Serious question. What happened to overwatch? It was incredibly popular for the first 6 months or so after release and it was spammed EVERYWHERE. Now it's like no one really plays it anymore, just shitposts about being a healslut or something.
What happened to OWG and is there any fixes?
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It's incredibly unbalanced and people left after the 'honeymoon peroid' in droves to the next flavor of the month
I can't speak for other people but in my personal experience, I just stopped caring for it. Balance is all over the place because all you have to do is whine on forums enough for a character to get nerfed. The game has a super toxic community that complains about everything and bitches at anyone using characters they don't like. The devs are too busy trying to get the community to stop behaving like spoiled brats and the content tends to come too slow because of this. All in all, it's just kind of a mess in my experience. I used to play this regularly with other people but the constant egos and need to win this game "competitively" turned me off to it. I just wanna have fun but this game went from a good time on evenings to leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
i still play every day and it was the game i played the most last year casue i only have a PC and didnt get to play any good games
RELEASE IT ALREADY
I really hate their pacing with the story
>Most of the cinematics are orgin stories still
>Comic releases are incredibly slow and barely progress the story
Just shut the fuck up and post Mercy
In-game content (mostly heroes), lore and patches don't roll out fast enough. Events are recycled. That's about it.
I dont know.
The community is awful.
I literally decided today to just fire my pistol as mercy and I still won half of my qualifiers and im 2750.
Im literally trying to meme my hardest and everyone is so bad and throws, that it doesnt matter what I do because we either steam roll or get steamrollled and the net change is exactly the same.
I think they probably a big part of why people hate it.
I got bored of it, personally.
They fucking changed Mercy completely. Why. What was the point. Holy fuck.
It's like they gear their game towards the PRO CHAMPIONSHIP scene to make more money and be more popular, when they leave 99% of their normal playerbase behind.
ALso, who the fuck came up with Amata. This cunt looks like she belongs ins ome edgy 12 yo's creepy pasta. Fuck. I hate her design, I hate her, I hate everything. Fuck off. Fuck Blizzard.
>Riot uses the term 'Toxic' to describe things they don't like
>Lolbabbies, who are usually ages 9-12, adopt this term and scream about how someone saying gg when they win is actually the same thing as telling someone to kill themselves and even giving google directions to the local hardware store to buy some rope
>Sup Forums thinks this is the stupidest fucking term in the word and the overly sensitive babies that are in league should just stay there
>Fast forward a few years and people on Sup Forums unironically use the word toxic to describe people saying gg ez and not picking the highest win rate heroes 24/7
I don't like this timeline
Game is honestly alright. I play with a few friends some days and we do great in competitive. There's a bunch of nu-male babies that play it though that get easily upset by a fucking video game, but I rarely use voice outside of my own group.
Game's getting a nice flow of content too. I didn't need anything besides some new maps/heros every few months when playing games like League or Halo years ago and I still don't now.
Most people have flocked to /OWG/ on /vg/ as well to talk about the game, so just go there if you want.
It's just boring as fuck. Tf2 isn't fun because the main game is fun. It's just cool to make a custom game or join one and fuck around on a server with 3000000x damage and everyone flys at 400x speed and it's just a crazy shitfest.
Blizz is so scared of people finding out overwatches actual player count that they refuse to release the API. Ever notice why they post shit like
>Ever since the start of the game 20 quadrillion games have been played?
And never mention how many people are currently online?
I still play it from time to time. It's a fun game to just play for about 45 mins. Still a decent following.
you can only jack off to mercy sfm for so long
Its got fun mechanics but the depth of a puddle. People just got bored of it.
Hell if it weren't for deathmatch I wouldn't even be playing it anymore
People got tired of being fucked over by one person on their team sucking dicks. 6v6 only was a fucking mistake.
They changed her because the way she was supposed to be played with the ult res was to actively NOT heal your team mates, hide behind a wall or corner and revive everyone when they eat it. THEN you rush in and heal. Also a full team revive on capture point defense was incredibly strong.
It's almost impossible to play what you enjoy due to the community and the meta fags. Blizzard also fuck the game up more and more with every update.
If you pick something you might enjoy playing you have to put up with being banned, reported, screamed at, having people throw your games deliberately regardless or not of win rate.
If you can aim: You must pick DPS and hope to fucking god that you don't get matched up with either complete retards or people who only play DPS since no-one can aim/position themselves.
A good example would be Junkrat who was buffed a few months back because he was an extremely situational pick. He's still situational only now he requires even less skill to play. You will still have people who one trick only this one hero for the SR benefits and RNG. Junkrat is now considered meta everywhere but the t500 and is absolutely fine to play by retards. I had one in my game who spammed his grenades over the wall on attack the whole game, if the team got three picks he'd stand there waiting because he doesn't have the kill feed.
Comp is just fucked overall and since no-one uses voice or is scared of the big bad world, you may as well play Call of Duty 4 or something.
>They fucking changed Mercy completely. Why. What was the point. Holy fuck.
Comp or casual, killing the entire enemy team only for mercy to bring them all back with no counterplay whatsoever is goddamn awful.
>Complaining about mercy getting valk the strongest ability in the game
>Complaining about not balancing the game around plebs
neo Sup Forums everyone
its a shit game
Is overwatch the only game that you can get banned for not playing it how they want you to play it?
I don't mean things like using bots/cheats/griefing/etc. But like is there any game that bans you for playing for fun?
umm no?
Competitive is fucked entirely. It's a shame because the longer matches and role swapping is more fun than the QP gamemodes. They need to add a non ranked competitive playlist so I can still enjoy the gamemodes without autismos sperging about their skill rating.
It was confirmed by Jeff that you can't get banned for playing what you want, but since they use an partially automated system you can get banned automatically if like 6 people report you for no reason whatsoever.
its a game in a cycle genre. popular mass is moving from overwatch to PUBS, and it will eventually happen to PUBS when a different popular genre cycles through.
Oh that's cool
>Is overwatch the only game that you can get banned for not playing it how they want you to play it?
Yes. Blizzard have stated now that reporting people for playing X character is not allowed but one tricks can still be banned for having fun because people are triggered. Until they fix the ban system from auto banning after X reports it can't be fixed.
There are people who will full on tilt if you don't play a hero they like or don't play mercy for them.
You can't get banned for not joining voice chat either, it's in the rules but people head into comp, play like retards then sperg out because they're playing at a disadvantage.
On the flipside, pick something off meta right at the start and you're getting 4-5 reports a match.
The player-base still takes the meta way too seriously sadly, so if you pick something off meta there's a good chance others on the team will be faggots and throw.
On the brighter side, Mercy (and Junkrat) just got nerfed hard again on the PTR and it looks like she's far from a mandatory hero on the team.
Blizzard can't support a coma patient. All of their games have diminishing returns and they don't care. Look forward to Overwatch PUBG in the future.
Comp is 100% fucked.
They could fix it, but the playerbase would have to adapt.
You'd need Avoid this player back on a 2-4 week purge and it only bans them from being on your own team. If you have someone avoided and you're the only person with the other 4 in the queue to have that person avoided then you have to wait longer times.
Forcing people to auto join voice would be good since there are people who don't tilt and actually give useful info and are alright.
As you said, the only thing that makes comp even slightly fun is that you have better games, SR autismos will ruin it though. I just want to play the game and do my best, comp has that atmosphere most of the time until the one junkrat main on the team spergs out because no-one is killing the fully charged Zarya or Widow and you're stuck trying to fill.
There's a huge difference between doing your best and playing DPS when you're utter dogshit at it and complaining when someone who is better than you is cucked into playing a support/tank.
If I get into a game and we have 1 or 2 tanks and they're not a shield tank and everyone's playing into counters: Best thing I can do is low tier throw/not try after I see how it pans out. Better to lose a game in 2 rounds than be stuck battling for a dray.
Stopped reading at toxic
>toxic
>counter-play
>meta
Literally the holy trinity of nu-male gaymers.
I could legit play hanzo, have the gold at 30 elims with 20ish being final blows, and still get yelled out despite being the only one getting picks
The mechanical skill of the playerbase has risen but the game sense remains the same. They don't have the presence of mind to move in when a sniper gets a lucky pick, it's like they need me to kill half the fucking team before they walk past the choke
Team Comp built around the map > 'meta' picking. Having mercy on every team every game = playing meta. Playing two tanks on your team = playing with two or more braincells. Playing the better tank combo = winning the game. Never playing tank because you think you're either too good enough and need to dps or too bad and can only play mercy = being retarded.
>Brighter side
>3rd nerf
Simple, casuals and normies are tourists exploring the recently normalized "geek" culture.
Let the tourists take pictures and leave. Once it's all said and done we might get good games again.
>What happened to /owg/
HAve you tried not being a retard and actually looking for it? IT's still there now go back to your bait trash.
That's what happens when you have a hero in the game who can correct a mistake instantly and no other hero in the game has a similar skill. You can't fix mercy until you either remove resurrection or give it to another hero too.
NO. CONTENT.
Solutions to your problem:
>Join Voice
>Announce pick
>They're three people down
>They have no healers/tanks
Things that will stop you from doing this:
>No-one joins team voice chat
I play with somehow who tilt picks widow and it works. 9 times out of 10 your team is too stupid to look at a kill feed and walk 10 meters past a chokepoint.
I just stopped playing right before Junkertown was released, because they never buffed pharah or fixed her shitty ass ult. The balance was all over the place too, how can Blizzard take so long to tweak and modify the heroes? The content is lacking too. How long has it been since they released a new hero?
Everyone moved on to pubg, fortnite, and R6 Siege. Overwatch hasn't added anything that's worth writing home about and every match plays out exactly the same
Giving her instant 2 man rez was a mistake. Now that she can't instantly nullify 1/3 of a team's kills she's in a good spot.
I'm also happy that Mercy main numbers will drop and I won't get bitched at for not having a Mercy on the team every single fucking game I play.
>how can Blizzard take so long to tweak and modify the heroes?
Competitive & consoles. They won't make a move on a character because while the season's still active it could "break" the game.
Don't they release patches during the season though?
I was Mercy earlier and I got cornered by the enemy flankers (because my dps are shit and dont peel) and I then 2v1ed both tracer and sombra. Then I went into my ult and flew back out to the point and killed reinhardt and roadhog and then sombra again and we held the point.
Then like 4 of my teamamtes proceeded to call me a fucking retard and cuss at me over mic because "mercy is supposed to be healing NOT USING HER PISTOL!!!!!!!!! XD REDDIT UPVOTE"
>I'm also happy that Mercy main numbers will drop and I won't get bitched at for not having a Mercy on the team every single fucking game I play.
I like your positivity, dude.
>Get into comp game
>smash that motherfucking P button
>hover over the three mercy mains on my team
>say hello
>fill pick to put them at ease
>DPS not DPS'ing
>Tanks out of position and feeding
>Supports dead silent
>not a word is spoken by any of the mercy players on my team
>last 2 minutes of the game
>mercy infighting on voice commences
>they're all girls and trannies
They can pick other heroes, doesn't mean that they understand how the game works or have the mechanical skill to capitalise on it
There is literally like 16 days of the year when there is not a season running. Hell, between the last season and the one that just started there was only 4 days of offseason.
I really hope youre good at photoshop and this is just a fucking joke because she was already mechancailly destroyed but if they makes these changes, there is literally no reason to play mercy ever and it makes her the worst hero in the game by far.
>Only hero in the game with resurrect and the ability to undo a retard's actions
>literally no reason to play Mercy ever
oh you
If you are in a group and don't join team channel I will always pick Bastion.
I even ask politely for all to join team channel. Don't be a bitch.
>jacking off to overwatch sfm
its so boring though
all the threads i see dedicated to in /gif/ are just filled with a few second long webms
save for that futa widowmaker one but even that is lame
Never said I ignore voice chat. I almost always play with 5 other people, so the only times I'm in team chat is when one or more of us isn't able to meet up.
Hell, I also ask people to join the voice chat if I'm in it so they can't have an excuse for not communicating.
Blizzard has failed to balance the characters.
I actually think they're trying to achieve this the wrong way(buffs/nerfs), I think they need to overhaul the maps and make certain path ways andchoke points viable to certain characters/team comps.
This.
And this.
This is why Blizzard games suck. Instead of playtesting things or listen to the people who do, they just throw around numbers and hope it turns out right. It's like trying to build a house with dynamite. Blow up a pile of bricks and hope they form walls when landing.
>Doing something that good era Splash Damage could do with dirty bomb
>ruining the aesthetics of their perfectly crafted maps when they can just increase/decrease cooldowns
come on boy
I fap to Overwatch more than I do normal porn
its been like this for months
The girls are Black Cock Only btw
>tons of heroes with 1 shot ability
>tons of heroes with 1.5s kill time
>he is threatened by someone who becomes completely immobile with a flashing vocal cast who has to stop healing entirely to revive
Nigga just fucking shoot her in the head shes not moving.
Shoot her fucking teammates if you cant do that because they arent going to get healing for at least 4 seconds.
If you cant insta revive, whats the point?
Something else can just outheal mercy during the revive.
If you think wasting that 4 seconds to revive anyone ever is a good idea then youre fucking retarded and going to die every single time you try and revive.
>le dive into a revive
>I also mercy ult and just stand in the middle of the street and hold rmb and literally anyone can 1 shot you while you EPIC LMG REVIVE
>I then hold down rmb and heal like 2,000 hp while you are still staring at your respawn timer
Until they fix Junkfag, Mercy, Pigfuck, and Moria, I'm done with this shit.
The game still have over 20 million monthly active users so it's still popular
people are slowly figuring out that it's not fun to lose because no one on your team likes playing a healer and tank
1. It's shallow, even more shallow than a certain similar shooter developed 10+ years prior, there's not really anything to learn other than when to use your ult and who the FOTM carry-me hero is
2. The developers dont care for the input of pros, they care solely for the dumb casuals and housewives (who buy the most lootboxes) which means design philosophy leads to the above point
3. Pretty much all new content is just whatever Blizzard could scrape off some other game, or lootbox costumes
4. The developers are absolute babies terrified of their own fanbase, they want to pander while simultaneously being too afraid to interact with them
5. Blizzard was stripped of talent ages ago, which is why their only successful series is a P2W chinese card game (that is also losing plays) and the virtual equivalent of stockholm syndrome
6. Shitty horrible waifu culture, the biggest cancer ever conceived by the internet (yes, even worse than furries and SJWs)
>perfectly crafted maps
>choke point after choke point after choke point
cmon son
The game is just not fun. The victory conditions lead to matches being lopsided. Heroes fill their niche and don't do much outside of that so depending on the role playing solo you have minimal impact on the match. Maps have no flow and are just random geometry with tons of choke points. The rank system is fucked and adds tons of algorithms to a simple w/l system making losses sting and wins feel empty. I heard they worked on some of the issues but this game is just not fun.
Nothing sucks more than playing your role and just having everything fall apart because healing and tanking is just that. With dps the elims are the means to an end so playing your role wins matches.
It's casual garbage
I have fun playing it, and I still find matches in no time even in my third world servers, so I assume in first world countries it's even faster.
I think it's fun, it's obviously not perfect, but then again what game is?
It's not fun to have to play certain heroes to win
I play other games because other games let me play what i want all the time
even fucking destiny 2 pvp is better
>I think it's fun, it's obviously not perfect, but then again what game is?
Black Ops 1
>south american has no standards whatsoever
part of the problem is it's not casual enough for the casual audience it's trying to be but it's not properly balanced for the hard core audience it's trying to cultivate
The game is way more popular in America than it is here, so your argument is kind of stupid. Sup Forums reminds me of my granda, always a bitter cunt complaining about anything, like you faggots simply cannot have nice things, if you see people having fun you have to go and try to spoil it
>check thread out to see how it's going
>filled with mercy tears
>people angry at the devs because reasons
>mass downvoting of any post that supports the change or even a change to anything
>death threats being deleted
I kinda see what Jeff meant when he said the team were scared to post.
>The balance was all over the place too, how can Blizzard take so long to tweak and modify the heroes?
Just see above, my friend.
Overwatch's balance patches are an absolute fucking mess because they're trying to cater to both gold/silver tier babies and professional esports players at the same time
They nerfed Lucio multiple times in the past in attempts to make him less OP in higher level games (or esports games), but it ultimately did nothing and just made Lucio less fun for casuals
They nerfed Hog a long time ago because casuals complained about him, despite him not being OP in esports/tournament play, so esports players had less fun playing Hog
Casuals also complained about old Mercy, who was (mostly) okay in esports-level matches but extremely unfun for casuals to see 4 or 5 man rezzes, so they reworked her and made her even more OP which makes her way more anti-fun on esports/high level players
Blizzard fucking balances the game around Reddit, yet they're also hosting professional, multi-million dollar tournaments too
They try to make the game appeal for both causals and professional players, but ultimately make it less fun for both sides
and then they tell mei players to eat a dick and go die in a fire
>It was incredibly popular for the first 6 months or so after release and it was spammed EVERYWHERE.
Because Blizzard paid shills a redditor idiots followed what was popular
No, the game was just a legitimately fun casual game to dick around in
Nowadays Blizzard doesn't even know if they want this game to be a casual or a competitive game, so they try to make it both and it ends up sucking shit at being both
As long as Mercy has Res' she will remain mandatory. 30 sec cooldown is a short time when you consider the impact it can produce.
If Blizz wants to fix that, they need to introduce another healer with Res.
>the game was just a legitimately fun casual game to dick around in
Not him but I got bored in 4 or 5 hours during the open beta. Is a terrible FPS.
The game was never fun unless it was your first multiplayer FPS or you're a CODdrone who only cares about ego stroking. There is way too many flaws like shitty map design, bad hitboxes, slow walkspeeds, characters with shit utility, etc.
Most of the initial "fan"base were literal normies only in it for the fad who were never gonna stick around past the first summer anyway. See Pokemon Go for a similar story.
>slow walkspeeds
stuck out to me badly and I'm a filthy casual. Im amazed anyone with pretenses of being competitive would touch a game this slow. I still enjoy it, but heavily prone to picking soldier if only for the dash.
The meta was getting boring and the first junkenstien event was a blatantly shitty ripoff of MVM.
Blizzard balancing is always all or nothing. Why do they never do things gradually?
Used to play OW religiously, realised I was spending too much time babysitting retards and stopped. Hovered between high Diamond, low Masters.
>Everyone wants to play "carry heroes" (DPS, off-tank), rarely get dedicated supports and main tanks
>Too teamwork oriented for your individual impact to matter, unless you're absurdly better than the rest of your rank
>Corollary of the above, a single thrower/troll can't be balanced out and will cause a loss
>Game built on teamwork, hero swaps and strategy has almost none; impossible to work out even the most basic plan with randoms.
>One-tricks.
>Trolls and smurfs drive out a lot of casuals, leaving with just trolls and tryhards; toxic atmosphere, people tilt off the face of the earth if you lose first point
Blizzard doesn't really fix anything, and wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want a thriving competitive scene, a large casual playerbase and they also don't want to take punitive action against anyone. Prime example: Mercy is currently Overpowered as fuck, but she's been like this for literally 3.5 months because she's a low-skill casual hero + waifu. It takes them literally 2 months to even communicate that something needs balancing, even in the face of widespread community petitioning, and then another 2 months to actually roll out the changes. Blizzard won't acknowledge that smurfs are a problem (why would they - they're the only people still buying the game), can't decide what they want to do about one-tricks, and it takes literally 2000+ reports to get a week-long ban.
Blizzard have been terrified of letting people mod their games ever since Dota happened. It's understandable to see why.
Because of Junkrat being OP and being in every game it has caused Zarya to be in most games. Thus I can't play Dva often.
Now I can't play Mercy.
Mei is useless currently.
What is if with Blizzard? They hate cute girls.
t. Mercy main
Who here is just waiting for Blizzard to make a single player Overwatch game so I don't have play with the retards and the assholes that litter the Intenet?
>Blizzard won't acknowledge that smurfs are a problem
Smurfs are a thing in every game though. It's the rankings fault that they aren't shot up to their proper rank and not thrown into low elo simply because they are new or have shit teammates. Placement matches don't do anything and competitive rank is a grind/abuse SR by playing suboptimally to gain more points.
>Slow walkspeeds
That's why I dropped it, it got to the point that I felt like I HAD to play Lucio because everyone else was so painfully slow, but then actually trying to shoot at people with Lucio isn't fun.
Nearly the entire OW community is a bunch of low IQ fags that came from SP. It shows because they can't grasp basic teamwork even at the Top 500?GM level.
mercy is so strong the nerf wasn't enough and she's still at something like 80%+ on all platforms throughout all ranks. resurrection is huge. her ult allows 2 instant resurrections.
if you don't have a mercy on your team and the enemy team does, you are at a severe disadvantage.
Haven't played in a long time but out of the maybe 3 weeks I did play 80% of the time it was nasally soyboys trying to take shit all seriously and being gigantic faggots about everything.
The only time I ever had fun was when I was drunk and dicking around and 2 little kids decided to take the piss with me and we dicked around for like 6 matches. We ended up winning all of them. They added me and I ghosted them but cheers m8s, top bantz. Fuck blizzard.
>Blizzard balancing is always all or nothing. Why do they never do things gradually?
Or, like, test things before they release them...
Complete style over substance. It's fun for a short while but its normie-pandering design and under-thought levels limit the amount of variety you see from one game or skill level to the next. That shit gets staaaaaaaaaale.
They should, though.
