What did the devs do to make ow frustrating to you?!

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I played this game since launch on ps4. i loved it so much it made me buy a pc and all i play on PC was ow. |(spending an additional $1300.00 for a single game)

ive been so frustrated with the game over this past year. to me the addition to a hero like moira and the decision they made on buffing mei started negative feeling towards the game. the cherry on top of the frustration to ow which is pushing me towards other games was the addition to sigma.

Any of you frustrated with OW and at what point did it start?

(i already know so many will say the addition to brig lol)

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No total mayhem during events (except for the first week of lunar new year)

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For me it was when choosing to play tank just led to having to constantly have to change because of balance changes intended to benefit other roles.

It’s not fun wanting to play tank or support and being constantly rebalanced and have your gameplay reworked bc the more populated role can’t shoot immobile objects…

I just play Paladins now, at least there I can play without baby sitting my team or relying on them so much.

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I was frustrated by not being able to play dps since 2017 and I’m frustrated I can’t (don’t have time) to play it now with 222.
I’m maining Tank/support since I logged into this game and I’m tired and sick of it. If once every 3 games I got to play dps, that would be a dream.

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i 100% understand what u mean. the balance philosophy isnt “each hero can be situational or map dependent” its more of “this is the flavor of the month thats broken. pick it or lose”

LOL

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They don’t balance this game based on silver players. That’s not the reason. The reason for balancing is to make more things viable and less things “pick this to have all the advantage in the world”.

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Dumpstered Baptiste, Orisa, and Sigma even though they only synergized because of Mei wall after the barrier nerfs.

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Personally I think the players ruined this game more than the devs

Yeah devs do questionable stuff but players leave, are toxic, abuse the game, etc

Can’t patch out Ashe holes

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i actually feel like they base so many balance choices on lower ranks. people like me.

I dont agree with that at all. even though im in gold, i want the game to be as hard as possible when it comes to heroes. i hate that abilites carry players in ow and not vice versa.

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Sweeping changes ruined the game.
It’s impossible to balance if the only changes they can make are in multiples of 10 or 25, whether it’s hitpoints or ability adjustments.

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At some point OW didn’t feel like an ego shooter any more where you could pick what you like, but like a meta-game where 2/2/2 is an illusion and it’s more like

  1. The Shield
  2. off tank that is currently strong
  3. some hitscan in case of phara
  4. some shield breaker or good flanker
  5. the fotm single healer
  6. the fotm ae -healer

Wish I could just play the hero I want and have fun without waiting 10 minutes, but even in QM people are toxic if you take torb.
Won’t care if 1/3/2 or 2/2/2 for this.

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the issue is the punishment isnt harsh enough. for god sakes console didnt even have a way of reporting toxic people for 2 years!

and when they could have its not harsh enough

look at this vid before ps4 was able to report players!

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for me would be changes that make heroes clunkier to play, dvas matrix for example, i stopped playing for year and a half and basically they lost a customer, i didnt spend a dime since then and i wont. I used to buy 50-100 loot boxes during events, never again, i mean theres basically nothing at this point that would make be spend any money

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Doomfist and 222
Also nerfs to shields
So 3 things in general.

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  1. Lucio is a hero that demands constant movment to survive, but his weapon (proportionally) punishes movment of any kind. I can’t think of a more missmatched hero-weapon combo.

  2. The net-code has needed work since beta.

  3. No punishments for toxic/throwing players.

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Nono i didn’t dispute that. They do consider all ranks when balancing. I was just saying more in the lines of: “Symetra wasn’t reworked cuz she was dominating low ranks but becase she was useless in higher ranks and when rework hits it should make her less punishing to lower ranks and more usefull to higher ranks” stuff like that

And the double shield: If it’s meta in higher elos then it’s hard meta in lower elos - which was true for bunker and goats but not for dive.

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yea i know what you mean. sombra was that for me. she feels so clunky to me now

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when did I ever mention silver players

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I don’t like having to change the heroes I play because the become weak. This happens often.

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The addition of Doomfist

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