Warner Bros Multiversus - Another Fucking Smash Clone

[Gender: Xenomorph]

The PvE is such bullshit.

Been trying to beat the boss on highest difficulty; you simply cannot deal enough damage in the given time to tick his health down. You have to PAY now.

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

The PvE is such bullshit.

Been trying to beat the boss on highest difficulty; you simply cannot deal enough damage in the given time to tick his health down. You have to PAY now.

it definitely sucks, but you don't have to pay. just go to the official discord and you'll find someone to help you in a couple minutes if you ask in lfg-casual.
i would have helped you myself had this been a different site

 

[Level99Manchild]

They released a new video teasing season 3 with the powerpuff girls and some character I don't know. The video is a cringe inducing 90's commercial.

That was nothing like a 90s commercial. This was more of a woke hipster's take on the 90s, and to no one's surprise said woke hipster failed miserably.

The comments are saying it's Nubia, a DC character that is essentially a nigger Wonder Woman.

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DEI hire character lmao

I can see it. I'd rather have Pearl as generic spear character n#2, but whatever.

I'm surprised they didn't add Mindy Kaling's Velma to MVS's roster yet (more surprised there's still nobody one from Mortal Kombat or lolAew). Does Nubia even have fans (like real fans, not woke retards)?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

NEW FIGHTER! We have the entire cast of Mortal Kombat, Adult Swim, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla Universe...

Spoiler: Who do they pick?

Nubia (YASS KWEEN SLAAY)

 

[Metamorpho]

NEW FIGHTER! We have the entire cast of Mortal Kombat, Adult Swim, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla Universe...

Spoiler: Who do they pick?

Nubia (YASS KWEEN SLAAY)

Like/dislike ratio of the video as of me typing this:

 

[SmallKiwi]

NEW FIGHTER! We have the entire cast of Mortal Kombat, Adult Swim, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla Universe...

Spoiler: Who do they pick?

Nubia (YASS KWEEN SLAAY)

I mean, are you surprised? This was discussed last month...
But yeah it sucks.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

New skins look pretty decent:

Of course you if you want the top skins you gotta grind. 4000 pumpkin coins for 1 candy, 6 candies for top skin. 100 coins awarded for events, and about 8000? from seasonal quests. You only have 14 days, tick tock!

Why yes, they did make Harley's legs thicc in this one:

Finn


Finn's kit has been adjusted to focus more on being the anti zoner assassin, while changing the properties of Aerial Up Special to help reduce the strong effectiveness of the very early KO combos.

General

• + Ground movement speed increased to 2250 from 2025

Ground Dash Attack

• + First hit now more consistently combos into second hit

Ground Side Attack 1

• ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds

Ground Neutral Attack

• ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds

Ground Up Attack

~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Uncharged knockback scaling reduced to 15 from 20.5
+ Knockback charge multiplier increased to 1.25 from 1.0
Ground Down Attack

• + First hit now more consistently combos into second hit
• + Movement increased
• ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds

Air Neutral Attack

• - Knockback reduced to 2450 from 2650

Air Side Attack 1

• + Now more consistently combos into Air Side Attack 2

Ground Side Special

• + On-hit cancel window advanced 10 frames

Air/Ground Neutral Special

• ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds

Air/Ground Up Special

• ~ Attack properties have been updated to a single-hit knockback away from Finn from a multi-hit vacuum
• - Knockback influence multiplier increased to 1.2 from 1.0
• ~ No longer launches Finn forwards

It's over finbros

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Next season will bring in the coomers as its goth girl season:

Not a fan of Raven's design as without the hood she looks off.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Not a fan of Raven's design as without the hood she looks off.

That's because she looks like generic current year + woman.

If they would have kept her O.G. Teen Titans look, then it would have been fine.

 

[Product Placement]

Can they add someone not from a comic or cartoon, like Simon Phoenix

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Starfire is bae but I'm sure we will get a hood on variant like in the 2nd image. At least it's not another shoehorned in no-name character, like Black Adam or Nubia.

 

[SmallKiwi]

It's annoying they have stages that still don't have it's respective characters (ex. Dexter's Laboratory, Water Tower). The way they manage this game is so disorganized.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

That's because she looks like generic current year + woman.

It seems like they are trying to do a hybrid of Rebirth and 03 Raven, while completely shitting the bed on why both designs are great.

Really, they could have just done Rebirth and been fine seeing as DC characters are more comic then animation:

Something about the face and hair throws it off. She looks fine with the hood however.

Edit: It is actually the DCAMU version now looking. Still looks incredibly off though...

Can they add someone not from a comic or cartoon, like Simon Phoenix

Pretty sure their entire base is CN/DC fans, so they need to placate them as they don't care for outside characters.

It's annoying they have stages that still don't have it's respective characters (ex. Dexter's Laboratory, Water Tower). The way they manage this game is so disorganized.

Marceline should have been held off as AT now has 4 characters for a fairly small roster. Dexter should have taken precedence by this point or really any other new CN IP character for better diversity. Hell, if they wanted the Goth Girl season, they could have picked Mandy and reference that one CN bumper of her and Raven on the train.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

It's annoying they have stages that still don't have it's respective characters (ex. Dexter's Laboratory, Water Tower). The way they manage this game is so disorganized.

Feels like the devs be like "we have Dexter full moveset" and the higher-up designer is like "Nubia! Uhh... With a spear! Make it happen! Dex-who? We need more DEI and popular series tie-ins..."
Really the whole game seems like a tug of war between devs who know what they're doing and uptight busybody types.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

The game doesn't have much longer:

Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business​

Free-to-play Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus has significantly underperformed, publisher Warner Bros. Discovery has admitted, contributing to a further $100 million writedown for the company’s games business in 2024.

Warner Bros. Games acquired MultiVersus developer Player First Games in July just two months after the game relaunched on PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S following early access and open beta releases throughout 2022 and 2023.

"Our team is excited to join the Warner Bros. Games family, and we feel that this will be great for MultiVersus overall,” Huynh said at the time. “We are working to make the MultiVersus game experience the best it can be and having our development team integrated with the publisher is optimum for the players."

However, speaking in a recent financial call, Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav and Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said MultiVersus' failure had added another $100 million to the $200 million writedown the company's games business had already suffered earlier this year.

Warner Bros. Games' only new game release during the third quarter of 2024 was Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, which failed to make an impression.

"... we recognise [the games business] is substantially underperforming its potential right now," Zaslav said.

Wiedenfels added more detail: "We took another $100 million plus impairment due to the underperforming releases, primarily MultiVersus this quarter, bringing total writedown year-to-date to over $300 million in our games business, a key factor in this year’s studio profit decline."

According to SteamDB, at the time of this article’s publication MultiVersus had just 686 concurrent players, with a 24-hour peak of 1,741 concurrent players. MultiVersus’ all-time peak of 153,433 concurrent players was set over two years ago, before the game was pulled offline and overhauled. Microsoft and Sony do not make player numbers public.

What this all means for MultiVersus remains to be seen, but earlier this year, after Warner Bros. admitted the failure of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League contributed to a $200 million hit to revenue, post-launch plans were reportedly scaled back, and layoffs were reported. Season 4 launches on November 12 and ends January 21, 2025.

Warner Bros. Games revenue declined 31% during the most recent financial quarter (July to September), primarily driven by the better performance of the prior year slate, mainly Mortal Kombat 1, compared to the current year slate, Warner Bros. said.

Looking to the current quarter (October to December), Warner Bros. expects games to be flat to moderately better year-on-year, as last year’s launch of Hogwarts Legacy on Switch in November will be offset by lower costs.

During the same financial call, Warner Bros. said it’s now doubling down on four games: Hogwarts Legacy (a sequel is already in the works), Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, "in particular Batman," Zaslav said. Warner Bros. recently published VR game Batman: Arkham Shadow exclusively on the Meta Quest 3, and has a Wonder Woman game in the works at Monolith Productions.

"We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio," Zaslav added.

Feels like the devs be like "we have Dexter full moveset" and the higher-up designer is like "Nubia! Uhh... With a spear! Make it happen! Dex-who? We need more DEI and popular series tie-ins..."
Really the whole game seems like a tug of war between devs who know what they're doing and uptight busybody types.

I'm not sure. I think the devs in general made some baffling decisions with the whole relaunch. Warner only fueled the collapse further.

Nubia seems like an asset reuse of WW to quickly shit out a character. In general, a Dexter & PPG season would have made a ton of sense, but instead we got Nubia. Hell, I am surprised the fall season didn't have Raven/Marceline instead of them.

 

[LucasSomething]

It's a shame the game will probably die soon, i pretty much only do dailies real quick and play a bit on weekends, mostly because i started playing Smith and i find him sooooo fun to play and shoot people. He's like the only character with no whiff lag and they'll probably nerf him next patch.

The game just fumbled the relaunch on the worst ways ever. I think it's

1-Servers were laggy af and unplayable a lot of the time
2-Can't traun locked characters
3-Battle pass giving 10 xp lol
4-Rifts were extremely grindy (they're much faster now)
5-Events were painfully grindy too.
6-Zoomed camera that made shit unplayable
7-Awful balance (wtf was release bugs and iron giant)

Like, this season gave a lot of cool free skins (halloween, batman, dia de los mortos) and i managed to solo max star the new rifts without coop pretty easily. But in the end it was too little too late, i still see the game on reddit having a terrible reputation as if it was never improved. If Raven+Marceline can't save the game nothing will.

 

[SmallKiwi]

The game doesn't have much longer:

Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business​

Guys, don't worry. They will just announce that the game's relaunch was a beta all along and then we will wait until a 2026 relaunch with a new and improved Unreal Engine 6.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Sigh, another live service game that got killed because it didn't make all the money in the entire fucking world.

Smash Bros is a 30yo franchise with a lot of time to build a fanbase and a roster of 80 characters. Your shitty clone with 10 characters and shitty servers will get nowhere near that, but business people will never, understand you can't just release "Smash brod, but WB" and instantly get their audience...

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

ARENA MODE IS HERE!

It's okay I guess; 10 quick matches as 2v2 with unique roguelike modifiers (anything from +% damage, to deal damage while you dash, leave fires when you jump, etc) the systems are kinda fun and work well with the game, who seems to have been built around these items/mods. So it's a fun mode I guess. Completely dominated by duos and those tryhard buttonmashers. Certain heroes are better than the others, and not having team damage makes the matches so chaotic and one-sided. Lategame it's fun to see super beefed up characters throw abilities at eachother and everyone being super OP, but most of the early matches are filled with people that leave and get replaced by bots. Seems like this mode is gonna die fast since the teams are very imbalanced and one team clearly dominates, while the bottom ones struggle against bots.

I guess there was some backlash with Raven (she was premium only, not included in the Battlepass, unlike other Battlepass release heroes which were free on release), gave her for free (6000 currency to everyone). I don't know what that's about but seems kinda sussy. The battlepass is kinda lackluster too; like, the game is at the end of its runtime, close to life support if Arena doesn't bring in the players.

 

[LucasSomething]

ARENA MODE IS HERE!

It's okay I guess; 10 quick matches as 2v2 with unique roguelike modifiers (anything from +% damage, to deal damage while you dash, leave fires when you jump, etc) the systems are kinda fun and work well with the game, who seems to have been built around these items/mods. So it's a fun mode I guess. Completely dominated by duos and those tryhard buttonmashers. Certain heroes are better than the others, and not having team damage makes the matches so chaotic and one-sided. Lategame it's fun to see super beefed up characters throw abilities at eachother and everyone being super OP, but most of the early matches are filled with people that leave and get replaced by bots. Seems like this mode is gonna die fast since the teams are very imbalanced and one team clearly dominates, while the bottom ones struggle against bots.

I guess there was some backlash with Raven (she was premium only, not included in the Battlepass, unlike other Battlepass release heroes which were free on release), gave her for free + 6000 currency to everyone. I don't know what that's about but seems kinda sussy. The battlepass is kinda lackluster too; like, the game is at the end of its runtime, close to life support if Arena doesn't bring in the players.

Arena is fun if you're winning close matches but if your teamate sucks or there is a tryhard pro duo it's the worst thing ever cause the loss is inevitable so half the players just quit after the 1-2 losses. Tryhards might also get frustrated with the sheer rng, especially if they can't pick their main at the starting selection.

It's also kinda long as fuck. I did 3 runs that went through 14 matches. Getting first place gives 700 prestige which is actually worth it but it burns me out fast. This mode should be a weekend only mode or 1 week event but not a permanent mode.

I didn't get raven for free so i have to grind the whole thing for her. The new system is kinda awful too and very clearly designed to sell characters for money since you can't bank character currency and unlock them as soon as it's avaiable, you gotta grind from zero.

But this has the unintentional effect of making the battle pass a lot less valuable now, especially this mid as fuck one. I bought it pretty much for the Jason emote i guess cause it's not worth 800 gleamium. Lets see if this actually helps the game or not lol.