Why the fuck is Freedo here

The genius behind open queue is it encourages exploration. DPS will always be the most populated class and that's inevitable. But open queue literally opens your mind. How many times have you gone into practice range and learned a Vanguard or a strategist, "just in case?" Then you go pop off with an alt hero in a class you you don't usually prefer. That dopamine hit is incomparable. Next thing you know you're a capt main, a adam main, a invis woman main, etc. And heroes bans do it as well. I think its genius in the fact that it expounds creativity, pushing players into roles that were traditionally "unpopular' or "boring" to play. I can honestly say I've had an exponentially more amount of times where I am solo queuing in comp, and like 3-4 us are sitting waiting to see what role needs to be filled, as opposed to 4 people insta locking a DPS. Open queue works well in this game and should stay.

45:00 Flats spitting nothing but facts for 5 straight minutes

Okay, so this confirms what I already know. Awkward is insane. Also very hypocritical. He tends to lose it and start bullying people on stream if they come with a take he finds stupid.

Eskay tryna ruin the game with that filth

Will you have Awkward back on the podcast?

Everyone getting butthurt over eskays obvious joke is crazy

nobody cares about overwatch

Awkward significantly helped my tank gameplay, especially Rein, and helped reach my rank goal so I appreciate his videos.

27mins when their talking about charecter tecs. Not letting bogur the king of tecs talk is crazy.

I didnt expect Eskay to have the most goonergy lmao

Paladins did hero bans well

Why not implement a preferred‐role queue?

My most loved streamers,🎉

Eskay thinking a chinese dev team is gonna actually allowed to show gay relationships in their product is kinda wild

1:50:00 PVE jokingly mentioned... me in the future: Uhhh 😅

Eskay is a gay gooner

in regards to eskay's request for gay characters, i do unfortunately think it's very unlikely with netease being the way they are. which is SO UNFORTUNATE bc it would be SO EASY FOR THEM TO MAKE ANYONE THEY WANT GAY. "this is iron man from earth 37569 which is just like earth 100 except the only difference is he's bi" like it would cost them nothing and only piss off bigots (always a plus) and increase hype for the girls gays and theys

I have no interest in Overwatch. I have never played Hero Shooters and the only reason I came to this type of game was the Marvel ip. I think Overwatch will not be able to compete with that. So if Overwatch does something to bring back Overwatch players, it won't bring all the Marvel Rivals players to it.

I don’t think we can understate how cool team-ups are for content. If for one season they wanted to drop one character and then mid season just re-work, add, and buff/nerf team-ups. That alone would warp the meta so much.

The heroes/villains skills match for the most part as well

Was gonna watch then I heard eskays creepy voice.

I'm not really sure what he was really saying here at all. I think maybe having more context might have helped a bit, however I disagree with the premise that people care about the pronouns of a character in an online multiplayer game at all. Most people only care about gameplay and character design when picking a character to play/ main. This inclusive dialogue needs to leave the gaming space. Ventures entire identity seems to be that the character is non-binary also which is a majority of these types of characters.

Someone have a link to the version of this video without eskay? 😂

eskay : :)

1:01:50 generational flats crashout

1 good thing about 5v5 is that me as a individual player, i have more agency over the game, and can impact winning easier

I really wish they defined what “balance” or “competitive” means to them. Just because something is whacky, or a tech, or whatever doesn’t mean it’s not competitive or less balanced. StarCraft brood war IMO is one of the most competitive and balanced e-sports in gaming history. But to a casual player the game is mainly both players build a big army and duke it out. It is pretty whacky then for legitimate counters to popular/optimized strategies being tower rushing or harassing workers or doing an all-in with your workers and tier 1 units in like the first 3-5 minutes. Yet those “whacky” things contribute to making Brood war one of the most competitive and balanced games ever. I feel similar with Dota as well.

I think the answer to the support ult problem might actually be on the horizon. Let me start with the backstory before I say what I think will happen. In LoL there's a champion Malzahar who locks people down for x amount of time. Then in Pokémon unite, they made Slowbro who does the same thing except he cancels whatever they're doing and also locks them down for x amount of time, even through cc immunity (cough Luna) Now if only we had an upcoming hero who's known for taking away people's powers that could do something similar (cough Rogue). Rogue could go one of two ways, stealing powers or removing powers. We already have Loki, so I'm guessing the latter.

Yes here for the balance of the game. Whether she likes penis or vagina doesn’t affect how the character plays. Incel.

People acting like only guys enjoy this game while eskay gooning to magik psylocke sesbian lex

Gay stuff always has lost is losing and always will

i hope they don't listen to streamers and listen to the community instead

Support in rivals actually feel like supports. Not a 2nd dps that glues the team together as a secondary job. As close and dagger I like adding a blind ability and switch back to dagger to capitalize and keep my actual damage dealers alive and secure the bling opponent. But if it comes down to it I can 1v1 even dps played like storm

It doesn’t need role queue. What it needs is when you hit ranks up to a certain point, you can’t drop below that rank, like Fortnite and many other games. They should also consider not showing stats until the end of the game. Those two things would greatly reduce the toxicity and frustration of competitive mode.

Man this was really hard to watch. Super awkward and got 2nd hand embarrassment watching

Man this was really hard to watch. Super awkward and got 2nd hand embarrassment watching

Eskay has such shit takes lmao

Three observations: 1) It's always funny how they focus so much on the 'content' that can be made with the game rather than talking about the actual game. I don't give two fucks about what 'clipping it' or TikToking the game. That's such a streamer thing. 2) I felt through this podcast that they want to play a better Overwatch instead. So many times they lament the lack of 6v6 and hero bans in OW. It really feels like they love Marvel Rivals because it's doing what they want OW to do. 3) Honeymoon period is crazy effective. The balance is 'fun' now, but holy shit it's gonna be the biggest complaint within 3 months. Pro scene meta will creep into ranked. Bans will just result in rolling the dice on 3 equally strong meta comps. It's inevitable. Enjoy the hype while it lasts. The devs WILL eventually succumb to nerfing things when the players eventually demand it.

This girl wants the game to go woke jfc we don’t need pride shit forced down our throats in every game. Go play halo if you want gayness in a game.

Skip to 1:37:45 for rivals discussion

I’m an hour and a half in and it’s mostly just bitching about overwatch.

no pronoun check?

Hey girl next time you’re getting interviewed eat breakfast beforehand. Puts

This game is so ass, I don‘t get it.

Eskay is cringe with the headcannons… it’s an illness

Kind of annoying how you kept saying meaningful content at the end as you're saying like gaming isnt meaningful. There is a large portion of the society that uses gaming as an escape and a self therapy and for you to just say it's meaningless seems pretty dismissive. There's such little joy to find in the world anymore. Gaming is that spark for a lot of people and content around it helps fuel that spark and keep them going. It's not solving child hunger or fixing the horribly corrupt billionaire politician meta we have right now, but for everyday people it's extremely meaningful. I've never even heard of you before because I'm not an OverWatch player, but I've been playing rivals and this just fell into my algorithm so I watched it so I don't have any personal connections or sadness that you won't be doing it anymore. It's just your theory behind quitting it is a little off-putting.

I disagree with Eskay comment on devs putting emotes for charcters to make out. Its a want, not a need. All in all, good talk.

6v6 sits on 5v5 like a Khan. Squishing it to irrelevance.

Overwatch 3?