" Every hero on the roster has a win-rate between 45% and 55%, and we are not planning any immediate balance changes based on what we are seeing"
" Instead, our team is planning to make a series of balance changes for Season Two"
" we have begun to run a map pool featuring all-new locations and many original maps"
“The team is also monitoring Doomfist’s performance and play rate compared to other tanks. As we look to Season Two, we think it makes sense to evaluate his overall tanking ability and potentially make improvements to Power Block and Meteor Strike.”
“Symmetra and Torbjorn are two other damage heroes that we are keeping a close eye on now. Over the course of the first week, their win rates have been gradually increasing, and they are showing the highest win rates now at some ranks. Both heroes can be effective counters to Genji and may be enjoying their success due to his popularity. When we look at potentially making changes to them we need to keep in mind the landscape of the rest of the hero roster. For example if Genji is tweaked and possibly played less these heroes might see less success and not need adjustments themselves.”
(I think this means if genji isnt touched, they would nerf sym and torb)
are you for real?
the only good thing from this blog is they are finally nerfing total mayhem zarya
Calling it right now. They’re balancing with all ranks data instead of high ranks so heroes like Sojourn have their winrates artificially decreased as well as not taking how niche heroes pickrates are into account. Beyond parody.
Wait, Doomfist has a winrate of at least 45%? Seriously?
Now I want to know what his playrate is. Is his winrate that “high” because Doomfist prodigies like Zbra are the only ones that consistently play him while the rest of us mere mortals simply don’t pick him?
Absolute joke OW team, absolute joke!!! , enjoy yours eternity queues up and bottlenek!, Mercy need buffs, Sombra need nerfs, Orisa need nerfs, Zarya need nerfs, Genji need extreme nerfs and more.
Ah yes because junk and sojourn are definitely on the same balance level!
Same goes for doomfist and dva!
And the idiotic balance continues Jesus Christ.
It’s clear they’re taking data from every ranks instead of just gm which is a horrible idea balancing around ranks where players can’t play properly.
So basically they’re only applying immediate balance patches in extreme circumstances, likely for those that fall outside their range of winrates, and otherwise wait for a new season to roll them out.
Sounds fair imo.
Though I wonder if their range is across all ranks. It probably is.
Yeah I really want to look at that data because not only its one big ‘‘trust me bro’’ but also their words are too ambiguous to derive anything from them.
They will never release this data tho, they wont want people debating them on balance.
I quit. So done with this game. 3yrs without anything, devs monitise the sh*t out of this game and now they plan to update even less often than Overwatch 1.
Isn’t spacing out balance patches for that amount of time what essentially killed Overwatch to begin with? They’re just gonna do that again? Great. I can’t wait. -screams off-screen-