Blizzard devs play doom for 2 seconds challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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Here we are back again questioning if a singular blizzard employee has more than 30 minutes logged on to doom.

After playing a lot more doom this patch… wow! This hero sucks!

I get this may be difficult to understand blizzard, but doom’s damage comes mostly from his guns… rocket punch is used as a mobility tool a lot for good doom’s.

Do you know what happens when you only buff the damage of rocket punch… you proceed to force punch botting EVEN MORE THAN IT ALREADY IS.

What is so difficult to understand that NO ONE LIKES PUNCHBOTTING. Enemies get annoyed from being punched over and over again and it isn’t fun for the doom. It’s boring, it’s dull, it’s monotonous, whatever synonym you believe best fits. Your playstyle is insanely limited and washed down to “hehe I hold right click over and over again, and then slam out!!! me am good player!!”

Just actively dumbing down one of the hardest heroes to play for ZERO reason. Buff and nerf towards the skill aspect of him. Doom’s aren’t using punch as the primary form of damage.

Just makes no sense, how a hero who’s already difficult to play and already hard to get kills with because his damage isn’t anything to write home about but proceeds to get:

  • No primary fire dmg buff
  • No slam buff
  • No powerblock buff (still the worst tanking ability in the game btw)
  • No meteor strike buff

But hey let’s give zarya (one of the easiest tanks to play) a flat damage buff to her primary fire!!! :DDDDDDDD

Let’s give orisa (a literal brawl tank and one of the easiest tanks to play) ZERO falloff!!! :DDDDD

It’s also double hilarious when you realize that doom JUST got his ult charge nerfed prior to season 9 to compensate for a useless buff that meteor strike got, then season 9 rolls around which brings in ANOTHER 10% ult charge nerf on top of the one he JUST got.

Meteor strike is garbage. This ult shouldn’t be charging like molasses. It shouldn’t be pulse bomb speeds either, but it should be damn close. An ult who’s only use is “Yippee I get a 2nd life” (heroes have that as literal cooldown abilities, baptiste has 2), it just shouldn’t be a slower charging ult. It has the kill potential of a shoe.

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I don’t understand this, because Doom has been the most busted tank in the game for several seasons. He can do basically whatever he wants unless he’s being focused by all 5 enemies. He has waaaay too much survivability for how much damage he does. He shouldn’t be able to get solo picks as easily as he can.

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Doomfist hasn’t been meta one singular time in overwatch 2.

You are factually incorrect.

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When doom is playable the game is unplayable. Hence, pepegas buy less skins, and that’s just a business.

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I’ve been so out of touch with this community that I actually thought this rant was about Blizzard employees needing to play the DOOM franchise more for the first couple sentences, damn.

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Save your breath, its pointless, they dont care. In fact, quite the opposite -if you didnt notice, they just nerfed skill outright in the entire game, they dont care about skill. Skill made the game unapproachable and scawwy to lames who are too lazy to even try to improve at a video game.

The meek have inherited the earth it would seem in the OW world… as evidenced from the replies youve already received.

Game over.

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I don’t need doom to be the second coming of christ. He’s already garbage. At least be garbage while putting effort into benefitting the skill side of him. This leaving him garbage AND forcing punch botting is just aids.

I’ve been playing doom since his release, I’m used to him not being good. But like god damn, give us anything to work with here.

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Tripping, Doom is lit this patch. The added punch power is big for securing kills. The added health is nice to help get in and out of fights. The increased projectile size is crucial in helping secure those elims after a punch. Honestly I’m loving Doom this patch

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I don’t want punch power. Did you read the post?

I don’t want to punchbot. It’s boring, it’s dull, it ain’t fun. For ANYONE.

He’s actually terrible. Lmfao. So much so I’ve got teammates and opponents alike telling me how god awful my hero is.

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I dont think bliz has IPX network to play Doom. But you are right, doom (and especially doom2 level1) is a great game and all people have to play it!

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That’s because he’s very hard to play. If someone is good, though, they’re unstoppable.

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Also factually incorrect.

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Good talk.

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Doom is pretty good this season, the rocket punch buff was definitely enough. Still wish they’d fix his bugs though, considering he has as many as the rest of the roster combined lol.

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This quite literally all goes back to the old days of overwatch 1 where people would complain that they have 0 counter to a big black man charging a punch and screaming for 5 seconds behind them. Yes his techs were an issue but that could have been easily fixed. All blizzard needed to do was remove the rooftop shenanigans that he could do and just tell the community to grow up and just switch to Ana, sombra, Baptiste, orisa, or Lucio to counter him. Unfortunately blizzard wanted to listen to the bad players instead of the people who actually played the hero at a high level and he got nerfed into oblivion and then forced into tank role. Don’t get me wrong he can be fun and good to play right now but a lot of other tanks just outclass him completely