Alec-Spilo Interview Summary

They don’t test squat, we all know every decision made with this game is done by monkeys with typewriters. Otherwise we’d never have ended up with launch Lifeweaver and Illari, nor Mauga after his first set of buffs.

No, people mostly play what’s broken. Tracer having the highest winrate from bronze to champion across the entire board in S9 go BRR.

What lead to GOATs is refusal to nerf hyper-mobility because favouritism and their lack of testing on Brig.

No they don’t. Took 11 seasons to finally nerf Sojourn in a way that mattered despite her being universally despised, which they still tried to give her compensation buffs for anyway lmao.

S9 go brr
Literally the fattest example of dumbing down the game

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Wake me up when she’s shooting hitscan watermelons that 2 tap squishies.

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Sym’s projectiles are meteors like Junkrat bombs. Projectile players are so dumb talking about hitboxes when theirs are 2-3x bigger

I agree make Mccrees primary projectile.

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Getting deleted in 1 second is a success?

i think this is hilarious because people on the forums swear that this was a skill issue but now we basically have conformation from the balance devs themselves.

No Junkrat or Symmetra nerfs mentioned? I sleep they need to be nerfed ASAP they’re OP

Didn’t mention MH…I said play the game

Don’t get me wrong…the common complaints you see most of the time are easily solved with MH and I laugh at how often that simple action would solve people’s problems

but to actually be good at the regular game you should be able to play several heroes anyway…especially when it comes to playing it at a high level…they are not created equal…you can’t just force a hero into every situation and expect results

It’s a little hyperbolic, I’ll admit. Partially true in a way though, because if he doesn’t have Storm Arrows (which are on too long a cooldown to be an effective combo) he’ll lose to HP simply because he can’t kill things anywhere near as quickly as most other DPS because of his slow RoF, and so will lose the vast majority DPS duels in such a situation, skill being equal. He’s a primary fire focused DPS that needs an ability on an 8 second cooldown to compete with primary fire on most DPS.

Generally one or two tricking is enough, I meant mystery heroes as more of a jibe , like people often swap at the immediate sign of trouble, they often think swapping is the answer and it never is, like there are cases for it like against annoying ones like pharmacy etc even that you can get away with coordination even if you are on junkrat and tracer.

So glad they finally acknowledged this and that it is problematic.

and most impotant questions - why cheaters running 24/7 unchecked? YEAH?..

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It wasn’t asked. Because it isn’t a question that needed asking in that interview.

The interview was about “Hero Design, Philosophy, Balance”

“Community feedback is important”

(+80 skepticism)

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Rock paper scissors tanking for over a year

Dudes just straight up lying.

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But tanks are having fun? And they nerfed Reaper for Flats. If that is not listening to the players, I am not sure what is.

How can he say this? The 2 things that people complain about the most in the entire game that make it unfun to play Overwatch, they haven’t even touched or even mentioned, or even acknowledged! Widow camping and Sombra permastealth… It’d be SO easy to give Widow a max 100% charge time of like 4s, and make Stealth be on a CD, but instead, they let both go on for season after season while 80%of the playerbase just continues to complain that those two things make the game unfun to play.

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instead of fixing the crappy flashpoint and push modes they created space ranger with a groupal speed boost ability that will mean she will be meta all the time and blizzard will make a lot of skins for her

Pretty sure it is teleported-like ability, or boop

There are a number of boops, so that’s definitely not it.
Teleporter is an option, but with how… Kinda bad in general Symm is just to compensate TP’s coordinated environment potential I don’t see why they’d go for it again especially on a highly mobile Support.