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Yeah and lately it’s become so unpredictable even those with short reach lights suffer from this:

These were my last two matches last night, on the first one I got the first couple of intercepts off and took her down to 50% however after this she proceeded to light intercept me four times in a row while I tried to light intercept her and I died, AI shouldn’t be just walking towards you like that when this meta requires you to intercept so much.

Second fight I went up against an actual tough defender with a ton of chip damage and I killed her in 50 secs even while punching up because she went for every single light intercept like it should. The timing is already different for a lot of champs there is no reason AI shouldn’t just start walking towards you like that when you’re not blocking at all.

Very true. Kushala is another one that suffers from this

I have played through all recent turmoils - input issues, AI issues, outages, broken defenders e.t.c. This, however, might be the the straw that broke the camel's back. Since the last update my phone (Xiaomi 10T Pro) had been overheating after 5 minutes of gameplay and draining battery at extreme rate - at least 20% in 10 minutes. Not to mention it being laggy as hell. The game is literally unplayable. It worked perfectly before the update, so it is not about the phone or anything else not related to the game itself.

Since this is a general problem with the game, that is experienced by many, from my point of view, this is a critical issue that needs to be addressed with the same priority that Kabam addresses any issue that non-intentionally benefit players.

@KabamPinwheel @Kabam Crashed

This is disappointing to read

It is a shame when they do this as we have such a large amount of characters in Marvel which are not yet in contest.

January is literally Dr Strange being treated as a new character a la Iron Man

Less play time, less interest in the game..

I am at the point that I am starting to get annoyed at discord pings by the alliance. Would be surprised if I keep on playing in 2026

I was at the Fest for the entire weekend, and I’m sorry the OP had the experience he did. All I can do is give my own impressions, which are that there was so much happening so much of the time, I can understand if he felt like he was being ignored, because if you were not proactive in trying to engage with people they were not always going to do the same, simply from sheer overload.

I personally chatted with 40 or 50 people over the weekend, between the fest and the extracurricular activities. I had to initiate many if not most of those conversations because however well known anyone thinks I am, no one actually knows what I look like unless they’ve already met me, since I do not have a YouTube channel or other such visual presence. If you stood there and waited for them to approach you, likely most people - attendees and staff - would not specifically engage with you, probably thinking you were taking a break or something. Unless they already knew you.

I personally saw Dave and Mike stop and shake hands with many many many many people throughout the fest, basically anyone who stopped them and held out their hands and say hi. Not just content creators, but just every day players, as did many of the devs. In an event like this, there are bound to be interactions that don’t go smoothly. Sometimes I waited to talk to someone I specifically recognized but because they did not see me and were focused on someone else, they left before I could catch their attention. I’m pretty sure I eventually got to most of them, but in my opinion if anyone there thought they would not have to be the one to reach out and make the effort to connect first, and everyone else should be out looking for people who might want to chat, I think that’s asking for too much. The environment - like every convention I’ve ever been to - is just not conducive to that kind of thing.

Incidentally, those steps to and from the Brawl stage? Yeah when I was going up and down those I was focused on the steps. If anyone was trying to catch my eye while I was going up and down those, I almost certainly missed it, even if it might have appeared like my gaze passed in your direction. Between the lights and the music and the smoke machine and the conversations going on around and my desire to not tumble down the stadium seating like an idiot, combined with the fact I was generally operating on just a few hours of sleep at the time, I could have passed my wife going the other way and not noticed.

If I accidentally failed to chat with someone who was trying to get my attention, and I don’t know how that could happen because I was just an anonymous floppy hat in the crowd, I’m sorry for that. But I did my best, and I’m sure the staff there did as well. But in that kind of environment, you have to be proactive. Not just proactive, but persistent. At any moment in time the dev/attendee ratio was 30 to one or more, and most of them were running back and forth between tasks they had to do.

To the OP, if you’re still reading. I spent about half my time at the actual Fest just hanging out, especially Saturday. I was hanging out at the Beat the Boss area, I spent a little time at the Wheel, I was down by the Coloseum and Dazzler stations for a while. I was willing to talk to anyone who approached me. If you had tapped me on the shoulder and said hi, I would have chatted with you about anything you wanted for as long as you wanted. And then probably continued chatting long past the point you wanted. I’m sorry we didn’t specifically cross paths.

Wait… you think 20k people spent 33mil in a fiscal quarter?

I mean, I hear what you're saying, but the truth is that social interactions are highly subjective and everyone is in their own heads.

I just can't imagine not saying a single word at an event, not even a "hello," but then writing a thousand word essay about how every employee there was cold. That is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a way to cast blame on others for our own inability to socialize.

Also remember that many people have a very warped perspective of what is actually happening in the moment. Like someone might think they're giving a friendly smile or nod, but the people on the receiving end might be seeing a tense unwelcome grimace.

Not saying this is OP's situation, but just want people in this thread who might be young or shy or whatever to kind of not fall into this trap of both not putting themselves out there but then also expecting and blaming others for rejecting them. Because this mindset is a painful trap, and it basically prevents the person from ever connecting with others because of fear of rejection, which then creates resentment, as we see in this post.