i had more fun staring at mt lady's ass in the menu than playing the actual game

This game is fun at its core. Genuinely. It's a Battle Royale that does something no other games on the market really do. It leans fully into the character shooter style, team fights are much more ability focused, and the core gameplay loop is just very satisfying. While ByKing may struggle time and time again to balance this game in any sensible way, this game nonetheless maintained its player count through how strong its core gameplay is.

Season 8 has completely changed this. Season 8 has introduced to the game a mechanic known as the "Tinker" system. By playing matches, you may be rewarded with random character memories, which you can use to install custom perks and abilities into characters. This is a good concept on paper, yes? It helps to flesh out characters even more, and introduce a style of build diversity to the game.

This is absolutely not how the system works. For some reason I can not fathom to understand, these perks are not tied to your character, but to your character's outfit. Each passive is tied to both a color of that character's passive, and if they are a hero of villain. Each costume has unique slots for the Tinker system, including different colors for each slot and different requirements of hero/villain characters.


This has an almost insurmountable amount of flaws. Firstly, this means that if you upgrade one costume, none of the upgraded perks will carry over. Have fun starting with all of that from scratch, as all of these upgrades consume resources. (Of course, you can also just buy these resources, because why wouldn't you be able to?) Secondly, this means that there are costumes and color variations that are objectively better than others. Some may have flat-out better passive slots than others, meaning you're forced to run a costume (a cosmetic item) purely for in-game stat bonuses. This can also include outfits locked to the gacha, introducing even more paywalls to the game.

Many of these passives are not small abilities, either. For example, there are abilities that can allow you to revive teammates from a downed state with completely full shields (which can be used with instant revive characters), abilities that give you more Plus Ultra (your ultimate) meter for something as simple as downing enemies, and abilities that allow you things such as finding Kota mere seconds within the map (if you have not played this game before, Kota is a MASSIVE advantage to whoever can find him, particularly in the early game.)

This, however, is not even the worst part. Since Season 1, this game has made a habit of making costumes locked to events and Ranked rewards. These are never made obtainable again after the Season or event ends. This means that some costumes, which may potentially be better than others, and completely and utterly unobtainable if you were not there for those events. This is not even Pay to Win. This is only anti-player, as they have absolutely no financial incentive with this form of FOMO.

Previously, you may have been able to start a new account, play a character like Assault Deku, and achieve formidable results. While many gacha characters tend to be more powerful, this was not insurmountable. You still had just as much a chance to win if you were skilled enough. This is simply no longer the case. An Assault Deku with a better outfit or even just slotted-in perk slots will now have a statistical and undeniable advantage over one who has freshly installed the game.

Do not support this game in its current state. This system is complete and utter nonsense, and should be treated as such. If the devs see how absurd this system is and change it, this game is genuinely fun if you are a fan of character shooters and battle royales. But at its current state, it is nothing more than a mobile game disguised as a battle royale.

This game is fun to play but until they do 3 things this stays a negative review
1. Allow buying characters from the shop instead of locking characters behind Gacha
2. Remove pay to win aspects from the Gacha
3. Balance the newer characters instead of using over powered characters as bait to make people role on the Gacha