So you’ve still got the ruined version of Lucioball. Just put it back to the original already. Football is not supposed to have flipping walls in the middle of the pitch. The whole point of football is to be able to pass and weave through opposition and connect to long balls etc., not having the random bs that results from having huge obstructions all over the pitch. I’m not playing it again this year. If it were the original, I’d play it loads, God permitting. That version I would like to have available all the time and a competetive mode for it, like there was originally. Used to be so much fun but you ruined it.
If you want that experience download FIFA. As apart from the IP and awards from OW there is little-no reason why you shouldnt be playing FIFA for this.
I think its nice as its a nice spin on it, the game is centered around Lucio, and his character, so this includes the knockback beats, amp it up, AND wallriding. Without central walls that part of his kit, which I would argue as his defining feature, would be much underused. The game is based on football. Its not meant to be a carbon copy. Otherwise it wouldnt be overwatch would it?
The Lucio features you mention do set it apart from FIFA and make it a lot more fun compared to normal football, but before they started putting massive walls in the pitch, you could still use all of his abilities in a fun way. You could wall ride on the walls surrounding the pitch. It was much, much better then imo. To have a football game that is fun, you need to be able to complete passes from all distances, including long distance. This is just a defining feature of the game. If you remove it by putting huge obstructions on the pitch, what you end up with is just random bs and it kills the fun imo. FIFA just isn’t the same. It is too programmed and not fluid enough. The beauty of Lucioball is that you have so much influence on where the ball is going and on challenging opponents in a precise fashion, but they screeds this up with the obstacles imo and turned a great game into bs. If they released the original Luciball as a separate game, I’d pay for it, God permitting. That’s how much I enjoyed it. Now though, I don’t even play it, because the obstacles just get in the way and spoil the experience and I’m left wanting to play the original.
Yes but the lucios surf isnt used on the outside walls enough as the balls are often in the centre or moving from one wall to the next. The central wall utilizes his kit much more imo. a compromise could be lowering the walls so its only enough to wall wide but easily able to get on top, or making it like in th emeka base where it slides in and out
Ok well I still feel like the original was great and I don’t like the current version at all. The original made for great gameplay in that you could get on the end of long passes and shorter passes. It felt more dynamic and exciting with end to end stuff and lots of amusement with the quick paced clashes and mistakes that occurred. Now it just doesn’t feel like football. The obstacles have such a big impact and stop the kind of fluid, end to end action that the original had, which made it such fun. If some people like the current version, they could have the 2 versions running simultaneously.
I guess its just based on popularity atp, as it what makes them money and you cant feasably have too many types of games or else you start to split the playerbase and cant fill lobbies. everybody will have an opinion but unless its actually negativley affecting you in more than just a dislike of a game mode way, i suggest the best option moving forward is making a custom game, where you set the lucioball map to the ones you like, and play with friends. which is always funner than playing with random people.