Would you want to play an arcade mode with locked heroes? Maybe you’re countered off the bat. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re countering them. Maybe it’s a largely “neutral” matchup. But no constant counter picking throughout the entire match.
“But it’ll split the player base!” Concerns aside - would you enjoy that?
Not unless there were some very massive changes to the entire roster. Last thing this game needs is a game mode thats even more of a steamroll because you cant adapt to counters.
Honestly, what Blizzard could implement is more restrictive countering methods. If you make a swap, you are effectively locked in for the next X amount of seconds.
I was made for a hero locked mode. I never swap anyways, it is not fair that other people get to when I am putting a personal handicap on myself. Fweheh.
I’m not 100% sure I understand your suggestion. It seems like that would just make it worse. If you swap and then another enemy swaps to counter you, you’re now forced to play suboptimally for some duration (X seconds).
If X is sufficiently long (e.g. on the order of minutes) then you’re locking out huge chunks of the game and forcing suboptimal picks. If X is sufficiently small, it becomes negligible since most people are not swapping, for example, every 20 seconds anyway.
I’d definitely try it out of curiosity!
The game mode would eventually just devolve into everyone playing Meta Mirror match ups like you see in high level competition. It would get boring fast imo.
Not a chance. Playing a hero that could have an absolutely miserable time with no ability to change heroes would be awful
It’d be interesting to see a mode where each player only has a limited number of swaps available.
I could possibly see it working. Maybe. Though, personally, I’d only be cool with a Locked Random Hero mode. Give me a character beyond my choice, force me to play that hero start to finish. It’s a challenge everyone has to deal with and they don’t have the choice of just picking their preferred and best.
This… And actual draft mode!
No thank you.
Role prison lockdown is more than enough handcuffs.
The cell doors need to open more, not less.
I otp anyway so sure. They need to make it so you draft without seeing who’s on the enemy team though.
Also pharmercy and tanks would need serious balance changes.
I’m pretty skeptical towards the idea of banning heroes. Wouldn’t it mostly lead to banning heroes that are effective on certain maps?
If it came with a draft phase.
I believe there was actually a brawl for this when OW came out, but it didn’t have a draft. It should do drafting pretty much exactly like hots (maybe one less ban slot)
I would, the draft part has been pretty much vetoed by this whole community though. But locked roles would def be an interesting experiment.
Absolutely not. Counter picking mid game and knowing how to play multiple heroes well is the biggest thing that sets Overwatch apart from other games. Getting rid of that skillset would be boring. I’d never want to only play one hero
Definitely not as solo tank, but otherwise it could be fun.
Draft doesn’t need to involve any bans. But locking yourself in to blindly playing in to pharmacy with genji+junkrat+rein+lucio+zen is not the smartest of ideas!
And, btw, bans won’t work currently. Champion pool is to shallow in few places to make it work.
yes, so long as they started rebalancing the game around it.