Hey everyone! I just wanted to give an update on how the game is going. The developers have (re)added the ability to try all the characters in training mode. Which is a step in the right direction for the game. Although having all the characters in Local play isn't on the table yet. They have also added the ability to passively gain Battlepass Xp after every game, which I didn't know wasn't already a thing, but is also another step in the right direction, hopefully lessens the grind a bit. I hope the developers will keep working to make this game better. But I do fear that by the time they do, it'll be too late. The peak daily player count on steam is still going down by the day and I hope it stabilizes soon because some people do really like this game. But in the end a dead game benefits no one.

And people thought smash $5 per characters was a lot but with smash you get a character, a stage, and music or tripple the price you get one character in multiversus

the game would be good without the overwhelming stench of corporate greed.

Such a shame what this game has become. It's like a greedy businessman stuck their dirty fingers into a once beautiful, lovingly crafted pie.

These "Smash Killers" usually have a reputation for dying quickly, so I'm not really surprised.

Someone on Reddit did the math on this. If you wanted to use the fighter currency you get from character progression to unlock a character, you’d have to max out SIX characters just to unlock ONE

As someone who works at a public highschool, kids do NOT watch Looney Tunes anymore. Most can't name a single character apart from Bugs Bunny.

Multiversus has f2p mobile cash shop systems but they didn't add any free daily stuff you can claim in the store which most mobile games give you.

I enjoy playing the game a lot but the fact that you don't get battle pass xp from just playing the game it outrageous

Warner Bros has desperately wanted a successful live service game for so long and I feel like they just don't get it. MK1 got huge backlash and the hype for that game is basically gone at this point, Kill the Justice League has zero players in it, and now Multiversus is probably going to flop too. It's like a good game is about to be made and WB Games has to stick their grubby hand into it to screw it all up just to suck a few more dollars out of its player base

The best thing about multiversus is that it got me to watch iron giant which is now my favorite movie

Leave it to Warner Bros to fuck up something that was foolproof and already had a built-in audience. It's Zack Snyder's DCEU, all over again.

You said my thoughts exactly. I REALLY wanna love this game, it's a platform fighter where the characters are designed and treated on a level equivalent to Smash with so much heart and care put into them, but all these issues drag it down so much to the point that it saddens me deeply. And as of right now I only play to complete missions so I can unlock some of the content you gain from it before logging off again. I don't feel incentivized to keep playing afterward as I do with Smash, or Fraymakers, or any other platform fighter which is a first for me because I love platform fighters. It makes me wish Multiversus was a full paid-for experience rather than a free-to-play live service game.

and then there are also sadly the idiots who dismiss all these criticism and claiming "oh people just want to unlock everything day 1, they just have no patience". also let me just tell ya something, you cash cows, there is a difference between "wanting to give money to support a game" and "having to give money to be able to play a game". Not to mention that a lot of people also have other interests than just playing one single game for a long time and throwing all their money on that alone

what you said is very true, the game does not feel like a game worth playing, as a new player with about 15 hours in the game,l love learning the new combos and mechanics,but I feel as though there is literally nothing to do besides grind the rifts and try to unlock new characters.The game feels very nice and smooth,but the paywall and time you need to invest into the game is insane.Someone did the math and said it takes 938 hours to fully unlock all characters as a f2p.Also the rifts are BS,the gem levels take way too long to get up and the skill gap between new players and people who grind out fighting games and the beta just dominate,basically giving no time for improvement for new players unless they practice unrealistic scenarios with AI or play rifts to practice combos.

WB own Lebron James? I thought you can't do that anymore

MVS deleted all your gold coins from the Beta. Coins you saved to unlock new characters that would come later or anything else coins could get you. This is the biggest scandal of all.

Multiversus is a tragic game to me because it does SO much right. You can tell the devs really love working on it and it has so much gameplay creativity. It has some of the most inspired and unique movesets I have EVER seen in a fighting game. But it is bogged down a lot by shitty decisions made by the suits who ultimately control it.

To sum up this game in one update the grind for character levels has gotten so horribly bad that it’s almost incomparable. The only comparison I have is I had an easier time getting Shaggy and Harley to level 6 than I did getting Velma and the Joker to level 4 and 2 by a significant margin

I brought Iron Giant and now he’s completely gone from the game I was so pissed

1. Give players BP xp and fighter currency for Just Playing the game. Each mission provies around 300 - 750 xp. Give players 10-25 of each per match. 2. Allow players to test out characters and skins in the training mode. (Personally i believe they didn't do this because of how the layout is. It seems to be the exact same as the store, but they could easily have an option even from the store that's "try character") 3. Nerf Taz. No reason needed. (I appreciate your honesty at the beginning lol) 4. Stop making events such a grind fest. The Power Pledge drive was only open for 3 Days. 31st it started, it wasn't retroactive, and it ended on the 3rd of June. It wasn't available on the 4th. 5. ADD A REMAINING TIMER ON EVENTS AND OTHER THINGS SO WE KNOW WHEN WE'RE GETTING SCREWED.

i will never forget how they threated the modding community like if they where some kind of criminals

Gotta leave a comment about your thoughts on the missed party potential. I believe most platform fighters, especially the crossover types, should be fun to play with others in a single room. In the beta, I don’t think characters were as unfair to unlock, but bots just weren’t a thing in Local Play. If you wanted to play 2v2 or Free-for-All (the latter of which strangely hasn’t returned), then you were out of luck unless you had four players. While it was nice of the devs to let us keep access to Local Play after the beta shut down, the lack of bots problem still persisted. Now, here we are with the relaunch. I played the beta to the point of unlocking every character that was released in it, so I already had them all back at relaunch. When my brother and I checked Local and found out they had added bots, we were ecstatic because we could finally play 2v2 together! This was exciting to me for a while, until I learned about the bullshit that new players have to go through to unlock characters, as you and many others have stated. That’s already a massive problem on its own, but combine this with the facts that locked characters aren’t available in local play when THEY FINALLY FIXED THE MODE BY ADDING BOTS….It’s not consumer friendly, to say the least. I want tons of people to enjoy this game, and new players should not be punished just because they didn’t play the beta.

Multiverses does NOT respect your time

Multiversus is practically doomed to die again at somepoint unless they remove all the Grindy microtransactions. If the game is focused around Teens,what kid is going to pay five bucks or grind just to get Marvin the Martian with no knowledge of his moveset? And what the hell is with the like five currencies? Are they trying to confuse people and offer no refunds for mistaken purchases?

Rifts wouldn't be that bad if the game didn't require you to complete them a billion times to finish Agent Smith event and then 500 million times more to unlock the rest of the rewards. If you calculate how much you need to play vs bots that are either complete doo doo boring or so unfair they will infinite you unless you find a cheese strategy for them... it's kind of ridiculous. Even if you have A LOT of time to do all of that. This is a fighting game so obviously it should push you more towards the ACTUAL game modes - 1v1 and 2v2. But it looks like the rewards you can unlock are 50/50 or actually even more rewards are given from rifts which is supposed to be a side activity. Also one very bad thing is you get BP exp from dailies and events but you don't get anything other than character exp for playing games. If you join late or you had too much school/work or you couldn't play because the servers are sausage water right now, you can't spend more time to grind BP, you are timelocked. And the only reason to play PvP is "because it's fun". I was looking forward to support this game but right now - when it's playable like for 20% of the time and characters are as badly balanced as in the beta (what the fuck were they doing for the past 1 year) it's not worth it. People are discovering infinite combos (here we go again) not even a week after the release, I think PFG didn't play their game because those combos were easy to notice.

I hate the skins prices. The dragon ball collab bundle cost less then a single legend skin in Multiversus

Every "Smash Killer" suffers from the same problem... The ENTIRE POINT of Smash Bros, the very reason it was ever conceptualized, is to make fighting games _simple and accessible._ But every single one of these platform fighters likes to go all in on the competitive side of things, having overcomplicated mechanics that are unintuitive and take a ton of work to master. What makes Smash Bros. successful isn't _just_ the iconic fan favorite characters... Its the fact that ANYONE can play it and enjoy it. Its a _casual game_ first and foremost. THAT is what gives Smash Bros. the edge over all these other games. (Of course, then Multiversus also has battle passes, microtransactions, a ton of other crap that bogs down the experience, and honestly terrible connection issues, not to mention the fact that you have to grind just to play a character, making it even less casual friendly).

Anyone else notice how similar the art style and UI is to Fortnite? I hate modern gaming...

The worst thing about this game in my opinion doesn’t even have to do with the lag. It’s the fact that they start you off after the tutorial by forcing you to go and do rifts, they don’t explain to you how to navigate the menu, and parts of the daily missions are a grind to do not because of the grind of doing them just by itself, but that the XP it gives is minimum to none. And don’t get me started on the fighter level ups. After level one, they take forever to do witch is understandable, but when actually online matches don’t give you XP towards anything unless you complete daily, weekly, or event missions, it start to become annoying. The game mechanics are fun and I do enjoy the match’s I end up in though, it’s just those aspects will not get people to play as much. Especially the children that they are targeting, that don’t have money to shell out to make the XP grind go faster. But what’s sad, is that I want this game to do so well because out of any AAA fighter that isn’t Smash, Mortal Kombat, or Street Fighter, it has the most good going for it in the beta, and the team behind the game is very passionate about their fighter as well, enough to take away a fighter that’s overpowered to balance it out and work on bug patches as quickly as they possibly. Not to mention giving beta players battle pass season 1, and giving new players a chance to unlock rare skins, and a brand new character as well.

no matter how many matches of multiversus you win, at the end of the day capitalism is always the winner

I feel sad for the developers. They have to watch their hard work go to waste.

I used my currency to buy Tom and Jerry thinking I'd like the fighter but i didn't so I quit the game. I usually don't return to game after missing a battlepass so this game might be dead to me now.

The sheep in this comment section are embarrassing. These are the people who just bow down and accept this grinding, unfun gameplay and just pay way too much money for cosmetics, whatever in-game resources, or in this case... most of the roster! These people are the reason companies step all over consumers and keep shoving out unfinished products.

This is why I HATE free to play fighting games. One of the only f2p games I enjoy and think is good is Fortnite, because there is no content besides cosmetics that are locked behind a paywall. The problem is is that in most f2p fighting games like multiversus, the characters are locked behind a paywall or horrible grinding. All of the characters don’t need to be free from the start, that’s fine. But when it takes 10s of hours to unlock like a character or two it’s horrible. They should make it like “complete this mission for this character” or “log in daily for this character” (like they did banana guard). They could also have a way to purchase characters but to not make them super expensive. Idk man, this is a good video though.

Alpha tester here. Been playing this game since December 2021. I still think the game is a blast at its core as somebody who just wants to play matches Im having a great time with it. The character designs and movesets and fantastic, so it's exciting to see who will join the roster next. I think the line I'm drawing for myself though is that I am not touching Rifts mode. I get absolutely nothing out of fighting computers and grinding this unfun overcomplicated mode for 15 hours to unlock loot sounds like straight work. I'll continue to play matches and have a great time with it, but also recognize that I already have all the characters I want and can't imagine a new player seeing the roster of characters they can't play and being motivated to grind for them.

If this was a full priced $60 game with a full roster from the start with some hidden unlockable ones it would be such an easy buy. Soon as I heard this was a “free” to play game I immediately checked out

1:45 The Looney Tunes Show was an animated sitcom on CN in 2012, and Taz was Bugs' dog in that, so it'd probably be from early childhood, but kids born in '06 should recognize Taz.

I'd also like to add that playing the beta significantly reduces the amount of grinding necessary, but people who didn't play the beta are shit outta luck. I still find it scummy that they locked optional rift missions behind owning characters that existed as a daily login reward, including a variant of said character, along with refusing to reveal the Power Pledge drive event until everyone had about a week to play the game online. Naturally leveling up their characters, causing the next level up to come more slowly. If you weren't like me and had a bunch of characters you literally never touched to take from lvl. 0 to lvl. 1 (it only takes one match to tier up a character if they're level 0), you were also shit out of luck.

Hey man I completely agree with everything you touched on, it really sucks because the beta was such a great foundation and none of this extra shit they doing now was necessary but I blame WB for being greedy af and taking advantage of what they seen as an easy money grab opportunity sucks for us and pfg but this game will never be what it could’ve been

Another issue with the tutorial is you can’t button map yet As an L2 jump button enthusiast it was quite painful

I genuinely dont know how companies don't understand this by now: It does not matter how many microtransactions you stuff into it, a good free game will always beat a bad free game in every single aspect.

I’ll be honest unfortunately I fucking despise the physics of this game for some reason, I would love to like it but man. Also 30 FRAMES OF INPUT BUFFERING

I only played multiversus to play with my non gamer girlfriend and sister, because they liked the simple gameplay an cartoony characters, thats the ONLY REASON i ever played it in the first place, if i can have all the characters in local play, heck if i cant even have them for a reasonable price, ill just not play the game. The fuck were they thinking

Bad balance, slowed gameplay, absurd input delay, terrible levels.. I want it to be better

Another great review Trollisms! Unlike XDefiant, I played the beta of this one. I feel like the Smash clones (because let's be honest, that's what they are) would perform better if they worked together. Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network all have decent sized catalogues but there would be a lot more freedom if they built their game together - plus it would be better for the consumer to buy one game for all the characters they love, and hopefully a larger team of developers could make the quality of game they really wanted to.

The game died the first time because of the terrible hit boxes and server issues. This release is so much worse. I loved the game so much, but now it crashes or desyncs every other match and combos that should hit just don't. I give it a month before it dies again unless they fix their shit.

the game isnt even that good. additionally, the writing was on the wall from the very start about how aggressive the monetization would be. its 100% not a game to invest time and especially money into.

im 99% sure back in the open beta on release you could test out characters in training

I was really happy to hear that I'm not the only one experiencing crashes with the PVP mode. Since we're both Aussies, d'you think its an issue with the Australian servers?

As someone who also played the open beta, I haven’t seen a game get ruined this hard by money grubbing since Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat

The beta ui was so clean, it’s a shame they started forcing the shop down your throat

Imagine trying to hold a multiverse locals but you got to pay 315 bucks. Nobody ain't going to do that.

What angers me is the most is gem levels see it’s tedious to do the rifts but I want to rewards and I want to stop playing them but I just can’t I hate that there’s something inside me, that won’t let me stop until I get the rewards

They feel so unfinished because they dont have alt turn-around animations, mossing moves like back-air and the specials are really weird sometimes, not even resembling the direction you use them in

the game is basically smash meets fornite

If Warner Brothers wants to get hip with the kids then they needs to buy the rights to Skibidi toilet and then put them in the game

Hey, certified platform fighter enjoyer here and I loved playing the beta for this game, but hated that it was online-only. Didnt realize this game qas out yet but all the bullshit they added that you lightly covered hwre is definitely gonna keep me away from it lol, there's so many bettwr platforms fithers worth your time out there (like smash bros as u mentioned or rivals of aether 2) that I can just stick to those instead.

i played in the beta and bought the lowest of the founders packs i believe they're called because i really believed in this game (look how that turned out lol) and i do think its super fun, i have like 10k fighter gems and 12 of these like "fighter voucher" things that instantly unlock a character, and while i could unlock the whole cast i only play like 2 characters so i just sat on them all the way into the full release so i got joker immediately and was like "yay i can play the joker" and had no idea unlocking characters is this big of a deal for other people but i get it, i only play 1 or 2 characters in any fighting game i play and mvs is no exception so i personally didnt see it as an issue, theres a bunch of other little things i encountered on launch day that i was like "wow i got this thing! and this thing! and i can unlock this thing!" and my friend (who also played with me in the beta but didnt spend any money on it) was like "bro i dont have any of that wth" so there is quite a big divide between people who spent money on the game and people who didnt overall gameplay wise i still very much enjoy it even though its alot slower, i play every couple days and have fun until i get matched up against bugs bunny in my opinion this games biggest issues are the grinding and the balance

Tornado spamming is a certified brawl metaknight moment

If they weren't so clumsy with the release, had more big name characters like Harry Potter or Ben 10 at launch, and weren't stupidly greedy then this game would have done better. 16-32 characters at launch with skins to buy would have been very reasonable

In the beta of the game, you could try locked characters , and when the game was offline, you could play all characters with anyone playing with you but now you can't do any of those idk why but I think it's just the unreal engine 4 to unreal engine 5 switch up made the game worse and they maybe are working on it overall I like the game but there is a few problems here and there,also good video left a like on it ❤❤

"But it's free" It ain't, a video game shouldn't be treated like a job for the privilege of unlocking even more tedious work to do

What i think is unfortunate is that the trick of, giving you a ton of money or resources upfront and then tricking you by making it many times grindier later really worked on a lot of people. It's really sad that this game got hit by the greed hammer.

For reference, I unlocked both Stripe and Joker with a total of 9000 character tokens in the first week, which amounted to a bit over 20 hours of gameplay. Some of which were acquired with the events and beginner challenges

I just want to say just because but I think this is mostly Warner Brothers fault because this they want money and they don’t know now to do it so they just make games a grind while also making it boring

Idk if I'm remembering wrong but in the beta the fighter currency at the most to get a character was 3,000 and the lowest was 1,000 right? I remember unlocking everyone that was locked in like a week's time.

The moment I saw this game was coming out for free was the moment I knew this was gonna be a cash grab.

Warner Bros are professionals at ruining IPs. Velma, Arkham Batman, and now Multiversus, just back to back bullshit

Guess this game is turning into EA? 💀

Missed opportunity of calling it "super warner bros smash" or something. I guess Nintendo would have ruined the fun with a lawsuit

The character unlock system in multiverses exudes the vibe of “You need 80 hours to unlock Vader? WHAT??????”

Idk who decided the game should be slower but I have absolutely zero interest now

I was a beta player and I unlocked most of the characters already (i have everyone but Adam and Joker) but I agree this is ridiculous and the game feels like such a downgrade now..

The instant the beta started and I realized I could never earn anything, I literally lost all motivation to play

Why in the hell can't I just pay 60$ for a game and just get dlc characters ffs. This ruins how I wanna play it, with my friends at my house. I am not willing to completely shill out for greed. I would happily pay for a skin once in a while but not being able to play as any character locally is the deal breaker

Wasn't Multiverses the game that had the stale mechanic? Where if you spammed the move got weaker ? Because Bannana Guard only used side special and it would be nice for spammers to get punished

Multiversus is such a flop! So sad because of the potential that the game has... 😢😭

I remember back in the glory days of multiversus when modding was a thing, then on Halloween they DMCA’d the Gamebanana page because we made cooler free skins then Warner Bros. I will forever miss you Ceno0 Heavy over Superman…..

As someone born in the last 18 years, me and my family did watch Looney tunes but that’s cause we only had the basic channels and Looney Tunes was basically always on

It’s fun in the fact that just hopping into a game is fun but when you want to grind for rewards that’s when it gets a bit iffy cause it feels like your not making progress and u have to pump money into the game if you want anything!!

Not exactly my genre of game, but I would have definitely enjoyed some couch sessions. Oh well :(

They could've made a hybrid, by keeping it free to play but offering a paid version for $60 with all characters and then offering each subsequent for 5 dollars, and maybe cutting in half the grind fest that this game is. I played on the release of the beta and it was really fun, coming from smash was a pleasant surprise, but indeed the over monetization will probably kill this great game before it even has a chance to shine.

I'm scared for the WB Wonder Woman Nemesis system game because of how greedy WB is

This game should've never been free to play. It should've stood on its own merits and strong characters. Every character needed some type of grab move, certain people like Supes, Jason, and Iron giant need super armor. Your special attacks shouldn't have cooldown times, and there should've been some items, food and ish. Is this copying Smash? Damn right it is why would you not wanna copy one of the most successful games to date?

Spending money on microtransactions to get a character in a free to play online game to me is ultimately pointless. Since you can just buy a real physical figure of a character that has actual value.

Tornado is mad fun to use Now we know why he's always using it in show 😂

I still remember when this game first came out, and everyone was talking about how this free-to-play smash-like by warner bros was actually really fun. All I could think was "alright, what's the catch?" Not at all surprised that this is how the game is like now

I mean this game had the opportunity to come out guns blazing and return with a bang…it tripped and fell HARD. And before yall come in here and try to defend it, here’s the problem: THE BETA was not like this in any way, shape or form. Grinding was THERE, but it wasn’t as bad as it is now. The story mode is complete dogshit, whether you like it or not. And the gameplay is so. Much. SLOWER. This wasn’t the game PFG hyped up for so long, you can tell there is so much wrong with this release it’s sad to say it was in a better place a YEAR ago than it is now. And trust me when I say I wanted this to be so very much good, because I LOVED the beta. And while this can all get “fixed”, it should’ve been that way at LAUNCH. They had a YEAR to fix all the problems

I still think the game is good and its way easier to get into than smash bros or valhalla. I definetly think it needs work and the rifts are absolutely stupid so I think your best bet enjoying the game right now is just to play 2s with a friend or if you are more competitive to sweat 1s

I literally teared up a little when you started speeding up at 4:15. It was then I realized how many fuckin things you named off 😂😂😂

Sounds more like a full time job rather than a game.

bruh this game is FREE. it gives a ton of things for FREE. if you play the game you can earn characters for FREE. I don't understand the negative videos like this.. the developers still need to make money somehow. What more do you want them to do? Just give the game some time man damn. Hasn't even been out a month and seeing so much of this BS negative energy.

Maaaan ain’t nun wrong with this game, it’s free. Play it

I think the game could be so fun and be some even more casual niche for platform fighting games, but it just feels like some evil IP cashgrab. Instead of making a great game with all their legendary franchises Warner bros just paid some mobile game developers to suck money, what a time we live in.

I can already see this game dying and then like 7 years later someone will be like, omg guys remember multiversus? And someone might even go ahead and start making an offline version thats instantly going to be way better than this

I refuse to play greedy games like this, even if their microtransactions are all cosmetic or what not, no. Helldivers 2 has, like, a total of ~$150-worth of content, but you can reasonably grind for all of it, which is exactly what I did. I paid for the premium edition and haven't paid a cent more, yet I've gotten every single cosmetic the game has. But, if I didn't want to do that, the warbonds which come out each month cost 1000 of their premium currency. And guess what? You can buy exactly 1000 of that currency for exactly $10. No stupid conversion math, no excess or slight deficit.

I'm a returning player and already had most of the characters and didn't know how much of a grind getting all of the characters for new comers was, I got 4 tickets to get free characters and got Black Adam, Rick and Joker so I didn't realize that it would cost 3,000-6,000 (or even 1,000 glem) in game currency to unlock

What gets me most is how the f does local play lagg more than online matches xD

I was hella bummed out with the rift objectives from the start of playing it too man. I started to drop caring about them with how much it basically asks for me to play as The Joker and to be honest I was hoping that by the end of the rift I could get enough stuff to unlock him but it wasn't. It didn't feel like I worked up to something that great and that I was instead being mocked with the whole dangling shiny keys from a window while I remain locked in a room. It doesn't help that the training mode thing where you can select locked characters and even skins was in the Beta so they took that out.