It's a valid concern, but I don't personally think it'll be a problem. Even now in 2020 when the OW player base is much smaller than it once was I find matches within seconds for everything from Arcade to Open Queue Competitive. And if you're willing to play a tank or support then even Role Queue finds matches rather quickly. And this is all despite the game browser being constantly filled with hundreds of lobbies.
Might download and have a look. One update massively reduced the number of turrets she could have out at once, and all it removed the fun of setting up ambushes.
how it played out to me was that these problems were just on the the boiling point anyway and brigitte just brought all the stupids out of the woodwork, the yongyea types. "overwatch didn't die...it was murdered, by brigitte!" etc.
The stars seem to be aligning for a Spring 2021 launch of OW2, or at least the open beta for it.
They nerfed her like eight consecutive times. It was not overstated.
They've been doing more aggressive stuff with Pharah lately (you can cancel her thrusters and stuff, she moves a lot faster in the air), though her abilities are all basically untouched.
Definitely. While I was one of the people vocally calling for disabling character dupes on teams during those wild early days, it was overall such a fun time for the game. There was no heavy emphasis yet on sticking to a specific team comp, and everyone was just messing around with these wonderfully designed heroes who all brought something interesting to the table. And like you said, I loved how many of the heroes' gameplay hooks served as sort of homages to other popular shooters that came before it. Like I remember being enamored with Pharah because she reminded me of Quake 3.
Yeah, it's back and exists in its own competitive mode now alongside Role Queue. It has a separate SR and everything.
I'm not sure, but if I had to guess it's because that would be too hard to structure role queue around when it's six people on a team and you're going to be playing attack for one half of the match and defense for the other.
i always talked to a friend about the problem with overwatch being "Blizzard not assuming the game as it is, and trying to fix something that was never broken to please a audience that never really cared". The results is what we are reading ... people that loved the game and cared about it when it was released having to drop it because it wasn't fun anymore. Right now, i could care less for OW2 tbh.
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For me it was around the time Ana was added to the game. At that point all of the characters felt fun and the toxicity revolving around hero picks hadn't yet reached its peak in mid-rank competitive play.
Overwatch would've almost certainly been a better game if they abandoned (or at least radically altered) the concept of ultimates altogether. The "get ults and steamroll" problem has been at the core of so much of what is wrong with the game.
It really is a hard thing to balance around. Because you can counter ults with ults, but the in between can become just a spam-fest waiting game. The game is much better balanced now that fights can be decided in neutral instead of something more extreme the other way like the goats meta where you had just both teams beating on each other with no one dying unitl 6 ults on each side started flying and then MAYBE someone died.
Jeff Kaplan reveals his biggest regret with Overwatch development - Dexerto
The leader of Overwatch's dev team, Jeff Kaplan, has opened up about his biggest regret in development during a recent Reddit AMA.
They make a lot of mistakes but we all do, devs are humans after all.
Everyone has a period of time with Overwatch they remember more fondly than others. When Ana was added, you could literally build up her ult a bit before any combat was even seen in the game leading to such a quick Nano it was hilariously stupid. I enjoyed the early Ana does but it's 100% something I never want the game to go back to. If anything Ana is in a really strong position currently.
Agreed, the only real issues I have right now around core gameplay are what were pointed out upthread, namely that many dps players don't feel motivated to rotate when they are being countered. Not sure what you do about that, but of course very frustrating when you're a support player and powerless to fix the team's inability to push, etc. Basically support should be able to leave match without penalty if there is a Genji on their team :).
