honestly, they could just remove ults altogether and retrofit them as minor abilities. like how mercy 6 rez…is now an ability that rezz’s one player. its not as if higher elo’s need soldier, mcree, tracer, dva bomb, bob, etc ults anyway…their aim/skill does the majority of the heavy lifting.
most of the game your supports have to be ultra aware that the next dps ultimate is going to wipe your team…and its just not very fun to play with that in the back of your mind…like playing battleroyal games…running over a flat open field hoping you dont get hs by a sniper.
Ultimates make it easier to turn a losing fight. Think about defending a 2cp map and the enemy team get a pick first push. Almost guaranteed you lose that right cuz YOU don’t have ults. Imagine if you had trance or beat, you hold. Imagine if you had dragon blade or grav. That 5 vs 6 becomes a 5 vs 2-3 pretty quick.
Ultimates are fundamental to Overwatch. I wouldn’t mind tweaking the charge rate etc. like HITSTICK wrote but removing them altogether would simply make a new game.
At least ult tracking is relatively easy. It’s pretty hard to miss when one’s used. Ult tracking and cool down tracking are just part of the game, even if it doesn’t happen much in lower tiers.
I think a lot of people would care if you removed ultimates totally. Just like they would care if all cool down abilities were removed.
Other than playing in fear as a support, why do you hate ultimates so much?
Sure, some ults aren’t as reliable or effective as others. But to suggest high ranked players don’t need them is very naive. Part of the skill you claim they have is knowing when and how to use their ultimate ability. One of the things high ranked payers always say about low ranks is that they misuse and waste ultimates too much.
Some alts need nerfed while some need a boost. BOB is just OP right now, Dva bomb its OK, Hanzo its OK just wished it would not be the only one to penetrate a wall. Orisa’s ult is just stupid.
For the most part they’ll have ult advantage once they capture the point first on 2cp. It actually showcases how annoying ults can be as they further raise the chances for the team that wins the first engagement.
Unless your tank just sucks at blocking damage and people aren’t totally wasting them, ultimates are an indication of the better team. The better team has more ultimates because they’re winning more fights.
Ultimates are fun and I hope they aren’t changed. Back in season 2-3 or whenever they nerfed the charge rate, that was a bummer. But I’m a masters player and I get that ults were coming online too quickly at higher levels of play. Even now if I was a GM/t500 stream I’m kind of blown away how often people are ulting
Really we just need more ults that funcion as counters to ults.
Its one of the reasons why I always believed mass ress was important for the game not feeling like a q fest.
Even increasing charge rate would only make it even more important to save and stack ults to push through the enemy.
Im not saying bring mass ress back (even tho im not opposed to it lol) but we need ults to be counter ults. Rn, we have more basic abilities that shut down ults than actual ultimates, and we have some ult combos that are near unstoppable (hanzo zarya fiasco wouldnt have been the beast it was if mass ress was a thing, and at the very least would require more coordination to pull off without it getting countered for example).
As it is now, you feel bad if your ult gets countered by a basic ability and you feel like crap when your team gets wiped by ults with what feels like very little to no counterplay.
Well to be blunt, dps don’t need anymore power to kill than their basic kit. I don’t see how skill is relevant to ultimates. Consider how unfolds it is that support s or tanks can get killed by did ultimates, when their kit is already designed to help them kill. Tanks Kira’s are neutered from being able to kill… And the their ultimates only do a stun…how is that fun…same for supports… Basic skill set is designed around utility or healing… And so is are the ultimates…it’s like only dps can have fun. And tanks and supports enable them… And then they get a potg…for pressing q…consider how often tanks or supports even get potg…and how hard you have to work to get it.
Some of us dgaf about potg. I play tank and heal and really enjoy the game. I totally disagree that only DPS get to have fun. If all you want to do is shoot people and not use an ultimate ability you can always play CoD.