There are people that hope it’s something they plan on fixing. Hope is the one thing that keeps people holding on.
When you break people’s hope, people find bigger reasons to quit.
Ouch that sucks. Too bad for them, it aint gonna stop until it happens or when OW dies and shuts down.
Complaining about being sick of 6v6 threads are only giving people reason to debate about it.
I’d rather them do the AMA’s here in their own forums. It’s an insult to need to go to a 3rd party source to get game information.
based.
they might not want the broad audience to see all the “6v6” or “revert overwatch 2” or “tank is miserable” threads or in general, all the takes that are coming from long time overwatch fans and people that arguably have a deep understanding of the game it once was in it’s glory days.
The broad audience is already quite well aware of the issues in game from countless Youtube videos relating to the issues the game currently has.
I think the real reason it was done there, was the ability to shut down questions they didn’t want to answer, and to have more of a back and forth feel to the thread.
I really, really miss developer updates. I really, really miss the videos Jeff would release going over the state of the game monthly. While those were mostly cherry picked on content as well, at least we got to see the issues all at once, and converse about it in the forums, and have Jeff actually pop into threads to participate.
Heck, I miss forum interaction with the company. Used to, if something got hot on the forums, there’d be someone ‘official’ to pass it off to the devs, etc. Now, it’s all falling on deaf ears. The only thing that sees any action these days in the forum is the ‘Report Bot’.
If you stand still as any of those characters aside from Widow you die, so that doesn’t even make sense.
Reaper, for a long long time, has just obliterated anyone he gets close to aside from a select few who have escape abilities. If he gets in your face, you’re dead, and it’s relatively easy for him to do so. It was even worse for the tank, he ate most of them for free if he got near.
Now he doesn’t obliterate tanks just by being next to them and has to work a bit harder like the rest of the cast has always had to to kill them, rather than just picking Reaper and decimating the tank over and over.
You’re missing the point of the response. Its satirization of your claim of “press w and left click”. If he were as strong as you claim he is, he would be picked a lot more than tracer or sojourn across the ranks.
basically nothing will change and we will continue the awful cycle of counterswapping and bad balance.
yup that last patch was all they got to “save” tank in 5v5. it didn’t work so now then just ignore them again
They’ve absolutely butchered this game. It’s not surprising they cherry pick the comments
Listen, I’m all for Reaper getting help. But don’t make an enemy out of tank players. Tanks are generally in bad boats, as well. Look at Rein.
THE DEVELPER ama was sucesss. now i know that the game will die 100% with this team balance
The original post antagonizes Reaper players, both overtly and subversively (when implying there are heroes getting buffs who don’t need them and the immediately commenting on gold Reaper players).
I don’t go out of my way to antagonize heroes in poor spots unless I fundamentally disagree with the character’s gimmicky nature (in which case, I recommend reworks, not a constant state of unplayability).
This was answered.
Again, I didn’t want to antagonize reaper, I like Reaper, he was one of the most fun dps chars to play for me in OW1 (coming from an Ex-Rein player)
It’s just that one flawed hero shouldn’t be opposed to an entire flawed role or format.
ow has been available and played, long enough for devs and veteran players to know the common average damage per 10 in competitive non rigged matchups. 1000 damage per minute equals effective productivity. the issue isn’t balancing. the issue excessively underpowered heros and failure to fully deactivate rigging. balancing means nothing since rigging isn’t fully deactivated.
Reaper wants mentioned in the OP.
I’m aware. Simply clarifying for the person’s statements on my initial comment.
He was, at the bottom of the post. 3rd paragraph.
Tanks? Catered to? Six seasons of tanks ruling? What an absolute joke. Supports ruled this game from season 2 up until the dps passive was added and thats when dps took over. all tanks had was season 1.
Reaper got his death blossom damage buffed recently
Not to mention there was a zarya reaper meta AND a kiri reaper winston meta in ow2
Spreading misinformation on here should be a reportable offense
pretty much. they doubled down on perma stealth. that’s honestly worth dropping the game for.
Fairly certain Ramattra dominated the next 2 seasons and Hog also dominated a few as well. So did Orisa and Mauga. There was a Winston meta at the start of OW2, as well as a Ball meta. Zarya was meta around the same time Orisa was. D.va had a good few patches as well. JQ is currently pretty strong and so is Doom.
Only character I can’t remember a meta for was Rein, but that’s because he doesn’t fit the format. All of the tanks had their time in the sun where as Reaper was only ever viable with a double pocket (in which he was still not even close to the best option to go).
It’s not misinformation. Ironically you would be banned if that was the case.
Reaper’s ultimate was not “buffed,” it was scaled up to what it was in the previous patch. As a matter of fact, it is actually weaker than it was before by like 15% in a damage to health ratio.
And if your talking about the 12% change to ultimate charge, that’s equally as useless. Reaper using his ult costs him his life since everyone has either CC, mobility, or damage to instantly kill him before doing anything for an ult that takes a miracle to set up, let alone pull off.
And that meta was only ever used in proleague where coordination was practiced every day. Not to mention he still had to have 3 characters pocketing him for him to be effective, so I wouldn’t really call that a “Reaper meta.”
I wish they’d revert his spread and recoil, too. He was more balanced when he wasn’t firing a laser of bullets like he is now.
The AMA was only ever going to be fluff, anybody expecting anything of actual value were deluding themselves.