how is the PvP?

[GuanYu]

thinking about picking the game up but probably wouldnt play the singleplayer that much. Just wondering how the PvP is and if its worth it??

[potato]

i wouldn't buy this just for the pvp

[D. Flame]

The PvP is trash, TBQH.

[A Suspicious Crayon]

Without the Singleplayer you won't have gear for the PvP. It's also not a very good PvP experience, could be better by now but it lacks a lot of replayabaility imo.

[Citizen of Zozo]

Well... you have to play the singleplayer to unlock parts. Which is important for making a strong AC.

The pvp in this game game is scuffed, but fun. Would you like it? That's something only you can answer by trying it.

[Brigadier Bert]

Good Fing PVP embrace the sweatyness, quitters never win. Do need the singleplayer playthrough for parts but def worth it. Just be a tad masochistic if you wanna go high rank pvp.

[nubi]

PvP is fun, though you have to at least partially play the single player to even play PvP and i would recommend doing all the single player content to unlock all the parts.

[tuckervb]

I honestly love the PvP in this game. There's DEFINITELY flaws with it but it scratches the high speed 1v1 itch I've been craving. now that ranked mode exists there are tons a OP builds you'll run into but matchmaking is usually only a 15 sec process which is nice.

That being said you have to clear act 2 to even unlock multiplayer so you cant avoid the single player. Nor should you as that is where all the parts are going to come from. (I also think single player is a ton of fun so take that for what it's worth)

[Amalgamation]

it has its moments where it feels better than anything single-player can offer (which is really good) - but those are very rare. if youre playing the matchmaking system youll be sweeped by on-meta builds that make your game-time less than enjoyable

[Remember No Russian]

I think the pvp would be better if they let party competitive matchmaking, like csgo, also so a party can synergize builds, and if those lobbies had more players, like 4-8. The lore always had huge battles so I think a bigger gamemode would support that, but it probably won't happen.

[REhorror]

I think they should add invasion mode for the SP, it would be so-so perfect.

[qwe]

There are very few competitive 1v1 games with a rating system today. And the games where you choose your robot and fight with it. There are even fewer such games. I just think that PvP is the best part of this game.

[Daviodraan]

Well huh, it's a 10/10 single player experience.
PvP? lagfest, worthless and meaningless ranked nullified due to lag and exploits.
3v3 casual games are fun for a while, but there's an overabundance of cheeselords that play it like it was an actual ranked match even in casual lobbies.

Did I mention the netcode sucked? yeah, the netcode sucks.
You cannot be 100% honest to yourself and say you play this competitively, because it doesn't have the means to be competitive in it's current state, not even for a casual player playing ranked matches.

Latency 90% dictates the outcome, that and who cheeses harder.
It's a race of who and or what setup can make that stun meter go up faster, then instakilling them afterwards (or leaving them at 1%), and who deals the best with the horribly implemented netcode. I'm talking 0 to death-s out of stuff you literally don't see, being the most common occurrence.

Again, fun because of the game feel, which they nailed and i'd even say overdelivered like mad, I seriously can't do anything but praise the game at it's, no pun intended, core.
It's by far the best mech game out there, not even close.
But pvp get's boring once you notice how everything is pretty much RNG on matchmaking and latency, and a broken and barely deserving of the comparison ''rock paper scissor'' of currently viable setups (that may or may not rotate with one or other patch, but mostly remains the same in concept).

Question is, you want ''party game pvp'' or ''competitive pvp''? because casual play is an absolute blast if you kick unwanted douchebags (exploiters, meta hyper abusers, or laglords)
But ranked matches are a literal joke, and barely mean anything.

[JuanSoloWing]

There are a lot of cheaters and tons of lag

[Daviodraan]

Yeah, what they said pretty much

[The Dinkster]

Originally posted by GuanYu:

thinking about picking the game up but probably wouldnt play the singleplayer that much. Just wondering how the PvP is and if its worth it??

PvP is riddled with issues and this game isn't worth buying for that.