Another pro player he is a manager of eSports team says coming patch is the worst and that it will feel bad for pros and casuals
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we just have to wait and see if season 9 is going to be a dumpster fire, if it is, then im out of games to play and im not exactly willing to pick up valorant, csgo or league up again. I am praying that there is one dev within blizzard who has the balls to say that this patch sucks and will save us from these god awful changes
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We need a new head of balance if this is true, the current one is a nice guy and all but his work has mainly been a detriment for the game.
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I’m also leaving if the coming patch is a disaster.
I think PvP hero shooter market is saturated with no direction.
I personally have just started playing pve games on harder difficulties for challenge like doom eternal, reaver etc
Also plenty of fun movement shooters in indie scene to enjoy and style.
Funnily I have more fun in a workshop mode I was able to ask a creator to make for me to test my reaction speed than actual game.
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It’s an entire rebalancing of the game. Of course the balance is going to be rough on the first pass. They’ll be tuning it throughout the season to get it closer to expectations. Maybe it’ll still suck after all that. Maybe it’ll be rad. Nobody knows yet.
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They couldn’t do sombra or hog justice taking one year, i doubt they can balance something as vital to game threshold like tracer hp.
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Was jeff kaplan also a pushover? Aaron Keller looks like hes trying, but is obviously pushing out bad updates, I do not believe a rational human being can look into the camera and say a pile of rubbish with a straight face like he is. Best we can do now is hope that microsoft allows the current blizzard dev team to make changes that are not influenced by profit.
I kinda disagree.
What you’re seeing is the last 5 years of Overwatch being balanced like a “Sport” coming to an end.
But I’d argue it always should be been focused as a “Game”.
Less of the LoL, DotA2, CS2, Valorant, WoW PVP mentality.
More of the Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Fortnite, The Finals, Heroes of the Storm mentality.
And there are winners and losers when it comes to that.
But, the second group of preferences respresents, more players, and more dollars.
And there’s no good reason to have, less players, and less dollars.
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I won’t be that harsh on Aaron, dude did what has to be done and faced the blame for csuite decisions.
He seems like the kinda guy that takes the blame for others faults cause no one else will
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Eh pro’s always scream fire when their isn’t a change that directly contributes to their team.
But the OWL stuff fair enough. it’s no longer NFL money dumps, and more so from the ground up middle man stuff that it should have always been.
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The way I see it.
They are going to attempt to balance for playerbase growth, and not eSports.
And that has eSport Pros upset that they aren’t the target audience anymore.
And tbh, they never should have been.
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I mean, SURELY it can’t be THAT bad. Like seriously, what could make it so awful???
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I personally don’t care about eSports but skill based balancing is vital for a game to do well, this is what doom eternal nails, it’s not even known for PvP.
It’s mainly a pve title.
This is why games from ubisoft have been failing division series farcry6 why cause they are sponge shooters.
Shooting is a interactive mechanic if you pad health to the point it feels laggy to get a interaction no one will like it casuals or not
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Well here’s a guess.
- Tank/DPS regen passive
- 25% less healing
- Reworked weaker Immo/Suzu
- Reworked Antinade (or Tank Passive that ignores a large part of it’s effect)
- Rebalance Tank survival to roughly where it is now
- Harsh nerfs to Widow and Hanzo in some way
- Headshot modifiers reduced by -0.5x.
- Or adding falloff to headshot modifiers at medium and long range
Says who?
And which games?
I really want to wager on this it’s not happening funnily, let’s say I will agree to anything you say about hanzo for three weeks if that happens.
I will rant for tracer though 
Also don’t forget really strong torb, that seems to be going around.
“That might be partially my doing, I made a post pointing out he was indirectly nerfed like three times before the turret changes.”
Basic game design philosophy didn’t i link something the other day.
And all.games.even Tetris requires that’s why you don’t have a mode with just square.blocka
Tbh, no idea there, just gonna assume they nerfed turret so it’s less annoying to the bottom of half of the playerbase, especially on consoles.
And then compensated him with +25hp.
I love the Sombra rework. But the Hog one is pretty puzzling for sure.
In any case balance is already an utter disaster right now. Can it really get much worse? 
This game has needed a radical rebalancing that changes how we play it for years. This patch is exactly what I’ve been begging for. I don’t care if it sucks. The game already sucks. At least it’ll suck in a new and different way, which will probably still be an improvement just for feeling fresh.
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