This game. Agree to disagree. This game is great and misunderstood. They did well with the servers by making team-up with Raider nearly impossible. Good job Bandai, keep it up!
It really is unfortunate that Bamco thought that neutering the queues and punishing all players was the way to go. I'm hoping that with season 3 they rectify these issues, but it might be too late by that point, which is a sad thought. Either way, great video! Really informative and well composed. Looking forward to the next one :)
@@lesvideosduboncoin506I’ve been having fun with season 3 tbh if u don’t like the game don’t play it season 2 was genuinely ass but season 3 is fucking amazing
Thanks for making this. You've largely summed up my problems with the game. I could deal with the gacha, I could deal with sweatlords when I'm solo-queuing, but I can't play with my friends anymore. All my friends quit because they can't play with 'their' raider anymore - namely, me - and that was the draw of playing the game for them. I'm having less fun, too; not only do I have to queue several Survivor rounds just to play as a Raider once, but I also have to play sweaty and can't goof off even slightly, or I risk getting curbed. Survivor rounds can be fun, but also nervewracking; my Raider rounds used to be good for unwinding after the stress of being Survivor so many times in a row, but not anymore. It's gotten worse and worse as this game's community gets more and more top-heavy, causing newbies to bounce off because they get matched with people in the 100s of levels who just shred them without pause, and the escalating power creep arms race between Raider and Survivor also punishes newbies, as they haven't had the time or resources to get meta skills and transpheres from the gacha yet, and are thus underpowered and vulnerable even if they've got the personal gameplay skills to survive. I want to like Breakers, I really do, but the mismanagement Bamco demonstrates in running it is galling and saddening to me.
I miss playing with my friends, while they’re raider. Ik they prolly took that out so there wouldn’t be any abuse but it was hella funny running away from my friends and pissing them off/getting their reaction
I already never liked the breakers i always thought it just either looked too much like dead by daylight dragon ball edition or whatever but they could have at least delved further into the future timeline with the androids cell goku black and zamasu seriously i am confused by the genuinely baffling decision to forcefully link the breakers to xenoverse 2 it would have been fine on its own thing without needing to link to an entirely different game not to mention the fact of that now i have even less reason to play the breakers which is disappointing since i tried it out on xbox live gold and it was actually okish but if i can't even play with my friends then there is no fucking point playing it for me dead by daylight and some of its other copies like kinda secret neighbor and the roblox game flee the facility all have decent gameplay and for dead by daylight it actively is able to have competent enough devs to have a game that doesn't have much cheating or teaming without having to ruin the whole fucking experience by removing one of the funniest and best parts of dead by daylight or its many clones the basic fucking ability to play with friends for gods sake xenoverse 2 the very game the breakers is linked to has at least SOME decent multiplayer stuff and that game didn't need to be neutered because bandai are complete and utter morons
The one thing the game needs. Is Cross Play saving and dynamic Voice Chat.. With dynamic voice chat. Just image how many people will be begging you that’s holding the final dragon ball to give it to them.. and for realism, the raider can hear you talking if they are really close to where your hiding.
I just bought this game a few days ago, while I am having fun, the matchmaking is insane. There will be games when I am the survivor and half of the people are under level 30 against an experienced Raider. There are also matchups when I as an under level 5 Raider are matched with at least level 100 survivors who are probably in a discord call together. They should add an in game chat so that even strangers can communicate.
Player pop is a huge issue. I actually love season 3 changes and think every balance change has been really healthy and good. The new raider ginyus and test server were great and been balanced well IMO getting a nerf from the test server. I hope the next thing they focus on is crossplay, raider queue or even reverting the old system so we could queue to fight our friends again.
Im not a big fan of the knockback meter for the raider, and I think the ginyu force is still a little op, but its nice to see them try and address issues people have. I really hope they add crossplay and the old matchmaking before the player base completely drops off.
@@JP2427e knockback meter was very much needed, before it was added, it was stupid easy to stall by infinitely stunning the raider (and it still is very easy to stall and abuse stuns against the raider). And while yes, the ginyu force is stupidly op, I believe its nothing compared to how braindead survivors are. Key rushing instantly kills a game, makes it impossible for a raider to win, it is also fairly easy to dogpile a raider, which has been a thing since open beta. The game is in a state in which winning as a raider is unnecessarily hard and winning as a survivor feels indescribably unrewarding
I don't know much about the game it seems fun but pretty much any public match I get into is just a free for all and I can't really seem to escape a raider even after using my launch pad or smoke bc I usually just get ki tracked blasted out the sky then usually die cause A either nobody comes to help or B the raider just sits there until I time out
@@soulgames4696 Public match making especially with an influx of new players can be hard with randoms. Though just having one or two level 150+ players will change the lobby entirely. Right now for example survivors are figuring out the new baba skill and finding the dragon balls in like 2 minutes. If you find some friends who you can work with the game becomes pretty easy though I also feel you on public match making being random if you get good or bad teams. I like to play raider so I generally just play solo sadly and sometimes you just gotta accept it when people throw the game haha
@@dotapazappy I agree with u there depends on the people u play with seems to make the game rough or smooth if u have teammates that don't know what they are doing and or playing for themselves then the game may not go so well but with teamwork and good teammates it can really change the tides of the match but as I play it more it gets better it's a fun game now that I understand a lot of stuff and at first I didn't really like the game ig bc I was a noob and didn't really know how to play and getting rekt by a raiders in multiple occasions probably took over 10 games to get my first escape but overall a fun game underestimated honestly just had to give it a chance and multiple attempts....also sorry for the long comment lol just wanted to share my starter experience
Hey dude! I know I haven’t commented much but I really enjoy your video essays. I think your voice fits incredibly well for the format. You’ve improved a lot from your first video and I cannot wait to see what you make next. You have my full support!
0:57 A man of culture I see. I wish the games continued. Staying on Topic. I really wish Bamco and Dimps reverse the matchmaking. Flex should allow you to play with friends.
I thought it was weird when I came back to the game a while ago and tried to play with a friend that the only option was the surv only queue when I remember that not being the case before, now I know I wasn't tripping or crazy.
“The drill guys, go get it.” -Trunks I want to play more of this game, played it round a friends, I didn’t get it at first but it was fun. I can imagine having a casual games with friends. I hope they fix the queuing.
This must be heard! Thanks for such an amazing and informative video. Me and my friend group also stopped playing after they made the change to the matchmaking...
SO TRUE!! For the longest time I thought you could only use it on Great Ape Vegeta, but apparently it works the while match. It doesn't have to be an instant kill but come on man it should at least do a decent amount 😭😭😭
Some major issues that you didn’t mention is the fact that many raider players now simply abuse the game to get a cheap win over survivors. There’s nothing stopping raiders from body camping after downing a survivor which essentially forces players to either get killed helping each other or abandon the teamwork aspect.
To be fair, if you spend 90 second camping a body as a raider, it is entirely possible for the rest of the survivors to quickly assemble the super time machine while you’re busy. It sucks for the dead guy though
They did the exact same thing for Evolve, I went from loving every match and being thrilled whenever I got to fight my friend to being locked out of half of the game if I played with a friend, really killed it for me.
glad that i came across your video! i've always been curious about this game and wanted to know its pros and cons, and this seems to cover all the bases. great work! 💚
Wait! This got released? I completely forgot about this game. I remember the trailers for it, people were talking about and after a while, even after its release, radio silence.
Forget the flex queue not allowing you to play with friends, the region and console lock doesn't allow me to play the game at all. I'm on xbox and live in Australia, and since my only pool for other players is that specific nieche, it is near impossible to find other players, during the early days of season 2, I was only ever able to play from about 4PM - 8PM, and as soon as one person wanted to get off, no one could play anymore as we'd just be stuck on 7/8 for around half an hour before everyone decided it wasn't worth it. Nowadays I straight up can't find any games anymore, which is awful because I really love this game and have a good 250 hours invested in it, but now having a game I purchased that I can't even play is beyond aggravating, and I don't think I'll even touch season 3 unless they disable the region lock and/or add crossplay, a little lag is not worth having smaller countries straight up unable to play the game, plus I cant even imagine what its like for switch/PC players in these countries too.
ooof I feel bad for u, one way someone on PC in austraila ik played with a lot more people was join a premade or party that's hosted in another country, tho I feel like they need to fix cross play for those countries with low players
Xbox is the least popular platform for Breakers, plus the fact you’re in a region where Breakers is not popular either. You’d be lucky to have 40+ people playing at once. PC and Switch are the most popular platforms for Breakers and Japan and North America are the most popular regions. This is where cross play and cross region play should be implemented. It’s absolutely unfair for Xbox and non-North American and Japanese players.
As someone that bought the game on launch and LITERALLY put 200 hours into it that first season while platinuming the game, I've never touched it more than twice since Season 2 because I can no longer play with my friend in anything other than survivor queue, the majority of the fun for us was eventually being raider and demolishing the other, but I guess we're not the target audience for this game anymore....you know people that wanna have fun...that's not even to mention how badly they nerfed EVERYTHING the survivor's had at their disposal regarding movement to make things competitive while putting out a ridiculously OP raider to fight against in Vegeta. Genuinely was a game I could see myself playing until it shut down....at least that's what I thought after season 1 before seeing how badly they shot themselves in the foot. Probably never touching it again because of the fact me and my buddy can't play together and kill each other as raider without convincing 6 other friends to purchase the game too, and that's just never happening unless this shit becomes FTP down the line, I'd stay optimistic about them changing the queue system but given how many complained initially and their resistance to make any chances that'll unfortunately never happen, ergo I'll never support the game again. It's truly a damn shame such a great game was ruined so fucking quickly after an initially amazing launch.
it's really upsetting, I hoped this game would succeed as it would be proof that the Dragon Ball franchise didn't need to restrict itself solely to 3D/2D Fighting games, but Bandai's shitty changes and decisions has basically condemned the game to death.
Being here since like week one of this game's launch to where we are now, it's like watching a once healthy ecosystem get hit by an asteroid and then slowly mutate into something that vaguely resembles the Australian outback in terms of toxicity. Like yeah we're still in the death spiral and things will probably never get better, but now we have multicolored apex predators with venom that can melt your skin off and you gotta admit that's pretty funny.
Oh man going into Season 3 Beta, it’s not looking like it’s going to be better than season 2. The raider queue is still gone, playing with friends on flex queue is still gone. And there’s no way to win against the new raider (ginyu) unless your a pre-made team.
There's plenty of ways to win. Ginyu isn't too hard to beat if you know what to do. He has a lot of counters and a lot of ways he can counter you. It's a battle of wits.
Im hoping they'll adjust some matchmaking stuff when the season properly launches, but yeah Ginyu looks kinda disgustingly broken. Not sure how I'm feeling about it right now to be honest
@@madamewalkers6424 however my main gripe is that ginyu cannot die until level 4! Like imagine you try killing him at level 4 without killing him at the earlier stages, it’s like impossible to do so. So I try to kill the previous stages, and the thing is, ginyu is still broken! After you defeated level 3 of ginyu, your team most likely have depleted most of their dragon changes, unable to fight back against ginyu. And since ginyu is a level 4, no survivor can melee him without getting hit except for the level 4 survivor (which can only appear once per match) and same thing applies for previous stages too, imagine if your team decides to jump guldo, good now he’s dead, but you lost all your dragon changes which make you easier to die since you have less health to sponge, which in turn gives the Raider more energy because he killed you.
@@jokkergar Thats true, but at his strongest Ginyu can one shot a level 3 survivor's dragon change. Thats way stronger than all of the other raiders. I get the point is to team up and defeat the other members to weaken him but idk it feels a little much
I really think Breakers is a good game if you take off the Dragon Ball lenses off, but the decisions they make really scream “easy way out” with the devs The devs have proved that if they want something done, they can do it and very well. The issue is that they always seem to choose the cheapest choice for most decisions and it drives me insane. I really think this game could be remembered as something really good but with their continued player-unfriendly choices it’s pretty hard to see that happening as of now
Its an issue I've noticed with a lot of these Bandai Namco anime games, which is really a shame. This is one of the most unique anime games I've ever played and it sucks to see it get constantly shafted as much as it has
A big issue in season 3 is the new raider of the Ginyu Force, they’re way too broken You can’t kill them until they get to level 4 with Ginyu which forces you to either try and jump him with everyone who’s still alive which isn’t always easy or get all the keys and do the Time Machine which is also not very easy
@@KnightsGone considering 9 times out of 10 the raider camps the last one and then there’s the task of of actually activating the Time Machine without getting killed, yes it is hard
Kai and Super were my first experience of DB and I was blind to anime up until Middle school in 2016-17 and i don’t regret staying up that one night to watch toonami
Oh god, so sorry you had such terrible introductions to the amazing series, can only go up I guess, but retribution will or may already have repay/ed you kindly 😁
Going to be honest, I never knew this game existed, but this sounds like a very cool and fun game on paper. I hope the game population recovers and enjoys further fun into the future.
Me and my friend use to play this game so much when it came out that we had to set a schedule for us to limit how much time we spent playing. We never really ran into teamers and if they would have had a real report system. They could have kept the season 1 style of playing with friends. Since the change they made, we never played the game ever again. It’s really sad but it’s more of a statement for us. If they revert the change, you best believe we would all queue up again.
I totally see where you're coming from and agree on a lot of your points. But what I will say is that playing the game as survivor with randos can be hella annoying. Since the game does rely on good team work. But that does make it a good game with friends.
Thats true, but I've had just as many survivor games that have been extremely close and tense. Like most multiplayer games it varies from game to game depending on who you get paired with. I do prefer playing with friends though lol
As someone without friends and on switch, the queue changes haven’t done anything to affect me lol (I also only started playing this week so I definitely know what I’m talking about)
Demon King Piccolo, Goku Black, and 16/17/18 would all be fun Raiders in this game. I think there’s probably an interesting switch up with a “Baby Mode,” where the Raider chooses a Survivor skin and instead of destroying the other players, has to “infect” them all…
I used to play weekly with friends but since season 2 we haven't played cause of the matchmaking changes. I have given up on the game now that season 3 is released with no changes to it. But it's comforting to know the problem my friends and I have with the game are not unique.
I have a glitch with the game where I can't play the game. All I can do is enter the lobby, episodes, as well as practice but only by myself. I can't play online nor join anyone's lobby or play quick matches or anything online😭. How am I supposed to fix this yo😭😭😭😭😭
I don’t know if it’s just me but ever since season 2 every single game has either ended in every survivor dying or the survivors escaping in the Time Machine, the game has been extremely unbalanced for me and the raider is always favoured
Ironically like a few months before this game was announced, I had a dream where I was playing a VR Dragon Ball game with a group of people where we were regular humans trying to run away and survive against Cell and it was very dark, gritty, and horror themed. It was so funny that not too long after that, a Dragon Ball game where you can play as normal humans trying to survive against Cell was announced!
I stopped playing the patch that they made all the projectile hitboxes way way too big. It lost me, and I won't come back but I hope they figure it out.
Kinda glad I did not grab up this game. Not because I do not like Dragonball stuff cause I do but cause these types of games always seem to go downhill easily and quickly. Only reason Fortnite is alive is cause of cameos of characters like DBZ and Naruto and other stuff. Usually I think the teams behind this stuff does not know what they wanna fully do and how to fix it when it comes to people abusing it. Also when the servers die thats it unless you find some people making private servers to still play
I was playing sonic frontiers new game plus while watching this and then heard undefeatable. Of course I instantly started jamming out because FRONTIERS GOT A DEVIL MAY CRY 5 LEVEL SOUNDTRACK.
I really don't care about Majin Buu and shit. I wish that the raiders were more like Tao Pai Pai, King Piccolo, and Nappa. Why do they always have to force fit super saiyans too? :L
I never knew about the issue of trying to play with friends, I don’t have any friends who own the game to play with so I never knew about that, that’s upsetting
Personally that flex queue crap needs to go, they really should have it setup as survivor or killer man. You have to wait like 5 to 7 matches just to get raider again. Plus it sucks that they axed the old matchmaking too were you can be raider with your survivor friends. That made it wayyyy more fun to me.
What is funny is the ginuy force was finally added and I'm like who are they going to add next planet eater moro because they are deafintly already used every single thing they could
I hate playing with level 100 people when I’m the enemy they jump me every time and they get their booth mush faster and I hate it I don’t know how they can get a booth so fast!!!
I've been talking to my friend that I played this with for the first two seasons before I dropped out and I've stated before that this largely feels like a game that not only needs a crossplay feature and god the new matchmaking system is god awful, but given that it's a niche game that's a spin off of a niche game it feels like this game needs to provide a better custom lobby experience as well so the community can organize more casual games and help new or just more play for fun type players instead of everyone going into the sweat city that is normal matchmaking. I would love to see this game have the lobby system that not only give actual rewards, albeit really toned down ones and with heavy restrictions based on like round times or things done if they're concerned about exploiting, but also allowed for custom rule sets. Something similar to mutations in L4D2 or custom games in Halo where settings and modes can be tweaked to create fun more casual experiences like a mode where everyone can't dragon change and cell is locked into larva stage or a mode where everyone, even the raider starts with maxed out radars, or even just the ability to adjust certain stats for personal balancing like make certain cooldowns shorter or longer, extend health bars or increase barrier break i-frames, reset or force levels for skills for both raider, and survivors etc.
I kind feel like 1 vs 7 (or however many) games are ultimately doomed to the fate of, "well, someone's *gonna* be working alongside the 1 player side...." hell, even with randoms I assume it's still a problem.
since the launch season one over 1500 TP medals have been given away for free or earned in the dragon tier. you basically get dlc for free if you saved all of those.
They listened to a salty minority of players who got salty if they lost. I got accused of teaming for not noticing players or accidentally downing the same guy. Me and my friends quit long ago after they took out the queue for friends. Hopefully people like that guy are happy being dominated by level 100's
Season 3 and they SAID they'll bring back raider que but haven't yet. And flex que with friends still isn't possible. My friends have started to just flex que at the same time and try to get in the same lobby cause we can't keep playing nothing but Survivor together
Ironically enough the player base has gotten small enough that joining the flex queue at the same time actually works pretty often lol. It sucks that we even have to resort to this kinda stuff to begin with
The game is fun, but with the gacha and season pass mechanics it felt like a chore to play. I stopped playing several months ago and haven't looked back sadly
Great vid. I always thought the game looked fun, it's a shame that the faulty matchmaking and lack of crossplay is gonna end up hurting it. If they wanted it to be a live service, complete with seasons and gacha, they should have made it free to play, because im not going to drop 20 dollars on a p2w game that's already in hospice.
Dead by daylight has an incentive to killer and survivor role. They get a 100% bloodpoint boost to whichever needs more players. BP are the currency used to unlock perks for killers ans survivors for anyone that doesn't know. I Hope they do something similar if they are scared about lobbies being too one sided. I hope it gets fixed i got back into this game with the start of season 3 and i was wondering what happened with the queue and why it was so different. Hope they fix it and realize like you said that it was a minority of people doing that teaming thing and the report button should be more than enough to combat that! Great video! Edit: I guess they do have one for Survivor? Im just not sure what you get as a bonus....EXP or something?
The fact is, they cant do a raider specific queue because nobody in there right mind is wanting to play survivor over raider. Db Breakers is a game where you slog through 5-6 matches as survivor just to have fun again with raider. Oh but don't think it's always fun. Sometimes you will go against a team who are actually sweating their balls off in discord and jump you in your second phase. There's matches where people don't load in or just give up. Matches where you are just waiting or feel there's nothing you can do because every character has barrier instant transmission. This wouldn't be that bad if you could play Raider all you wanted but you can't because even bandai knows survivors trash. That's why they hide their most bull skills in the gacha system to try and dangle a carrot to players. This game is dying because of greed and the fact they haven't even touched the main issues this game even has. I was hoping theyd do SOMETHING about players just doing barrier and instant transmission at level 3 to give you literally nothing for your work but nope! Literally nothing about this issue that is more prevalent than you'd think since I still play with the same people every match since there aren't enough players giving enough variety to the skill use.
I’ve watched all the dragon ball series and played most games but mannnn I forgot all about the legacy of goku games kinda like Zelda or something like that I loved those games
see, its just the current state there in, its still a fun game to play with friends, but that usually doesnt last too long, if they at least bring back flex que with friends then it'll be a lot more fun, or if they bring back raider que
I dropped the game right after the game officially dropped. The play-tests were so much fun and I dropped countless hours into them, but once the game actually released I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much
What's your favorite Dragon Ball game?
Budokai Tenkaichi 3. It's a toybox of all my favorite dbz characters
Thank you for praising Attack of the Saiyans. Such a great game that no has heard of😅
Try to guess: the background music of the video 11:59
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This game. Agree to disagree. This game is great and misunderstood. They did well with the servers by making team-up with Raider nearly impossible. Good job Bandai, keep it up!
The only game with farmer with shotgun
Wait until Dokkan Releases a LR farmer with shotgun
Man I wonder what that OST would sound like
@@Supersonic37838they're just gonna recycle the teq yajirobe ost (real)
@@AverageSpeedwagonEnjoyer Your right
I think I’m dbl 5th anni pt3 they’re gonna release an lf or ultra farmer with shotgun
It really is unfortunate that Bamco thought that neutering the queues and punishing all players was the way to go.
I'm hoping that with season 3 they rectify these issues, but it might be too late by that point, which is a sad thought.
Either way, great video! Really informative and well composed. Looking forward to the next one :)
Honestly what's your smart idea if not this cause I'd rather this than someone taking all the dragon balls then proceeding to dance with the raider
Spoiler this game get worse every season
@@lesvideosduboncoin506I’ve been having fun with season 3 tbh if u don’t like the game don’t play it season 2 was genuinely ass but season 3 is fucking amazing
What's Bamco?? This game was published by Bandai Namco, this Bamco is completely made up.
@@PoopieFartGamertrue. At least raiders aren’t getting beat every second now
Thanks for making this. You've largely summed up my problems with the game. I could deal with the gacha, I could deal with sweatlords when I'm solo-queuing, but I can't play with my friends anymore. All my friends quit because they can't play with 'their' raider anymore - namely, me - and that was the draw of playing the game for them.
I'm having less fun, too; not only do I have to queue several Survivor rounds just to play as a Raider once, but I also have to play sweaty and can't goof off even slightly, or I risk getting curbed. Survivor rounds can be fun, but also nervewracking; my Raider rounds used to be good for unwinding after the stress of being Survivor so many times in a row, but not anymore.
It's gotten worse and worse as this game's community gets more and more top-heavy, causing newbies to bounce off because they get matched with people in the 100s of levels who just shred them without pause, and the escalating power creep arms race between Raider and Survivor also punishes newbies, as they haven't had the time or resources to get meta skills and transpheres from the gacha yet, and are thus underpowered and vulnerable even if they've got the personal gameplay skills to survive.
I want to like Breakers, I really do, but the mismanagement Bamco demonstrates in running it is galling and saddening to me.
This!
Then there's also the way the game looks(animation wise)
@@christopherford39yeah it's definitely not the best I've ever seen
@@dougneon9550 especially with how inconsistent it is, sometimes it can be smooth like butter and other times it looks janky as hell
Well said, I feel you entirely
I miss playing with my friends, while they’re raider. Ik they prolly took that out so there wouldn’t be any abuse but it was hella funny running away from my friends and pissing them off/getting their reaction
I agree! I understand wanting to fix the cheating issue, but I think they overcorrected in their approach.
I already never liked the breakers i always thought it just either looked too much like dead by daylight dragon ball edition or whatever but they could have at least delved further into the future timeline with the androids cell goku black and zamasu seriously i am confused by the genuinely baffling decision to forcefully link the breakers to xenoverse 2 it would have been fine on its own thing without needing to link to an entirely different game not to mention the fact of that now i have even less reason to play the breakers which is disappointing since i tried it out on xbox live gold and it was actually okish but if i can't even play with my friends then there is no fucking point playing it for me dead by daylight and some of its other copies like kinda secret neighbor and the roblox game flee the facility all have decent gameplay and for dead by daylight it actively is able to have competent enough devs to have a game that doesn't have much cheating or teaming without having to ruin the whole fucking experience by removing one of the funniest and best parts of dead by daylight or its many clones the basic fucking ability to play with friends for gods sake xenoverse 2 the very game the breakers is linked to has at least SOME decent multiplayer stuff and that game didn't need to be neutered because bandai are complete and utter morons
Just play a custom game.
The one thing the game needs. Is Cross Play saving and dynamic Voice Chat..
With dynamic voice chat. Just image how many people will be begging you that’s holding the final dragon ball to give it to them.. and for realism, the raider can hear you talking if they are really close to where your hiding.
Ok, yes over all Buu is probably the weakest raider, but his last two forms(Super Buu and Kid buu )are two of the most overpowered raiders in the game
I just bought this game a few days ago, while I am having fun, the matchmaking is insane. There will be games when I am the survivor and half of the people are under level 30 against an experienced Raider. There are also matchups when I as an under level 5 Raider are matched with at least level 100 survivors who are probably in a discord call together. They should add an in game chat so that even strangers can communicate.
Player pop is a huge issue. I actually love season 3 changes and think every balance change has been really healthy and good. The new raider ginyus and test server were great and been balanced well IMO getting a nerf from the test server. I hope the next thing they focus on is crossplay, raider queue or even reverting the old system so we could queue to fight our friends again.
Im not a big fan of the knockback meter for the raider, and I think the ginyu force is still a little op, but its nice to see them try and address issues people have. I really hope they add crossplay and the old matchmaking before the player base completely drops off.
@@JP2427e knockback meter was very much needed, before it was added, it was stupid easy to stall by infinitely stunning the raider (and it still is very easy to stall and abuse stuns against the raider). And while yes, the ginyu force is stupidly op, I believe its nothing compared to how braindead survivors are. Key rushing instantly kills a game, makes it impossible for a raider to win, it is also fairly easy to dogpile a raider, which has been a thing since open beta. The game is in a state in which winning as a raider is unnecessarily hard and winning as a survivor feels indescribably unrewarding
I don't know much about the game it seems fun but pretty much any public match I get into is just a free for all and I can't really seem to escape a raider even after using my launch pad or smoke bc I usually just get ki tracked blasted out the sky then usually die cause A either nobody comes to help or B the raider just sits there until I time out
@@soulgames4696 Public match making especially with an influx of new players can be hard with randoms. Though just having one or two level 150+ players will change the lobby entirely. Right now for example survivors are figuring out the new baba skill and finding the dragon balls in like 2 minutes. If you find some friends who you can work with the game becomes pretty easy though I also feel you on public match making being random if you get good or bad teams. I like to play raider so I generally just play solo sadly and sometimes you just gotta accept it when people throw the game haha
@@dotapazappy I agree with u there depends on the people u play with seems to make the game rough or smooth if u have teammates that don't know what they are doing and or playing for themselves then the game may not go so well but with teamwork and good teammates it can really change the tides of the match but as I play it more it gets better it's a fun game now that I understand a lot of stuff and at first I didn't really like the game ig bc I was a noob and didn't really know how to play and getting rekt by a raiders in multiple occasions probably took over 10 games to get my first escape but overall a fun game underestimated honestly just had to give it a chance and multiple attempts....also sorry for the long comment lol just wanted to share my starter experience
If i had a quarter for every game with incredible core design that was destroyed by neglect id have enough to fund one of them
Pretty great video! Sucks that the devs don't seem to understand what people like about this game
Hey dude! I know I haven’t commented much but I really enjoy your video essays. I think your voice fits incredibly well for the format. You’ve improved a lot from your first video and I cannot wait to see what you make next. You have my full support!
Thank you! I really appreciate your support!
0:57 A man of culture I see. I wish the games continued.
Staying on Topic. I really wish Bamco and Dimps reverse the matchmaking. Flex should allow you to play with friends.
I thought it was weird when I came back to the game a while ago and tried to play with a friend that the only option was the surv only queue when I remember that not being the case before, now I know I wasn't tripping or crazy.
6 something months later....
This game has turned into a unbalanced button mashing scrubfest!
and have fun getting slaughtered by Lv.100+ survivors!
“The drill guys, go get it.” -Trunks
I want to play more of this game, played it round a friends, I didn’t get it at first but it was fun. I can imagine having a casual games with friends.
I hope they fix the queuing.
This must be heard! Thanks for such an amazing and informative video. Me and my friend group also stopped playing after they made the change to the matchmaking...
I genuinely feel like Yajirobe’s katana should’ve done more damage to great ape Vegeta’s TAIL.
SO TRUE!! For the longest time I thought you could only use it on Great Ape Vegeta, but apparently it works the while match. It doesn't have to be an instant kill but come on man it should at least do a decent amount 😭😭😭
This game died faster and harder than multiversus 💀
Some major issues that you didn’t mention is the fact that many raider players now simply abuse the game to get a cheap win over survivors. There’s nothing stopping raiders from body camping after downing a survivor which essentially forces players to either get killed helping each other or abandon the teamwork aspect.
Oh yeah. That's some bullshit.
Unfortunately an aspect of asymmetrical games. DBD has a huge camping issue that immediately ruins the altruism aspect of the games
To be fair, if you spend 90 second camping a body as a raider, it is entirely possible for the rest of the survivors to quickly assemble the super time machine while you’re busy.
It sucks for the dead guy though
They did the exact same thing for Evolve, I went from loving every match and being thrilled whenever I got to fight my friend to being locked out of half of the game if I played with a friend, really killed it for me.
glad that i came across your video! i've always been curious about this game and wanted to know its pros and cons, and this seems to cover all the bases. great work! 💚
Wait! This got released? I completely forgot about this game. I remember the trailers for it, people were talking about and after a while, even after its release, radio silence.
Because the game is lame.
I've gotta support the up and comers. This is an easy subscribe. Keep up the good work
Forget the flex queue not allowing you to play with friends, the region and console lock doesn't allow me to play the game at all. I'm on xbox and live in Australia, and since my only pool for other players is that specific nieche, it is near impossible to find other players, during the early days of season 2, I was only ever able to play from about 4PM - 8PM, and as soon as one person wanted to get off, no one could play anymore as we'd just be stuck on 7/8 for around half an hour before everyone decided it wasn't worth it. Nowadays I straight up can't find any games anymore, which is awful because I really love this game and have a good 250 hours invested in it, but now having a game I purchased that I can't even play is beyond aggravating, and I don't think I'll even touch season 3 unless they disable the region lock and/or add crossplay, a little lag is not worth having smaller countries straight up unable to play the game, plus I cant even imagine what its like for switch/PC players in these countries too.
ooof I feel bad for u, one way someone on PC in austraila ik played with a lot more people was join a premade or party that's hosted in another country, tho I feel like they need to fix cross play for those countries with low players
Xbox is the least popular platform for Breakers, plus the fact you’re in a region where Breakers is not popular either. You’d be lucky to have 40+ people playing at once. PC and Switch are the most popular platforms for Breakers and Japan and North America are the most popular regions. This is where cross play and cross region play should be implemented. It’s absolutely unfair for Xbox and non-North American and Japanese players.
I will always emphasize this: breakers is fine. just fine
Combat is awful
Honestly feels this entire game feels like it should be a alternate game mode in Xenoverse or Budokai Tenkachi.
I love playing this game too. I hope I can play as the raider with friends again, I really miss that.
My dude you can your just not going to get rewards for it
@@reddawn1873 I know, And that still sucks.
@@android21evil19 why
@@reddawn1873 Obviously I need the rewards too.
@@android21evil19 You can literally make a build centered around getting dp
I wish they'd remaster Budokai 3. My friends lost a lot of money doing bet fights split screen. God I miss that game.
As someone that bought the game on launch and LITERALLY put 200 hours into it that first season while platinuming the game, I've never touched it more than twice since Season 2 because I can no longer play with my friend in anything other than survivor queue, the majority of the fun for us was eventually being raider and demolishing the other, but I guess we're not the target audience for this game anymore....you know people that wanna have fun...that's not even to mention how badly they nerfed EVERYTHING the survivor's had at their disposal regarding movement to make things competitive while putting out a ridiculously OP raider to fight against in Vegeta.
Genuinely was a game I could see myself playing until it shut down....at least that's what I thought after season 1 before seeing how badly they shot themselves in the foot. Probably never touching it again because of the fact me and my buddy can't play together and kill each other as raider without convincing 6 other friends to purchase the game too, and that's just never happening unless this shit becomes FTP down the line, I'd stay optimistic about them changing the queue system but given how many complained initially and their resistance to make any chances that'll unfortunately never happen, ergo I'll never support the game again.
It's truly a damn shame such a great game was ruined so fucking quickly after an initially amazing launch.
I love how the Level 4 Dragon Charge turns you into a raider counterpart essentially, you don't lost time and you're on even grounds.
I loved this game but I wont play again until I can play raider with my friends. So sad they still haven't fixed this
it's really upsetting, I hoped this game would succeed as it would be proof that the Dragon Ball franchise didn't need to restrict itself solely to 3D/2D Fighting games, but Bandai's shitty changes and decisions has basically condemned the game to death.
Attack of the Saiyans maaaaan, i always loved unlocking the random sparking combos
Can you hear me? It's Trunks! I've sent a super timemachine.
great video man keep up the good work 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
It's funny how I type the first word to that song at the dragon ball part and it automatically shows it lol
They made it a gacha game that costs 20$ to play and doesn't have that much content so i can see why it failed compared to other dragon ball games
One random night in 2009!? 8 years old!? Yeah... that's one way to make the older DBZ fans feel old
Being here since like week one of this game's launch to where we are now, it's like watching a once healthy ecosystem get hit by an asteroid and then slowly mutate into something that vaguely resembles the Australian outback in terms of toxicity.
Like yeah we're still in the death spiral and things will probably never get better, but now we have multicolored apex predators with venom that can melt your skin off and you gotta admit that's pretty funny.
Oh man going into Season 3 Beta, it’s not looking like it’s going to be better than season 2. The raider queue is still gone, playing with friends on flex queue is still gone. And there’s no way to win against the new raider (ginyu) unless your a pre-made team.
There's plenty of ways to win. Ginyu isn't too hard to beat if you know what to do. He has a lot of counters and a lot of ways he can counter you. It's a battle of wits.
Im hoping they'll adjust some matchmaking stuff when the season properly launches, but yeah Ginyu looks kinda disgustingly broken. Not sure how I'm feeling about it right now to be honest
@@madamewalkers6424 however my main gripe is that ginyu cannot die until level 4! Like imagine you try killing him at level 4 without killing him at the earlier stages, it’s like impossible to do so. So I try to kill the previous stages, and the thing is, ginyu is still broken! After you defeated level 3 of ginyu, your team most likely have depleted most of their dragon changes, unable to fight back against ginyu. And since ginyu is a level 4, no survivor can melee him without getting hit except for the level 4 survivor (which can only appear once per match) and same thing applies for previous stages too, imagine if your team decides to jump guldo, good now he’s dead, but you lost all your dragon changes which make you easier to die since you have less health to sponge, which in turn gives the Raider more energy because he killed you.
He's not invincible all the raiders are op in the beggining then as the time goes on players figure out their weakness.
@@jokkergar Thats true, but at his strongest Ginyu can one shot a level 3 survivor's dragon change. Thats way stronger than all of the other raiders. I get the point is to team up and defeat the other members to weaken him but idk it feels a little much
I really think Breakers is a good game if you take off the Dragon Ball lenses off, but the decisions they make really scream “easy way out” with the devs
The devs have proved that if they want something done, they can do it and very well. The issue is that they always seem to choose the cheapest choice for most decisions and it drives me insane. I really think this game could be remembered as something really good but with their continued player-unfriendly choices it’s pretty hard to see that happening as of now
Its an issue I've noticed with a lot of these Bandai Namco anime games, which is really a shame. This is one of the most unique anime games I've ever played and it sucks to see it get constantly shafted as much as it has
THERE I AM GARY. THERE I AM!!!
A big issue in season 3 is the new raider of the Ginyu Force, they’re way too broken
You can’t kill them until they get to level 4 with Ginyu which forces you to either try and jump him with everyone who’s still alive which isn’t always easy or get all the keys and do the Time Machine which is also not very easy
Getting the keys for the tm is hard?
@@KnightsGone considering 9 times out of 10 the raider camps the last one and then there’s the task of of actually activating the Time Machine without getting killed, yes it is hard
Broly is even worse
Kai and Super were my first experience of DB and I was blind to anime up until Middle school in 2016-17 and i don’t regret staying up that one night to watch toonami
Oh god, so sorry you had such terrible introductions to the amazing series, can only go up I guess, but retribution will or may already have repay/ed you kindly 😁
Going to be honest, I never knew this game existed, but this sounds like a very cool and fun game on paper.
I hope the game population recovers and enjoys further fun into the future.
I agree with everything you said. I also hate that they nerf survivors to the ground every patch update.
"Once I revert to an egg, I must bury myself underground for three years. There my form matures."
Me and my friend use to play this game so much when it came out that we had to set a schedule for us to limit how much time we spent playing. We never really ran into teamers and if they would have had a real report system. They could have kept the season 1 style of playing with friends. Since the change they made, we never played the game ever again. It’s really sad but it’s more of a statement for us. If they revert the change, you best believe we would all queue up again.
I totally see where you're coming from and agree on a lot of your points. But what I will say is that playing the game as survivor with randos can be hella annoying. Since the game does rely on good team work. But that does make it a good game with friends.
Thats true, but I've had just as many survivor games that have been extremely close and tense. Like most multiplayer games it varies from game to game depending on who you get paired with. I do prefer playing with friends though lol
Bandai just sucks at updating a game. They are always better at the beginning
As someone without friends and on switch, the queue changes haven’t done anything to affect me lol (I also only started playing this week so I definitely know what I’m talking about)
Switch is the most populated version of this game too, i just hope we can get Cross Play soon enough.
@@RenShinomiya121 I saw somewhere that they had no plan for crossplay or cross progression
@@PLAYER42_ready yeah i was sad, this game could use a boost of population, mainly from the Switch version
Only a third of the way through this video and already I've been talked out of even trying it. Pity, it was a sound idea.
"Dragon Ball is a huge part of my life" Yeah, same. "Since 2009" Oh. Oooh. You're a young person. Got it.
Demon King Piccolo, Goku Black, and 16/17/18 would all be fun Raiders in this game. I think there’s probably an interesting switch up with a “Baby Mode,” where the Raider chooses a Survivor skin and instead of destroying the other players, has to “infect” them all…
Great video keep it up! Subscribed!
I used to play weekly with friends but since season 2 we haven't played cause of the matchmaking changes.
I have given up on the game now that season 3 is released with no changes to it. But it's comforting to know the problem my friends and I have with the game are not unique.
Oh Well!
I have a glitch with the game where I can't play the game. All I can do is enter the lobby, episodes, as well as practice but only by myself. I can't play online nor join anyone's lobby or play quick matches or anything online😭. How am I supposed to fix this yo😭😭😭😭😭
I don’t know if it’s just me but ever since season 2 every single game has either ended in every survivor dying or the survivors escaping in the Time Machine, the game has been extremely unbalanced for me and the raider is always favoured
Which is the point…
@@aceclover758bro definitely loves the Raider
@@aceclover758not
I just started playing this game today bc it’s free on ps plus and holy shit it’s so brain dead easy to play raider but I always lose as survivor.
Ironically like a few months before this game was announced, I had a dream where I was playing a VR Dragon Ball game with a group of people where we were regular humans trying to run away and survive against Cell and it was very dark, gritty, and horror themed. It was so funny that not too long after that, a Dragon Ball game where you can play as normal humans trying to survive against Cell was announced!
I stopped playing the patch that they made all the projectile hitboxes way way too big.
It lost me, and I won't come back but I hope they figure it out.
Kinda glad I did not grab up this game. Not because I do not like Dragonball stuff cause I do but cause these types of games always seem to go downhill easily and quickly. Only reason Fortnite is alive is cause of cameos of characters like DBZ and Naruto and other stuff. Usually I think the teams behind this stuff does not know what they wanna fully do and how to fix it when it comes to people abusing it. Also when the servers die thats it unless you find some people making private servers to still play
I was playing sonic frontiers new game plus while watching this and then heard undefeatable. Of course I instantly started jamming out because FRONTIERS GOT A DEVIL MAY CRY 5 LEVEL SOUNDTRACK.
I really don't care about Majin Buu and shit. I wish that the raiders were more like Tao Pai Pai, King Piccolo, and Nappa. Why do they always have to force fit super saiyans too? :L
6:44 that moment when the sonic frontiers music kicks in
I never knew about the issue of trying to play with friends, I don’t have any friends who own the game to play with so I never knew about that, that’s upsetting
man, we I heard you say you saw kai in 2009 as a 9 year old, I felt old instantly
Personally that flex queue crap needs to go, they really should have it setup as survivor or killer man. You have to wait like 5 to 7 matches just to get raider again. Plus it sucks that they axed the old matchmaking too were you can be raider with your survivor friends. That made it wayyyy more fun to me.
What is funny is the ginuy force was finally added and I'm like who are they going to add next planet eater moro because they are deafintly already used every single thing they could
I cannot imagine finding Dragon Ball via Kai in 2009 holy shit time take me now
Very good video man!!
Still holding onto hope for an attack of the saiyans sequel
I hate playing with level 100 people when I’m the enemy they jump me every time and they get their booth mush faster and I hate it I don’t know how they can get a booth so fast!!!
Have you ever wanted to join the Time Patrol?
I've been talking to my friend that I played this with for the first two seasons before I dropped out and I've stated before that this largely feels like a game that not only needs a crossplay feature and god the new matchmaking system is god awful, but given that it's a niche game that's a spin off of a niche game it feels like this game needs to provide a better custom lobby experience as well so the community can organize more casual games and help new or just more play for fun type players instead of everyone going into the sweat city that is normal matchmaking.
I would love to see this game have the lobby system that not only give actual rewards, albeit really toned down ones and with heavy restrictions based on like round times or things done if they're concerned about exploiting, but also allowed for custom rule sets. Something similar to mutations in L4D2 or custom games in Halo where settings and modes can be tweaked to create fun more casual experiences like a mode where everyone can't dragon change and cell is locked into larva stage or a mode where everyone, even the raider starts with maxed out radars, or even just the ability to adjust certain stats for personal balancing like make certain cooldowns shorter or longer, extend health bars or increase barrier break i-frames, reset or force levels for skills for both raider, and survivors etc.
Me and my bro both liked this game. Now were forced to try and queue separately because we want to be able to play raider.
I remember when TFS beat Broly in Attack of the Saiyans with only Yamcha.
Usually a problem with this kind of games is that everyone wants to be a Raider because its fun, but no one ewnts to be a survivor because it sucks.
I kind feel like 1 vs 7 (or however many) games are ultimately doomed to the fate of, "well, someone's *gonna* be working alongside the 1 player side...."
hell, even with randoms I assume it's still a problem.
since the launch season one over 1500 TP medals have been given away for free or earned in the dragon tier. you basically get dlc for free if you saved all of those.
You forgot the downside of playing is that you need ps plus if your on PlayStation
And on Switch!
I'm still yet to play as a Raider in this game.
So, less Dragon, more ball breakers
I've been curious about this game since it came out wondering what it it was about.
They listened to a salty minority of players who got salty if they lost. I got accused of teaming for not noticing players or accidentally downing the same guy. Me and my friends quit long ago after they took out the queue for friends. Hopefully people like that guy are happy being dominated by level 100's
Season 3 and they SAID they'll bring back raider que but haven't yet. And flex que with friends still isn't possible. My friends have started to just flex que at the same time and try to get in the same lobby cause we can't keep playing nothing but Survivor together
Ironically enough the player base has gotten small enough that joining the flex queue at the same time actually works pretty often lol. It sucks that we even have to resort to this kinda stuff to begin with
@@JP2427 yep that's 100% true. I hate that I love this game. I keep playing even though it's so much worse than season 1
The game is fun, but with the gacha and season pass mechanics it felt like a chore to play. I stopped playing several months ago and haven't looked back sadly
Great vid. I always thought the game looked fun, it's a shame that the faulty matchmaking and lack of crossplay is gonna end up hurting it. If they wanted it to be a live service, complete with seasons and gacha, they should have made it free to play, because im not going to drop 20 dollars on a p2w game that's already in hospice.
Dead by daylight has an incentive to killer and survivor role. They get a 100% bloodpoint boost to whichever needs more players. BP are the currency used to unlock perks for killers ans survivors for anyone that doesn't know.
I Hope they do something similar if they are scared about lobbies being too one sided. I hope it gets fixed i got back into this game with the start of season 3 and i was wondering what happened with the queue and why it was so different. Hope they fix it and realize like you said that it was a minority of people doing that teaming thing and the report button should be more than enough to combat that! Great video!
Edit: I guess they do have one for Survivor? Im just not sure what you get as a bonus....EXP or something?
The fact is, they cant do a raider specific queue because nobody in there right mind is wanting to play survivor over raider. Db Breakers is a game where you slog through 5-6 matches as survivor just to have fun again with raider. Oh but don't think it's always fun. Sometimes you will go against a team who are actually sweating their balls off in discord and jump you in your second phase. There's matches where people don't load in or just give up. Matches where you are just waiting or feel there's nothing you can do because every character has barrier instant transmission. This wouldn't be that bad if you could play Raider all you wanted but you can't because even bandai knows survivors trash. That's why they hide their most bull skills in the gacha system to try and dangle a carrot to players. This game is dying because of greed and the fact they haven't even touched the main issues this game even has. I was hoping theyd do SOMETHING about players just doing barrier and instant transmission at level 3 to give you literally nothing for your work but nope! Literally nothing about this issue that is more prevalent than you'd think since I still play with the same people every match since there aren't enough players giving enough variety to the skill use.
I’ve watched all the dragon ball series and played most games but mannnn I forgot all about the legacy of goku games kinda like Zelda or something like that I loved those games
see, its just the current state there in, its still a fun game to play with friends, but that usually doesnt last too long, if they at least bring back flex que with friends then it'll be a lot more fun, or if they bring back raider que
This game plays similarly to Evolve, if anyone remembers that game.
FINALLY, SOMEONE FUCKING GIVES ATTACK OF THE SAIYANS AT LEAST A MENTION *IT IS SO GOOD*
I don’t play this game and it isn’t really for me but I really hope it survives and thrives. I love how unique it is.
Saw trailer, instantly knew I would never touch/support the game.
"locked out of half the game because I want to play with friends"
Dead By Daylight would like to talk.
the song edit was a good touch lol
I dropped the game right after the game officially dropped. The play-tests were so much fun and I dropped countless hours into them, but once the game actually released I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much