u/Veneels

TLDR: I hate this “play these characters or fucking die” meta.

Mag is good for the hundredth season in a row. Thing walks down everything and everyone. Venom is fucking immortal. Emma is Emma. That’s great. Wanna know who MY mains are? :D

Cap. Thor. Tankpool. Strange. And 3/4 of these picks are in arguably shit positions. Cap just dies, and does absolutely nothing for damage. Thor is Cap except I can exist in their backline a little longer. But Thing exists. Tankpool is too mediocre for most of the game to compete with the most absolutely busted and broken characters ever, Strange usually works out for me, but everyone is so busted that their damage genuinely eats my shield before I can get much value out of it. And, again, Thing (who can just punch through my shield and have his way with me) exists!

And god forbid my team just happens to decide that instead of another tank we can’t possibly play the game without a third dps! Because that will certainly help us push up! A third DPS that goes 3-7 and then switches to tank in the last 2 minutes of the round! I love duelist mains!!! thank you!!!

But I digress. Sure, I could play Mag, I could play Thing, I could play Emma. But I GENUINELY don’t want to. Mag will never, ever be fun for me, i’m sorry. Why are all the most fun tanks in the worst state ever right now, and then people force you to solo tank regardless. Why is the current meta literally just “play this character or suffer”??? I tried out Thing because I was genuinely getting destroyed and it’s the most braindead mindnumbing experience ever. You charge up your punch and shit dies and you don’t. That’s literally it. That’s all you do.

And the strategist role almost has this same issue where if your ult isn’t something you get every team fight that makes people immortal then your character is just shit. But that’s a conversation for another time dawg.

Like it’s bad, dude. I don’t know if it’s me or the character but i can’t exist in the enemy backline for more than literally 3 seconds without dying practically instantly. It’s like everyone has some sort of mobility and some sort of CC, or they’ll out-damage you completely.

When I say I feel like a ghost on the battlefield I mean it 🫩

I’ll throw punches that do jack shit, throw my shield for it to do nothing, punch the supports a couple times and they just shrug it off, try to block damage with my own shield but it disappears in literally half a second. I can’t even peel for my own supports because who the fuck is scared of Cap’s tickle damage?

And again, I don’t know if it’s just me being ass or the character being ass, but i’m really starting to think it’s the character. If I don’t have damage, and I don’t have survivability, and I don’t have any sort of presence, then what do I have? What’s the point in even playing this character? And it sucks because he’s literally one of the most enjoyable tanks to me alongside Tankpool and Thor who also aren’t having the best time right now it seems. 😕

Usually I go with Pistols first for the AOE, then dashes, and then I guess ult? then everything else is kinda whatever the match calls for but I always upgrade shield last. It always works out though in my experience, and personally the pistols deal pretty nice damage anyway especially with Hela team up and headshots.

Is it optimal though? Or should I be upgrading other things first? I find that I get my upgrades pretty quick with this method tbh, since the AOE from the gun upgrade gets me a lot of final hits and what not.

I wanna start by saying that obviously hairstyles shouldn’t be exclusive to one race, at least as far as Saiyans and Earthlings (or even Androids if it actually ends up happening) and there’s nothing explicitly saying that there are full blooded Saiyan time patrollers in DBXV.

However, Saiyans in general are notorious for their dramatically large spiky hairstyles. When I look at the hairstyles (more particularly the male ones) the only hairstyles that I could even remotely consider “Saiyan” hairs are like maybe 5, in the sense that they’re kinda spiky. But even then, given the lack of spiky hairstyles in this game, I can rarely ever look at someone’s CaC and go “yeah that guy/girl’s totally a saiyan” Y’know? Like there’s plenty of hairstyles in XV2 but only a small number of them REALLY fit Saiyan CaC’s if you’re trying to make them look somewhat lore accurate. The other hairstyles are either extremely weird looking ones that nobody is gonna use or more Earthling coded ones. Which, I do like to see, but it just feels extremely disproportionate, at least IMO.

I dunno, maybe it’s just a small nitpick, and i’m not sure if anyone else cares about it, but it’s part of the reason that the “Rage Broly” wig is so sought out for. It’s basically one of the only hairstyles that fit Saiyans, and it’s a WIG.

And another thing, the female hairstyles. I like that they also have access to a good amount of the Male hairstyles, but I hate that the Males don’t get the same treatment. The Gine hair, for example, literally should’ve been accessible to Male avatars as well. You can’t even give the excuse that it’s a feminine hairstyle, because End of Z Goten has that exact same hair 😭

But yeah, that’s my little rant. What do you guys think? Should they make more male hairstyles similar to Vegito, Gogeta, and “Rage” Broly? And more Female hairstyles like Kale and Caulifla’s? Or am I just nitpicking lol.

TLDR: Saiyans and Earthlings should both get more hairstyles that make them easier to tell apart.

MY GODDDDDD. If they didn’t deliver with the characters for this DLC they sure as FUCK delivered with this banger of a soundtrack. HOW IS EVERY SINGLE SONG SO INSANE????

Every new song they introduced with Future Saga as a whole has been absolutely amazing. I don’t know who they’ve got in the studio, but they need to stay there. Like, forever. And if the soundtrack is this good for a couple of DLC’s i could only imagine how insane XV3’s soundtrack is gonna be.

But please, in a future update i beg, let us use the soundtrack as battle music. It’s just too good.

It looks promising from a story standpoint. I’m prepared for how crazy this final battle is gonna be. However, from the content they showed us and, just recently, gameplay of SKoT, my concerns seem to have been validated, at least for me.

“We already got a USV Supreme Kai of Time, what could they possibly do different here?” and wanna know what they did different? Nothing 💀. I mean, not in a literal sense. Chronoa’s voice lines are really cool, and her old moves have new functions, sorta. But… the USV version of Kairos cannon is basically just the same thing with a different aura and extra ki blasts… extra ki blasts which could already be used in the original version… Holy inscription basically works the same but with extra ranged slashes and a different aura. AND TIMESPACE IMPACT IS JUST TIMESPACE IMPACT WITH NOTHING ELSE??? IT’S JUST A RECOLOR OF THE OG SKILL 😭

Now usually I don’t just immediately start doom posting and shit, I think it’s lame to not give things a chance, but it’s been 3 days of bullshit that THEY, THE DEVELOPERS, HYPED UP.

Day 1 was the “ultra battles” or whatever tf. And honestly i’m looking forward to them personally, but again, nothing major. Yesterday was straight bs and unanimously hated, because who cares about being able to watch loading screens?? No one asked for that feature, and we technically already had it. But i wasn’t going to write off the DLC just yet, because we still had today to see some gameplay… And we genuinely just get the same damn character but recolored (and before you say that’s ALL USV’s, that’s not the case at all. In fact the only other person this applies to is Jiren and dare I say she’s almost if not JUST as bad as he is.)

Now listen, we’ve had two different Ultra Instinct Goku’s. Two. The third will have his gameplay revealed tomorrow. I pray to god that he either has some original attacks, attacks heavily based on things from the manga, or SOMETHING that isn’t just a straight up recolor.

But all in all, it’s sad to say that i get more concerned with each reveal. We still haven’t seen any Fu gameplay. We still haven’t ACTUALLY seen the USH transformation for CaC’s, and it’s slowly starting to concern me if i’m being honest. But hey, they also haven’t showcased all the other things in the DLC… but then again if the “free update” comes tomorrow, which it should because the DLC drops wednesday, then what are they waiting for??? And if there IS no free update then i’d assume they’d show the rest of the DLC content (clothes, parallel quests, etc) tomorrow alongside Goku’s trailer right??? But I don’t know, they’re lowering my expectations more and more.

And the worst part? You can’t even say the fanbase overhyped it. THEY are the ones that made such a big deal, “drip feeding” what we THOUGHT would be actual interesting info. They hyped up every reveal just for 3/4 of them to be bullshit. Here’s to hoping Goku is cool, with their current track record for this DLC, who tf am I kidding 😐

TLDR: USV Supreme Kai of Time feels extremely underwhelming, the DLC genuinely seems unimpressive so far for a “final” DLC, and hopefully Goku and whatever else they have in their back pocket can save it.

Like I don’t know if it’s just me but Super Saiyan God is one of my favorite awoken skills in the entire game. It’s so satisfying to time your attacks just right and be able to follow up right after, especially since your attacks have less end lag and do more damage with the correct timing. You can literally chain together combo after combo with a single dash cancel because of how fast Super Saiyan God is. Man it’s just so well designed. The lack of buffs to supers mean nothing with how much basic attack damage you do. You’re literally a walking ult. If you have the right super soul you’ll still have very good damage with your supers while also having insane basic attack damage, which can make for some insane builds. I personally like using Gotenks’ super soul to truly maximize the potential of SSG, but I digress.

I know they’re changing a lot in XV3, but if there’s anything I want to stay the EXACT same, it’s the design of Super Saiyan God. This awoken skill is amazing. Don’t change a single thing (unless it’s a buff, can’t complain there tbh)

On the bright side, according to Globku, Soul Change is just going to replace your awakening ability.

My take away from that is it’ll be like an awoken skill, completely optional, and universal for all races. Instead of using your own transformation, you will also have the OPTION (KEYWORD, *OPTION* , MEANING OPTIONAL) to just transform into a different character. This could honestly be good for early game or if you just don’t like the awoken skill your race has. (obviously though, no Saiyan main is gonna want to use this awoken 💀)

As for everything else though, it’s just very….different? There’s no stamina, just ki. Supers and ults don’t use ki, but now they’re on cooldowns. It genuinely just looks like they mixed XV2 with DB Kakarot. I’m not gonna say it doesn’t look good, because it looks great. Great graphics and visuals, gameplay looks very smooth (I LOVE how there’s ACTUAL ground combat and the gameplay still seems fast). But again, it’s extremely different from what we’ve gotten in the previous two games. They didn’t just “upgrade” what was already there, they seemingly reworked EVERYTHING about it mechanically, and I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about it. Like it’ll definitely take some getting used to, but it’s almost like it won’t really “feel” like Xenoverse anymore. I don’t know how to feel about it, but what’s everyone else’s thoughts?

Did you know that Lovely Cyclone can actually never be obtained in the game? :D Neither can Power Rush, or Meditation, or Revenge Death Ball! These attacks are actually myths and cannot be obtained by your CaC! 😁 It is literally impossible to get any of these skills!

No but on a serious note, I know these skills are possible to obtain. It’s just so annoying that you can do a quest over and over, get a Z Rank over and over, and still never get the damn skill. What is it gonna take bro 🫩

Anyways, what’s a skill you guys have been trying to get forever?

They should be reworked or just straight up given to us.
Most of them are literally either

1. A version of a skill that is actually viable

2. An anime accurate version of the skill that is literally just what the skill should’ve been in the first place.

Or

3. A skill that literally should’ve came with the character that they just never added.

I feel like this applies to like 99% of the Festival Skills, but I’m just gonna talk about one for now.

God Punisher (Festival)

It is so stupid to me that instead of reworking the original skill to what it should’ve been (which is literally what they did to begin with, just give it to CaC’s as well and get rid of the bullshit version?) they just leave us with the inferior version, and only through hours of grinding can you obtain it for a single cast character.

To an extent, I understand it’s to make cast characters unique. But when this entire game’s selling point is the CaC’s and you’ve already reworked the skill to make it accurate and better overall… why leave CaC’s out? The cast characters’ movesets themselves make them unique enough, I think they’ll live if they give us the damn festival skills.

I’m especially talking about God Punisher. The version we have for CaC’s has pretty meh damage, and the animation is super innacurate. The festival version is literally, and I mean literally the exact opposite. It’s the same skill with better and an accurate animation. But for whatever reason instead of reworking OG God Punisher or giving us the festival version for CaC’s, Bandai says “Let’s just give it to Blue Gogeta and call it a day.”

And I’m sure some people are gonna be like “well what about the ones who like the OG version?” Easy fix. “God Punisher (Legacy)” for the old one, and just “God Punisher” for the accurate version.

I could go on all day about the festival skills, but what do you guys think? Should we get the festival version of these skills/have these skills reworked, or do you guys genuinely want CaC’s to keep the inferior version?

There are plenty of skills in this game that i feel could’ve been cool but either aren’t viable, are impossible to land/use without strenuous conditions, or mediocre in damage.

Divine Ray Bomb
God of Destruction’s Might
God of Destruction’s Menace
Atomic Blast
Burning Spin
Blue Hurricane

Just to name a few.

It sucks though because a lot of these could’ve genuinely been cool if they actually worked 💀 some of them, (like Atomic Blast) aren’t even viable in PVE, that’s how you know it’s bad.

But what are you guys’ thoughts? What skills disappointed you because of its damage and/or lack of combo potential?

Like I get that everyone is hype to see more XV3, I am too. But the thing is, it wouldn’t make any logical sense to drop more info on XV3 without us knowing how XV2 ends. I feel like us getting any more info on XV3 (like antagonist(s), story, character reveals, etc) would spoil FSC4.

I can’t see a hypothetical XV3 trailer that would give us info without spoiling or giving away the ending of XV2. They still want people to buy the DLC, and if they already know how it ends then they’ll probably be less likely to spend money on it considering the next game is coming.

From a marketing perspective, them announcing XV3 is definitely going to get people interested in buying the final DLC for XV2, in order to see how we ended up in a completely different area that is (seemingly) unrelated to the time patrol. There are plenty of people that are actually just getting into the XV series just from the ANNOUNCEMENT of XV3, so it’s definitely working. And I’m sure as hell buying the last DLC.

I say all this to say, don’t expect anything on XV3 until Future Saga Chapter 4 drops. I’m 99% sure they won’t give us anything on it before then, it just wouldn’t make sense.

DROP THE LAUNCH TRAILER FOR FSC4 TOMORROW, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS (yes i know nothing’s guaranteed but let me dream 🫩)

I’m genuinely starving to see what we’ll get this DLC, how the story’s gonna unfold, and how it leads in to XV3. It’ll also allow us to make a bit more speculation on what to expect from XV3’s story, so i’m excited to see people make vids on it as well.

I honestly think it’ll have something to do with toki toki’s egg, but what do you guys think?