Typical new hero release, untested, unbalanced, overtuned. Big shocker. I am not par of your QA team and only feedback I have is this hero is braindead and does way too much damage for a tank with that much mobility. Tone it down and start testing your hero releases. You have a bad rep for releasing garbage like this for every new hero you create.
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You have zero idea how hero releases work in games when it comes to testing/technical sides, so you’ve just made a fool of yourself.
And no I have no idea either-which is why I don’t make such ridiculous posts such as yours
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This is intentional for many reasons, but here my top three:
- They want people to play
- They need live, accurate data on the new hero
- Incompetence
Know what’s hilarious, they released him for a test, the entire community told them that the block was way too strong and absolutely overpowered in combination with the mobility.
So Blizzard buffed both the block and the mobility.
They legitimately want you to quit.
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I disagree that he’s overtuned. I feel like he’s the first new hero who isn’t very strong on release. I’ve seen a few people use him well in QP, but I’ve only seen him picked once in comp in a Master 2 average lobby. I’m just not sure what he’s for that Doomfist doesn’t do better.
Not all of us. The block is horrible for hurting anyone. It’s super easy to avoid and a minor deterrent at best, so complaints rightly didn’t mean much.
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ITS the same bs every time, over tuned garbage. At least I can say that it’s dumb. No other game is like this, also cig smoking is gross.
Your post screams bronze
Balance doesn’t happen til after heroes are released…
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People really having a hard time with hazard? He’s not bad- but he’s not amazing either.
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Let’s summarize your argument:
“I don’t like this character. People who play this character are dumb and bad at the game. I’m smarter than Blizzard because I know this character is bad, but they don’t.”
Cool. Doesn’t really tell us how power is being measured, or what abilities are too powerful, or how its lowskill, or why a character being lowskill is a problem. All we know is (a) you think the character is bad, (b) you think you’re very smart, and therefore (c) the character is bad. Color me unpersuaded and unimpressed.
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While I also don’t think he is too strong, we have had many heroes comes out average or weak in ow. Many in ow1, but in ow2 we had jq and ram; who both got buffs after they came out. And we all know how bad lw was when he launched. Tons more from ow1, but I assume you meant ow2.
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Yes, OW2. I do remember LW being underwhelming, though, now that you menit. At least with him, I understood what he was for, and he was still the clear-cut best at heavy heals on high-mobility teammates. Hazard is a strong brawler, just not as strong as Doomfist even though he’sseemingly meant to fill a similar niche, so he feels weird to me.
Every other game I’ve played is like this. Pve/pvp Mmos regularly release new characters WILDLY overpowered, some so much so that they had to get quick nerfed less than a week after release, because they were so comically overpowered. Mind you, they remained overpowered after the nerf, it just wasn’t hilariously unfair
Monster Hunter Frontier added a weapon in one of it’s last major updates. Can you guess which is the best weapon in the game by a lot? lol. It’s extremely common, because it’s exciting
But to be fair, jq specifically got nerfed after her beta because she was so strong that overwatch league was just pure jq mirrors. We only saw that in the beta, and she was only really nerfed because pro players broke her. If it wasn’t for overwatch league, she likely would’ve released very strong
Well here’s the problem, people suck REALLY BAD on hazard. The hero is currently the strongest tank in the game, but people are not good enough on him to abuse it. Once people improve and start breaking him more he will get nerfed. Same as juno, same as illari, same as mauga
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This is mostly a low rank concern, right down there with unkillable Mercy and bloodthirsty undying Moira.
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That is the golden trio of blizzard. Especially the first one. They are huge ego maniacs and create their own confirmation bias loop by overtuning the heroes so they can tell everyone how amazing they are for making a new hero everyone wants to play.
what you rather they release another lifeweaver?
Yes by all means. Why would anyone ever care about uncreative boring garbage tier heroes that are only viable when their stats are cranked up too the max?
Make more Juno´s and everyone is happy.
Oh ok, so heroes that are overtuned on release. understood. Glad we agree
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Hazard is definitely not low skill, but he’s quite overtuned.
Play Zen and then tell me that he’s easy to avoid. He has the mobility of a Genji and doesn’;t need to aim to do damage. You think that’s easy to avoid? He has better mobiluty than 85% of the hero roster at present. MOST heroes can not get away from him if he wants to stay near them. They don’t have a choice.