I am happy with the fact they are making changes. Overwatch needed change and that’s great. However they are implementing it all terribly imho.
So instead of saying the changes are trash I am going to say what I do not like and how they could make it better.
First the perks in normal pvp.
Getting these during a match is going to make the game more stomp heavy and also feel bad when you have to wait half the match to get the fun thing you want to play around with.
Just let people select what perks they want when they choose a character.
And it’s also going to lead to one perk just being better than another.
Maybe have perks have a downside so there’s more strategy to this and also more ways to balance this right.
Second this stadium mode I know people are excited about.
Has anyone sat down and actually read what these traits do?
Some are completely worthless.
Oh wow, Reaper gets quieter footsteps.
Some are busted and I mean game breaking kind of stuff.
“Cooldowns reset on each kill”
But then
“In wraith form when passing through enemies slow by 30 percent and reduce attack speed by 30 percent”
“In wraith form heal 10% per second, double if below 50% hp”
Kiriko can go invulnerable for 5 seconds during her ultimate and suzu herself an additional time.
But then you look at Juno’s character sheet and her traits do almost nothing.
These are just a couple examples of how poorly thought out all this is. Wildly broken mixed with next to worthless.
The idea of all this is good, don’t get me wrong. But people are going to figure out quickly how game warping all this stuff truly is.
It’s not a matter of “if everything is op, nothing is”. This is a thing where some things are completely busted and other things are worthless and there’s not much in between.
Tbh with you guys I think this dev team tried their best here and had good ideas, but they aren’t competent enough to pull off something this ambitious.
If the dev team wants to get this right have some more focus groups and consult a bunch of people for opinions making adjustments before chucking all this into the game. Do not rush this into the product. It’s too much at once to control.
And please everyone read all the traits and abilities. Actually read what they are about to put in the game before getting super excited about all of it. It’ll be sobering when you really think about what it means for this game.
And it might be fun for a little while but with how they are making these the cracks are gonna show very quickly.
Good in concept but disastrous implementation that’s gonna lead to a disaster.
We are headed for an iceberg.
What’s season 15 getting? Perks?