It is genuinely mind-blowing how incompetent the people making decisions for this game are. They ruin everything they touch.
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Yes…this is the simplest and KINDEST way to expressing it. What…knuckledragging, brain dead infant monkey got their hands on this mode, which was FINE and BALANCED. I mean, I won EASILY as kiriko as it was…and completely F it sideways with a sandpaper covered chainsaw coated in salt? I hate almost every mode in this game now. Push is AWFUL. flashpoint is pretty terrible. the pay walls in OW2 are GARBAGE and I have THREE things I looked forward to: Mei snowball (which manages SOMEHOW to not suck sh!t), prop hunt (HOW IT WAS THE FIRST TIME) and halloween…
And they manage to ravage prop hunt until it is bloody and begging for death…
Blizzard, team 4…what…the actual…F…are you all doing???
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so…what did they do?
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Genji now takes damage from slashing and not hitting a Kiriko afaik
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welp another funni mode ruined
custom game one was better anyway.
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they’re always mindlessly buffing supports even in prop hunt 
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…what?
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played a couple games so here are the differences:
1.Genji takes 25 dmg per melee
2.Ult generates faster
3.Genji recovers health in ult
4.Kirikos taunts are reduced
5. Genji doesn’t get any indication of where kiriko is if he is too far, meaning you can camp in a secluded spot and win.
Couple with the only small map it’s extremely boring. I would say the first version of it when kiriko could melee kill genji was the most fun and now it’s crap.
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Why? Like really? It was my favorite Arcade mode.
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i remember the kirikos were able to stunlock the genji’s last time it was so funny
can they still do that
haven’t tried but i think it’s possible.
Its almost impossible to win as hunters now, you gotta get REALLY lucky to win as hunters. With only 8 strikes before you kill yourself it makes it such a pain to hunt. No idea why they thought to even touch the mode it was perfect.
Its not like hunters was winning way more than props before, i really don’t get these changes.
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I haven’t been on today, I didn’t realize it was back. Sounds like it was implemented to keep them from spamming dash to search. I’m sure once you know all the spots and items you’ll find them easy enough just like the last version we played.
Omg why. I think the mode decent for what it was and had favorable wins and losses on both sides. 
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Competitive prop hunt when?
lmfao what???
Jesus christ Blizzard.
I swear they really want us all to drop OW once and for all. 
I really hate the main change, which is Genji taking 25 damage every time he attacks. It has totally ruined it for me. If you attack 8 times and don’t kill a Kiriko, nor trigger your ult, you’re dead.
I can see what they’ve tried to do, which is take away the “I’ll just dash about slashing everything I see” element, but this was a fun/dumb arcade mode, not something that’s competitive where people communicate to try and pinpoint where the Kirikos are hiding.
Unless someone is really bad at hiding and sticks out like a sore thumb, now you basically run around waiting for the Kiriko voice lines to start to trigger, so nothing is happening for the first half of the game really.
It is totally fine for an arcade mode to just be fun and silly, especially when you change sides after each round, so you swap roles. Yes, it sucked to be killed by someone who was just slashing away at random, but you could also stun them and move; that was part of the fun. Now, people don’t want to waste health by taking a random punt with an attack, so even on defence, you’re sitting around doing nothing most of the time.
I don’t think anyone asked for this change. In the original version there was a lot more activity on both sides. Kirikos had to move/ change forms regularly to avoid Genjis frantically searching everywhere. Now you just sit there. there is almost no activity.
The only way to win is through rote memorization or pure luck. Last match I played the genji walked right up to me and killed me and when I questioned how it wasn’t luck or any skill, it just happened to be where they hid the round before. So do the props not even procedurally generate? just in the same place each time? oof…
I don’t imagine this being fixed or changed anytime soon given all the people ya’ll let go. Disappointed is the nicest term I can use…
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That was the only version I liked, and I thought it was awesome. In my first game, I got to watch a fellow Genji get stunned and then beaten to death by all the furniture in the room. Simultaneously suspenseful and hilarious.
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This was the only arcade mode I liked. RIP. I bet this was another “winrate based” change.