I played it in the “open beta” two years ago. Sad that it’s come to this, the game had a lot going for it but… having all characters locked on start then weirdly shutting the game down for an extended time then coming back with everything somehow worse… everyone saw this coming.
At least it will stil be playable.
Gotta find a person that you like to match up against or you’ll find sweaty melee elitists. Try an online melee group if you don’t know anyone, or maybe you could try making a Lemmy community. Most play without items so items are completely disabled by default. Not a long process to change that, though. Just don’t use this information for evil, only against friends.