Pros: The UI change was nice imo. A cleaner touchup, A new gamemode after years granted it’s a crappy remix and another ball sport but yea,DF skin is actually nice
Cons: New gamemode is lazy and buggy. There’s tons of sports to pick from and they chose Volleyball and y’know why? Because it’s easy to remix Lucioball assets
If you’re not a DF player then this event is essentially non-existent, like, where’s the medal poses for the new heroes? The voice lines? These are such low resource and value things that could’ve made the event feel more fleshed out but it just strictly feels like one of those weekly skin challenges as a single seasonal event and it’s upsetting to put it lightly.
The only other on brand skin for the event is Mercy’s third summer games skin and an overpriced one at that. Probably cause they knew Mercy mains bout to eat it up. It’s a great skin just for 2600? Nah, chief.
Horrible balance patch to pair with it, it’s a nice mix of changes that do nothing and changes that are horrible and prove furthermore the dev team don’t play Overwatch but in fact scan the brains of monkeys that do and gauge how they felt and boom we’ve got a balance patch. Then again sounds rude to put that on the monkeys.
So, yeah, honestly expected. I was hoping that maybe Sojourn,Kiriko,Lw,JQ,Ram would get medal poses and stuff to keep tradition but ig it’s my fault for having dreams lol
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The only time i was excited for summer game was when it was first released. Remix is fun for few times.
The skin is the same price as any legendary: 1900. Nothing different here. The bundle with the highlight intro, spray, and weapon charm is 2600. Yes it’s all over priced, but at the same rates as usual, they didn’t raise the prices just for Mercy.
But yeah summer games don’t feel as fun anymore. Only 13 days and didn’t even bring back Copa Lucioball.
Bro this whole game feels lackin
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These aren’t events, they’re lazy throwaway spotlights. No skins, no voice lines, no nothing like it use to be. They had years where the excuse of them not giving anything in OW1 was because they were ‘working hard on PVE’. The only thing they work on is putting out overpriced things in the shop. They lied about everything. All OW2 is a dumbed down game with a bunch of COD BP crap thrown in. So very disappointed with everything. So many great things in OW1 were removed for this watered down cash grab of a game.
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i have played 2 rounds, got kicked for afk while playing. haven’t opened once since then.
i can waste my time different.
really cool mode this Volleyball, sadly bug infested and unplayable imho. kinda sad.
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Events always feel lacking, as most of the game modes are just not fun.
This can be said for every single OW2 event except substitute doomfist for whatever free skin they have.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, they have killed all the events with OW2. Something that universally we got excited for, no-one cares about. Which considering events were the only exciting content we got for 3 years shows how little they care about their OW1 playerbase.
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It’s like they have an entire list of sports to cycle through and they chose Volleyball.
Give me Genji tennis that makes use of his deflect or Sigma dodgeball using accretion.
i mean these kinda exist it workshop.
but i get what you mean.
i would be happy enough if it was playable and not full of bugs and gliches.
kinda a Problem because only blizzard games used to make me expect that kind of polish but i think it has dropped since ow2 in terms of overall bug polish
The new mode is as bad and cheap as a 90s arcade game made by an intern.
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The biggest disappointment is the new heroes not getting medal poses bruh
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thats a consistency issue i agree. similar how tracers mythic skin doesn’t follow the normal mythic skin rules. but i wouldn’t expect anything to stay the same as it used to be.
add on top that heroes like kiriko, jq, ramattra might never get a skin for their country. (not sure if all ow1 heroes even have that, echo for sure not)
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I know some countries don’t allow their flags to be represented (i think) but the ones that do should definitely be represented. Consistency is a good thing and it’s a shame they don’t keep up with it. I mean they added the usual player icons and sprays but that’s all
The game feels lacking lol, pretty par for the course here bud.
I have never been excited for Summer Games, ever, because the cosmetics are rarely good imo and the game modes are boring (if I wanna play soccer with a tiny character model, I’ll go play Rocket League). And of course the good events I always looked forward to have all but been removed. Thanks Blizzard.
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Events in general always lacked everything after the first year, when they started recycling them at infinity. The only good thing was you could farm lootboxes and unlock the skins from there, even if you weren’t enjoing them, you would be there, playing for lootboxes
The Mini Games aren’t fun enough for me to grind them, for a lack luster Doom recolor.
Yeah but at least they had consistency for awhile. We’d get the usual 6 legendaries and 3 epics and medal poses for heroes who didn’t have them. It helped fill out the roster more in terms of cosmetics when each event had that stuff. So far we have a 2 week summer event that has one epic skin and lifeguard mercy and that’s kinda it which is to me anyway the most disappointing thing
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Yeah i agree with this, the whole event just feels like a challange event with the doomfist skin, weapon charm and icons.
Like where are the other summer skins for other heroes?? And why didn’t mercy get a new player icon to go with her skin??
Personally idc about the medal poses because they ugly af ngl…It would be cool to see something different imo…
Summer games have always been bad anyway, just liie someone else said, the cosmetics for summer games isn’t always great and the game modes are soooo boring!
Like the only good thing that came out of this was lifeguard mercy, and i’m a mercy main do i’m happy about that! But it would’ve been nice to get something else as well, like how an normal event could be with lots of skins for different heroes…