just shows how delusional people are thinking this is better than the base game like yeah dps doom is fun but having only ana, zen, and a neutered lucio as the only fun support options while the scourge of the spectator pocket bot ruins games is incredible
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This meta was horrid during 2017, many players including myself didn’t like it.
If only they would chose better periods of the game to go back to.
The game was relatively stable throughout Early to Mid 2017; I wish they recreated a patch between that time instead of going back to some of worst mistakes (e.g. goats and moth).
Meh. They intentionally pick some of the worst patches.
As the previous post said, mid 2017 was a sweet spot. Also right before Sigma was released we had solid tank duo options, too (with Orisa and Roadhog being valid choices compared to the typical Rein and Zarya duo).
Lots of fluidity came later (cancelling wraith, Sym v3 etc.).
I would take that over release ow2 with Sojourn.
And when people talk about ow1 being better part of it also comes from the events like archives, junkenstein’s revenge and the better access to skins (being able to get pretty much every cosmetic but a very few just by playing the game).
Furthermore, ow1 attracted players by targeting lots of different kinds of players by being more slow paced, having very casual friendly heroes like early junk, sym, torb etc.
Now, their projectiles or projectile behaviour/attributes have changed and feel a little more homogenized.
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Classic was good. But - OG classic. I’d honestly like it if it was like that, maybe with fixing the bugs and common issues of that mode. But it was great in my opinion.
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Ultimately it’s just a matter of opinion. Personally, I vastly prefer all of the classic patches to the current base game, but I’m not so insecure as to call people delusional for disagreeing with me on that…
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One of the classic versions was the infamous October 2020 patch that Seagull glazed. As well as the original game of the year edition from 2016.
You know what? Neither were as good as we remembered them. The game has evolved for the better (for the most part). Going back we just get an opportunity to realize it was never all sunshine and rainbows. It has always had challenges and things that weren’t perfect.
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The number of matches where it was just a bastion turret in either some not really accessible place or just hiding behind a rein shield was crazy. You couldn’t do much. As soon as you tried you’d be dead to him in like 2 seconds. And mercy rez was way too fast and that’s coming from somebody that plays her a bit. Like the one time i barely started the rez and got sniped but somehow still got the rez off.
Personally i only slightly enjoyed the first one but i barely played it and I got bored of the classic mode in general. I know a lot of people are enjoying them though. Probably more to do with nostalgia than anything else. But it’s nice that those people get to relive these updates and maybe enjoy them again.
The OG classic WITH hero limits is way better than this game. But yeah, the rest are definitely worse than what we have right now. But Overwatch Dos sucked for most of its life. Any Uno is better than 90% of Dos.
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Mercy doesn’t even move properly, it’s wild to call this Moth Meta.
They’ve done this before, though.
Ya’ll do nothing but whine. If they chose a point a little bit later in time, then you would complain about Moira. If they chose a point a little bit later in time than that, then you’d be complaining about Brigitte.
You don’t realize that there are upsides and downsides to everything yet. And it’s the end of the world for you whenever you realize there are downsides. lol.
Stop whining about the modern game already, then.
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Both were just as good as I remembered them 
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With all its faults and sabotage from Blizzard (still waiting Symmetra 2.0), Overwatch Classic is more enjoyable than Overwatch 2.
The waiting time also is shorter than Overwatch 2 6v6, so the community must agree on that.
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I can’t say that I share that feeling. I definitely liked them better in the moment than I like them in retrospect. Especially the October 2020 patch. Like I was still able to appreciate the launch build for what it was. But the October 2020 patch just felt bad to me.
Also, let’s be honest here. Even though it was interesting to remember previous balances, when people talk about classic, it’s end of Overwatch classic, which we only get for one week because Blizzard hates us.
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Theyre far from perfect, but I consider them better than what we have now. My only real complaint about the Oct 2020 patch was actually RQ. I do not like RQ so I found it a much less enjoyable experience than the prior patches just because of that.
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That was totally rank dependent. At higher ranks orisa was a must pick with an insanely high pick rate prior to sigma coming out. Like you said, with hog, but also with Dva. Dva being played more in pro play at the time and ladder being hog. But there was next to no tank variety at that time either.
But that was ow1 in general. The 2-3 meta tanks were so much stronger than the others.
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I never wanted to go back to OW1’s gameplay, I want 6v6 back as the default setting and wanted OW1’s reward system (so a box a level), but guess progression 2.0 is as close as we’re gonna get back to it. But no, the actual reason Classic is so bad is honestly the players. I played it for those challenges and it was pain. It’s like people completely don’t graps the universal basics of the game and are just running around the map like headless chickens. I don’t ever again want to hear how QP has no matchmaking.
I agree.
Maybe for a DPS player. Even then, probably not.
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The flow of the game was vastly superior but the QoL was basically non-existent. That is why most people want the 2020 patch because it had the same level of QoL/polish as OW2 for the most part but with the balance philosophy and flow of old Overwatch.
Another thing you need to realise is this is not a faithful recreation, I played during this time period and they’ve got A LOT wrong, like camera locks, mei freeze not working properly, Lucio wallriding was already patched and fixed by moth meta and many more problems.
I mean, any patch that has doom on the DPS roster is terrible by default
Add the fact that this version was before role queue finally happened and 4 dps comps where finlally gone…