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For context, Blizzards entire game library monthly active users was around 25 million prior to Overwatch 2 release.
For context, Blizzards entire game library monthly active users was around 25 million prior to Overwatch 2 release.
Yeah, they removed a Tank, which is the biggest one. Tanks gave your team a place to congregate, now that they don't have partners everything just becomes a clusterfuck with everyone jumping around. The meta will be stale incredibly quickly with 1 Tank too, which was what this game was supposed to help.
Not to mention the monetization is insane. You could literally get more rewards in 2 hours of OW1 as a free player than the entire OW2 Free Battle Pass, it might be the worst Battle Pass ever made. They removed the On Fire mechanic, after match cards, and MVP vote, you can't endorse the enemy team anymore, and Endorsement levels give trash Battle Pass exp now anyway. They made all the graphics uglier, the guns all try to sound more "realistic", but really just sound more the same. They added a worthless scoreboard too, which will just make people more toxic. The game has almost 40 characters and they all heal and do damage differently, a scoreboard tells you almost nothing valuable.
It basically feels like a stripped down mobile version of Overwatch. The changes piss off a lot of people like me who played every day, and the people they're trying to court will go back to other games cause this one is hideously unrewarding and boring. I expect queue times to get very high in the next couple months, and they're going to be cleaning up bugs for a long time instead of developing content, like every shitty live service. Overwatch 1 had almost 0 bugs and ran on a toaster, losing it for this soulless cashgrab is sad.
Yep, you go queue, fight fight fight, then back to the fucking Battle Pass menu during requeue. No one ever sticks around for POTG anymore either cause there are no cards to see. Blizzard just changed a ton of shit and didn't think of like secondary effects, you know? Comp queues are also like 10 minutes for anything that isn't Support, and it only updates your Rank every 7 wins or 20 losses. Like what? Bastion is also removed from the game at the moment because of a huge bug with his ult.damn they got rid of cards?? Getting cards as Ana always felt great lol.
Man, I unlocked Competitive play, and all of the stuff I had seen online about it being toxic as hell was so accurate. It's especially funny because I just started, so I know I am at the absolute bottom rung, yet you get guys every match talking like they are e-sports pros. Usually get a tank who rushes headfirst into the entire enemy team, cries that they didn't get healed, then spams the "Thanks" emote for the rest of the game. It's a blast, lol.
I am new to the game, so maybe I am missing something, but is D-Va's ult the cheapest shit ever? It just seems like free kills, and she can even do it when you kill her mech to get it back instantly. The range is just insane.
Maybe it's just a noob killer. I always get at least two kills with it. It's like Junkrat's tire, except you get a full heal, too. And on the receiving end, there are times when I know it's coming but still can't escape in time. I have seen quite a few people launch it nearly straight up, so you don't really see it until it lands.Dva's Ult to me is actually kind of useless. I have Rein most of the time though so I just easily block it. There's always stuff to hide behind also. The only real time it gets me is when I hide behind something but she's in the air and it gets me which is kind of BS.
Maybe it's just a noob killer. I always get at least two kills with it. It's like Junkrat's tire, except you get a full heal, too. And on the receiving end, there are times when I know it's coming but still can't escape in time. I have seen quite a few people launch it nearly straight up, so you don't really see it until it lands.
What role(s) do you guys prefer to play? I usually go support, sometimes tank. I don't feel good enough to play DPS yet.
Game sucks ass but me and my friends love to hate on it while playing. The matchmaking is horrible both in terms of queue times unless you are 5-stacking and skill wise. Waaaay to many steam rolls going on to the point of it being incredibly obvious that one team was much better than the other.
I don't know man. I was just playing it. I was stuck low gold for a long time. Go up to mid gold and get rolled. Play against that team again and smash them. Party up with my random team. Smash another game. One of the guys on my team drops from mid gold to low gold. Play again, smash again.
I don't think steam rolls are indicative of skill disparities. I think that the game is designed to promote steam rolls. Two teams can be completely equal. One side starts off with a lucky sniper kill, and the enemy team trickles for 5 minutes if they aren't careful. You can get two points off one lucky pick if the other team can't read the map, and then suffer the same yourself against the other team.
I see what youre saying but I'm talking about steam rolls where the elim disparity is MASSIVE throughout the whole game. Like both on offense/defense. I've legit been in a match where we got a total of 1 (yes 1!!!!) elim the whole game and also been on the other side where we the opposing team barely gets a total of 5. Other matches the DPS will have like a 5.00 EDR and the other team is like barely 1.00 EDR or lower.
I agree tho that generally speaking steamrolls in this game are a bit normal, at least up until the other team can time a big ult combo or something to try to swing it back in their favor. Especially with how aggressive generally the tanks are in this game shit can go downhill super fast if they or the DPS pick off the healers right away.
So, I have been seeing a lot of negativity toward this game. Two videos in my YouTube feed: "Overwatch 2 is Unacceptable Garbage" and "Overwatch 2 is a New Low in Gaming". Am I too old? Is it just outrage culture? Because I don't get it. It's a full AAA game released for free. When I first launched the game, I expected to only have a handful of free heroes, but they're all there. I guess I just never realized that gamers at large care so much about cosmetic shit. It's crazy to me.
Am I too old? Is it just outrage culture? Because I don't get it. It's a full AAA game released for free.