Can anyone confirm if you can both play with your friends and other random online folks at the same time? I haven't pulled the trigger on Nintendo Online, and I'm curious of the pitfalls. Mario Kart makes it possible but boy is it a pain at times.
Do you mean local friends or online friends? I guess I'll cover both.
With local, you can bring two players online for Quick Play, but you cannot bring more than one player into a Battle Arena.
For online friends, you can join the same battle arena as them, but it's clunky. First, someone must join a public Battle Arena or create one, and then give the arena ID to everyone you want to have join it with you, and then they can join if there's room by searching for that ID.
What's up with the set-up? You can create your own rule-set? How do they queue people together if you make your own? I'm surprised they didn't mimic the "for fun"/"for glory" set-up from Wii U.
Yeah, I was disappointed to see that. You're not guaranteed to get your preferred rules, in fact far from it. You'll most often get whatever ruleset is the most popular, which in my experience has been 4-player FFA stock with no items on flat stages. This really sucks, because I want team matches on normal stages with items, and am also sometimes forced to play 1v1s which are really boring to me. Friend rooms are also more limited than before, as they are missing options such as having CPUs.
They somehow made the online worse than past games, which is really saying something as it was already pretty simplistic before. I'm no idea what they thought was wrong with it, as the setup itself was fine and people seemed content with it. I've seen a lot of complaints about the way this game's online works, so with any luck Nintendo will take note of the feedback and improve things. Most of Nintendo's Switch games have received updates so I'm hoping Smash will get some much-needed updates for things like this and not just balance changes and paid DLC.
The fact that you removed the bad-language words from Luigi Dude’s post should not go unappreciated.
If I were a moderator then that's probably all I'd do. Which is one reason I'm not allowed to be one.