Does anyone else see this happening? (•᷄- •᷅ ;)

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When the season 9 patch drops. At first, everyone is going to immediately see the effects of the changes, which are actually solving some problems and may seem good at first, but as soon as players start to learn and adapt to the changes, dozens and dozens of new problems are going to arise.

This is exactly what happened with 5 vs. 5; at first, it wasn’t so bad, but as soon as everyone got a feel for it, we’d soon realize how broken the game has become. Rock, paper, scissors. Anti-Nade. Imo’s. Etc. What’s crazy is that it’s been an entire year, and these problems still have not been addressed to this day.

So why should we have any faith that the developers can work out all the kinks within the season 9 patch when they couldn’t even work out any of the problems with 5 vs. 5?

:grimacing:

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The main difference is the hotfix patching system is working now, and it wasn’t when OW2 launched.

Add in Quickplay Hacked.

But it’s just a question of if they actually use those systems on a 1-to-2 weeks basis.

I.e. Same comment, but in more detail.

Director’s Take – Building on Feedback - #10 by GreyFalcon-11737

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5v5 was great at launch. The devs ruined it with terrible balance decisions.

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Yeah, but I think that’s more because nobody understood what was going on and was still figuring things out, not so much because of the developers, at least at first anyway.

Like Sojourn + Mercy, Genji, Zar, and Hog were all OP before the developers even stepped in and made any balance changes; it just wouldn’t be until a bit later that everyone would come to understand that those characters were broken.