I'd 100% get OW2 if

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It had it’s own PvP mode to let you edit the hero abilities… Which could probably only be on the OW2 version.

I don’t think it could be like a ranking competitive mode, but I’d love to play the hell out of some QP sorta stuff where heroes abilities could be changed. However, it might end up making things where you’d have to lock the character you pick (at least per round).

One of the Smash Bros games had something like this where you could edit variations of specials, but it only existed in a particular game mode, which I always felt was a huge missed opportunity to really play the game. I’d really hate to see a similar thing with OW2.

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I’d kill for Workshop to have a TF2 randomizer style mod for hero ability swaps.

Like gimme Lucio with
shift: hook
e: reserrect
ultimate: minefield

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It would also make TDM and DM finally actually playable. But I doubt it will happen. We don’t even have something as simple as a map editor yet.

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Man… This shows how much I really don’t play those.

What could it potentially do to those modes?

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whats wrong with Death Match? It’s one of my favorite modes

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I’ve been thinking about making a mode like this in OW1. I think it’s possible, it would just take a lot of work.

I’ve actually tried it before, around Workshop’s release, unfortunately it was kind of a mess.

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Personally, I’d love this if it also had the previous abilities in it. Let us get mass res and sym 2.0 back (I know there are some hacky workarounds trying to recreate mass res and such, but they are still just hacky workarounds)

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Umm, isn’t what you’re describing the workshop we already have?

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I kind of see some of these things being very possible.

Like Symm:

Gets her old Primary Fire, but loses some power to it and such.
Loses her Teleporter, but gets the projected barrier.

Those seem like easy swap abilities that I really hope to see. I just love variations to characters.

No clue, you got the code for it?

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This idea would cut the OW community in half. Half the playerbase will move onto the cool new OW with cool new abilities, and the other half will be stubborn and stay in the original game. We aren’t exactly thriving (look at the queue times) and halving the playerbase would theoretically double queue times.

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About mass res etc or ?
I mean you just select mass res in a drop down for Mercy’s ult etc

Right now there are workshop games where they have these wild trigger systems to bring everyone back, and I think kill Mercy and bring her back with ult meter set to 0. Something like that, it was wonky.

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I have no clue what you’re talking about. People insist on playing competitive. This would probably be too unbalanced to play exist in a competitive scene or anywhere outside of laughs and kicks.

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I’d give it a few years and workshop will probably happen. I doubt they would add workshop at an early stage but who knows.

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Not at all. Paladins has this exact system, and it isn’t hard to balance.

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Seconded. Really, more unique content is what i’m looking for.

When I hear “OW 1 will still be supported with new heroes!” I think “What’s the point of buying OW 2”.

When I hear “the PVE mode!” I think “That’s it?”

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Overwatch 2 will also improve the role queue system, by locking you into a specific character for the duration of each competitive season.

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Is this a joke, because that sounds troubling if implemented incorrectly.

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I also think that’s the beauty of it though. It’s a really smart move. Currently, I highly doubt I’d buy OW2 on release, and I actually really appreciate it that wanting to just stick to playing QP isn’t going to impede that decision.

Still, things to tinker with, that always draws my attention.

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Smash Wii U just had it in all the game modes. They removed that when they made Smash Ultimate, which is unfortunate.

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Did it really? I thought it was only for like it’s PvE quest mode thing. Could you actually go and battle friends and such with the changes?

I just thought it was the coolest thing ever in Smash and could have added so much more depth to enjoying the game among friends… I mostly just remember Mega Man had some really cool alt moves.

But, it didn’t really, so again. I just felt like it was a hugely missed opportunity, and I kinda don’t want to see OW do the same thing.