Ok so this game is getting into the bargain bin style of game and there are quite a few things I hate about it. I’ll start off but I’m sure you guys n gals have some good ones.
I hate the UI of the menus. They are the most dumb design I’ve seen and I feel like someone with no clue of how to design a menu could have done a better job. I also hate that you cannot access bits through menus you use to be able to. Dumb design choices and changing them to make it feel new… but feel terrible (common theme with ow2).
P2W Battlepass hero. Locked behind the battlepass and recently buffed… but you will have to play our game for many hours to unlock him… so while you wait you can face teams that use him and… you can’t use him… yay that sounds fun and fair. It would have been amazing in Season 1 if you had paywalled Zarya till level 55 and seen how people did with that one.
Skins are legit the most expensive and pointless item in this game. Your effort with skins is just super poor apart from things like mythic skins… which… are paid for with a battlepass… they aren’t free. You have also recycled all skins from the first game (which might I add have been paid for already by people buying lootboxes!) and now you are rinsing them out again to be bought by new f2p players…because why do anything new when you can recycle it? (aka Lucio Ball, Mei Yeti, All Events)
I’m sure we can add some good ones to this list so feel free to add the things you really hate that have appeared in Overwatch 2
balance is always the worst when it comes to ow. it seems like they are trying to sabotage their own game.
after that is competitive as a whole. matchmaker, mmr, hidden sr(!), THROWERS who can play for months or years without bans etc.
create a new acc and play the game without using your ult. Like NEVER. you wont get banned for a year or so. esports btw
I’m currently doing a DMG only Mercy Build and I’m going to see how long the account lasts for. Also I paid to have it registered with a phone number… it cost $0.50 to get them to confirm the mobile sms message… way to deal with smurfing Blizzard!!
lhcloudy is on a bronze to gm “no shield rein” stream. you wont get banned. if you want to get banned you can call your bad teammates “bad”. THIS is unacceptable. you get banned in a month.
Even more garbage seasonal “events” with almost no new content - an Epic Brig skin that you have to grind out in annoying recycled PvP events does not exactly inspire excitement and festivity among the players
Hidden level portraits and comp ranks to masquerade smurfs
Unrewarding comp experience - this could be a list of its own
I just don’t understand how people can hate this game so much and also have 3000 hours of playtime and average 26 hours out of a 24 hour day of playtime.
I don’t enjoy 5v5, and sound direction has become so much worse, I can’t understand where the enemies are at a given time anymore. In OW1 it was so clear which character comes and from where
ALL the bad things in OW2? Oh my, that would take way too much time so I’m just listing some random stuff that comes into my mind right now.
Blatantly greedy monetization
Lack of rewarding progression
Garbage coin gains from weekly challenges
Botched events
Lackluster BP
Atrocious matchmaking
Annoying new music
Paywalled heroes
Objective time not listed in scoreboard
Removed end game activity (cards/voting)
Removed on-fire mechanics
Removed LFG
Removed Sigma’s theme music (that tune was iconic goddangit)
Funny part is this is still happening. The devs make changes based on a single piece of data without considering how that change impacts the rest of the game.