Good bye sinatraa a good move!

[Shadow-222806]

@Comixfan-6222

A good move?

He gave up a guaranteed job with an excellent paycheck in an established esports league for a game that’s still in beta and doesn’t have an established esports league.

That’s as risky as it gets.

Lol true, good move he said

[Nocturne-2913]

valorant is not worth the hype. played the beta and it‘s quite underwhelming. it‘s 70% cs:go, 20% rainbow six siege and 5% overwatch (mostly ults). and and well, 5% fortnite artstyle. it looks and feels like a cheap asian ripoff.

if you are used to overwatches speed, valorant is slow as hell and full of cs:go veterans, that headshot you 360 noscope through walls…

[Nocturne-2913]

thats not true. it‘s as team dependent as overwatch.

[Zeanix-2527]

i just cant help but feel like the game feels cheap? not what i expected from riot at all.

[spanky-12513]

I havent seen horizon since they said it was removed. Its been a couple of weeks now

[kitsunabi-1290]

Says a lot about how bad OWL is going that he was so unhappy that he’d give that all up. He’s still making bank via streams and I’m sure he’ll find another pro esports to get into (valorant is promising) so all in all this was a good move on his end.

[kitsunabi-1290]

Eh, not really. In Valorant it’s a lot easier to make up for and underperforming teammate, still hard but not impossible. In overwatch you can as well but it’s a lot harder as it’s not just a one and done deal, they just keep feeding ult charge which makes it incredibly annoying lol

[AristosG-1493]

It really isn’t. Give me an actual argument explaining why. Because mine is that Valorant places a heavier emphasis on mechanical skill than OW.

[Malfry-1416]

I’d rather stay away from a company that require an always on anti-cheat detection, even when you’re not in game, thank you very much.

[Axiom-11274]

@spanky-12513

There are no map bans anymore. All maps apart from paris & horizon are in play.
Those 2 maps are being reworked

Ahhh. I did not know that. Soooo ALL maps are open except the 2 you mentioned for re-work?

Hmmm. Sounds like a lot of people were ticked enough then about the map ban (reverted from what you said) which happened quickly. (Valorant?)

Role Queue already has an arcade rank mode of how comp used to be pretty quickly as well. Seems popular as well. Not to mention they tried a 1-3-2 earlier as well.

Hero bans. Haven’t heard any positive comments about this.

Maybe Blizzard will actually listen to the players vs their pros since Valorant seems to already be doing damage.

[Berserker-12219]

Not 2 years… Peak OWL was last year, it was the best, and will remain the best. Sure it was mostly Goats, but Goats was peak player coordination, they were moving and working together as a single unit (the top 6 teams at least), and then when Shanghai Dragons dominated in Stage 3 Playoffs using a DPS meta vs Goats, the most dominating meta, it was honestly the highest peak of Overwatch. Dragons vs Shock Stage 3 Finals was the best match in OWL history, even better then the Grand Finals.

[spanky-12513]

@Axiom-11274

Hero bans. Haven’t heard any positive comments about this.

Updates to Hero Pools

We’ve been continuing to read, listen, and watch feedback on Hero Pools from members all across the Overwatch community, and we’re going to make additional changes to the feature to address many of these concerns. Let’s jump right into what we’re doing! Hero Pools Will Now Use Overwatch League Data Starting this weekend, Hero Pools eligibility will be determined using hero usage rates from Overwatch League games. While initially our data showed that there were many similarities in hero usage b…

[Kapoof-11797]

@Berserker-12219

Not 2 years… Peak OWL was last year, it was the best, and will remain the best. Sure it was mostly Goats, but Goats was peak player coordination, they were moving and working together as a single unit (the top 6 teams at least), and then when Shanghai Dragons dominated in Stage 3 Playoffs using a DPS meta vs Goats, the most dominating meta, it was honestly the highest peak of Overwatch. Dragons vs Shock Stage 3 Finals was the best match in OWL history, even better then the Grand Finals.

And then Blizz felt they had to force 222. Ruin dps queue times, cause a bunch of people to quit… in exchange for more boring matches, more frustrating gameplay.
I think role queue was a lose/lose.

If i were them, i’d turn it off and just say “Overwatch was meant to be whatever the players decided to play” and stop trying to decide for us.

[Berserker-12219]

Indeed, they did say that role queue was in production for a year, and that the beta form was the LFG feature in game, that was pretty much the determination to see if people would accept it or not.

But overall, I feel like hero bans is a superior feature then role queue, hero bans would still spin the meta about, but it would be more then just two metas, especially with Echo in the picture now.

[AristosG-1493]

@Kapoof-11797

“Overwatch was meant to be whatever the players decided to play” and stop trying to decide for us.

I like this quote. Honestly i’m surprised it’s not something they believe in.

[Sue-11360]

but they do believe in it! Can’t find the original quote but “your team cant force you to play something, and the game certainly wont either” or something along those lines…

[AristosG-1493]

@Sue-11360

and the game certainly wont either

“Well, besides forcing you to play one role…”

[Nocturne-2913]

didn‘t say it doesn‘t. it‘s heavily dependent on mechanics. but on the other side also on camping, standing still while shooting, playing hide and seek on the map and waiting for an eternity if you die.

all abilities are only usable once or sometimes twice. just imagine tracer only doing one jump forwards per match, lol. abilities feel bland and useless often enough.

[AristosG-1493]

Depends on the abilities. The smokes are great for cutting off sight lines, allowing safer rotations. And the blinds are insanely powerful. Of course Sage’s abilities are all extremely strong too. And anything that offers sights.

[Shadow-222806]

@Kapoof-11797

And then Blizz felt they had to force 222

What they should do then? People had enough of old competitive with people picking mostly dps heroes.