Developer update

I want a Dev update where they tell us exactly how they view and what they’re planning to do to every single hero.

I want a massive overview. I want to know how they think heroes are doing and what changes they are considering for underperforming heroes if any at all.

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Honestly they should do a dev stream of them throwing games in plat just talking about the game’s heroes and balance.

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Lol they’d say they’ve still been keeping “a watchful eye on Symmetra, to make sure she’s in a healthy state of balance”

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Symmetra V

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they don’t know they are plat

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I want a three-foot hoagie Italian sandwich myself… :stuck_out_tongue: …As a matter of my own personal opinion, this game is in a really good spot. Heck, I was tearing apart competitive matches with Symmetra and Bastion yesterday. I think the game is really well balanced and it not every hero needs to change for the sake of change.

In the end, it is important to remember that we the players define the meta, not the development team, and the dev team will adjust heroes as needed when a metagame starts to stagnate too much or if certain heroes become overly powerful. Given the fact the latest experimental update only has a small change for Soldier:76 I think the game is in its healthiest state in a very long time.

Of course, this is purely my own (not representing Blizzard) opinion. How the dev team approaches the game overall in the weeks to come will be revealed soon enough.

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I agree. I still wanna hear their thoughts though. Especially on underperforming heroes. Sym Mei and many others are still bottom of the barrel picks. And need something. Even if they said we like where Ashe is right now. I just want to hear all 32 heroes current states.

Yeah, and people dont want to use the only thing with impact in Sym’s kit aka team TP.

Which ultimately means Sym sucks for the most part because Blizz sacrificed too much of her viability as a dps hero in the name of the team TP gimmick.

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Pretty sure Jeff said he was a gold support main once, could’ve been lying though. Jeff isn’t a part of the development team anyway though.

That would actually involve them telling us about the future of OW. Like some kind of plan.

Good Luck.

If Jeff did a video like you asked the amount of toxicity and “the devs are RUINING overwatch” threads and click bait YouTube videos that pop up would be insane

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Where the heck is OW2? We haven’t gotten news in almost a year.

you must be a delight to deal with, karen

I’ll give you the generic version

However you guys think we should address the heroes is more than likely not what we’re thinking…we look at things way more in depth than you guys do…frankly we don’t really care about pick/win rates anywhere near as much as you guys do

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Clearly, given the history of OW.

I mean you can pretty much boil down most argumentS for buffs/nerfs on here as:

Hero X has x win rate…y pick rate…please buff/nerf

That’s a super simplistic way of looking at game when you really think about it

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We can only tell them what we deem wrong, it’s up to them to interpret what we say.

More so when they don’t give us information and we need to rely on a 3rd party website.

Ah yes, I too want to turn the forums from a dumpster fire into massive raging landfill fire

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I feel TP is a support ability (Maybe given to a new support healer in the future instead) and to shift Symmetra’s role into more of a shield-breaking role.

Rarely have I read forest green text I disagree with more.

The people who play the game, not the individuals that craft and tailor every part of that experience are the ones that decide how it plays? That’s just…I dunno if you’re being wilfully ignorant in the extreme or just messing with people. It’s patently ridiculous even at a cursory examination. Offensively absurd.

The truth is the developers are tottering around randomly, adjusting things they think will make OWL more successful. That’s it. You’ll never get more transparent developer updates than what we get cuz that’ll get exposed.

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