I think the game was just a bad idea fundamentally. Its closest comparison is TF2 which wisely never added more playable characters, so the core cast could feel versatile. Overwatch drawing from MOBAs with ults and tons of characters made players feel helpless.
An entire generation has long felt the novelty of voice chat wear off and has little desire to engage any more when it comes to certain games. Overwatch's demands for coordination became more nauseating as result. Especially because there was no opportunity to just dick around in voice chat, you had to be in game mode all the time. This affected all levels of play, from the top of the ladder to the absolute least competent so long as they had basic game knowledge. Overwatch is designed to be highly accessible and yet also demands high levels of coordination.
It was constantly trying to cater to casual and competitive mindsets while pleasing neither. Everyone ended up feeling like they lacked agency.
>demands high levels of coordination
This is why the only thing missing from the original game, was clans. I don't understand how they pussied out on this one. Ranked was originally supposed to be just clans against each other.
No one talks or even text communicates in the game. It's so bad that even training against AI ends up being a shit show with randos. The new Junkenstein sequel mode being a broken mess doesn't bode well for PvE at all.
I really wish Overwatch was more like TF2. Teams could be 10v10 or something, maps a lot larger, ults happen relatively more often, but they take longer to charge up and no saving them when you die. Servers are perpetually going all the time, people come and go, most everyone is just messing around most of the time but will occasionally band together to achieve the objective. The nature of the gameplay would really suit that instead of the Esports shit they forced onto what could've been a fun game.
The Fortnite battle pass is the best one since each page is dedicated to a skin and pays for the next pass with a little extra. If Overwatch did theirs like Fortnite, where each tier is all stuff for a single character, I think it'd be way better than just scattering weapon trickets, sparys, and voice lines all over the place. And they could be less greedy by at least paying for half the next pass.
The overwatch lootboxes were unironically the best out there because not only did you get them by leveling up and doing dailies but also, unlike CS and TF2, did not require a key to open them up. Also, unlike CS, they were account bound but it was fine since you could get the entire skins, sprays, voice lines etc by just playing the game
literally NO ONE talks in this game, even in the match chat. Half the time I’m just talking to myself till I get bored and press some troony zarya/sombra on the enemy team, then finally someone typed something and it’s “YOU TALK TOO MUCH”
the only people that talk are people who won't stop fricking whining like the b***hes they are, never been happier turning chat off, talk to the hand autist
I literally had my commendation level dragged down to 1 multiple times by seething dps gays just by playing support and healing the tank instead of them. This was without even sending a letter in the chat. Can't imagine the ban I'd get if I just typed gg in the chat.
But this is the world you wanted to live in, free of toxicity so enjoy it.
>Been going downhill since they removed duplicate heroes >People begged for it to come back >"No." Double down and make it a role queue >Game is completely dead >Just change the name from 1 to 2, and call it a day >Why is the game dying again!?? We just don't get it!! Must be the bigots!
I genuinely could not believe my eyes when I saw that a single legendary skin is $20, with no way to get them for free. They've gone from letting you buy almost any skin you wanted with the free currency they handed out like candy, to charging half the price of the original game for just one skin. That is completely obscene and I don't know why more people aren't mad about it.
>Robotpush maps are so disgustingly huge it’s a good 30 sec walk to get anywhere
Just make bit push 10 mins long and have 12v12. Frick it. Just give me one game mode that’s absurdly crazy, the McCree rape one counts but they ban you for playing it
You know you fricked up when the correct strat in that mode when you're winning is to not push the bot any more so your opponents cant get back to it in time.
Is it legal for them to take away the game I paid for, overwatch? They say this is ow2 so no loot boxes and also I'm not allowed to earn old skins without spending real money but where's the ow1 game I bought?
>cut content >get into freemium 7 years late and still frick up >turn a full game into an """"early access"""" game and call it a sequel >everything that was not already in OW1 is bad
You have to give Blizzard credit. You can't mismanage, waste potential and turn a massive success into an absolute tranwreck like this without trying your best to.
dude, they raped and murdered Warcraft 3. A game on physical media from 2000-fricking-2. They posthumously raped my childhood. How the frick is that even possible? They managed to do it. I will never be able to enjoy WC3 again after what they did. Imagine if Doom never went Open Source, my god ........
It's unfortunate that more predatory gacha schemees convinced the mainstream that lootboxes are intrinsically immoral. I can't really blame blizzard for veering off that path when you have countries directly legislating against it.
Cosmetics aside, the game is fun enough. It has two huge things over GunEvo: Leavers don't outright ruin matches, and a very large variety of modes that are currently all fairly active. I can comfortably completely ignore both competitive match and qp role queue and have plenty of fun. In GunEvo, it's the only way to play and I just don't want to grind it for hours on end. Mystery Heroes/Arcade modes let me decompress so well when I feel like I'm going on tilt or feeling fatigued.
Being support is complete garbage. Nobody gives a frick about you, you almost never get a play of the gayme, your weapon sucks and you just exist so other players can do all their crazy shit.
Playing medic in TF2 is way more fun because everyone likes the character and players always seem thankful and enjoy your presence. They look at you and say thank you by pressing a number, which is more effort than scroll wheel spam while they run around like chimpanzees in Overwatch. The medigun boosts player's health, you don't need to hold down the goddamn button (like Mercy), you have a very strong melee weapon, the syringe guns are hard to use but hit quite hard and allow for running away and shooting. The unlocks are also very fun.
What do you get to play in Overwatch? >A token black huehuehueBR League of Losers Sona rip off that has almost nothing to do but stand next to someone and shoot green ball. >A black guy with a terrible burst gun that shoots heal grenades that are fricking hard to hit with on distance, a immortality field that nobody uses, a self heal, a fricking shitty Ult that is situational and takes forever to charge. >Dumb bimbo with a shield that is a pathetic wannabe tank with medkits >A big titty TF2 Medic ripoff that can fly / resurrect and has a wimpy handgun with most generic German voice actress imaginable >A life leeching c**t that is broken and barely a support >A worthless robot that shoots balls at people and uses one ball from far away to heal one guy
the lack of being a fricking decent game killed it, as stupid as that sounds.
The shitty fart out of my smelly cumdump butthole just now killed it actually.
The lack of white straight people killed this game
I think the game was just a bad idea fundamentally. Its closest comparison is TF2 which wisely never added more playable characters, so the core cast could feel versatile. Overwatch drawing from MOBAs with ults and tons of characters made players feel helpless.
An entire generation has long felt the novelty of voice chat wear off and has little desire to engage any more when it comes to certain games. Overwatch's demands for coordination became more nauseating as result. Especially because there was no opportunity to just dick around in voice chat, you had to be in game mode all the time. This affected all levels of play, from the top of the ladder to the absolute least competent so long as they had basic game knowledge. Overwatch is designed to be highly accessible and yet also demands high levels of coordination.
It was constantly trying to cater to casual and competitive mindsets while pleasing neither. Everyone ended up feeling like they lacked agency.
>demands high levels of coordination
This is why the only thing missing from the original game, was clans. I don't understand how they pussied out on this one. Ranked was originally supposed to be just clans against each other.
That would have saved the game.
No one talks or even text communicates in the game. It's so bad that even training against AI ends up being a shit show with randos. The new Junkenstein sequel mode being a broken mess doesn't bode well for PvE at all.
have you tried talking yourself?
everyone talks in my games because I'm yelling at them
I really wish Overwatch was more like TF2. Teams could be 10v10 or something, maps a lot larger, ults happen relatively more often, but they take longer to charge up and no saving them when you die. Servers are perpetually going all the time, people come and go, most everyone is just messing around most of the time but will occasionally band together to achieve the objective. The nature of the gameplay would really suit that instead of the Esports shit they forced onto what could've been a fun game.
Yep, no way to progress at all. Gacha games have better rewards than this shitheap because at least they give you free rolls and log-in bonuses.
The lootbox model sucks ass, but apparently not as much as the battle pass model. The game shouldn't have either.
The Fortnite battle pass is the best one since each page is dedicated to a skin and pays for the next pass with a little extra. If Overwatch did theirs like Fortnite, where each tier is all stuff for a single character, I think it'd be way better than just scattering weapon trickets, sparys, and voice lines all over the place. And they could be less greedy by at least paying for half the next pass.
The overwatch lootboxes were unironically the best out there because not only did you get them by leveling up and doing dailies but also, unlike CS and TF2, did not require a key to open them up. Also, unlike CS, they were account bound but it was fine since you could get the entire skins, sprays, voice lines etc by just playing the game
it seems like they doubled down and decided they would make the transactions as terrible as possible as punishment for killing lootboxes
literally NO ONE talks in this game, even in the match chat. Half the time I’m just talking to myself till I get bored and press some troony zarya/sombra on the enemy team, then finally someone typed something and it’s “YOU TALK TOO MUCH”
are you on console or pc
no one wants to get reported for being "toxic". play competitive if you wanna chat but i suspect people only talk to shit on eachother.
the only people that talk are people who won't stop fricking whining like the b***hes they are, never been happier turning chat off, talk to the hand autist
I literally had my commendation level dragged down to 1 multiple times by seething dps gays just by playing support and healing the tank instead of them. This was without even sending a letter in the chat. Can't imagine the ban I'd get if I just typed gg in the chat.
But this is the world you wanted to live in, free of toxicity so enjoy it.
>Been going downhill since they removed duplicate heroes
>People begged for it to come back
>"No." Double down and make it a role queue
>Game is completely dead
>Just change the name from 1 to 2, and call it a day
>Why is the game dying again!?? We just don't get it!! Must be the bigots!
>game is dead
>Overwatch league was so profitable they can do whatever they want
Such is business
I genuinely could not believe my eyes when I saw that a single legendary skin is $20, with no way to get them for free. They've gone from letting you buy almost any skin you wanted with the free currency they handed out like candy, to charging half the price of the original game for just one skin. That is completely obscene and I don't know why more people aren't mad about it.
>Robotpush maps are so disgustingly huge it’s a good 30 sec walk to get anywhere
Just make bit push 10 mins long and have 12v12. Frick it. Just give me one game mode that’s absurdly crazy, the McCree rape one counts but they ban you for playing it
You know you fricked up when the correct strat in that mode when you're winning is to not push the bot any more so your opponents cant get back to it in time.
>wanted to do TF2s payload race but decided to make it tug of war
Honestly should’ve just done 5CP and increased the amount of players
wow that monkey looks so stupid.
Is it legal for them to take away the game I paid for, overwatch? They say this is ow2 so no loot boxes and also I'm not allowed to earn old skins without spending real money but where's the ow1 game I bought?
>cut content
>get into freemium 7 years late and still frick up
>turn a full game into an """"early access"""" game and call it a sequel
>everything that was not already in OW1 is bad
You have to give Blizzard credit. You can't mismanage, waste potential and turn a massive success into an absolute tranwreck like this without trying your best to.
dude, they raped and murdered Warcraft 3. A game on physical media from 2000-fricking-2. They posthumously raped my childhood. How the frick is that even possible? They managed to do it. I will never be able to enjoy WC3 again after what they did. Imagine if Doom never went Open Source, my god ........
sounds logic to me
you know the gaming industry is beyond saving when people are clamouring for the good old days of loot boxes
It's unfortunate that more predatory gacha schemees convinced the mainstream that lootboxes are intrinsically immoral. I can't really blame blizzard for veering off that path when you have countries directly legislating against it.
Cosmetics aside, the game is fun enough. It has two huge things over GunEvo: Leavers don't outright ruin matches, and a very large variety of modes that are currently all fairly active. I can comfortably completely ignore both competitive match and qp role queue and have plenty of fun. In GunEvo, it's the only way to play and I just don't want to grind it for hours on end. Mystery Heroes/Arcade modes let me decompress so well when I feel like I'm going on tilt or feeling fatigued.
Booyahs in your path
Battlepasses suck, the Splatoon 3 catalog is free and more fresh
Why is everyone so covered up. Huge pants, jackets, even neck coverings?
blizz woke devs really really hate sexuality
Now they want people paying all that money for skins that show off about as much as a burka does
Being support is complete garbage. Nobody gives a frick about you, you almost never get a play of the gayme, your weapon sucks and you just exist so other players can do all their crazy shit.
Playing medic in TF2 is way more fun because everyone likes the character and players always seem thankful and enjoy your presence. They look at you and say thank you by pressing a number, which is more effort than scroll wheel spam while they run around like chimpanzees in Overwatch. The medigun boosts player's health, you don't need to hold down the goddamn button (like Mercy), you have a very strong melee weapon, the syringe guns are hard to use but hit quite hard and allow for running away and shooting. The unlocks are also very fun.
What do you get to play in Overwatch?
>A token black huehuehueBR League of Losers Sona rip off that has almost nothing to do but stand next to someone and shoot green ball.
>A black guy with a terrible burst gun that shoots heal grenades that are fricking hard to hit with on distance, a immortality field that nobody uses, a self heal, a fricking shitty Ult that is situational and takes forever to charge.
>Dumb bimbo with a shield that is a pathetic wannabe tank with medkits
>A big titty TF2 Medic ripoff that can fly / resurrect and has a wimpy handgun with most generic German voice actress imaginable
>A life leeching c**t that is broken and barely a support
>A worthless robot that shoots balls at people and uses one ball from far away to heal one guy
>you almost never get a play of the gayme
Not true for the beginning.
Most of the time, it's mercy 5 man revives that gets the POTG
Cool "progression" in your """game""".
How is it that a battle pass turned out worse than lootboxes