ive put 5 minutes, and it seems good to me… works in almost every other game
Yup, they failed.
Ana still hard counters the entire role category she’s part of, each tank hero hardcounters another one (which is a big mistake with 1-2-2) and some DPS heroes, especially hitscans vs flying heroes is still a thing.
I would say DPS heroes have it easier than tanks and supports because there are more heroes in this role category to choose from.
Supports still benefit from being 2 players from the same role category so they can easily synergize and work as a strong duo (Baptiste for instance doesn’t have to immediately switch if there’s an Echo or Pharah in their team 'cause the other support can take over).
Tanks… well, if there’s a onetrick in your team and they’re hardcountered by the enemy tank, it’s an instant stomp… RIP…
I still stick to what I’ve been saying since October 2022 : tanks are responsible of those big stomps most of the time, and it’s not even their fault, yet because of imbalanced 1-2-2. They don’t have anyone to synergize with, the gameplay is pretty boring with certain tank heroes and they can’t even defend their team properly.
If the OW team still doesn’t want to bring 6v6 back, at least rework all tanks into real DPS heroes and be done with it. Overwatch is not World of Warcraft, solo tanking doesn’t work here.
I’m tired of sighing every time weekly challenges reset and I have to play tank because of the “all roles” challenge. It’s a real pain (to get free currency).
That’s the nature of the game. I don’t even like playing hitscan but I learned how to do it because if you want to climb you need to do whatever it takes to win. That’s why it’s called competitive. You play to win and do whatever it takes to achieve it, quick play exists if you don’t want to do that
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— person who also plays heroes that should swap but are too stubborn/goat’d to do it
What games prevent you from changing strategies while playing?
People have asked for lots of stuff. Do you have a point?
i think there should be an actual limit on how many times someone hero swaps
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Blizzard needs to eliminate the mechanic wherein a portion of your ultimate charge remains when swapping heroes. It won’t fix the issue, but it’ll certainly help. There should be an appropriate sacrifice required to swap heroes mid-match
the fact they changed to refund ult was proof they wanted people to switch
it wasn’t like (though I know they are famous for this) woke up and go ‘ya know what imma poop on some otp’s today’
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what If I told you that the refund didnt exist in ow1, and counter swapping was still a thing…
Its almost like the only way to stop it, is to get rid of it.
I just play widow no matter what. If the enemy picks Sombra my widow game becomes a re-spawn simulator but don’t blame me I ain’t swapping.
Given that Blizzard have never taken actions to discourage hero swapping in the 7 and a half years the game has been out, I don’t think they have any intent to stop it.
Overwatch was heavily inspired by Team Fortress 2, to the point that it’s comfortably the closest major title to it within the Hero-shooter sub-genre.
Hero swapping is one of the things almost directly lifted from TF2, as the system has only a single difference from TF2. If you swap character outside a spawn room in TF2 you die immediately and respawn as your newly selected class. That was removed in favour of locking character changes solely to the spawn room, which changes very little about how the system works within the game as a whole.
Ya especially when literally every tank they have added is hard counterd by ana
They have shown they do not care about skilled players what so ever and its sad.
Hero swapping is the worst thing in OW.
Its unfourtuante(this is unrelated) that skilled heros are countered by no skill heros. cause then it makes everyone play a no skill hero, and theres no reason to learn a skilled hero.
Gigachad detected. Based as hell.
Thanks for the condescension!
As I stated, removing the mechanic would not eliminate swapping. However, if you don’t like counterswapping, why would you be against removing the mechanic that incentivizes it?
Im fine with counterswapping, its part of this game…
Im not ok with the fact that some heros have 10 counters, and some have non(exaggerationofc, but u get the point.)
The refund didnt exist in ow1, and people still swapped. Thats just how it goes yk?
Idc if they remove the mechanic at all, doesnt matter to me. I do wish it was just a dps thing still, that might make counterswapping wth tanks a little worse.
I’m trying to figure out which heroes don’t require skill to play and automatically counter other characters just by existing. It would definitely help my win-loss rate if I could play a hero without the need to actually be good at that hero in order to win.
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-Moira
-Mei
-Sym
-Mercy
Just to name a few…
They require little to no skill, the only solid counter for each is flying heros, and all of them are strong.