Yes, the same mechanic works when Mercy āstealā the POTG, you will get kill assist from your discord. But it does not change the situation in general most POTGs are given for killstreaks so they encourage certain gameplay and therefore favors the DPS players as they are dedicated to kill enemies while tanks and supports have other jobs to do.
No it will not solve the general issue. The POTGs for kills give DPS players huge advantage on getting some because DPS only task is to kill enemies while tanks and supports main task is to keep others alive. So there should be role specific POTGs for tanks and supports because current POTGs are role specific for DPS and there will no be 33% equality between role POTGs in current system.
This was suggested in the comments earlier but I donāt think that it will help to solve the issue if will be used with current POTG selection algorithm. We need POTG selection algorithm that would value DPS kill jobs and tank/support save jobs at the same rate picking the best one for POTG. Currently POTGs for pure tank/support jobs that will not involve kills are almost impossible.
Those are pretty nice POTGs but they still involve killing people. Moira POTG was not pure support you can see that she got kill in kill feed. Pure tank/support POTGs are important because otherwise DPS would get more POTGs just because they dedicated to kill enemies while tanks and supports have other jobs to do.
Unfortunately many people donāt understand what I meant. It is hard for DPS players and even for some tank/support players to understand what POTG is when you receive it just for pressing Q. They think that we want tank and support POTGs for pressing Q too.
This is why i believe they should include dynamic POTG with duos and trio combos example: Ana nano Genji and the camera changes to him and he does the rest or something like that.
Dude if you go hard as tanks youāll get potg, I get them all the timeā¦ and Iām not saying that to brag as I only play QP, but still, the game will reward you if it was a truly game changing play.
If thereās someway other than youtube to post POTGās here (anyone know?) Iāll reply back and post some of mineā¦ theyāre really not hard to come by.
Geoff:āThereās a plan to do what weāre calling Play of the Game 2.0,ā he said. āItās been on the books for a little while. Itās just a matter of prioritizing everything. We have a lot of really cool ideas. We want to do a lot with the camera work. We have ideas for cooperative Play of the Games. Because what we have right now, is Zarya could ult, and then Genji gets the credit. And thatās like, āCome on!āā
āSo we want to highlight the combo play itself, to show both,ā he added. āThereās some tricky things there, like how do we handle Play of the Game intros, and how do we decide who gets credit.ā
No thanks.
Iām not trying to sound rude, but Iām not interested in seeing POTGās. And this thread is about talking about POTG discrimination and not to share POTGās.
Also, you can upload your POTGās on streamable.com. Itās easier to share.
Didnāt know they talked about it sounds great tho. Loved the part where he says that heroes would even interact between themselves with each team potg.
Iām still proud of my 1v3 with Ana one day. I get it, D.Va pressed Shift and Q, but maybe a support getting a triple kill should be taken into account with the POTG algorithm.
I have seen numerous Lucio and Zen potgās. You donāt get the 10 second ego lifting video for kills, but for points (which are rewarded from kills, but also from other stuff too)
Fun fact:
Mercyās POTG chances are tied to what a resurrected teammate does. So if a reaper got a triple kill after getting POTG, will Mercy get POTG.
If only Ana had a similar system.
But yes, the POTG system needs to look at support heroes different than DPSāers.
Also now remembering it, didnāt everyone hate how mercy used to get potg for huge rez? Wasnāt that one of the factors as to why mercy was reworked?