Hello,
Competetive Overwatch has been out for more than 2 years and we have yet to see any big changes made to the game mode to improve the gameplay and environment. The game since day 1, has been filled with trolls, leavers, anti-fun heroes like Doomfist, Mercy, Junkrat, Roadhog and stupid inbalanced game modes like 2CP.
It feels like no dev in all of Blizzard listens to their community in any of the games. Just look at WoW and Diablo. It’s all just going downhill and people are starting to quit the games.
Matchmaker. Finally got around the doing my placements for S12 Friday-Saturday, went 6-4, whatever. However, in terms of those matches being actually competitive, feeling like team games, 0 out of 10.
It was steamroll this way, steamroll that way, idiotic “team comp” for one side in one match, then for my side in another. I think the highlight was the final match on Oasis. Duo instalocks Hanzo-Genji, cos reasons. Next two people pick Symmetra and Bastion. So me and another player left to pick. He goes Zen, I just go Hog to make sure I know I’ll have healing. We lose first round, Zen swaps to Widow and utter trash is complete.
Also, no comms at all. But that was to be expected. About the only thing that was an upside was low number of leavers, only in two placement games had them, no matches cancelled either.
Haven’t even reached 5 hours of Ranked played in 5-6 seasons, looks like S12 will be just placements. In S12, yet people still think spawn-camping is the only way to defend. Not much good taking high ground position (Dorado, Gibraltar and R66 first points during these matches) as Orisa/Rein when you’re the only one there, rest of your “team” is at spawndoors on defense, leaving me with two bad options:
A: hold the high ground by myself, leaving team with no shield
B: join in spawn-camping
you bought a wrong game. overwatch’s target audience (biggest possible, 12+) does not allow high quality comp… Its free for entry to basically everyone at no cost, no consequences, accessible to all sorts of people, mindsets and thus also trolls, casuals or generally uncompetitive players.
Placements mean nothing, that’s why no one really cares how they’ll play placements. Some will even throw only to get placements done as fast as possible. And you can’t blame them, because all players will be matched exactly where they left last season - thorwing or giving their best.
And their “there’s no improvement” system makes people stop carring … And there’s a lot of cheaters. You’ll see a lot of players that this season are master, and last 4 seasons were hard stuck gold. Also, you’ll notice a lot of strange aims, strange shots in higher ranks(especially from those one-season wonders), so, I don’t really think they’re doing good anti-cheat job … but I haven’t played comp for 4-5 seasons, maybe it got improved in the mean time …
The only way to have a change to make it some what manageable to play without less toxicity is for Blizzard to go dictator mode and ban even the slightest toxicity.
Or for Blizzard to stop being arrogant and actually try idea’s like role select. They could try it for 1 season and if it does not work out then they atleast they tried it. But nope they don’t cause they seem too “know” what their player base want.
The biggest problem with Blizzard is based on 1 name… Activision
There are those that do not like role queue fine don’t use it, and there those that want role queue but cant use it cos they do not add it, you can satisfy both parties by adding role queue and keeping normal queue in place, this game has like 30m+ players it can handle it.
2 tons of cc and not a single hero with some resistance on cc (wich will be nice AT LEAST on tanks).
3-people on higher rank teaming up with low ranks (like diamonds that are in plat games boosting their pat friends, this will not happen if we have a system where you can teamup only with people of the same rank (plat with plat, gold with gold and on and on).
First if you look around youtube and other sources of forums and info it seems the majority actually wants a role select model. Also if people like you arent even bother too test it out for even 1 season then we might as well stop trying and keep it as it is.
because ppl have to abuse the system to play with friends by playing on a smurf account… or just straight being homogoblin and smurf as a widowmaker because you cant afford to pay for the newest call of duty to play sniper there
Forgot the high amount of sustained healing which will force people to either play along by playing goats, or high-burst dps like doomfist and widow.¨
In my opinion the biggest issue for normal people has always been OW’s low age limit, meaning the playerbase is too young and doesn’t know how to behave.