I don’t remeber on fire to be happening as much in “the good old days” of Overwatch 1. It doesn’t seem satisfying when it happens soo frequently, what’s the point?
Yeah and blazing too
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I’m on fire every match constantly , I’m just that good at the game.
It’s also a good way to target enemy team members.
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Yeah OW 1 on fire was like when you killed whole team with reaper ult or something, new on fire is just existing
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I think it’s more that they don’t explain why you are on fire
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I’m okay with the frequency of the regular ‘on-fire’ (keep in mind they said you can gain points towards being on-fire for new things as well)… but the blazing system is super played out and attained far too easily.
I do really like the concept of it like “damn, he’s so on fire he’s red hot! He’s blaaazing!” lol but it’s so frequent it doesn’t feel special or note worthy at all.
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I noticed this too. Now it makes sense why some really easy dps or tank plays end up as PotG. I’ve pulled off some incredible gamesavers with multiple skills as support and they won’t even show up in my profile.
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They really participation-trophy’d the whole system.
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The on-fire system has been running in the background the entire time. Every character has voicelines associated with it, and they have been playing frequently since last October.
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What makes it worse is its an ego booster to those who think they’re doing good and clown on their teammates because they’re not doing “as good” as they are. I played a game with a rein who would charge in alone, get 2 lucky kills and go on fire then blame the team for not healing him when he was way behind enemy lines making it impossible to heal him
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Gaining fire charge for healing and killing an enemy that’s already on fire isn’t a good design.
I can set Symmetra Turrets and kill many on fire enemies and become the best player of the match (based on the fire systems)
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Dude who cares about this stupid Feature anyway
it must be easy to get on fire, because badplayers wouldn t be able to. new blizz excludes nobody, everybody can be on fire here, and yeah, its nothin special anymore
There’s 2 levels of on fire now, so getting on fire is easier but getting the “blazing” version is still difficult
bap was perma on fire before ow2, alot of heroes could maintain and keep it for a long time. it seems like theyve better adjusted it imo
dead gaem devs trying to excite you to buy dem meme passes
Yeah, it definitely needs some work. I blocked a Bastion grenade with my shield as Rein and that put me on fire. Another example is, I shot all 3 Sym turrets as Mercy and that put me on fire too, for some reason.
I’m glad they brought it back, and potentially, the changes they’ve made to it are cool, but yeah; right now you can get “on fire” status for doing next to nothing.
Yeah it def needs some tweaking. Get a team kill and suddenly the entire winning team is blazing. And fire to blazing seems to be just a moment’s difference.
Probably still needs tuning from the extra sources towards fire they’ve added. But it for sure should feel more rare and therefore rewarding.
It’s very frequent because you earn it, but most importantly lose it, very quickly.