They were gone for a year to make the same game but worse. It really sucks because I fell in love with the open beta, dumped 1k hours in over its lifespan, peaked very high on the leaderboard and loved (almost) every second of it but sadly this game just doesn't hit the same to me, I still enjoy it (somewhat) but it has so many issues. Just a few of mine are:

> They removed alot of the skill expression and combos that made characters cool
> The movement feels floatier (somehow? didn't think that was possible) and obviously slower
> The balancing is SIGNIFICANTLY worse and is easily my biggest complaint atm, the gap between top tiers to the rest of the cast is ABSURD
> The UIs were stripped of all their personality and replaced with Generic F2P Menus (seriously when I saw the new character select I thought it was Stumble Guys)
> The game is buggier, and missing multiple features from the beta
> The game released with no MMR or ranked mode so I'm constantly playing on boring, non-competitive maps and I'm almost always destroying newer players which sucks honestly :/

There are a few things better than beta like the new parry feature and dash attacks, and the netcode is the best I've seen on a FG! I definitely see the potential and think eventually this game WILL be better than beta as the issues are fixed but it launched in an embarrassing state and right now isn't worth playing like at all unless you really like the game.