I chat with a couple of guys at work about OW sometimes as they were avid OW1 players from the start but stopped before OW2 came out and now don’t touch it. I was telling them about Hazard when they gave me a strange warning not to expect to have fun over the Xmas break.
They said things always went wrong and the examples they gave were that 1 year it got stuck playing the same map for 10 days and another year sombra was able to get into the walls and shoot out without being killable. They were sure other years had other problems like completely broken heroes but couldn’t give me specifics.
Are these true? And what else has happened over Xmas when Blizzard don’t leave anyone on duty to fix stuff that breaks?
I don’t remember any of that. Maybe it’s something that happened way back in the day, like 2016 or 2017 or something.
Although as far as broken heroes go, they could be talking about Christmas Mauga. Krampus had one heck of a time ruining the season last year.
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Nah, they haven’t played since 2021 and don’t know anything about Mauga other than what I told them, none of which was good 
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We had the mauga meta one christmas.
It’s mostly to do with the fact that people are on holiday, so bugs don’t get patched as fast.
It’s the worst if an update is released right before a holiday.
There were definitely some QA issues. No idea about getting stuck playing the same map repeatedly BUT I have seen:
- Sombra getting into one part of the walls in Esperanza and shooting people through the ceiling using translocate (fixed.)
- Bastion perma-ulting by spamming the button (he had to be removed from the game for a few weeks whilst they fixed him.) (fixed)
- Torb recently (still???) has an exploit that crashes the entire server but you need an autoclicker and a macro to do it apparently.
- Dva’s mech going to zero HP but not de-meching, making her effectively immortal. (fixed)
I’ve also seen the VS AI bots do some crazy things: I’ve seen sombra and Sojourn sliding/translocating into walls and falling through the floor and into the killplane under the map. Not to mention any ‘turret’ heroes spinbotting when they deploy turrets. (not fixed)
The thing you need to understand that these are all things that have happened over the lifetime of OW2, they didn’t happen all at once over xmas.
I have no idea where those guys have got the idea that xmas is going to be a particularly bad time though.
Hazard is currently also extremely strong but at least, unlike mauga, he’s not braindead easy to play so it’s not completely dominating all of ranked
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th ssombra think sounds like one of them wallhacks n stuff
I remember that. They didn’t have proper collision in the ceiling in a spot. Their fix for it wasn’t adding collision to that part of the ceiling. They added a patch of terrain that did have collision just above that hole in the ceiling so you’d just bonk into that. You can still go into the ceiling there, just not very far.
Holiday issues always stem from the fact that most of the employees are gone during the end of the year for holiday stuff. So, unless it’s game breaking, we’re stuck with whatever state the game is in for a few weeks.
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