Reducing in-game downtime might go too far in the future

[Øliviamanią-1737]

I’m actually very very curious about why noone highlighted this.

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – March 12, 2020

• The initial Assemble Heroes timer for games using the Assault, Hybrid, Control, and Payload game modes has been further reduced from 35 to 30 seconds
• In the Assault, Payload, and Hybrid game modes for Competitive Play, when both teams complete a round of offense and have more than 2 minutes of time bank then each team’s time bank is equally reduced until one of the teams has a 2 minutes remaining
  • Example: If Team A completes a round of offense on Volskaya with 4:37 remaining in their time bank, and Team B completes their round on offense with 2:50 remaining, then 50 seconds is removed from each team’s timebank. This leaves the teams tied 2-2 and Team A with 3:47 remaining and Team B with 2:00 remaining

Currently, it’s acceptable, especially the prep time reduction.

But eventually it might make each individual game too short to make the outcome more dependant on variance than consistent performance.

P.S. In case u guys are wonder why they did this, I would be 80% sure that it is to reduce average time per game by reducting downtime and multiple rounds happening. The problem is, that queue time going down is just surface lvl and the ratio between game length and queue time won’t change.

[AdderallBoy-1208]

I think they are standardizing 2CP to be shorter which I don’t mind at all.

Although, some teams needs lots of time to even get to the point on 2CP. So it will weed out tanks with poor gamesense.

[EldFennel-1614]

It’s Anubis. You cap both points in a minute. Your opponent takes 2.

You’re time bank of 7 minutes gets reduced to 3. Your opponent gets 2. No more 8-8 Drawnubis. You will might still draw, but it won’t take like 40 minutes to get through it to gain 0 SR.

[Øliviamanią-1737]

I think they are standardizing 2CP to be shorter which I don’t mind at all.

Me neither. But problem of 2cp is spawn-point/choke distance, imo. Shortening game length would prob make it even worse. And…

So it will weed out tanks with poor gamesense.

That’s a huge variance issue. So yep.

Your time bank of 7 minutes gets reduced to 3. Your opponent gets 2. No more 8-8 Drawnubis. You will might still draw, but it won’t take like 40 minutes to get through it to gain 0 SR.

I mean, it’s frustrating for sure, and imo the current change is fine. But if queue time is still complained about, I fear they might go too far on those and start stiring up the balance of said mode.