so i played ow1 alot, but i quit with ow2, just wanted to give it a try by playing one of the new heroes- illari, i did the challenges in the practice range, then I saw you need to win 50 games first ??? ya completely ignoring the hundreds of hours i played as support in ow1. So i logged out again thanks for this great experience
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Yea it’s kind of excessive
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If you don’t enjoy the game enough to win 50 matches, why would you want to unlock a new hero for that game? Is that going to make you want to play? Is that what’s missing for you? 50 is nothing to someone who regularly plays and actually enjoys it. By the way, there’s no time restriction on those wins. It’s just 50…like ever. I think I won that many last week.
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what do your hours have to do with a new hero?
I’m pretty sure it’s 35 wins, but yes, the grind is real here.
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I had to unlock Ramattra using quests since I never got my battle pass far enough in his season, and I only had to get 35. Not sure if it went up since then.
It wasn’t that bad for me to get the 35 wins…but it would really suck if I had multiple heroes to unlock, since as I understand it you can only progress one hero at a time.
So for someone who hasn’t played since OW1, it would be 35 wins per new OW2 hero. And for a brand new player, I think a lot of OW1 heroes are locked too and need 35 wins for each of them too, which would multiply that even more.
That’s a lot of wins to unlock all the heroes.
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the matches arent enjoyable to even play 50.
Ok, then the problem has solved itself. Nobody needs to grind for rewards in a game they don’t want to play.
Like, I’m not mad about Fortnite challenges because I don’t want to play Fortnite, so I don’t. It’s not worth my time. I also don’t get on their forums to tell them about it. Not sure why our community can’t act that way.
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Winning?
In a PvP dedicated title?
Why would that be a factor?!
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I think it’s just the excessive amount of wins needed. It’s the same thing with needing 50 wins to show up on the top 500 leaderboards.
It’s just garbage. I’d say the leaderboards one more than the hero one, because at least with the heroes it’s not like it’s timed to get 50 wins.
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50 wins is excessive?
How many wins do you have Westbrook?
A lot. Because I’ve played the game for years.
it’s also the issue of, you can’t do the challenges for more than one hero at a time, which I JUST found out.
Like not even lying, 2 seconds before typing this reply, I logged on to the game because I was curious if I was able to go into the practice range and do the mini challenges to unlock them since I’ve definitely won A LOT of tank games, so I should be able to play ramattra and JQ.
Come to find out, you have to ACTIVATE the challenges, so literally none of my wins have counted for either hero, and wins will only count towards ONE of those heroes, and not both.
That’s a garbage system, plain and simple.
Because with that system, if I want to unlock every new hero in the game…
I need 210 wins. And this number will keep going up with every new hero added. That is insane.
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Seems like almost nothing to a top 500 player unless youre getting 5+ accounts there which is stupid anyway
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Great concept, poorly executed. Should’ve locked every hero except one tank/DPS, and two supports.
By the time you unlock another hero, you have basic fundamentals down.
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I’m not a fan of the idea of locking heroes behind a BP, but here we are.
As far as unlocking them goes in a F2P game, 35 wins is whatever. I suppose it’ll have more to do with the amount of time you have available to play OW. For a less experienced player especially if they are new that would probably look like a nightmare.
For someone who has played for years and just doesn’t want to buy the pass, depending on the amount of free time available, it may not look so daunting. But that depends largely on each person.
I had to grind my the shapeshifter title in 2 season…50 wins per hero isnt that bad imo. I only play a couple times a week too. People just want things handed to them… i had well over 2k wins in MH in ow1 and for those not to count kind of stung
It’s very excessive to just unlock one hero, yes. You used to have them unlocked for just playing the game and I see no reason why it shouldn’t be the case anymore. Putting heroes behind grind and battlepasses is garbage. We will start to see even more new players physically unable to pick the hero for the situation because they just don’t have it unlocked. Yay fun. And they increase the grind over time. Even more fun for people that have alts and have to repeat the process XD
And when the hero is new and put behind battlepass it’s usually 2 weeks of playing before you get your hands on the hero. Which really stinks imo. Heroes should always be playable, they are important part of the game.
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I never thought of it as a way to deter smurfs and alts. That’s just a plus imo.
It is a lot. Hell, it’s the ENTIRE reason I didn’t get top 500 last season. I got to 41, and was burnt out on the game, especially when I’m playing the WORST role in the game.
There’s a reason that last season ended with GM2’s in the tank top 500. And hell, there were GM3’S up until the final week.
The role and the game is in too poor of a state to be asking people to win 50 games. Especially when it solves NOTHING, because the people that care enough to get multiple accounts there in the first place, WILL KEEP DOING IT.
And it doesn’t help camping out the #1 spot either because again… people can STILL DO IT. There’s no decay, so people will just simply play the 50 games, if they see they are #1, just never play on that role again, or even account again.
That’s such a dumb way to look at it.
It’s more like people have lives, and sometimes just wanna hop on the game when free and just simply play.
Not hop on, but tryhard enough to get 210 wins across 3 different roles.
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I think that’s a really solid discouragement from playing on alts but it also hurts new players, players comming from breaks etc. And new heroes locked in battlepass are even worse.
50 wins with 50% winrate is 100 games. 100 games where one on average is 10-15 minutes is 20-30h of gameplay PER HERO. We currently have like 7 heroes to unlock. The trend will continue with each release.
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