to battle with friends. but if you go in a public Arena, you sometimes have to wait at least 10 minutes before its your turn to go into the ring, only 1v1, and if 3 other people are waiting in line you gotta wait. thats the least fucking thing i want, to fucking wait/spectate the matches its bullshit.
GSP: But whats good about Quickplay mode is, if you win fights you get GSP (Global Smash Power), the more battles you won the higher your GSP goes and the harder and equally powered opponents are starting to kick in. you cant taunt in Quickbattles as well, so salt level MIGHT be reduced, fortunately you can still block and report players.
-Go into the Main Menu > Vault > Records > Past Opponents
-Hit the A Button on the Opponent you want to report and then hit report, if you just want to block them go into details and block them in their profile and then they shouldnt connect with you at all anymore.
And now you have to punch in also a reason for the said report, like "unsportmanlike Conduct" also known As t-bagging (mashing the analog stick down to crouch and teabag), inappropiate nicknames, network manipulation, idling and even cheating. great job nintendo, you made reporting better, but fucked up the actual online modes. jesus fucking christ.
im mostly disappointed about Nintendos Decision to remove the actual categories like "For Fun" and "For Glory" where YOU the player had the decision what exact mode you want to play, now its random and you cant even exit them out.
It get's better, hear me out.
Lets say for example i go in Quickplay, choosing Ganondorf, my opponent is heavily using projectiles like Megaman or Villager, you lose and the game asks you in the result screen if you want to rematch your opponent or not, you CAN rematch him BUT, im still upset while writing this down...jesus fuck you cannot switch out fighters,you have to keep going with ganondorf or leaving the quickbattle completely to change characters.
Nintendo, why. Fucking Fix those modes and give the player the option which mode they want to play and not force them in casual plays if we dont want to, the worst part is most of those Issues listed here were not present in Smash4. It is truly baffling.
If you want to smack in your opinion, just comment down below!
Ok so, before you do Quick Matches (thats what its called), you can set up yourself preferred rules which means you can set it up to Free for all, Team Battles and 1v1 and couples of other settings such as battlefield type or omega stages etc, the great thing is, the game tends to throw you in free for all matches even though you prefer 1v1 omega stages, and here is the greatest part of it: You cannot exit those Battles unless you did choose for a rematch. So youre basically forced to play casual free for all with items and all that crap.
Also what pisses the crap out of me is you sometimes have the Ruleset "3 Stocks, 3 Minutes" and i fucking tell you, you WILL run out the timer and get fucking rekt by sudden death.
And everytime you lose a game, your GSP reduces. (GSP is explained down below) If your GSP is high enough with a character, this character can exclusivly go into the Elite Mode, meaning there are the pro players in, its a great feature to put you in battles with others who have equal skill level as yourself.
seriously nintendo? i paid 20 bucks for a year of online services and it still manages to lag here and there. come on, i pay for quality ffs.
And the next uninteresting Mode is Battle Arenas, where the only good part about this is, you can use it to battle with friends. but if you go in a public Arena, you sometimes have to wait at least 10 minutes before its your turn to go into the ring, only 1v1, and if 3 other people are waiting in line you gotta wait. thats the least fucking thing i want, to fucking wait/spectate the matches its bullshit.
GSP: But whats good about Quickplay mode is, if you win fights you get GSP (Global Smash Power), the more battles you won the higher your GSP goes and the harder and equally powered opponents are starting to kick in. you cant taunt in Quickbattles as well, so salt level MIGHT be reduced, fortunately you can still block and report players.
-Go into the Main Menu > Vault > Records > Past Opponents
-Hit the A Button on the Opponent you want to report and then hit report, if you just want to block them go into details and block them in their profile and then they shouldnt connect with you at all anymore.
And now you have to punch in also a reason for the said report, like "unsportmanlike Conduct" also known As t-bagging (mashing the analog stick down to crouch and teabag), inappropiate nicknames, network manipulation, idling and even cheating. great job nintendo, you made reporting better, but fucked up the actual online modes. jesus fucking christ.
im mostly disappointed about Nintendos Decision to remove the actual categories like "For Fun" and "For Glory" where YOU the player had the decision what exact mode you want to play, now its random and you cant even exit them out.
It get's better, hear me out.
Lets say for example i go in Quickplay, choosing Ganondorf, my opponent is heavily using projectiles like Megaman or Villager, you lose and the game asks you in the result screen if you want to rematch your opponent or not, you CAN rematch him BUT, im still upset while writing this down...jesus fuck you cannot switch out fighters,you have to keep going with ganondorf or leaving the quickbattle completely to change characters.
Nintendo, why. Fucking Fix those modes and give the player the option which mode they want to play and not force them in casual plays if we dont want to, the worst part is most of those Issues listed here were not present in Smash4. It is truly baffling.
If you want to smack in your opinion, just comment down below!
We are now paying 20 USD$ a year for a service that has existed since Brawl, with only a slight improvement to netcode and stability. With that, we have also taken a major step backwards as far as matchmaking mechanics go. It’s really quite disappointing; Nintendo needs to take a hard look at how online games are nowadays, because having a solid online system for a multiplayer game is sometimes a breaking point for people who may want to buy a game.
I’ve been grinding for days and at this point, I only want to unlock Elite Smash for bragging rights.
OH! And if you’re not careful, Elite Smash can be taken away. So it’s not a permanent mode!
GG NINTENDO! WAY TO FUCK UP THE ONE THING PLAYERS WANTED FROM SMASH!