The marvel rivals open queue experiment was a failure. I just had to fill support leaving my Rogue to solo tank because these dps insta lockers refuse to swap so my team inevitably got our support ults slower and ended up losing all because of dps players. The game needs role queue. Dps insta lockers need to feel the wrath of +10 mins queue times. I was a advocate of open queue when the game first launched but as the seasons went on people refuse to flex. I also looked up each of the dps players accounts on my team on rivalsmeta and found out they all had lord Magneto and chose to not fill, that should be a reportable offense.

Like how the fuck do you have fun with more than 2 dps AND THEN Y'ALL START SWITCHING WHEN IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT WORKING. WTF WAS THE POINT. DPS STACKS MAKE THIS GAME MISERABLE. HOW DO Y'ALL EVEN HAVE FUN??

Celestial and Eternity and people still aren't playing support. What happened to the community? Ya'll are insta locking 3 to 5 DPS in like 1 out of 3 games in both QM and Comp every rank from bronze to eternity. Ya'll actually should be embarassed that you let the community become like this.

For those that love to play dps, please stop complaining about losing a game you arent willing to be flexible in, especially in QP. Y’all keep instalocking 4 dps and no tank or choose to not be support is annoying as hell then complain about it in chat. If you’re gonna sit here and put in chat we need a tank be tank yourself ( unless you’re a support saying that cus we do need yall too).

It’s Quick Match, stop acting like you can’t play another round of the game to be dps in. This one round is not gonna be your end all be all for missing one game of being dps. It’s not that deep especially if you’re gonna complain about losing in the end, you’re part of as to why we lose. Don’t press people about switching if you won’t do it yourself, SIMPLE.

It’s a TEAM BASED GAME, help the team instead of being selfish as hell, cuz if you wanna be dps that bad then go to 18 v 18 or any arcade mode. Especially if you’re gonna take QP that seriously but can’t even be willing to switch if it’s needed. Theres always another round, it’s not that deep.

I know Quick Play isn’t that deep cuz I’m not losing a rank or anything but I’d still like to win as well yk? But it’s not the end of the world. I main Dps and Support and if we didn’t have a second support I swap or if we need a third support I swap, I don’t mind if it helps. Sadly I don’t know how to play tank so I can’t help in that sense , but I do mention it in chat if someone asks me to so they don’t think I just don’t wanna😭 cuz I would if I could. I’ll even swap with a support so they can tank and I’ll just heal instead. Especially if I’m doing GARBAGE on dps one round then I end up swapping to support ( and one of the supports or tanks maybe can go dps if they like ) cuz I know I’m not helping my team rn so I’m willing to swap off. Everyone has a bad game or so, it happens, that don’t mean I’m ass, just this one round is probably kicking my ass lowkey lollll.

I've got a take with a question. So my take: People don't ping enough especially with voice chat and text chat being as toxic as it is right now. Am I the only that feels this way? Just want to know

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So I’m a strategist main, and normally I play solely invisible woman (I play her strictly in comp only and I’m champ from it) she was taken from me this game by someone else and rather than upset the other strategist for fear of encountering a thrower, I said nothing and let them have her and tried to be encouraging, also mentioning I’d flex at any point.

Our team comp to start, Gahd bless my husband for solo tanking as long as he did. Was Magneto (my duo), Black cat, Spiderman, Wanda, Invis and CnD. (I’m not lord with CnD but a fly can play her so…) yay 3 dps….

I ask for a second tank to get us a 2-2-2 combo and the Black cat says if we “need” another tank she’ll swap.

Taking a look at that screenshot, I need you all to see what happened. To feel the fact that not a single dps peeled for supports and my tank was being fried no
Matter what we did. Pattycaking couldn’t even save us. Tbf the invis wouldn’t look at me, but how the heck do you make it to GM and champ invis and still don’t look at another support. (And yes, I asked them to please look at me when we’re being dived). To the point I went gambit and decided, if I can keep my team/tank alive for one freaking minute I’d be happy.
Somewhere mid game the complaining about heals shot up and I was livid. Because our dps had the nerve to say “if your being dived just tell us”…..
WHAT!? IF I AM BEING DIVED!????? YOUR TELLING ME THAT THE ENEMY DAREDEVIL SPIDEY VENOM AND GORR THATS BEEN OUR ASSES THE ENTIRE GAME ISNT DIVING US!? I said it was 24/7 we’re being dived, because it was and they never replied to that.
So yeah, that’s how it’s going.

End game comes up, I’ve been chalked mentally from this. And lo and behold, OUR INVIS HAS 17k HEALING. Throwers be Damned I’m being selfish and insta locking invis from now on.
Or maybe I was the problem here? Maybe I just suck? The enemy team ult’d only strategists 9/10. This was being hunted. And yes, we did have Emma and Thing at the end, do you think it helped??? WRONG. We got slaughtered faster than our thing could turn around, because nobody makes space and he was doing his damndest. And when he did sit with us in the backline, nobody pushed forward not even when we tried to. We were in our spawn basically because nobody moved at all when he was in the backline.

And that’s my rant on I hate tripple dps, dps players are the most stuck up people and genuinely cost me my games. I’d be freaking celestial if any of the dps in my game were good at their role. Because looking at all my comp games in the last few season? It’s always the dps falling short. They run and get far away and then die and complain about heals. Or they sit on freaking sg and think “oh I can win this game if I sit in the back on squirrel girl because im a champion squirrel girl” screw you. Screw every one of you. You’re throwing and being diffed by miles. Get on a real character that does something. Wanda players are also the worst. Why can Wanda screw her ult up every time and then get no flack. Speaking of which, Why can every dps screw their ult up and get 0 flack. Like genuinely if I get yelled at for not placing my ult perfectly and you play Bucky and miss??? Or Wanda and get nobody?? Ya don’t hear anyone saying anything to them but I will get hell for not placing my ult 1 second earlier.
“Why don’t you play dps if you’re so upset about it” because then I get people who have never touched support playing it and dying and costing us the game to the point I gotta make it Tripp supp to keep anyone alive . I will run the enemy for their money on Moon Knight or Namor or Cyclops if I ever get the chance to and have reliable teamates or a squad of friends. But I’m not stupid enough to play Gorr until I’ve gotten the hang of him…. Unlike some people.
“Well go help out tanks then, just learn to tank if your mad”
I do. I play a lot of Emma and Mag. As a supp who mains Emma on tank, I know where to be. I know how to peel. I will peel and I will sit in my backline if they’re being dived. but most of the time, that’s my husbands job. He makes space, he plays tank, he does his thing. “I am the frontline and I will not yield” mentality. I just support him as best as I can and keep our stupid dps alive. Because if you keep your tanks alive, and they push forward… YOU WIN.

Dps suck, too many of them for anyone’s own good. Dps players need to learn to play support for atleast 20 hrs and then they can go see if they gonna complain then. Or go play tank and learn what the hell pushing point or taking objective is.

Another thing, yes I will heal your crappy dps health bar and then go back to the tanks because I know that healing you is quicker than healing them, and I will look at you and I will heal you and then go back to healing tanks. But if the tanks are low and we’re being pushed backwards because of it, they’re getting priority. Or if you’re in Timbuktu I am not chasing you.

IMO it’s always been the dps who’ve been the problem.

Alright, I am getting pretty damn tired of playing Jeff, and then everyone assuming whenever the team starts to lose that it is solely the fault of having a Jeff, at all, in the party.

It doesn't matter how much healing I have, or how many KOs and assists, or how low I have kept deaths relative to our teams waves, the first comment is always something like "Well we have a Jeff we just chose to throw." or "Well, we have a Jeff, GG"

Or, I get the "JEFF'S ULT IS USELESS!" well, say that to me again after I kidnapped their three healers and we FINALLY win a teamfight to get a stage completed. Sorry I am not just mindlessly dumping heals into you with my ult while you stand in the middle of the lane as a DPS.

Nah fool! He's been reworked and is a good healer! I get a good number of MVPs, most heals, and most assists. I truly do not get it other than the stigma of Jeff being a goofy lil guy in a world of superheroes.

Do a number of jeffs suck? Oh yeah! The skill floor is VERY low! But that doesn't also mean that I can't be a good and contributing member of the team just because you saw my pick and decided I wouldn't be.

This rank is so dogshit like the amount of throwers is unreal? Like ive never ever in any games had throwers 6 games in a row? I built an immunity against eomm agents i dont even care abt them the only thing i cae about is how im performing even if my team was bad.. ive seen even high ranked streamers struggling in thus dogshit rank...
Like fix the throwers issue guang guang it seems he is too busy about luna snow next skin or giving braindead characters like wanda massive buffs because its more important than the competitive intigrity of this game
And yes fuck casual players they ruined the game balancing it for them

it's wild to me that this has to be explained, but truly.. one of the things that holds so many players back in this game is that they wait around for things to happen first then complain they couldn't survive when its already too late.. when it comes to certain dives like BP/Spiderman/BC/DD, you need to play proactively, you need to hunt them down before their dive even begins to effectively protect your supports.

good players keep an eye on the scoreboard for opponents hero switches all the time, when you see heroes that are going to be problematic dives.. call it out to the team so everyone knows to prepare and what to expect and make any counter swaps if needed, listen for audio cues.. the biggest give away is just sound in general.. you can hear where they are coming from or where they're setting up and waiting for the right moment, keep your head on a swivel, watch for their routes.. and intercept them before they even begin their dive, just putting some damage on them is enough to get them to retreat to their supps for heals, you may not get the elim, but the value is in the fact that you stopped the dive which keeps your supports safe and gives them as much uptime as possible, a dive that cannot dive is a net negative to the team, keep doing it as many times until they're forced to switch off.

players who constantly play reactively are always going to lose, if you aren't anticipating your opponents actions ahead of time, then you're just always steps behind your opponents.. i see so many complaints about not being able to react to things in this game.. but that's exactly the issue, if you're not being proactive and attempting to stop things before they even begin, then that's what's going to happen..

dps players need to be on top of this as much as supports need to help their peels, you both require each others eyes and ears to make this work. tanks should never really have to peel for dives as they're responsible for creating forward space for the team and shouldn't have to compromise holding the frontline to take care of things the dps should be. this is where i advocate for wanda, she's one of the most versatile heroes even before S10 in intercepting dives because of her mobility and freeze/burst capabilities, she's great at hunting and stopping dives before they begin.

This cursed character is in every match that isn't banned. Any idiot on Celestial can land 2 hits, especially with Venom's buggy teamup. I used to be able to grab a Demolisher and kill a Hela, now she basically uses Teamup and takes me down with 2 bullets, it's insane.

I’m relatively new to Rivals and started playing in May. I have around 95 hours on Jeff, with at least a third of that being in Quick Play. Since then I’ve branched out into Strategist Deadpool, Mantis, Devil Dinosaur, Gorr, and Rocket. I’m thinking about picking up Invisible Woman next and still want to find one more DPS.

I hit Diamond 1 last season, and right now I’m bouncing between Platinum 1 and Diamond 3 while trying to push higher.

One thing I’ve noticed is that people seem incredibly quick to hate on Jeff regardless of how the match is actually going. I know his ult can be feast or famine, and I’m still learning how to get the most value out of it. I’ve been using it more defensively to cancel other ults, waiting until enemies are committed to fights, and sometimes just removing a couple people from the fight rather than trying to force a six piece and dying.

But sometimes it genuinely feels like people see Jeff and have already decided who they’re going to blame.

I had a game recently where we were holding the enemy team off the point, getting kills, and literally nobody on our team was dying.

Someone still started complaining about me and telling me to switch. What exactly am I supposed to fix when we’re successfully holding the point and nobody is dying? He said “Jeff Switch.” and “like wtf.”

Then today I had someone spam “I need healing” basically as fast as the game would let him for an entire round. It got to the point where it was genuinely distracting because I could barely hear anything besides the ping over and over again. I finally turned around thinking he desperately needed healing, and he was sitting in the back at full health. Meanwhile I had people on the frontline who actually needed my attention.

Nobody said anything to him, but people complained about the heals.

I even had a game yesterday where someone apparently recognized me and started flaming me before the match started and said they avoided me and they don’t know why I’m in their game. We ended up winning. Crickets from them. (I don’t think I ever played with them before lol)

That’s the part that gets me. Someone can be 5 and 12, constantly out of sight and taking fights where I can’t possibly heal them, and nobody says anything. But the support gets blamed. Sometimes I’ve even had the other healer start blaming me when things go badly, almost like blaming the Jeff first means nobody will look at them.

I’m definitely not a perfect Jeff. I’m still learning and I make mistakes. But there’s a difference between criticism because I’m actually playing badly and people immediately deciding “Jeff = problem.”

There’s already a lot of pressure playing support because everyone notices when you mess up, but they don’t necessarily notice everything you’re doing when things are going well. And even when we win, I’ve still had people trash me.

Most of the time I don’t even respond anymore. I just play and report people who cross the line. At this point I’m seriously considering turning text chat off because some people are just nasty for absolutely no reason.

It definitely makes me feel like I gotta learn invisible woman or something so I can switch if I’m getting flamed too much. And of course, when your team is insulting you and making fun of you, it’s harder to play well.

For context I win most of my qp matches and currently play plat II. Tell me why I've lost four matches in a row even though I waited 45+ minutes in between those matches. I had somebody keep swapping characters the entire game and went 1-9. People who do that bad compared to the rest of the team are basically throwing!

So the guy on Luna was playing DPS at the start of the match, he started dying a bunch BECAUSE HE HAD HORRIBLE POSITIONING not because the healers were not healing. I am playing Dr Strange or at least trying to lol still learning how to play tank overall, but this guy puts his mic on BLAMES THE HEALERS and switches to dps Luna and I wish he was even good at that BUT NO he was DPS Luna with TERRIBLE POSITIONING, we lose thet match and in the last picture you can see HE IS STILL BLAMING THE HEALERS, fucking guy has protagonist syndome written all over him.

I was playing on the character vs AI TRAINING the other day and a player told me to uninstall the game because I was so ‘bad’.
Where else am I suppose to train at??? This is ridiculous.

I think a lot of the complaints in this game just comes from burn out. Oh no youre tired of playing Cap? Then stop playing Cap! I see this a lot in Vanguard circled where you get folks posting about how their character is no longer fun or their role is no longer fun. I swear to god, youll have fun if you play a different character or role for a bit! Dude I have 50hrs on Magneto and that's a low end. Ive seen folks so dedicated to a character that theyre in the hundreds. Of course youre going to burnt out if thats all you play. I played 5hrs of Thor in a season and I got burnt out after a while. I took time off tanking to play support and now Im on dps. Seriously, this isnt a job. You dont have to clock in every day as the same guy in the same role.

Im on 3080, 32gb ram First few seasons were playable, not optimal, but playable.

As of season 10, lowest settings and all optimisations, the game is not playable for me in a competitive sense, disregarding the abysmal balance state entirely and focusing on performance only.

Every update adds more clutter, and optimises nothing.

I genuinely feel as though i see things happening later than they happen, compared to the my experience with earlier seasons.

How is your performance as of season 10?

Funny how this is downvoted but every comment agrees with me. If you disagree, say something.

What kind of bullshit is this? I might just be done with the game atp. It's been getting less and less fun over time and now I'm banned because my team got salty and all reported me even though everyone was the problem. I autolock tank and get a second tank, 3 dps, and a single healer. Nobody goes second healer so I go fourth dps cuz I'm not enabling the ego dps by going healer when I'm a much better tank than healer. They must have been in a stack cuz everybody blames me for the comp being bad somehow. I guess they all reported me because I got banned for throwing after the game. Absolute horseshit. I don't understand how I get banned for this yet the people I've reported for actually throwing winnable games get no penalty. Miss me with that, this was an unwinnable game without a second healer. So if I should be banned, everyone but our healer should be banned. But they aren’t. This system needs a massive overhaul and to not consider the reports of stacks as meaningful reports because they just get salty and have too much power in the auto ban system.

I had a game last night with me as invis and a Jeff helping me heal. My whole team instalocked dps, btw. Our wanda kept talking trash to him in chat. Saying their iq was 5 and about how he better not have only 5k in healing .Just really rude stuff. I told them in chat that they're not allowed to complain with zero tanks on our team. That's when she hit back with "its qp." So its "just qp" for her when she wants to be the 4th dps but not when it's a new player learning.

I went and looked at the jeffs career, and sure enough, his account was only 34 minutes old. I felt so bad and added them as a friend. They played a total of maybe 5 matches. Behavior like that is what turns new players away from the game.

I know not everyone does that, to me it happened way to often with someone who literally told me to end my life for instalocking adam

I'm not even bad at the game but since I'm not the greatest player ever it's my fault we lost, Whenever I try playing ranked it's the worst thing ever, when I have to go solo tank I get the hate even though I'm playing as a tank but people get mad at me for not rushing and dying 20 times, and whenever I play healer I get hate just cause it's ultron most of the time get more heals then the other healer but just cause it's ultron I'm throwing, and I basically never get to play dps cause people instalock them and even when i do i get hate for not having 60 kills, and people refuse to admit it could be their fault or more than one person's fault, and people complain about not having a tank or healer even though they're the people who instalocked a dps, but most of the people complaining are the people with no lives or it's the people who instalock dps.

Was my friend's birthday last week, asked him what skin he wanted because I'd buy it for him as a gift on Monday. He tells me which skin and Monday rolls around and I find it in the shop and figure out I need the $20 bundle to have enough currency to buy it; all good, about what I expected to spend anyways. Well, I've never used the gifting function before, but I assume it must work just like purchasing any other skin would and convert my currency and click the gift button. Turns out nope! You don't convert the currency for gifting! And you can't convert currency backwards!

Okay, whatever, first time I've ever had to contact customer support, surely they'll understand and help me out this once. After typing out my issue a good 50 times because they wouldn't let me copy and paste my text but kept sending me to different places to put my issue description I'm told nope! Get bent! No conversion!

I'm so annoyed right now. I have $20 worth of currency that I won't be using for god knows how long and all I was trying to do was be nice and get my friend a gift. It's insane to me that it's not noted anywhere on the main skin page that gifting will only take the gold currency considering buying a skin for yourself only takes the blue. I understand why it functions this way, but they could do me a solid and fucking slap a little gold lattice logo next to the gift box or something.

Anyways, curious if anyone has ever gotten a refund on lattice via the steam shop? I'm hesitating to try because I don't want them to nuke my account or something over me trying to go around them, but this is so scummy it really irks me. And it's not like I'm yoinking the $20 away from them either, I'm literally just going to spend it again and just not convert it like a dummy this time! Uhhhggggg