BUMP BUMP BUMP. Or at the VERY LEAST make map pools COMP ONLY. Idk whose bright idea it was to force pools on quick play.
Even though I would want map pools to be gone all together I wouldn’t mind this if QP & Arcade are unaffected.
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I’m the first guy to cheer at 2cp being gone, but having said that (actually, because of that), the game really doesn’t need good maps taken out even from quick play (!), especially for some utterly arbitrary reason like “season identity”.
The “season identity” is greek mythology. There, I solved it, can I play on Gibraltar now?
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Go away map pools. It’s just lame af.
If they’re concerned about new players use your “First Time User Experience” to ease them in. Don’t force them on me who has been playing most of these maps for years.
I just want to queue in and have as much variety as possible in both comp and QP
While we’re at it why not throw in all the time of day variants, that would keep it fresh for ages as 4 time variants of 22 maps would make the aesthetics feel different on a very consistent basis.
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Just make map pools a better mechanic.
Map curation is actually a wonderful tool that can add to the experience instead of being a grab bag of random options.
The issue is that the map pool lasts as long as it does with no recourse if you want to play something else.
Map pools is by far the worst, most stupid idea they’ve come up with, it’s like why dude? I don’t care about “eveyr season having its own identity”, I wanna play all the maps, I don’t wanna not play Rialto or Gibraltar for 2 months.
You wanna “shake things up”? maybe give us like nighttime gibraltar? or daytime Circuit Royale? Nighttime Ilios? that would be more than good enough to make maps feel unique that season.
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But then how would anything not be special?
EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING HAS TO FEEL SPECIAL, EVEN SESSIONS!!!
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You make it special by adding quality. I barely seen any of that in OW2.
Hey, you’re asking actual humans to do the impossible.
Careful…
If you play the same couple of modes the maps get stale really quickly. I did a “while you wait” death match and a different arcade mode with both having maps not in my usual modes. I was like Jack Skellington running around saying, “What’s this?!” It doesn’t mean that I’ll be playing those type of games in the future but it made me realize how tired I was of the same maps over and over in my usual games.
TLDR: I support no map pools. A season is a long time to have the same few maps repeated.
Arcade. 20 characters
I like playing the same set of maps in a season. Let’s you get used to them. They might seem dry to OW1 players, but for new players, it’s good to have fewer maps as well.
Bit if they add all the maps, then Push won’t be played nearly as much, and everybody loves Push right
What’s even more shocking is that they already tried to add map rotation in Overwatch and it did not work, so I have no idea why they thought it would work in Overwatch 2
I really love it when I get Queen Street in 2 out of 3 maps. Then 3 maps later I get it for 30 seconds on a backfil slot. It just makes me smile so much.
After I throw the keyboard thru the monitor.
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What map pools are you talking about? We play all maps that are available, there is no any pools.
Agreed. Map pools suck.
You serious?
???
I’m sorry, was that your attempt at sarcasm or you genuinely believe there’s no map pools in OW2?
Can you explain already?
Overwatch 2 has map pools, confirmed by Blizzard…
Maps that are not in the season 1 pool and haven’t been seen in a while due to that:
- Havana
- Rialto
- Blizzard World
- Numbani
And season 2 will have a different pool, also confirmed by Blizzard.