They likely will go though because out game play doesn’t matter. Only OWL players and views matter.
Also I still for most of these changes anyways. It’s time they started making drastic changes to heroes that have been meta for so long. I hope hitscan gets a huge hit next.
i dont play the game
Yes, changes can be fun, until you start losing because your tank players don’t have anything to play, that they can win on…
So what do you propose? Things change, people adjust. Right now it’s looking like Winston and Zarya will be the new tanks. Zarya isn’t that hard to play either.
I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that the game might have been even better if there were no barrier (except for Winston’s bubble, maybe) tanks from the beginning. That, however, is just subjective conjecture.
At present, Blizzard straight up savaged my two go-to heroes, and if I continue playing main tank, as I have done for 23 seasons, I’m might be in for a steep drop in SR. That’s just the reality of the situation.
I was fine with Rein and Winston as shield tanks. Orisa was “meh” and wasn’t used for the longest time. Sigma on the other hand I hated from the start. Not only did they take the shield Symm use to have and make it better for him but they also took several other abilities from other heroes, made them better and put them on Sigma.
IMO, Sigma is the #1 problem with tanks. He just has way to much going for him. His over all kit is just to useful and powerful.
Shields though are needed to counter the one main OP hero in the game, Widow. Doing away with shields of even almost doing away with them will set her free to just 1 tap most heroes from any range she has LoS.
honestly trying the new orisa and sigma they still feel pretty good imo, not great but still good, i do think the halt nerf was too harsh though
Most FPS games have snipers (some more powerful than Widow, able to 1HK with a body shot), but not all of them have barrier tanks. I’m sure that if Overwaych didn’t have barriers, we would learn to deal with Widow through other means. (She would probably be designed a bit differently, though).
The only way to deal with her now without shields it to really just hide around a corner. This makes for really crap fun games.
I remember that one week when Widow and other hitscans were banned… It was the most fun week of OW ever. You could play the entire maps without getting 1 shot and sent back to spawn every 2 minutes.