TL;DR: Hoping Feb 12th is BIG, or I’ll stick with Rivals, unless its balance is bad
Been playing MR alot lately this past month and while there has been alot I’ve been enjoying about it, there’s also a lot that I just don’t like. There IS a part of me where sometimes I just think, “Wow this is unfun to fight against, imagine if this was in OW, it’d be hotfixed in a day”
Melee duellists are the most egregious example of unfun kits to fight against. Spider-man and Black Panther have frustrating mobility to fight against, and supports have 0% chance in fighting back alone against one of equal skill. Iron Fist literally just walks in your direction while holding LMB allowing him to dash towards you infinitely, not to mention he gets a guard ability that gives him overhealth and blocks attacks and CC. Magik is probably the most balanced of the bunch, but she can still 3-tap a 275 HP hero in under a second
Alot of the Vanguards are just clunky or irritating to play as. Few have hard CC outside an ultimate, so taking space is frustrating because you can’t get an annoying duelist or enemy Vanguard out of your face, or threaten the back line with a well placed CC
Just so many things that people claim to make the game “broken fun” just become “broken” super fast.
- Ghost hitboxes for movement abilities can cause you to get hit by AoE abilities despite your character model being nowhere near
- Poor visual clarity for alot of VFX that can make it near impossible to see under certain lighting, be it teammate silhouettes or enemy abilities
- Extremely untuned DMG and healing numbers that are kinda fun in a vacuum, until whoops, triple support is now the meta at GM+; (Masters+ in OW2 terms)
- No quick patches or addresses from the devs about bugs or issues; (Moon Knight’s ult currently deals DMG twice per projectile which is unintentional)
I’m mostly writing this because, while Rivals has been fun, the lack of snap balancing, overall polish, communication, and S1’s initial patch ranging from whelming to just flat wrong makes me consider coming back to OW2. So I’m hoping Feb. 12th is something good, and not just going back to 6v6 or announcing staying as 5v5, or doing split-queue (which would be awful).
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Nope because I’m relatively content with the game. I just play it for fun and it fulfills that. I’ve also been playing Rivals but the balance issues in that game are getting more and more obvious/annoying
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Honestly the more I re-read my post, the more it reads of me dunking on annoying crap in Rivals and wanting to go back to OW2, lol
Sadly, although OW2 is polished, the uninteresting balance changes left me wanting something fresh, and while Hazard was a pretty good release, he ultimately didn’t click with me which I was kinda sad about because he felt fun the first dozen games or so
Nah I’m done with OW except for when my buddy wants to play. Funny cause I was the last of my friends playing daily for the last few years grinding solo ranked. I’m not disgruntled, just bored out of my mind with OW and really enjoying Rivals. I wish he’d come play Rivals lmao
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I’ll see you around in 2 months on the forums like everyone else when it ends up being god awful
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I think 2 months is too soon, but no doubt within a year the current playerbase is going to be probably half of what it is now. Maybe even less.
It’s literally already lost about 50% of its players from just a month ago lol.
Peak a month ago was over 650k, peak in the last week is around 350k
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Honestly, it might be even sooner, if I’m more disappointed with Marvel Rivals’s patch notes for mid-season than I am with Spotlight, I’ll just switch back to OW
But if not, I think the 6 month mark would be a better point to determine if I’m gonna keep up with MR
I don’t think it’s fair to base the numbers on peak instead of average, which has stayed quite consistent. It hit the peak the day the first season launched. I do think in the coming months people will start caring about the balance issues, complaining about the matchmaker etc more. Where now many are giving it a pass while criticizing ow for the same things. But it’s still a pretty new game and people are having enough fun to overlook it. Same thing with launch ow, having owc come back and being able to experience how unbalanced it was when we are not all new players, but it was blast in 2016.
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I’ll probably keep playing OW2 regardless of what gets announced, because in general I still enjoy the game. I’ll keep playing it until that’s no longer true.
But I do understand that this is kind of a make-or-break situation for Team 4 at this point. Whatever they’re cooking up has to be good or they’re in real trouble. They obviously think it’s pretty big, because they announced the announcement and built all kinds of hype around it. They released devblogs covering big topics BEFORE the Spotlight, so those probably won’t get more than a mention, meaning something else is in there. And they’ve invited dozens of content creators to Irvine to personally playtest the changes on stream. They obviously think they’ve got something good or they wouldn’t be doing all this.
I have a list of over 50 things they could be announcing, ranging from not likely at all to very likely. We’ll see how close I get, this will be kind of fun.
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The game could chug on how it is now and I doubt I’d ever drop it altogether, but I’ve been bored of it for a while, now.
I mean —
we get the same events (which are to sell skins anyway)
we get the same strong heroes every update
we get the same heroes receiving every skin every update
It’s too predictable. Maybe it’d reignite my spark if they were to add Max.
The more I play Rivals the sooner I think people are going to start complaining about things lol.
It’s just 2 months old and the honeymoon phase has already worn off for me. Balance is all over the place, performance isn’t great, and open queue is riddled with problems that I don’t think people will put up with for very long.
I like a couple of the tank heroes so I don’t mind fulling sometimes but it’s already getting old having 3-4 DPS instalocked as soon as the match starts practically every game
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Completely based. Overwatch has already gone through a lot of the growing pains that Rivals is starting to have now, and will continue to have for a long time. Rivals will have to learn a lot of the same lessons, and hopefully Overwatch/Team4 can soo how Rivals deals with them and adjust. Competition is good!
Whatever happens, I want both game to succeed and thrive. They’re both good games.
Hmm…I think so yes. I was mostly just sticking around to play the latest Overwatch Classic cause I wanted to play Sym 2.0.
But I’ll see what these new changes are going to be. But I’m personally at a point where I wouldn’t care if the changes are rubbish. I’m sort of past caring.
If this Spotlight thing isn’t good or anything that’ll reignite my interest in the game then yeah I’ll be pretty much done. I’ll probably only play the game on the odd very rare occasion or something, maybe not even that, who knows 
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I got over the honeymoon phase after 50 hours lol, it wouldnt be surprised if it was less or roughly the same for FPS / hero shooter veterans, MR seems to be very normie/casual catering due to the MCU’s overall marketability and popularity, that and having console crossplay for QP
Also 3 DPS isn’t bad, but having only 1 support or no tank is usually a lost game. But, yeah, instalocking does get old, sometimes I just dont wanna support, and I only like Magneto, but he can be frustrating to play sometimes trying to hit small targets
Which is weird, because I bought the founder’s bundle to play the beta, and I have not spent ONE coin on skins or the battlepass since launch.
None of the skins wowed me enough to want to make a purchase, it might be because I see what League does with skins and I’m just underwhelmed by the mythics. It might also be the abundance of Rein, Tracer, and the Asian female character skins further reinforcing my disinterest
I would like to try MR but my computer runs it at 30fps even at lowest setting so I just gave up.
I feel that. I recently did a CPU upgrade (to the fastest CPU of 2012), and now it just barely runs it at 60 fps. Definitely not optimized for lower-end PCs.
The Spotlight showcase isnt the deal-breaker for me. I’ll just go back to 5v5 until the next 6v6 mode comes out. I just love Overwatch 2 too much to leave completely.
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I’m still hoping the spotlight show has good stuff. Maybe something new on the coop side.
Also kinda don’t really want to play a new competitive game because I have anxiety playing competitive games all the time, even in unranked. Mainly just worried people think I’m a burden to the team.
Recently I’ve been going into singleplayer game but at least I still feel somehow comfortable playing overwatch so I play it from time to time, though I always hide my chat because I am sick of getting flamed as a tank player. The classic mode is such a godsend and been enjoying it without all the 5v5 problems like super tanks, counterswap, and bail out abilities
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