I won’t be quick to say that Brig gets ANOTHER nerf because OW2 will fully go the FPS direction Blizzard has been going for 3 years now due to having eSports on the mind. Which means a rework for Brig so she’d actually be effective again instead of just the 1% making the best out of such a nerfed to death character.
But if OW2 Brig doesnt get a damage buff to make up for no more stuns, then she will be completely useless.
I am thinking she might get tankier and her shield bash will knock back instead of stun.
Blizzard is finally realizing that people launch up videogames to actually play the game, not get stunned, frozen, trapped, booped, shackled, elemental imprisoned, hooked, slept, entombed. Thank God.
She’s obviously going to be well compensated for it, this isn’t some quick slap together patch
We’ll see. Its fair to keep our guard up because Blizzard nerfed Brig to death in favor of DPS hypocrites. So hearing that shield bash will be gone, of course players will have a bad feeling about it.
You should try to look at this more as a new game rather than a balance patch. A fresh start if you will.
Also get the “dps hypocrites” trash out of your head, you’ll never be happy with that attitude
I mean it’s probably less about esports and more about “Fixing queue times”.
But also just in general, a resounding “DPS is the role the overwhelming majority of the playerbase likes to play, so make the other roles more similar to that”
eSports is the priority. In fact, its why OW2’s release window is before Summer 2022, that’s why there’s that talk of the devs being told to lock in the features the game has, get them fixed & shipped. To appeaee the OWL team owners.
Well with that gone, they wont be able to keep that as a pretext to leave her to rot in the gutter anymore and actually make her the tanky healer she was meant to be.
Well yeah, but the overall DPS-ish playstyle probably has more to do with queue time issues.
There’s probably more DPS players than healer and tank players combined.
ESports doesn’t really have a queue.
Additionally, if they plan to recruit new players, they are probably primarily coming from games like Apex and Valorant.
I cant imagine how your games must look like if youre having this much trouble playing support. What I would give to see all your replays…
lol dps players really do think they should be the only ones playing the game
Sure, the queue times are another factor, the OWL is why DPS characters are so favored & never get real nerfs in the first place.
That’s definitely the plan too. After all, before Jeff left, he said and I quote,
"My personal feeling is that I would like to see less barriers and crowd-control in the game. I want to see Overwatch trend slightly more in the FPS direction, rather than the MOBA direction,”
A shame though. Overwatch was once a trendsetter. It went from being a game others wanted to be, to becoming one of the same ol’ run & gun shooters.
Honestly cant blame them when Blizzard catered to them for 3 years & counting.
“playing the game” apparently means getting easy kills as dps, and support being helpless.
So much fun!
Yes.
status effects. there is a LOT of them heh, its sorta like world of warcraft with all its status effects but in a fps game. they are neat and cool but annoying at the same time.
if they will release new heroes they will practically be all the same w/o status effects? just cookie cutter fps type heroes that run and shoot?
I hope Brig can finally become a tanky brawly support since she is losing stun. Like increase her damage so she can combo kill targets.
Double Knockback!
No stuns but Tracer gets to be OP. DPS also get a faster movement speed. Dps bias
They absolutely will not go in that direction, and that’s the problem.