Oh boy, for starters, I was a high ranked beta player, I was in top 500 and competed in a lot of tournaments, earning money from some. Needless to say I am an experienced player, coming from a background of over 8000 hours of brawlhalla, and before that I played SSBM. This game was amazing, and the devs straight up ruined it. This game had my entire heart, and this full release has been the hardest any dev team has ever let me down before. You know you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up when your unreal 4 engine game ran better, had better netcode, and had many many more features. Keep in mind we are talking about a beta, not even a fully fledged game. The full release feels like an early alpha stage at best. I've played 80 hours in the past 2 weeks, keeping an open mind, and really trying to get used to the changes. I simply cannot, this game is a small percent of it's former self, and it's really heartbreaking. I REALLY want to love this game, but it just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks. The character balancing is a shell of it's former self, characters like bugs and wonder woman are so over tuned that those 2 characters are in over 50% of my games. I understand that this isn't entirely PFG's fault, as they were rushed by WB to release. But PFG needs to make a statement of some kind talking about the MASS community complaints, Not a single word from them about how the game has been slowed down, or why it happened. No ranked is available, even though it was available in the beta. Instead we get this half ♥♥♥♥♥♥ single player mode that feels like soulless grinding for unlockables. I will probably continue to play, in hopes that change happens, but this is the most I've been let down by a game in my entire 23 years of life. You guys need to do better. Disappointed.

UPDATE!!!:
Okay, so season 2 just dropped, and PFG has made a lot of seriously positive changes. Yes the game may be slower than before, and yes it still has a long ways to go until I believe I can truly say it's a GOOD game. But they are absolutely trying their best to fix their wrongs from the launch release. The character balancing has gotten much better, overtuned characters have been very much toned back, with very few outliers now, some still performing poor, but not many that are too strong anymore. The server issues have gotten MUCH better. I disconnect roughly 1 in 30 games now, versus my previous 1 in 3. As well as adding key QOL features such at spectator mode for tournaments, ranked, post match stats, and custom controls/custom input buffer Major props to the team at PFG for making real efforts to fix the game.

Oh boy, for starters, I was a high ranked beta player, I was in top 500 and competed in a lot of tournaments, earning money from some. Needless to say I am an experienced player, coming from a background of over 8000 hours of brawlhalla, and before that I played SSBM. This game was amazing, and the devs straight up ruined it. This game had my entire heart, and this full release has been the hardest any dev team has ever let me down before. You know you fucked up when your unreal 4 engine game ran better, had better netcode, and had many many more features. Keep in mind we are talking about a beta, not even a fully fledged game. The full release feels like an early alpha stage at best. I've played 80 hours in the past 2 weeks, keeping an open mind, and really trying to get used to the changes. I simply cannot, this game is a small percent of it's former self, and it's really heartbreaking. I REALLY want to love this game, but it just fucking sucks. The character balancing is a shell of it's former self, characters like bugs and wonder woman are so over tuned that those 2 characters are in over 50% of my games. I understand that this isn't entirely PFG's fault, as they were rushed by WB to release. But PFG needs to make a statement of some kind talking about the MASS community complaints, Not a single word from them about how the game has been slowed down, or why it happened. No ranked is available, even though it was available in the beta. Instead we get this half cocked single player mode that feels like soulless grinding for unlockables. I will probably continue to play, in hopes that change happens, but this is the most I've been let down by a game in my entire 23 years of life. You guys need to do better. Disappointed. UPDATE!!!: Okay, so season 2 just dropped, and PFG has made a lot of seriously positive changes. Yes the game may be slower than before, and yes it still has a long ways to go until I believe I can truly say it's a GOOD game. But they are absolutely trying their best to fix their wrongs from the launch release. The character balancing has gotten much better, overtuned characters have been very much toned back, with very few outliers now, some still performing poor, but not many that are too strong anymore. The server issues have gotten MUCH better. I disconnect roughly 1 in 30 games now, versus my previous 1 in 3. As well as adding key QOL features such at spectator mode for tournaments, ranked, post match stats, and custom controls/custom input buffer Major props to the team at PFG for making real efforts to fix the game.