So many critical issues with the game right now

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5v5 is unfixable. Ruined tank forever, hasn’t been fun since ow1. If the game is only fun for one role, then the game is in a worse condition than it ever was in 6v6

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It’s honestly pretty close to fixed.

Just solve the goofy head hitboxes, and then make Tank less frustrating.

Ez

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It’s just the recent patch. If they delete it the game will be perfect once again. Not sure how they don’t understand this.

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I’ve never seen this level of cope. Enjoy the 40 minute queues

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It’s math.

Just move the game closer to
20% Tank players, 40% DPS players, 40% Support players

It’s that simple.

Cope, is the idea that it’s easier to get 200% more Tank players, than it is to get 20% more Tank players.

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How could you say pretty close to fixed? They’ve been making drastic changes to this game up & down. Not just balance changes but complete reworks, new abilities, etc etc.

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Because I suggested most of these design changes 3 months ago.

So I got a pretty good idea of where it’s at, and where it needs to go.

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How do we know you’re not wrong though?

You’re just forum user GreyFalcon

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I don’t.
But we do know that a lot of the critics if “Overwatch isn’t fun enough”, now grudgingly admit it’s a lot more fun.

The headshot thing is an easy fix.

Next is making Tank more popular. Which could easily be solved with 30% Resistance to Negative Status effects and/or 30% Resistance to headshots. (Followed by some HP adjustments)

Beyond that it’s just fine tuning individual heroes.

None of that is difficult.

And then beyond that, they just need marketing and budget. And Xbox can provide that in spades.

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Well at the rate blizzard is going they will only continue to scare tanks off, its wishful thinking to believe the game will even still be alive next season without major changes

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I’ve spoken with few people who say this season is fun. Most of the responses I get are pretty negative.

You ever hear about people who get a scratch on their car and they’re just like “I’ll buff that right out” and then they end up buffing the entire coat of paint off their car?

In my opinion, that’s how I feel about the current state of Overwatch.

There’s already tension between audiences & Blizzard/Overwatch. I don’t think marketing is going to help. The relationship has been tarnished.

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Any of this stuff sound familiar?

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No, not really. Sorry.

Dude, your post has 0 upvotes.

I can’t tell if you’re flexing or trying to refer to recent changes.

If you’re referring to recent changes, I don’t think much has changed. Folks didn’t seem to like your suggestions back then, and I think that’s true of the recent patch as well.

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So just a coincidence that it’s a big patch with

  • Reduced Burst Damage
  • Reduces healing midcombat by 20%
  • Tank/DPS regen passive ona 5sec cooldown
  • Some projectile hitbox size adjustments
  • A pharah rework with a horizontal dash, and way less fuel in the air, but more fuel on the ground, with less self damage, and smaller explosions
  • And that the older comment was how larger healthpools in similar games to Overwatch is how they addressed burst damage.
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I mean I’m not calling it coincidence, I’m not calling it anything really.

If your changes weren’t praised back then, I think these recent changes also lack the praise.

I mean it’s one thing to say. “Yeah I was right, I suggested X Y Z and they did it.”

It’s another to say “Yeah I was right, I suggested X Y Z. They did it, and everyone loved it”

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Well, Samito says it’s the most fun he’s had in years.
Fareeha says the Pharah rework plays like a dream.
Flats could barely play Comp, and he just got done posting a 24 hour Comp stream.
Eskay played 70 hours in 4 days.
And I can pull up plenty of Reddit threads on “It’s not perfect, but you gotta admit it’s fun”.

Beyond that, it’s mostly just “Tank could be more fun, Zen in particular makes that suck”.

And the headshot stuff

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I don’t really watch or listen to those guys.

I can’t really take the opinion of streamers and content creators seriously because they inherently have an ulterior motive.

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Only people ive seen call this patch more fun are overwatch content creators that are already paid to promote the game, everyone outside of the games community saw the update, played for a bit, and then dropped videos making fun of the terrible patch :sob:

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