Oof, here i come
- Leveling the battle pass is not as interesting as leveling up in ow1, since
A. You only unlock stuff if you buy the BP
B. After you complete the BP you have nothing to earn
Unlike ow1 where every level up meant getting closer to a portrait upgrade, a lootbox with guaranteed items, and if you played for so long you got yourself plenty of credits to save on
When i say ow2 gives you nothing is because it truly doesn’t give you anything
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Hero gallery no longer shows your cosmetic progression unless you hover over a hero, although in part it has to do with F2P not allowing you to have every item in the game, it’s ridiculous that you, as a long time player, can’t see how complete your gallery is, to top this off, you can’t filter on the hero gallery to only show certain items, instead you have to filter per hero, and finally, items that are no longer obtainable don’t go into the legacy caregory, they just chill at the it’s on the BP category and count for progression despite you not being able to get them
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Switching skin while a match starts no longer displays the event icon the skin comes from, making it more confusing
*;Scoreboard looks ugly and doesn’t display crucial information, I’ll break this down on 3 parts
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Match stats
The stats are fine, however due to how it’s organized, it’s hard to read who specifically has which stat, aside from you as the player, it’s also much harder to read which players of your team have ult, or think which enemy might have ult, all of this because the tab screen is so small you have to force yourself to read it carefully, unlike ow1 where it was bigger, clearer, and a simple glimpse did the job
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Role stats
This is useless, honestly
They should get rid of these stats and put them on the personal stat info
Why does Hammond have objective time? Why does torb have final blows? What if i want to see my objective time as lucio? Welp im screwed game won’t tell me, I’m not on the tank role that, from that design perspective, should be the only ones contesting the point
Just why hide information for me
- Personal stats
There’s too much blank space, ow1 used to have it filled with a section of general stats, and hero specific stats, however on ow2 it feels messy, as if doesn’t split the 2, and it often feels like it has unimportant stats, or missing important ones
For example, why can’t baptiste show me healing amplified, why does instead show me immortality stats TWICE
Finally, i hate that the scoreboard is not centered, more of my thing but dam i hate it
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Highlight intros are no longer accessible from the main menu, instead from the career profile, which means it has to take the extra step of loading the career profile which takes a long amount of time, almost makes you not want to watch your highlights as you’ll probably find a match while you get to the menu
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You can no longer pin replays mid game, as the history tab is gone once you enter a game, just QoL change removed
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The history tab itself is unnecessary, since highlights would be much better on the main menu, together with replays, and game report is honestly such a useless page i have no words
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The searching for game notification has a major design flaw, which is that, as soon as you queue into a game, and click challenges, you can’t click other tabs such as hero challenges, due to the notification being on top of it, they should make it so that the notification By default is shrinked, and that if you hover over it, as soon as you move the cursor away, the notification shrinks, not having it be on the middle for no reason
May be a dumb complain, but no joke this has been bothering me for 1.5 months by now, when i realized hero challenges now have 1 extra icon for every hero
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Arcade feels… Useless(?)
With no arcade rewards like ow1, and every major mode being on unranked anyway, total mayhem lasting ages due to not having any CC to stop the ability spam, and no limits not having the same niche it had on ow1, it feels pointless to play arcade(?) Personally at least
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Competitive now gives MUCH lesser rewards (like I’ll calculate about 60% less points) for asking you to play MORE of the game
So
Ow1 used to give, let’s put random number, 450 comp points by placing on plat, this applied to every role, and open queue used to give like, let’s say, 700, so doing all of your placements (25 matches between 5 per role + 10 for open queue) would guarantee you over 1000 points
Right now
You have to WIN 25 matches, which means best case scenario, 100% winrate, it’s the same amount of matches, realistic case scenario with a 50% Winrate you’ll take 50 MATCHES to only get like 400 points because only one role counts, but you’re still forced to win those 25 matches
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Kill feed no longer displays enviromental kills or kills with an ability, only ultimate, critical or non critical kills, which is a lot less exciting, even a lot less funny for the environmental ones
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Replays no longer end on the typical slowdown before showing TEAM X WINS with the victory font and Animation, instead it just… Ends… In such an underwhelming way it makes C9 replays boring (heck I’m mad about that one)
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Endorsement rewards from being on a certain level only give xp which, again, is useless
It should be giving ow1 credits at the very least
Oof, now lets jump into console specific
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It’s very common for you to have incorrect loads which means the map WILL have weird lightning, and i dont mean missing a shadow, i mean the floor looking neon green just because, and it’s one way to get blind i guess
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Problem i have since launch and have even resetted my keybinds COMPLETELY, hero specific rebind doesn’t work at times, i don’t think this is for everyone or a hero specific issue, it’s just uh, bad luck i guess, but i used to have mercy damage boost and rez buttons swapped when i played on switch, that no longer applies in game despite the settings saying it does, and you can’t do anything about it, it’s mercy specific in my case, and it’s basically uncomfortable i already uninstalled from switch
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It’s very common for console replays to crash, not only that, but in ow1 you could manually move the progress bar to whatever point you wanted, in ow2, you’re forced to skip in sections of 20s (or more if you change it) if you wanna get to the part you want, but good luck having the replay not crash by the time you get to that lol
Idk if i should keep going, the rest is countless bugs, and overall I’m tired of writing lmao
Hope this explains uh, what’s missing
Edit: this apparantely sounded angry sooo, sorry? lmao, it was not intended to come out that way
Edit 2: hopefully better organized