Im sorry, but when I look at stuff like this, “balanced game” is not the first thing I think of.
Your common sense and logic is not appreciated. Game balance is flawless (unless you comp lol).
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And here I am looking my main hero Reaper and finally find him just above bastion. Crap game.
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Agreed. Also not just saying it because my Torbjorn is right above your Reaper.
#dwarvesrule
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We’re entering a potential Hanzo, Zarya and Brigitte meta. Reinhardt can synergise well with Brigitte if the team has Brigitte. Zenyatta is probably there to try and help reduce the damage/nullify offensive ultimate abilities with Transcendance, plus he’s also handy for helping the DPS. Mercy’s ‘on fire’ is somewhat broken, the opposite of Brigitte and Hanzo, but her consistent beam, high mobility and clunky resurrect on an unearned 30 second cooldown are what keeps her in the game despite her ultimate being somewhat on the weak side of being unable to potentially make a big game-making play. She’s also a hero that the Overwatch team are trying to ignore negative feedback on, in their minds they see it as a completely successful rework when it hasn’t been.
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Looking at Soldier’s pickrate below Symmetra makes me laugh but also makes me sad.
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Link? I don’t see it in Overbuff
posts like this anger me for a number of reasons…mostly because people THINK they are actually pointing to relevant data…
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tanks and healers are REQUIRED in comp…and you have a much smaller selection to choose from…ie you have a much higher chance of them being in your team than dps…in this case 5 of the 6 most played characters are either a tank or healer…and the other is hanzo which brings me to point 2…
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you have a comp season where 2 heroes were essentially introduced…new hanzo and brigitte…so they are also much more likely to be played just because they are the “new” thing…and people will play around that…lets not forget that zarya was invisible a month ago…now shes at the top of the boards…thats not balancing to you?
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you sarcastically claim the rest of the characters are unbalanced when youre data clearly shows that they are all roughly played at the same rate…somewhere between 4 and .5 % of the time (thats hardly a difference mind you)…
ill make 2 observations:
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youd make a much better point if you compared tanks to tanks and healers to healers etc…for example reinhardt (who incidently is broken if you listen to forums) has wayyyy more representation than Orisa…
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get the thought of ideal balance out of your head…it is IMPOSSIBLE in a game like this…some characters will always simply shine more than others…there are too many variables to take into account…in fact this IS the most balanced this game has ever been…you no longer HAVE to dive…you can pretty much do whatever you like now…
the game is fun…enjoy it for what it is…
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This has to be the ridiculous thing I have ever read on the forums. No lie.
Balancing the game is 110% possible.
Hire me for 6 months. Guaranteed I could make it better.
There is always going to be a “meta”. Sure.
But the gap between “meta” and “off meta” is so insane.
Also, if other games with more heroes can be balanced, there is 100% NO excuse for something like this.
I couldn’t disagree more with you.
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Oh wow, a giant pile on numbers with no headers or context. What a useful graphic.
/s
In other words, can you provide some context for what you’re talking about?
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then why hasnt it happened yet? you really think blizz couldnt have done this by now? theyre just that incompetent huh?
new character every 3 months…throws off everything…
the balance depends on which map you play…
you change one character and it also affects 3 others cause of counterplay…
you cant “balance” this game man…there are simply too many variables…people dont even know what balance even means…just look at mercy…shes the quintessential broken character…and shes still one of most played…
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Unsurprising. (20 char.)
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This is the first time they have ever released a FPS. I honestly don’t think they have a good grasp on how to balance this game yet.
Again, I just don’t agree with you. There are other games out there that are more balanced than this with just as many variables.
Heck… even HotS is more balanced than this.
They have it in them to balance it, they just don’t know how.
Im telling you. Overwatch CAN BE balanced.
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You need to see reason in the potential.
They have the assets. The talent. The workspace. The employee numbers. They have what most other gaming companies would consider the ideal paradise for creating and working on a game. Maybe I’m going to far but regardless. They have the means to do so.
You also really need to explain why patches come by only once every month or other month. Yet you explain that excuse with a cosmetic skin? Literally adding some polygons over a preexistinf hitbox with some color. Thats the excuse here?
They can do just that and yet in two years we ger some of the same bug messes and inbalanced mechanics that still reside ingame? Its been two years. They could do a lot. This is why people are now asking for less cosmetics and more patches to the gaming experience.
But then again judging from your responses, we other people have no right to be concerned about what we invested in.
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Couldn’t have said it better
And whos fault is that? we are the ones that pick them, we are the ones doing the same strategies, the same characters and one trick most of them.
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rip soldier: died of old age
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Lol you could have. There was a lot of typos.
Because no balance changes are happening and the game has absolutely 0 dev support.
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Players pick the heroes, but the balance team decides which heroes are worth picking.
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