Interchangeable cosmetics and the idea of weapon skins and character skins being sold separately from one another. Example: I can now buy Tracer’s “Jingle” weapon design and then equip that design on Tracer’s “Graffiti” outfit.
The goal of these changes would simply be to put more customization options in the hands of those who wish to purchase cosmetic content.
Competitive reward consistency
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Potentially piggybacking off the idea above, I’d like the developers to consider only making the competitive weapon rewards for the default character’s weapons only. I understand that this wouldn’t necessarily be considered a purely positive thing, as you’d no longer be able to put the competitive reward skins over the overwhelming majority of weapon designs, but by doing this, it should theoretically allow the developers to make competitive rewards significantly faster and of far greater quality.
I believe having a system where your players are having to wait an entire year for content in what is marketed as a live service game is a bad design, and the goal of these changes, I believe, would improve upon that.
Progression
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I would like to see the developers put more effort into Overwatch’s progression system. The rewards are severely lacking and do not, in my opinion, respect the player’s dedicated time.
Adding something basic like a colorful border that’s tied to the mastery rank around the scoreboard when a player has that character selected, I believe, would go a long way.
I’m on board with the first and third point. I do not agree with the second. I can’t imagine it takes them much time to apply a colour to heroes weapons. And having only the default be able to use gold/jade/galaxy would be pretty lame. Especially if they didn’t do your first point, leading to people having to use default skins as well as default weapon skin.
If they are different types of rewards then sure. For wep skins like currently, where people want them for many heroes, I don’t think a year is a big deal. Especially when it was just gold for like 7 years.
Now if you want them to add other rewards, like hero skins tor certain ranks or something I am on board. I do not want to not be able to use my gold guns on new heroes skins.
I 100% agree with the first and third points. They should also give out progression XP for Vs AI games! Majority of new players (I class myself as still quite new) would benefit from this. And maybe some of the daily/weekly challenges can be done in Vs AI. I mainly go for Vs AI to get through the battle pass without being berated by my team mates when I’m not doing as well as they want me to
