Push is miserable

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The new mode Push has potential, but right now it feels like walking/trickling/staggering simulator. It makes me never want to play any hero that isn’t super mobile, because the walk back to the fight is so long. Getting sent to spawn in Push as Zen/Bap/Ana means the next 30 seconds will be uneventful, plus, god forbid, there’s a Sombra spawn camping you.

The spawns need fixed. It’s weird to me that your team can push the robot 50+ meters into the enemy’s territory and you’re still spawning in the original spawn room.

Push has not been well-received by the community, and I think the lack of excitement is a big reason. I don’t play this game to walk around, Blizzard, please speed up this mode.

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Yes. Most games where one team can’t quite push to the end but still has advantage end up being walking simulators with Robot running back and forth through half the map.

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I don’t care much for Push maps.

I’d rather have altered versions of the 2CP maps back.

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You do not have to push the bot until the end to win. Most high level player only push it as far as getting the bot camp at an advantage position they can hold.

Each mode actually has a purpose:

  • Control Point: Learn to Attack and Hold Point
  • Payload: Learn to Attack / Learn to Defend
  • Push: Learn to Retreat
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Who cares what pros do? Playing this mode with randoms is awful. It turns into TDM.

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yeah the problem isnt that I don’t understand the mode lol. The problem is the mode is structured poorly, which leads to boring, unorganized gameplay

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Push is really bad - it doesn’t feel competitive - it feels like a battle of mental attrition - with the added caveat of a horrible end game which leaves too much to chance.

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It would of been great for OW1. In OW2 its trash and the other modes are way better. Push is a bunch of 1v1.

It really sucks as a healer as you are constantly back line by heroes who arent really supposed to be able to do that.

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And this is why the match turns into a loss. People need to start working together as a team instead of just staggering and zugging their way in.

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2CP might actually be much more looser and engaging in 5v5 - don’t know why they didn’t consider that, or at least, give it a chance.

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It’s in the Arcade rotation. Still terrible but maybe because it’s Arcade.

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The current push mode is bad.
The push maps are horrendous.

Why thy decided add this? Give me back Hanamura and Volskaya!

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I actually like the push maps a lot. They’re really pretty I think. I don’t like the enough to want to spend half the game strolling back from spawn though

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I can agree but it needs a hell of a lot of more tweeking - not every mode needs to take 100 years - maybe it could be more dynamic and sped up x2 - better spawns - etc

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Not 30 seconds!

I feel like push is just too long of a match. By the half way mark you usually know how its going to go

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Push makes me think about my position a lot , cause I really don’t want to walk back from spawn.

I’m waiting for players to realize it’s better to let the other team get the robot when you have the advantage.

It way easier to attack the bot than it is to defend it.

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I hope they change it so that when the robot is left unattended for 5-10 seconds it starts walking back to the center (much like payload slowly rolls backward). I think that would fix, or at least help the problem of walking back and forth with the robot.

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People throw on it unconsciously

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I don’t understand posts like this.

Every game mode is a walking, trickling, staggering simulator for 95% of the player base. Why? Because most people are willingly bad at PVP games and they genuinely don’t care.

I like Push and the only time I ever see anyone complain about it is just on these forums which as we all know doesn’t even represent 1% of the possible player base at this point.

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That’s as as bad design as 2cp, even worse if the win state is trying to get the timer reach zero.

This is just a two way payload with worse mechanics

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