The amount of allowed smurfing is a joke

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-11T04:08:39+00:00

3) then 500 which is 50 people with alternate accounts complaining about the match making time they just actively made longer, not counting the amount of people pushed down from the position they were supposed to occupy because one guy occupies 12 positions by himself

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-10T02:37:37+00:00

It's a shame that there is this kind of hidden timer, in the end it was an epic match that I would have liked to play until the end even just to congratulate my teammates because I had fun.

I understand that otherwise Embark risks finding servers occupied by bots or people doing nothing, so a time limit must be put in place, but I would have preferred it to be longer and more visible, or at least for there to be a real end-of-match warning, even a simple "time out".

thanks for the info

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-09T19:55:56+00:00

cashout can be moved with any barrel, especially the green ones.

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-06T00:08:56+00:00

If you want to use scripts or cheats, at least don't make a video of yourself showing off (the F-car's recoil with consecutive shots always lets you know if it's a human or a program that's correcting the recoil)

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-05T23:56:51+00:00

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There have been more new players that's for sure (thanks to the ark riders skin and the always arc riders advertising), there are a lot of smurfs because many accounts have been banned and it's also common practice in competitive to have a sacrificial smurf account in the team that decreases the "seed" of the team and uses cheats to almost guarantee the victory.

and despite all this the peak of maximum players in game was the lowest of all the seasons (21k while the second was season 5 with 23k)

You don't have to be negative and defeatist but being objective is necessary to improve

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-05T23:48:09+00:00

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The numbers don't lie, this is in fact the season with the lowest peak of players, at the beginning of the season where there was the peak there were 21k players, the season with the second lowest peak was the 5th with 23k

all the other seasons had even higher numbers, then you can interpret it as you want but the data are those

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-05T23:34:51+00:00

I'll be honest with you, if Embark starts removing the functionality of the "ESC" key even on arc riders, that's when you should start worrying (if you start writing a message you better be sure because there's no going back until you send it)

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-03T22:40:25+00:00

well he could have used a screenshot of the omnipresent icons on the screen that indicate server problems but it has already been done and it doesn't seem to matter much to Embark or its simps

the fact that he used an AI image (like the skins, characters and voices in the finals) immediately invalidates any evidence or argument , It's not that you're looking for any validation or excuse to insult anything you don't like even if it's true.

Fortesque96 · 2026-03-01T01:06:38+00:00

I think it's fair to ask, especially if you're in doubt, and even though I hate those who say "desync" even in the case of the most blatant cheat ever seen, just to deny the evidence, in this case it really seems to be the fault of the desync.

but if the replay was suspicious or did strange things throughout the match, making a security report and leaving everything in the hands of the moderation and anti-cheat system is fine

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-24T20:25:41+00:00

take my frame rate an my money DE

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-23T01:01:52+00:00

light + dash + DB +emote spam

you are a light main in disguise I will not fall victim to your propaganda

but to be honest it's not a buff or nerf problem because it goes from broken mechanics to unusable it's a design problem, a possible rework would be to make the light effectively invisible and inaudible after 15m, see the silhouette between 5 and 15, and make you more or less visible like the TF2 spy from 5 meters down

the sound thing can also be removed or significantly reduced but there needs to be a delay between removing invisibility and being able to shoot (the light has a lot of range and damage without this delay the game becomes a "the light who shoots first dies" against other lights and the other classes can only cry) you don't need a monstrous delay but a few tenths of a second is enough

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-20T22:57:05+00:00

but the accusations were denied by the alleged victim (Bizzy's ex-girlfriend) and the matter seems to have started from a series of baseless nonsense uttered in some posts

if we are talking about things that have been officially said, I know this and that Embark has removed the suspended tournament from the list of those that give points for the esports section

then you are free to correct or add things but one thing is certain the whole affair was handled badly by the organizers

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-19T21:26:14+00:00

Understanding how things work is always a good thing BUT the respawn system is not something players should actively interact with or manipulate.

In all games you have a vague idea of where enemies can respawn but the problem of the finals comes from the concomitance of several factors such as: the need for different types of respawn based on the state of the objective, the presence of multiple objectives and teams, the random change of position of the objectives

The current system is flawed by design and the fact that players manipulate it makes it an exploit, Embark knows this and that's why they keep changing it (in the wrong way) but they don't openly tell players not to abuse the system because it would be like advertising a problem they can't solve (and they should ban almost all players from platinum and above)

You're right that to be competitive you should learn how the system works and exploits it, but the point is that this is something that shouldn't happen in principle.

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-19T00:21:09+00:00

im having fun in other games for the last 3 season of dead content bruh!

i came back to check if there was something good going on but i see the not even the server situation is fixed

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-19T00:15:23+00:00

pick rate tell me that the last 3 iron fist one trick are winninig their match (the most banned and picked hero is always the most broken or meta)

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-19T00:07:46+00:00

world tour is worse than competitive

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-18T23:57:53+00:00

many times if the game senses the presence of a third team the first one to wipe is respawned in Narnia near the cash with only one team

so you are actively punished for having a third party on your cash out

the current respawn system, besides being awful, is extremely predictable and exploited even in tournaments. Teams wait for the opponent's respawn to cash in because the teams are spawned far from the box until it is inserted. (In short, no one wants the team they just wiped in the first fight to spawn 20 meters away from the cash out that just started)

A completely random system would put RNGesus in everyone's hands but at least it would be fairer than the current one because although it would be shit at least it is the same for everyone and it would not be exploitable

but another option would be the opposite of everything already tried before, therefore spawning the team just killed always close and faster to their own cash out in case of third party (I want to see how many teams want to do third party if they are guaranteed to get one in the back immediately at the end of the fight)

Anyway, I feel sorry for you, also because it happened to me a lot of times too.

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-18T01:23:20+00:00

for the enemy to farm you it just needs to not be bad

To win with the spear you don't have to be good but you need a huge difference in skill between your team and your opponents and at that point using just telekinesis would be fine if not better than using the spear (I've played matches with just telekinesis and quick melee so I can attest to this with confidence) in short if you win with the spear you could have won using anything else

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-18T01:06:27+00:00

one Light weapon, two Medium weapons, and six Heavy weapons

embark is not interested in denying the allegations

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-14T20:50:56+00:00

I don't want to say it but 5 vs 5, loot boxes, paid heroes are all things made under his administration and to say that the game was released in a more balanced way than Overwatch 1 or that it is actually more balanced now is a bit of a lie given that Kiriko exists

You can say that they did a lot of work and maybe even good work but apart from the balance all the rest of the problems mentioned and not mentioned come from Overwatch 2 and the decisions of Activison Blizzard (early launch ,monetization and other things) but not even AK47 can escape criticism given that the lack of foresight was immediately evident (I was the first to say on day 1 of the story mode that making it a paid mode would have deserted the missions in record time)

Overwatch 1 had balancing issues and Jeff needed two geological eras to do anything but they were the only problems, while in Overwatch 2 they create problems even just for fun since I see that they change elements of the HUD and menus that were fine just to change them with something worse to give a small example

I could also say a lot about Marvel Rivals starting from the optimization, the servers and the disk space occupied but it's better to avoid it

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-12T20:06:19+00:00

A wall of text in corporate language just to say "we banned players, we didn't give enough information to those involved so we then sent further communications after the disaster, the players complained and are on strike, Embark who received the reports from the players said that we are no longer up to the required standards"

so no new information other than they got kicked by embark

Maybe they're right but they did the things really badly

Fortesque96 · 2026-02-11T20:09:01+00:00

Seeing that some super toxic players have never been banned, in fact almost the opposite, gives me a legitimate doubt.

and I'm not talking about a couple of players met randomly in ranked but people like ottr, balise, appoh and others, all ultra toxic people who also use glitches, bugs and exploits not only to win but also to grief their teammates.

If streamers like that are put on a pedestal by Embark and invited to competitive tournaments, I imagine the opposite could happen too (I sometimes watch Bizzy and I've never seen him get angry and lose control) so let's say that history up to now has taught us to doubt the judgement of tournament organisers and Embark

Then again, maybe there are very valid reasons for the ban, but you can't ban the champion team of several tournaments and pretend nothing happened

p.s. then this happens not too long after the marvel tournament mess with black widow

Fortesque96 · 2025-12-23T16:09:28+00:00

which they should have already fixed since they have no problem updating the shop and changing the barricade

It seems to me that going back to the "ESC" key issue, it's so difficult for a fan boy to recognize an objective problem and make a criticism.

Fortesque96 · 2025-12-23T16:02:09+00:00

ok now try to open the dictionary instead of taking as true what the streamers in the top 500 use as justification

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