Ricochet Squad: PvP Shooter

I am a free to play player for the most part. I enjoyed the game at first, however, I quickly realized that the game has a terrible gameplay loop. You are able to rapidly rank up by investing in one character. However, once you get to a certain point you got stomped by players who have level 15 characters. When you’re not getting stomped, then you are queued into bot games which makes the game not fun. You do not have any autonomy in terms of what characters you unlock nor the abilities. It’s frustrating because it feels like the game randoms pushes you to play certain characters. Players should be able to unlock and level up the characters they like or meta if they want to be more competitive. Naturally you think let’s progressing through the battle pass. However, there’s problems with that too because in order to progress the battle pass, you need to complete quest and the quest are assigned to characters that you either don’t have leveled up or you don’t care to play and when you’re completing quest naturally you’re going to lose because those characters are under leveled so you lose rank progression, which is another source of progression. So there’s another source of frustration because then you gotta waste time leveling backing up. Now, if you’re considering buying gems to finish level up a character, you realize that the company is so greedy that they don’t even give you enough gems to completely buy a battle pass or resources you want. Leaving short 10 gems or so. Overall, this leads to a terrible gameplay loop and it makes a game un enjoyable because you’re stuck without making much progress, you can unlock any new characters and on top of that you can’t even play the characters that you wanna play because the game gives you random resources characters that you don’t even play.

I love this game. With almost over 100 hours clocked in, I would highly recommend this game. I see it as a more complicated brawl stars in a way, but more rewarding. Some things I would like to be issued though: More rewards to rank up characters. I am in Diamond 1 and I’m playing against the highest rank players in the world that have maxed out characters and perks. My characters highest level is 12. All of my characters only have 2 perks at this stage and hours played, unfair. I cannot stress how impossible it is to win a game against people that are a 3 stack with maxed characters and all perks. Aside from having perks than me and my team, they also have more health and dps leaving us at an outright unfair disadvantage from the start. This is more prevalent in the higher ranks but it definitely needs to be addressed. Oh and Cali 100% needs a major damage nerf or range nerf. Or make her invis only last like 3 seconds. She gets a get out of jail free card, faster health regen, high dmg and range. Other than that this game is seriously exceptionally fun with a learning curve and skill gap. Despite being under leveled and less perks I have beaten countless top 100 players while still being at a clear disadvantage.

Cons: no option to turn off autofire. Matching system is all kinds of off (u can be a day 1 player already matching up with a top of the leaderboard player). Loading a match does not guarantee playing with irl player and will quickly load a match with bots oppose to waiting for a human to join (no way to get around this even with more players). Bots will sabotage and also throw a game (you could be carrying the match and then the bots will decide to just hang back and watch you get ganged up on at the last match point). Pro?: although the matching system is immensely unfair the game is still a tad fun (what’s the point of a ranking system if you will be match with someone far higher?). It isn’t worthy of much of your time but it has potential to demand it should they address the above and some of the player feedback on discord. Also the characters are all creative and unique. With that said remedy isn’t much of a support character and needs to be reimagined (her utility is useful-ish but not in a bots “hands”). Camera angles are great because it changes per character you decide to use (slow clap:)