And the worst part is that most of these people aren't even particularly hard to beat! But it such a fucking chore to have every match play like this. Hopefully Riot talks about their thoughts on what they want the game to be in the next patch notes because I sure hope it's not this.

Chillin'

But, it definitely feels like the production is just as high quality as the first game so I'm happy that fans have a new game to enjoy, even if it's not for me.

I actually still like the game, despite the high difficulty because the gameplay loop is fun but honestly with them knowing how much of their player base are solo players I'm surprised they didn't pull just a bit more effort into solo tuning, even if the co-op play is obviously the focus for them.

Mostly enemy density I think could be lowered, lots of fights with respawning adds they could probably just remove for Solo play, then either tuning down Boss health OR just making the ring start to close slower during solo play would help a ton. The time crunch feels way worse when alone. (2/?)

...but I don't like a lot of the choices in it (TPS camera leading to just wallpeeking every single fight for instance.) That's all to say that I'm increasingly tired of the need for "gamers" to pit games against each other and just generate narratives, not that I should be surprised by now.

...that in all honesty feel like they should actually read as "Well I got invited to the ARC Raiders test and not Marathon so I'm gonna just make up a bunch of reasons why Marathon is DOA." I say this as someone who really wants to play Marathon and doesn't have a key, but ARC Raiders seems OK...