How long do you think it will be, before the devs talk to us about our critiques and concerns on the beta?
what questions would you ask them?
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Honestly i believe there will be a patch early this week and IMO there should be a Dev update with that. I don’t know if that will happen and the important thing is the balance changes but i would love to see the devs on screen explaining why they made the changes in the patch.
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so they are going to patch the beta, instead of letting it run its course to the 17th, and then patching it?
they actually already have patched the beta, though it was for stablity and performance reasons
They are probably going to look at it, go “these guys aren’t streamers or OWL pros” and ignore it.
This dev team doesn’t care about it’s players. I still took alot of time out my day to give extensive feedback on the part of OW I enjoy the most and was shattered with this BETA with the small hope it will do something. But I do not expect it to go anywhere.
For me, I’m adopting a new line of thinking with OW2. If the game releases and my mains are still less than useless but the more popular heroes are still leaps and bounds better, I’m quitting the game. MW2 is releasing soon anyway, Test Drive is coming out and whatever else is happening. I’ll just move onto a franchise that don’t actively give me the middle finger every 6 months when they decide to update their game.
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I’ve been playing since the beta of ow1. I don’t intend to quit until it breaths it’s last breath.
but that does not mean i want to see it go down in flames either.
We should give criticism, but not be toxic about it.
And toxic criticism is what I’m seeing in the majority of the forums, and that won’t get the devs attention more than positive criticism.
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I wouldn’t expect so. If they did balance patch it I’d be surprised.
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How long would it take to rebuild complainers player base into playerbase of normal behavior?
I suspect they would talk about how keeping those players is important, and that they are doing balancing for Beta 2 to address their concerns.
I think Beta 2 will be a shock for some people.
Hahahahahahaha…never
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Have this strange feeling the next beta patch isn’t going to address the issues with supports very well. Suspect it will be a few number changes, possibly even some nerfs. With OWL about to launch on the beta, they can’t afford to have significant changes as league players won’t have time to adjust.
Figure we won’t have significant beta updates until after the first OWL tournament.
Yeah, Beta 2 will be when they do the fixing, which will be after they have seen how OWL plays.
when is that going to happen? the tourny?
Will we ever get 6v6 back but with zero double shield? Can we do 132? Can we nerf low skill heros even more? Will the graphics be better?
Thats what i would ask. Knowing blizzard it will be awhile before we hear anything, they will say they hear us but then do nothing about it and make the game 4v4 somehow
Late May/early June if I recall.
Edit: Kickoff Tourney starts June 2nd.
beta ends may 17th right?
Considering our forum consist of supports topics not liking stuff here and there by around 70-80%, you are right. But this would be rebuilt, new players come, old, who can not adapt will just leave. There is nothing shocking to use your kit by 100% instead of using it by half or third, just healbotting or wasting your abilities. Those are basically low ranks who play like that. Thanks god, high ranks are the engine of this game. I see no reasons to not like OW2 yet, even myself being very conservative boomer person like this new approach. OW1 playstyle was always lacking of something that exist in OW2. And that is just a Beta, which will improve more.
Yep. The issue will be how many, and from which roles?
The game may end up having to adapt to them if there is enough of them.
Personally, I think that a lot of what people are seeing right now is people getting used to new maps. It is hard to position right, when you don’t know the map, or the usual paths people take.
But there is something to be said that flankers are stronger now, and that makes supporting less fun, and supporting NEEDS to be fun if you are going to keep the players.
Blizzard can’t afford for them to walk. It was like when hero bans were in place.
Mercy got banned and the Mercy mains just didn’t queue for that week. Hero bans were gone the next week. Blizzard couldn’t afford for them to not queue.
practicality around the playerbase is a strong force.
We already know the DPS won’t take up the support slots, so trying to get DPS from other games to take up support in overwatch is a lost cause.
So Blizzards hands are tied there.
Yes,I believe you are correct. We’re probably going into Anniversary part 2 right after. Three weeks of that will put us around June 7th, which will be right after the OWL Kickoff tournament ends. Perfect time for a fresh beta.
Would you guys fill out a survey after the beta, if they asked you? Something i expect blizzard to do.