I love this game and want it to be better.
A bunch of things I miss from OW1:
- On-fire system. Weirdly enough the voicelines still exist on OW2 but there’s no visual effect whatsoever.
- The old tab. So much easier to understand. I dislike the scoreboard, it generates more toxicity, I wish I could disable it and focus on MY performance. Medals were meh but at least they were easy to understand with just a glance.
- End of match cards.
- Old visual effects like nano boost, were so unique and had a comic-like look to them like comic thunder visuals. Now they’re just a png floating cloud with no personality or uniqueness whatsoever.
- I also miss avatar frames/player borders.
- Lootboxes in OW1 were well done. They were given away FOR FREE and you didnt need to use keys to open them. They allowed us to grind for skins WITHOUT WASTING MONEY.
- The headshots were disguised as a red icon instead of the new hitmarker icon that adds visual clutter to the killfeed
- Highlight intros and hero select screens. Some of them are so bad in comparison to OW1, like Reinhardt and Doomfist.
- Tank interactions are gone.
Bugs I’ve seen so far in OW2:
- Invisible heroes and invisible avatar for your character.
- Pathing through walls and Mei’s wall is glitchy
- Healthpacks visual bug where they are always loading
Things I like in OW2:
- Gameplay is smooth and fast
- New visuals on SOME things, like Orisa’s gun. Other things still look HORRIBLE like the UIs or the mid-match VS screen is just terrible.
- New maps are fun. New heroes are fun.
Things I find obnoxious in OW2:
- SMS protection. Why? So many people use prepaid plans. And not only is a stupid decision but it also created a huge “haha you’re poor” mindset in this community.
- False possitivity from big content creators that ignore all of the game’s flaws and smile like everything is fine.
- Midday map lighting. Too much orange. Maps like Colosseo, new King’s Row, Lijiang, Ilios and Paris could be so much better with other lighting. Light gets in the way with all of the visual clutter making it super hard to see. In OW2 if you get to play on a midday map, your enemy is the Sun. Night and day maps are super nice looking though, like Paraíso, Gibraltar (which ironically enough, had this problem too in Overwatch 1 but changing the ligthing fixed it now) or Oasis. I’d love if we could choose the time zone of the maps or it changed according to our IRL time. A midday light rework is very much needed because it’s just so hard to see.
- Monetization. Locking a new hero on a batlle pass at super high tier level. Making the grind for the battle pass ultra slow and boring. No incentive to level up battlepass if you’re a free user because the rewards are so bad.
- Losing cosmetics for “toxicity” is beyond stupid. Losing an account for the same reason is also beyond stupid. Trash talks are a huge incentive in online videogames and companies trying to remove it is beyond stupid to me. Specially when all I’ve typed in chat is “gg ez” making this a reason to lose my main account where I spent a total of 200 Euro is beyond stupid and pathetic. No Blizzard I won’t waste more money on your company. Guess why.
- So many bugs and floaty aim. People still defending Blizzard after all they’ve done and underdelivering their promises. The OW community as a whole sucks overall. Radical fanatism also sucks.
I will still play OW2, but I’m not planning on giving Blizz a single penny after all this mess. Not even for their scummy battlepass. I lost my main account anyways, so who cares.
Pointing out this video because I wish the higher ups heared us to make the game better and sop killing it.
Also feel free to check my QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES suggested since Overwatch 1 that could make the game so much better: