S18 Is By Far The WORST Update

You have done NOTHING to fix the problems of this game Blizzard, and somehow only made things dramatically worst with your cowardice to address numerous major issues that are ruining both the game its community.

People have complained about the horrible amount of cheating regarding KB+M on console (which you said yourself is in fact against your TOS on numerous occasions), but instead decided to match them with PC players? A big issue is that your incompetence couldn’t even identify blatantly obvious XIM users, and so now you think these users are suddenly going to be found out and matched with those of us on PC? As if we want them with us? Are you serious? You’re slapping a bandaid on something that is way out of your league, and hoping people wouldn’t notice. But, no. It’s clear as day. And not only that, let’s keep in mind that people use mice on console to gain an advantage against controller in 99.9% of scenarios. Not for accessibility reasons. So, what exactly is your real motive here?

You did NOTHING to address the issues with: Sombra, Doomfist, Wrecking Ball, Roadhog, Widowmaker, Freja, Sojourn, and Ana ruining the game due to garbage balancing. But, instead somehow made things worse by going and nerfing the wrong heroes.

You did NOTHING addressing the trolls and griefers, who go and throw in people’s games. Ultimately ruining the experience of the game as a whole. But, you still have “Leaver Penalties” in Quickplay and Arcade matches. Forcing players to endure their bs, or take penalties from not wanting to be subjected to neither trolls or your heavily flawed matchmaking.

And on the topic of matchmaking, you somehow made that even worse. Here’s an idea. Stop making blog posts to gaslight people into thinking how your matchmaking works, and actually introduce genuine SBMM (skill-based matchmaking). Because no, you’re not doing that. And you have repeatedly lied about how your matchmaking works for years on end, and only when called out enough by enough big names call yourself addressing some flaws that somehow got overlooked.

We aren’t falling for your lies Blizzard. Stop telling lies, and gaslighting your players. And give us a properly working system that pairs players together. Because no, we don’t believe you. And the proof is right there for ANYONE who does play your game at what it is that you’re really doing.

You have done NOTHING to deal with the amount of people who sit there, and harass people day in and day out in the text and voice chats. Saying some of the most horrific and hateful things to people with no consequence at all, but you can go and punish someone for asking somebody to switch. Or for telling them to stop throwing. Again. The problem is NOT going away. It never has gone away. And nor will your toxicity problem go ahead, until you stop being so obsessed with your public image (which is already ruined by gamers for the most part across PC and console), and money. And actually take the time needed to give people a quality atmosphere and environment that encourages players for being kind to each other. And for calling out malicious players, and those partaking in bad behavior in your lobbies. Or in other words, finally weeding out the trolls and griefers looking to gain amusement at the expense of another player’s game experience.

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Did they add penalties to the arcade?
They haven’t had any there until now at least.

Report and mute.

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Every season seems to be the worst.

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It should be a bannable offense in my opinion even though I really wanted to tell this negative Venture to get the hell on a second support because our poor Wuyang was struggling a bit on account of them being the only support and everything…

But yeah, I wasn’t willing to swap either (mostly because I was trying to cash out progression levels in the event that they patch this out later), so I kept my mouth shut.

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Yes, so far no patch has ever improved anything and only made things worse.

The stuff they’ve done that are “good” are all just reverts of things back to how they were in OW1 after changing/reworking them in OW2.

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Something I’ve never understood is how the matchmaker was basically fine in OW1. Rarely did I ever play with/against people outside of my rank (only when I was close to ranking up).

But these days most of my games span across three ranks.

Surely there are more people playing today than there was late stage OW1?

They definitely aren’t being completely honest with how it all works

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They have addressed it and otherwise they cant do much more.

Fair point, but most of them are not even close to being META or a problem in 90% of the game. Unfun? Yes. Problem? Not really.

Report them. Nothing much they can do.

It will never get better, because of the nature of hero shooters. Please accept that or move on.

Report them. The system is quite effective.

I really wish you and others who say to report someone would realize just how ridiculous you sound. It has been PROVEN for how many years now that reporting people for the things that they should be reported for does nothing. And you shills keep parroting the same nonsense, as if it is going to change.

Also, did you or did you not forget that Blizzard cares more about money than they do having a quality game? Like seriously, go tell that bs to somebody who doesn’t know any better. You keep drinking the Kool-Aid, buying battle passes, and enabling these people to keep doing what they do. I’m not doing it. I’m going to keep calling them out on what is super obvious, and right in front of us.

Probably larger player pool, and maybe now its a lot easier to create accounts, back then it was a box price for the game.

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They’ve not done anything about the players who literally sit and cry and moan about every little thing that mildly inconveniences them either.

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Both match with the same thing. MMR, so technically, nothing has changed.

Back then however, your rank and MMR didn’t align, hence getting bigger jumps in SR at certain points.

Now, MMR and Rank are mirrored.

In short. I doubt you are actually seeing any real difference on a purely numbers basis. Just remembering a recent bad experience more than the good.

Hey, that’s a lot of words!

Too bad I’m not reading them!

I’m guessing you just went on a rant and didn’t bother to read the patch notes?

They reworked hog into a terrible version of his earlier self. He is much weaker than he was.

They nerfed sojourn health (ok, her damage is the problem, but they got the right hero at least).

They will never nerf Ana in a meaningful way to make tanking more fun so no point even asking for that one.

They will never nerf Freja’s real issue, her damage, beyond what they have already done. They gave her a perk to buff her movement and make her even less interactable by most heroes. Trust me, they know what they’re doing :smiley:

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I don’t know if this is bait, sarcasm, or what. But, what I do know is that a lot of these issues we’re having shouldn’t be issues to begin with. With some heroes not even belonging in a game like Overwatch, because they break the fundamental rules of the game itself (i.e. Freja).

But, I suppose that goes back to my original point of them just not caring anymore about genuine hero balance. As it is clearly a hot mess at the moment. And it doesn’t take someone who is a game developer to see these glaring flaws, although other game developers who do play Overwatch 2 have managed to call them out on their bizarre balance design.

I hate this patch. They ruined stadium, the more heroes they add the worse it gets. Draft is awful mirror match ups should be allowed especially when Stadium goes through multiples metas. What are you supposed to do when the enemy team picks first and goes hard meta and you can do nothing about it. Winston is so incredibly strong in stadium its an instant win for whoever gets to pick him first. Hes a terrible hero to add in Stadium and I dont know why the dev team over buffs him whens hes already a strong hero. I mean who decide to make an item that says if Winston wins a round he gets $2000 cash are you serious???. The last two season all ive played is Stadium because it was so fun but its only gotten worse. Remove drafts and remove or atleast nerf Winstons powers on there. Why can he have a suzu every 4 seconds?

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If they are ximming with KBM, they will not show up in PC pools. The game will still think they’re on controller, and give them controller lobbies. There are no negatives to PC players here.

All the heroes that were nerfed were nerfed rightfully. In fact, very little was changed with base kits, other than Cass, Weaver, Soj, Ram, and Hog. I will say that Soj should not have gotten any compensation, though.

Citation needed.

anyone care to translate to unga bunga for wally, no way in hell im reading all that

This is why I ban her in every comp match up. It is the only way to make tanking fun.

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I like the idea this forum gives every season is the worst season.
I know I know, Season 19 will be even worst.

We keep saying “report it” because there is nothing else you can do without risking getting reported yourself.

It doesn’t make one a “shill” when they stick to facts, and the fact is that you can report and mute them while hoping that something happens.
Or you can just give up on hoping that anything will ever happen.

You should still mute the offenders for your own sake.

I thought it was “chocolate” milkshake that wasn’t supposed to be drank.

If you call anything out mid game, you will risk trolls reporting you.
I wouldn’t risk that, but you do you.