In Overwatch we have 60 achievements (counting only hero achievements, 2 for each hero). Most of them are doable, like Symmetra’s Huge Success achievement. Buuut some are either too easy, or almost impossible. I’ll go over them and suggest some changes.
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Symmetra’s Car Wash achievement
The first one we’ll go over is one of the too easy kind. This achievement is too easy to even be considered and achievement. You need to hit one player with 3 of Symm’s turrets (or 2 turrets and Symm’s beam). Yeah, you can do that on your first match of playing Symmetra, even if you’re an old granny who never heard of video games. Achievements need to be challenging, that’s why this achievement needs highed difficulty. For example, kill 2 people with your turrets without them being destroyed. Still easy, but at least not super easy. -
Pharah’s Clearing The Area achievement
Another one of the super easy kind, it requires you to throw 1 player off the cliff with Pharah’s Concusive Blast. People do that almost always when they play Pharah, the achieement’s requirement could be “Press E” as well and it would be just as easy. My suggestion here is to make the number of players killed with a single Concusive Blast higher, like 3 or 4. -
Reinhardt’s Storm, Earth and Fire achievement
Yet another very easy achievement. You know what you need to do to get it? I’ll give you some time to guess. Know the answer? You need to Shatter, Fire Strike and Charge one player. I think you know why that’s too easy. My idea for a rework would be to make it “Hit 4 people with one use of Earthshatter in Quick or Competetive Play”. -
Doomfist’s Cratered achievement
Now we get into the almost impossible achievements, starting with Cratered. You need to hit 6 people with Meteor Strike. No, I’m not joking. Remember when I said “Achievements need to be challenging”? Well, challenging, but not nearly impossible. You either need to have a Zarya or a Mei help you, and even then it’s super hard to get the achievement, especially in Quick Play, where the enemy team is rarely very close to each other. A rework could be “Kill 4 people with one use of Doomfist’s Meteor Strike in Quick or Competetive Play”. -
Zenyatta’s Rapid Discord
“Get 4 kills or assists with Zenyatta’s Orb of Discord within 6 seconds in Quick or Competitive play.” You see the Problem? And the Orb needs to be on the target when they die, so you need to be very careful when you press E. It gets even harder when there are Tanks (especially shield Tanks) on the enemy team, or just abilities that make them invincible like Wraith Form or Ice Block. It could be 2 targets with a single use of Zenyatta’s alternate fire, or make the time limit 10-15 seconds. -
Mercy’s Huge Rez achievement
Before the rework, the difficutly was reasonable. Now you have to ressurect 6 allies without dying. As a healer, you are the primary targets of the enemies, so dying as Mercy is pretty easy. There was no reason to change the number of players, it could’ve just remained 4. -
Moira’s Antipode achievement
Oh boy, this is an interesting one. Hit 7 targets simultaneously with Moira’s ult. Now you might think “AchievHunter, you just need to hit 7 people with Moira’s Coalescence, doesn’t seem that hard.” You’d be right, but notice that simultaneously part? That means at. the. same. time. Doesn’t seem that easy now, does it? You need to have 7 people in a straight line when you ult. Even with a Zarya it’s not that doable. Maybe remove the simultaneously part, maybe lower the number to like 5. -
Baptiste’s Window Of Opportunity achievement
Ending this list with the most difficult achievement (at least hero achievement) in the game, Beptiste’s Cute Spray. Guess what you have to do. Using Baptiste’s Amplification Matrix, amplify 2500 combined damage and healing without dying. That is just insane. That’s not all, 2500 means you need to do 5000 combined healing and damage through the Amp Matrix. Not hard enough? Well, only hero damage counts, so no shields. If I could change it, I would lower the number to something like 1500, or just remove the without dying part.
But these are just my thoughts about those achievements, what achievements would you change?