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The meta is orisa, sigma, doom, sym, moira, and bap. They’re all lazy, poorly designed heros. The game has lost its FPS roots and has become garbage. Without serious overhaul, and quickly, the game will die.
Overwatch is dying thread #1239845 , see you in 3 hours with the next one.
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Literally none of those heroes are lazy… and fps roots? Launch had Winston Symmetra Reinhardt and Mercy. The game was never a traditional fps.
Just had a meta where pretty much every hero wasn’t “fps” related
Reinhardt, Zarya, D.va, Brigitte, Lucio, and Zen
Like what?
Baptiste literally has a gun pulled from other FPS games that has health grenades rather than normal ones
People will never be happy until the meta is Soldier v Soldier only
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I do personally hate the sym zarya bunker right now. Hopefully their damage nerfs fixes how quickly you die from them. Not even remotely safe to do a single fire strike as rein without instantly dying.
this game was sold as a fps-moba hybrid. You cannot convince me this is even remotely an FPS game for the last year.
Double Sniper wasn’t an FPS? Orisa is less of FPS hero than Rein?
Orisa, Sigma, and Baptiste all need aim to be the best they can be. The ones that can’t aim do worse than the ones that can. Doomfist does too. The best Doomfists have significantly better accuracy than an average one. Not to mention he has a lot of movement mechanics.
Moira and Sym don’t require much.
But that’s absolutely enough aim requirement to call that a FPS MOBA hybrid.
here’s a tip, shoot the barriers -.-
Except for sym’s, that one just wait out
You’re wrong there bud. it’s not an fps game anymore.
3 Tank meta; Reinhardt, D.va, Zarya, Soldier, Ana, Lucio. Only Soldier and Ana are more “normal FPS”
Dive; Winston, D.va, Tracer, Widow, Mercy, Zen. Again only 2 heroes you could say are normal FPS heroes
Goats; Reinhardt, Zarya, D.va, Brigitte, Lucio, Zen. None are normal “traditional” fps heroes
See what I’m getting at?
The only metas that had anywhere NEAR FPS had at most 2 heroes who are more “traditional”
Heck Orisa is the most “Traditional” FPS tank, yet you complained about her
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I don’t know.
I think goats took even less skill, albeit not by a large margin. I mean, it had Reinhardt, Dva, Brigitte, etc. These aren’t exactly heroes with a high skill floor you know.
But whatever. It’s not like skill level (should) matters when it comes to hero viability.
I mean 4/6 heroes require aim or mechanical skill. How is that not a hybrid? Just because Moira and Symmetra don’t need to aim?
Mercy and Winston didn’t need to during dive either, but that didn’t stop that from being an FPS.
I mean, I wouldn’t call this new meta particular fun. I would definitely prefer more dps to be viable. But to say it’s not an fps hybrid anymore is a bridge too far. Mechanical skill is still valuable.
I personally think GOATs was more skillful than the current meta. Maybe not in terms of mechanics, but it made up for it with the coordination, game sense, and positioning required.
GOATs wasn’t popular below the upper tiers or on all platforms and it lasted in league way longer than Ladder because of the level of coordination to do peak GOATs was well beyond what was available in ladder. Whereas literally everyone is running Orisa+Sigma.
And what’s with the people in this thread who claim Sym doesn’t need to aim… Her rework was over a year ago Jesus H Christ…
She’s even getting her beam narrowed on the PTR…
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Do you still play in first-person? If yes, then the game is still an FPS by definition. There is no such thing as an FPS that isn’t an FPS. Overwatch features a variety of weapons that you use to kill other people in a first-person view. That entitles itself to “FPS”, no matter what kind of kit there is in the game.
What you probably meant is that Overwatch is less of a shooter than it might have been at some point, altho just like it was said, it was marketed as an FPS-MOBA hybrid.
Not happy about “shooting mechanics” on a MOBA game, then you can honestly move away from the game, there are plenty of “FPS-shooter” games out there that aren’t MOBA hybrids.
Overwatch is essentially a First-person of a MOBA game. As far as I am concerned, you shoot things in a non-traditional way and that is the beaty of this game. I’ll never get the hand of traditional FPS like ever, they’re flat-out boring minus the story. Overwatch has the kits that makes it better overall imo than your tradtional FPSes, but then lacks a proper built lore.
Don’t even bother, as far as I see, if you don’t shoot a bullet and use a non-hitscan hero, many people will just flat out say “no skill”. They’re also the big problems and go whining they lost to MOBA-mechanics and wants it to be a “fair FPS” instead with g u n s.
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I think some people legit won’t be happy unless it’s 6 soldier 76s against 6 soldier 76s with no ults.
Imagine playing one of those fps games they like so much instead of complaining about OW, which had non-traditional guns and turrets and shields since before it even launched. BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHED. The game didn’t spring these mechanics on people by surprise, it’s their fault for not understanding what the game is and was designed to be.
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To be fair, I think the whole startup tutorial has it wrong in Overwatch, the game shouldn,t introduce you with only Soldier 76 off the start, but instead explain you the basic core of the games via at least 3 heroes, one of each roles and then explain that it isn’t just about tradtional FPS off the bat.
The tutorial needs an actual revamp of the sort for newcomers that are from actual traditional FPS and are complaing Overwatch should be one.
New meta on ladder that someone is already complaining about calling it the “worst meta ever” ?
Check.
Yeah. I remember going into the game. Playing Orisa and wondering why I couldn’t heal like Soldier. Took me a few games to click on.
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