Overwatch needs more heroes. We’ve only gotten 6 new heroes in the span of 2 years, and there should be more. As of the moment, Blizzard releases 3 heroes a year. That needs to increase to 4 or 5. Instead of putting more heroes out, Blizzard focuses on maps and other pointless things. Maps are fun and all, but they don’t provide the depth that a new hero does. A new hero releases and suddenly you have hours upon hours of learning, experimenting, and excitement. A new map releases, you play it for little and then you get bored. For Christ’s sake, you can’t even pick the map you play. So it’s kinda ridiculous that we get 15 maps and only 6 heroes in 2 years. Second, we have too little heroes. We only have 27 heroes. This would be all fine and dandy, but the lack of heroes means that one hero (cough cough Brigitte) can unnecessarily influence the whole freaking game. This also creates a situation where a handful of specific heroes get picked every game and there is just no variety anymore. The game just loses its flavor. Third, more new heroes will keep players coming back to the game. Like mentioned before, a new map or game mode might keep some players entertained for a while, but soon they get tired of it. New heroes would be a different story. Not saying that Blizzard should add like 20 heroes at the same time, just that they should add 1 or 2 more heroes to their yearly schedule. Anywho, that’s just my opinion ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
It’s not so much that it needs more heroes, it needs more hero roles. Right now, dps all fall under flank, anti-flank or sniper. There’s not much room to manoeuvre between those roles.
Balancing by adding new heroes into the game or reworking existing ones to counter old ones is a pretty backwards way of balancing IMHO since you aren’t actually balancing the game as a whole but rather making certain characters relevant for a duration of time until new reworks/new characters come to replace those characters.
Which unforunately is the problem a lot of eSport games game, not naming any names of course. But yeah releasing heroes too quickly puts way too much pressure on the balancing team and community as a whole.
They’re having trouble making decent heroes with the slow release pace anyway, which is why we get garbage heroes like Brigitte and Moira, and unfixed, buggy heroes like Sombra and Doomfist, so adding more will be even more of a nightmare.
I just hope they actually make interesting heroes. The last few have been very uninspiring even though some are fun to play.
Also it is ironic how this game was hyped as having a lot of heroes yet, a f2p game beat them on that.
Depends on the level of play, at the highest tiers they will always play the most optimal heroes so even if there were 100 heroes you would probably only see the same 10 rotated.
At the lower ranks it swings the other way to many heroes can mean that you could end up with entire 6 man teams of dps players because people pick their favourite hero over creating any kind of team comp.
I do agree with op though, 4 heroes a year would be a good idea albeit a strain on the development team as I, as a player mainly come back to play overwatch when there is a new hero.
New heroes are better for player retention however frequent events and new skins are better for revenue, there is a very delicate balance
I’m not saying that we should balance overpowered heroes by adding newer heroes to balance that. That’s exactly what Blizzard did with Brigitte (to counter the dive meta). And that didn’t work well. I’m saying that because of the small amount of heroes, an overpowered hero can easily take over the game. By all means the op heroes should be balanced traditionally through nerfs and stuff but more heroes would prevent situations like this in the first place.
The game needs a lot more heroes so when they do balance changes they’re right the first time imo. They’ll have more factors to balance it against.
I’d much prefer a balanced output of heroes and maps than an oversaturation of heroes on the same maps over and over
Honestly think they needs to change the game up completely. Go crazy add 3 new heros…add 3 new maps… add a new comp mode. it feels very very stale atm. Yes I know it’s free content… but they obviously are in it for th long haul (league etc) with some strong titles coming out its a matter of when its going to die out. I think this expansion rumour could be its saving grace, recycling old events doesn’t cut it… the summer games 18 was panned and sonwill be the upcominh halloween event
The world could always use more heroes.
I think that’s what you meant to say