I picked this back up because I really love the 90s X-Men comics.
Surprisingly, I was able to get past my seething hatred of moronic people in team-based competitive games and have played it for about 30 hours now. I spent some time on Psylocke, Moon Knight, and Venom, but ultimately settled on trying to master Hulk and I have gotten pretty decent with him.
I'm at Platinum I, but I think I would have gotten a little higher by now if getting out of Silver hadn't been like trying to cure cancer.
Jesus Christ, what a maddening experience. Once I got out of Silver I flew through gold and the first tier of Plat. I still see A LOT of dumb shit in Plat, but at least most people are fairly competent and most people do listen after I go off on them. Even if they do tell me I am a prick. I definitely can be, but I'm right and we usually win the match after being corrected.
It's usually simple stuff, but absolutely maddening. For example - when you're in a map trying to hold the objective, nearly every group will immediately engage an enemy the moment they see them and even chase them down despite the fact that it's a completely pointless endeavor. In fact, it's counter-productive. I absolutely rage and lose my shit when people are fucking around in random hallways fighting for absolutely NO purpose. Another is people running back to the engagement one by one after they die. Time after time I have to tell people to wait for their team. Or, at least, 3 other people before they assault. I know I get punished, but I literally just afk when I get those kinds of Ult feeders.
Anyway, game is fun, but I can tell it has a very limited life-span for me because I couldn't care less about the highest tiers of PvP and once I get tired of jumping 100' on top of people's heads, I'll probably be done.