Current Events > What ever happened to Multiversus? Seems like it died.

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I have no more hope in another non-Smash platform fighter after Multiversus. In theory, they have everything the other Smash clones always lacked. The budget, the attention to detail, the star power. It has all those things yet it still dropped the ball? How? It's sad in my opinion. No one even talks about it anymore even though Mark hamill's Joker is about to be in.

No shielding lol

wake me up if they add metal gear

Starks posted...

No shielding lol

huh

Wow, only about 900 playing on Steam. Not techincally dead but way lower than before and close to life support.

The closest thing to a smash like game do well that I've seen is brawlhalla

Did they ever add any new characters?

Basically the normal game sucked hard. Imagine smash but all A attacks are replaced with Falcon Punch.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/5/AACJG3AAAEAf.png

Trickfinger posted...

The budget, the attention to detail, the star power. It has all those things yet it still dropped the ball? How?

To quote Robert Jebediah Freeman: "But it was bo-ring, Hu-ey!"

It wasn't very fun

Timing, if this game released years earlier it would have legs to potentially match smash. The market dosnt have room for real competition right now.

It ignored the platform where the "smash" audience already is.
Also nobody trusts "free-to-play" anymore.

Questionmarktarius posted...

It ignored the platform where the "smash" audience already is.

This is very true. Felt like a missed opportunity to not be on switch. I played it for a bit on ps4.

I think a big part of it was the same thing that doomed Nick All-Stars. They tried to appeal too much to the hardcore tournament crowd whose primary stance was "no items, no hazards" as if they were the majority, when in reality a lot of Smash players enjoy the havoc that can result from those things.

The tournament crowd can disable items and hazards if they want to, but to not have them available at all for the rest of the players cuts into your player base considerably.

TMOG posted...

I think a big part of it was the same thing that doomed Nick All-Stars. They tried to appeal too much to the hardcore tournament crowd whose primary stance was "no items, no hazards" as if they were the majority, when in reality a lot of Smash players enjoy the havoc that can result from those things.

The tournament crowd can disable items and hazards if they want to, but to not have them available at all for the rest of the players cuts into your player base considerably.

Ya and with all the different shows they have access to they could have had some really fun item ideas

itachi15243 posted...

The closest thing to a smash like game do well that I've seen is brawlhalla

I like Brawlhalla more than Smash at this point. Smash got too sluggish for me.

TMOG posted...

I think a big part of it was the same thing that doomed Nick All-Stars. They tried to appeal too much to the hardcore tournament crowd whose primary stance was "no items, no hazards" as if they were the majority, when in reality a lot of Smash players enjoy the havoc that can result from those things.

Chasing that esports popularity.

TMOG posted...

To quote Robert Jebediah Freeman: "But it was bo-ring, Hu-ey!"

lmfao nailed it

The game was not good, which I tried saying from the start. It tried to hide that with better graphics, and iconic characters, but Smash does a lot of things right. Smash, also, isn't just a good game, but it looks polished, feels polished, sounds great, etc.

People take Smash for granted.

Not to mention, we should NOT be playing any F2P games if you know what's good for gaming.

Not putting it on the Switch was a really weird decision

Um, guys...

They didn't "ignore" the Switch.

Because of the Switch's garbage online infrastructure, the game literally wouldn't work on that platform.

Trickfinger posted...

Because of the Switch's garbage online infrastructure, the game literally wouldn't work on that platform.

There is an alternative though:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/0/AAEhCpAAEJfQ.jpg

It had a good run. Nothing will ever come close to smash so that bar is too high. Any smash-like my friends and I play will end but smash is always the fallback.

Trickfinger posted...

Um, guys...

They didn't "ignore" the Switch.

Because of the Switch's garbage online infrastructure, the game literally wouldn't work on that platform.

Stuff like Fortnite works fine. Rocket league.

What's special about multiversus

The characters. Thats the whole point.

Dreepapult posted...

Stuff like Fortnite works fine. Rocket league.

What's special about multiversus

...because fighting games use peer to peer netcode, not server based.

LOL

And those games are nothing like Multiversus anyway.

You can't tell me with a straight face you think a 4 player cross platform match of Multiversus on Switch would run smooth.

Trickfinger posted...

...because fighting games use peer to peer netcode, not server based.

LOL

And those games are nothing like Multiversus anyway.

You can't tell me with a straight face you think a 4 player cross platform match of Multiversus on Switch would run smooth.

It would run at least as smooth as Smash.
Probably better than Smash because JP devs are allergic to good netcode.

It would run horribly because the Switch online infrastructure is garbage.

Smash isn't cross platform and it doesn't even use rollback... it's delay based netcode.

You guys are losing me

itachi15243 posted...

The closest thing to a smash like game do well that I've seen is brawlhalla

Rivals of Aether

Played the shit out of it in beta and a little bit when the game first came out, but honestly the monetization scheme was a complete turnoff. As soon as I saw how big the battle passes were, how many unlocks were in them, and how unbelievably grindy the game was to advance in stages I dropped it and never looked back.

I found myself playing way too many games with characters I didn't want to play as because the win bonus is inconsequential compared to doing the daily and weekly challenges, and it was around the time I realized that less than half the matches I was playing were fun.

I guess I don't know enough about how online stuff works. I admit I was incorrect

No worries brother

i think people are turned off that you have to pay for it to get more than the cycled characters. Ive seen alot of people say the full game should be entirely free for some reason
plus its only looked at as a Smash clone so kind of living in its shadow
I think the Nickelodeon game left a sour taste in peoples mouths so they didnt even want to bother with this one
and big name streamers moved on so that brought a huge crowd with them

just some guesses

AbstraktProfSC2 posted...

I think the Nickelodeon game left a sour taste in peoples mouths so they didnt even want to bother with this one

I thought it was the opposite; that people started paying attention to it because it seemed to be making all the right moves after Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl crashed and burned.

The fact is, Nick all stars is a better game than Multiversus. It was made by a studio not given any money, and they made what they could work.

PiOverlord posted...

The fact is, Nick all stars is a better game than Multiversus.

No.