this game just released and they’re preparing a balance patch a month in, you dont think that’s fast enough? i think it’s too fast. any initial feelings about sombra being overpowered, most people have moved on from, but now they’re prepared to butcher her very soon. if anything, they should have waited! i hard disagree that she needs her solo damage butchered by 20% that is going to make her impossible to flank with.
I’ve already gone back to Apex. Better monetization, better community, better balance, better game. OW2 has a serious lack of direction.
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I actually think they’re doing the wrong kind of patch. I think they should be using the mid season patch to buff terrible heroes rather than nerf OP ones. Maybe besides zarya and sojourn because their power is really obvious.
The current balance has nothing to do with this. They’ve already stated what they plan to do to balance the game, they just aren’t doing it. Arron Keller just has no idea what he’s doing. Dev updates and blog posts are full of contradictions.
i think they are having trouble determining how to fix doomfist, hes always been problematic for them. his design is inherently flawed. how are you going to make a tank that plays like a melee widow, one shotting things with a windup punch on a long cooldown? if he isnt one shotting hes weak. and they gave him a bunch of health and a filler block move that barely mitigates anything, but there are just way better choices. unless his block turns into a reinhardt shield or defense matrix, nobody will care about his lousy mitigation efforts. and if hes a one shot hero he should go right back into the dps role.
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Well supposedly their fast patch system is bugged and not working, which if true would in fact have to do with them being forced to push the game out way too early.
In their defense he was never meant to be a hero. Which, to be fair, would be odd if the main antoginist wasn’t playable, but i digress.
Doom needs a rework, if he was buffed he would be obnoxious and unfun to play against. They tried to keep the dps Doom’s happy while making him less annoying and ended up making no one happy.
All while Jame Gumb leans over the pit and says to her,
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
But… but…
OWL go brrrrr
Considering in their quarter call that PvE has been relegated to being called only “PvE Mode” instead of Triple A campaign or multiple modes as promised, things are looking horrifically darker than ever!
Probably trying to figure out the next breast milk heist.
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if doomfist was never meant to be a hero, he should be a badass, not…whatever he is right now.
Doomfist as a concept should never have been brought to life - he is always going to be too weak or too strong. And when he is too strong he is most definitely not fun to play against.
Whay has no one mentioned the quickpatch tool for balance updates broke in transitiok to OW2? This is why zarya nerf is late. Future updates will be quicker.
MY issue is, knowing the next patch is so long away, why not bring jq and doom buffs on the 15th too?
They’re 100% OK with too strong heroes as long as they make battle pass money and streamers and OWL players give them the thumbs up.
If streamers and OWL clowns decided tomorrow to shower Doomfist with as much blatant bias as they do Genji, instead of working to marginalize him like they’ve been doing for the past 5 years, by the end of the week he’d be putting people THROUGH walls. Balance in this game is a FARCE. It’s a popularity game manipulated by influence partners and content shills.
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The game is 1 month young.
A patch is coming, the devs acknowledge what the community says (its the only reason I see to nerf Dva).
Be patient or get a life, they probably work longer than you’re playing, it just takes time (especially as afaik, they still work on PvE for next year).
And in one month, the community pov on tanks has already changed. You can see during the first weeks that a lot of people were thinking Dva was the best tank, now it’s zarya all over the place, the OWL has played anything but Winston. So it might be not as obvious as you think…
About balance issues, they look at overall winrates. So if you feel frustrated with Doom, it doesn’t tell Doom is a bad hero, it might just be you sucking with him.
If they had to go with every “balance issues”, man… Mercy needs a buff for years, Mei has insane DPS, can heal herself, wall, has 250hp, and nobody cared, Hanzo can oneshot you with pure luck in duel, Junker Queen + Kiriko compos can break the whole match, Torbjorn turret is like a 6th player that never misses… OW has balancing problems since 2016. It will take months or years to fix it now.
This. Like, I get it, OP - it’s frustrating as hell. There are so many characters that need adjustments, nerfs and buffs, that just aren’t happening. But you’re getting angry with the wrong people. The balance team can make changes, but they can’t do anything if they don’t have the go ahead from management. They’re the ones who really decide what’s going on. And my bet is that they’re putting full throttle into the PVE, which is fine, but by doing so they’re neglecting the PVP.
So get angry, by all means. Just point that anger at the right people. The balance team aren’t inheritly at fault here.
I’ve never understood why they cant just hire more people, they make huge profits and people talk about modern game studios like they are a group of college students working together in somebodies garage.
Most other games don’t have this problem.
Hell, even competitive indie games have better balancing and QA than this…
Overwatch 2 is just an expansion of Dead By Daylight