Overwatch Thread.

[WarMachineRhodey]

Jul 12, 2016 14:47:58 GMT -5 The Big Daddy C-Master said:

Interesting so Ana was Phara's mother who is the healing sniper? She looks pretty neat and better than Widow, but we'll see.

On another note, those changes...

They give McRee another buff after giving him a compensation buff (he was kind of weak so he needed it), Mercy gets her damage boosted to 50% now though they semi-nerfed the broken resurrection it takes 40 seconds to charge instead of 30 and they even gave that a buff when it was the most broken thing in the game while nerfing Widowmaker's ult twice. They buff D. Va (a Widow counter) and Zeynatta by giving him 200 total stamina (150 in shields no less) but no buff or change for Widowmaker whatsoever despite her being ruined and getting nothing but straight nerfs (like 5 or so) while the things people whined about (Zeynatta one shot) and now D. Va is stronger are also adjusted. She doesn't get hurt by her own ultimate now and it blows up even faster? Great. More D. Va's to deal with. She is the weakest tank but that's because the other ones are insanely strong right now.

So now Widowmaker's even worse, and then they release another sniper class?

This right here is just absurdly stupid. They haven't responded to the countless threads or the long 2000 post thread on their forum in regards to Widow in a long time (since the very beginning). It just seems like this game is just catered to scrub players who whine about something enough.

The one hero limit and other changes would be interesting if you still didn't have the lack of variety from OP characters. No Phara nerf either despite her being top tier with no real hard counters since Widow nerf and now Soldier has been nerfed too. Just wonderful.

Yea they need to give Widowmaker back her quickscoping atleast. I wonder if ANA will be able to fight at close range cause i didnt see any kind of close range weapon unless that tranquilizer dart is to be used for escape/evasion if someone sneaks up or you run into another hero in close range. Also ANA tranq dart looks like it can stop ultimate. Im glad they did changed some stuff for overtime. Its one of the many reasons i hate playing the king of the hill maps.  playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/ana/

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Yea they need to really fix her.

I hated King of The Hill Maps the most and I discussed it in my video. Very limiting to character classes and just promotes even more spamming than normal with Overtime abuse. Really the problem wasn't the hero limit exactly, it's more of a character balance/map issue. Overtime and Tracer abuse was so bad in tournaments that the overtime went on longer than the matches which is unacceptable.

Ana seems fun to play at least.

[azik21]

I knew they would buff dvas defense matrix!! She sounds really good now. I kinda think her being invulnerable to mech explosion is dumb considering its a bomb but ill take it. Haven't played since the windowmaker nerfs so hopefully I'll get a chance to play a little tonight

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Those are some huge buffs. I expect to see a huge influx of D. Va's now, more than before.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Ana seems interesting now that I've used her. She can't get into high places but she has a fast firing rifle with no need to charge. She'll take some practice but she is interesting.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Zeynatta is likely to be OP, D. Va might also be questionable. Blizzard seems to take balancing into extremes on one end or the other instead of small tweaks. Zeyn went from being on the of the squishiest characters to one of the most durable outside of tanks, Mei, Reaper, and Bastion, and now he has healing and extremely high damage and can do all of it at the same time? Great.

D. Va has a ton of uptime on her matrix and with the other buffs they seem to have changed the wrong areas. Her crit box was her biggest issue. They also messed up soldier 76 so now Phara's will be more rampant and made McRee a mid range sniper who when damage buff can one shot really quickly. Making Widow even more useless. He just needed his FTH slightly changed. We'll see.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Made a new video about the pros and cons of this game currently:

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

watcher.gg/heroes

These usage charts are interesting. Widowmaker is the least used character in OW right now right there with Zeyn, who of course will be played constantly now due to his massive buffs. I wonder how long this will continue.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

The latest tier list has Widow on F tier and McRee is of course broken.

www.planetoverwatch.org/19-overwatch-tier-list-and-meta-report-the-eve-of-ana

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uvilc3Hj9vp2YDRrV5uaHfyOjms3Wy0PC8qVgy065SE/edit#gid=1378389422


This horrible balancing has taken me out of the game. Even if they fix something, they'll likely ruin it with the next update. People weren't lying when they said Blizzard was awful at balancing.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Latest meta report:

www.planetoverwatch.org/20-overwatch-tier-list-and-meta-report-the-7-day-meta

So many bad characters and surprise all of the defensive characters are bad. Bad players don't like defense so they QQ until Blizzard nerfs them into oblivion. Now you have what you have now. A spam fest. I don't know if Blizzard will ever get it right at this rate.

Genji and D. Va are popular as heck now and are probably on their way to a nerf train really soon.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

This just further vindicates what I've been saying and shows why this game will be a joke in competitive play even more in the long run.


us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747964947

So after numerous complaints about defense characters being utter garbage (they are all like F-tier seriously) the developers mention that they are happy with the defense characters how they are because people can use them at low level. What kind of balance is it when they make characters intentionally bad and balance around people who don't know what they are doing? This is supposed to be a competitive game which makes it even more of a disappointment.

It vindicates what I keep saying about defense characters being bad for the sake of low level players and the casual masses. People don't want to be punished for bad movement and want to spam all day. So tanks and offense characters rules supreme along with whatever support is broken.

That about kills my interest in the game sadly. I kind of knew it would be like this but them saying it just sealed it for me.

Let's make some characters deliberately overpowered on purpose and screw over others.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

The Overwatch vs SF comparison is interesting.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20748554986

This is ugly. Blizzard has changed how purchasing lootboxes unlocks things and people are ticked. Just shows how modern gaming has become. Between this and Capcom I'm glad I took a break from this.

[Great Dark Hero]

It's funny how such a decent game can make folks lose motivation because of schizophrenic business practices...

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

It has some good elements about it but the terrible balancing and some of their other practices leave a lot to be desired.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Aside from the whole fiasco with the Summer Games boxes and the fact that you couldn't buy what you just wanted (this caused an uproar on the forums), Blizzard is FINALLY fixing Widow.

This is of course after they've buffed Hanzo out of the stratosphere. His arrows are quicker with the dumb hitboxes they had before. I hope he doesn't keep his telephone poles he fired before. Don't like dying to random spam.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Here's the changes they made on the last patch. One notably, is Widow.



Bout time. The changes seem more conservative so I guess they are dialing it back some.