The perks make this game even worse than it was

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The perks make this game even worse than it was.

In a attempt to make this game better, ow2 added PERK system to ranked and unranked. I was already getting low motivation to play this game, and now I have absolutely zero. I get what blizzard was trying to do to spice this game up, but it had the OPPOSITE effect for me, and I’m sure many others.

The perk system allows matches to snowball heavily and make the game not as fun as it was.
The supports and tanks in this game do WAY more damage than DPS. There is little point in being a DPS on DPS, you are pretty much just along for the ride. The supports and tanks can easily do your own role better than you, passive healing makes it even worse, being able to sit behind a corner until your passive heals you to full is stupid.

OW was game of the year in 2017? I believe, you should of took a snapshot/of that game in it’s current state and revert it to that, if you want it to be at it’s peak again or come up with something else. Many OW2 players have migrated to other games, I’m not sure who is making these decisions at Blizzard, but honestly you should look at firing them as they’re not doing what’s best for the player base. Playing this game as DPS, is GOD awful specifically also. Roles use to actually matter.

Revert the perk system.
Revert the game to the 2017 game of the year version, and you might actually have something until you do something this game will continue to drop to nothing, I promise you.

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Why the link to reddit? Engagement farming?

The only thing that makes me want to do is make a reddit account for the sole purpose of downvoting your post.

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I didn’t mean to post the reddit link, edited. Just trying to reach blizzard with how bad the perk system is. I have 0 care about engagement, just about getting the message across. If you have nothing to contribute to the subject, please do something more constructive with your time compared to threatening me for speaking the truth. The fact you threatened me, and posted no opinions or subject matter is sad, do you enjoy the perk system or not? Nothing you said has any value.

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agree completely. the perks are just more overengineered nonsense. revert the game back to vanilla 6v6. perks are just the next iteration of the problems with the dev team… continual addition of content over creating a balanced fun experience.

as you say, this perk system just compounds the problem with snowballing and the roll or be rolled problem that plagues this game and makes it insufferable. unfortunately, it seems like the dev team is out of ideas and doesn’t want to appear stale. “rivals has lots of character skills… let’s add more skills!!”

there’s nothing wrong with just admitting a massive mistake was made in getting rid of 6v6 as the core game mode and reverting back to the tenants which established the game as such a winner. BALANCE. stop breaking the game even more every time you update!

GET RID OF PERKS, or at least confine them to arcade game modes

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If support is out damaging DPS that is simply just some really bad DPS players

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honestly the dev team needs to be scrapped and replaced with competent devs like pharmercy should of been a instant boot offense ages ago and they cplan to a even mreo when the system shouldnt of been added in the 1st place

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Never in the history of mankind has a downvote been considered a threat.

There is nothing to be added. It is just your opinion.

I don’t even disagree with the points you brought up, but I do disagree with the sentiment that it’s enough to get rid of perks entirely. That’s about as deep of a response you’re going to be able to get out of anybody because the topic is A.) incredibly overused and B.) Not that deep.

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In my opinion it’s the worst of 2 designs.

  1. Halloween mode with perks/upgrades were a lot more fun and diverse.
  2. People tend not to switch heroes after they’ve gotten upgrades even though there is a catch up mechanic when you switch. So regular 5v5 was better since you could easily swap heroes.

Edit: I still think it’s ok to play, I just think that Halloween was amazing and should be permanent in Arcade and 5v5 should stay or go 6v6. (I like 6v6 a lot more than 5v5 and is more noob friendly. The more players in a team the less someone can carry.)

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agreed, i lost motivation to play it. While i can play rivals and be rewarded with better players and wins. I literally feel miserable playing the game and now i just don’t want to touch it. The perks are terrible and the fact that gigabuffed tanks exist make it worse. Also, not to mention every role does actually do more than dps now. They literally made every role now able to do dps, so it’s like why play dps if they have smaller hitboxes, can heal, and can do a good amount of dmg. If someone likes’ it. Than i say more power to them. But they ruined the game with 5v5. You can’t make good balances in that environment.

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I don’t know, have you seen Bap/Zen lately. They can really pile on some damage numbers