People complain about hitscans, but the alternative is much worse.
So many games now with doom or hog, junk and/or symm and/or torb and/or mei with frequent visits from 1-shots like widow and hanzo. And moira and boopity boop lucio for support.
This isn’t about winning or losing, it’s about games being so full of spam garbage they just aren’t even 1% fun. Tons of leavers will attest to this fact as it’s now nearly impossible to get a game without leavers in QP.
Leave spawn, doom lands in backline and wipes out 1 or 2 supports immediately, at least 1 person leaves. Or they walk into junk trap or spam where junk can’t even see them and at least 1 person leaves.
Spam is killing this game at low ranks as nobody wants to play against it and it’s leading to multiple leavers in most games.
As I predicted, people find more, and more, and even more stuff to call “unfun” and demand “doing something”.
People here won’t stop until it’s CoD.
It was fun when there was a mix and spam heroes had their niche, but now they are in most games and the “meta” (I know there is no such thing at low ranks) is now to basically go spam mad and whole teams are just about spam.
When it gets to the level it’s at now it’s unfun. When spam heroes are played less frequently they are not a problem, but they are a problem at the rate they are now played.
Ok so maybe stop running down the same hallway and taking the same routes back from spawn?
Like, go around the spam? If we’re talking low ranks nobody checks behind themselves so just flank all day.
Well, you see, this game was designed around narrow chokes and the best heroes for getting through those chokes tend to have higher skill floors like tracer and down in low ranks they don’t play those heroes very well and so spam filling a choke often means that the attackers don’t even touch first point, never mind capture it.
And in any case, as soon as people either get spawn camped for a minute by all the spam or can’t get through choke after a couple of fights, people start leaving and the game is already over as backfills join then leave and you have 3 or 4 people in your team for the rest of the game.
If you know doom is coming for you, choose an appropriate kit
The sky can become pink, dogs can start to meow and cars can start to fly
But even then, something will never change: sym/junk/torb/bastion will always rule in the lower ranks, not because of balance changes, but because lower ranks are lower ranks
Genji
Pharah
Tracer
Symmetra
Winston
Sombra
Hanzo
Mei
Reaper
Junkrat
Echo
Ashe
Dva
I’m sure there are more, but all of these characters have ways of taking flank routes to get behind the enemy team. There’s a large variety of skill there.
Don’t make excuses and take different routes. Let your team be fodder if they won’t do the same. Even if you die killing just one support, it is worth it. If you kill two people, super worth it.
Not really too surprised… the forum seems to be full of people who main Sym/Mei/Sombra /Doom/Hog/Junk/Torb and other non-typical heroes
So, it’s normal to see a bunch of hitscan complaints, and very few complaints about the non-typical heroes being strong
At least half of those are useless in chokes like Eichenwald and most of the rest are useless to low rank players.
The issue facing Blizzard is that if low ranks is as unfun as it is now (seems all ranks are complaining anyway) then they are going to be losing all the people that would later build to high ranks. The bulk of players play in low ranks and it is a crapfest just now.
What’s that famous quote?
‘Given the chance Players will optimise all the fun out of a game.’
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