To all the support mains out there, sorry your role isn’t necessarily meant to be in a small-team FPS like this. Battlefield is where you belong and barely in that tbh since health regenerates back over time anyways.
If Bobby wants OWL to succeed and win back some players that transferred to Valorant because they lost passion for Overwatch, the ONLY viable option is to finally kill the support role. It enabled the goat meta, it’s the very reason Hog got nerfed too hard, it’s frustrating to work around in terms of balance in general, it’s about time to move on for the health of the game.
1 Juggernaut, 4 Damage is the only way this game will succeed. Give every tank 1,000 HP, and let the bloodbath begin. Remove escort, it’s long and stale, keep push, it’s confusing but it’s similar to Control (KOTH) just the point is constantly in motion, also add in 5v5 team deathmatch. First team to 100 picks within 10 minutes wins. Cut respawn times in half for all modes. Boom, now the game becomes the better version of Valorant, triumphs over Paladins (which it already does, more like curb stomps it at this point), and becomes the best fastest paced, team-based, hero shooter, FPS w/ moba like elements to ever and will ever exist.
There’s a reason why Valorant is more streamed, more played, and more loved despite being less polished and a generic counter strike remake, giving none of the “agents” a true personality. Overwatch promotes hero switching, keep that identity but make the game fun. Win back over those who left, make Sinattra finally cry because he deserves to not be relevant anywhere anymore and enjoy the successes. Bobby Kotick, this is how you build a game.
Bonus if you hire a team of mods to ban everyone wanting 6v6 or supports back. They should go play WoW if they wanna healbot anyways.
All hot takes, OWL was so trash and boring to watch that season and honestly every other season was stupidly slow paced and boring.
The game has potential to be the best game again. There’s a reason why in 2016 it won GOTY. Open queue was majority dps with 1 tank sometime and maybe 1 mercy on a rare occasion. Those were the GOOD days.
Goats and Role queue was the slow poison that would kill this game but I would still implement role queue, just change the format. Increases queue times by 100%, removes the trash part of the fan base that don’t deserve to play FPS (all supports) and makes the game run so much faster and better.
Speaking with a business sided mind, OWL and OW2 in general would attract way more talent if they did what I just listed. Nobody cares about support mains. Let them go back to playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
Its so weird seeing someone say OW is too slow, then comparing it to the molasses crap shoot that is Valorant.
If anything, people don’t watch OW since they can’t follow what’s going on. Valorant is slow enough that people can follow it like the other slow physical sports.
Just like the rest of OWL, streamers, and even commentators…?
Each tank with 1,000 HP, with a touch of 10-20% more damage output, and it becomes a dream to play.
Notice how it’s only the support icon players responding to this. You toxic bunch make up majority of the forums/reddits when the game stats clearly is in favor of DPS. Like I said, go pay $15 a month if you want to heal bot on WoW. Queue times for Damage is bad on there too.
yeah this is why they never should have nerfed all the moba aspects and left hitscan as the ultimate dominators. People are acting like its CoD… It’s not an fps it’s a hybrid-fps. The different roles are the whole thing, maybe you should go play a different game if you don’t like there being supports.
I don’t understand this take at all. How can league of legends run a successful e-sport league as a MOBA, how can other FPS run it successfully, but Overwatch, the hybrid of the two cannot…? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Being a hybrid can make it harder to follow.
But as I said the game wasn’t designed to be a e-sport so why change the entire game to make it one?
You want a e-sport game then design a e-sport game don’t force a existing game into something its not.
Going 1-4-0?
Then why not 0-3-0 and just remove all healers and tanks just keep sojourn widow and soldier76.
Then why is there even a competitive mode if e-sports wasn’t a goal? Literally the game contradicts itself. No wonder all the memes had Overwatch players as “non-existent”.
I’m sorry but I don’t think this’ll work out. I like supports in the game and enjoy playing it. I’m fine if all supports became “off” supports and we no longer have main healers. But I’m not down for the removal of them just so we can have a death match game.
