Rarely do I ever try to use rude language when complaining about something but this time I feel like awful truly is the best way to describe them, Soujorn got overall net buffed just cause johnny Bronze, gold, and Silver couldn’t play her correctly nothing about is different besides she’ll need a mercy pocket sometimes buffing her primary fire means she has rail up faster and the switch to how ramp up works is a massive buff not to mention she has more shots on ult because that was totally needed.
Now on too queen she was net nerfed no other way to describe it a 12% increase in hitbox on chest and head negates the self heal buff almost
Doomfist is just a mess putting stun on unempowered fist is confusing the best changes you guys gave him was more damage on impact fist less on wall and empowered on ulti, reducing cooldown on block is fine but maybe reduce fist cooldown too Doom is one of my best heroes and rn it’s so easy to chain abilities it makes him feel unstoppable the best defense change is too much as well
i tend to agree, the balance was awful and whats more confusing is some of it doesnt even make sense.
it was undeniable that sojourn was op in high elo… and so they buffed her for some reason ?
widow is under performing in all ranks under like diamond, maybe even masters or gm and yet they dont buff her (and for good reason) lol
im starting to think its just ego at this point. like “we know more then you!!”
because everyones been pointing out the balance team is all low elo/metal rank players saying they dont know what there talking about. so they are lashing out trying to prove themselves and each time making themselves look more stupid.
One of the few ow content creators worth watching, Flats and Karq make good videos that’s actually worth my time unlike Stylosa who makes a video on one topic and clickbaits it while making it 20 mins.
That’s mostly because Flats has been pouring out the most clickbaity content lately: reacting to Tiktok videos, making rant videos about the balance and the microtransactions, uploading poggers game clips, etc, etc.
Flats usually has more good points than Samito (whose opinions are usually formed by whatever character killed him that day), but Flats also falls into the habit of making extreme generalizations. But that’s common for most high-level streamers.
You has such great charisma, g0blin. Every time you post people stop what they’re doing and start doing a slow clap and throw flowers at you /s
Flats, a Top 500 player tank (a damn good one at that) who knows the game in and out and will rock your team if you face him. I would trust his views on what is good and broken about the game mechanics.
His views about the battle pass and things around the shop are bogus tho, ignore that.
Don’t understand the forum hate towards Flats. Sure, you don’t have to like him as a streamer or as a person, but he’s right. This isn’t something only Flats has been saying, but so many top rank players have been vocal about for the longest time. They even did a balance event with top500 streamers and just ignored their concerns into the following patch. They even let them beta test the new patches.
Flats is by far my favorite Overwatch streamer to watch. He’s got a great personality and a lot of knowledge in the game. He also stands by things like calling supports supports and not healers. Because they aren’t healers.
These changes hurt those ranks the most. I don’t know what you mean. Are you simply referring to sojourn as she is the only outlier that affects higher elo more than lower?
I was expecting them to replace Ana’s sleep dart to have a more proactive ability, removing the last heavy stun from the support roster. 1s cd reduction on her sleep dart was just… sigh, was expecting a more spammable ability that can cancel ability with a 1ms stun.
They hyped up the balance change for support, only to have nothing really done other than Kiriko’s ult nerf which is to be expected.
I’m honestly not surprised a lot of support players are angry.
ive said it for years but balancing “for” low elo player, from a low elo perspective. makes the game WORSE in low elo not better. because it negatively effects high elo which then trickles down to low elo.
when you balance top down with a top 500/pro’s perspective you create a more fun experience in all ranks because it trickles down. (they have NEVER actually balanced this way, they never listen to people in high elo and will instead do there own thing but that thing makes everything worse.)
when top 500 is miserable that trickles down to the metal ranks and makes it miserable there as well.
its not just sojourn, hog for instance has been getting buffed fairly consistently for like 2 years and no one in the balance team even had a thought that he might need some tweaking when kiriko was added since her cleanse counters the anti heal that was his biggest counter.
the balance team has a clear misunderstanding as to how the game plays. they said ramattra would be a tempo tank that could brawl and poke but hes a poke tank that blocks really well. they said kiriko would be a dps support but shes best used as a borderline heal bot in higher ranked play (particularly at the pro level).
this is why they buffed mercys pistol of all things, because in the ranks the balance team plays in (the metal ones) a mercy will find themselves without anyone to fly towards so shes vulnerable in ways a high elo mercy wouldnt be. so it actually doesnt help the mercy mains at all, infact the top 500 mercy mains actually wrote lists of ideas of how to make her feel better and instead blizzard gave her a slight pistol buff instead.
anytime someone says “balance for low elo since were the majority” think of this moment. because this right here is a product of balancing with a low elo players understanding of game. regardless if they nerf/buff top down or bottom to top: they need GOOD players to consult for them to explain why certain things work because clearly working at the company that makes the game has done nothing to help them with this.
because you can balance top to bottom but make sure the metal ranks are still fun, but you cant do that if the people making these decisions have the limited gameplay understanding that you see in low elo players.
This is 100% their mindset. It’s why they always include bizarre thinly veiled insults in their patch notes and argue with the community about how they don’t know how to balance.