Soldier is one of the HARDEST heroes right now | OW2 Hot Takes #44
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
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The soldier take doesnt make him hard, it makes him bad 😂😂😂
In this context it's a synonym tho. Bad character is hard to win games with
Dude sounds like a Body Shot Barry. Hit your headshots, Barry! Almost as bad as a Center Mass Cass.
Also sounds like he just runs it down main instead of taking high-ground off-angles, what you think you got those legs for goofy?
Underrated take: all the takes we've seen featured in KarQ's video just teaches us to think twice about what we say, apply socratic method on our own takes.
Before we make a fool of ourselves for everyone to see by talking out of our ass.
Hot take: if Sombra is killed and her virus is active on a player the virus should instantly wear off. If as a support you win the duel against Sombra you still die sometimes because of the virus which doesn't reflect the fact that the disadvantaged player won the duel against her
I completely agree. It’s just the cherry on top of the “sombra is innately unfair” argument.
@@SocialExperiment232 Hard disagree, things like Ashe fire, Mauga fire and other DoT effects don't get cleansed once the enemy dies, why would Sombra's?
@@KalleDemos666because those abilities have clear warning, mauga has the giant visible meat wall that is his body, ashe has a big glowing projectile and ringing noise, sombra has no warning she's even there, let alone that she is using an ability. If you manage to kill a sombra who has ambushed you, (a situation the sombra will win or escape nine times out of ten) you should be rewarded with not immediately dying afterwards to the DoT.
@@KalleDemos666 As the based gentleman above said. Those abilities have clear warning and counter play. Ashe nade really? That shit takes forever to even blow up if you don’t get out of its way you’re simply slow. When a sombra hacks you, shoves a virus up your butt, even if you manage to still survive this and win through having better aim than her there should be a reward for that. Dying due to dot on an ability you couldn’t defend yourself from after you won the disadvantaged duel is always gonna feel unfair.
@@SocialExperiment232sombra is a skill check for team coordination. If you go too far from your team, you’re isolated and sombra can get an easy kill. Why should you have the advantage if you’re the one making a mistake?
Hot take: people don't get that the answer to 99.9% of questions is "it depends". In this game, CONTEXT MATTERS.
Ps.: the .1% is the question "is dva broken right now?" to which the answer is "yes"
+1 to the Fomo hot take. Gamers complain about live services, but won't buy a game that's purchase once and has no updates. Or if there is "no content" even if the game is in a good state. People claim the final patch of OW1 was good balance, but had no content.
probably because the age of paid live service games are over. Suicide Squad (as much as I loved it), Concord, Skull & Bones, they all flopped cuz they aren't free. COD feels like the one exception, but it's only really being held up cuz it's COD. F2P games offer chances to intrigue players and bring them in with cool stuff while a game like Concord could offer 5 free skins for an event, but not many people would actually buy the game cuz what if they buy it and don't like it in the end (and can't refund it)?
@@FlareToga76 Agreed. Although, Skull&Bones was just azz on release... I wouldn't have even played it even if it was free
I agree in the general sense, but it's hyperbolic. My opinion comes from getting older I expect and just having less time to play. I run a lot of purple skins just because I like them. My favorite echo skin is her hot rod red. I often find myself going back and replaying old games and only really have overwatch and star wars the old republic as my only two live service games. I'm really not a fan of the fomo because it actually makes me play less. If I hit a point where I know I won't get enough to get something I wanted on the battlepass I stop playing and go play something else because I lose all of my motivation. I remember unlocking armor in Halo 3 or the katana by completing achievements and getting the flaming head from playing against someone with it. It was a different time and cosmetics were earned through play. I'm ngl, I miss it a lot. No it wasn't perfect, but it worked well. I think Helldivers does it better at least but the grind on that game is so long to get anything. I feel less motivated to play games than ever.
I didnt even realize the Hunter skin for Sombra was a rare skin til today. Been running around with it for a while now. LOL
Im so sick of that. People want one game to provide as much fun as playing multiple would. They expect tons of content on a weekly and expect it all to be amazing when that simply isn’t possible. There’s no way all that content can be quality.
The thing about the soldier take that I dont think they guy realizes is Season 9 really kind of hit soldier stupidly hard, because paired with his fall off and the added health, its become disgustingly hard to punish someone out of position. Between the heightened TTK allowing people to be further from cover without risk of death, and it giving supports a longer window to realize and act, soldiers damage is consistent and easy but just NOT enough compared to someone like Ashe.
For a long time hitscans have definitely ruled the game, but Blizzard is little by little nerfing even the hitscans into piss useless territory. S9 mauled soldier a little, Cree got screwed over so bad that Hog hook has an equal effective range, its made Ashe take over as hitscan supreme and now she's seeing some nerfs too.
Seems Blizzard would rather gradually make ranged hitscans piss than address WHY ranged hitscans have suddenly completely taken over as the only safe reliable options despite seeing little direct buffs ever since S9 and the DPS passive.
Hot Take: Sombra's current version is antithetical to her character fantasy.
Sombra is meant to break informational symmetry. She can see you, you cannot see her. Playing sombra should be a check of your ability to coordinate with your team, to use the information that you gain access to through permanent stealth and turn that into an advantage.
She should not primarily be a check of the enemy teams coordination.
Thus, she should not be able to win any fair 1v1, but should rather be following up on moves that her team made based on her information.
She had this in ow1 but they took it away…
So, since I made my comment about Sombra, I've actually played her a fair bit in both qp and ranked. I would say that I've learned a lot about her and why she is a problem. In my experience she does not do a lot of damage, but remains quite hated by the community. I believe the reason for this is her permanent stealth. When the devs reworked her they tried to balance her around her translocator and her damage, but I think that was not the problem with Sombra. It is the ability to set up and wait for the perfect moment unchecked that is the problem. No other hero has this freedom of set up. If they continue to try to balance her around her damage and not her stealth she will forever be in this weird place of being among the most hated heroes but also being weak.
Her kit will never be fair this way. Being able to just engage, and disengage with no consequences while being able to auto aim remove all abilities with one click to the point where even if she doesn’t get kills or damage she is still bringing tons of value will always feel unfair to me.
The old dev team used to always say they never wanted her to have burst damage because of the stealth. All she could do was shoot and had literally no other damage in her kit, on top of a very mediocre gun with some wild spread that ensured half her shots wouldn’t even hit.
The old dev team knew it would be miserable to play against and they didn’t want her to be an assassin. Then the new dev team legit turned her into exactly what the team that created Sombra never wanted her to be.
I’ve got 500 hours on her and most of it was in OW1. She feels cheap as hell to play in OW2. She went from being a hero you had to really be precise and thoughtful with to do anything useful, to just being the queen of spawn camping and 1v1s. She feels WAY more similar to Tracer now where they used to feel totally different.
@razrv3lc Yeah, exactly. The issue with Sombra a few patches ago was that she could easily kill supports during the hack duration, which basically took all agency away from the targeted support and made them rely on their team to save them within like a second. This made the experience of playing against her completely miserable as, unless you somehow managed to interrupt her hack, your fate was entirely outside of your control.
To me, that is the polar opposite of what Sombra should be. Sombra is not the shark lurking in the waters, she is not "the main threat". She is the fly on the wall, the unaccounted for variable that tips the scales and throws a wrench in the enemy's plans.
She should basically never be able to quickly solo kill someone, she should be the one requiring her team to be effective, not require the enemy team to work together perfectly to prevent her from being effective. The onus should be on her to coordinate with her team through the essential map hacks that she can provide, not through the raw damage output that she has.
She should rather just be able to pick off targets that are already weakend through some other means, because she has the ability to be behind enemy lines at all times.
@@SocialExperiment232tracer can do the same thing and she has more one clip potential. (In some cases)
@@thesilvanalyst6880 I used to say the best buff Sombra can get is a coordinated team. Playing the new Sombra she feels a lot more like a lone wolf.
Hot take: Symetra with all her changes from defensive, support shield to support displacement to dps builder to now front line DPS needs a serious overhall to stream line her kit and what she wants to be. I dont hate her kit its just very disconnected. Too many relics of the past with no direct forsight on what to do. I think they need to determine where they want ot go for her and change her skills up a bit to match what tehy want.
Yeah one of my main issues is how clunky her kit feels. Like its just a collection of random abilities. Old sym even tho she was less powerful had a kit that had a nice flow with itself
Use her TP more often and more offensively and she holds up crazy good even in Diamond and above, one of harder heroes though
@@GalenMarekOfficial that has nothing to do with what the original post said about her kit. Yea every sym knows the tele is strong.
@@GalenMarekOfficial he didn't say she was bad but that her kit doesn't make sense
@@GalenMarekOfficial ya not saying she bad its just her kit feels like a hodge podge of old skills with none of them really being a full kit. It works yes, but it doesnt feel like it was a cohesive design.
to the vc hot take, I play significantly worse as soon as somebody accuses me of playing poorly. I know all the arguments, i’ve heard them all. “Don’t listen to them” “They don’t know what value you’ve been giving” “Just mute that person” it doesn’t change the toxicity and or the anxiety being on a team with someone like that gives me. I’ve had too many bad experiences with people like that to give a shit about being in voice.
And you likely lost a lot more from missing callouts :) just something to think about.
@@tinytimonfire Eh, I'd rather lose a match than listen to a squeaker or a tryhard go off after I've been at work for 10 hours complain because I'm not playing the meta or w/e tf in a game where I'm just trying to relax.
Ya know, just food for thought.
This is gonna be hard to hear but that just happens in every competitive setting sports and games alike and if you can’t deal with that maybe you shouldn’t play competitively
@@Flyzoola maybe dont play ranked if you're admitting that you're not going to play well and you know you're not going to play well after 10 hours of work. QP is for relaxing play
I’m the same way. It legit doesn’t matter if I know I’m doing well, the second someone starts blaming me, it wrecks my mental lol.
The thing that helps me is to check the bitcher’s profile and check their rank/winrate on the hero they’re on (if no private profile). It’s bizarre but I’ve found a ton of people that act like that are almost always the lowest ranked person on the team and have a negative winrate on the hero they’ve picked.
I legit have a 70% winrate on Juno with 6 hours on her in season 12 so far and had a 17% winrate Ball player bitching that I wasn’t playing Ana recently and could do nothing but laugh lol
Hot take: when the main meta is dive the game IS NOT fun, especially being a support main playing since season 10, im so tired of dive always being top dog, i feel like i never get to live because i always have a dva tracer sombra on me!
The whole goal while you are support vs dive is to get as much value as possible before you die or make it super hard to die. Dive/rush is how the game should be played. Its your fault you cant enjoy it.
Baptiste/brig are good choices vs dive lucio/ana/kiri too.
@@mickeyboy90 i mostly main brig, its still annoying constantly being hacked, while i know thats just part of the game i would still like to experience something else being meta for a change as during my playtime there never has been
@Subzerd you main brig and have a hardwire with dive comp? Sounds like you need to change where your standing friend.
@@tinytimonfire dont have a hard time no, its just annoying, i want to experience a different meta
@@Subzerdwait, you're saying that you've been playing for 2 seasons and already worry about the meta? If that's the case you really shouldn't be running into "dive" as comp since it's literally the hardest and most teamwork reliant playstyle. Flanking ≠ dive
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The Soldier take was wild esp after saying that Hanzo can output more dmg is insane
They said more damage at once. The take wasn’t exactly correct, but they were right that you have more time to react to a soldier shooting you than a hanzo headshot
If you are being healed by Mercy, you will survive a fight against a Soldier 76.
If you are being healed by a mercy and Hanzo headshot/body shots you (maybe even uses Storm arrows) you will die, close ranged.
Hanzo does do a lot of QUICK dmg-output. But he's not as consistent as Soldier.
For example, going from 200HP to 0 is instant with 1 headshot. However for Soldier 76 it takes time to build up until you do 200dmg.
If you are being healed it doesn't matter if your HP plummets to 0 instantly. You could have Zen ult but if you get headshotted you are still dead.
That's the point OP was making about "Hanzo does more DMG". He doesn't really but he does do instantly DMG (you cannot out heal this instant kill potential)
@@SupboiMercy’s healing when the DPS passive is active is just barely higher than Soldier’s biotic field lol. People act like she’s some unstoppable force when it’s easy af to chew through her healing lol. You can absolutely kill someone with soldier even through Mercy’s healing.
@@razrv3lc It's possible yes. But I'm not arguing about whether or not you can kill someone through Mercy's healing as Soldier 76.
I'm pointing out that Hanzo can out-DMG healing output. While soldier 76 cannot.
How about this for a change instead. Zenyatta ultimate (Transcendence) healing vs a Soldier 76 DMG. Let's say you're fighting a Moria as Soldier and a Zen ults. What can you do? Nothing. Any damage done will be healed.
However, as Hanzo you can STILL hit 1 headshot and kill the Moria. Why? Because that damage is instant. No healing can be done.
Soldier 76 on the other hand can NOT kill during a Zen ult. That is the point I am trying to make.
@@razrv3lcthe point is ttk is longer. The problem in higher elo is that people are quick to go back to cover or they simply kill you faster (faster ttk)
Hot take: It's ALWAYS ethical to t-bag a Sombra. The only ethical way to use Sombra is to counter an enemy Sombra.
100%
Or if it’s to counter a ball player
I just played a match as doomfist, and the other team had a doom too. The other team swapped to sombra after the first death and stayed on it for the next 15 minutes. I won the game and ended by tbagging the sombra and the other doom was like "yeah, i completely feel that, tbag them harder"
@@nasserino3194no that is def not ethical
@@Jacknorringtondoom mains share the pain
Will agree with sombra take, i play less and less cause sombra is just unfun
Hot take: staggering can be good.
Overwatch is a momentum based game. Yes, the enemy team gets momentum if you die while retreating from a losing fight. However, most of that momentum comes from them killing you on the way to the next fight; therefore, they lose that momentum if they stagger you while you are running away in the opposite direction, towards their spawn.
The enemy team loses more momentum the farther you are from the objective, the longer you last, and the more enemies it takes to kill you. If you stagger good enough, it is even possible for your team to engage the next fight with an advantage.
Wouldn’t even call that staggering.
Another thing to add to the Sombra take - Sombra is unfun because she has easy engage and easy disengage, she can dictate the engage on her terms and often they get killed because they stuffed up the translocator throw. Throw in the fact that virus is free damage and basically doesn't need proper aim, it's a bit outrageous that she can be so effective so easily.
Also as a tank main, whenever I have a Sombra on my team, it's basically never an enjoyable way of engaging the enemy team. The Sombra almost ALWAYS wants to do things on their own terms and never considers the wider team, she is probably the most "selfish" hero in the game.
So from BOTH enemy and ally perspectives, the match just becomes sub par in quality.
Hot Take: Sombra’s biggest design problem isn’t her invisibility or her virus combo it’s her translocator.
Her play style is similar to Genji or Tracer get on a flank and assassinate a high value target. The difference between her and those two is the commitment for example Genji has to burn a resource(dash) to close distance and/or confirm a kill then he is rewarded if successful but if he dashes in and isn’t successful he gets punished hard. Sombra doesn’t have this risk reward because of Translocate is only an escape tool. Regardless of whether her virus combo is successful or not she can always escape. She should be punished if she mess up that combo but because of translocate she just doesn’t sometimes. And sure you can track the translocate sometimes but other times it just not possible. She is basically all reward and minimal risk.
This isn’t the best example sense TF2 is bit slower and less team focused but Spy has a similar role has Sombra but with a true one shot but he isn’t has dominant has Sombra is because he come with a boat load of risk. Spy does have his problems but fills his niche. While Sombra is just good when she should be somewhat niche because of her uniqueness.
So yea I think translocate is the problem.
It's more nuanced than that, invis + transloc is what gives her the get in, get out power. Removing either of these would make her dives more difficult and more punishable
Tracer can do it too.
HOT TAKE: Overwatch is more fun when balanced around the general playerbase, rather than the pros who'd probably should just have their own rulesets
I agree.
That’s not how hot takes work
this is more of a sub zero take but I still agree, yes.
False dichotomy
bad take, overwatch markets itself as a competitive game and should stop doing so if this is the case.
Hot take: Reinhardt is the Moira of tanks and he shouldn't keep getting buffs every other patch just because people want to play him at high ranks. He's always been a great tank at lower ranks even when he was weak at high ranks. Now with constant buffs he earns way too much value while demanding way less skill at metal ranks. If it's understandable that Moira isn' that great at higher ranks, so should Rein.
guy mad about people not wanting to pay attention to randos screamin at them for no reason in VC is guaranteed part of the problem lol.
Silver u are in if people r yelling
Yeah totally part of the problem...
@@imquitesmelly8753manchildren constantly scream at people in high diamond low masters
Nah, he's probably just played with too many people treating his comp games like qp and repeatedly doing something that doesn't work
Bro did not really disrespect the Basion Lego skin. I am shooketh
HOT TAKE: when climbing the ladder sometimes you have to play or reward bad styles of overwatch to get the W. Good overwatch is your ability to adapt to the situation. Some games are very tactical others are like wrestling in mud. Adjust and you can win more games
Hot take: Sombra's invisibility should last for about ten to fifteen seconds and then have a cooldown.
Honestly 10 second invis would be chill.
Then they’d have to buff a different part of her kit and she loses a play style.
@@GoldenOwl2091 no, it would just be a nerf
Hot take: people think dva is way stronger than she actually is. ive been onetricking this hero for ages and its so irritating. everything shes so op for now are things she could always do. she always had high burst potential and could punish people out of position in a blink of an eye. yes she received a lot of buffs but the only reason shes so oppressive right now is because of the armor changes. im surprised no ones complaining as much about rein or winston because both are impossible to kill and are way more frustraiting to play against.
2:40 no one is in voice chat anymore cause how easily we get banned for saying anything.
I'm not on voice bc it's easy endorsement lol
Game starts
Me-“Good luck guys and gals”
Random-“women don’t play this game”
Me-“okay?”
Random-“can we mass report this guy for saying dumb **** in chat?”
Me-“?????”
I got mass reported and banned as a joke for 30 days. When I tried to appeal I got automated BS from blizzard saying “we reviewed your screenshots and claims and determined the ban to be valid” haven’t played the game since and that was a few months ago
@@ekothesilent9456 If thats true, thats absolute insanity.
Hot take: if you want to win counterswap, if you want to improve keep your pick (unless you picked a counter by accident) - if you counter their pick just swap to another character you also want to learn that gets countered by enemy picks (in QP only please). I don't believe in hard-counters per se, it's just that you'll have to adjust your approach in order to find value. If you do that enough then you will be more adaptable and have the experience to find value no matter what situation you find yourself in a comp game.
Hot Take: A primary reason 1 tank feels bad for a large majority of players is because a “miss” (missed hog hook, mistimed Zar Bubble, bad ram shield placement, etc) will ONLY be a bad thing. With 2 DPS a missed widow shot can can still make space for a 2nd DPS where if Orisa missed a Javelin and the enemy team colapses on you there isnt another tank to keep that space.
I like 5v5, but the psychological loss of “turn your partner’s mis-play and make it a positive” (like bubbling a winston as he retreats from a bad jump for Zar Charge) hasnt been regained and needs to be talked about!
@ 3:45 joining a team was the best decision ive ever made tbh, scrims and coaching brought me from bronze 2 to silver 4 already and it's only been like a month, plus we're learning from competing (we just competed in calling all heroes !) ive also, outside of my team and just through calling all heroes, met so many people who love to help and ive gotten vod reviews by multiple new friends ive made and im currently climbing pretty decently, ive also gone from silver 3 to gold 4 in support just from listening to what our support players are told during our scrims and coaching sessions
it helps a lot with positioning, planning, target acquisition and focus, taking space, angles, etc even if you dont have a coach and you just make a team with your friends and comm with each other, something as small as saying "care widow" and a ping or naming a location can turn the tide of a team fight since your team is actively aware and listening, same with support players being able to let the team know "hey we cant see you" or just "LOS LOS LOS" until they back up
plus its just so much more fun to queue ranked with a team lol, i always end up getting irked when i solo q because im noticing everyone's mistakes (except my own because i have the problem of not noticing in the moment which is why vod reviews are good) but with a teammate or the whole team we can have fun with it while also finding more success
Hot take: lifeweaver is to mercy what junkerqueen is to roadhog they are both effectively spins on similar concepts and gameplay loops but overall a lot more healthy for the game both aren’t perfect but major improvements on the designs of those og heroes.
Lego bastion is fire for unique sound effects and visual effects
Hey - bouncing storm arrows are almost always on purpose hits. It's a lot harder than it looks.
"It's easier to live as a support in 5v5" is CRAZY
No it’s not lol
its litterally true, support is pretty powerful in ow2
Someone is only remembering double shield, not double dive tanks clearly lol
Right now, yes. Dva eats him alive.
Hot take: visual clutter isn't as much a negative as people make it out to be. I think the chaos of it is a part of the fun and a big reason to why people fell in love with the game
hot take: 6v6 and 5v5 cannot coexist, and Im not talking about splitting the player base. People have forgotten how different 6v6 will be. OW1 tanks were much weaker individually compared to OW2. There will need to be changes to all characters to account for having a sixth player. These new variables makes 6v6 a totally different beast compared to 5v5. I respect the devs for trying to make the 6v6 crowd happy, but i dont see them being able to put out balance patches on both sides with any regularity. Its basically balancing two different games, when they have a tough enough time keeping up with one.
Once this new mode comes out, they'll either just add a second tank and change nothing else (which would probably piss people off), or theyll need to roll back years of patches to try and find a new balance. 👟
they already have with role que with giving tanks different stats, custom games have a community that already have solved the numbers, I can easily see them taking that and making it an arcade mode to replace shit ones like low gravity. That is indeed a hot take 👍
hot take: If you lose your game it is not your teammates' fault. If you think like that it is because you do not admit your mistakes and automatically block your progress. Even if one of your teammates is really in a rank above what he should be you must be in a state of mind of "what more can I do to compensate for the difference in level of your teammate". It is only in this state of mind that we can move forward.
the leave vc I always just thought was a "regardless of how toxic it is, If its bad enough to yourself that you're complaining about it, its not worth leaving on". Even if there was practically no toxicity but a person said it was a problem, and thought it was enough of a problem to ask/post about it, the advice would still be be to gtfo, or basically, leave vc
Hot Take: Torb should get his super turret back by using the overload to overload the turret making it the super turret but the turret blows up putting Torbs turret on cool down or the turret reverts to it normal form but is disabled for a few mins before he can go back to shooting like normal.
Hot Take: Support is hardest to rank up in metal ranks.
Everyone says support is "boosted" etc. But I barely play tank or DPS and am in plat both. I play mainly support and feel hard stuck gold after hundreds of matches. Healbotting doesn't work because even If I heal consistently, I am still at the mercy of other's performance. I feel like the only time I rank up consistently is if I queue Kiri and do as much damage as the dps do while also keeping everyone alive. It feels like I have to do DPS job for them while also doing mine if I want to consistently win matches, in a way that is different from the other role queues.
It feels that this step down in Hanzo health to 225 could be for him getting the ability to kill more enemies with 1 shot headshots and their own respective 225 health nerfs.
I've gotten got as an echo plenty this season by him.
As an Echo main myself, something that would happen in the past before the hp changes when everyone as at 200 was that I’d copy Hanzo, then as I load in, I’d get headshot and immediately lose the copy. After he lost his one shot, Hanzo couldn’t do that anymore so copying him felt a lot safer since I can dodge his shots and survive for a bit. Now that Hanzo’s hp went down to 225, so did the copies, so I get one shot again . Hanzo’s not that strong so I don’t mind the revert back that much. It’s just sad to see that happen again.
Sombra should have the same health as Tracer. Like Tracer, she can often get the drop on an enemy player, dispatch them rather quickly, and zip out of there before anyone can react. To compensate for her squishiness, give her 2 Translocators on a rotating cooldown similar to tracer's Blink, but on a larger overall cooldown.
Hot take: 6v6 will be significantly less fun for support players than 5v5.
I came to this realization playing a lot of 6v6 custom games. Support felt so boring, you basically just have to stand there and healbot most of the time, as opposed to the exciting, dynamic playstyles most supports enjoy in 5v5.
HOT TAKE: A big reason for toxicity that I've noticed is due to terrible matchmaking. If games weren't so blatantly lopsided and players could actually have control over the outcome of their match then there would be a whole lot less people getting tilted and being toxic
Hot take: Many hybrid and escort maps are great to play offense but become mid or boring to play on defense. This relates more to Quick Play since you only play one side for the match.
Video Idea: Are heroes stronger or weaker than they were on their release? What state are they in compared to their original debut. Do the heroes ACTUALLY tend to start off strong and weaken as the player base learns to work around them, or have they actually gotten stronger in that same amount of time? Might be interesting to see how many heroes stand relative to nostalgia.
2:00 I usually just start games by being on vc and if my teammates are making useful callouts, I will stay. It makes the games slightly easier when I get those helpful teammates. But if I get teammates that tell me to "swap" or "heal more" (btw im a lucio onetrick) I instantly leave vc and text chat even if it risks losing a team fight because I would rather not get tilted and perform worse.
It's a lot easier to climb up metal ranks and improve by one or two tricking a character because you don't rely on the crutch "swap to a hero you don't know how to play after every team fight loss" mentality that gets you stuck in a rank for a while. It's better to focus on yourself than have to constantly change your playstyle because your angry teammates tell you to.
Hot Take: Blade is the worst ultimate in the game. After previously hitting GM and trying to play genji more since then, I feel like ever since blade has become 3 shot, it feels almost IMPOSSIBLE to kill without nano. As well as the fact that soooo many heroes have incredibly easy escapes or counters to the blade. You pop it, you're an instant target for the entire enemy team, It takes three swings to kill most characters, and so many heroes can just escape. While I've adapted and can acknowledge that part of the skill with blade is looking out for people on cooldown so they can't escape, it still feels like such a terrible ult for how much it does compared to how much risk you're taking using it.
I remember when helix was the best tool for soldier to beat armor, but I think it'd take at least 5 helix rockets to get thru DVa armor, and she's eating at least 4 of them with dm
Hot take: I believe only adjusting numbers can be an effective way of balancing heroes, it just depends on which numbers. Example: when Mauga was meta the bullets required to ignite could have been reduced and burn damage increased while crit damage was decreased and over health generation reduced, preserving his core identity while making him less of a nuisance to play against. (Just one aspect but you get the idea)
Hot (as in good) take: there should be an open role queue.
If you queue with a 5 stack and want support and everyone else flexes then the rest of the roles should be open.
There was a game mode before where you could pick any role and once the limit was reached (ie one tank, 2 damage 2 support) the roles are locked.
This way if your friend feels like they are “throwing as tank because this map is hard” you can both go back to spawn and swap roles.
Community Crafted arcade mode from season 11 had that, and they are planning experiments with queue formats next season.
"For instance, we think there could be other ways of putting a team together that aren’t quite as rigid as a set composition, but not as loose as Open Queue. We’ll be running at least one Quick Play: Hacked based on this idea in Season 13."
not gonna work unless everyone are similar ranks in ALL roles
q times be longer than openq if a thing like that would exist
Hot take- Remove sombra in qp. She makes the game so unfun especially for support players
Hot take: Bilzard should make some old battlepass cosmetics available and it would be very similar to how the mythic item shop works when each season ends. It would be very cool to have these items and people would pay money for the things the missed.
Versus AI is my happy place in OW2 for when MH has nightmare hero seeds or when I need a break from the rampant throwing problem in Unranked. The games are fairly chill but still can teach the basics, and you can generally play whatever you want with no ill consequences. Plus, no one is sweaty or toxic.
Scarcity bias is what the technical term for fomo is basically. A big cognitive bias in social psychology.
Sombra is probably easier to counter in your rank but us plebs down here, the 99% of players, are struggling lol.
Creators like Awkward do say to leave VC and honestly it was the best thing i ever did in OW. What people don’t want to admit when they ask someone to switch is that they typically start off my insulting people, or the lower ranks don’t actually know the problem. Even though, for example, there is a winston dominating the match, they will yell at you for not going soldier against the phara, who is doing mid. Not only that, not everyone wants to win on any hero they can, someone might not find the same amount of joy winning after swapping 3-4 characters, as they do as the characters they spent 1000 hours learning and putting the work into. It feels too cheap to swap to a character i have 1/100th of the time on and win. It feels better than losing don’t get me wrong. but the amount of times i won because i swapped is significantly lower than the times i swapped and still lost, and times i didn’t swap and pulled through.
TLDR- Lower ranks only use VC to make a call at the beginning of a team fight or to tell you to swap, and usually ends up with an argument
Hot take: competitive and quick play should be balanced separately the game is at its best when it’s in its most competitive form instead of shilling to casuals/metal ranks
hot take: people that complain about Hanzo have never played him in their life.
He isn't just spamming, playing him effectively is positioning since he gets rolled very easily. Spamming down lane happens for like 2 seconds in a match and the rest is positioning and predicting enemy movement since he's not a hit scan.
Joining a ow team was actually the most fun overwatch I've ever played in my life scrims are the best.
Edit: I was plat Dimond ow1 when I was on a team
Move Sombra to Wild pls
Bittersweet Take: Fortify is a boring ability with little player engagement and balancing issues. The solution? Bring back hault! Though I agree with the sentiment of “we don’t need more cc,” I think this change would retain Orisa’s identity of a wall while promoting actual innovation and counter play. Hopefully ending the cycle of horse microbuff metas
They replaced halt with spear. Plus she’s losing a lot of her survivability
Hot take: People shouldn't complain about Overwatch 2 "becoming" Overwatch 1 again because of the possibility of bringing back 6v6 and the removal of PvE, since it's the same game. The "Overwatch 2" title comes from the version 2.0. The game is still the same as back then, but it brought such significant changes (like the shop, the game being free, clash, 5v5 adaptations, new maps and heroes etc...) that the v2.0 title suits it, mostly because the game would be free since then. Something that proves that OW2 is the same game as OW1 is that all OW1 players kept their things when swapping to OW2, thus, being just a newer version of the game (for example the latest minecraft update was 1.21.2, with the 1 at the beginning. if they decided to add triangles to the game (for example), which would change how the game is played, then it would make sense to have a v2.0 of minecraft).
Ever since the ping system came out, I haven't needed VC.
Not as easy as moira, god no, but I do think Cass has some of the easiest hit scan aim in the game. You are usually positioned at the easiest range to shoot from (targets are close without being soo close that they zip past your screen), Cass's recoil finishes before his next shot is ready, so he is super easy to keep level, and his fire rate is pretty darn close to how fast you want to be AD strafing on him. If you just maintain head Hight or center mass on harder targets, and do chill flicks opposing your strafe changes, Cass winds up having the some of most autopilotable aim in the game. So long as you are positioned well, you can just play the exact same way, all the time, against every hero. If you wind up locking your strafe to your max fire rate, that can make you predictable, so I just like to be a bit lazier with my aim, giving myself a second to relax my muscles before dealing with the enemy in front of me. Less shaky aim, less anxiety, less predictable movement, win win. Once you cross a certain threshold for hitting most of your slow flicks at mid-close range, Cass becomes super chill to aim with.
I find reactive tracking on hero's like soldier much harder. Cass has a bit of a skill/technique skill floor that you need to learn, but past that he is very consistent. Soldier can easily reach 25% acc against squishies in even the most bronze stuck hands, but the requirement for instant micro reactions to keep on target, keeps even the aim trainer Andy's capped around 50% He has a kind of exponential difficulty/value relationship, where Cass has a very flat and stable one. Hot take, but even plat Cass mains aren't that far off Wanted in terms of aim alone, they are just plat because they have smoother positioning/ tactics brains.
I like fighting sombras. Keeps me on my toes.
ngl, sometimes I'll hop in vs AI when I feel like playing overwatch, but I don't feel like "playing overwatch" if you know what I mean. That used to be quickplay, but in the past year quickplay has slowly become more sweaty/toxic than comp.
I'm sorry, but Junkrat got hit harder by the HP increases than anyone
I'll never give up on Soldier. Soldier main forever
Hot Take: Private profiles should be should be open be default then you can make it private if you want.
Honestly im all for fullfilling hero fantasies, but when sombra is THE MOST hated hero across all ranks. Its not a "oh hero shooters arent for you" issue. Its a "this character is fundementally stupid" i play in Masters and kniw how to deal with her, but there really isnt anything fun about constantly watching your back from a high burst damage invisible character who has a get out of jail free card. I agree shes more punishable, but shes literally the most hated character across all ranks and Widow is right behind her especially in higher ranks
Hot take: People don't have the right to complain about their counters. I played Moira a lot back in my support days and now play against them as tank a lot and let me tell you, Moira is super weak. If you just pressure her there isn't much she can do to you and most use Fade to approach instead of running anyway. 80% of the complaints I hear about how her attack locks on is from people who play characters who she counters like Genji Tracer and Sombra, like yeah your character relies on having low health but not getting hit, her low damage lock on attack will kill you if you are cocky, maybe don't charge them without a plan. I play a lot of Rein and Moiras think their attacks going through shields means they can get free dps but their damage is Shiiiit and I just walk at them with my shield down until I'm within skull caving distance. Same with Winston and Bastion, if they kill you maybe it's because your character isn't made to face them or you just have bad positioning or whatever, I play all sorts of styles but Winston's is really hard and finicky so hearing people say he has a skill floor in the ocean because his attack doesn't need aiming really pisses me off
Cass is only a good hero once you’ve found the perfect settings for you
pros are pros for a reason. balance the game for the general population and let the pros figure it out
Is this a hot take?
If 6v6 comes back, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to give the tanks the OG OW1 dps role distinctions for role queue (known as attackers and defenders back in the day if y’all don’t know). Basically a split between the heroes like Doomfist/Winston/Wreckingball vs Reinhardt/Zarya/Sigma.
I know that the strategies each tank employs are more complex than just aggressive vs defensive, but if strategies like double shields or hyper dives turn out to be too overwhelming, maybe this is how you combat that.
I kinda get your point, but the main issue with 6v6 were queue times due to a lack of tank players, so splitting up specifically the tanks into 2 sub groups is just about the worst possible thing you can do.
(Like, they'd do that if they deliberately wanted the mode to fail, terrible)
@@thesilvanalyst6880not necessarily now that I think about it. Dva is a great example of how it could work. Not necessarily splitting the queues but make tanks closer to dva high dmg mitigation and mobility. Dmg on top might be much. Just my idea.
Hot take: overwatch is saveable, but wont because of blizzards choices with the dev team
Hot Take: this game should never backtrack on things they add, like roadhog hook, hanzo 1 shot, doomfist uppercut, etc.
Taking things away from dedicated players who learned them is far more damaging to those players than the gain of the rest of the player base. The dev team should only tune with things that don't destroy characters identity, reworks shouldn't be a thing, number tuning is all that should be in the game.
hot take: fuck it, 7v7 in unrated. the ultimate casual experience. Keep 5v5 for comp because I think it's inherently more competitive than 6v6/7v7
There's less VC and call outs because there's pings and voicelines
Carq needs to stop trying to please everyone with his answers and say what he actually thinks
I think support was more fun in 6v6 as well. I do agree that it is easier now, but that makes it kinda boring. Support coordination was more fun too, because you had a second tank to help the other, both supports turning to help eachother for a few seconds was less of a risk. Plus, I might have a zarya that could bubble me when Winston and dva jump me. Even in open queue, that extra player might go torb, cree, sombra, symm, etc to help with the dive. You had more room to adjust, and still play the various games for map control, objective time, and picks.
for me i use soldier ult just to make space or take focus from the enemy on my team to me.
also F dva 😢
8:06 its moo....like a cows opinion, it just doesn't matter
soldier def is harder than most hitscans because of how the armor effects him. Can't do shit about anyone with armor but you need crazy aim to get kills with him. top 500 soldiers who actually do shit and dont get carried, have some of the best tracking aim in the world.
hard to play and hard to rank up on are two different things
theres like 3 solider players in top 500 rn lol, personally just switched to playing ashe
Then tell me why my gold ass seems to do really well with him over other heroes as a DPS? I know I don't have god aim.
@@nickve777 their essentially the same cause he is hard to play rn with the meta making him take more skill and harder to rank up. Most just have no idea the time needed to be a good soldier.
@@Rohndogg1 because youre in gold
brother on the second take, i’ve been playing overwatch for 8 years and could probably count on two hands the number of times i’ve joined team voice in a game. this is nothing new
1000s of callouts missed 1000s of deaths that could of been avoided😢
@@tinytimonfire millions of unwarranted comments at my character and other various insults avoided.
never said i was always solo-queuing, in fact i rarely ever do. there are also pings and text chat. voice chat is simply not needed in metal ranks.
People would rather tell everyone to join vc and try to order them around than learn how to play one singular hero themselves and do their role properly. We aren't playing MOBA-like OW1. To coordinate with the team you don't need VC, you need to open your fucking eyes and look back at others before engaging. It sounds obvious, so damn obvious but it's insane how many people (sometimes me included) just forget about it. Sometimes giving your teammates a couple of seconds is enough to let them take positions and only then engage.
You don't need VC for this, you need pings, eyes and more than a couple of braincells.
Hanzo is cooked. bring him back to OW2
Hot take: meta doesn't matter, conterswap have more value
Hot take: sombra ruined OW2 more than 5v5.
If they increased soldiers fall off range he’d be fine I think
No he wouldn’t ashe had to get nerfed because of the range she has +dmg per bullet+ and fire rate no. He would be to strong especially since he can run away and beam you not to mention mercy dmg boost on top.
I love your insights and this channel but sometimes i feel like you take questions too literally. In regards to soldier I think the observation was more like: "Since you do damage over time, and theres more escapes than ever, it can be very difficult to secure kills as Soldier 76." He used Ana 'nade and Moira Fade as an example which are not great examples but I think I got the gist of what he was going for. A lot of times it feels like you have an enemy on the cusp of elimination and they just press a button and *BAM* theyre totally safe.
This in conjunction with the Armor and Tank Headshot buffs mean its very difficult to pressure the frontline while you wait for those backline opportunities.
I agree with this. While I occasionally see a good Soldier a lot of times theyre just damage farming and securing something like 1 elim per 2k damage dealt, which is just an awful stat.
Reaper is the healthiest hero in the game. Bad reapers are bad and great reapers are UNREAL but still very punishable with good coordination and proper counter picks
Nah, that’s soldier.
@@ekothesilent9456 soldier is so ass rn
Hot Take: You describe that YOU dont have an issue vs Sombra and so on. Have you considered the feeling of people who are not at your rank, Bronze, Silver, Gold.... how they feel, facing a Sombra how they can NOT deal with. So for the best of the game in general, remove invisability characters, they are just to punishing and dominating in the lower ranks.
This is the same argument as don’t balance around top 500 which I agree to an extent but. The issue with this is they’d have to put power back into other parts of her kit.
Hot take: Reaper has the best legendary skins in the game
The shit I’ve heard from VC is the reason I stick to just pinging and the wheel. I’m sure there are some decent people that actually know how to verbally communicate even if it’s criticism.
Unfortunately, there are too many that think just yelling and insulting is the way to go and they take ZERO introspection on what lead to them and/or their teammates dying in the situation. I work full time and I don’t have the patience after work to chance dealing with some idiot screaming in my ear for whatever reason so I mute everything.
You got something to say? Ping it. I’ll gladly give it a look to see that I can do. You want to combine ults? Say it through the wheel and I’ll hold off until your cue.
Maybe don't play comp then. Qp should be fine but playing comp with the intention to not partake in an important part of the game isn't fair to others. You can also just mute the toxic player(s)
@@ZombieaidZ Not partake in an important part of the game? I said I do communicate. Just not through voice and I pay attention to pings and comm wheel notifications following them to the best of my abilities. I’m not a pro or super high rank where voice is a must-have.
@@HoodWeegeeand yet you won't hear the "sombra just got behind" call or the "I just heard tracer blink" there are limits on what a ping can tell you, as a sym player most people WILL NOT use my tele unless I am calling it out, even when it's right in front of them and pinged.
Not a hot take. I was just listening to this on my commute to work and the subtle THUD kept making me think I had something loose in the box of my truck. Pulled over a few times to realize it's the video lol
I'd rather have a Soldier 76 on my team than a weeb nerd Hanzo
Hot take- sombra needs to be retired.
VC is mostly trash callouts, crying on death, and scapegoating... People in VC seem to have more fun arguing and shit-talking than playing the game.
Hot take: moira attack should have same range as her heal
Then they’d have to buff her hp and survivability