This was an alarming statement said during the stream.
Well… RIP tanks. Can we at least keep OW1 instead of turning OW into garbage COD.
“Tanks feel like dps”
RIP tank mains. I guess it really is over. Isn’t it?
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I am curious how feeling like a DPS is all that different to be honest because playing Tank is like playing a DPS who leads the charge right now anyway. That is not a big shift and I expect when on Zarya or Sigma to be the top damage in the game.
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If you believe that current tanks are like dps, you don’t play them clearly.
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No need to be all Doom & Gloom. What 1 person says isn’t the way everyone will feel. Since when do the forums care what OWL players say anyway? OW2 looks like OW to me, nowhere close to CoD.
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No, but wait 5 years after people are tired of OW2, then Blizzard will re-release Overwatch 1 as Overwatch Classic for $60.
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This is all I want tbh. I don’t care what they do to OW2. Let Widow fly. Let Hanzo have stealth. Let Pharah burn you with her jetpack blast. I don’t care. Just leave OW as it is and let OW2 be whatever CoD nonsense it wants to be.
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It means less responsibility on tanks to carry the match, which probably means more people willing to play tanks. I’m looking forward to it.
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I do not know what they play like in the mid ranks, but to rank up as a Tank you are expected to be doing a LOT of damage and pushing forward. If you tell me that my job in OW2 will be do damage and get kills I would be like “okay what is the difference?”.
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I’m looking at the information we have. less barriers, more burst abilities, less tanks numerically. You have to be delusional to not see what is happening based on the currently known facts. How much further are you all going to move the goal posts?
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What on Earth are you talking about? We’ve seen changes to only a handful of heroes on a very early build…
I mean, be stressed if you want I guess. I’ll wait until I get my hands on it to pass judgement… it looks nothing like CoD to me. Still looks like OW
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I was gonna make this exact post but decided against. Yeah, Space’s input was worrying.
I literally play overwatch because it isn’t like COD.
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Since they’re the ones that have access to OW2, even if it’s an earlier build, it should have a given direction it wants to take.
That aside, only a few tweaks could be made to make the Sombra changes in line, while Bastion, I’m still wondering if he’ll ever get a second ability as Reconfigure still seems to be the only one (he now has a damaging alternate fire though).
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Dps are prolly gonna have TONS of fun.
Me as support though? I’m going to struggle to even get out of spawn if every dps is going to be like sombra LOL.
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I can absolutely assure you, if you ask a pro if tanking is just like dps, they would not agree. They’d probably laugh.
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That’s inconsistent with these forums though. The forums historically couldn’t care less what OWL says/does, the forums claim “they play a totally different game”
OW2 looks like Overwatch to me. Not a single part of it looked anything like CoD
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To be fair to OP, the devs are probably intending to make DPS more important.
Unlike OP, I have zero issues with it, and in fact think it’ll work out for the best. The current model is a failure, we can’t get people to play tank and it’s pulling everything down. Time for something new.
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True, but I think we both know that the Forum’s mindset is a fluid, constantly changing entity. Especially when they’re our only current source of information for the new game.
I obviously have no clue what OWL is like but I can tell you on ladder at 3.9-4.1k you treat your Tank like a DPS. Your job is less about defensively protecting and instead about offensively dominating. You turn the saying on its head and the best defense and is a good offense. You are expected to be doing damage. You are expected to be getting kills. I expect to be gold damage on an OT or I am on the wrong OT (even though damage medals are largely pointless it emphasizes a point about where the damage is coming from).
DPS tend to play more in the midrange but considering the range on Rein/Ball/Zarya I would expect they are going to be keeping the same range and just being expected to play like you do on ladder but with a more complete kit for it.
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Usually that is becasue pros get faster kills and can follow up with eachother and focus. If pro players think its fast like COD, we are in trouble.
Pro OW is already blazingly fast. You can’t just strip away context like that and pretend it proves your point.
In short, the forums generally see pro balance as too cod like. And they are even saying its cod like now. Holy cow thats bad news.
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I think the main playstyle would be to hide behind walls as much as possible. Even if Sombra doesn’t kill you, long range damage sure will, lol.
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