I remember a while back Jeff said something about changing how golden guns work/ how to achieve them. I think i may have a solution.
Make it so that when you get every item for a hero (Spray, Emote, Skin, Voice line, and Highlight intro) you unlock the golden weapon for that hero. This could also include all past event items up until you get the last item you wind up unlocking. Including event items would be important here so you need to save up gold and wait for when whatever you don’t already have is back out.
It could actually take a long time to unlock a golden gun now instead of just 2 seasons of ranked play. I also find it kinda funny that you don’t even need to play lets say Roadhog (just for an example) in ranked at all to get his golden gun, you could just grind those points with anyone else. So getting the gun for Roadhog (Again an example) could really be meaningless.
EDIT: I see a lot of people get golden weapons on heroes they barley play just because the weapon looks cool. But when you need to go about getting the weapon by winning Ranked matches, the gun should have to be for a hero you’re passionate about and willing to spend time on, not just using points you’ve acquired over X amount of time by anyone. Idk thats just me :EDIT
I think this would be a fine solution to the golden gun “issue”
Or maybe simply drop the point requirment to half (1500) if you have all non-event items for said hero.
I specified non-event because they keep adding them, so it would be unfair for those who started playing Overwatch later to grab all the skins/emotes/etc.
I was thinking the currency could be public in the game, rather than exclusive to comp. Pair this with like a daily challenge and reward system could be cool. Something like:
Nah bc golden guns are supposed to be special. Getting them thru qp would de-value them (imo). Also i feel like that would make some less people play ranked bc i know a few people who only play ranked to grind for golden guns.
This is the exact problem Jeff has with the current system, he said some people play comp just for the golden guns. Plus with a new competitive arcade mode every event it’s clear they want to branch out. Plus this would still make it special, you still have to earn it. In my opinion golden guns are losing value, you reach a certain point where you get gold guns for characters you don’t care about just cuz you have too many comp points.
I think more weapon skins for rewards could be cool, maybe they could meet in the middle and have gold guns stay for comp, and other weapon skins unlocked in other ways.
And that’s a problem, if they are playing ranked simply to get their golden gun for their main they aren’t interested in the competitive game just what you can get for it.
Yea, but whether you want to win bc you wanna climb and be GM or you just wanna win to get a shiny gun and not touch ranked after that, both parties still wanna win. I get what you’re saying but my solution fixes that issue as well.
That’s not what they are saying. There are people who should not be in comp who are only in there for gold weapons. Like people getting one kill for every 3-4 deaths. In reality they are trying, but for someone at those lower levels who is actually trying to climb, it’s basically the same as having a thrower on your team. And the only reason they are there is for the gold weapon.
I only bring this up bc Jeff said he wanted to change golden guns, i still think ofc there should be a reward for doing well in ranked. Maybe just not golden guns.
Again it depends on what level you are at, if you’re high enough you don’t need to deal with this.
I have a friend who only got overwatch to play with us, he only plays two DPS, and his k/d is pretty awful. Hes been over lv 25 for a long time, but I told him not to go into comp. He can’t flex, he’s not interested enough to play with us regularly to learn the game.
He’s technically trying, but only at the level of someone who doesn’t want to get better, which is why I told him not to play comp.
Do you want a dps in your comp game who’s best game is under 20 elims?
yea but then that may make people not want to switch bc they want hours and dont care about the team. Or they may get mad ab someone picking their hero. I like the idea tho.