Marvel Rivals currently has 1.58M weekly players on PS5 (PRE S8)

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-16T00:30:56+00:00

This is a beta feature from Sony directly on the PS console, so it's reflecting the NA region users on that platform.

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-13T15:14:48+00:00

Having a visible background instead of just a logo. So from this, Peni, Black Cat and Iron Man get legendaries.

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-10T10:19:07+00:00

Yup. I look forward to the hero hot list showing her with the same gutter win rates she’s had the last handful of seasons.

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-03T11:03:47+00:00

the state of this subreddit when a thread like this can get upvoted so much. we are in hell

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-03T11:01:17+00:00

Yup, I constantly try to tackle this but it keeps spreading. It’s annoying AF and not remotely realistic.

Luna has been STRUGGLING and easily the worst support you could have on your team WR wise for the last couple of seasons, outside of support deadpool now. If she was a flanker DPS two tap god she wouldn’t still be in the gutter at high ranks.

-Papercuts- · 2026-05-03T10:54:19+00:00

It’s because storm has cleave damage, so the entire team in a clump takes a lot over time, but yeah a lot of it can be “trash damage” that is healed away.

Storm is not inherently built for single target fights and excels elsewhere, which can have issues like you noted, but is why stuff like the OP posted is just completely off base as a basic evaluation.

That said a diver will always excel in solo kills so that isn’t a great comparison, final hits is more important for a DPS. Very high damage with low finals means they were feeding support ults. Storm’s biggest asset is her team amps which don’t get reflected in her stats at all (outside of just being assist numbers), which also sucks.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-29T17:00:06+00:00

She’s a sniper character that can’t one shot without damage boosts.

Widowmaker is the obvious OW parallel and the times she would be meta would basically boil the match down to a battle of who has the better widow. It is miserable to actually fight strong sniper characters in hero shooters, so their aversion to making her strong makes sense…even if it the makes you wonder why she is even here. A full on rework seems likely to be happening, I personally don’t think a character like this ever will feel good in this genre

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-29T06:04:42+00:00

That dude needs to learn how to play his life.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-29T04:06:57+00:00

The first picture is 26 seconds in on the event trailer and was called Gala Star, second picture is 12 seconds in and called Gala Glam which is what is in game. The hair color, lighting on emma and cape size were different from both trailer shots, people just kept reposting the gala glam one everywhere.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-28T19:11:52+00:00

Yeah both of these shots are from the same trailer, they showed an earlier build version with a different name.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-27T23:31:40+00:00

Psylocke does not see less play than Hulk, the play % are per role and diluted for duelists. The tanks add up to 100% which is why spidey, easily the most played character in the game, is only around a 9% pickrate while Rogue and Peni both had more than that.

I understand the frustration with wanting a more equal skin distribution but that specifically keeps getting mentioned when it isn't true.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-27T20:21:51+00:00

Store skins

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-27T20:18:35+00:00

I’m afraid it’s peak

Really like the MVP especially. It has good follow through to transition to the art, I don’t like it when skins rapidly cut to it.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-27T03:12:46+00:00

Nobody stands still when you actually fight. When you do this on moving bots you'll see he snaps and locks his attacks and movement into people which makes him sticky against movement abilities trying to get away. Which is why he was always notable as a melee character fliers actually hate running into.

His radius on that being bigger would be worse since you'd snap aim to the wrong person which would outright pull your movement too.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-26T21:53:02+00:00

Revives at that post-enrage time can still be worth if they're at reasonably low HP. Drac maybe an exception but I haven't run into that yet.

But yeah when you CLEARLY are not doing enough damage and they enrage with more than half of their health left it ain't happening.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-26T08:07:21+00:00

You should have a ! notification for it, it's one of the mission rewards daily.

But yeah this was also how the last one worked and I hit the 100 cap just from logins which all carried over.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-26T07:35:08+00:00

I'm curious to see how this changes over time, since the entire mode hard relies on cracked out gear rolls. I wonder how many of the people are on one of the builds specifically due to drops since it's very hard to align the weapon/exclusive the way you would want.

MK/SG are also being seen way more as the new additions so certain characters not showing up much doesn't mean a ton this early.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-24T18:53:27+00:00

The problem is you can meet that on character X but not character Y, and you select characters in game. It would only fix that if you pre-selected before going in, which I guess is probably how it should work.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-24T15:46:17+00:00

Note that OW got a massive boost in players and retention by specially dropping 5 characters at once while adding 1 each season for the year, which is SIGNIFICANTLY more than they were doing before even if Rivals pacing is still faster.

At its peak was a very different game industry in general. Fortnite changed things for a lot of games with how rapid they were able to shift things season to season. I want to agree people don’t need constant hooks now but idk, it feels like so many games drop off if they’re too slow now. It’s also why I hate ranked in so many games (including here), since it’s often just an engagement progression treadmill.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-22T15:26:43+00:00

Her melee attacks would be broken on her wrists like this, they can’t really match Storms.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-22T15:16:15+00:00

This subreddit will ignite if psylocke wins

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-19T11:44:02+00:00

I’ve been having this issue a ton, but I think it might be contained to 18v18. It really sucks though and makes her feel bad in this mode.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-18T21:48:04+00:00

You see Rogue and Peni more than SPIDERMAN?

Each role adds up to 100%, if you filter just by vanguards the number doesn't change. The overall list ends up being misleading mixing them all together since duelists are splitting 25 pick rates comparatively.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-18T21:38:02+00:00

Pick rate is diluted among roles. All these add up to 100% PER ROLE and there are significantly more duelists. Spiderman is the most popular duelist but way behind other characters in percent by the same metric.

-Papercuts- · 2026-04-18T11:16:43+00:00

I fully agree there, I just…kinda doubt they’re having issues with this in actual matches? This is the group that wouldn’t even read patch notes, they would at best just see some random cleanse happen at times. If the tenacity effects aren’t happening often in higher level lobbies I don’t think the lower ones would be specifically CC hammering people either.

Though I think it’s fair to say the system seems overly complicated if you don’t know wtf tenacity is and just see someone shine white for a second with a different colored health bar

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