In fact Blizzard always said reduce the importance.
Some protection from tanks will still be there.
But not all the time like now.
People will need to start to learn to relay on their skill a bit more.
It won’t directly change the tanks, no, but think of all the balance changes that never would have had to happen if we’d had guilds and no problems with being unable to play as a team with characters who are meant to be played as a team.
Basically what I’m saying is, Blizzard’s misuse of these assets, this great game, is creating an environment where they have to destroy those characters for longevity. The constant buff and nerf cycle has gone way out of control because they clearly just don’t know how to have all these characters exist and still give players a good experience.
The double shield meta was a big problem because for MOST people, they are just random people playing with other random people.
When the solution to a problem is organization and practice, you can’t get that out of just random teammates every match. You’ll never win if the solution is ; be more together, be more practiced and organized and you will succeed. That’s just never going to happen with 6 internet strangers. But six Guildmates that have played many times together before? They will be much more likely to pull together and get the job done, and do it in a way that is going to be a good player experience for them, because it always feels good to be helping out your team.
My point is that there are ‘balance’ solutions that are not actual in game balance, but they are ignored because the folks at Blizzard are so damn shortsighted.
I heard about that yes. Thats true.
OW2 is mainly PvE anyway.
Winston is too easily countered. The second I dare to play Winston well they immediately swap to reaper. Normally I would swap to Orisa or Sigma as a counterplay, but now I can’t do that.
Same here bro. And yes he is.
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Overwatch 2 is only an excuse to take new players to the game.
Is marketed like a new game, most of people will not inform about what they will paying really.
For this they are testing big changes, to offer something new to modern players.
Winston was starting to pick up steam again the last couple weeks but then hog buffs just deleted him from the game again.
Hog is barrier-less.
Just ask a teammate to debuff him: Hack, Wall+Freeze, Anti-nade or discord him and follow up focusing him to death.