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Would you make a video supporting paladins, because I enjoy the game and think it has more love put into than overwatch. Wish more players would give this game a shot.
Honestly, I fucking love paladins. My friend and I played this shit almost everyday. But it's become so riddled with bugs that its an unplayable mess. It's not that I don't want to play paladins, I can't play paladins.
Literally, this is the same for me too. I quit just because the bugs made the game unplayable. I didn't want to quit but I had to, it made no sense to continue playing it with all the lag and bugs.
Paladins used to hold a special place in my heart. For a poor ass kid with just a barely functioning laptop who loved video games, Paladins was something I cherished the most. I used to say that I would be sticking to paladins till its bitter end but then since last year or so, it just went downhill. Your videos are the best summary of why Paladin's most loyal fans were betrayed, let down, and ultimately abandoned. I made some great memories through this game, some very bitter ones, and some that I will keep with me for a long time. But the ship finally goes down, I will be there for the last ride but till then, I am done with this game. Also, That Jewel guy is one of the worst Community managers of this or any other game I have seen for a while. He doesn't interact with the community, Doesn't communicate about the game, and with what he did with you, certified ineligible for the job. Thank you for the video and best of luck with the crystal awards I guess.
"Poor ass kid with a barely functioning laptop" that shit hit way too close to home, I didn't even have a desk back then, I'd set it on my bed and sit on the floor lmao. This game had so much potential :(
Same man after two months as my Uncle got it fixed and I opened paladins again and Got a million coins idk why. Tried to play again but spent numerous times on que and still havent found a game. My last que was 20 mins before I closed the game thinking of trying to connect to another server cuz Idk whats wrong:
Yeah, my uncle Adam gave me his office PC that he was "too old" to use, and I couldn't play Overwatch so I went with Paladins. After getting a new PC after years of playing TF2 and Paladins, I went to Overwatch and admittedly, there was too much Overwatch just did better, especially it's lack of bugs and slightly better balance. Going back to Paladins during the Syberbolt era, I found out they were cutting out content like the Play of the Game and many many voicelines, alongside cutting the much cleaner looking battlepass (which had 4 skins and their recolors), to a visually cluttered mess "event pass" which only has 3 skins and a couple emotes and yet even with this, Hi-Rez still expects me to play the game as much as I would a full fledged battlepass. It's clear as day that they're trying to cut costs rather than take an expensive risk and make a true attempt to make Paladins better than ever. If you looked at any sane players left, they've either turned into doomers who are counting the days before Hi-Rez finally pulls a Tribes with Paladins, or embracing the toxicity and becoming another voice chat slur spam bot. Overwatch becoming f2p is a fat nail on the coffin, and honestly, all Paladins has left over Overwatch is it's customizable loadouts, talents, and ingame item shop.
The only thing i don't like in paladins are these random ass buffs in already op characters and random ass performance issues like fps drop when playing in party
as someone who also played since the beta, I think you summed up a ton of my frustrations as well, I don't nearly have as much time (or money) invested into it as you do, but I've been around a while and it's been really disheartening coming back after a break to only see it get worse with each break I took, not better, aside from more characters being potential positives
Me too, played the beta, left Paladins for OW (got boring), and never played again basically. I've got to say it was better in Beta, sad, it had potential indeed, but they prefer money instead of a good game.
I'm one of those who left the game behind and moved on But I still check the game's state here and then and... it's sadly as I expected I was fed up with the lack of care and attention Hi-Rez seemed to treat this game and for something so special to many of us to be this low is simply heart-breaking
Honestly, I gotta wonder if maybe they have been huge procrastinators because they kinda didn't have competitors? Kinda. And then Overwatch 2 was threatening them, amd they said, "Wait oh crap. Uh, hey, should we take a look at those test maps?"
@@TMS-Oddbot its cause maps dont directly make money so the people managing hi rez or evil mojo whatever probably just tell them to work on champions or skins
@@TMS-Oddbot Even then, paladins is the better option monetization wise because jesus H christ blizzard is going out whale hunting with those skin cost. You barley can get enough for one skin compare to paladins cheaper options and having more free stuff to grind for.
@@pippo17173 yeah but skins don't make or break a game nowadays most people care mainly about the gameplay and even out of the people who care about skins they will either still pay for them or just continue to play the game cause who will leave a game cause of skins
yeah i used to love the fiddlesticks out of paladins, now it just holds bitter memories and seeing its current state makes me impressed on how the devs and community never learned from their mistakes on it believe me there were a lot of good moments i had with the game, met some nice people on the way, and 2017-2019 was the peak when the game was on the verge of being a good competitor it fell from grace thanks to hi-rez, it hurts to be honest it really does, and seeing how OW2 basically became the better paladins i might as well return back to my old roots of enjoying overwatch and TF2 it would take a miracle to bring back paladins, and hi-rez has the resources and potential to do it, the thing is will they have the open mind to do it?
I got an email from Hi-Rez asking me to take a survey on why I don't play Paladins as much anymore and what they could do to improve. My answers were the sentiments from this video almost exactly. I haven't played as much for the past two years but I had been playing since the game left alpha way back when. I want there to be large sweeping changes; however, I doubt it'll happen. Like most of Hi-Rez's games they have something special and unique that is being kept on life support instead of being supported to grow and flourish.
I genuinely love this game soo much. But man sometimes its hard to keep defending some of the stuff that still persists in it years later. It also sucks to see how you've been treated through it all but gotta say thanks cos you're the one that inspired my love for this game
Me who tried to play overwatch 2, and compared it to paladin and still think paladin is much more fun to play cause of its versatile gameplay and awesome character with a vast amount to choose from.
Gameplay in Overwatch in general kinda better but i think its more fun to play as damage dealers in Paladins than in Overwatch and Overwatch 2. In Overwatch and Overwatch 2 its most snuffy role to play feels like. And i am not damage dealer main even i am played most of time as Mercy. And i liked to play in Paladins as Saati
6 years man, the game was so different back then. All this time I kept waiting for that moment when the game would be "ready" but it feels like it never left Closed Beta...
1) amazing video as always raven, love the content 2) an idea I've always had for the ranked experience is dedicating ranked open and closing times. By doing this, it funnels more players into the ranked queue and once people get used to the times, it will result in (hopefully) better matchmaking because of the higher concentration of players... Very optimistic though 3) a very funny time to say we aren't getting a new map when literally today the new map got announced 4) I wonder how big of a game paladins could be if only they had an overwatch budget
i still remember those doombots that were 200% more powerful than normal bots and you would get crystals if you beat them. i still want that mode to come back
I really like your point on ranked games. I hardly play ranked because the queue and the long champion ban and pick time. I understand why it could be necessary, but be honest - there's no use debating your team on who to ban or anything strategic. They will just do what they want anyway... Less time = more play = yay
Ah the good times where Viktor actually looks like a veteran soldier and then Hi-rez changed his looks, which nobody asked for, into a retired boy band member.
I started playing Paladins this year, and loved it so much, its got alot going for it. They need to make a sequel, hell if they just release this again but without bugs I believe it will be leagues better than OW2
unfortunately its never gonna happen. I played this game for 5 years and it was the only game i regularly played growing up because i couldn't afford anything else. it had a special place in my heart and i even used to argue about why its better than overwatch to some of my friends who used to play overwatch. At some point the game became unplayable with server issues and i was at a place in my life where i could spend money on games and i switched to overwatch. Played it through out the pandemic and went back to paladins. it was like my rose tinted glasses were shattered all of a sudden. I realized how much of a clutter fuck this game has become and how unrewarding it is to play. Even things like huge hitboxes that i didnt use to mind, i realized after going back how frustrating and unrewarding it is to play this game. Anyone and everyone in this game is a decent player because you have hitboxes the size of a truck and players will hit you no matter what. Having any sort of mechanical skill in this game is next to useless because even if you are good at aiming, your enemy team will hit you around corners and don't even have to be half as good as you to still hit your hitbox and kill you. Now with a ton of champions that don't have traditional bullets or skill shots, the game is even worse. the devs don't know how to balance champions in this game because they give heroes that have huge projectiles flying across the map hitting your gigantic hitbox more power than a champion like kinessa who needs headshots to get value. Wow this turned into a vent but yeah ow2 is miles ahead of paladins interms of fun gameplay, even if you leave the polish out. So even if paladins had polish, it'll never be better than ow2 because there are core issues this game is built upon like having terrible hitboxes and terrible balance decisions like giving higher skill floor champions not enough reward for having the skill to appeal to the portion of the fanbase that has bad mechanical skills which are also worsened because of this game.
After playing this game for 8k hours I agree with you on 100% of points but currently my main issue with this game is ping, for some reason since last patch I started getting 250 ping as minimum which used to be 60. I can't play this game anymore for that reason alone.
I used to love this game and hold out hope for to eventually get better, since playing from the alpha days I hoped it would get better. But it hasn’t unfortunately it hasn’t, I stopped playing a year ago due to the wave of massive bugs that just kept getting packed and re appearing again. I’ve followed your content as it gave a way for me to hold out hope, but now as it seems even content creators who used to love this game to bits, are starting to leave I can understand why. All the best Raventric
So relatable on everything you said. Came back after 1 whole year, found double the bugs. And it's just a pity given all the additional gameplay features we're already used to, compared to OW...
I honestly enjoyed your videos about the state of paladins a lot, always found it interesting to hear from you on how the game evolved over time, even though I stopped playing a few years ago, it was my main game for a pretty long time. But it's absolutely understandable that you are quitting these, as there really seems to be no answer of Hi-Rez to these critic videos, at least not gameplay-wise. Still looking forward to the Paladins-History video, I really like your commentary videos about the game right now
I played paladins since the release of the beta and man, what a journey, I even reach top 20 Pip player on ps4 at some point, but sadly, I reach a point where is was no fun playing it anymore, crashes, lag on 9 out of 10 matches, hackers, trolls. What even is the point of playing a game where you are going just to be angry instead of having fun? It is really sad to see the current state of the game I spent so many hours playing.
well, Hi-rez is a company famous for fast-delivery games that copy other games that are popular at the moment. They make a cheaper copy, they squeeze as much money as they can out of it, and then move on to the next game. I wouldn't trust much of a company that does that kind of practices
realistically i stopped consistently playing from 2019, when this game was an esport. the maps don't feel like they belong to the game, the lore feels so messy it's embarassing to even have it in the game, some the champion designs feel flawed with gimmicks that are a lot of the time more annoying than anything and were added because they felt cool, completely disregarding the meta. for me the tipping point in this video, when i actually stopped smiling is when you said how they keep teasing gamemodes to come back and adding new maps, gamemodes like payload, which i would pay to see back in the game. it just feels like they are working on the wrong aspects and leaving everything that gives this game character on the backburner. i REALLY hope that next year it will at least have improved a tiny bit, at least i know they aren't completely blind
It really hits deep that the state of the game is like this. Some of my best moments PC gaming have been on this game with friends. I remember using Fernando’s default taunt, laughing, after every kill with him, with one of those being in a play of the game, killing three people and laughing at them all, whilst they called my buddy and I so many slurs😂. But yeah.. that’s just one of many memorable moments in the game. I really really hope that the game gets some love soon, but seeing this video really makes that a dark topic.
I make minor insults in paladins and get banned for 2 weeks. Meanwhile a guy offends my family, heavily insults them doesnt get banned and has been in matched with me for several days. Good shit hirez. P.s: that guy reported me for those insults but hirez is defending his logic against me
Paladins still holds a place in my heart, even if I can't even stomach to open it anymore... The game was so fun! I remember me and my friends would get home from high school every day, do our homework and then rush to get on and smash out some games together! I remember the Siege on Ascension Peak event and how absolutely hyped I was and the same sentiment went to the Rise of Furia event... After enduring patch OB64 I thought the game could never get worse, but now it is just to the point I would take the OB64 days than watch my old favorite game continue to rot like this... Paladins genuinely feels like a mobile game now, the love is still there, but you can see they are desperate to milk as much money as possible, hence why champs like Moji and other unpopular champs took over 4 years to receive 1 skin, and in that timeframe Lian, Khan, and Maeve all had got well over 5 each. The last Nail in the coffin was seeing the "Earn free rewards" Button in the menu screen that basically gives you a pittance of gold for watching advertisements, just like a cheap mobile game off the app store. It is so sad to see a game I love struggle like this, and most likely never come back. :/
I have to say, I was a Skye main back in the days. Then I didn't play again for a year after they reworked her. Afterwards I always came back a few times, and there was very little that struck me as positives changes, and many negative things.
Hirez shows the biggest middle finger to its developers. Who is programming in UE3? And I'm not talking about "oh, u know, it's hard to switch" or stuff. If that is your argument, go read the last 999 pages of bug fixes and features added in unreal 4 and 5. You can eliminate 50%+ of all current bugs and performance issues by switching and making working on the rest easier. It would be more cost efficient to remake the game from scratch and implement all the learnings from over the years in UE5. You don't have support for every critical feature of a game engine in ue3. "But they are extending it and developing on their own" - And how many? Hirez has fewer total imployes than any game engine developer has working on the engine alone. Even CDproject Red has thrown in the towel with game engine development after Cyberpunk. You don't develop your own engine while developing your game and having less than 1k employees. Simply not maintainable. Period. The only reason why you would not switch is, because you have abandoned the project and only want to milk it. It's sad, but it's true...
I've been playing Paladins since its release on Nintendo switch in 2018. I currently have over four thousand hours of play time on it and have gone through several stages on the game that reflect the different life periods of paladins. I was a ranked player from season 1 to mid season 3 I would say. I usually reached diamond 2 in a 100 games or less. The level of play was good despite the double heal meta and the 75% cauterized. Then Paladins stopped the Esport. This caused the death of the game in my opinion, but a slow death. Most of the "good" players stopped which lowered the level of the game and so players looking for a competitive game compensated little by little creating an endless loop of lost players. However fortnit was dying at the same time and I think some of the ft players came to paladins reducing the loss of players in the immediate future. However the level of play had dropped enormously, I arrived diamond in about fifty games. Of course I was getting better too but the level of play had really dropped. This was especially noticeable in the test card where the level was very low, although I enjoyed the test card games more than the ranked ones. Then a new development team replaced the old one and since then more and more bugs started to arrive in addition to the old ones not fixed. More and more players started to desert the game and a "casu" atmosphere was established. The game had become less competitive, we all want paladins to become competitive again, several structures like the AOC (which is not useful for much LMAO), the PFCL (Paladins French League (yh, you have greetings from France) but the game had become too toxic and buggy. The community was forced to play and recognize the bug nest that is paladins without change despite promises. The level of the game has become so low, I can go from bronze to diamond in about 30 games or less. Most of the community has left and the studios are letting the game die. Paladins is like a building built by very bad architects, the developer adds floors (the new champions) using steel except that the supporting beams (here the heart of the game) are made of rotten wood and the developer does not want to treat the wood. The problem is that we've been living in this building for a long time so we don't want to leave it, but the building is currently collapsing. Despite the moral and financial support of the players (I had to put more than 300€ in the game) the game is dying because of bad decisions from Hi rez. This is my story about paladins and what I think about the game now. Oh and, Stephane is a nice name :)
Ive been playing this game for a long time, over 4 years now, and I'm very sad watching this - I can agree on every point. And since 4 months I quitted the game, thats how the journey ends i guess...
Paladins switch console player here: There is a bug that has been here for maybe 2 years and the bug literally force closes the app and then prevents u from rejoining the match Bc of this you aren’t allowed to play or even find a new match (The game tries to reconnect to the match but cant bc of the bug so u are denied from even getting to game menu it basically soft locking in a way) Worse part about this bug is that it’s random and happens wayyy to often every time I play It sometimes has happen twice or even not at all The audio bug is enough on its on but a bug that down right prevents u from playing the game is unacceptable
paladins will always live in my heart as a kid who had a shit pc, this game got me into gaming, this and csgo. I just think the lack of funding from the company led to this downfall, i'd pin it all the way back to the removal of the esport. With no professional players to test the limits of the game, the dev team didnt have to worry about the balancing as much. But thank you paladins for getting me into gaming.
im curious what hi-rez devs were doing for last 5 years. Were they just sitting, playing overwatch and smoking hookah everyday or looking for something to collab. All their games are dead and it feels like they dont even care
Meanwhile every single OW2 youtuber: We wanted PVE, bugs n glitches, even if fixed we get lots of throwing and AFK like Paladins, matchmaking is shit, meta is broken, battlepass is FAR more stingier and maybe illegal, goodbye OW2. The lesson..... Back to TF2 again? Dunno, Paladins only advantage was and is still their skins, and yes I mean the lewd fanservice ones
Also the fact how many support hero are sitting duck most of the time. The support experience is just…. Worst .the amount of outplay u need to do defend yourself from dive while doing your job is just unreasonable
@@owenlee7146 Yeah you feel really helpless, I mostly played support in paladins and now i wanted to play support in ow2. I never felt that helpless in my life, you can‘t escape from if someone is flanking you. The support also dies instand when the tank isout of position. For the mobility in Paladins I always be thankfull. The Healer can teleport, hide away out of danger. And in Ow2 i never get the feeling likeswinging with voras vines, Dashing with andro, jumping in an enemy with buck and so on
Paladins is a such a weird game. I don't really understand how a game that is being actively developed can feel like it's on maintenance mode at the same time.
I sometimes just think abt if paladins have the same clean quality as overwatch while keeping what made it fun in the first place, it would be a lot more alive right now.
I had gotten a PS5 earlier in the month, and since there was a decent amount of space and about 2 months from me playing, I had decided to download it. Boot up the game and just went to the shooting range to just brush up on shooting and my sensitivity, before going into the game. I leave the shooting range, and it keeps telling me I have new items unlocked, even though the items that were being showed were from over 4 years ago when I got them. I hit close all and the pop up comes right back. Close the game and reopen, and the bug was still there. It’s really a shame, because Paladins really just felt nice to play, when you were able to actually play the damn game. If anything, I find it hilarious that before they actually dropped the beta from the title and announced it as an actual game, there were less bugs in it.
As someone who plays paladins and watches a lot of your videos: I have never encountered basically any "major issue" you ever go over aside from general balance. Edit: Wait Outplayed is compatible with Paladins now?
Yes it is! as for the issues, I have the in full parties on discord with different ppl constantly (eu server) So idk :shrug: reddit posts exist as the one shown to catalog them.
@@Raventric No idea if I'm just really lucky but almost my entire experience with Paladins over years has been bug free and in terms of server connection, just the average disconnect you'd expect every once in a while. Kind of makes me wonder how you'd react to Splatoon 3 servers lol.
@@Luchiio86 same... I don't notice the truly game breaking ones much, but I frequently get the no horse bug and maybe once a week or so, a random crash
Another banger! I started Paladins back in 2017 where I got addicted to it for a while. I stopped playing in a few months because of how boring it got, and then got back to it recently. I can't deny that the game runs really dry really quick, the maps, the characters, the sounds, all of it just bothers me more and more. I'm going try out Overwatch 2, hopefully i'll like it so I can have a game like Paladins where I can have some more fun! Looking forward to the History of Paladins video, it's one that needs to be made and I'm glad you're doing it!
I'm so glad that you made this video, all of my friends are Overwatch players. I'm the only Paladins player within my friend group. They've all moved on to Overwatch 2 and I'm just here playing Paladins all by myself. The reason is because I care FAR more for it than I do Overwatch. Paladins NEEDS its player base in order to survive going forward. But with all the bugs and server issues and general lack of polish compared to Overwatch 2... It's like staying by your terminally ill wife while your single, hot neighbor wants you to come over to dinner. You don't wanna do it, but it's VERY tempting! Sadly, I don't have much hope for Paladins ESPECIALLY seeing the numbers that Overwatch 2 has been pulling in. Evil Mojo just can't compete with the juggernaut that is Activision Blizzard.
I quit paladins bc I lost the only friend I played with and I always get bad low level teammates against lvl 999s or just really good diamond masters etc players. I moved to ow 2 and feel so much better having a half decent elo and can actually show off and do some insane heals. I miss bullying andro as io and playing vora to shit on a tank but it's too bad to play solo now
@@CODE_Wolf I only play bot matches in Paladins because I find that it's the only mode that doesn't make my blood pressure rise through the roof and make me want to scream. It gets boring mostly, but it's the only way I can peacefully play the game. Especially when I'd go into lobbies where they had that one REALLY good DPS Seris! 😡 That shit would make me SO MAD!
Unfortunately, people like you and I Evil mojo couldn't give two shits about. We're just in an abusive relationship. The game promises to be better, and it looks like it's going to be, only for the game to treat us the same as it always has been
The crashes are the worst Im often playing with my friends and having your game crash at the start of matches is pain especially because load times on my machine is way too long so very often we end up losing a match because on the first half a bot took over and the bots are dogshit
To be very honest, i've been watching you for quite a long time now and i was DYING for you out of everyone else to finally drop a video like this coz oh boy everyone else is busy PRETENDING like the game is fine when in reality; it is not! Paladins needs some serious fixes from so many different aspects indeed coz this game has so much potential as it can be played by a total newbie to someone who's extremely pro due to the variety of champions and their mastery time. Although as you said in the video, it seems that the devs just can't stick to a good long term relationship with any of the staff and hires due to which this platform just keeps ruining its vibe more and more everyday. Maybe if they actually hired some of the content creators in their team it would geniunely make the game better due to their suggestions? idk As for the servers? oh boy don't even get me started.. all i'm gonna say is that i play on EU server from Pakistan and the HELL that i go through every 2 minute when my attacks go through enemies or when i suddenly get pushed off the edge of the map solely while WALKING is unreal. Bans? yeah i dont think i'm gonna say anything here coz it seems that Hi-Rez just thinks they don't exist in their game :) I geniunely hope that this game survives :/ that the devs and people in Hi-Rez actually do something or idk take funds and stuff to invest in the game and make it the amazing title it deserves to be! coz at this point, all i experience is pure suffering when i go against a level 0 Kasumi with my koga only to find her LOOKING in my general direction and killing me from miles away while i gotta precisely land my shots and dodge and weave to share the rest of the enemy team.
I remember when i first play this game 3 years ago and not getting gold because of a bug i think it was a mailbox bug or something about 300.000-400.000 gold lost to who know where making me only able too unlock every champion when my account is level 100 and yet i still occasionally play this game almost every update in hope that they fix something
I'm interested now that I'm watching this 6 months in the future if there are going to be any changes to the amount of people playing now that OW team announce they aren't going to be developing the PVE anymore.
i play alot of paladins (355 hrs on steam, 100+ in epic and alot more in the old client), i really like this game. but i cant play it anymore with so many bugs and the toxicity if im not talking the "right language" etc.
I was there ever since you made the video of "How does it feel like to play STRIX", five years ago. My friend introduced me this game late 2016, and I absolutely loved it. The more simple times where the game was rising to match head on with Overwatch. (currently have 8.5K hours according to Steam) Looking back at it, I never realized we were in the good ol' days until those days disappeared. The matchmaking similar to 14:38 has to be one to be one of the reasons why I'm slowly fading away from this game. (aside from bugs of course, can't forget about those) But you, Raven, really are one of the reasons I continued playing this game and made Buck my flank main. You're one of the reasons this game is still going even though it's on life support. And I want to say thank you for really bringing this into the community's eyes (and possibly really grinding out Hi-Rez and Evil Mojo for their negligence). Without you, I feel like the player base of the game would've dropped to rock bottom long ago. But great video as always, fellow Raven, and I hope to see many greater videos in the future!
I think Overwatch 2 will unironically die first and faster than Paladins lol cause Blizzard is an greedy ignorant and stupid company careless to the game and its playerbase. I would dare say that both Paladins and Overwatch are in a similar situation regarding the company that runs them and their omitted mods and devs. Overwatch 2 has just launched and already has a lot of complaints about stupid decisions and problems about and beyond various aspects from the game itself. I'm currently playing and I like both games but I'll certainly stick more to Paladins cause it amuses me the most on it's in game mechanics like the cards buids and the characters.
Overwatch 2 is way better than the first one imo, less cc, less shields and less players. Also 2cp is gone so i might be playing it more than paladins for a while.
The guy at the beginning switching from yelling in Spanish to English so people could understand him but still have no clue what he's saying is kinda funny lol
Reason why I don’t play Overwatch 2 on PC is because of the SMS Protect. I’m not going to give a, in my opinion, shady company my CellPhone Number, it’s just absolutely stupid.
Im a new player and recently I went to play and I wanted to try ranked so I googled a tierlist and it said furia was top tier and I had her so I picked her and I had 3 people on my team flame me from the start of the game just for picking her. So I figured it must have been an outdated tierlist yet I checked MANY recent tierlist and they all said she was strong. So I really dont know why they flamed me.
I can confirm the matchmaking is horrible like one time, in CASUAL i play against full grandmasters and my team was full of grandmasters with one of the best pip player, Razorback. My question is how and why...And for bugs, i had a game which litteraly everyone, except me were disconnect, just HOW ?!
Raven, you are unironically one of the most invigorating and inspiring content creators I've ever seen, making insanely skillful content on a pretty niche game, without cracking the subscriber thresholds you rightfully deserve and getting treated like crap by the community team... and continuing to do so for YEARS. It's downright insane what you've accomplished, and whether you continue with Paladins until the last server potato sputters out its last (hehe, "spud-ders"), or you move on in a new direction, I wish you all the best. Thank you.
I liked Paladins a bit in the beginning when it was fresh and in beta if i remember correctly. Then it went public or something, they addet Meave or sum shid and it killed my PC, destroyed a RAM slot and stick and I was like: hell nah I aint risking it anymore and never touched it afterwards.
the matchmaing in this game gets worse with every minute that passes. idk if its just me but i keep getting matched with wintraders, tons of afks, troll pickers and players that just shoulsnt be in my bracket
I actually think they should just stop pushing stuff in this paladins because its just dead spaghetti code I wish they can just put all of that in paladins 2 with a new code and no bugs
i play on pc and legit no one ever talks in paladins. The whole game feels like im playing with bots despite playing it for years. Like its the backrooms of hero shooters. It feels uncanny.
Also been playing the game on and off for over 5 years now, haven't played the last 2 updates and dunno if I will anytime soon Edit: Just saw they gonna add a new map so probably play next update
Why does your crosshair 'precise' in paladins doesnt blow up like my does. When i play some champs for ex- buck, it is so big i think why is it called precise? Any settings to changr ?
I play paladins on my old account. I had basically all the characters. but now I had to create a new account and it takes way too long to get all the characters I spent about like a year grinding that game doing the daily missions just to get those characters
Idk if anyone has this problem but I've been having TERRIBLE fps and fps spikes lately, to the point where it is basically unplayable. I have a powerful pc so that is not the problem. I used to be able to play on almost max settings with locked 144 fps, now I'm getting 80 at most and constant lag spikes on the lowest settings. Their game is literally unplayable for some people and I don't understand why they don't do anything about it.
Hey, late comment but I had a couple notes! -I heard yesterday that the lore team for the game got fired around the time of Lilith’s release. I haven’t confirmed the validity of this, but it sounds pretty believable to me given the game’s current state. -I think that at this point we basically need a sequel with new code, but unfortunately I don’t see this being possible. If you have any insight to share on what the plan is for the continued support of the game from the devs (or lack thereof), please let me know!
Great Video. Personally I don't even get playable Ranked games anymore (EU server). The majority is with a bot or someone trolling. I agree that the only solution is cross play ranked and a faster match making with a more simple picking and banning process.
I joined Paladins around Jenos release and fell in love with the game. I played it so much that the friend who suggested me this game was blown out that i was playing on the first for 16 HOURS straight 😂 i watched it all, the District 69 days and stuff. I was so pumped that i was trying to figure something out with my cousin to move out in Canada from Middle East just to take a shot on esports of Paladins. Reached Masters and Yet.... i haven't played this game for a long time and it makes my eye tear up just to see the state of it. The Bugs, the Balance and Lack of Support Team really made it sour for me
i play on nintendo switch and the game crashes about 30% of the time. twice ive been banned for 40 minutes after the game crashed. bc the game thought i DC on purpose
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they never should have removed battle passes
Would you make a video supporting paladins, because I enjoy the game and think it has more love put into than overwatch. Wish more players would give this game a shot.
It was bind of tense wtf It wasnt even him
Honestly, I fucking love paladins. My friend and I played this shit almost everyday. But it's become so riddled with bugs that its an unplayable mess. It's not that I don't want to play paladins, I can't play paladins.
True
Become? There literally still exist the same bugs it had since beta
Facts
Literally, this is the same for me too. I quit just because the bugs made the game unplayable. I didn't want to quit but I had to, it made no sense to continue playing it with all the lag and bugs.
I deal with afkers often now compared to before and horrendous matchmaking, match becomes a joke in the first minute.
Paladins used to hold a special place in my heart. For a poor ass kid with just a barely functioning laptop who loved video games, Paladins was something I cherished the most. I used to say that I would be sticking to paladins till its bitter end but then since last year or so, it just went downhill.
Your videos are the best summary of why Paladin's most loyal fans were betrayed, let down, and ultimately abandoned. I made some great memories through this game, some very bitter ones, and some that I will keep with me for a long time. But the ship finally goes down, I will be there for the last ride but till then, I am done with this game.
Also, That Jewel guy is one of the worst Community managers of this or any other game I have seen for a while. He doesn't interact with the community, Doesn't communicate about the game, and with what he did with you, certified ineligible for the job.
Thank you for the video and best of luck with the crystal awards I guess.
"Poor ass kid with a barely functioning laptop" that shit hit way too close to home, I didn't even have a desk back then, I'd set it on my bed and sit on the floor lmao. This game had so much potential :(
Same man after two months as my Uncle got it fixed and I opened paladins again and Got a million coins idk why. Tried to play again but spent numerous times on que and still havent found a game. My last que was 20 mins before I closed the game thinking of trying to connect to another server cuz Idk whats wrong:
Yeah, my uncle Adam gave me his office PC that he was "too old" to use, and I couldn't play Overwatch so I went with Paladins.
After getting a new PC after years of playing TF2 and Paladins, I went to Overwatch and admittedly, there was too much Overwatch just did better, especially it's lack of bugs and slightly better balance.
Going back to Paladins during the Syberbolt era, I found out they were cutting out content like the Play of the Game and many many voicelines, alongside cutting the much cleaner looking battlepass (which had 4 skins and their recolors), to a visually cluttered mess "event pass" which only has 3 skins and a couple emotes and yet even with this, Hi-Rez still expects me to play the game as much as I would a full fledged battlepass.
It's clear as day that they're trying to cut costs rather than take an expensive risk and make a true attempt to make Paladins better than ever. If you looked at any sane players left, they've either turned into doomers who are counting the days before Hi-Rez finally pulls a Tribes with Paladins, or embracing the toxicity and becoming another voice chat slur spam bot.
Overwatch becoming f2p is a fat nail on the coffin, and honestly, all Paladins has left over Overwatch is it's customizable loadouts, talents, and ingame item shop.
The only thing i don't like in paladins are these random ass buffs in already op characters and random ass performance issues like fps drop when playing in party
as someone who also played since the beta, I think you summed up a ton of my frustrations as well, I don't nearly have as much time (or money) invested into it as you do, but I've been around a while and it's been really disheartening coming back after a break to only see it get worse with each break I took, not better, aside from more characters being potential positives
Same beo
Literally this. 4+ years of play, nearly $2000 US spent, and just appalled at what the game I used to love looks like every time I jump back on.
Me too, played the beta, left Paladins for OW (got boring), and never played again basically. I've got to say it was better in Beta, sad, it had potential indeed, but they prefer money instead of a good game.
Same, but at least it's still the funnest game lol, everytime I come back I have a blast
Same I started since it was on beta and the last time I played was when it was released on switch cause I couldn’t bear it anymore
I'm one of those who left the game behind and moved on
But I still check the game's state here and then and... it's sadly as I expected
I was fed up with the lack of care and attention Hi-Rez seemed to treat this game and for something so special to many of us to be this low is simply heart-breaking
nice void drifter pfp :)
Raventric: Complains about no new maps
Hi-rez: Releases a new map
Everyone: :O
Honestly, I gotta wonder if maybe they have been huge procrastinators because they kinda didn't have competitors? Kinda. And then Overwatch 2 was threatening them, amd they said, "Wait oh crap. Uh, hey, should we take a look at those test maps?"
@@TMS-Oddbot its cause maps dont directly make money so the people managing hi rez or evil mojo whatever probably just tell them to work on champions or skins
@@TMS-Oddbot Even then, paladins is the better option monetization wise because jesus H christ blizzard is going out whale hunting with those skin cost. You barley can get enough for one skin compare to paladins cheaper options and having more free stuff to grind for.
@@pippo17173 yeah but skins don't make or break a game nowadays most people care mainly about the gameplay and even out of the people who care about skins they will either still pay for them or just continue to play the game cause who will leave a game cause of skins
yeah i used to love the fiddlesticks out of paladins, now it just holds bitter memories and seeing its current state makes me impressed on how the devs and community never learned from their mistakes on it
believe me there were a lot of good moments i had with the game, met some nice people on the way, and 2017-2019 was the peak when the game was on the verge of being a good competitor it fell from grace thanks to hi-rez, it hurts to be honest it really does, and seeing how OW2 basically became the better paladins i might as well return back to my old roots of enjoying overwatch and TF2
it would take a miracle to bring back paladins, and hi-rez has the resources and potential to do it, the thing is will they have the open mind to do it?
Paladins 2, back to how they started out the game, with huge maps and actual gates that needed to be destroyed.
@@ZeurSmurf exactly and some PVE bosses that spawn randomly to shift gameplay, that would be amazing
@@TimothyMark7 If only I had money. xD
@@ZeurSmurf agreed
How much money would be needed?
Regardless of the state of the game, nothing can replace it for me. I will be sticking with it until the doors close. Just like Gigantic.
Same! We will sink with this burning ship! Man, I miss Gigantic.
EU servers literally got 100 different languages and i swear some people make some languages up
I got an email from Hi-Rez asking me to take a survey on why I don't play Paladins as much anymore and what they could do to improve. My answers were the sentiments from this video almost exactly. I haven't played as much for the past two years but I had been playing since the game left alpha way back when. I want there to be large sweeping changes; however, I doubt it'll happen. Like most of Hi-Rez's games they have something special and unique that is being kept on life support instead of being supported to grow and flourish.
Ironic that the thumb nail is now the opposite
I genuinely love this game soo much. But man sometimes its hard to keep defending some of the stuff that still persists in it years later. It also sucks to see how you've been treated through it all but gotta say thanks cos you're the one that inspired my love for this game
Me who tried to play overwatch 2, and compared it to paladin and still think paladin is much more fun to play cause of its versatile gameplay and awesome character with a vast amount to choose from.
Gameplay in Overwatch in general kinda better but i think its more fun to play as damage dealers in Paladins than in Overwatch and Overwatch 2. In Overwatch and Overwatch 2 its most snuffy role to play feels like. And i am not damage dealer main even i am played most of time as Mercy. And i liked to play in Paladins as Saati
6 years man, the game was so different back then. All this time I kept waiting for that moment when the game would be "ready" but it feels like it never left Closed Beta...
no, Paladins left the beta a long ago, but somehow made us wish they didnt
1) amazing video as always raven, love the content
2) an idea I've always had for the ranked experience is dedicating ranked open and closing times. By doing this, it funnels more players into the ranked queue and once people get used to the times, it will result in (hopefully) better matchmaking because of the higher concentration of players... Very optimistic though
3) a very funny time to say we aren't getting a new map when literally today the new map got announced
4) I wonder how big of a game paladins could be if only they had an overwatch budget
i still remember those doombots that were 200% more powerful than normal bots and you would get crystals if you beat them. i still want that mode to come back
I really like your point on ranked games. I hardly play ranked because the queue and the long champion ban and pick time. I understand why it could be necessary, but be honest - there's no use debating your team on who to ban or anything strategic. They will just do what they want anyway... Less time = more play = yay
Ah the good times where Viktor actually looks like a veteran soldier and then Hi-rez changed his looks, which nobody asked for, into a retired boy band member.
I started playing Paladins this year, and loved it so much, its got alot going for it. They need to make a sequel, hell if they just release this again but without bugs I believe it will be leagues better than OW2
unfortunately its never gonna happen. I played this game for 5 years and it was the only game i regularly played growing up because i couldn't afford anything else. it had a special place in my heart and i even used to argue about why its better than overwatch to some of my friends who used to play overwatch. At some point the game became unplayable with server issues and i was at a place in my life where i could spend money on games and i switched to overwatch. Played it through out the pandemic and went back to paladins. it was like my rose tinted glasses were shattered all of a sudden. I realized how much of a clutter fuck this game has become and how unrewarding it is to play. Even things like huge hitboxes that i didnt use to mind, i realized after going back how frustrating and unrewarding it is to play this game. Anyone and everyone in this game is a decent player because you have hitboxes the size of a truck and players will hit you no matter what. Having any sort of mechanical skill in this game is next to useless because even if you are good at aiming, your enemy team will hit you around corners and don't even have to be half as good as you to still hit your hitbox and kill you. Now with a ton of champions that don't have traditional bullets or skill shots, the game is even worse. the devs don't know how to balance champions in this game because they give heroes that have huge projectiles flying across the map hitting your gigantic hitbox more power than a champion like kinessa who needs headshots to get value. Wow this turned into a vent but yeah ow2 is miles ahead of paladins interms of fun gameplay, even if you leave the polish out. So even if paladins had polish, it'll never be better than ow2 because there are core issues this game is built upon like having terrible hitboxes and terrible balance decisions like giving higher skill floor champions not enough reward for having the skill to appeal to the portion of the fanbase that has bad mechanical skills which are also worsened because of this game.
No it won’t lol
Ah, the duality of man. Full A+ essay, "No it wont lol"
@@squidhgf9997 It’s just reality, there’s not a single aspect that the game is better at
After playing this game for 8k hours I agree with you on 100% of points but currently my main issue with this game is ping, for some reason since last patch I started getting 250 ping as minimum which used to be 60. I can't play this game anymore for that reason alone.
Haven’t finished the video just wanted thank you for showing me the games crashs that I’ve been have isn’t my pc messing up
I used to love this game and hold out hope for to eventually get better, since playing from the alpha days I hoped it would get better. But it hasn’t unfortunately it hasn’t, I stopped playing a year ago due to the wave of massive bugs that just kept getting packed and re appearing again. I’ve followed your content as it gave a way for me to hold out hope, but now as it seems even content creators who used to love this game to bits, are starting to leave I can understand why. All the best Raventric
So relatable on everything you said. Came back after 1 whole year, found double the bugs.
And it's just a pity given all the additional gameplay features we're already used to, compared to OW...
I honestly enjoyed your videos about the state of paladins a lot, always found it interesting to hear from you on how the game evolved over time, even though I stopped playing a few years ago, it was my main game for a pretty long time. But it's absolutely understandable that you are quitting these, as there really seems to be no answer of Hi-Rez to these critic videos, at least not gameplay-wise. Still looking forward to the Paladins-History video, I really like your commentary videos about the game right now
Appreciate it! :D
I played paladins since the release of the beta and man, what a journey, I even reach top 20 Pip player on ps4 at some point, but sadly, I reach a point where is was no fun playing it anymore, crashes, lag on 9 out of 10 matches, hackers, trolls. What even is the point of playing a game where you are going just to be angry instead of having fun? It is really sad to see the current state of the game I spent so many hours playing.
well, Hi-rez is a company famous for fast-delivery games that copy other games that are popular at the moment. They make a cheaper copy, they squeeze as much money as they can out of it, and then move on to the next game. I wouldn't trust much of a company that does that kind of practices
I see a raventric notification I click, it's easy
Counted all the ads UA-cam gave me… this is ridiculous 9 ads and then yours which I can actually skip ;-;
Paladins might have a lot of issues but is still a lot of fun and i love it
realistically i stopped consistently playing from 2019, when this game was an esport. the maps don't feel like they belong to the game, the lore feels so messy it's embarassing to even have it in the game, some the champion designs feel flawed with gimmicks that are a lot of the time more annoying than anything and were added because they felt cool, completely disregarding the meta. for me the tipping point in this video, when i actually stopped smiling is when you said how they keep teasing gamemodes to come back and adding new maps, gamemodes like payload, which i would pay to see back in the game. it just feels like they are working on the wrong aspects and leaving everything that gives this game character on the backburner. i REALLY hope that next year it will at least have improved a tiny bit, at least i know they aren't completely blind
It really hits deep that the state of the game is like this. Some of my best moments PC gaming have been on this game with friends. I remember using Fernando’s default taunt, laughing, after every kill with him, with one of those being in a play of the game, killing three people and laughing at them all, whilst they called my buddy and I so many slurs😂. But yeah.. that’s just one of many memorable moments in the game. I really really hope that the game gets some love soon, but seeing this video really makes that a dark topic.
I make minor insults in paladins and get banned for 2 weeks. Meanwhile a guy offends my family, heavily insults them doesnt get banned and has been in matched with me for several days. Good shit hirez.
P.s: that guy reported me for those insults but hirez is defending his logic against me
Paladins still holds a place in my heart, even if I can't even stomach to open it anymore... The game was so fun! I remember me and my friends would get home from high school every day, do our homework and then rush to get on and smash out some games together! I remember the Siege on Ascension Peak event and how absolutely hyped I was and the same sentiment went to the Rise of Furia event... After enduring patch OB64 I thought the game could never get worse, but now it is just to the point I would take the OB64 days than watch my old favorite game continue to rot like this... Paladins genuinely feels like a mobile game now, the love is still there, but you can see they are desperate to milk as much money as possible, hence why champs like Moji and other unpopular champs took over 4 years to receive 1 skin, and in that timeframe Lian, Khan, and Maeve all had got well over 5 each. The last Nail in the coffin was seeing the "Earn free rewards" Button in the menu screen that basically gives you a pittance of gold for watching advertisements, just like a cheap mobile game off the app store. It is so sad to see a game I love struggle like this, and most likely never come back. :/
As some one who tried it yesterday i got destroyed in less than a minute every time i tried to do something so i uninstalled it
Maybe you should have tried being support
I have to say, I was a Skye main back in the days. Then I didn't play again for a year after they reworked her. Afterwards I always came back a few times, and there was very little that struck me as positives changes, and many negative things.
Hirez shows the biggest middle finger to its developers. Who is programming in UE3?
And I'm not talking about "oh, u know, it's hard to switch" or stuff. If that is your argument, go read the last 999 pages of bug fixes and features added in unreal 4 and 5.
You can eliminate 50%+ of all current bugs and performance issues by switching and making working on the rest easier.
It would be more cost efficient to remake the game from scratch and implement all the learnings from over the years in UE5.
You don't have support for every critical feature of a game engine in ue3.
"But they are extending it and developing on their own" - And how many?
Hirez has fewer total imployes than any game engine developer has working on the engine alone.
Even CDproject Red has thrown in the towel with game engine development after Cyberpunk.
You don't develop your own engine while developing your game and having less than 1k employees. Simply not maintainable. Period.
The only reason why you would not switch is, because you have abandoned the project and only want to milk it. It's sad, but it's true...
Bro... as an overwatch player who enjoyed a bit of Paladins back in the day... my condolences yo... I wish you and the community the best.
Just to clarify about loadouts in OW2 they right from the start were announced to be part of PvE only PvP would always remain the same
I've been playing Paladins since its release on Nintendo switch in 2018. I currently have over four thousand hours of play time on it and have gone through several stages on the game that reflect the different life periods of paladins. I was a ranked player from season 1 to mid season 3 I would say. I usually reached diamond 2 in a 100 games or less. The level of play was good despite the double heal meta and the 75% cauterized. Then Paladins stopped the Esport. This caused the death of the game in my opinion, but a slow death. Most of the "good" players stopped which lowered the level of the game and so players looking for a competitive game compensated little by little creating an endless loop of lost players. However fortnit was dying at the same time and I think some of the ft players came to paladins reducing the loss of players in the immediate future. However the level of play had dropped enormously, I arrived diamond in about fifty games. Of course I was getting better too but the level of play had really dropped. This was especially noticeable in the test card where the level was very low, although I enjoyed the test card games more than the ranked ones. Then a new development team replaced the old one and since then more and more bugs started to arrive in addition to the old ones not fixed. More and more players started to desert the game and a "casu" atmosphere was established. The game had become less competitive, we all want paladins to become competitive again, several structures like the AOC (which is not useful for much LMAO), the PFCL (Paladins French League (yh, you have greetings from France) but the game had become too toxic and buggy. The community was forced to play and recognize the bug nest that is paladins without change despite promises. The level of the game has become so low, I can go from bronze to diamond in about 30 games or less. Most of the community has left and the studios are letting the game die. Paladins is like a building built by very bad architects, the developer adds floors (the new champions) using steel except that the supporting beams (here the heart of the game) are made of rotten wood and the developer does not want to treat the wood. The problem is that we've been living in this building for a long time so we don't want to leave it, but the building is currently collapsing. Despite the moral and financial support of the players (I had to put more than 300€ in the game) the game is dying because of bad decisions from Hi rez. This is my story about paladins and what I think about the game now. Oh and, Stephane is a nice name :)
On a note about OW2, it might be end up ruining it's stride because of its own issues, some of which are comparable to Paladins.
Ive been playing this game for a long time, over 4 years now, and I'm very sad watching this - I can agree on every point. And since 4 months I quitted the game, thats how the journey ends i guess...
14:50 mighty unfortunate timing to say that in a video 🤣
15:57 most games tend to try and upgrade their graphics and how their maps look, but Paladins, Paladins takes a different approach.
Paladins switch console player here:
There is a bug that has been here for maybe 2 years and the bug literally force closes the app and then prevents u from rejoining the match
Bc of this you aren’t allowed to play or even find a new match
(The game tries to reconnect to the match but cant bc of the bug so u are denied from even getting to game menu it basically soft locking in a way)
Worse part about this bug is that it’s random and happens wayyy to often every time
I play
It sometimes has happen twice or even not at all
The audio bug is enough on its on but a bug that down right prevents u from playing the game is unacceptable
paladins will always live in my heart as a kid who had a shit pc, this game got me into gaming, this and csgo. I just think the lack of funding from the company led to this downfall, i'd pin it all the way back to the removal of the esport. With no professional players to test the limits of the game, the dev team didnt have to worry about the balancing as much. But thank you paladins for getting me into gaming.
The fact that paladins lasted so long is probably amazing even to the devs. Hirez doesn't support games. Never have lol.
Yeah it has a TON of fucking problems. Many of which I agree but I still love the game. I'm like an abused girlfriend thinking I can change him lol
im curious what hi-rez devs were doing for last 5 years. Were they just sitting, playing overwatch and smoking hookah everyday or looking for something to collab. All their games are dead and it feels like they dont even care
Don't worry, blizzard will destroy OW2 soon enough and then we will get new players >:)
Meanwhile every single OW2 youtuber: We wanted PVE, bugs n glitches, even if fixed we get lots of throwing and AFK like Paladins, matchmaking is shit, meta is broken, battlepass is FAR more stingier and maybe illegal, goodbye OW2.
The lesson..... Back to TF2 again? Dunno, Paladins only advantage was and is still their skins, and yes I mean the lewd fanservice ones
I played Overwatch 2 a bit now, and I really miss the mobility that the cahampions in paladins have
Yeah the mobility in OW sucks, not to mention you actually have to walk from spawn
Also the fact how many support hero are sitting duck most of the time. The support experience is just…. Worst .the amount of outplay u need to do defend yourself from dive while doing your job is just unreasonable
@@owenlee7146 Yeah you feel really helpless, I mostly played support in paladins and now i wanted to play support in ow2. I never felt that helpless in my life, you can‘t escape from if someone is flanking you. The support also dies instand when the tank isout of position. For the mobility in Paladins I always be thankfull. The Healer can teleport, hide away out of danger. And in Ow2 i never get the feeling likeswinging with voras vines, Dashing with andro, jumping in an enemy with buck and so on
Paladins is a such a weird game. I don't really understand how a game that is being actively developed can feel like it's on maintenance mode at the same time.
He speaking minecraft enchanting table
I sometimes just think abt if paladins have the same clean quality as overwatch while keeping what made it fun in the first place, it would be a lot more alive right now.
Yee raventric upload again.. at least had some news from paladins
I had gotten a PS5 earlier in the month, and since there was a decent amount of space and about 2 months from me playing, I had decided to download it.
Boot up the game and just went to the shooting range to just brush up on shooting and my sensitivity, before going into the game.
I leave the shooting range, and it keeps telling me I have new items unlocked, even though the items that were being showed were from over 4 years ago when I got them. I hit close all and the pop up comes right back. Close the game and reopen, and the bug was still there.
It’s really a shame, because Paladins really just felt nice to play, when you were able to actually play the damn game.
If anything, I find it hilarious that before they actually dropped the beta from the title and announced it as an actual game, there were less bugs in it.
As someone who plays paladins and watches a lot of your videos:
I have never encountered basically any "major issue" you ever go over aside from general balance.
Edit: Wait Outplayed is compatible with Paladins now?
Yes it is! as for the issues, I have the in full parties on discord with different ppl constantly (eu server) So idk :shrug: reddit posts exist as the one shown to catalog them.
@@Raventric No idea if I'm just really lucky but almost my entire experience with Paladins over years has been bug free
and in terms of server connection, just the average disconnect you'd expect every once in a while. Kind of makes me wonder how you'd react to Splatoon 3 servers lol.
honestly bro. i NEVER get any of these bugs so i dont understand why some people get them so frequently but i guess theyre just unlucky
@@req7488 i have 5k hours in the game.... Believe me, the bugs are there since day one... the more u play the more u notice!
@@Luchiio86 same... I don't notice the truly game breaking ones much, but I frequently get the no horse bug and maybe once a week or so, a random crash
Another banger! I started Paladins back in 2017 where I got addicted to it for a while. I stopped playing in a few months because of how boring it got, and then got back to it recently. I can't deny that the game runs really dry really quick, the maps, the characters, the sounds, all of it just bothers me more and more.
I'm going try out Overwatch 2, hopefully i'll like it so I can have a game like Paladins where I can have some more fun!
Looking forward to the History of Paladins video, it's one that needs to be made and I'm glad you're doing it!
I'm so glad that you made this video, all of my friends are Overwatch players. I'm the only Paladins player within my friend group. They've all moved on to Overwatch 2 and I'm just here playing Paladins all by myself. The reason is because I care FAR more for it than I do Overwatch. Paladins NEEDS its player base in order to survive going forward. But with all the bugs and server issues and general lack of polish compared to Overwatch 2... It's like staying by your terminally ill wife while your single, hot neighbor wants you to come over to dinner. You don't wanna do it, but it's VERY tempting! Sadly, I don't have much hope for Paladins ESPECIALLY seeing the numbers that Overwatch 2 has been pulling in. Evil Mojo just can't compete with the juggernaut that is Activision Blizzard.
I quit paladins bc I lost the only friend I played with and I always get bad low level teammates against lvl 999s or just really good diamond masters etc players. I moved to ow 2 and feel so much better having a half decent elo and can actually show off and do some insane heals. I miss bullying andro as io and playing vora to shit on a tank but it's too bad to play solo now
@@CODE_Wolf I only play bot matches in Paladins because I find that it's the only mode that doesn't make my blood pressure rise through the roof and make me want to scream. It gets boring mostly, but it's the only way I can peacefully play the game. Especially when I'd go into lobbies where they had that one REALLY good DPS Seris! 😡 That shit would make me SO MAD!
Unfortunately, people like you and I Evil mojo couldn't give two shits about. We're just in an abusive relationship. The game promises to be better, and it looks like it's going to be, only for the game to treat us the same as it always has been
The crashes are the worst
Im often playing with my friends and having your game crash at the start of matches is pain especially because load times on my machine is way too long so very often we end up losing a match because on the first half a bot took over and the bots are dogshit
To be very honest, i've been watching you for quite a long time now and i was DYING for you out of everyone else to finally drop a video like this coz oh boy everyone else is busy PRETENDING like the game is fine when in reality; it is not!
Paladins needs some serious fixes from so many different aspects indeed coz this game has so much potential as it can be played by a total newbie to someone who's extremely pro due to the variety of champions and their mastery time.
Although as you said in the video, it seems that the devs just can't stick to a good long term relationship with any of the staff and hires due to which this platform just keeps ruining its vibe more and more everyday. Maybe if they actually hired some of the content creators in their team it would geniunely make the game better due to their suggestions? idk
As for the servers? oh boy don't even get me started.. all i'm gonna say is that i play on EU server from Pakistan and the HELL that i go through every 2 minute when my attacks go through enemies or when i suddenly get pushed off the edge of the map solely while WALKING is unreal.
Bans? yeah i dont think i'm gonna say anything here coz it seems that Hi-Rez just thinks they don't exist in their game :)
I geniunely hope that this game survives :/ that the devs and people in Hi-Rez actually do something or idk take funds and stuff to invest in the game and make it the amazing title it deserves to be! coz at this point, all i experience is pure suffering when i go against a level 0 Kasumi with my koga only to find her LOOKING in my general direction and killing me from miles away while i gotta precisely land my shots and dodge and weave to share the rest of the enemy team.
I remember when i first play this game 3 years ago and not getting gold because of a bug i think it was a mailbox bug or something about 300.000-400.000 gold lost to who know where making me only able too unlock every champion when my account is level 100 and yet i still occasionally play this game almost every update in hope that they fix something
RIP Paladins...made by HiRez killed by HiRez
I'm interested now that I'm watching this 6 months in the future if there are going to be any changes to the amount of people playing now that OW team announce they aren't going to be developing the PVE anymore.
i play alot of paladins (355 hrs on steam, 100+ in epic and alot more in the old client), i really like this game. but i cant play it anymore with so many bugs and the toxicity if im not talking the "right language" etc.
buck>ow2
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I was there ever since you made the video of "How does it feel like to play STRIX", five years ago. My friend introduced me this game late 2016, and I absolutely loved it. The more simple times where the game was rising to match head on with Overwatch. (currently have 8.5K hours according to Steam)
Looking back at it, I never realized we were in the good ol' days until those days disappeared.
The matchmaking similar to 14:38 has to be one to be one of the reasons why I'm slowly fading away from this game. (aside from bugs of course, can't forget about those)
But you, Raven, really are one of the reasons I continued playing this game and made Buck my flank main. You're one of the reasons this game is still going even though it's on life support. And I want to say thank you for really bringing this into the community's eyes (and possibly really grinding out Hi-Rez and Evil Mojo for their negligence). Without you, I feel like the player base of the game would've dropped to rock bottom long ago.
But great video as always, fellow Raven, and I hope to see many greater videos in the future!
Thanks! :)
I think Overwatch 2 will unironically die first and faster than Paladins lol cause Blizzard is an greedy ignorant and stupid company careless to the game and its playerbase. I would dare say that both Paladins and Overwatch are in a similar situation regarding the company that runs them and their omitted mods and devs.
Overwatch 2 has just launched and already has a lot of complaints about stupid decisions and problems about and beyond various aspects from the game itself.
I'm currently playing and I like both games but I'll certainly stick more to Paladins cause it amuses me the most on it's in game mechanics like the cards buids and the characters.
Highly doubt it will. But we will see ^^
they need to bring back Top Play
Overwatch 2 is way better than the first one imo, less cc, less shields and less players. Also 2cp is gone so i might be playing it more than paladins for a while.
paladins players be like : our game is trash everything is bugged in, and then launch the game and play for 200 hours, we love pain i guess ?
The guy at the beginning switching from yelling in Spanish to English so people could understand him but still have no clue what he's saying is kinda funny lol
Reason why I don’t play Overwatch 2 on PC is because of the SMS Protect. I’m not going to give a, in my opinion, shady company my CellPhone Number, it’s just absolutely stupid.
Played my first game after years and me and my team got annihilate by a team that seems to never miss
Im a new player and recently I went to play and I wanted to try ranked so I googled a tierlist and it said furia was top tier and I had her so I picked her and I had 3 people on my team flame me from the start of the game just for picking her. So I figured it must have been an outdated tierlist yet I checked MANY recent tierlist and they all said she was strong. So I really dont know why they flamed me.
I can confirm the matchmaking is horrible like one time, in CASUAL i play against full grandmasters and my team was full of grandmasters with one of the best pip player, Razorback. My question is how and why...And for bugs, i had a game which litteraly everyone, except me were disconnect, just HOW ?!
Raven, you are unironically one of the most invigorating and inspiring content creators I've ever seen, making insanely skillful content on a pretty niche game, without cracking the subscriber thresholds you rightfully deserve and getting treated like crap by the community team... and continuing to do so for YEARS. It's downright insane what you've accomplished, and whether you continue with Paladins until the last server potato sputters out its last (hehe, "spud-ders"), or you move on in a new direction, I wish you all the best. Thank you.
As someone who has just came the dumpster fire that is Overwatch (and a long time fan since release), nothing could be worse than OW right now. ☠️
I liked Paladins a bit in the beginning when it was fresh and in beta if i remember correctly. Then it went public or something, they addet Meave or sum shid and it killed my PC, destroyed a RAM slot and stick and I was like: hell nah I aint risking it anymore and never touched it afterwards.
the matchmaing in this game gets worse with every minute that passes. idk if its just me but i keep getting matched with wintraders, tons of afks, troll pickers and players that just shoulsnt be in my bracket
Just be happy you weren't a dedicated BattleBorn fan like I was.
Woah that's gotta hurt
Paladins feels like you always have to play as the new character to win
I actually think they should just stop pushing stuff in this paladins because its just dead spaghetti code
I wish they can just put all of that in paladins 2 with a new code and no bugs
i play on pc and legit no one ever talks in paladins. The whole game feels like im playing with bots despite playing it for years. Like its the backrooms of hero shooters. It feels uncanny.
Also been playing the game on and off for over 5 years now, haven't played the last 2 updates and dunno if I will anytime soon
Edit: Just saw they gonna add a new map so probably play next update
I just deleted Paladins, and then I get this in my recommendation 💀
Meanwhile
I keep getting sound bugs and can't even choose a mode
I would honestly hop back on if they just added 3rd person back
Reguardless of all the problems I love this game, one of my favorite champs being io at level 293, and where I've met some of my best friends
I remember once I was playing paladins and for some reason, it kicked me out my game and glitched me on the title screen for about 2 days
Why does your crosshair 'precise' in paladins doesnt blow up like my does. When i play some champs for ex- buck, it is so big i think why is it called precise? Any settings to changr ?
I play paladins on my old account. I had basically all the characters. but now I had to create a new account and it takes way too long to get all the characters I spent about like a year grinding that game doing the daily missions just to get those characters
In trials of realm, the 5 killing blows with furia E active its either bugged or im stupid and i dont know how to do it, someone?
Idk if anyone has this problem but I've been having TERRIBLE fps and fps spikes lately, to the point where it is basically unplayable. I have a powerful pc so that is not the problem. I used to be able to play on almost max settings with locked 144 fps, now I'm getting 80 at most and constant lag spikes on the lowest settings. Their game is literally unplayable for some people and I don't understand why they don't do anything about it.
Hey, late comment but I had a couple notes!
-I heard yesterday that the lore team for the game got fired around the time of Lilith’s release. I haven’t confirmed the validity of this, but it sounds pretty believable to me given the game’s current state.
-I think that at this point we basically need a sequel with new code, but unfortunately I don’t see this being possible. If you have any insight to share on what the plan is for the continued support of the game from the devs (or lack thereof), please let me know!
Great Video. Personally I don't even get playable Ranked games anymore (EU server). The majority is with a bot or someone trolling. I agree that the only solution is cross play ranked and a faster match making with a more simple picking and banning process.
Wait, didn't they announce one of the new maps is releasing with the next update?
I joined Paladins around Jenos release and fell in love with the game. I played it so much that the friend who suggested me this game was blown out that i was playing on the first for 16 HOURS straight 😂 i watched it all, the District 69 days and stuff. I was so pumped that i was trying to figure something out with my cousin to move out in Canada from Middle East just to take a shot on esports of Paladins. Reached Masters and Yet.... i haven't played this game for a long time and it makes my eye tear up just to see the state of it. The Bugs, the Balance and Lack of Support Team really made it sour for me
I agree, ow 2 is killing paladins and it's state rn also does not help
i play on nintendo switch and the game crashes about 30% of the time. twice ive been banned for 40 minutes after the game crashed. bc the game thought i DC on purpose