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I played it in the "open beta" two years ago. Sad that it's come to this, the game had a lot going for it but.. having all characters locked on start then weirdly shutting the game down for an extended time then coming back with everything somehow worse... everyone saw this coming.

At least it will stil be playable.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (10 children)

The game wasn't great, but was entertaining at the start of the open beta. I think they did a decent job with the characters, the style, and the moves like Shaggy throwing his sandwich. I had hopes that they would improve the netcode and hitboxes, but still got like 40 hours of fun out of it playing in a group with a friend.

The microtransactions were bad to start and only got worse. Charging for seasons in a beta? Stupidly high priced skins? Ugh. Then the went away for a while and the official release made the game playworse, microtransactions bascially assaulted you constantly, and any shred of fun was gone. They did the opposite of the feedback from the beta to chase microtransactions and that is why the game is dead already. They actively killed it.

Now I'm sad again.

[–] Gullible 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you’re still hankering for something similar to super smash bros that you can play online on pc, slap city is decent. However, melee+slippi is still a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has that improved at all? Last I tried items were disabled and it was match after match of Falco doing the same move over and over.

[–] Gullible 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gotta find a person that you like to match up against or you’ll find sweaty melee elitists. Try an online melee group if you don’t know anyone, or maybe you could try making a Lemmy community. Most play without items so items are completely disabled by default. Not a long process to change that, though. Just don’t use this information for evil, only against friends.

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