(YO) Devs Say Overwatch 2 is Already BALANCED!

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After a rocky launch Blizzard is giving away free skins, double xp and a health pack weapon charm on Oct 25. In today’s blog post the devs discuss the current balance state and why they will be holding off any further changes until Season 2, with winrates in what they would consider a healthy range after a week of play.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:14 FREE SKIN
00:55 Overwatch 2 is Already Balanced
02:22 Dva isn’t as OP as you think
03:30 Junker Queen & Doomfist
05:11 Genji, Sojourn & Sombra
06:19 Symmetra & Torbjorn
07:22 Kiriko
09:20 Season 1 Map Pool
10:55 Competitive Bronze 5 Bug
12:57 Hit Registration & Rubber Banding
14:53 PC Performance Tips for Input Responsiveness

edit: Did some math for you guys: (Math) “We are going to “Faster” at putting out Patches…” - General Discussion - Overwatch Forums (blizzard.com)

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Welcome to clown world, honk honk.

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I’m about to have a Joker moment over this game, I swear to god.

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:clown_face::clown_face:
Me for giving the devs any benefit of the doubt. I can’t believe they managed to mess the game up more than just abandoning it for 3 years

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Balanced in the world of dreams, the OW Team and the devs live in the worlds full of colors and unicorns, a festival of clowns and jokes in bad taste is what they are.

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I think it’s funny that this Keller image keeps getting used.

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Well for what ow2 was meant to do… it is indeed balanced.

A flanker, dps centric, high mobility with no counter dps fest. It is perfectly balanced to do that.

Maybe it is 98% balanced. Moira can contest and fend off Flankers, that soon might be “fixed” so our mythic skin ninja isnt disturbed.

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Im having a blast honestly and while i think sombra and moira are too strong they are not overpowered.

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Guess win rates even if they have 0.1% pick rate gonna count :sunglasses:

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I’m not even saying they should put out a balance patch right now, but not until Season 2? That’s another 2 months out.

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now you know what live service means for OW2.
Remember when Blizzard was known for uber-polished gameplay and balance?
Not the current Blizzard. This is tone def and manipulative at best (doomfist is fine lol, the game doesn’t have any issues the players are stupid and don’t know how to aim, etc).

Blizzard might soon discover another side of live service. The players will decide if the game is worth their time. When you pay for a game, you are automatically invested and want to get something for your buck. With a pletora of free2play fps, it will become harder for OW2 to stand out as the game is buggy and imbalanced.

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You’d think the devs could just do some “lightweight” changes using serverside variable changes only.
To start with, maybe give Symmetra the Level 3 DPS she’s supposed to have.

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They certainly wont nerf any of the main heroes, especially Genji. You can expect it on Season 2 and when… lets say, maybe Tracer, is the one with the Mythic Skin on the Battlepass, then genji will get a little slap on the fist and tracer will get some buffs.

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So basically the exact same scenario we had in OW1.

Out of all the heroes only a handful are viable, while the roster has some heroes that are considered god-tier while others are below trash tier.

Guess it’s 2+ months of Zarya, Dva, Orisa, Moira, Genji and Sombra. While every other hero is either mediocre or downright bad.

And they expect this game to have a healthy playerbase how long exactly…?

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If you actually read the blog post instead of this clickbait YouTuber title, you’ll see they didn’t say the game is balanced and talked about a host of balance changes for season 2

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Supports are fine in general. Mercy is the only “bad” one, but she can stay alive great at least with her new GA, she just struggles having impact in general.

Brig is more survivable than in OW1, Lucio is more survivable, Moira is more survivable, Bap is more survivable

Supports are all (aside from Mercy) impactful

Genji and Sombra are overtuned but that’s not a Support issue

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Yes. Whatever happened to “we will balance quicker”? 2+ months of Genji and Sombrawatch is not quite… good.

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Yes, I hate it too - more Sombra than Genji as I think she is absolutely busted.

But that still doesn’t make this clickbait accurate.

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And well… Symmetra in her current state exists… its kinda bold for the devs to say the game is balanced when this miserable sorry creature exists in the game.

But if the devs are happy because of some statistics or spreedsheet, then go for it champs.

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some of the wording the devs use really annoys me.

‘we will continue to make more improvements to competitive’ as if they haven’t literally only made it worse.
trying to spin map pools as making the new season fresh instead of the reality being the current season is stale.
each season having a distinct identity being a PR way to say ‘balance is hard, we will force metas instead’.

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