I stopped playing Overwatch just after Brigitte came out, so many shields and armor made the game unfun for me, not to mention my main man Roadhog had been continually weakening in the meta.
I hear there have been a lot of balance changes lately and Jeff even mentioned Roadhog for the first time in an age. I was just wondering if these changes will have enough of an effect on the game and if it would be worth picking up again? Are there any new issues that have been plaguing Overwatch that I might not be aware of?
I know most of you will still be playing regularly but can probably understand my reasons for moving to other games too.
I guess it will just depend if I really get the hero shooter itch again. Blizzard will be doing vanilla WOW servers, maybe they could do season 1 Overwatch servers too haha.
I kinda got this feeling, each hero used to feel impactful and “OP in their own way”, that was the fun way of balancing the game, now even if you play them well if feels like you’re not doing much of anything. Maybe I just played the wrong heroes, but there were about 8 I played regularly and I shouldn’t always have to go meta.
I’d just spend an afternoon playing around. Ultimately whether or not it’s worth it is subjective to everyone who plays, and this is the place where many disgruntled people come to vent.
Personally I don’t play much anymore, but mostly because I’ve been playing since launch and I’m just getting a little bored with it. And life is busier now that school is back in session.
Personally, Id say its gotten better. Im not sure what exactly month you left, but since then, Brigitte has gotten nerfs to make her less oppressive, if you will, Torb is getting a rework that makes him counters armor and Roadhog is getting something, but we arent sure yet because its not out on PTR, theyre still working on his animations atm.
Theres plenty more like the falloff damage reduction for hitscans, Orisa getting a spread reduction, all supports getting a buff, except for the corpse Mercy because she got a nerf instead. I suggest you check the patch notes and decide
If I were you, I’d wait another couple of months.
The latest dev update video said that they’ll be concentrating the resources that normally go into creating new seasonal event minigames into increasing the game’s quality of life.
This is very good news, but it’ll take more than just one patch to go though all of the QoL changes that the game needs. The current PTR’s big quality of life update is making the game properly playable for colorblind users.
Current mmo’s are bad. They’re all bad and they’re all casual and boring face roll to cap level. You don’t realize how many people have quit mmo’s because theyre so easy boring and easy now. At least vanilla wow is hardcore and there’s a lot large community just waiting for that experience again.
Apart from brigitte, the game is in a good balanced state. Brigitte has had her shield bash increased from 5 sec cd to 7, her ultimate armor reduced from 200 to 150, and next patch we get -100 shield health on brig and torbjorn rework in which his ult completely melts armor. Once next patch goes live I believe it will be a perfect time to return.
It might be worth looking into if you like Hog when the changes they make hit live but, otherwise I wouldn’t recommend it unless you think playing Hammond would be fun (some people do enjoy him a ton but, most aren’t effective as him) or you really disliked Mercy being meta(She’s underpowered now).
Current wow bfa is bad. But Vanilla wasn’t really that good, WRATH was amazing, vanilla wasn’t that good. Also vanilla wasn’t hard at all ahahahah.