Fax! I spent 100+ on this game. If I count my brothers purchase which I am cause I also bought his copy. That's $179. On my life I'm hating all of you 😭💀
It’s the lack of single player content. Dragon Ball Tenkaichi series has ALWAYS been a single player game. The focus and love from single player game modes is what carried the games. Sparking Zero unfortunately relies on online way too much. When your entire game focuses on online which is plagued in spammers, cheeses and disconnects it’s not surprise a lot of us quit. I hope they reconsider their plans for DLC and add game MODES instead of just characters
@@TheLuthorri So much this! All they had to do was port those games and add online to it. That's what the petitions were asking for all those years ago. They should've given us what we wanted, saw what made those games great when seeing how people played online and made a sequel to add to it and balance it out, which could've been SZ.
Like what? There's still single battles, team battles, and story mode, and the tournament mode has even more options now. I'm actually legitimately asking what's missing?
Just like everyone else, I was all aboard the hype train on this one. Was counting the days, took time off of work. I just got Platinum on the game last night....and I'll say what we're all thinking....Damn....it's just not the same is it. Which is okay....but the heart and soul of Tenkaichi was playing with friends and building the memories. People are so disconnected now, and I would of given anything to share this experience with someone else. But going online, taking 5 minutes to find a match, going up against SSJ4 Gogeta and before almost clutching out a victory, the opponent rage quits, left us unsatisfied, empty, and angry. This could easily be remedy with playing with a friend. It goes for any online game, we're so disconnected from each other, personally. We loved Dragon Ball Z, but we loved more, the memories we made along the way. That wasn't replicated here, and that's truly what was missing.
@@RezPhoenixDefinitely, I want to get all achievements also but i want to play the characters i used in fighterz and mained. I mainly wanna use roshi or jackie chun but I’ll definitely get murdered so i’ll wait til me and my bro can play it together online to worry about it.
@@brandonmorales8814Roshi is kinda busted not gonna lie. Just do wat everyone else does and spam ur unblockable😂 im pretty sure ur gonna win more than half of ur matches. Some people dont know defense, combos, or movement. So you can probably dust half them people you run into💯
All I was getting were fusion players until I broke and picked one myself, immediately getting pitched against a Chaotzu. Instant karma. Plus he even beat me up. Couldn't be mad, all he had was my respect. Where ever you are, hats off man.
It sucks cause the guy doing it was trying to spread awareness of the issue. Despite how it ruined the tournament it definitely helped bring forth an issue with the game for all to see in a way to where Bandai should most definitely not ignore it.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Bandai did not make this game to have a competitive scene. It’s the community pushing for it. This game shouldn’t even have a ranked system. The older games were so much fun because people only played with friends
Globku hosted a 2,000 dollar community tournament with way better rulesets and knowledge of the game then bandais tournament, how can bandai do a tournament and not know what to ban or not allow is beyond me when they had a whole month of community feedback
@@Hieronymous_Flexplaying with friends online is quite literally playing like the good ole days. It’s the only reason I play lol. I don’t play ranked too much since it’s a toxic cesspool.
I was on the hype train and I'm still on that train. To be fair I've never touched online though that's what Street Fighter and Tekken are for. There's cheese in those games too. R.I.P to Chester
That's what ppl need to understand. Cheese is in every fighting game. You'll always see those few op characters per match rather than the whole cast because people want to win no matter what. It's better to play with friends if you don't like the cheese. Simple! The game is still hype. Especially in discords.
@@souljaleo7192 you don't play other fighting games, the cheese in those games get patched out/nerfed. Even smash bros which is known as THE party game would do patches and nerf broken/overpowered characters so people can have fun.
@@zeer7676 I do play other fighting games. That's true patches do come, after the game drops. We've only gotten one patch so far. I'm saying to give the game time, it's not like we ain't been thru this before. In the mean time play with the homies and stay positive.
Ranked is a cesspool. I’m S2 in singles and S5 in DP, and its highkey the worst online experience i’ve ever had in any game. Ragequitting is more common than actually finishing matches, no one actually plays to have fun, its constant sweat and cheese, and when it doesnt work, folks plug. The lobby system is AHHH 💀, there’s no casual quickplay, and even when trying to chill in player matches, dudes STILL try to cheese for a quick W, its insane. 90% of the cast is unused, and there are bugs and glitches galore. There’s a severe lack of offline content, and episode battle has no replay value. Hopping on SZ is just becoming a chore, feels like i’m putting in another shift after I just got off work.
DP battle ranked is by far the absolute worse experience and I've played Last of Us part 2 on grounded plus lol single battle online is better at least for me
Seriously(talking about the bugs) I’ll be mid combo and it just drops. Like my character just stops swinging on combos I’ve completed before and it’s so annoying
@@Iz_zYeah, and then you get sonic swayed and lose 2 ki bars to a guy mashing perception because the game dropped your input. There’s also a gamebreaking bug where you can sonic sway if someone’s hitting your back, but then it freezes the whole game and neither of you can move after it. Also, if Goku used Wildsense on dying namek, he gets stuck in a wall. On stages where there’s uneven terrain like open field and namek, small pebbles have whole invisible barriers making you side step in place, and tall characters like SSJ4 Goku, Janemba, and Perfect Cell will sometimes get out of vanish wars randomly just by standing still. Then there’s Trunks’ side step vanish exploit, and untechable smash ki blast loops from behind. Loads of bugs.
@@dcrawley507hands down, I did singles first and I thought that was bad, and it was, but DP battles were bad from the very beginning. Like D5-S5 was a horrible experience. Nothing but plugging, meta and cheese. I was lucky to climb as high as I did with random for fun teams
I say it's Bandai's fault for not implementing a system that rightfully punish Rage Quitters by making them rightfully lose points for leaving the match early and giving points to opposing player who didn't.
I recently visited a friend of mine who owns a PS5 (I don't) and he had gotten Sparking Zero like a month ago. We had planned for me to visit and I got to play the game for the first time. There was obviously going to be a skill gap, heck I've never even held Play Station controllers before. I may lost like 40 times and only won like 3 matches, but it was still some of the most fun I've ever had with a Dragon Ball game. Being able to just sit on a couch next to one of my best buds and learn the game in real time, slowly getting better as the matches went on. Both of us using whoever we felt like using, be it busted fusions or Brolys. We just had fun wasting away hours fighting again and again. I've never touched Rank and I don't know when I'll be able to play the game again, but that brief day long experience is gonna be floating around my headspace for a long long time.
I had the same experience, I own a PS4 and can't play but I visited my friend who owns a PS5 and it was so fun playing sparking zero with him as I got to learn in real time and we were laughing our asses off the whole time especially when he used Zamasu and he kept spamming this one move where Zamasu would say "this should be plenty sufficient" and then throw a cube at me with crazy tracking and I died to the cube like 12 times and it was hilarious
Oh look, someone that plays the game how it’s intended. With friends, for fun. You sir, will enjoy it, unlike the guys that only care about Z rank and “tournaments”.
I appreciate the sentiment of "its the players not the game" that ruin the experience. But if the game is designed in a way where a vast majority of your matches aren't fun. The games just bad.
@@pantonpg Yeah, you can use guns to kill people but there's a thing called morality and restraint lol. People are just assholes and lack basic empathy to realize they are destroying the game just to win and ruining others experience. People really STILL log on everyday and pick SSJ4 gogeta or whatever character they can cheese with knowing peoples opinion and frustrations, that's not the games fault. It's a people problem. It's the devs fault for not expediting some hotfixes to ensure longevity and its the players fault for abusing the lack of optimization in place. Another reason to add onto the mile long list why the human race is more parasitic than it is mammalian.
Spike should actually say screw it and make supers unvanishable and make them cost half their original cost. Double down and give characters like Broly, beerus and MUI & fusions super armor because idk lore accurate. You know. Because the game should be unbalanced. And have alot more people like 70% of this comment section complaining like oh my gosh dude, you’re such a cheeser, because like yeah, if you design a game to be this nonsensical, its just gonna create more cheesier players
Specific character changes aside, but I've thought about some universal balance changes. The first one would be to change super counter to be as difficult as it was in BT3, but make revenge counter the universal combo breaker option in every situation. I actually don't mind SC being free to use and pull off. However, it's a theory vs practice thing. How SC works in BT3 is that it's a frame perfect counter and performing the input unsuccessfully triggers a 14 (iirc) frame cooldown. The thing is that you also can't spam it because every time you perform the input during the cooldown, it resets it. SC in SZ is different. The frame window is slightly more generous than it was in BT3, but it's still only like a 5 frame window or something like that. Performing it unsuccessfully also triggers a cooldown, like it did in BT3. The problem is that the cooldown in SZ is shorter, and the cooldown doesn't reset when you're spamming the input. You can perform the input as many times as you want. Eventually, you'll catch a frame that allows you to pull it off. I think what needs to change is that super counter should be as difficult to pull off as it was in BT3, but change revenge counter to be usable while getting hit from behind. It baffles me that the devs added a universal combo breaker, but made it so that getting hit from behind negates that option. It seemed to me like it was intended to balance out the roster slightly and reduce the strength of characters with explosive waves, but not being able to use it universally removes any incentive anyone has to *not* pick a character with EW over someone that doesn't. Even worse, SC is so easy to pull off, there's no reason to bother with either EW *or* RC. Now, this change would reward positioning and combos more than the game currently does, since combos can only really be true while attacking from behind and dealing more damage than attacks on the front. RC requires 2 skill points, which is the same as every EW-type move in the game (except for Bardock's, iirc), is less capable of completely resetting the neutral like EW, is more predictable, and can even be countered, unlike EW. This way, EWs are still really strong, but now everyone is capable of breaking combos, so technically every character is viable in some capacity, but breaking them requires a resource, and SC can continue to be the ultimate reversal move. The second change is adding back in mechanics like ki sickness after instaspark moves, and adding a new mechanic, skill gauge sickness. Part of the problem with Afterimage Strike is that the auto vanishes from Afterimage Strike continue to build skill meter the same way manually Vanishing does. As long as certain moves, like False Courage, Afterimage Strike, Wild Sense, etc. are active, you shouldn't be able to accumulate skill points. That would reduce the ability to just endlessly cycle those moves. Third, I think every instaspark move should just cost your entire stock of skill counts. There should be no reason characters like Broly should be able to instaspark twice in a row. You also shouldn't be able to manually charge to max, use your ultimate, immediately instaspark, and use another ultimate. If a character maxes out at 6 skill bars, it should cost 6 skill bars to instaspark. If your character makes out a 4 skill bars, it should take 4 skill bars to instaspark. If your character makes out at 5 skill points, you manually charge to max ki, leaving you with 4 bars, then guess what? That instaspark only works with 5 skill points. There's no reason *any* character should be able to spam ultimates in the way some characters can in this game. Lastly, no unblockable ults. There's no reason any ult should be unblockable. Blast attacks and ultimates are so easy to connect with. Unblockables are not only unnecessary, but were just begging to be abused. Blast attacks are already really powerful in this game, most just flat out deleting a full bar of health, travel insanely quickly, and ultimates are capable of deleting 1.5-2.5 bars of health instantly. The problem is that unblockables basically just guarantee that damage, especially because most ults trigger a cutscene, making where the hit box is on the move incredibly nebulous and ill-defined.
Excellent points. I would add that Explosive Wave/Barrier should be more versatile than they are, for the cost. You can't block supers/ults with Explosive Wave (I believe you could in BT3), and they're less responsive. Still a good defensive option, but not better than a vanish / super counter. I completely agree on skill reworks, I think each skill costs the same as it did in previous games, but since you get stocks so fast now, it makes them very spammable. They should definitely rework some of these - especially insta sparks (some of them even come with stat BONUSES!), I believe most of them should cost 5 skill points. I also really don't get Afterimage Strike, I get that it was in the previous game, but it really is too strong - with how fast this game is, 15 seconds with no drawback is crazy. I honestly think they should rework it so that it's the same as regular Afterimage, but you can trigger it while being comboed. Then they can lower the cost of it from 3 -> 2. That seems more fair imo
why everyone quit: we're all in our 30's and can't play more than twice a week without our hands being completely cooked. I need my hands for work unfortunately.
Part of what kept the original alive and remembered by many is local multiplayer, hanging out on the couch with friends and family and playing the game. It’s hard for a person to expect all their friends to buy the game, especially forking up 70 big ones, which means the game lives and dies on its online mode. A fun party game like tenkaichi should not be depending on online for its survival.
the unfortunate thing is that any game like this is hard to maintain offline simply cause half the playerbase are adults with jobs/families/higher-education requirements that keep them from being able to sit and chill with the homies the way we used to as kids. So then they implement an online mode. Which is fine. But then there's Ranked, which obviously everyone's gonna gravitate to because that's where you'll have the "highest chance" of running into other players that are on your level, or you'll steamroll everyone till you do. But the problem is *This is a DBZ game* after all. characters are *expected* to be unbalanced, some having more health than others, super armor, unblockable supers, instant spark/full-ki, auto-dodges...its all canon DBZ stuff that gave the previous games charm/mild difficulty, but it was also in a way, balanced in its imbalance: you were mostly up against CPUs so you expected frame-perfect dodging on highest difficulty levels, input reading...the usual stuff like that. But in those vs CPU modes, you were expected and encouraged as the games went on, to use *customized* characters. hell back in Raging Blast 1 i had a Videl with Broly's charge aura, and enough strength to punch through most super-armored characters without needing to stagger them with a fully-charged hit. She still couldnt use any of her supers on the Giant-class characters, but she was able to run hands just fine. The issue is the existence of "ranked". from what i'm seeing all over, what needs to happen is one of two things: ranked either auto-forces everyone into World Tournament Stage+Ringout Rule, or auto-maxes everyone's health, and removes all Native Super Armor. Could even have the added thing of Ranked applies an increase into how much Ki is used for ki blasts during Sparking. There are small ways Ranked can be improved without directly touching *how* the characters play, but by modifying the basic systems, or just simply forcing it that "if you're in ranked, its Budokai Tenkaichi rules, complete with auto-loss if you touch the grass outside the ring."
@ that still means the other half aren’t adults, that’s a pretty large amount of people who could’ve been playing this game with their friends and introducing them to the series (and thus creating more buyers) but didn’t because of a lack of local. The greatest strength of local is it allows people who normally wouldn’t buy the game to try it out with friends and therefore spark an interest in getting the game themselves and introducing the series to their friends and family. I find the idea of the existence of sweats to cause a games downfall to be unconvincing honestly. Pretty much every game that has an online mode, especially ranked, will have both try hards or people who will abuse mechanics or play in unfun ways just to win. It’s not like the ideas of campers and zoners and various other strategies that minimize risks but also minimize fun are new to gaming as a whole. That’s also never stopped games from being successful. What makes something like smash still successful despite a pretty dogshit online service is that no one plays such a game for its online anyway. Most people just use such games as a way to chill with friends and goof around having fun.
The concept of "meta" has existed since competitive games are a thing. The thing is, when we played Budokai Tenkaichi as kids noone cared about it, except if you were attending tournaments. We didn't know the meta and it didn't matter, we would just play with friends. If we went to tournaments as kids we would've had the same insufferable experience we're having now when we join ranked, the difference is that nowadays the competitive scene is easily accesible for anyone who owns the game, it's one button away.
Your right my brother spot on. Likewise, with the rise of the internet now and everyone has access, its now easier search and gain knowledge of a game/meta easier than before
While the ranked and PVP has been a crap show. I've been enjoying playing and making Custom battles. It is such a slept on feature of the game, so much creativity in there. People straight up recreating missing story arcs that the game didn't cover, Fun what ifs, and silly stories. Been a real treat to me. I recommend checking them out as many have come a long way from the beginning of the game. If interested I can recommend some really well made ones I've favorited if you are on PC
A shame creating it with proper plot and storylines are such a slog 😅 they should make a feature that lets us search specific words, why do i need to scroll for 5 minutes just for the words "i'll kill you" Or sumn
@@Blank-me9hb There are tools that can help Sparkingzeroteambuilder has a dialogue search function that helps show which filters to use to find which quotes.
@@doctorreed_ I've seen some very creative battles. Such as cell killing trunks in the android epilogue and returning to the main timeline a bit before buu Saga. Vegeta going Super saiyan god against beerus instead of Goku, full recreations of the Baby arc from the moment Goku returns to earth ect.
The game needs several core changes and additions to make the general experience feel cohesive: -Supers, Skills, Transformations and Character windows that you open need to have priority over other inputs while they are open, and your choice needs to be bufferable. Getting stuck and then punished because you didn't let go of all controls for long enough before trying to use a super or a transformation is lame af and just feels clunky. -Super Counter needs to be removed, cost skill points/Ki, or not be triggerable off all Physical hits. "High" level gameplay can end up just being the contestants countering each others counters until one wants to play the vanish game for a bit before hitting another SC. -Revenge Counter needs to be buffed to at least not be Super Counterable. Spending two SP to get punished by a free option makes Revenge Counter's existence pointless. -Instant Sparkings needs to cost 4 SP instead of 3, so players can't use it back to back, the usual reward for running away currently. -Disconnects in Ranked need to result in a loss of rank when a player DCs more than once in a certain period of time. (6 hours would be reasonable) There are other small features/issues in the game that could also be addressed(like melee super tracking, loss of control bug, Ki costs for Vanishes and Dragon Dashes, etc.), but those 5 are glaring issues that are the source a lot of complaints from the playerbase.
Honestly I wouldn't mind a few combat changes regarding Super Counter and Ki Blast Barrage supers. But all I want is just more episode mode, more characters available for episode mode and more satisfying what-if's that lead to different character variations like Gohan black.
They released it with only 3 playable modes, one of which was single-player, and one of which was competitive ranked. The custom battles might as well not exist with how limited our options are, and the entire game feels like it has a menu system straight out of 2014. There are good parts too, but if I ever meet the dev who decided that we'd have to equip items to each character individually, I'm going to have a nice long genki dama with them
People are so dramatic. Not “everyone is quitting.” People just aren’t playing for as long as they did when it came out. Still better than not getting a new game after 17 yrs. I can hop in and still find a game in a matter of seconds so as long as I find an opponent quickly the game is still alive to me.
My ideas: more than 4 vanishes in a row should zoom out and have the shockwaves from rapid clashes before resetting you back to neutral like it did in old games; sitting there vanishing for 30 seconds as both of you use up all your ki sucks. Afterimage strike should need to be activated within a small amount of time of something hitting you instead of it being a passive state once activated.
One of the issues of Sparking Zero is no penalties in older Tenkaichi games if you used an instant Spark you got ki sickness here there is no downside and unlike older games you get skill gague so fast
Yo SeeReax I am the one who « won » the French tournament and got disqualified This game needs a very quick update in the gameplay but also in game modes and just having fun, if you get to Z rank you have nothing to do in the game I don’t know if you have some proximity with Bandai or som but we have to -fix ki blast -fix Super counter (on combo) -revamp the vanish war system -remove the trunks tech -slow the speed of gaining blast stock -Free Dash And just more things to do like seasons in PvP, rules, fun game modes, skins, maps, just like the Fortnite system I think it’s perfect for this game and will make it last for years
I really don't like the idea of blaming the player base when the design of the game's balance is so shoddy. There will always be people playing for easy wins, and it's up to the people running the game to keep things in check. There are so many easily exploitable and unfun mechanics/bugs in this game, and yet they implemented a ranked mode like they thought the people would play fair and honest. Way too many people try to play defense for this game because it's Dragon Ball and it's supposed to be unbalanced, but that stupid mantra won't make the game any more fun to play. In a "Fighting Game" where throws are next to worthless, there is no reason to be playing such nonsensical defense. The game's fun, but the mechanic balance is dogshit.
And they did keep it in check by dqing them 😂 esports is an entertainment business, and nobody is going to watch two people do that, ergo, sponsers, vendors, guests can’t get properly paid. Y’all wanted Esports to be mainstream entertainment, now that it is you have to accept what comes with that. Welcome to the entertainment industry
@@Nobody1mportant999 In a better world, they wouldn't be incentivised to use such a tactic. Either you make clear and strict rules which dictate how the game is to be played, or you balance the game so the most effective way to play is also the most entertaining to spectate (and hopefully to play as well). Otherwise, you get situations like the tournament in France.
@ in a better world they wouldn’t feel the need to use such a tactic to win. There’s an action to every reaction in this game, if you’re that unconfident in your own skills then you shouldn’t be entering professional tournaments.
@@Nobody1mportant999 winning is all that matters to a tournament player. If your rules aren't strict enough, they'll use the best strategy to win even if it's lame (ex. Infinites, Top Tiers, Healing Strats, Stalling etc.). Those players have credibility for their performance in Demon Slayer: HC. This is 100% an issue with poor game balance and poor tournament management.
0:21 -> 0:28 0:45 -> 0:47 _It's almost like Ranked game modes are designed in a way that players naturally want to win, and encourage the easiest methods to do so, garnering toxicity, cheesy tactics, intentional disconnects before losing, and connection manipulation._
I only play online with one friend I have. We have our main teams, random character fights, and tournament shenanigans. Everything else I do is offline. I have not even touched the player match system online. I just like doing what ifs and fighting with my favorite DB characters. It is a blast. I hope they add more offline content because I believe that is where the game truly shines. Trust me, if you don’t already have friends to play with, find some people who are willing to have fun and not go all in all the time.
I stopped playing due to how powerful the clock is, you can outlive someone by running away and win. The game will force you to block a grab even when you’re repeatedly try to dash or move away. You can get stuck on the enemy if you try to dash to get behind them. Roshi full power cost the same as base etc. the patch needs to fix as many things as possible.
I just want more customization stuff. Like, I want the ability to change outfit colors and aura effects, greater customization in custom battle (particularly the ability to form my own dialogue, place characters where I want them, and place the camera where I want, and basically I just want to make my own story mode), and more offline options
frustrating that they advertised this and then cut it out without any explanation. we were supposed to have actual outfits and custom auras and what we got is battle damage and emotes with bad motion capture
What pains me the most about this game is that players have tarnished the reputation of all the higher DP characters. For example I love fusions in Dragonball. So obviously when I play online I want to use them, BUT because of how people(mostly sweats in rank) use them I'm automatically put in the same toxic box by association. Kefla is one of my favorite characters to use and it hurts that Kefla mains like me that love to box are apparently rare AF.
fusions arent even the problem, in singles yea (mui is disgusting and the best character by far and isnt a fusion) but in dp NOBODY decent rank runs them, because every single team people use with videl and roshi and 4-5 characters doesnt have the dp for it. Dont feel bad especially if you dont cheese wit kef bro, its usually low ranks that complain about fusions instead of the actual time out meta. Like rio said you can play someone with cheese but not cheese with them. It will still be a massive uphill battle if your team has only 2-3 characters vs someone with 4-5 regardless of if you have a fusion or not.
The game has issues that need to be addressed. Until they fix those issues, the player count will continue to drop. It’s a really fun game if you can get past the technical issues, bugs, and exploits that are in the game though.
Cause people took this as a competitive fighting game rather than a arena fighter similar to the Naruto Storm games. Which effects everyone playing. The more people see the game as competitive the more they want to Win and find cheese. Which leads to casual players being caught in the middle an leaving or becoming like the rest of the online warriors and begin doing the cheap stuff. Like I'm so sure We could use after image in the same way in previous games and we could potentially stall with flying up and down but no one tested or figured it out an spread the information.
All games are competitive especially fighting games. I feel like causals are shooting themselves in the foot because they’re going into rank and treating it like a public match you just cant do that. There does need to be a quick match for casuals tho because the player lobbies aren’t good. And if people are cheesing in public matches they’re losers ngl
@dsglaws there is already casual matches that aren't ranked. People have a choice but no matter where you go you run into people. Just think about how this game was meant to be a co op game but how many people actually have friends who come over to play. So Online is the only option after you've exhausted every option
@@defianthound407 if you choose to play online ranked you just have to get better. I don’t wanna sound like a dickhead but if someones problem with the game is gameplay related it is a skill issue
The Tenkaichi series is pretty unique, fair to say most fans who haven't played it had very skewed expectations of SZ. But I think most people have just finished the story mode and moved on. It's gaming season rn, Black Ops 6 just came out. As for the online issues, literally just add ki sickness and vanish battles canceling out like in OG BT3 and they'd fix 99% of the issues. Penalize rage quitting too. Make items equippable to give weaker characters a chance.
Ok that actually might get me on this game again. If every character had a sort of equip limit with weaker characters having more freedom, we’d see the game shaken up quite a bit. Honestly this comment in my opinion has the best ideas for this game.
@@Zeral__ lol even Goku’s a a chore to play, I forced myself to basically. There was no type of growth or evolution to the game. After Saiyan Saga you already saw everything
@@KnucklesWTD as far as gameplay you’re right. You can play pretty much any character the same way you play Goku but with slight differences. As for story, Gohan, Trunks, and Frieza got the most put into them. Jiren and Goku Black’s stories are ok as well
Honestly one thing that would help a lot certainly not fix the game entirely but help a lot is the problem with ults. There shouldn’t be any unblockable ults except for the close range grab ults like super zarbon and fat Janemba.
A game like this shouldn't have a singles ranked mode with characters with different stats because unless your favorite is good, you're inherently at a disadvantage and it stops being competitive
Yeah in ranked, I think the health should be the same. Defensive stats can be different, but everyone should start with the same amount of health. Especially with instaspark and all the damage the finishers do
story progression>character unlocks>items>pvp. rank is basically endgame content in a sense. the problem is players that fight with dignity and accept the lost, a rematch occurs, opponent rage quits denying your points that you just previous lost. repeat. yeah rank would instantly become unappealing immediately being denied progress. thankfully this game doesn't have rank achievements or else this game would be in a far more heated situation than ever before.
The fights against the end z Goku and the Goku blue were cinematic as hell. This is why Sparking Zero is so cool and I really want it despite its flaws
Players should NEVER have to take responsibility for the Devs job. Dragon ball is cool and all but anime games are notorious for not giving af about balance so idk what people expected from a game that's about as cheap as xenoverse but infinitely less customization.
I think it’s worth noting that ranked is really the mode that’s dead not the game itself. I can find players effortlessly on regular public matches or tournament mode. Even at odd hours of the day. I am also on ps5 tho which is where most of the player base is
it's not your fault but i get what you mean i liked ssj4 gogeta but seeing how many on the daily i get i dont even touch that character all they do is mash square or x and perception and suddenly im dying this isnt ranked ethier 100+ characters and the same 10 show up(i could just ki blast but spamming those isnt fun at least not to me)i cant let them be or they'll just insta spark cheese me
@@milliardo188 Every rage quit vid has been from a gogeta 4 player. Gogeta's rep gotten destroyed in the past month cause of these players, so if you play gogeta 4 expect to get trashed on and be labeled the same as the other gogeta players.
@@zeer7676 yea mostly the people who use busted characters are usually the ones who cant handle a lose hell i made someone rage quit who was using gogeta and i used great saiyaman i was just doing poses lol
Casual just sucks. Quick play isnt quick play, it just moves into a lobby were people seem to join to go afk. Lobbies ... you either join a lobby where host seems afk, or you host a lobby and people join but never hit ready
@@Chi.mer4 I absolutely think it is. Why does there have to be this weird, janky room function? Why can't I just click 'play' just link ranked and be matchmade into a casual game? Such an insanely bad decision by the devs.
It's a make or break situation here right now. If things don't get fixed then the game is cooked. Already quit the game, only cheesers will fight other cheesers at this point. Worst part they are even spreading to player matches which is already garbage to go through.
I wouldn't say the game would be cooked. Whatever happens with the upcoming update would be a step in the right direction. Rome wasn't built in a day, Cyberpunk took a lot of time, etc. As long as they keep working the issues and adding content the game will get better.
Thank you Deion for seeing both sides of the coin and understanding and jumping into singles where the majority of the lame way is dps for sure straight hands and matches that aren’t decided by time and still playing it because of the dedication and love of the series bro keep going 🗣💪🤝🎯🚀🔥💪💯🗣
The game is a 10/10 when you play with friends or solo vs cpu or casual online but when it's ranked it's like a 5 there's no joy in even winning, I still enjoy the game almost as much as the old Tenkaichi 3 days when I play offline however I decide, but when I play online I question why I even bother playing lol.
It’s fun but they are too dependent on online play Story mode is literally a slideshow for 90% of it (not a bad nor great one), CPUs have bad AI in customs, dialogue at the start and end of the fight is lackluster imo besides a few iconic ones And then the online play they depend on is filled with sweats, cheese, fusions and/or Broly, lag, and lack of cross platform so some friends can’t play together
Cleet....I'm a well contractor auto head i love all your stuff. Who drilled well? And having issue tn playing videos. I'll restart phone. Happy holidays!
I think theyre intentionally starving us to keep it sweet, not knowing that good content is good even if its saturated, especially when it follows a story And doto is in japan i think, prob has something to do with it
@ yeah maybe for an episode after this one supposedly coming because I remember Doto on stream saying Deon had it. Shoot the fighterz nuzlocke is straight heat too
I think the game has massive room for longevity with the customization features. Also if they could add dragon ball superheroes as a DLC to slowly roll out. Would be INSANE
Two things I could think about as of now in terms of changes 1- make all characters in rank start with the same HP make it 4 bars for all 2-unblockable ultimate should have some delay or a way to defend against it, and explosion-based ult especially kalas should be blockable
Explosive ults are block able, but if they’re behind you it’s unblock-able. Unblockable ults aren’t that much of a problem because they’re a lot of skills in the game that counter them. Such as Afterimage, Afterimage strike, wild sense, All Barrier skills like Android Barrier and Babidis Wizard barrier. There is a lot of characters in the game with at least of these 4 skills
Let me help you out with that second option. Before every fight. Have your opponent be broly. Put everything too, max for him sparking and all. And put in ultimate blast. And you can learn how to dodge them. The key is to press circle right before it hits. And it works everytime.
@@warudos Yeah, I know that, I guessIi should have said it should tweaked a bit to make it less cheese because no matter how good you are it's gonna get you off guard, so I would say at least bring back ki sickness to counter spam Sparking mode skills in general
I honestly believe if they added a 2v2 (switch) game mode and got rid of instant Sparking moves, the game would skyrocket with people again. Unfortunately we will never see either of those things come to the game.
I have 50 hours in the game, and majority of that is just playing against CPU. I have played 6 online matches total against 6 seperate players. Every single one of them were using super broly in his final form. It was so LAME, the entire hype and coolness of dragonball is gradually transforming while the battle goes on but no one does that online thats why I mainly play against the bot because then I can at least make it cool and cinematic
Why have rank in a imbalance game why have tournaments for a imbalance game everyone is just gonna pick the character with the most health and damage that’s why you see the same 4 characters in ranked in ranked every character should have the same amount of health and there’s so many defense options in this game it’s insane
On one hand there’s hating the balance, but on the other hand just because you give people a nuke button does not mean they needa press it, and people rage quitting and cheesing with instaspark is absolutely a hate-the-player issue
@@Joe-k8l8z well considering they removed a large chunk of the og cast in the prev games and give characters like UI GOKU his own character slot. They will make the og cast a apart of the new dlc packs.
Really easy way to fix this is to reset ranks, and add other options for rank battles (OP characters like fusions only) And other categories for characters. That way the characters are separated and people can't cheese their way up to higher ranks. A free for all rank match could be available so if people want to go against fusions with regular characters that's up to them.
Individual ranking like smash bros does would improve the game 1000 fold, imagine actually coming across people utilizing guldo or frieza force soldier just to rank them up instead of always using dumbass fusions
I personally still enjoy the game a lot. Yes, it's a mess in certain aspects like the menu and story mode, but honestly.... it's a Dragon Ball fighting game and it serves that purpose well. I'm still as into it as I was in October
Sparking Zero showed me how shit today's gaming was. I didn't realize until now. Sparking Zero is fun as fuck, I've modded the shit out of it. The Try Hard community is casually dragging this game down, just because they can't try hard and get an ego boost fron it lmao. Get a job.
I promise online ranked isn’t that bad as people are making it out to be. A lot of those people who say it’s bad (because of cheese) lack skill and knowledge of the game. Once you have those the game is truly amazing
Dont listen to the guy above Waste of time and you gonna be very frutrated for a long period of time before learning And then IF you invested time to be good, you will get into S and Z ranks where people as good as you are cheesing better
@@dougfax how many hours do you have on the game? because maybe the time you’ve invested wasn’t enough. All players who cheese are not good at the game so it’s quite easy beating them because I have a ton of knowledge about the game
@@dsglaws I have 150+ hours in the game and I am S3 rank. Ranked is not fun and I sort of refuse to play it as of right now. I wouldn't really doubt if you play an op character while saying that though. I am S3 rank with characters like cell, frieza, cooler, and super buu. I don't rage quit either so I have won a massive amount of games against op characters as well. The counterplay argument is stupid because even if you can get around op abilities and skills, they still give an advantage to the one using them. A great example is ssj4 gogeta. Best stats in the game even if both of you are even, its a loss because of the majorly increased stats.
@@acidic_7 I no life the game. I have 250 hours and I do not play Op characters. For single battle I use my favorite Character Android 17. I’m #1 Android 17 z version and #2 Android 17 super version. I’m z rank in both Dp and Singles. I do agree with the stats part because I do lose a lot of singles matches because characters have more health. But that’s my fault for picking a weaker character even though A17 isn’t weak at all. The counter play argument isnt bad. If you have enough skill you’ll beat people you’re better than 70% of the time
After watching ryhmes last video I think they should just add a casual mode next to ranked that would instantly queue u up without that weird shenanigans it's doing right now
People are wondering why is so hard to balance a game with 180 characters :D When I was saying that I'd rather want 20 characters but a really good gameplay experience I was being called crazy
If they addressed the problems with the game faster I would still play and I imagine a lot of people would as well But until then we wait until December for the patch and if game isn't really fixed game is probably cooked for good.
Awesome video! Sometimes I feel like everyone uses macros on PC, take that violent rush you did on Caulifla in the first fight for instance, on PC the moment you touch anyone above S rank they insta super counter you. It feels very annoying and clunky!
@@Chi.mer4 Not so crazy as you might think. The only thing that hurts XV2 is that its technically still a PS3 game. If it simply had graphical fidelity and sound design comparable with current gen it would be seen as a better game easily. There's way more character individuality and depth to the game than alot of people care to realize.
Nah, they see one combo or get their perception baited, or their gameplan doesnt work ONE time and get punished once and they skedaddle IMMEDIATELY 😭. I fought a Gero using anime music so he didnt get clipped and his gameplan was False courage>grab, and after I broke it 15 times, I saw buddy’s character stop moving for 5 solid seconds and got “Connection to opponent has been lost” 💀
@@JohnGlow2 true it still baffles me til this day that i had a dude who was base goku(super) spam spirit bombs(i was ginyu)so i took his body and he STILL tried to spirit bomb me even tho i took his body dummy stood there for like 5 mins then i boxed him to death like come on dude it's not hard to train.💀
Should have never added ranked in the first place tbh, add imaginary points that tell you and others that you're better than everyone else and couple that with leaderboards and of course people are going to sweat hard, if they were avoiding making a competitive game then why did they add that? I still believe in the game, tbf, there are some patches coming this month, so I hope they fix it
@@dsglawsBecause you’d just play to win. Play for fun and suddenly you see the whole roster being played, goofy tactics being used, and actual fun matches.
@@okami1272 well it is ranked and not player match. Expecting to people to not play the best characters in ranked is a weird thought to have. If you’re playing in high ranks in Fortnite or Apex people aren’t gonna choose the worst guns or the worst characters
The only problem with games now is they rely on online multiplayer and mod options made by people not under their banner. 1. They don't have to actually fully flesh out a game because. 'someone else will do it, and we won't have to pay them." 2. they make much more money tying DLC to playability. No game is a full experience anymore. 3. Back in the early 2000s was the best time for gaming. So much hard work and effort went into making games full experiences. Now it just seems they release half baked concepts and expect us to pay 100$ for a game that won't last past the week.
Look I'm a very competitive person and I do like sparking. But I knew for a fact even before the game came out that trying to play it "competitively" is silly. Sparking ain't a dead game and I also very much agree even from a casual exp that some things really need to change but the idea of booting up rank and playing against other people in a game where other characters just have better stats then others solely because they are "stronger in canon" is dumb.
I think people complain too much. I’m pretty sure we all knew this was how the game was going to be, it’s not like it’s a surprise or anything unless you can’t hear or read. I still love the game and always will.
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Some people say, “Don’t hate the player; hate the game.” And my response is, “I’m gonna hate you both.”
Good for you.
@@rytb09-gamingyou must main broly and ssj4 Gogeta with that type of response
Nah, hating both is valid, ima use that
I main Bojacks and man I’m not making it past A2 😂 straight fusions and ui dude it ridiculous
Fax! I spent 100+ on this game. If I count my brothers purchase which I am cause I also bought his copy. That's $179. On my life I'm hating all of you 😭💀
It’s the lack of single player content. Dragon Ball Tenkaichi series has ALWAYS been a single player game. The focus and love from single player game modes is what carried the games. Sparking Zero unfortunately relies on online way too much. When your entire game focuses on online which is plagued in spammers, cheeses and disconnects it’s not surprise a lot of us quit. I hope they reconsider their plans for DLC and add game MODES instead of just characters
Should've imported the Tenkaichi games to the modern consoles and if you have a save file, you unlock modes (like the OG Disc Fusion method)
this is 100% why the game is dead rn, pvp focused game that refuses to balance pvp, ofc its dead
That's why I also left this game and I don't think I will be revising any time soon.
@@TheLuthorri So much this! All they had to do was port those games and add online to it. That's what the petitions were asking for all those years ago. They should've given us what we wanted, saw what made those games great when seeing how people played online and made a sequel to add to it and balance it out, which could've been SZ.
Like what? There's still single battles, team battles, and story mode, and the tournament mode has even more options now. I'm actually legitimately asking what's missing?
Just like everyone else, I was all aboard the hype train on this one. Was counting the days, took time off of work. I just got Platinum on the game last night....and I'll say what we're all thinking....Damn....it's just not the same is it. Which is okay....but the heart and soul of Tenkaichi was playing with friends and building the memories. People are so disconnected now, and I would of given anything to share this experience with someone else. But going online, taking 5 minutes to find a match, going up against SSJ4 Gogeta and before almost clutching out a victory, the opponent rage quits, left us unsatisfied, empty, and angry. This could easily be remedy with playing with a friend. It goes for any online game, we're so disconnected from each other, personally. We loved Dragon Ball Z, but we loved more, the memories we made along the way. That wasn't replicated here, and that's truly what was missing.
Want to go for all achievements but the thought of playing 50 online matches is gonna take some time so I don’t hate the game by the end of it.
I geuss what your trying to say its not about the zero sparkings we get at the end,
But about the zero friends we made along the way!
@@RezPhoenixDefinitely, I want to get all achievements also but i want to play the characters i used in fighterz and mained. I mainly wanna use roshi or jackie chun but I’ll definitely get murdered so i’ll wait til me and my bro can play it together online to worry about it.
@@brandonmorales8814Roshi is kinda busted not gonna lie. Just do wat everyone else does and spam ur unblockable😂 im pretty sure ur gonna win more than half of ur matches. Some people dont know defense, combos, or movement. So you can probably dust half them people you run into💯
What did you tell your job to have them give you time off?
All I was getting were fusion players until I broke and picked one myself, immediately getting pitched against a Chaotzu. Instant karma. Plus he even beat me up. Couldn't be mad, all he had was my respect. Where ever you are, hats off man.
That was me bro gg
Yall saw that French tournament, we don’t need to be surprised if that’s what a finals is gonna look like
was painful to watch. Imagine how infuriating it must be when your opponent keeps dodging you by flying up and down til the time ran out
It sucks cause the guy doing it was trying to spread awareness of the issue. Despite how it ruined the tournament it definitely helped bring forth an issue with the game for all to see in a way to where Bandai should most definitely not ignore it.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Bandai did not make this game to have a competitive scene. It’s the community pushing for it. This game shouldn’t even have a ranked system. The older games were so much fun because people only played with friends
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Awareness that people will play scummy no matter what?
Globku hosted a 2,000 dollar community tournament with way better rulesets and knowledge of the game then bandais tournament, how can bandai do a tournament and not know what to ban or not allow is beyond me when they had a whole month of community feedback
That goku blue match with kaioken is the reason why this game is cool. He rematched, honest hands being thrown and a stable connection.
Unlike with Lord Trevon
The game is super fun, until you go to ranked
No some things are just too broken
@@jasonblack2477 You're both right. Stuff is broken but ranked is basically just 99% of players who's entire gameplan is to abuse the broken stuff.
@@Ryu459ngl…… i be whooping the op characters with some booty characters😂😂😂
@@Hieronymous_Flex god you sound miserable
@@Hieronymous_Flexplaying with friends online is quite literally playing like the good ole days. It’s the only reason I play lol. I don’t play ranked too much since it’s a toxic cesspool.
I was on the hype train and I'm still on that train. To be fair I've never touched online though that's what Street Fighter and Tekken are for. There's cheese in those games too. R.I.P to Chester
That's what ppl need to understand. Cheese is in every fighting game. You'll always see those few op characters per match rather than the whole cast because people want to win no matter what. It's better to play with friends if you don't like the cheese. Simple! The game is still hype. Especially in discords.
@@souljaleo7192 you don't play other fighting games, the cheese in those games get patched out/nerfed. Even smash bros which is known as THE party game would do patches and nerf broken/overpowered characters so people can have fun.
@@zeer7676 I do play other fighting games. That's true patches do come, after the game drops. We've only gotten one patch so far. I'm saying to give the game time, it's not like we ain't been thru this before. In the mean time play with the homies and stay positive.
Why play this just for single player when Dbz kakarot exists
@@Philosopher-Z- I didn't like Kakarot
"My beatskip is untimable!" In the intro is CRAZY. 😭💯
*unbeatskips your timeable*
CANOOOOOON!
Stop glazin
No.
"My timebeat is unskippable."
Ranked is a cesspool. I’m S2 in singles and S5 in DP, and its highkey the worst online experience i’ve ever had in any game. Ragequitting is more common than actually finishing matches, no one actually plays to have fun, its constant sweat and cheese, and when it doesnt work, folks plug. The lobby system is AHHH 💀, there’s no casual quickplay, and even when trying to chill in player matches, dudes STILL try to cheese for a quick W, its insane. 90% of the cast is unused, and there are bugs and glitches galore. There’s a severe lack of offline content, and episode battle has no replay value. Hopping on SZ is just becoming a chore, feels like i’m putting in another shift after I just got off work.
DP battle ranked is by far the absolute worse experience and I've played Last of Us part 2 on grounded plus lol single battle online is better at least for me
felt every word tbh well said
Seriously(talking about the bugs) I’ll be mid combo and it just drops. Like my character just stops swinging on combos I’ve completed before and it’s so annoying
@@Iz_zYeah, and then you get sonic swayed and lose 2 ki bars to a guy mashing perception because the game dropped your input. There’s also a gamebreaking bug where you can sonic sway if someone’s hitting your back, but then it freezes the whole game and neither of you can move after it.
Also, if Goku used Wildsense on dying namek, he gets stuck in a wall. On stages where there’s uneven terrain like open field and namek, small pebbles have whole invisible barriers making you side step in place, and tall characters like SSJ4 Goku, Janemba, and Perfect Cell will sometimes get out of vanish wars randomly just by standing still. Then there’s Trunks’ side step vanish exploit, and untechable smash ki blast loops from behind. Loads of bugs.
@@dcrawley507hands down, I did singles first and I thought that was bad, and it was, but DP battles were bad from the very beginning. Like D5-S5 was a horrible experience. Nothing but plugging, meta and cheese. I was lucky to climb as high as I did with random for fun teams
I say it's Bandai's fault for not implementing a system that rightfully punish Rage Quitters by making them rightfully lose points for leaving the match early and giving points to opposing player who didn't.
Kinda hard not to rage quit when all we see are SS4 Gogeta and Broly
@@tewhale2 funny enough, those are the usual ones rage quitting😂
It could bounce back but if nothing major happens it will be a disaster
@Dunkeruu Dawg I be getting cooked by chesse😭
ranked is shit. the sweats are shit and everyone's character is shit and its annoying how hard it is to find casual matches if its not your homeboys.
SSJ3 in the Saiyan armor is an amazing look.
I just wish I could use yardrat armor with ssj3 Goku 😭
@@JohnGlow2Same for SSJ1 for Z-Early Vegeta
Its would've been nice if you could use outfits in every version of character. I wanted to use UI Goku with the Yardrat outfit...
I recently visited a friend of mine who owns a PS5 (I don't) and he had gotten Sparking Zero like a month ago. We had planned for me to visit and I got to play the game for the first time. There was obviously going to be a skill gap, heck I've never even held Play Station controllers before.
I may lost like 40 times and only won like 3 matches, but it was still some of the most fun I've ever had with a Dragon Ball game. Being able to just sit on a couch next to one of my best buds and learn the game in real time, slowly getting better as the matches went on. Both of us using whoever we felt like using, be it busted fusions or Brolys. We just had fun wasting away hours fighting again and again.
I've never touched Rank and I don't know when I'll be able to play the game again, but that brief day long experience is gonna be floating around my headspace for a long long time.
I had the same experience, I own a PS4 and can't play but I visited my friend who owns a PS5 and it was so fun playing sparking zero with him as I got to learn in real time and we were laughing our asses off the whole time especially when he used Zamasu and he kept spamming this one move where Zamasu would say "this should be plenty sufficient" and then throw a cube at me with crazy tracking and I died to the cube like 12 times and it was hilarious
You really had a pure Tenkaichi experience. No spamming cheese, just pure vibes with loved ones.
All that’s missing are the broken joysticks.
You’re gay for your friend bro sorry
Oh look, someone that plays the game how it’s intended.
With friends, for fun.
You sir, will enjoy it, unlike the guys that only care about Z rank and “tournaments”.
@@SlothSandwhich how did you know😳
I appreciate the sentiment of "its the players not the game" that ruin the experience. But if the game is designed in a way where a vast majority of your matches aren't fun. The games just bad.
If the game allows stupid bullshit and that stupid bullshit is the META. It's the game's fault.
@@pantonpg Yeah, you can use guns to kill people but there's a thing called morality and restraint lol. People are just assholes and lack basic empathy to realize they are destroying the game just to win and ruining others experience. People really STILL log on everyday and pick SSJ4 gogeta or whatever character they can cheese with knowing peoples opinion and frustrations, that's not the games fault. It's a people problem. It's the devs fault for not expediting some hotfixes to ensure longevity and its the players fault for abusing the lack of optimization in place. Another reason to add onto the mile long list why the human race is more parasitic than it is mammalian.
Spike should actually say screw it and make supers unvanishable and make them cost half their original cost. Double down and give characters like Broly, beerus and MUI & fusions super armor because idk lore accurate. You know. Because the game should be unbalanced. And have alot more people like 70% of this comment section complaining like oh my gosh dude, you’re such a cheeser, because like yeah, if you design a game to be this nonsensical, its just gonna create more cheesier players
@@pantonpg how would u fix it ??
@@IGoByBeastbbPlayer rating system.. Let all the cheesers be demoted to their own little league
Specific character changes aside, but I've thought about some universal balance changes. The first one would be to change super counter to be as difficult as it was in BT3, but make revenge counter the universal combo breaker option in every situation. I actually don't mind SC being free to use and pull off. However, it's a theory vs practice thing.
How SC works in BT3 is that it's a frame perfect counter and performing the input unsuccessfully triggers a 14 (iirc) frame cooldown. The thing is that you also can't spam it because every time you perform the input during the cooldown, it resets it. SC in SZ is different. The frame window is slightly more generous than it was in BT3, but it's still only like a 5 frame window or something like that. Performing it unsuccessfully also triggers a cooldown, like it did in BT3.
The problem is that the cooldown in SZ is shorter, and the cooldown doesn't reset when you're spamming the input. You can perform the input as many times as you want. Eventually, you'll catch a frame that allows you to pull it off. I think what needs to change is that super counter should be as difficult to pull off as it was in BT3, but change revenge counter to be usable while getting hit from behind. It baffles me that the devs added a universal combo breaker, but made it so that getting hit from behind negates that option. It seemed to me like it was intended to balance out the roster slightly and reduce the strength of characters with explosive waves, but not being able to use it universally removes any incentive anyone has to *not* pick a character with EW over someone that doesn't.
Even worse, SC is so easy to pull off, there's no reason to bother with either EW *or* RC. Now, this change would reward positioning and combos more than the game currently does, since combos can only really be true while attacking from behind and dealing more damage than attacks on the front. RC requires 2 skill points, which is the same as every EW-type move in the game (except for Bardock's, iirc), is less capable of completely resetting the neutral like EW, is more predictable, and can even be countered, unlike EW.
This way, EWs are still really strong, but now everyone is capable of breaking combos, so technically every character is viable in some capacity, but breaking them requires a resource, and SC can continue to be the ultimate reversal move.
The second change is adding back in mechanics like ki sickness after instaspark moves, and adding a new mechanic, skill gauge sickness. Part of the problem with Afterimage Strike is that the auto vanishes from Afterimage Strike continue to build skill meter the same way manually Vanishing does. As long as certain moves, like False Courage, Afterimage Strike, Wild Sense, etc. are active, you shouldn't be able to accumulate skill points. That would reduce the ability to just endlessly cycle those moves.
Third, I think every instaspark move should just cost your entire stock of skill counts. There should be no reason characters like Broly should be able to instaspark twice in a row. You also shouldn't be able to manually charge to max, use your ultimate, immediately instaspark, and use another ultimate. If a character maxes out at 6 skill bars, it should cost 6 skill bars to instaspark. If your character makes out a 4 skill bars, it should take 4 skill bars to instaspark. If your character makes out at 5 skill points, you manually charge to max ki, leaving you with 4 bars, then guess what? That instaspark only works with 5 skill points. There's no reason *any* character should be able to spam ultimates in the way some characters can in this game.
Lastly, no unblockable ults. There's no reason any ult should be unblockable. Blast attacks and ultimates are so easy to connect with. Unblockables are not only unnecessary, but were just begging to be abused. Blast attacks are already really powerful in this game, most just flat out deleting a full bar of health, travel insanely quickly, and ultimates are capable of deleting 1.5-2.5 bars of health instantly. The problem is that unblockables basically just guarantee that damage, especially because most ults trigger a cutscene, making where the hit box is on the move incredibly nebulous and ill-defined.
Excellent points. I would add that Explosive Wave/Barrier should be more versatile than they are, for the cost. You can't block supers/ults with Explosive Wave (I believe you could in BT3), and they're less responsive. Still a good defensive option, but not better than a vanish / super counter.
I completely agree on skill reworks, I think each skill costs the same as it did in previous games, but since you get stocks so fast now, it makes them very spammable. They should definitely rework some of these - especially insta sparks (some of them even come with stat BONUSES!), I believe most of them should cost 5 skill points.
I also really don't get Afterimage Strike, I get that it was in the previous game, but it really is too strong - with how fast this game is, 15 seconds with no drawback is crazy. I honestly think they should rework it so that it's the same as regular Afterimage, but you can trigger it while being comboed. Then they can lower the cost of it from 3 -> 2. That seems more fair imo
why everyone quit: we're all in our 30's and can't play more than twice a week without our hands being completely cooked. I need my hands for work unfortunately.
Part of what kept the original alive and remembered by many is local multiplayer, hanging out on the couch with friends and family and playing the game. It’s hard for a person to expect all their friends to buy the game, especially forking up 70 big ones, which means the game lives and dies on its online mode. A fun party game like tenkaichi should not be depending on online for its survival.
the unfortunate thing is that any game like this is hard to maintain offline simply cause half the playerbase are adults with jobs/families/higher-education requirements that keep them from being able to sit and chill with the homies the way we used to as kids.
So then they implement an online mode. Which is fine. But then there's Ranked, which obviously everyone's gonna gravitate to because that's where you'll have the "highest chance" of running into other players that are on your level, or you'll steamroll everyone till you do.
But the problem is *This is a DBZ game* after all. characters are *expected* to be unbalanced, some having more health than others, super armor, unblockable supers, instant spark/full-ki, auto-dodges...its all canon DBZ stuff that gave the previous games charm/mild difficulty, but it was also in a way, balanced in its imbalance: you were mostly up against CPUs so you expected frame-perfect dodging on highest difficulty levels, input reading...the usual stuff like that.
But in those vs CPU modes, you were expected and encouraged as the games went on, to use *customized* characters. hell back in Raging Blast 1 i had a Videl with Broly's charge aura, and enough strength to punch through most super-armored characters without needing to stagger them with a fully-charged hit. She still couldnt use any of her supers on the Giant-class characters, but she was able to run hands just fine.
The issue is the existence of "ranked". from what i'm seeing all over, what needs to happen is one of two things: ranked either auto-forces everyone into World Tournament Stage+Ringout Rule, or auto-maxes everyone's health, and removes all Native Super Armor.
Could even have the added thing of Ranked applies an increase into how much Ki is used for ki blasts during Sparking. There are small ways Ranked can be improved without directly touching *how* the characters play, but by modifying the basic systems, or just simply forcing it that "if you're in ranked, its Budokai Tenkaichi rules, complete with auto-loss if you touch the grass outside the ring."
@ that still means the other half aren’t adults, that’s a pretty large amount of people who could’ve been playing this game with their friends and introducing them to the series (and thus creating more buyers) but didn’t because of a lack of local. The greatest strength of local is it allows people who normally wouldn’t buy the game to try it out with friends and therefore spark an interest in getting the game themselves and introducing the series to their friends and family.
I find the idea of the existence of sweats to cause a games downfall to be unconvincing honestly. Pretty much every game that has an online mode, especially ranked, will have both try hards or people who will abuse mechanics or play in unfun ways just to win. It’s not like the ideas of campers and zoners and various other strategies that minimize risks but also minimize fun are new to gaming as a whole. That’s also never stopped games from being successful. What makes something like smash still successful despite a pretty dogshit online service is that no one plays such a game for its online anyway. Most people just use such games as a way to chill with friends and goof around having fun.
My beat skip is UNTIMEABLE!!!
idk when the idea of a meta came to be, but I really think Metas ruined games. Or how they completely take over peoples identity
yup i didnt think it was true til i saw steeds videos "i thought they chose the character they liked nope it's because they had afterimage strike"
The concept of "meta" has existed since competitive games are a thing. The thing is, when we played Budokai Tenkaichi as kids noone cared about it, except if you were attending tournaments. We didn't know the meta and it didn't matter, we would just play with friends. If we went to tournaments as kids we would've had the same insufferable experience we're having now when we join ranked, the difference is that nowadays the competitive scene is easily accesible for anyone who owns the game, it's one button away.
@@butterspike680 ah that makes sense, I play wow also and really dislike the meta in that too, but thats competative too lmao
Your right my brother spot on. Likewise, with the rise of the internet now and everyone has access, its now easier search and gain knowledge of a game/meta easier than before
@@butterspike680 i wonder how many people ACTUALLY played yajirobe when they were kids.
my beating time is unskippable
While the ranked and PVP has been a crap show. I've been enjoying playing and making Custom battles. It is such a slept on feature of the game, so much creativity in there. People straight up recreating missing story arcs that the game didn't cover, Fun what ifs, and silly stories. Been a real treat to me. I recommend checking them out as many have come a long way from the beginning of the game. If interested I can recommend some really well made ones I've favorited if you are on PC
A shame creating it with proper plot and storylines are such a slog 😅 they should make a feature that lets us search specific words, why do i need to scroll for 5 minutes just for the words "i'll kill you" Or sumn
the main problem with custom battles (besides no search function) is that this is the db community, who have the creativity of a cinder block
@@Blank-me9hb There are tools that can help Sparkingzeroteambuilder has a dialogue search function that helps show which filters to use to find which quotes.
@@doctorreed_ I've seen some very creative battles. Such as cell killing trunks in the android epilogue and returning to the main timeline a bit before buu Saga. Vegeta going Super saiyan god against beerus instead of Goku, full recreations of the Baby arc from the moment Goku returns to earth ect.
@@Blank-me9hb There are tools to help with that if you look hard enough.
The vanishes were on beat! That was sick 16:04
Yea that was lit good catch! Cinematic asl
The game needs several core changes and additions to make the general experience feel cohesive:
-Supers, Skills, Transformations and Character windows that you open need to have priority over other inputs while they are open, and your choice needs to be bufferable. Getting stuck and then punished because you didn't let go of all controls for long enough before trying to use a super or a transformation is lame af and just feels clunky.
-Super Counter needs to be removed, cost skill points/Ki, or not be triggerable off all Physical hits. "High" level gameplay can end up just being the contestants countering each others counters until one wants to play the vanish game for a bit before hitting another SC.
-Revenge Counter needs to be buffed to at least not be Super Counterable. Spending two SP to get punished by a free option makes Revenge Counter's existence pointless.
-Instant Sparkings needs to cost 4 SP instead of 3, so players can't use it back to back, the usual reward for running away currently.
-Disconnects in Ranked need to result in a loss of rank when a player DCs more than once in a certain period of time. (6 hours would be reasonable)
There are other small features/issues in the game that could also be addressed(like melee super tracking, loss of control bug, Ki costs for Vanishes and Dragon Dashes, etc.), but those 5 are glaring issues that are the source a lot of complaints from the playerbase.
Don't forget roll back. The connection is so bad even on a wired connection.
Watching you cook Vegito was so satisfying, I don't even play the game but fuck those sweaty players. Worth the like
I love Vegito as a dragonball character but those tryhards are gross ye
Honestly I wouldn't mind a few combat changes regarding Super Counter and Ki Blast Barrage supers.
But all I want is just more episode mode, more characters available for episode mode and more satisfying what-if's that lead to different character variations like Gohan black.
Sparking Zero has been the craziest downfall I’ve seen in a hot minute.
They released it with only 3 playable modes, one of which was single-player, and one of which was competitive ranked. The custom battles might as well not exist with how limited our options are, and the entire game feels like it has a menu system straight out of 2014.
There are good parts too, but if I ever meet the dev who decided that we'd have to equip items to each character individually, I'm going to have a nice long genki dama with them
Seems you weren't around when Multiverses was out
Doesn’t it still a patch
There was always concord
@@DerekS-kq3zhperfectly said
I stopped playing this game a few weeks after release but now I hope everyone stops playing it so they realise they ACTUALLY need to make good patches
People are so dramatic. Not “everyone is quitting.” People just aren’t playing for as long as they did when it came out. Still better than not getting a new game after 17 yrs. I can hop in and still find a game in a matter of seconds so as long as I find an opponent quickly the game is still alive to me.
No a lot of people are quiting
oh forever?
@@johnnydang4397 until they fix the game
@@OfficialMstar 😂😂😂dramatic
@ 90% player lose on steam is dramatic
My ideas: more than 4 vanishes in a row should zoom out and have the shockwaves from rapid clashes before resetting you back to neutral like it did in old games; sitting there vanishing for 30 seconds as both of you use up all your ki sucks. Afterimage strike should need to be activated within a small amount of time of something hitting you instead of it being a passive state once activated.
One of the issues of Sparking Zero is no penalties in older Tenkaichi games if you used an instant Spark you got ki sickness here there is no downside and unlike older games you get skill gague so fast
Yo SeeReax I am the one who « won » the French tournament and got disqualified
This game needs a very quick update in the gameplay but also in game modes and just having fun, if you get to Z rank you have nothing to do in the game
I don’t know if you have some proximity with Bandai or som but we have to
-fix ki blast
-fix Super counter (on combo)
-revamp the vanish war system
-remove the trunks tech
-slow the speed of gaining blast stock
-Free Dash
And just more things to do like seasons in PvP, rules, fun game modes, skins, maps, just like the Fortnite system I think it’s perfect for this game and will make it last for years
dashing needs to be free I stg why the hell does it cost so much ki
You are 100% right. But no micro-transactions.
The netcode NEEDS to be fixed too. Rage quits and connection issues are the first things that need to be fixed imo.
@@ZayTheKid92i agree with this one
The Hero of the Hour
Honestly very fun to watch you play the way you do
Love watching the Sparking Zero content with you playing Hit
I really don't like the idea of blaming the player base when the design of the game's balance is so shoddy.
There will always be people playing for easy wins, and it's up to the people running the game to keep things in check. There are so many easily exploitable and unfun mechanics/bugs in this game, and yet they implemented a ranked mode like they thought the people would play fair and honest.
Way too many people try to play defense for this game because it's Dragon Ball and it's supposed to be unbalanced, but that stupid mantra won't make the game any more fun to play.
In a "Fighting Game" where throws are next to worthless, there is no reason to be playing such nonsensical defense.
The game's fun, but the mechanic balance is dogshit.
I agree whole heartedly
And they did keep it in check by dqing them 😂 esports is an entertainment business, and nobody is going to watch two people do that, ergo, sponsers, vendors, guests can’t get properly paid. Y’all wanted Esports to be mainstream entertainment, now that it is you have to accept what comes with that. Welcome to the entertainment industry
@@Nobody1mportant999 In a better world, they wouldn't be incentivised to use such a tactic. Either you make clear and strict rules which dictate how the game is to be played, or you balance the game so the most effective way to play is also the most entertaining to spectate (and hopefully to play as well).
Otherwise, you get situations like the tournament in France.
@ in a better world they wouldn’t feel the need to use such a tactic to win. There’s an action to every reaction in this game, if you’re that unconfident in your own skills then you shouldn’t be entering professional tournaments.
@@Nobody1mportant999 winning is all that matters to a tournament player. If your rules aren't strict enough, they'll use the best strategy to win even if it's lame (ex. Infinites, Top Tiers, Healing Strats, Stalling etc.).
Those players have credibility for their performance in Demon Slayer: HC. This is 100% an issue with poor game balance and poor tournament management.
0:21 -> 0:28
0:45 -> 0:47
_It's almost like Ranked game modes are designed in a way that players naturally want to win, and encourage the easiest methods to do so, garnering toxicity, cheesy tactics, intentional disconnects before losing, and connection manipulation._
That Clown Emoji over LordTrevon has me in tears. Didn't even realized that until later on. 🤣🤣
I hate a dude named Trevin so I found that extremely funny
Everybody quits every week... JK but I feel like this topic is covered once a week
I only play online with one friend I have. We have our main teams, random character fights, and tournament
shenanigans. Everything else I do is offline. I have not even touched the player match system online. I just like doing what ifs and fighting with my favorite DB characters. It is a blast. I hope they add more offline content because I believe that is where the game truly shines. Trust me, if you don’t already have friends to play with, find some people who are willing to have fun and not go all in all the time.
I stopped playing due to how powerful the clock is, you can outlive someone by running away and win. The game will force you to block a grab even when you’re repeatedly try to dash or move away. You can get stuck on the enemy if you try to dash to get behind them. Roshi full power cost the same as base etc. the patch needs to fix as many things as possible.
I just want more customization stuff. Like, I want the ability to change outfit colors and aura effects, greater customization in custom battle (particularly the ability to form my own dialogue, place characters where I want them, and place the camera where I want, and basically I just want to make my own story mode), and more offline options
frustrating that they advertised this and then cut it out without any explanation. we were supposed to have actual outfits and custom auras and what we got is battle damage and emotes with bad motion capture
All these things will be added in the future, through DLC and battle passes
@@dsglawsbattle passes??
@@Daddy_GrimmThey didn’t advertise anything like that.
What pains me the most about this game is that players have tarnished the reputation of all the higher DP characters. For example I love fusions in Dragonball. So obviously when I play online I want to use them, BUT because of how people(mostly sweats in rank) use them I'm automatically put in the same toxic box by association. Kefla is one of my favorite characters to use and it hurts that Kefla mains like me that love to box are apparently rare AF.
I despise all fusions in this game. They do no run backs when they win. When they're about to lose though... i get the LTG special. Absolutely bogus.
Quit playing kefla in ranked, you're apart of the problem
fusions arent even the problem, in singles yea (mui is disgusting and the best character by far and isnt a fusion) but in dp NOBODY decent rank runs them, because every single team people use with videl and roshi and 4-5 characters doesnt have the dp for it. Dont feel bad especially if you dont cheese wit kef bro, its usually low ranks that complain about fusions instead of the actual time out meta. Like rio said you can play someone with cheese but not cheese with them. It will still be a massive uphill battle if your team has only 2-3 characters vs someone with 4-5 regardless of if you have a fusion or not.
The game has issues that need to be addressed. Until they fix those issues, the player count will continue to drop. It’s a really fun game if you can get past the technical issues, bugs, and exploits that are in the game though.
Cause people took this as a competitive fighting game rather than a arena fighter similar to the Naruto Storm games.
Which effects everyone playing. The more people see the game as competitive the more they want to Win and find cheese. Which leads to casual players being caught in the middle an leaving or becoming like the rest of the online warriors and begin doing the cheap stuff.
Like I'm so sure We could use after image in the same way in previous games and we could potentially stall with flying up and down but no one tested or figured it out an spread the information.
This is actually a great point, this game itself is better than tebkaichi 3 but online exposes the flaws in it
@bullslogic8764 the wild glitches on release didn't help. I hope the devs can fix everything
All games are competitive especially fighting games. I feel like causals are shooting themselves in the foot because they’re going into rank and treating it like a public match you just cant do that. There does need to be a quick match for casuals tho because the player lobbies aren’t good. And if people are cheesing in public matches they’re losers ngl
@dsglaws there is already casual matches that aren't ranked. People have a choice but no matter where you go you run into people. Just think about how this game was meant to be a co op game but how many people actually have friends who come over to play. So Online is the only option after you've exhausted every option
@@defianthound407 if you choose to play online ranked you just have to get better. I don’t wanna sound like a dickhead but if someones problem with the game is gameplay related it is a skill issue
The Tenkaichi series is pretty unique, fair to say most fans who haven't played it had very skewed expectations of SZ.
But I think most people have just finished the story mode and moved on. It's gaming season rn, Black Ops 6 just came out.
As for the online issues, literally just add ki sickness and vanish battles canceling out like in OG BT3 and they'd fix 99% of the issues. Penalize rage quitting too. Make items equippable to give weaker characters a chance.
Ok that actually might get me on this game again. If every character had a sort of equip limit with weaker characters having more freedom, we’d see the game shaken up quite a bit. Honestly this comment in my opinion has the best ideas for this game.
Story wasn’t even worth completing I beat Goku vegeta and piccolo and that was enough mid
@@KnucklesWTD Goku was the only good one you beat. Try Gohan’s and beat RoF Frieza quickly.
@@Zeral__ lol even Goku’s a a chore to play, I forced myself to basically.
There was no type of growth or evolution to the game. After Saiyan Saga you already saw everything
@@KnucklesWTD as far as gameplay you’re right. You can play pretty much any character the same way you play Goku but with slight differences. As for story, Gohan, Trunks, and Frieza got the most put into them. Jiren and Goku Black’s stories are ok as well
Honestly one thing that would help a lot certainly not fix the game entirely but help a lot is the problem with ults. There shouldn’t be any unblockable ults except for the close range grab ults like super zarbon and fat Janemba.
A game like this shouldn't have a singles ranked mode with characters with different stats because unless your favorite is good, you're inherently at a disadvantage and it stops being competitive
Yeah in ranked, I think the health should be the same. Defensive stats can be different, but everyone should start with the same amount of health. Especially with instaspark and all the damage the finishers do
used to watch your xenoverse content years ago, always wondered why u didn't have 1mil subs yet. congrats brotha
story progression>character unlocks>items>pvp. rank is basically endgame content in a sense. the problem is players that fight with dignity and accept the lost, a rematch occurs, opponent rage quits denying your points that you just previous lost. repeat. yeah rank would instantly become unappealing immediately being denied progress. thankfully this game doesn't have rank achievements or else this game would be in a far more heated situation than ever before.
The fights against the end z Goku and the Goku blue were cinematic as hell. This is why Sparking Zero is so cool and I really want it despite its flaws
3:49 beat a super vegito yesterday who got mad that I was ki spamming; sorry I’m not brain dead and know how to counter your one way of winning 🤦🏾♂️
They should give you more rank points if you win with a weaker character.
That and custom mode dialogue search and vanish chain changes.
Players should NEVER have to take responsibility for the Devs job. Dragon ball is cool and all but anime games are notorious for not giving af about balance so idk what people expected from a game that's about as cheap as xenoverse but infinitely less customization.
I think it’s worth noting that ranked is really the mode that’s dead not the game itself. I can find players effortlessly on regular public matches or tournament mode. Even at odd hours of the day. I am also on ps5 tho which is where most of the player base is
It's still fun with friends. My friend group does weekly tournaments with weird restrictions
Man, when this came out, I wanted to play z Broly to flex until I saw the cheese. I felt really discouraged to play him now.
it's not your fault but i get what you mean i liked ssj4 gogeta but seeing how many on the daily i get i dont even touch that character all they do is mash square or x and perception and suddenly im dying this isnt ranked ethier 100+ characters and the same 10 show up(i could just ki blast but spamming those isnt fun at least not to me)i cant let them be or they'll just insta spark cheese me
@@milliardo188 Every rage quit vid has been from a gogeta 4 player. Gogeta's rep gotten destroyed in the past month cause of these players, so if you play gogeta 4 expect to get trashed on and be labeled the same as the other gogeta players.
@@zeer7676 yea mostly the people who use busted characters are usually the ones who cant handle a lose hell i made someone rage quit who was using gogeta and i used great saiyaman i was just doing poses lol
Me with Vegito
I'm just so confused as to how a game came out in 2024 without a casual mode.
There is one, it just sucks
Casual just sucks.
Quick play isnt quick play, it just moves into a lobby were people seem to join to go afk.
Lobbies ... you either join a lobby where host seems afk, or you host a lobby and people join but never hit ready
@@dominiklange8382 That isn’t the game’s fault.
@@Chi.mer4 I absolutely think it is. Why does there have to be this weird, janky room function? Why can't I just click 'play' just link ranked and be matchmade into a casual game? Such an insanely bad decision by the devs.
@@inertiagaming9489 You can. Rooms only exist for nonranked games.
I know what the general feeling is, but as long as you want to make sparking zero videos, I want to watch.
Hopefully the December update changes the game, literally
It's a make or break situation here right now. If things don't get fixed then the game is cooked. Already quit the game, only cheesers will fight other cheesers at this point. Worst part they are even spreading to player matches which is already garbage to go through.
I would say though without the online experience they still nailed the core gameplay
Its Bamco. They will absolutely fumble this lol
I wouldn't say the game would be cooked. Whatever happens with the upcoming update would be a step in the right direction. Rome wasn't built in a day, Cyberpunk took a lot of time, etc. As long as they keep working the issues and adding content the game will get better.
Thank you Deion for seeing both sides of the coin and understanding and jumping into singles where the majority of the lame way is dps for sure straight hands and matches that aren’t decided by time and still playing it because of the dedication and love of the series bro keep going 🗣💪🤝🎯🚀🔥💪💯🗣
The game is a 10/10 when you play with friends or solo vs cpu or casual online but when it's ranked it's like a 5 there's no joy in even winning, I still enjoy the game almost as much as the old Tenkaichi 3 days when I play offline however I decide, but when I play online I question why I even bother playing lol.
I just got the game myself.
I hope people are still playing.
It’s fun but they are too dependent on online play
Story mode is literally a slideshow for 90% of it (not a bad nor great one), CPUs have bad AI in customs, dialogue at the start and end of the fight is lackluster imo besides a few iconic ones
And then the online play they depend on is filled with sweats, cheese, fusions and/or Broly, lag, and lack of cross platform so some friends can’t play together
Cleet....I'm a well contractor auto head i love all your stuff. Who drilled well? And having issue tn playing videos. I'll restart phone. Happy holidays!
Man…..would love some soul link right now
I think theyre intentionally starving us to keep it sweet, not knowing that good content is good even if its saturated, especially when it follows a story
And doto is in japan i think, prob has something to do with it
@ yeah maybe for an episode after this one supposedly coming because I remember Doto on stream saying Deon had it. Shoot the fighterz nuzlocke is straight heat too
I think the game has massive room for longevity with the customization features. Also if they could add dragon ball superheroes as a DLC to slowly roll out. Would be INSANE
Two things I could think about as of now in terms of changes
1- make all characters in rank start with the same HP make it 4 bars for all
2-unblockable ultimate should have some delay or a way to defend against it, and explosion-based ult especially kalas should be blockable
Explosive ults are block able, but if they’re behind you it’s unblock-able. Unblockable ults aren’t that much of a problem because they’re a lot of skills in the game that counter them. Such as Afterimage, Afterimage strike, wild sense, All Barrier skills like Android Barrier and Babidis Wizard barrier. There is a lot of characters in the game with at least of these 4 skills
Let me help you out with that second option. Before every fight. Have your opponent be broly. Put everything too, max for him sparking and all. And put in ultimate blast. And you can learn how to dodge them. The key is to press circle right before it hits. And it works everytime.
@@warudos Yeah, I know that, I guessIi should have said it should tweaked a bit to make it less cheese because no matter how good you are it's gonna get you off guard, so I would say at least bring back ki sickness to counter spam Sparking mode skills in general
I love this game to death but it feels like a chore playing ranked
After they emergency nerfed Yajirobe the lag and connection problems started to show up
It looks like half of the net code was in Yajirobe's files.
I honestly believe if they added a 2v2 (switch) game mode and got rid of instant Sparking moves, the game would skyrocket with people again. Unfortunately we will never see either of those things come to the game.
I have 50 hours in the game, and majority of that is just playing against CPU. I have played 6 online matches total against 6 seperate players. Every single one of them were using super broly in his final form. It was so LAME, the entire hype and coolness of dragonball is gradually transforming while the battle goes on but no one does that online thats why I mainly play against the bot because then I can at least make it cool and cinematic
Idgaf about the drama I want more content for sparking plz
5:30 yea i agree, my favorite character of all time is ss4 gogeta. But I can't play him in this game because he's broken 😢 it's no fun that way
Why have rank in a imbalance game why have tournaments for a imbalance game everyone is just gonna pick the character with the most health and damage that’s why you see the same 4 characters in ranked in ranked every character should have the same amount of health and there’s so many defense options in this game it’s insane
Don’t hate the players. Hate the badly designed game absolutely full of cheese
On one hand there’s hating the balance, but on the other hand just because you give people a nuke button does not mean they needa press it, and people rage quitting and cheesing with instaspark is absolutely a hate-the-player issue
The game needs dlc already it’s taking too long lol bo6 is already getting dlc in like a week and it hasn’t even been out a month smh
@@vlexxo4710 game shouldnt need dlc it should just drop good
@@Joe-k8l8z well considering they removed a large chunk of the og cast in the prev games and give characters like UI GOKU his own character slot. They will make the og cast a apart of the new dlc packs.
@@CopiousStarchThere's actually an unwritten rule of game development that goes "Given the chance, players will optimize the fun out of a game".
Really easy way to fix this is to reset ranks, and add other options for rank battles
(OP characters like fusions only) And other categories for characters. That way the characters are separated and people can't cheese their way up to higher ranks. A free for all rank match could be available so if people want to go against fusions with regular characters that's up to them.
Individual ranking like smash bros does would improve the game 1000 fold, imagine actually coming across people utilizing guldo or frieza force soldier just to rank them up instead of always using dumbass fusions
I personally still enjoy the game a lot. Yes, it's a mess in certain aspects like the menu and story mode, but honestly.... it's a Dragon Ball fighting game and it serves that purpose well. I'm still as into it as I was in October
Sparking Zero showed me how shit today's gaming was. I didn't realize until now. Sparking Zero is fun as fuck, I've modded the shit out of it.
The Try Hard community is casually dragging this game down, just because they can't try hard and get an ego boost fron it lmao. Get a job.
The mid battle commentary be spot on with the characters. 22:15 looked like Hit actually said "nice hair" 😂
Imma get this game just so I can play against my little sister, never touching online “ranked” respectfully
I promise online ranked isn’t that bad as people are making it out to be. A lot of those people who say it’s bad (because of cheese) lack skill and knowledge of the game. Once you have those the game is truly amazing
Dont listen to the guy above
Waste of time and you gonna be very frutrated for a long period of time before learning
And then IF you invested time to be good, you will get into S and Z ranks where people as good as you are cheesing better
@@dougfax how many hours do you have on the game? because maybe the time you’ve invested wasn’t enough. All players who cheese are not good at the game so it’s quite easy beating them because I have a ton of knowledge about the game
@@dsglaws I have 150+ hours in the game and I am S3 rank. Ranked is not fun and I sort of refuse to play it as of right now. I wouldn't really doubt if you play an op character while saying that though. I am S3 rank with characters like cell, frieza, cooler, and super buu. I don't rage quit either so I have won a massive amount of games against op characters as well. The counterplay argument is stupid because even if you can get around op abilities and skills, they still give an advantage to the one using them. A great example is ssj4 gogeta. Best stats in the game even if both of you are even, its a loss because of the majorly increased stats.
@@acidic_7 I no life the game. I have 250 hours and I do not play Op characters. For single battle I use my favorite Character Android 17. I’m #1 Android 17 z version and #2 Android 17 super version. I’m z rank in both Dp and Singles. I do agree with the stats part because I do lose a lot of singles matches because characters have more health. But that’s my fault for picking a weaker character even though A17 isn’t weak at all. The counter play argument isnt bad. If you have enough skill you’ll beat people you’re better than 70% of the time
NGL I just got the game and I'm having a great time with it it's awesome tbh
1:31 hit has 4 health bars and other characters have 5. I will not stop until the community understands this.
Frr dragon ball fans can’t even count 😂😂
@@AdmiralDringle who cares
After watching ryhmes last video I think they should just add a casual mode next to ranked that would instantly queue u up without that weird shenanigans it's doing right now
Yea I unironically uninstalled it
I ironically uninstalled it myself
I played for 4 days before I came to the conclusion that "this game is dog shit." I'm so glad i wasn't impatient and bought the $100 version
Honestly, this game is fun and looks amazing. HOWEVER, only when actual skill is involved, not when people just auto spark, ki spam and ultimate.
People are wondering why is so hard to balance a game with 180 characters :D When I was saying that I'd rather want 20 characters but a really good gameplay experience I was being called crazy
No, no. You’re confused. They weren’t trying to make the game balanced.
@Chi.mer4 I know. That's why Yajirobe is the strongest character, right? 😂😂
@@MII2o90 He isn’t the strongest character. He just has healing.
@@Chi.mer4 Ok. SS Vegito is much stronger than SS Vegito Blue. Where is the logic in that? Why are all the Androids top 20 characters?
@@MII2o90 I dunno. Cell was one of the best in BT3
Picked it up for a month and half. Finished everything. Now I'm back to XV2 making mods.
I'll come back to Sparking Zero whenever there's new DLC
If they addressed the problems with the game faster I would still play and I imagine a lot of people would as well
But until then we wait until December for the patch and if game isn't really fixed game is probably cooked for good.
I watched one youtuber beat another guy back to back wins as yajirobe vs a dude playing UI goku so those health bars only mean so much my guy
“Time to make the doughnuts”
Awesome video! Sometimes I feel like everyone uses macros on PC, take that violent rush you did on Caulifla in the first fight for instance, on PC the moment you touch anyone above S rank they insta super counter you. It feels very annoying and clunky!
I still personally enjoy XV2 and FighterZ way more...
i would enjoy xenoverse if i could do 3vs3 fights, or raid with real people... i don't find anyone on steam
FighterZ makes sense, I don’t but I can see how some would like the game, but Xenoverse? You’re on some drugs.
@@Chi.mer4 unpopular opinion but XV2 is infinitely better than Sparking Zero to me, despite all the cheese and bs...
@@Chi.mer4 Not so crazy as you might think. The only thing that hurts XV2 is that its technically still a PS3 game. If it simply had graphical fidelity and sound design comparable with current gen it would be seen as a better game easily. There's way more character individuality and depth to the game than alot of people care to realize.
@@Beforezzz I’ve played Xenoverse 2, it gets extremely boring. No thanks.
I hate how little i want to watch ranked on SZ
Ain’t nobody want the smoke anymore 😂
Nah, they see one combo or get their perception baited, or their gameplan doesnt work ONE time and get punished once and they skedaddle IMMEDIATELY 😭. I fought a Gero using anime music so he didnt get clipped and his gameplan was False courage>grab, and after I broke it 15 times, I saw buddy’s character stop moving for 5 solid seconds and got “Connection to opponent has been lost” 💀
@@JohnGlow2 true it still baffles me til this day that i had a dude who was base goku(super) spam spirit bombs(i was ginyu)so i took his body and he STILL tried to spirit bomb me even tho i took his body dummy stood there for like 5 mins then i boxed him to death like come on dude it's not hard to train.💀
Should have never added ranked in the first place tbh, add imaginary points that tell you and others that you're better than everyone else and couple that with leaderboards and of course people are going to sweat hard, if they were avoiding making a competitive game then why did they add that?
I still believe in the game, tbf, there are some patches coming this month, so I hope they fix it
this game is so good when you're not playing ranked/playing for money
Could you elaborate more of why you think the game isn’t fun when playing ranked?
@@dsglawsBecause you’d just play to win.
Play for fun and suddenly you see the whole roster being played, goofy tactics being used, and actual fun matches.
@@okami1272 well it is ranked and not player match. Expecting to people to not play the best characters in ranked is a weird thought to have. If you’re playing in high ranks in Fortnite or Apex people aren’t gonna choose the worst guns or the worst characters
@@dsglawsso u are also an ssj4 gogeta user in rank ?
@@ShrimanSaravanan-cu2bb fuck no I’m not a loser. I use my favorite character A17 and I’m the #1 A17 z version and #2 A17 super version for singles.
The only problem with games now is they rely on online multiplayer and mod options made by people not under their banner.
1. They don't have to actually fully flesh out a game because. 'someone else will do it, and we won't have to pay them."
2. they make much more money tying DLC to playability. No game is a full experience anymore.
3. Back in the early 2000s was the best time for gaming. So much hard work and effort went into making games full experiences. Now it just seems they release half baked concepts and expect us to pay 100$ for a game that won't last past the week.
I ain’t ever quit I’m still playing daily
@@ArleoPlayZ same
play me
Same🫡
We can tell
Quick, who’s your main?
Look I'm a very competitive person and I do like sparking. But I knew for a fact even before the game came out that trying to play it "competitively" is silly. Sparking ain't a dead game and I also very much agree even from a casual exp that some things really need to change but the idea of booting up rank and playing against other people in a game where other characters just have better stats then others solely because they are "stronger in canon" is dumb.
First rhyme now seereax I was just wondering if yall would address it glad y’all are 💪🏾
I think people complain too much. I’m pretty sure we all knew this was how the game was going to be, it’s not like it’s a surprise or anything unless you can’t hear or read. I still love the game and always will.