I am a free to play player for the most part. I enjoyed the game at first, however, I quickly realized that the game has a terrible gameplay loop. You are able to rapidly rank up by investing in one character. However, once you get to a certain point you got stomped by players who have level 15 characters. When you’re not getting stomped, then you are queued into bot games which makes the game not fun. You do not have any autonomy in terms of what characters you unlock nor the abilities. It’s frustrating because it feels like the game randoms pushes you to play certain characters. Players should be able to unlock and level up the characters they like or meta if they want to be more competitive. Naturally you think let’s progressing through the battle pass. However, there’s problems with that too because in order to progress the battle pass, you need to complete quest and the quest are assigned to characters that you either don’t have leveled up or you don’t care to play and when you’re completing quest naturally you’re going to lose because those characters are under leveled so you lose rank progression, which is another source of progression. So there’s another source of frustration because then you gotta waste time leveling backing up. Now, if you’re considering buying gems to finish level up a character, you realize that the company is so greedy that they don’t even give you enough gems to completely buy a battle pass or resources you want. Leaving short 10 gems or so. Overall, this leads to a terrible gameplay loop and it makes a game un enjoyable because you’re stuck without making much progress, you can unlock any new characters and on top of that you can’t even play the characters that you wanna play because the game gives you random resources characters that you don’t even play.
Thanks for the detailed feedback, we appreciate you taking the time to explain this. Early progression does include onboarding bots, but as you move forward you'll face mostly real players. You're free to focus on one hero, though higher ranks naturally demands better team coordination and mastering multiple heroes which usually takes tens or hundreds of hours. The quests can be skipped, and it's also possible to earn a free Battle Pass every two months by saving gems. Thanks again for sharing this, happy to hear more from you on our community server: discord.gg/ricochetsquad