Think its time to take a long break these devs and changes are wrong at every patch now it seems like. You ruined a whole game mode for no reason. I will not play role queue. -and being that tanks are gutted its gonna be hitscan lobbies and im not playing call of duty be back when this is reverted .So goodbye
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Good riddance. 20 characters.
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Meh, Ball will be viable in open queue. Ball + dps and a healer is a valid comp. Infact a goat counter was ball triple dps before role queue/
People will still run three tanks and two supports and it will continue to be viable.
That’s because two damage two supports, and a single tank is the official format.
Open queue and the various arcade modes are just fun extras… and if they were to try to balance the game around both the official format and as well as the other game modes. The balance would be a complete disaster.
Look at many MMORPGs that offer both PVE and PVP content. They all either normalize all players in PvP content. Or it’s a back and forth game where one class or ability is completely broken in PVE or PVP and trash in the other then when they fix it it just inverts it and it’s a constant back and forth.
you balance your game around the official format… people need to stop treating arcade modes in open queue like it’s the official game mode and the game should be balanced around them
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You mean we won’t get 10 threads about how bad 5v5 is any more? Damn, what a loss
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Flagged as trolling and kept it moving.
Yeah no, sorry but this was absolutely not a necessary change. Not how i would have done it, but still necessary.
It literally has a competitive mode that was older than role queue. It was the original way to play till whiners couldn’t adapt like the game wanted you to do. The premise of ow1 was switching and map selection and they are moving far away from that. At this point bring back ow 1. This is dumbed down 5v5 we all the same watch now
Overwatch has never had map selecting and I don’t see how reducing tank HP is moving far away from switching?
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I meant hero selection based off maps such as ilios lucio and roadhog
You missed an opportunity to say: Flag as trolling and keep it rolling!
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Okay, how does reducing tank HP prevent that?
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Never said it did. Prevent??? Its an unwanted change. That basically water down all tanks unless you play role queue. So u wanna play solo tank in ur comp now you have less health thats stupid. I had games where there were no dps at all. The mode was about counterplay and hero selection based of maps if u played more than one season let alone live in that mode like me and my friends. We all are on the verge of uninstalling. Because we all hate role queue. They just to casual to care to come to forums. It will now be the same basically as role queue with weaker or no tanks chosen. Doubt damage values even change so how is this well thought out? Yall looking at it one sided
You talked about how they’re supposedly moving far away from hero selecting based on maps in a thread where you’re complaining about the tank HP nerfs. I assumed those two things were connected, so sorry for the misunderstanding.
Many, many people have been wanting changes to deal with how OP tanks can be in non-role queue modes. I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people would rather have this change than not have it.
Ah the good old role queue killed the game open queue only player. Sorry that OW2 is a different game and open queue is not what they built this new game around.
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This surprises me because the talk amongst console on xbox where i play overwatch died with this patch. Which is why i further ask was this well thought about us consolers have been having our game steadily ruined and untested. I played my whole overwatch career 1023 hrs in open queue comp earned 10 gold weapons. Now i literally feel like i lost the game i loved to play, considering i mainly only play tank as well. 5v5 and raid biss tanks and the ddomfist rework was the first straw im legit ready to drop this game and community and go play solo pkm or something. I hate how my opinion gets dumped on cause i play console
Tri-tank comps were more or less meta in OW1 open queue. So, this is just a return to that.
“Ruin”? Lol what? Today was the first day I actually tried open queue since OW2 launch and omg…
It’s a tank fiesta, nothing is dying, stuff takes forever to kill, it looks like a meme arcade mode.
Thank god HP is getting toned down, it should’ve happened long time ago.
Oh I promise you it’s going to get more dumbed down as time progresses. Because the game isn’t friendly to Casual players, and that tends to be the audience that blindly throw money at free to play games.
I know we can bring up League of Legends but selling skins isn’t how League of Legends sustains itself financially. It helps but it’s not the primary source. It’s the sponsorships that sustain it.
And when you look at the owl, they can’t get a large enough following to get those companies to sponsor for advertising, as the amount of money isn’t worth the little bit of exposure it would get them.