This doesnāt sit well with me. You occasionally do have some good ideas but making comments like this is unnecessarily cocky. Iām not saying that devs shouldnāt take your suggestions, but this is one of the few issues I have when seeing you on the forums.
Not everyone is going to like your ideas/thoughts. Showing your balance changes to other threads isnāt always necessary either, but maybe thatās just me.
Hi. I disagree with you too. I dont fall into what you just described.
I dont care how powerful or weak my hero is in comparison to others in the same role or in other roles. Iāll play him regardless. You could buff tanks to absolute God mode with 5000hp and 1 shot abilities. I still wouldnt play them. The playstyle isnāt fun to me.
I disagree with your idea because I dont think it would make dps players change to tank. That makes it pointless because it wouldnāt solve anything.
Thatās an awfully high horse youāre on. Your ideas arenāt the only options available.
Well, I got about 40 changes put into another game called as PlanetSide. Including writing a miniaturized installer that was downloaded over 30,000 times. That was later copied by the devs.
Previously wrote a server modification for another class based shooter called TRIBES, with about 40 servers running it, and tournament play for years with about 25 teams.
And I can point to a wide number of changes that line up with ideas Iāve posted. A lot of which are highly technical and very specific.
Probably all 4 of the most recent Mei changes, the Double Headshot changes on McCree, the weighted ticket system for owl hero pools, limiting the hero pools to Masters/GM/Pro based on OWL pickrate.
Heck, I even have a concept that is basically hero pools.
To put it simply, thereās probably more of my ideas in the game, than the rest of the forum community combined.
And I have a pretty strong background in class based shooter game design from other games.
Skimming through some of your posts in this thread,
You seem like a capable person, but your ego doesnāt help anyone here; ideas are their own currency. As someone who has posted ideas/suggestions/feedback on Blizzard forums for 15+ years over multiple games, my ego still gets in the way, and in the end I end up needing to remind myself of that. Me needing to reference those 15 years is further proof that my ego is involved.
I used to keep track of changes I suggested getting into OW, but I stopped caring as much since I donāt play as much. Not saying you shouldnāt be proud of your efforts, but a lot of the time there are more people suggesting these things than you or I think/see.
I agree with this more than I disagree. Main downside is obviously how much itād change the fundamentals of the game, but could also possibly make OW2 actually feel like a new game.
Limiting teams to 1 tank and making them more fun/interesting to play seems to be at least worth experimenting on furtherā¦and now Iām eagerly awaiting 1-3-2 or 1-2-2 in experimental again.
Not saying I disagree, but it is worth noting that people find the most offensive tanks (Rein/Winston/Zarya/Hog) fun, while pros hate the defensive tanks (Orisa/Sig) to be cancerous.
I mean people DID complain about double shield because old Orisa with fortify with old Moira heals made her almost immortal.
Thatās a fair point, 1-2-2 is probably more likely.
But even then, thatās still a lot of changes.
But I guess near CC immunity for Tanks, and cutting healer self-peel ability cooldowns by half would be a good start.
Zen, dunno, but probably either stronger discord, or maybe make it so kicking an enemy launches him backwards.
Or maybe give him a 15% speed boost when discord is active.
I would prefer more āactivateā buffs for tanks than passives, but at bare minimum 30% CC reduction for all tank heroes would be a good place to start. This percentage would likely go through a lot of testing and changes, though.
5man teams sound less fun, but more balanced. I like big team fights, but am definitely willing to at least try 5v5.
Guess weāll have to see when OW2 comes out.
Edit: as for your Zen comment, this is partly a joke, but Iād love to have his kick displace both him and his target.
Currently I am sitting in a 20 minutes queue for support in QP lol
Not sure whatās going on but I constantly find games that are not full, they get cancelled and I am back in queue. Also, I am playing in EU, normally my ping is around 50ms but whenever I find a game after a really long queue the match has a ping of 160ms - 200ms, what is going on?