Crazy how well the devs hid their hand

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Like this is straight up a bigger update than Overwatch 2 itself and they kept it completely hidden until a week before release, plus another pretty big update the season after. The opposite of overpromise underdeliver

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All of this is just scrapped content meant for an entirely different mode because they have no other choice as investors panic about the competition.

I’m calling it now, perks will break the game because they were never designed to be balanced in a PVP context. Because… Like… duh.

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You’re bitter…

Do you want to come to my birthday?

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So:
– The stick works way better than the carrot
– They didn’t need 5 years for perks after all
– And yes, perks were possible to implement after all
– The voice of the customer actually matters
– And the speed of innovation can be there after all

With this we might have some hope for story mode and PvE and the tv show and whatnot.
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Did they? I pretty much expected all of this besides map voting and lootboxes. Albeit, the latter is pretty pointless. Everything else they implied in their blogs, no?

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You’re gosh darn right I’m bitter. We only allowing glazers here?

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What they should have done from my perspective:

  • Revert S9 changes: Some DPS have half the health of a tank and it doesn’t make sense
  • Revert all damage breakpoints as a consequence of S9 such as Ana’s 70-75 and whatnot
  • Add map bans
  • Add hero bans
  • Absolutely dumpster Clash
  • Revert doomfist back to DPS and reward anything but spam-punch stuns
  • Remove all tank passives except knockback reduction (but smaller percentage)
  • Have both 5v5 and 6v6 quickplay and comp
  • Focus on DX12 implementation and cleaning up visuals/UI (ultimate meter, mercy beam on UI; reduce animations)
  • Increase tick rate of servers
  • Add more sounds to shooting barriers/defense matrix
  • Add healing indicators to see where you’re being healed from, just like damage
  • Damage number indicators (like Apex)
  • Add a game mode where the map has 5 objectives across the map, you capture each objective which gives you points over time, could be good for 6v6?!
  • Fix the workshop man

Since they like reusing content, mirrorwatch can be implemented based on whether you’re defending or attacking, mixing up gameplay so that having a duel with the same hero isn’t boring (like Sigma v Sigma or Mauga v Mauga)

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Sure a lot of them were originally planned for pve, but what is the issue with tweaking them and using them for PvP? It’s something new and fresh, I’m excited to try it out. Of course it will be less balanced than live, and need adjustments to the 4 perks per hero. But that’s fine, people always say they want fun over balance, looks like that’s what we will be getting for the short term anyways.

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So is Overwatch itself. Literally the whole game was scrapped assets meant for a different game that was cancelled. :joy:

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Putting scrapped ideas for a bigger thing in an arena shooter … now it’s true Overwatch

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they literally overpromised again, until they actually relase something is when they deliver, the stadium mode only have 14 characters, thats underdeliver if you ask me, and they only put talents from pve on the game, thats something they promised in 2019

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To be honest the game has been broken ever since OW2 was released.

The game wasn’t designed for 5v5 in PvP, either. But they’ll do what they want.

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It’s actually impressive outside of jay3 being an idiot and spoiling conetent 10 minutes early. They did a great job keeping it all a secret.

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You expected stadium? You expected a 7 round game mode with a shop to upgrade between rounds almost like a valorant or csgo style shop? You expected 3rd person? You expected galaxy skins? You expected a full in game stats page? Guess you’re just a god.

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do you not know who you’re talking to?

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I’ll beleive that it’s not just more hot air when the update shows up and it’s not just them talking out their backside…and even then, with what’s been announced… FAR too little, FAR too late…

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Oh I’m aware. He’s just having a very bitter phase right now.

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It’s crazy how saying this is a bigger update than OW2 was isn’t even an understatement.

The only thing that’s missing is it all coming out at once but I mean, perk system, hero bans, map voting, lootboxes, stadium, etc etc.

They just need to do the right thing and get rid of the 2 from the name. Just go back to Overwatch.

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i dont know if it can help keep the game alive liek the game is already becoming like HOTS which is on lifesupport

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Microsoft investors?

I don’t think they care about Overwatch vs. Rivals dude.