Is it just me or does Overwatch kind of feel like it's winding down...

Is it just me or does Overwatch kind of feel like it's winding down? The latest characters just haven't had the hype and surprise that the first ones had. What do you think? Also, what kind of character would you like to see next? Where are they from, what do they do differently from the current heroes?

might as well start an Overwatch hate thread.
The only thing you have to do in Overwatch is aim at people and occasionally press buttons

It panders to normies and these quickly move to the new fad memegames.

In other news, water is wet.

So do they fuck or is this it?

This. Remember Pokemon Go? It was hyped up and normalfags who never even played a pokemon game were going nuts and pretending like they're huge nostalgia pokemon fans just because of the fad. Now look at the game after the fad has ended, just a shitshow of hackers. Overwatch will probably end up the same in a couple years.

OW will keep a population of drones tho. Just look at D3.

Sombra, ana and Doomfist were all foreshadowed.
Orisa had a stage change to foreshadow her introduction.

Moira got nthing

Id understand breast envy in Koreans but lesbians??

Overwatch is just another classic example of Blizzard shooting themselves in the foot because they have no idea how to fucking balance a game.

The Mercy changes a while ago killed the game for me and basically any friends I had playing it, including this one chick I know that bought a brand new PC just so she could play it.

Youve just described every video game

Worst Korea is a social justice cesspool.

>Overwatch feels like it's winding down
Well, we're certainly getting less of those OVERWATCH IS FUCKING DOOMED threads considering we got plenty of em for about a year straight.

dev cycle is too overburdened with trying to make more tools to punish people for saying bad words because SJWs can't just use the mute function like everyone else. not enough people working fast enough on new content and balance changes. there's also the fact that the game initially came out as a fun casual shooter and did a complete 180 suddenly about e-sports. suddenly playing the game became a job where you aren't allowed to leave games even if they're blatantly not fun.

tl;dr it's dead

You should never be able to just quit competitive games. People were blacklisting players for that back in the early 2000s.

Mercy herself was killing fun, they never should have designed her that way.

Blizzard has more Overwatch devs working on ways to babysit the community than they have devs making new content.

i don't give a shit about retards who take this casual shooter "seriously" for "competitive" gameplay, i'm talking about the real game.

>tfw overwatch could've been a MMORPG

It's dying.
Me and a whole bunch of friends played it a lot in the first 6 months, logged over 500 hours each, and then just sort of lost interest, around about the time PUBG came out.

No-one I know plays it even 1/10th as much as they used to. We'll never know for sure though, because Blizzard are too pussy to publish concurrent/active player numbers.

I wouldnt be surprised if Paladins had more players at this point

People seem to be ignoring the fact that absolutely no one is going to be playing the same game with the same frequency a year or more later. Maybe if it was a legit MMO which also has the backing psychology of a paid subscription, but there will always be a player activity drop off in any online game. That being said, I don’t think it’s “dead” at all. People like to exaggerate.

Great porn though.

>You should never be able to just quit competitive games
True. Also you shouldn't force competitive matches in your casual shooter. You could join and leave normal games (servers) in every non-shit FPS.

It's actually super looked down upon if you have big boobs in Korea

The shitty community and balancing scared off anyone with half a brain, and when PUBG came out the rest left for that. Blizzard have nobody to blame for this but themselves.

>The shitty community
community isnt even bad compared to how blizzard handles the community

>literally 3 skills per class
Blizzard's MMO design went from WoW to wew.

Korea was a mistake...

>Lets focus on eSports rather than actually improving our game

>no diminishing returns for healing on healers
>junkrat has three times the effective range of most heroes and can still one shot the majority of the cast at point blank range
>scatter arrow
>McCree is supposed to be a duelist but doesn’t have the mobility for it
>roadhog charges enemy ults constantly unlike the other tanks
>DPS characters largely outnumber tanks and healers but the only viable comp is still 2/2/2
All this plus the mercy ult fiasco has thoroughly convinced me that the overwatch team is made up of chimpanzees.

brainlet detected. keep enjoying your shit game

I felt the game greatly lost my interest during the beta weekend and release week.
I blame the 6v6 format having way too few players and the maps design being really boring.

But the game is hardly competitive.
I know that comparison gets made a lot, but when was the last time.someone got mad at a player quitting from a TF2 or CS1.6 public casual server mid game?

Blizzard handles it by going after the wrong people. They put all the blame on harmless trash talkers when people who throw games and act like an ass over their team's picks get off scot free.

Except I’ve seen this board actively defend this saying “I’ll play the game I paid for my way.” Dont even pretend this isn’t a thing.

So play quick match. I don't care what game it is, don't queue for comp then quit. You're not more important than the 11 other people in the game.
It has quickplay and servers. Use those.
No one gets mad if you quit quickplay mid game. You're not making an accurate comparison. Don't queue for comp if you want to play casually. There's a fucking designated casual mode.

>this board
>actively defend OW

He's not wrong though.
That covers every genre of videogames except some sims and early platformers

Well yeah, those people are in the right. It shouldn't be 'one trickers' who should be getting banned, but the people who endlessly piss and whine about it.

If your whole team wants you out then maybe you should change how you play. In a different game you would just be vote kicked anyway.

>It has quickplay and servers. Use those.
Cool. Can I select the game mode and map too?

Well the game makes you want to pull your hair out if you play it "competitively" AKA try 100% to win.

You could teach a game design course using OW as an example of what not to do

Game will never be this hype.

On servers I believe so yeah. Not on quickplay. You can play all sorts of clowny shit on the server browser.

every single new thing they add doesn't build on what they already built story wise. imagine if instead of moira you got junker queen, and instead of sombra being a random troll doll mexican she was an omnic.

they try to make new characters too "quirky" whereas the original ones at least had semi-normal appearance and sensible reasons to be in the game. doomfist wants to start a war because he's thinks wars cause evolution. sombra actually has no perceivable reason at all to do what she does. if they released overwatch as an actual comic series it'd read like silver age batman shit. 'why is this bad guy robbing a pet store with a ketchup gun?' 'who fucking cares he looks weird and is doing evil things kick his ass'.

finally the game itself is painful, losing badly in overwatch inspires this overwhelming sense of total futility that people will probably never find anywhere else except MOBAs.

anyone else get super hyped by blizz shit and then after a few weeks you realize it's actually a pretty shallow game not worth playing

wish I could enjoy their shit again

So, the point of casual play being inferior to every FPS released 20 years ago still stands. Nice game m8.

What the fuck are you smoking

No one cares about the quirkyness of the characters you troglodyte. Sombra's skillset does not make sense. Let's compare her to the spy

Spy
>Invis
>Main attack is the knife - Instantly killing an opponent as a reward for successfully sneaking
>Cloak ability which synergies with invis and knife
Sombra
>Ticklegun that does nothing
>Hacking ability that is interrupted easily
>Nothing she does synergies

Shit character overall.

How do you figure? Quickplay has been quickplay for like the last decade. It just drops you in an open game. If you want a custom server go browse for one.

>quckplay has been shit for like the last decade
Yeah, that's my point, you dense motherfucker.

>your whole team
Never happened in my experience, it's always one douche who wants it to be 'his turn' with a character, or who cares way too much about hero meta and keeping the 2-2-2 formation.

So use the fucking server browser. What is wrong with you.

>missing the point
What is wrong with you?

>this shit doesn't look ridiculous

i'll dumb it down.
all ex-overwatch characters have a reason to join, they're a defunct superhero group facing the same problem they came together to prevent.

with the villains, reaper wants revenge, his involvement in the overall "plot" makes sense.
widowmaker assassinated someone under orders for political reasons, her involvement in the overall "plot" makes sense.

sombra: I'M AN UGLY FLURO HAIRED CUNT LMAO I HAX U

>doomfst: HURRRR MUH SOCIAL DARWINISM I BROKE OUT OF JAIL AND STOLE A GLOVE OOGA BOOGA

moira: I'm SOOOOOOOOO CLEVER AND THE BAD GUYS NEEDED A HEALER CHECK MY HAIRCUT I'M SMART BTW

What the fuck is your point "I don't like one of the three available ways to find a game so the game is shit" is that really what you're saying?

>it's actually a pretty shallow game not worth playing

This, they over casualised the hero shooter formula to the point where it's too shallow to be enjoyable for more than a few weeks. Fucking Splatoon 2 has more depth (and better balance) than this shit.

If it's one guy then his report isn't enough to matter. You need be getting reported constantly for anything to happen. I honestly don't play OW unless friends ask me to, but I've never been banned or muted or whatever in the 6 months I've had it.

>after a few weeks you realize it's actually a pretty shallow game not worth playing
Most people (myself included), noticed that after some hours during the open beta.

Splatoon 2 was designed by people that actually play shooters.

OW is casual but let's not get carried away and say things we don't mean.

"Lore" is probably the smallest problem of OW, dude.

Reminder, the only thing that was ever good about overwatch was the porn.

Moira was referenced in the Doomfist comic, check the last page.

Not being a tactical ADS shooter is an inherent positive. I'm so fucking sick of those games.

the only thing left to complain about now is the characters, everyone knows the actual game itself is AIDS

overwatch is fucking racist
you think just because you make 'positive' stereotypes of races it isn't racist?
it is

yeah keep adding characters

keep changing the way the game plays every few weeks

that'll be sure to keep people interested, gives them plenty of time to constantly revise strategies instead of refining them and improving

They need to make all the characters queer

The base idea isn't bad tho. If the movement were like Q3, the balance like Dota, the maps weren't complete shit and the max number of players weren't 12 to sell it on consoles, it could be a good game.

t.captain obvious

you are right, but overwatch was shit far before the mercy change, and honestly if you bought this game you knew what you were getting. They still balance WoW like a bunch of baboons, you actually expected blizzard to have some kind of competence in a "competitive" press ult simulator?

Quake's movement is awful though

overwatch lore is like FNAF lore, it's largely fan speculation. also the community is fucking wrong constantly.

What should the players be set to? Less is better in like 99% of cases. More just dilutes player skill.

>why not just play Quake/NuDoom and fap to best girl D.Va?

>Moira
What is that? Some kind of South African food?

>Is it just me or does Overwatch kind of feel like it's winding down?
more like burning to the ground

Would you care to elaborate?

>no diminishing returns for healing on healers

What do you mean by that?

Glitch from Metal Arms. Pretty sure Blizz still owns him since they bought Swingin Ape and put them on the vaporware that was Starcraft Ghost

TF2 lore is a literal joke yet it still manages to be entertaining and make some degree of sense

Overwatch takes its story very seriously yet it's stupid and incoherent

I pretty much stopped playing after the Roadhog nerf. Can't be arsed to learn a new main. desu I suck at shooters and don't have any time to git gud because of work. no bully pls

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>entire character premise is "every 12 seconds I delete an enemy hero (if I can aim)"
>decide that's simply not the character's premise anymore
>now he is tjorbjorbj only instead of making useless turrets he mildly inconveniences you every so often

the problem is they tried to appeal to the league crowd, hence why so many league players actually played the shit out of it early on, and in league you can one trick something and actually do shit.

Obviously the games are very different, but don't go bitching about one tricks when they appealed to the faggot fanbase of league to begin with to try and take its players. Blizz is STILL salty that they lost the strangle hold on esports that SC had to league

>you share this board with these people

>Shit character overall.
yeah except spy is an even worse design since he is actually completely useless against decent players. at least sombra is sometimes used in high level games

>The only thing you have to do in Overwatch is aim at people and occasionally press buttons
You mean like every multiplayer FPS ever?

Sure as hell has more content

I play Unreal on my own or fighting games if I want to be competitive, I play OW because my friends like it.

>OW
>TF2
>high level games

I don't play either game seriously but every game has high level and low level games. Even some casual as fuck shit like splatoon looks different at high or low level.

>spy is an even worse design since he is actually completely useless against decent players.

Spy is not a character you use constantly, he is a specialist character. You use Spy briefly to disrupt an enemy rush because they don't expect the invisible instant death class to situate himself behind their intricately planned ball of death. This is a niche unique to him because he's not sitting back with the Sniper's bolt action primary, he is right there gaining speed boosts and chain stabbing and all that bullshit.

Sombra is a bad character because she has a kit designed to be used constantly, but every element of it is horribly underwhelming. And the in-game ult system means you have to spend a minimum amount of time as this very useless character to use her one useful ability, being continuously useless rather than whipping her out to counter a specific situation.

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Not every character has to be good 100% of the time. Some characters can be situational.

I can recognise that vagina.

Name one thing that's wrong with the balance in Splatoon 2 that's anywhere near as bad as Overwatch.

tf2 can be pretty competitive, it just needs a specific format

>high level and low level games
>high level gaming
You people are so pathetic

Even drones gave up on it. My most blizzdrone-y friend who reminds me of every sale and every free weekend doesn't even have it installed anymore.