What's the worst arcade mode in your opinion?

Not when the enemy get 3 Zaryas and a Mei with an Ana and a Zen with no proper comp to counter it. Fricken nightmare.

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I mainly hate no limits just for the thought of 6 torbs, it gives me PTSD of the launch of the game on console. shivers in fear

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It is trash only when that happen. The other ones are trash all the time. :woman_shrugging:

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Hmm… I hate deathmatch and all of the variants of it that clog the Arcade.

Trailing behind, yet very closely, are: Team DM, 3v3 of all variants, 6v6 lockout, 1v1 and variants.

All of the above is garbage, smelly, stinky, icky, sticky, goopy poopy.

I’d possibly put Low Gravity on there, too, but I have never clicked on it.

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Mystery deathmatch no contest.

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The 1v1 stuff is all terrible IMO.

Low Gravity is awful and gimmicky, as well.

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Mystery FFA deathmatch. Regular Mystery heroes is pretty bad too, but at least when you’re given a tank or a healer in that mode, you have a purpose. Mystery FFA is just RNG, hoping you get the good heroes frequently enough to win. Awful.

Honestly, I hate any arcade mode that picks my hero for me, and that’s pretty much like half the junk that cycles through arcade. Just regular gamemodes with the freedom taken away. How is that fun?

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Lucioball. Gets boring after a few matches. Don’t even wanna play it this year but I want some competitive points.

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MH is actually best game mode in the game :man_shrugging:t2:

As for worst? Total Mayhem…every single game is a giant cluster bleep on the point or objective where abilities that people tend to hate just get spammed ad nauseam…it doesn’t even remotely resemble Overwatch…it’s just permanent aggravation

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I hate mh and tm

Both are so dame random and unfun.

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I hate any mode with the word mystery in it.

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Besides the fact that they stack too many of the same kind of game (2 Lucio balls and 2 FFA right now), mystery is the worst. They really need to balance somehow so it isn’t 2 torbs, 2 bastions, orisa and baptiste. This kind off stuff happens way too much. Why would you NOT leave that game?

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we got 3 busan maps fot ctf this year.

This + people leaving because they are not winning. MH would be fun otherwise. Insane how you can get the same character several times in one game with 30 to pick from.

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I swear it loves to give me Roadhog and Zarya yet hardly anyone else. I once got Roadhog 8 times in one game (they have 3 bastions, baptise and two mercy’s) we were not getitng snipers or any real good DPS to deal with them or even get close without being melted.

Lucio Ball.
It’s the same thing each time.
Just with a different background.
The fact they couldn’t come up with another mode after 3 years is f*cking dissapointing.

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Definitely mystery heroes. Learning heroes? I don’t think so. RNG is absolutely terrible to the point where halfway through a match, your chances to beat a balanced or op comp becomes null due to ult economy.

Anytime i play mode, in reminded why i avoid it. But somehow its up in the arcade all the time when i have free time while the other arcade modes are different versions of one other arcade mode.

Total mayhem and no limits are vastly better imo than the “most popular” arcade mode.

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For me personally:

  • 1v1
  • Mystery Heroes
  • Deathmatch
  • No Limits
  • CtF

Basically everything that isn’t Total Mayhem.

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Wow… Where should I start?
MH is literally all about RNG. I hate this mode. Just a totally unbalanced mess. Hopefully the workshop version will be on rotation instead because you actually get a better shot at decent team comps.

All kinds of the 1v1 that is on the rotation are just plain garbage.

CTF has a pretty cancer gameplay from my experience, so it’s a big skip from me. Although it was made more fun once they actually revamped it, it’s still a F tier mode in OW. Fun on other games tho.

Lucio Ball is not necessarily boring, the issues it’s got are the players and the stupid bugs it has that are still yet to be fixed.

Hero Gauntlet is pretty much godsend, but the only problem I got with this is the amount of kill steals per game and the fact that it either takes forever to get the last kill as Torb or you just get it when someone is not paying attention, or again, kill steals.

Next up we got Deathmatch. Deathmatch is a pretty decent mode, but it’s just flooded with DPS Moiras, Hogs and Mccrees, so that’s annoying. And again, kill steals.

Now, Mystery Deathmatch. This garbage shouldn’t exist. That’s basically if Deathmatch and Mystery Heroes had a baby, and this baby had a gambling addiction as well as being a sadistic A-hole. Massive skip from me.

Mirrored Deathmatch is actually pretty nice too, but the hero pool is a bit too limited imo. It suffers from the same issues the other Deathmatch modes suffer, but it’s not that bad as long as you’ve gotten into the rhythm. Hero swaps mid fights can totally catch you off guard so be aware of that one.

PvEs. PvEs are actually the best modes that were released for events thus far and I wish there were much more of them, as well as to have some on the main rotation during non-event times.

Team Deathmatch is not that terrible to be honest, and it doesn’t suffer from issues that the other DM modes suffer from such as kill stealing and stuff. There’s also place to play as a team or make individual plays.

All kinds of elimination modes except the 1v1s (because the 1v1s are particularly trash with limited hero pools and such) are pretty much like TDM except if you win a round the heroes you played in the previous round are locked for your team and you can’t respawn obviously. Basically roll or get rolled in some scenarios as well.

Mei Snowball. Actually pretty decent, but could use more maps imo.

Yeti Hunters is basically a chase the monkey mode, where a group of 6 Meis chase a monkey that collects meat and avoids fighting for the most part unless they want to prove a point. Although rounds typically last up to 5 mins at best and the exp reward is extremely underwhelming, this mode feels really slow and stale, and imo is horrifyingly boring unless the monkey decides to fight outside of his rage mode.

No Limits is basically OG Overwatch in the sense of team building. I don’t anything else to say about that one.

Total Mayhem is, as the name suggests, a total mess. Rounds can also last until the server can’t handle it anymore and just shuts the game down.

Low Gravity is… Low gravity. This mode is pretty meh.

TD;LR: I described every arcade mode in the way I see it, worst ones are:

  • Yeti Hunters
  • Lucio Ball (mainly due to the players playing it having no idea what to do)
  • Mystery Deathmatch
  • CTF
  • Mystery Heroes
  • Low Gravity
  • 1v1
  • Total Mayhem
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I find hero gauntlet to be the most frustrating because if you are fighting someone and they get a kill, suddenly they are at full HP so they can turn and kill you with fresh cooldowns. Also, too many people in that mode are quitters so you end up with these giant empty FFA maps.

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