I was actually stoked for this mode but it’s definitely one of the worst ones yet IMHO. I’m sorry, I’m really not trying to be cynical but it’s so boring.
I also thought one person on the team would actually get to play as the beast which would’ve been actually awesome. So for it to just be a bot that stands there AFK, well that takes any and all of the excitement out of it.
The challenges for it are also ludicrously grindy.
This is supposed to be the gamemode for the season?
Beast Wars was better.
Idek what that is but I’d believe it.
Dude, even the bot doesn’t wanna play Orisa…
Yeah, this mode is just more boring Flashpoint with limited character choices and 4 people. Like who thought this was fun? Obviously they knew the mode was garbage, so they put grindy rewards in it to keep people playing it, so the queue times don’t balloon after the first day.
I thought the beasts would battle and we would have to follow them around the map… the pylon thing ruins the entire flow of the game… its so dumb… just gonna try to get some of the challenges done and put it on the shelf
It is very boring, who ever gets first elim on beast will likely win the match. Seems the best comp so far is mauga, mercy, moira and bastion. Not sure the rewards are worth the effort to grind 60K healing on a bot.
Once again, no visual explanations of how the mode is to be played. Having far too many players not understanding where to go or what to do. Lazy Blizzard, no instructions.
I don’t think it would have been that awesome. It would be a beast diff every game and there wouldn’t be any point staying if your own beast was really awful.
I like that mode more than I like flashpoint. It’s a bit more unique. The bots are only a pretext. Healing them doesn’t do much, you should just focus on killing the enemy team and then damaging the beast when there is nothing else to do.
I wish the scoreboard was a bit more clear, cause you don’t know who’s winning until the end.
I had a game where we won every fight, captured every point, and still, and we still lost at the end.
It ends in 13 days, so I think it’s just the gamemode to distract us until the Winter event.
Zero replayability in this once you get all the achievements.
The meta in it also stinks. If the enemy team goes Bastion and/or Ana and you don’t, you lose. These two are the most played in this mode, with Zen close behind. All three are used to counter Mauga. Vast majority of the selectable characters are never used.
The extra health bonus for taking and holding the point means nothing. It’s a nice idea, but it doesn’t help to mitigate a loss whatsoever. If you’re losing and you get that extra health, it’s very likely you’ll still lose anyway, and if the winning team gets it, well…
I thought it would be something like gta online become “the beast” free roam event type of mode.
I think they must only test with teams of players and not solo players. I’m sure the mode is way more fun when you’re messing around with a full team but it’s not interesting otherwise. Just a worse version of a mode most people don’t know how to play already.
I actually like flashpoint, and I like the idea of modes with multiple objective types, but this one is not well done imo. The “beasts” just feel like an afterthought, shoved into a 4v4 mode to fill time inbetween fights for the winning team.
I honestly don’t know if it’s worth wasting my time grinding for the rewards. I don’t want to play the mode.
Exactly. I’m also confused why they keep changing the format of team sizes for all the event modes. Like, if the mode actually had a specific reason for having a specific number of players I’d be all for it. But the Orisa bot just stands there basically AFK the whole time (unless it’s literally afk in a bubble) so it’s not even a real teammate. Which means matches are even more of a steamroll than before because it’s only 4v4. 4v4 also felt awful in the kpop mode.
My biggest fear when watching the season trailer was that you couldn’t play the Big Beast in the new gamemode. Why can’t we play as the Big Beast. That would’ve been sick. Dang it, Blizzard.
LITERALLY. Like that’s a no brainer!
I’m also extremely sick of them tying collectibles/skins/emotes/sprays/voicelines to limited modes that are horrible and a grind. The kpop one required you to play a disgusting amount to get a title.
I’ve played Battle of the Beasts 5 times now and I already don’t want to play it any more. But I have to, I have no choice if want those cosmetics.
I will also say that while playing Mauga is supposed to be the main appeal of this mode, it’s extremely unfun to play him. You will be going up against Bastion, Ana and Zen a majority of the matches with everyone focusing you, and if you don’t get amazing heals from your supports you will melt like wet toilet paper.
This also means that if you aren’t Mauga, you will get probably get 0 heals. In my experience, Supports usually ignore anyone that isn’t Mauga, because if they take their focus off Mauga he dies in 2 seconds.
Oh, and Kiriko can’t be selected, so you can’t even cleanse nade.
The event is for 14 days only.
The challenges also ONLY reward braindead healbotting / damage grinding on the orisa bots.
Going by Blizzards own logic of “report what YOU thing is griefing”, I saw people report others killing them for griefing already, with the explanation that there was no reason to kill players when all challenges are designed around the PVE aspect and killing players actually only hinders them from finishing the challenges and wastes their time.
I can NOT argue with that logic at the state the game is in and considering the circumstances (boring, trash mode and really dumb pve-only challenges).
BEAST WAARSSSSSSSSSS
love that show
this was one of my biggest issues. hey I know, let’s make a mode for you to be able to play the new character, limit the rest of the roster down, leaving in his biggest counters, but not let you play Kiriko to counter the anti-nade. that’ll show people how fun he is to play! oh, and we’ll put it in a modified version of a gamemode a lot of people don’t enjoy already
Prob just a hero/skin advertisement event anyway like 99% of the others