I gotta say as a person that has been hating on the devs for these hero pools the last few weeks, this change is a very good move by the devs. I just wanna say thank you and well done
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So what is the change
No bans below masters and changing algorithm so that it isn’t the same heroes every other week
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We did it Reddit
I’ll leave
Ok but they still need to increase hero bans to be effective… picking heroes out of a hat doesn’t change the state of the game
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The bans will be based on OWL while OWL is in season and high ranked play when it isn’t… and they are adjusting the algorithm so the same characters are not getting banned every other week.
Shaking up the meta and giving a better chance that characters like Mei don’t avoid bans forever.
The first part seems like a very good move.
The second part…not so much. Like, that was the entire point. If the same heroes are going to be played non-stop if you don’t mix them up…then mix them up? That’s what the system was designed to do - mix it up. Saying “Well they get played so much they ended up getting banned every other week under a weighted chance system that by no means guaranteed their ban” should be a huge red flag for balancing purposes. It’s also a sign the algorithm is working. Higher playtime = higher chance for bans. It’s literally working precisely as intended. Why is that now a bad thing?
I feel the need to clarify it’s a rhetorical question, since obviously you’re a player not a dev.
Or you know, they could make changes to the heroes that get banned every other week so they stop being banned due to being so powerful they are must picks.
They are literally adding another water pump to bail the water out of a sinking ship when they could just fix the problems to begin with.
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Never in my life have I seen a dev team that listens to the community this consistently, only to have everybody pretend that they do not.
yea pretty much player bans or dont even include the system. pretty sure master+ players arent really happy cuz if the bans create a cancer week, its going to be trash.
No, not player bans. Increase the number of hero bans. Player bans will never be a thing
didnt they say they were gonna be faster with patches. feel like forever since the last patch, honestly nothing really feels different since january other than a new hero which i dont care about really.
Yes JK did… I made a post about it the other day.
i can honestly see that backfire pretty good in dev bans. (but i can see 6 bans easily) and i know player bans are never going to be a thing since this game really isnt competitive minded. just really the right thing to do at this point.
God…Diamond is gonna be a smurf hell (worse than now)
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the game is competitive. very competitive.
to put it things in perspective, if more hero bans were really that bad, then player bans would be traumatizing for the game
i also remember they promised a HUGE balance patch when 2-2-2 came out and im pretty sure they just touched on little goats things like dvas DM and zarya laser thickness.
Pretty sure Brig got nerfed (again) around that too.
if u look at all the other games that have comp. this would be on the bottom of serious competitive games. like it will be next to fortnite in all honesty.
yet most games that have this do fine. you can easily put limits (like only 2 support bans or something). bans are suppose to enhance your experience as a player. if u think something is cancer or annoying or op you can ban it. every rank has those types of heroes. like people complain about moria all the time in silver or gold sr. that isnt really a problem in high ranks. bans are suppose to help balance and patches are suppose to switch the meta. if u see a hero with a high ban rate, thats a sign the hero needs to get toned down. not everybody is gonna ban the same cuz everyone has a different opinion/style they like to play. i also highly doubt players will try to make a game a bad experience/cancer games. it also rewards game knowledge to make the best comp on the fly since every game is different.
yea but i dont remember which lol. didnt want to bring it up and say something wrong.