But buff soldier right?
Gotta keep every hero viable in this meta, and by that we mean:
keep buffing hitscan despite the fact they are already the dominant DPS, and ignore everyone asking for either buffs to underperforming heroes or nerfs to the dominant heroes like Ashe or Widow
you know who would have been viable when Genji and Roadhog were running rampant?
yeah, NOT 76
Goats Mei, bring it back.
soldier will draw more players to the game tbh
The game is what, 5 years old now
soldier aināt doing that, soldier has never done that.
How is that any rationale for balancing and making the game as fun as possible for the people playing it right now?
Iāve come to accept that regardless of how good or bad she is: people will rag on Mei forever on how getting frozen and headshot is unskillful and cheese, yet in the same sentence defend getting right clicked to death by Moira, one clipped by Tracer, or hook comboād by Hog.
yes he has and they do think about bringing in new players
They literally just nerfed Ashe and is no longer overperforming. Widow is barley overperforming. (really only Tracer is overperforming to any significant degree but even then its not some drastic number compared to metas past).
Realistically there are more decent DPS now than ever before. The problem is, at every level of this game, Soldier is not one of them. That at every level is important and why a hero like Bastion is stuck where he is. They also know what happens when Mei is too strong and are seemingly very VERY careful to want to avoid that again.
If the devs are so aware of what the issues of Mei are, then why not buff where she is weakest instead of constant nerfs
the only reason sheās nerfed so much is because of tank players, because, according to the devs, itās more fair for a Hog to 1-shot you than it is for Mei
hitscan is not 1 character, they are all separate, thatās why soldier got this experimental since heās been conceived as weak or ābalancedā as people like to put it.
and seeing lately the changes they have tried to implement with all the removal of RNG, this is probably another try and another step towards that.
I accepted and got used to the horrible state she is in and moved to other dps (when Iām still playing the game from time to time). It sucks having your main character a throw pick, even more when itās a high skill one, but you get used to it, i guessā¦
My bet is that they wanted to force her out of 2-2-2 RQ since she was acting like a tank.
Only hope I have right now are some band aid fixes to cryo & secondary fire for some future experimentals or Tank rework with OW2.
I somehow doubt they even bothered to draw that comparison. Hog literally cannot function without his hook combo as we saw for 3 years. We know what Mei looks like as meta. It is very clear if she ever were to be meta again they do not want it to look like that.
Mei is still quite good. If you play against a good Mei, you can definitely feel her impact on the game. I think she is in a great spot right now.
But why would you ever choose current Mei over Ashe or Widow or Genji, or anyone better?
I fail to see how. Overwatch hinges on its diversity of playstyles with unique kits. That has always been the selling point. Yes, Blizzard has said they want to take a more traditional approach at the moment, however, this doesnāt bring more eyes to the product. Do you really think people who enjoy more traditional FPS will leave games for OW? Quite frankly, Blizzard canāt compete with the other FPS giants when it comes to a traditional shooter, and it would be foolish to try (risking their current player base).
This honestly goes for the main of any hero. Someone practiced with a particular hero, who knows their ins and outs, will be still see results. She isnāt in a suitable spot, however, and needs at least a soft revert to one of her nerfs. 9-back-to-back nerfs is not putting a hero in a good spot. Especially when she was only meta in GM and the OWL. If we are talking top-down balance, then her current stats suggest she needs help. We canāt say a āhero is fineā just because some of their mains can still play them. If thatās the case, Soldier shouldnāt have any buff.
they dont have to leave anything to play overwatch, i play a lot of shooters including ow myself
you act like this game is some special outlierā¦ its just another shooter when you play 76
I donāt want mei to be what she was back then, but definitely they over nerfed the crap out of her and need to revert a few.
You donāt want mei to be meta. Trust me.
But yes she is garbage now mostly due her freezing being unusable.
Mei players got their smite for sins. Suffer now, suffer more!
Leeeetās not do that 