For a more video game related post, I am wasting great deals of time on Marvel Rivals. Super fun game.
My support main is Invisible Woman, and alas I have yet to find a secondary healer I am good at. Trying at Loki and Luna Snow, but nowhere near as good. Invisible Woman I can compete with on competitive.
DSP, I am maining Magik. I swap out when I have to. Mostly to Punisher.
Tank, I was maining Thor but the dive tanks got nerfed to Hell this patch. Main tanks or bust. Emma Frost is my cup of tea, as she is a tanky brawler with a shield. I was using Dr Strange when Thor wasn't viable but he got nerfed hard.
Competitive this season is a lot rougher now. Still trying to figure out the meta.
I got bored with it already. It's polished and plays well, but I think team hero shooters just aren't for me. And Rivals ramped up the thing that makes it feel the worst: there's so many ways to multi-target heal that it encourages blobbing up and makes everyone feel like a bullet sponge.
And the bot lobbies are an absolute game killer. You barely lose a match in overtime, having finally started to get a feel for game flow. So they throw you into a match with bots so easy you can push into their spawn in the first few minutes to reinforce any bad habits you were trying to shake.
I'll still play DM once and a while if I feel like an FPS but that's about it.
Haven't played this specific game yet, so can't comment on the specifics, but I agree in theory...high TTK shooters just aren't my thing.
Bullet sponges just don't feel good. I want to be able to absolutely destroy people in a few shots, and have to watch my own positioning to not be destroyed in turn.
For all the hate CoD deservedly received down the line, I do think the original Modern Warfare was pretty much peak; hardcore mode was amazing, and was well balanced between various viable tactics. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was also up there.
Problem is the flipside usually ends up with the game being a twitch shooter of "a single pixel popped out, instantly died before I even saw what hit me."
Higher TTK at least give time for skill to come into play in most matchups, rather than just reflexes and how good your graphics/lag is.
Both ends of the spectrum come with their flaws, which is where "hero shooters" should shine in terms of letting you play the whole spectrum to your own desire/level. But it never ends up working out that way. Overwatch you died in a second even as a tank if you moved wrong, this sounds to be the opposite.
Or how bad your graphics are. Turning your graphics down is actually an advantage in some of these games because they straight up stop rendering certain objects and effects that you can hide in. Overwatch was pretty notorious for awhile because some bushes and shit straight up disappeared when you turned your graphics low. I play CoD with my brother using cross play on PC and I'm pretty sure the console players consistently see through smoke and particle effects that their version of the game is just not rendering.
If the programmers would do their jobs then bushes would part and squish when people are in them.