Marvel Rivals Still Dominates and Our Mid Season One Discussion

Jaime and Tony discuss how Rivals still dominates their playlist. We dip our toes into some Suicide Squad and give our initial impressions. 

Transcript

00:00.89
Tony Sisk
Hi folks, welcome back to Good to Game Radio. I'm here with Tony speaking and joining me tonight is Jaime. Jaime, what's going on?

00:08.35
Jaime G 
Hello, hello, man. it's been It's been a minute. It's been like couple of weeks since.

00:10.63
Tony Sisk
It's been like three weeks.

00:13.01
Jaime G 
Three weeks.

00:13.27
Tony Sisk
Maybe even, yeah.

00:13.53
Jaime G 
Okay. and And it's been my fault, everyone. um ah it's I do adulting every once in a while. And sometimes my my family's like, hey, you need to take our son over to soccer practice or do some activity. And then I'm like, but it's Monday. day I can't do it. Well, no, I get overruled a lot by my wife.

00:36.28
Tony Sisk
yeah we are Yeah, we're adults, so I think we all have some so adulting that we have to do lot of the times, especially when you have kids.

00:39.36
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:45.58
Tony Sisk
you know We've talked a lot about it here on the show over the last few years.

00:45.91
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

00:49.20
Tony Sisk
you know just you know Kids, man, you just got to be a parent and be responsible and take them places and and do all that stuff.

00:58.37
Jaime G 
Oh, or sometimes you just have to you have to share your video games with them, man. It's like, like ah, I want to play.

01:05.17
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yep. All right. So, well, you know, another, probably another reason we really haven't like been on is because we've been playing almost nonstop Marvel Rivals.

01:19.81
Jaime G 
ah Yeah, I know. um It's like every time i log on, either you're there or somebody from the whole Discord community, there's always somebody playing in groups.

01:22.79
Tony Sisk
So,

01:33.52
Tony Sisk
Right. So um our our Discord has been really, really ah popping with ah with new members, lots of them coming in to play Marvel Rivals.

01:46.05
Jaime G 
Marvel Vibes?

01:46.97
Tony Sisk
And you know there's been a lot of nights when you've I've gotten on and there's been like you know more people than you could fit into a party.

01:47.67
Jaime G 
Yeah.

01:54.35
Tony Sisk
So it's been interesting. so

01:58.07
Jaime G 
Hey, I'm curious one thing, though. There was one random day where somebody wanted to revive Helldivers. Did that actually happen?

02:09.97
Tony Sisk
So I don't know ah because I do i do know oh ah know that um somebody started playing Helldivers

02:14.38
Jaime G 
Yeah,

02:21.83
Tony Sisk
um

02:23.17
Jaime G 
yeah and they reached out and said, hey, does anybody want to play?

02:23.95
Tony Sisk
and and they reached out and then somebody else started playing Helldivers and there was a couple people that joined the Discord recently that are Helldivers players, but they're PC players. So it's hard to tell if they're on playing Helldivers because they don't show up on my PlayStation friends list.

02:42.30
Tony Sisk
But I'm assuming that they probably are playing. There's Helldivers being played. It's just not you know like it was you know a year ago when it was just like Marvel Rivals now, right?

02:46.93
Jaime G 
Yeah.

02:53.43
Tony Sisk
Everybody was getting on.

02:54.01
Jaime G 
Oh, yeah. yeah

02:54.98
Tony Sisk
mean, we had a huge community and everybody was you know diving every night It was great. So yeah, it would be great to get that kind of going again.

03:05.77
Jaime G 
Remember that for ah ah a while, it was like the servers were like so overloaded, you actually couldn't join a team.

03:15.59
Tony Sisk
Yeah, you had to have somebody that was already in the game actually invite you into a PlayStation party and send the invite through the party and we kind of backdoor in the Helldivers.

03:18.70
Jaime G 
Yeah.

03:28.36
Jaime G 
Yeah.

03:28.43
Tony Sisk
that's how That's how crazy it was. And as popular it's crazy as popular as Marvel Rivals has been, where they've like you know said, like oh we have 600,000 people on at this given moment.

03:41.95
Tony Sisk
Helldivers was like more than that. That's how popular Helldivers was.

03:45.75
Jaime G 
yeah

03:47.43
Tony Sisk
Almost a million people playing it in a given time ah concurrently in Helldivers.

03:50.49
Jaime G 
concurrently, yeah.

03:53.19
Tony Sisk
So Helldivers was a super, super popular a year ago. I've actually downloaded it Redownloaded onto my PlayStation. ah So I'm ready to go. But it's the the emblem.

04:05.44
Tony Sisk
When you sign on, it sits right next to the Marvel Rivals. And I can't help myself.

04:09.29
Jaime G 
ah Yeah, OK.

04:11.16
Tony Sisk
Marvel Rivals.

04:13.10
Jaime G 
I'm guilty of that too. I'm guilty of that too. And we're about to hit that, that very first ever mid season point of the first ever season.

04:24.37
Jaime G 
Right. And you know that for a while there, there was an announcement that everyone's rank was going to be brought down at the mid season and the whole community just like Man, you talk about angriness.

04:41.01
Jaime G 
People were complaining, taught reaching out to the devs, saying this isn't right. It's impossible to reach gold. And now you're going to like bring me down just because we hit the midseason.

04:49.45
Tony Sisk
Right.

04:51.50
Jaime G 
And you know the voice of the the voice of the fan base, this is one of those times where it was heard loud and clear. The devs came back and said, okay, we've heard you. Midseason, we're not going to adjust your rank.

05:04.63
Jaime G 
What do you think about that?

05:04.85
Tony Sisk
right What do i think? I think that it's great to not adjusting rank. I like because they did from season zero to to one. They adjusted seven tiers.

05:14.20
Jaime G 
yeah

05:14.83
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And nobody really thought about it because I don't think anybody was really playing ranked at the time that much.

05:20.73
Jaime G 
No, everyone was figuring the game out.

05:20.72
Tony Sisk
Everybody was still...

05:22.83
Jaime G 
Yeah.

05:23.70
Tony Sisk
everybody was figuring the game out. And I know that in our Discord, we caught we implemented what we call the road to gold, right? The road to gold, just kind of like, hey, this little motivational thing to get everybody to play some competitive and get to gold rank, right?

05:30.87
Jaime G 
Yeah,

05:39.99
Tony Sisk
And that's everybody was excited, posting their achievements as they moved up those ranks into gold.

05:45.21
Jaime G 
yeah. um yeah

05:46.42
Tony Sisk
And I will say that the majority of the people that play in our Discord, a lot of them have achieved gold rank and some even beyond.

05:54.17
Jaime G 
not

05:55.05
Tony Sisk
um

05:55.58
Jaime G 
Actually, i'm I'm one of the players who I couldn't care if the midseason adjusted all all the rankings because I haven't made it past bronze, man. I mean, I've made it to silver once and then like it was like within the next match, gone.

06:05.13
Tony Sisk
Right. it It has proven to be more difficult

06:12.41
Jaime G 
Yes.

06:12.88
Tony Sisk
than you would think. You can't go, it's like you go on YouTube, you know, you want you you want to watch videos to say, how do I improve? How do I, how do I climb that ladder?

06:23.13
Tony Sisk
How to play a certain character? work And you see ah the videos to say, I've made it to Grandmaster in 10 hours, you know, and this is how to do it.

06:29.51
Jaime G 
Yeah, right.

06:31.69
Tony Sisk
Oh, reach Diamond by doing this. And there's dozens and dozens and dozens of videos about how to Climb those ranks and what you should be doing and how in the tips and all that stuff.

06:43.11
Jaime G 
I'm going to tell you the honest thing.

06:43.89
Tony Sisk
But in practice,

06:45.95
Jaime G 
Yes, you just need to grind.

06:47.99
Tony Sisk
in practice, it's, it's way, way more difficult. And,

06:51.81
Jaime G 
yeah now we're just talking about this right before this, that we do have one advice. one advice for it for people who are listening to this and that it's easier to level up by by solo queuing than it is with a team.

07:10.38
Tony Sisk
Yes, this is this is kind of something we've taken away from conversations, dozens of conversations we've had with our Discord ah members and and people that we play with.

07:15.05
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

07:22.41
Tony Sisk
and the conversation has been pretty common, ah is that everybody achieved their gold rank by solo queuing versus playing with their friends.

07:31.51
Jaime G 
Yes.

07:34.25
Tony Sisk
And everybody is just kind at different level when it comes to Marvel Rivals.

07:34.34
Jaime G 
Yes.

07:39.78
Tony Sisk
You know, you're different places and stuff. And it's like, The idea that you can just get together with your buddies and we're all going be at the same level and, and climb that just not, does not, that's not how it works.

07:53.70
Tony Sisk
So that,

07:54.34
Jaime G 
That's not happening. No.

07:56.86
Tony Sisk
Because i think, you know, when you're group grouping up as a team of four or team of two or team of six, a lot of times you're going up against another team of that same composition on the other side.

08:09.84
Tony Sisk
Right. And it just, you know, you don't think you don't necessarily have an advantage because, oh, we got four people and we're all talking on mics. Well, Not everybody is at the same skill level and it just doesn't work out.

08:23.18
Jaime G 
Right.

08:23.74
Tony Sisk
And you don't want to get like angry at your buddies and like say, Hey, you need to do this.

08:24.49
Jaime G 
Right.

08:27.68
Jaime G 
and

08:28.38
Tony Sisk
And do you need to do this?

08:31.60
Tony Sisk
and So, yeah.

08:31.82
Jaime G 
It's happened. It's happened. Like you were telling me that, you know, people that, ah for example, a group of six might have been playing together and then at the end of the match, because they all have microphones, like somebody is just like, bro, come on.

08:49.63
Tony Sisk
Right. It's like, and then somebody could be having a bad night and you're kind of stuck with them. Right. And like, you're not going to kick them.

08:59.79
Tony Sisk
If you're really, really good friends, you're, if you're good friends, you know, you're going to kick them.

09:00.55
Jaime G 
You're stuck with it.

09:05.86
Tony Sisk
You're going to, you're going to ride it out. It's the ride or die thing. Right. And it's, this that ship just sinks.

09:09.69
Jaime G 
Yeah.

09:12.41
Jaime G 
Okay.

09:12.75
Tony Sisk
so

09:12.94
Jaime G 
Okay. So for everyone listening here, I'm going to share a story of something that happened recently with me and Tony. This one night we're playing, and I think we might've been playing ranked actually.

09:24.25
Jaime G 
And I'm playing around and I'm usually waiting for like to see what everyone picks to decide if I'm going to go strategist or duelist. And somehow I remember starting the the this one particular match with Moon Knight and we were doing okay. I can't remember. I don't think we were winning or losing at this point. And some somewhere mid-match, I decided to say, let me play Namor, right? Namor's better than what I gave him their credit for originally.

09:54.86
Jaime G 
So we're playing. And all of a sudden, you just hear Tony like on the microphone saying, dude, our Namor player sucks.

10:06.94
Tony Sisk
And it was Jaime.

10:07.58
Jaime G 
And yeah I was like, you wait, wait, I'm playing Namor. Ha ha ha ha.

10:12.53
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Why are you throwing the squids right on the ground in front of you? Like on the point. Come on now, throw them up on the ceiling or something.

10:19.37
Jaime G 
i was I was just trying to get them out, man.

10:20.88
Tony Sisk
that

10:23.48
Tony Sisk
o

10:24.08
Jaime G 
So alliances are tested when you play with friends ranked. I will just tell you that. We've seen it.

10:29.75
Tony Sisk
right yeah so it's it's kind of like you know it's frustrating either way whether you're solo queuing or playing with friends so save your friendships and just solo queue at max just play with one other person ah you know the max one other person it's all you need and just

10:30.17
Jaime G 
Yeah. At max,

10:41.76
Jaime G 
yeah.

10:45.41
Jaime G 
andd max yeah

10:48.91
Jaime G 
And if you change a character mid match, tell your other, other partner. No. So they don't, read you know,

10:52.75
Tony Sisk
Yeah, that way then there's no ah friendly fire but the with the voice comms.

10:57.04
Jaime G 
yeah. Right.

11:00.18
Tony Sisk
But yeah.

11:00.68
Jaime G 
Hey, man, one thing I'm, I'm liking what they're doing. I mean, I got to give credit where credit is due is the outfits. They have been pumping out a lot of outfits for a lot of characters.

11:14.21
Jaime G 
And some of them are just bangers, man.

11:17.08
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

11:17.13
Jaime G 
Um, I mean, ever since Invisible Woman came out and they gave her the Malice costume, I've commented on on the Discord like, hey, this one's a little bit too risque, right? I'm not i'm not buying this.

11:31.69
Tony Sisk
Right.

11:32.23
Jaime G 
But they did like another version for Invisible Woman, which was like her and Mr. Fantastic wedding outfits.

11:38.57
Tony Sisk
Oh, the ah the wedding, the kind of the bride and groom outfits.

11:44.86
Jaime G 
Exactly. Now, the bride outfit... It's legit solid.

11:51.11
Jaime G 
um

11:51.23
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I haven't actually seen either one of them in play yet.

11:54.71
Jaime G 
No, I have.

11:56.13
Tony Sisk
Really? Yeah.

11:56.60
Jaime G 
i was I actually was playing in a team where I had but both the characters using those outfits.

12:04.78
Tony Sisk
That's cool. I mean, ah you can buy you can buy the the outfits in the store.

12:05.88
Jaime G 
Yeah.

12:09.85
Tony Sisk
I know that they ran a Valentine's Day thing where if you were playing between like five and eight and you just happen to be in the lobby with certain streamers, you would be awarded the

12:10.48
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

12:22.45
Tony Sisk
those outfits. But when they finally, when they talked about that, it was already past today for our server, like our, our, for North America.

12:24.19
Jaime G 
Yeah.

12:31.68
Tony Sisk
Like I found out about it on Friday and that day that you could do that was on Thursday.

12:32.99
Jaime G 
Yeah.

12:36.40
Tony Sisk
So I'm like, okay, you didn't give us a heads up, but I know I wouldn't have gotten one because I'm definitely, I don't get lucky like that as far as getting stuff.

12:37.09
Jaime G 
Right.

12:41.06
Jaime G 
Yeah. and Now, the other thing here to bring up is, we're but as like as we were saying a minute ago, we're about to hit the midseason.

12:53.04
Jaime G 
I know that the mid season is going to bring us two new characters, ah the Thing and the Human Torch.

13:01.89
Jaime G 
Where's the gameplay video?

13:01.90
Tony Sisk
I'm really excited.

13:02.97
Jaime G 
where's Where's the character reveal? I mean, we've not seen anything about these characters.

13:09.05
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they have them ready to go. i mean, we're almost, we're only four days away from that point where they said they they would be at the mid-season and have that update and have those characters in play. So I'm sure that they're probably ready.

13:26.42
Tony Sisk
um And I'm looking forward to playing The thing, right? The thing is a Vanguard.

13:33.81
Tony Sisk
I know that they there's already been some stuff revealed on like some of their abilities and stuff.

13:42.31
Jaime G 
Yes, I think they've been they were data-minded.

13:42.41
Tony Sisk
So...

13:44.85
Jaime G 
People were like, oh, check this out.

13:47.45
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so i'm um I'm interested as a Vanguard player. As a Vanguard player, I'm interested in seeing and you know what but new stuff this new Vanguard will bring to the table.

13:59.39
Tony Sisk
I'm not as much as interested in the Torch, you know since I don't play a lot of flying characters.

14:00.43
Jaime G 
Yep.

14:08.31
Jaime G 
Well, mean, I don't think it's confirmed that he's going to be flank actors, has it?

14:11.74
Tony Sisk
think so. Isn't he a flying character?

14:13.51
Jaime G 
What? I mean, technically you could argue that he is, but...

14:20.92
Tony Sisk
I think he's... I think he's... I think he's a flying character. I'm not sure.

14:25.66
Jaime G 
Oh, oh here's here's an example. Magneto in the comic books, he's flying or he's lying around all the time. In the game, he's not flying.

14:31.76
Tony Sisk
Oh, Magneto.

14:32.31
Jaime G 
Namor also flies.

14:32.54
Tony Sisk
Yeah, he is. He's hovering.

14:33.38
Jaime G 
he's got Yeah, but he doesn't fly.

14:34.38
Tony Sisk
He levitates.

14:37.62
Tony Sisk
Well, he doesn't fly.

14:37.92
Jaime G 
What if human torch is just hovering?

14:38.26
Tony Sisk
up I mean, when he does his ultimate, he goes way up in the air.

14:42.67
Jaime G 
Oh, that's a technicality, let's say.

14:43.02
Tony Sisk
I...

14:46.77
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So, I mean... it's It's interesting that we're getting two new characters. you know I still have not played Mr. Incredible. um

14:58.72
Jaime G 
I stopped playing him after they stopped giving us missions to play with him.

14:58.81
Tony Sisk
It's like...

15:03.70
Tony Sisk
Did I say mr Mr. Fantastic, not Mr. Incredible? Where did get Mr. Incredible from? Mr. Fantastic.

15:08.71
Jaime G 
From the Incredibles.

15:10.57
Tony Sisk
That's what it is.

15:12.29
Jaime G 
Yeah.

15:12.33
Tony Sisk
Yeah, Mr. Fantastic. I have not played him. but And I know that was like, one of the things you had to do was like, do the, where he inflates himself and then project, projects the damage back.

15:21.43
Jaime G 
Yeah.

15:24.49
Tony Sisk
You had to do that like five times in a match to get one of the season achievements.

15:28.27
Jaime G 
What are the achievements, Sprite?

15:30.63
Tony Sisk
I still have not done that. That's the last one I have left. And for some reason, I just have not felt like playing Mr. Fantastic.

15:38.39
Jaime G 
Are there any other i was going ask, are there any other achievements that you're just like, I hate it when I have to do these?

15:38.67
Tony Sisk
And the fact that we're,

15:49.97
Tony Sisk
I mean, there's those those achievements where you get the achievement points where you can unlock like extra ah currency and stuff, but they're so like obscure and or difficult.

16:04.47
Tony Sisk
To me, they're two too time-consuming that I don't even bother. I haven't even looked at them in a while.

16:08.68
Jaime G 
Yeah.

16:10.82
Tony Sisk
But, I mean, are there any characters that you have not played since the game? we've We're... what, two and a half months into the game?

16:18.64
Jaime G 
Yes. Yes. I have never, ever picked ah Magic nor Rocket Raccoon.

16:29.99
Tony Sisk
You've never played Rocket?

16:31.88
Jaime G 
Never. And you know why?

16:33.16
Tony Sisk
Really?

16:33.60
Jaime G 
it was It's actually your fault. Because when when we first started playing this game together, you were may your main character for a while, a brief stint, was Rocket.

16:45.50
Jaime G 
And somehow I remember like you just complaining left and right how how difficult he was.

16:52.80
Jaime G 
and And so every single time that I'm like hovering over like a the character select screen, I'm like, well, Tony bashed him.

16:53.50
Tony Sisk
um

17:00.48
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, I think he's pretty good now. He's pretty good. I play him all the time.

17:07.55
Jaime G 
Yeah.

17:09.70
Tony Sisk
It's ah it's this nice that you get the extra revive, basically, if you throw down the little device right near a point, and you can bring back the first person who dies, basically.

17:19.73
Jaime G 
Yeah.

17:24.02
Tony Sisk
That's usually the tank a lot of times. So, like, that basically gives you a man advantage on a point if that guy can get back into the fight quickly.

17:36.99
Jaime G 
yeah

17:37.02
Tony Sisk
So, that's pretty powerful. I mean, I'm not a big fan of his ultimate. His ultimate is not that great.

17:43.76
Tony Sisk
But... His unlimited ammo oh pack that he can throw down for Punisher and Winter Soldier. It's pretty handy for those guys.

17:54.07
Jaime G 
Bucky. Yeah.

17:55.12
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I mean, he does a ton of healing too. He does way more healing than I initially thought. Like if you just focus on kind of keeping it on the tanks, the main point stuff, he can do a ton of healing.

18:08.99
Jaime G 
Yeah.

18:10.81
Tony Sisk
ah He's a good character. I mean, at one point, I think right at the beginning of the season, he was like the leading percentage ah character as far as wins, win rate.

18:15.05
Jaime G 
Okay.

18:24.62
Jaime G 
i'm I'm actually going to tell you this. Right now, I'm actually on the official MarvelRivals.com website. Who do you think is the most picked character out of the whole list right now?

18:39.07
Tony Sisk
Cloak and dagger 67%.

18:40.82
Jaime G 
Yes. No. It's actually 21%.

18:46.22
Tony Sisk
Really?

18:46.55
Jaime G 
But 21% on console players are picking Cloak and Dagger. And it actually drops to 18% on PC, but it's still Cloak and Dagger, the most picked character.

19:00.89
Jaime G 
Now let's go to the bottom of the list.

19:01.33
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

19:02.65
Jaime G 
Who do you think is a character that people are picking the least?

19:07.15
Tony Sisk
Black Widow.

19:08.62
Jaime G 
You nailed it. um Less than 3% of players pick Black Widow. um

19:16.11
Tony Sisk
That's because they're going to get flamed in the lobby. They're not playing it in ranked for sure.

19:19.91
Jaime G 
ah

19:22.08
Tony Sisk
and the

19:22.22
Jaime G 
yeah

19:24.54
Tony Sisk
I mean, in quick play, I see a lot people playing her, but like

19:28.49
Jaime G 
Yep.

19:29.76
Tony Sisk
she doesn't, for the major most part, maybe one time I've seen an impactful Black Widow.

19:34.01
Jaime G 
She's not going to turn the tide of a match.

19:39.03
Jaime G 
Yeah.

19:40.17
Tony Sisk
I mean, Cloak & Dagger is super super powerful.

19:44.46
Jaime G 
It is.

19:44.48
Tony Sisk
Her, she can, she's a strong DPS character.

19:44.82
Jaime G 
Yeah, sure. ah played that character.

19:49.87
Tony Sisk
She's great at healing. The added, the fourth, the addition of the fourth, don't even know what to call it, with her super ultimate um is great where it heals and heals your team and damages the opposing team.

20:00.17
Jaime G 
The ultimate, yeah.

20:07.78
Jaime G 
Yep.

20:07.82
Tony Sisk
You throw that on point, you know, super powerful. I will say i had a match today. and i'm i'm glad you brought this up. I had a match today in quick play. And I don't get, you know i'm not getting angry in quick play, though.

20:19.16
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

20:21.79
Tony Sisk
I do raise an eyebrow or, you know, might say, what the heck are you doing? There was a match. We lost. It was domination. so two two map two two uh matches out of three we didn't even make it to the third because we lost two straight but um pretty sure i was playing tank i'm like hey i'm not getting a lot of heels right so it's i'm playing dr strange not getting a lot of heels and

20:39.65
Jaime G 
Yeah.

20:49.58
Jaime G 
yeah Yeah.

20:56.58
Tony Sisk
The second match ended, we lost, and I looked at the scoreboard. Our cloak and dagger, and I know this person had been cloak and dagger for both games, right? Was 0 for 8.

21:08.61
Tony Sisk
And get this. Guess how much had healed? Zero.

21:12.54
Jaime G 
probably like less than a thousand points.

21:17.23
Tony Sisk
Zero.

21:18.66
Jaime G 
No, no.

21:20.44
Tony Sisk
Zero.

21:21.54
Jaime G 
You heal people even by accident, man.

21:23.94
Tony Sisk
Nope. Not this person. They were over eight with zero heels.

21:26.12
Jaime G 
I mean, this, this, this person, now went no way, no way.

21:28.71
Tony Sisk
The Iron Man had more heels.

21:31.57
Jaime G 
No.

21:31.72
Tony Sisk
I'm telling you, zero heels. I'm like, how do you even, how is that even possible?

21:34.57
Jaime G 
Tony.

21:37.08
Jaime G 
There's so many times where I'm playing cloak and dagger that I'm trying to shoot the opposing team and the and the freaking dart just you know midway lands on one of my teammates.

21:42.66
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

21:48.39
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Oh, and eight.

21:50.30
Jaime G 
There's no way that you can make it zero.

21:52.74
Tony Sisk
Zero and eight.

21:54.26
Jaime G 
Okay, the only way that this could happen is if he never swapped over to dagger and he played cloak 100% the time.

21:54.57
Tony Sisk
With zero heals.

22:03.49
Tony Sisk
I think that's what he did. I think all he tried to do was damage and never tried to heal.

22:10.19
Jaime G 
Nah, that's not the way to play that character.

22:10.30
Tony Sisk
Now we had a... we We had Jeff on our team too. And Jeff, two matches, 5,000 healing.

22:16.52
Jaime G 
Yeah.

22:20.32
Tony Sisk
So...

22:20.80
Jaime G 
That sounds right, yeah.

22:22.72
Tony Sisk
In over two matches. I'm like, there was no healing. I mean, because he was too busy trying to do dps

22:32.48
Jaime G 
And see, that's the beauty of this character is that you need to know when to heal, when to go into offense, and when to like you know swap. And I actually love this character.

22:45.78
Jaime G 
I do think it's ah the character is a little bit OP, but it forces you to say, okay, um i mean I'm going to attack now or I'm going to support my team now.

22:57.58
Tony Sisk
I think oh and mean she's OP, but it's not in a super frustrating way. You know what I'm saying? like

23:06.75
Jaime G 
ah Right, right.

23:07.09
Tony Sisk
it's it's It's not in a like, this is not fair, like i can't deal with it. Not in an OP sort of way as in Moon Knight's ultimate is.

23:18.59
Tony Sisk
Moon Knight's ultimate is... so aggravating and unfair. it It's got a huge radius. it It starts doing damage before he even says, completes the sentence.

23:32.02
Tony Sisk
You know what I'm like You have no way of escaping unless you just happen to be on the very edge of it anyway.

23:35.06
Jaime G 
yeah

23:38.36
Jaime G 
and And he's one of the few characters that even if he gets killed, his super will remain on screen.

23:48.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

23:48.76
Jaime G 
Think about ah a lot of the other characters. Like if they die mid animation or something for most characters, the super is canceled. Whereas his is not.

24:01.01
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Now, he is like one.

24:02.44
Jaime G 
Yep.

24:07.76
Tony Sisk
He might be the only character. ah

24:13.37
Tony Sisk
i think I have played Mr. Fantastic for like one match.

24:17.92
Jaime G 
Yeah.

24:18.49
Tony Sisk
But Moon Knight, I have never played.

24:22.24
Jaime G 
Dude. Okay. So if I'm going duelist, Moon Knight is my top pick. And you know why, Tony? It's because he can be so annoying to play against.

24:33.52
Tony Sisk
Right, well, first of all, the amount of damage he can deal off the deflection, off the anks, when he he doesn't even have to see the area that he's attacking, he just needs to see the ank, that's annoying.

24:38.17
Jaime G 
Yes.

24:45.09
Jaime G 
Yes.

24:49.49
Tony Sisk
It's just ridiculous, the amount of damage that's coming off the deflections.

24:49.80
Jaime G 
That's why people hate him. Yes.

24:56.22
Tony Sisk
um

24:56.37
Jaime G 
Yes.

24:56.86
Tony Sisk
And again, like in the game, it's like, ah feed enough I've mentioned this before, like there's not a lot of feedback in the controller and stuff like that. if you're kind I don't know how it is on PC, but I know on console, it's like I don't feel the damage a lot of the times.

25:14.43
Tony Sisk
So it's like, next thing you know, you're just dead.

25:14.71
Jaime G 
Right.

25:17.64
Jaime G 
you need a haptic or something to tell you you're being attacked.

25:18.13
Tony Sisk
like you You really have to listen. The game is so oriented around audible feedback.

25:26.42
Jaime G 
yeah

25:26.94
Tony Sisk
that's where you're getting the cues for most stuff. It's just, you're hearing it, uh, versus feeling it. So don't even, yeah. Most of the times when he kills me, I'm like, how do I die? And I go back and look into replay. I'm like, Oh, okay. Yeah, go figure.

25:42.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

25:42.61
Jaime G 
he he is He is such a trip to play, to get to together you know decent with, like you know doing like like you said, you know banking the shots off the Ankh. It's fun.

25:56.02
Jaime G 
i mean, I really like that character. That's my go-to duelist.

25:59.95
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, it would be alright. If you have dive DPS characters and stuff that can keep him kind of away from the area, those are great to have.

26:11.43
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

26:14.52
Tony Sisk
but like no It's like so many matches where just like, oh, it's like Iron Man. I had a game today. Iron Man. Nobody responded to Iron Man.

26:24.80
Jaime G 
yeah

26:24.96
Tony Sisk
Like literally way he just was allowed to sit there right above the, the mat, the playing area and just bombard our team. And I'm playing, what was I playing?

26:40.63
Tony Sisk
Pretty sure I was playing Doctor Strange. um And like nobody like nobody shot at him or tried to take him down or switched to a character to take him down.

26:51.80
Tony Sisk
So I'm like, oh, I guess we're just going to let this Iron Man just do his thing. Yeah, so.

26:58.09
Jaime G 
yeah

27:02.46
Tony Sisk
yeah so

27:02.78
Jaime G 
Well, I mean, and it is what it is, man People sometimes ignore certain characters and you end up paying the price for ignoring them. Ignore ignore a strategist?

27:13.55
Jaime G 
Oh, you'll regret it.

27:17.49
Tony Sisk
Oh yeah, that's what I love. I've recently started playing a lot of Venom.

27:22.60
Jaime G 
Yep.

27:23.28
Tony Sisk
And I love playing Venom because I just zero in on Luna or Cloak and Dagger or whatever healer is on the back line.

27:35.88
Tony Sisk
And I just come charging through and one and I just stay on them.

27:40.14
Jaime G 
It's because that's the good thing about dive tank is that he can break the primary and mid defense and go to the back line and just w wreck havoc and then run away.

27:53.09
Tony Sisk
Yeah, spell, yeah, just web out of there, you know.

27:57.21
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

27:57.74
Tony Sisk
Yeah, i've I've really have started, had really really good success with Venom and just wreaking havoc on the black on the back lines and stuff and getting out there.

28:09.62
Jaime G 
you You know something I couldn't figure out for a while is that Venom's super doesn't necessarily kill, but he does 50% damage of whatever the health is of the opposing character.

28:25.21
Jaime G 
So for a while, i was like, why didn't he kill this character? He has like, he's like so little health. And it's because he doesn't kill. He just, whatever he has, 50% gone.

28:36.96
Jaime G 
god

28:37.95
Tony Sisk
Right. So with Benom and his, his ultimate, it's like he you i want to reserve that ultimate until I can get like, I love it when the other team is playing like,

28:54.60
Tony Sisk
high health characters like, Oh, Oh, you got a Hulk and, and, uh, Thor, you know, teaming up and they happen to be on me and I have my ultimate up. I just popped the ultimate and I get them.

29:05.02
Jaime G 
yeah

29:09.26
Tony Sisk
hope, you know, I'm hoping that they're at, you know, full health, whatever. And, uh, I get all that health added to my to my health as a bonus.

29:19.07
Jaime G 
Yeah, yes.

29:20.49
Tony Sisk
So it's like, so okay. Now you just pretty much made me like this huge health vanguard that is impossible to kill.

29:33.54
Tony Sisk
so

29:33.74
Jaime G 
Yeah, I mean, that's that's

29:33.94
Tony Sisk
and venom And Venom can be impossible. If you back him up with a good healer, like I had a Cloak and Dagger player today.

29:39.65
Jaime G 
yeah

29:42.44
Tony Sisk
I was playing Venom. And I love it when they throw their little dome shield down and where I can see it. Like, oh it's right there. I just step over to the right, know top off.

29:52.21
Jaime G 
Let me just walk in there. Yeah.

29:55.56
Tony Sisk
you know As a Vanguard, you love to see that dome go up. It's like, Then we go over here, get topped off in with with Venom. you get the You pop your shield to get your bonus health.

30:08.05
Tony Sisk
That goes away. Cloak and Daggers Dome is there. You fill back up. You ultimate. You get your ultimate.

30:14.94
Jaime G 
Yeah.

30:15.56
Tony Sisk
You pop. You get 14, 1500 health. That goes back down. Get your shield again. Cloak and Daggers Dome is back. You can't kill him.

30:25.09
Jaime G 
No, right, right.

30:27.04
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I literally played a game today where like I was on the point. I think it was the Eldritch map. And you know how difficult that map can be.

30:35.45
Jaime G 
Yeah, okay.

30:37.18
Tony Sisk
yeah That thing swaps back and forth constantly.

30:37.84
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

30:40.70
Tony Sisk
um And i literally was on it the entire time. Just doing that. Because the Cloak and Dagger player just, here's your dome.

30:52.55
Tony Sisk
Here's your dome. Here's your dome. And it's like, I played, i did, yeah, yeah.

30:55.71
Jaime G 
Well, it' he knew what he was trying to do, right?

30:58.90
Tony Sisk
Never died one time. Had like 20 kills, no deaths.

31:05.69
Tony Sisk
Stood on the point the entire time. Even there was, I think there was even one point where I didn't, I was the only person like the whole, the rest of the team had wiped and I was still there and I still managed to hold the point because I had my ultimate.

31:19.39
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

31:19.53
Tony Sisk
And then I doubled, I ah dove out, I swung out, dove down on one of the health packs that's on the edge of the map. And it only heals you when you're when you're that high healthy.

31:33.32
Tony Sisk
You have 800 as your base health.

31:35.75
Jaime G 
yeah

31:36.54
Tony Sisk
It only gets you for like 200. So then I swung to the other side of the map and got the other one and then was back on a point. It was beautiful. It was like a textbook, you know, annoying venom match.

31:53.76
Jaime G 
you' you're you're getting you're You're getting dangerous, man.

31:58.88
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah, I'm loving that character. I think he he might be my new favorite character.

32:00.89
Jaime G 
Yeah.

32:03.91
Jaime G 
What?

32:05.26
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I like him better than Thor. Thor is great.

32:07.56
Jaime G 
I was just going to say, like, Thor was your guy.

32:11.37
Tony Sisk
Yeah, but now I've learned to really play Venom well. And... um Yeah, I mean, he's tough to kill.

32:22.42
Tony Sisk
It's just a matter of getting somebody that will recognize, oh, I need to hit i need to throw some heals at my and my tank over there, you know?

32:32.78
Jaime G 
Yeah.

32:33.33
Tony Sisk
so

32:34.73
Jaime G 
Yeah.

32:34.97
Tony Sisk
that's what you get in quick play, though. you know You get people that are still learning characters and never played a character before. I put, oh my gosh, dude, Jeff players out there.

32:47.08
Tony Sisk
I don't know if this was on purpose or not, but this is probably the third time in the last week I've had this happen or the Jeff on our team popped his ultimate, swallowed everybody on the point and then jumped off the edge of the map with his own team.

33:07.79
Jaime G 
No, no, that's like that's that is completely new.

33:09.03
Tony Sisk
Yes. Three times this week. I've had that happen. It happened today.

33:13.71
Jaime G 
But now.

33:14.74
Tony Sisk
I'm like, Why would you do that? Like learn to play the character, please.

33:20.85
Jaime G 
Do they not know that they can spit out their team members?

33:21.22
Tony Sisk
Like spit your teammates out and then you can do whatever you want at that point.

33:23.62
Jaime G 
Yeah.

33:25.97
Tony Sisk
But yeah, we were literally capping the point.

33:26.95
Jaime G 
Absolutely.

33:33.54
Tony Sisk
And the other team rushes. The guy also did his ultimate, swallowed everybody on the point. And I'm going, I'm watching him go to the edge. This was on the Bifrost map.

33:45.31
Tony Sisk
I watched him go to the edge.

33:45.67
Jaime G 
yeah

33:47.09
Tony Sisk
I'm like, you're going to spit us back out, right? And then he, nope. Right off the ledge with everybody.

33:54.30
Jaime G 
No.

33:56.01
Tony Sisk
I'm like, what? Why? and we lost the match because they had the advantage when that happened because we were capping. um We had just Gotten to the point where we finally had numbers.

34:13.41
Jaime G 
Right, right, right.

34:13.50
Tony Sisk
And then he swallowed us. And killed us. It was almost like he did on purpose. Which I know for a fact. I know at least one of the games I've been in this week. Our Jeff did do it on purpose.

34:24.98
Tony Sisk
For sure. So. and there're You're starting to get like troll players out there. That are doing. Stuff like that. and And their preferred character to do it with is Jeff.

34:33.19
Jaime G 
what and that that's That's when you report a player.

34:35.65
Tony Sisk
Because Jeff you can kill your own teammates. He's, I don't think, yeah. like

34:44.31
Jaime G 
Get him out of here.

34:44.69
Tony Sisk
Like, why would you do that? I'm like, what is the point?

34:50.94
Jaime G 
ah just Just to be a troll, like you said.

34:53.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah, like, oh, I'm going to go here and I'm just going kill my own team. Ha, ha, ha.

34:57.32
Jaime G 
how No. Well, I mean, okay, so I think you and i are both in a similar boat where we're still spending a huge amount of time on Marvel Rivals.

35:10.41
Jaime G 
I mean, I know I am. my My son, whenever I turn on the console, he's like, Dad, you're going to play Marvel Rivals again. I'm like, yeah, this is fun.

35:21.71
Tony Sisk
Right.

35:22.12
Jaime G 
um

35:22.25
Tony Sisk
And then when, yeah, you know,

35:24.81
Jaime G 
But... there's a There's something I started playing a bit, and I think you have too, ah which is a game that was on PS Plus last month, which was The Suicide Squad.

35:38.65
Jaime G 
And I think we were kind of hyped up about this game last year. got, you know, pretty bad reviews, had very, you know, bad sales. Warner Brothers is, I think, shutting down some of its gaming division because of the financial loss that this game did.

35:56.72
Jaime G 
And I started playing it a little bit. i'm I still want to play it. i mean, I want to play it some before it actually fades into obscurity. I mean, more than it already has. Yeah.

36:08.77
Jaime G 
But essentially, I've played it maybe for like the first 30 to 45 minutes and um it's not great.

36:20.61
Jaime G 
But like I'm still not ready to say like, oh, yeah, I can tell why this game bombed.

36:26.30
Tony Sisk
Right.

36:26.94
Jaime G 
Mm

36:27.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so that is funny because, you know, it was on PS Plus and last week when PlayStation had their outage that lasted over 24 hours, ah it was, I was like trying Marvel Rivals, couldn't get on there.

36:36.93
Jaime G 
hmm.

36:45.03
Tony Sisk
was playing Path Bex Out, couldn't get on there. no like, well, let me try... suicide Suicide Squad, because thought it was on PS Plus, and I've been wanting to play it. So let me see if where I can download it.

36:59.23
Tony Sisk
And sure enough, I was able to download it, despite the outages at PlayStation, which was weird that I was able to download it. um And then fired it up. And remember the discussion where we had about, you know it was an online game only.

37:16.64
Tony Sisk
And what there was actually an option to play offline.

37:16.82
Jaime G 
Yeah.

37:21.82
Tony Sisk
I'm like, okay, so they addressed that issue.

37:25.22
Jaime G 
They did, but it was, it was, ah it was not a, it was like you said, it was a problem at first.

37:25.21
Tony Sisk
So that was great.

37:30.69
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So you can play the game offline. ah So I fired it up, started playing. It's basically a tutorial to start things off.

37:42.27
Tony Sisk
And you're basically learning the movements and the attacks of each of the four characters, main characters.

37:48.00
Jaime G 
and or Right.

37:49.09
Tony Sisk
of the suicide squad and I made it through character's tutorial and then I pretty much caught it quits for the night I can't say that there was anything that made me go oh wow I'm really interested in playing more of this it was like

38:05.25
Jaime G 
No, mean me neither. Actually, i'm playing it. I have some reservations. There's nothing yet that's been like, oh, let me keep on playing more of this.

38:17.47
Tony Sisk
Yeah. and And maybe it's, I don't know, maybe it's the like open world design. just wasn't very appealing.

38:25.19
Jaime G 
h

38:27.31
Tony Sisk
And then I thought like a lot of of the movement and stuff was the same for each of the characters. So it's like, why did I just go through four tutorials when it's basically almost the same?

38:37.94
Jaime G 
I think they feel a little bit different, but yeah, I think you.

38:38.80
Tony Sisk
Yeah. When they do the wall climb, it's pretty much the same. They do vertical wall climbs and stuff.

38:44.70
Jaime G 
Oh, right. I mean, that mechanic is the same.

38:46.72
Tony Sisk
i mean, one guy teleports, boomerang teleports, and the speed force or whatever, the the sniper guy, he does like a funky rocket maneuver.

38:50.17
Jaime G 
Speed force, my friend.

38:56.47
Jaime G 
Rocket Pack.

38:57.75
Tony Sisk
Yeah, where it's super hard to control. ah But yeah, they they do all ah have like a like a grappling hook and then a swing and then a jump, double jump and that sort of stuff.

39:11.64
Tony Sisk
I mean, it was okay.

39:11.89
Jaime G 
Right.

39:13.03
Tony Sisk
There was nothing they go, oh, wow, this is great.

39:13.33
Jaime G 
it was ah it i mean Exactly. I think I agree with you. So far, um I can say it's an okay game.

39:21.91
Jaime G 
Which, you know, for Rocksteady to follow up on... You know, the Arkham Asylum trilogy, man, that was probably why everyone was just like, had such high expectations for this.

39:38.80
Jaime G 
And what you got is clearly not a follow up to Arkham Asylum.

39:47.42
Tony Sisk
yeah i don't understand i'm like because the the opening of the game is basically you just doing movement practice you don't get any background there's no story doesn't tell you what's going on it's just here here's a tutorial and start doing i'm like like there's not that's that's your that's your lead-in to the game like ah tutorial of just

40:02.26
Jaime G 
No.

40:13.28
Tony Sisk
Just movement. I'm like, there's no hook. There's no story. There's no, that was really weird. That seems like a very amateur way of opening ah game like that.

40:21.55
Jaime G 
And yeah, I

40:28.05
Jaime G 
Yes, yes. I thought that was questionable. And also the dialogue from all the characters except one to me feels okay. King Shark, I swear, close your eyes and you're you're you're listening to Drax the Destroyer.

40:45.32
Tony Sisk
Yeah, right. I mean, I kind of liked him probably the best of the four characters, but yeah, it was definitely like, oh yeah, it's Drax from Guardians the Galaxy.

40:52.66
Jaime G 
Well, I mean, enjoy you because...

40:58.67
Jaime G 
Absolutely. Yeah. I was like listening to him at first.

41:01.48
Tony Sisk
um

41:03.41
Jaime G 
i was like, he reminds me of a different character, but it's not a DC character. And then finally I was like, oh, Drax.

41:11.80
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But yeah, I mean, And outside of that game, the only other game I've played, I think, has been Path of Exile, which I was playing before.

41:23.67
Tony Sisk
It came out like right when... um Marvel rivals had come out and I played a little bit. Um, and I, I started playing that again yesterday and it's interesting. It's in base. It's basically early access.

41:40.27
Tony Sisk
So it's in beta and there's already been a lot of changes, to the game from what, just from where I started playing it a few months ago.

41:50.08
Jaime G 
Remind me again, this is the one that you had to like pay like a lot of money to get like the access to the early beta.

41:50.41
Tony Sisk
um

41:57.63
Jaime G 
Was that it?

42:00.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah, that was like $400 to get access, but that was at a certain level.

42:05.04
Jaime G 
Uh huh. Yeah.

42:05.64
Tony Sisk
i don't know. so I don't understand why anybody would pay $400. ah You could buy into the game for one account for like 30 bucks, which is what I did.

42:16.58
Tony Sisk
$400 would get you like, well, you'd get like multiple ah keys and you can give those away.

42:17.55
Jaime G 
Mm hmm.

42:26.34
Tony Sisk
to other people so all you need is one key that's what i got i think it's i think diablo it's a diablo game basically it's basically their direct competitor um i was only just kind so-so on the original uh path of exile which is free play both are free to play games even though it's like this is a 30 for the early access and um

42:26.39
Jaime G 
OK.

42:49.08
Jaime G 
Yeah.

42:54.36
Tony Sisk
I really have enjoyed this one, especially the second time around now. i was playing... I can't remember what they call a mercenary character before, and I went back to kind of like a mage.

43:04.19
Jaime G 
ah

43:06.70
Tony Sisk
And the... the variations of creatures and all the particle effects. It's really more complex. It's super complicated when you're looking at comparing it to Diablo. It's way, way more complicated.

43:20.30
Tony Sisk
They don't, it's like they don't explain anything. So it's like, you kind have to kind of figure things out, which is fine.

43:24.01
Jaime G 
Heh.

43:27.45
Tony Sisk
So it's like, okay, I'm intelligent enough to like redefine like little descriptions and stuff and kind of put two and two together. But I'm actually,

43:38.26
Tony Sisk
with the mage character that I just started yesterday. I'm really having a pretty good time with it. So I've actually played a different game other than Marvel Rivals.

43:48.25
Jaime G 
Yeah, well, that's great because I've been just marble rivaling it and I finished my long overdue playthrough of God of War Ragnarok, but it was honestly one of those where I was like, okay, get get through a certain point to go play Ragnarok.

44:04.24
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah, we're not... we ah We haven't been as fortunate as one of our listeners. ah Dopamine from our Discord, who has got a early access to the FromSoftware title. Was it Night Rain?

44:23.17
Jaime G 
yeah

44:23.48
Tony Sisk
The new one? Yeah, so he has early access to that game.

44:24.95
Jaime G 
Yep.

44:27.08
Tony Sisk
So I'm interested how I talk to him about you know coming on the show and like giving us some early insight on to that new From Software game. So I can't wait to hear it.

44:37.62
Jaime G 
I'd like to learn how he got into into that list.

44:41.42
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I don't know either. So we can ask him. So I'll have to figure all that out and hear what the what his thoughts are on that game. Because I think that game was one of the draft selections for J-Rod.

44:57.88
Tony Sisk
Was it J-Rod who picked that game?

44:59.21
Jaime G 
Yes, there it was.

44:59.60
Tony Sisk
Night Rain? Yep.

45:00.83
Jaime G 
Yeah.

45:01.15
Tony Sisk
So... oh

45:03.09
Jaime G 
Because I was getting a hard time saying like, hey, no, that's DLC. And everyone corrected me and said, that is not DLC.

45:09.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So speaking of our draft that we had a few weeks ago, I'm off to a roaring start. Nope, that's not true.

45:20.71
Tony Sisk
I have Civilization 7. It was one of my choices.

45:24.64
Jaime G 
Yep.

45:24.68
Tony Sisk
It's had a rough start. A lot of people have not appreciated

45:32.93
Tony Sisk
how that game um has been put together. And then my other choice was valve on Xbox that came out on the 14th.

45:41.51
Jaime G 
Yep. Yeah.

45:45.67
Tony Sisk
It's so funny. It's like, cause all the previews, everybody was talking this game up about, Oh, this is fantastic.

45:51.16
Jaime G 
yeah

45:51.87
Tony Sisk
This is great. And now the game is out. And then the same people, the same people, that's just okay.

46:01.91
Tony Sisk
ah like What? You had the game like, you oh we played it for six hours in a private event and it's fantastic. Game comes out. Oh, yeah, it's okay. Not as good as it, not as good as originally thought.

46:13.30
Jaime G 
yeah because now now they're playing it in their home and their environment. they' Nobody's paying them for this.

46:16.99
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So let me, so let me get this straight. A company invites you to this event, gives you a certain area that you can play under controlled conditions.

46:32.75
Tony Sisk
You're not allowed to talk about, you know, anything like, or show like ah your own gameplay you have to use their gameplay um that they provide you and stuff yeah this again more of what's wrong with the video game industry like yeah how you can come out on all these outlets and and all of them talk about how great it is and then as soon as the game releases the game's not that great

46:40.76
Jaime G 
Yep. Yep.

46:48.82
Jaime G 
Yeah, i mean, reviews are biased.

46:59.75
Jaime G 
Nah, it's okay.

47:01.73
Tony Sisk
Just ignore what we told you for weeks.

47:04.03
Jaime G 
Right.

47:06.03
Tony Sisk
And we pumped this game up.

47:06.42
Jaime G 
Well, we are like 10 days away, I think. 10 days away from the release of Monster Heart and Two Wilds. And I know I'm going to pick that game up.

47:18.68
Jaime G 
I mean, there's several people in the Discord who have expressed also interest around that one. And I will tell you this, man.

47:24.53
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah.

47:26.10
Jaime G 
that game That game, if you ever played a Monster Hunter game, is meant to suck you in. And you're going to be playing it for like a long time.

47:33.24
Tony Sisk
yeah

47:36.73
Tony Sisk
so yeah so this is a title that haven't really never played and but you know it's multiplayer hunting creatures doing that sort of stuff you know so it sounds fascinating I did the play i did play the beta like a month ago i i liked it I didn't get in too much of the you know

47:53.27
Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

48:03.57
Tony Sisk
hunting aspect of it. It was just kind of like a, just kind of the beginning of the beta. I didn't get that far into it, but it looked great. um

48:14.39
Tony Sisk
But we have a, we have a growing segment in our discord community. that they're gearing up, they're ready to form parties and jump into this game.

48:25.14
Tony Sisk
So, you know, this could be one of those games. Obviously, say you have to buy the game for whatever, what, $69 or whatever. But, you know, I mean, straight into it and getting into it, another

48:37.81
Jaime G 
Oh.

48:40.23
Jaime G 
Oh, by the way, the game itself is $69 because I was just looking at this today. If you want to get the Steelbook Edition, which is nothing more than just the same game with a Steelbook on it, it only costs $5 more.

48:55.87
Jaime G 
For five bucks more, I will get the steelbook.

48:58.37
Tony Sisk
Oh, okay. That's not bad.

49:00.74
Jaime G 
No, no, it's it's actually a great deal.

49:01.06
Tony Sisk
ah So, yeah, pretty good. So, yeah, so if you're looking, you know, to join in on the hunts and stuff, check out our Discord.

49:12.62
Tony Sisk
We got some groups of people that are going to be teaming up in there and doing that. So I'm looking forward to that. trying to figure out some way of like, you know, adding that little extra kind of like we did with the road for the road to goad for more of rivals, you know, kind of do something similar little in discord competition.

49:36.89
Tony Sisk
don't know how it's going to work though.

49:37.04
Jaime G 
People are going to be bragging about armor sets or like, you know, this rare thing that they picked up that nobody else has

49:44.79
Tony Sisk
yeah so don't know how it's gonna work because i've never played a game and i don't know what kind of like the how it works so i'm interested to find out and put something together for that

49:58.50
Jaime G 
You know, it boils down to you're going to be hunting the same monster like 50 times to complete an armor set

50:07.86
Tony Sisk
yeah and it could be like oh first First person to complete the armor set, you know. Hey, you're the you're the monster hunter. You're the good to game radio discord monster hunter.

50:14.59
Jaime G 
Right. I mean, that's what we're going to be all bragging about.

50:17.75
Tony Sisk
Propagandum poster going up. Showing your achievements.

50:22.49
Jaime G 
Yeah.

50:23.80
Tony Sisk
We need a hall of fame. We need a discord hall of fame.

50:24.66
Jaime G 
Yep.

50:27.32
Jaime G 
Discord Hall of Famer.

50:29.66
Tony Sisk
Right? um Hey, we got a grand master Marvel Rivals player in our discord.

50:36.72
Jaime G 
It ain't me.

50:36.72
Tony Sisk
ah man Is it... Is it...

50:40.64
Tony Sisk
Who was it? Manda? The guy that had the Chinese name.

50:45.40
Jaime G 
Oh, man, I couldn't figure out how to even add him as ah as a friend because I i was like, yeah forget about it. How am I going to type that in?

50:55.03
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I know we have...

50:55.74
Jaime G 
He ended up adding me as a friend because yeah I was never going to figure out his.

50:56.87
Tony Sisk
yeah Right, yeah. You did the same with me. I'm like... I know we have one diamondme in place have one Diamond player and we have... I'm pretty sure he says Green Master.

51:09.00
Tony Sisk
He put it in the Discord.

51:09.73
Jaime G 
Whoa.

51:10.25
Tony Sisk
so

51:13.15
Jaime G 
Whoa. I mean, honestly, whoa.

51:14.20
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

51:16.73
Tony Sisk
Right. Put the rest of this to shame. And he solo queued for that because he was telling somebody that the other day in the Discord. That he solo queued support.

51:27.34
Jaime G 
It's the only way to make it happen, man.

51:37.80
Jaime G 
Well, that is awesome to hear that we have somebody in our Discord that made it that far.

51:38.13
Tony Sisk
Let's see.

51:43.99
Tony Sisk
Yep, it was... got the name. Mandarin Slayer. And he posted his Grandmaster 3.

51:55.84
Jaime G 
redmons Wow.

51:58.86
Tony Sisk
So...

52:00.06
Jaime G 
i'm I'm shocked.

52:03.80
Tony Sisk
He said he's been playing support, learned Invisible Woman and and Luna for the most part, and a little bit of cloak.

52:12.22
Jaime G 
I am shocked.

52:12.66
Tony Sisk
So...

52:14.20
Jaime G 
Okay.

52:16.22
Tony Sisk
Congratulations.

52:17.58
Jaime G 
Yeah, we got one.

52:19.14
Tony Sisk
We get him. Yeah. yeah That's for Mandarin Slayer.

52:28.12
Tony Sisk
All right. So, yeah, I think once that season resets on 21st, you know, government we'll be back into the, in the competitive ranks to see if I've gotten any better.

52:43.07
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

52:44.69
Jaime G 
Oh, you know, we're goingnna we're going to be talking about this next time about the new characters and how they play. Has the meta changed? yeah da Yada, yada, yada.

52:52.66
Tony Sisk
Oh, so definitely the meta's going to change.

52:55.55
Jaime G 
Yeah.

52:55.95
Tony Sisk
It's definitely changing. Cloak and Dagger is going to be nerfed. Moon Knight's going to be nerfed.

53:05.03
Jaime G 
I hope not. I hope not.

53:09.71
Tony Sisk
His ultimate's going to be nerfed.

53:10.19
Jaime G 
I hope not.

53:11.64
Tony Sisk
Maybe not anything else about him, but his his ultimate is definitely going get nerfed. And they're probably going to nerf, what's her name? The one that was ah Storm.

53:23.79
Tony Sisk
the one that was the bottom of the barrel with the black widow. And then the season one got a reset and then she got all the buffs. Now she's like super powerful.

53:33.66
Jaime G 
Yeah.

53:36.07
Tony Sisk
They're probably bringing her back down. So.

53:39.68
Jaime G 
Yeah, yeah. Well, let's see. it's We're only a couple days away, so we're going to be able to see this and talk about this firsthand.

53:48.12
Tony Sisk
Yep. All right. That's all got for tonight.

53:50.58
Jaime G 
Cool.

53:51.96
Tony Sisk
Anything else?

53:53.36
Jaime G 
No, man. That's it for me, too.

53:55.22
Tony Sisk
All right. Well, thanks for joining me again.

53:58.18
Jaime G 
It's always a pleasure.

53:59.87
Tony Sisk
Yep. So for the listeners out there, you haven't been a part of our discord or want to join our discord, be sure to check out the link in the show description and jump into the discord. We're always looking for new members and get in on all the action going on in there.

54:19.32
Tony Sisk
ah Be sure to like, subscribe, whatever platform you're listening to. We are still holding strong in our Good Pods rankings. Number four, independent Xbox podcast.

54:30.79
Jaime G 
which which Which boggles my mind.

54:30.88
Tony Sisk
ah and Number six, PlayStation. oh And yeah, we're ranked pretty well across a bunch of different categories.

54:41.60
Tony Sisk
Marvel, but a Marvel ah podcast. and Obviously, don't know why it would be Marvel, so we don't talk anything Marvels.

54:51.89
Jaime G 
Just Marvel Vibbles.

54:55.87
Tony Sisk
Right? All right. So, thanks again for joining us. we yeah We'll catch you on the next one.

55:02.98
Jaime G 
See you, man.