@@X_MANGO__ As a ball main, the rework was good in that it didn't mess up any tech and gave extra options to reach high ground for those who don't know the tech. But it didn't fix anything that was fundamentally problematic (CC stacking, Sombra, Junk trap etc). They need to make a game-wide change around CC. Right now, I hard roll teams with no counter-picking (which shouldn't be so easy) but once they pull out 3-4 counters, Ball is like torture (which shouldn't be the case). A middleground would be nice. Also ball still sucks against 90% of other tanks.
@@safiragemsare u a biased support player, cuz thats not true at all lol. What everyone wanted was that pylon gets a timer on how much time it was active, the pylon having the potential to be active all game if its not broken is insane
I played OW(1) on a friends account and got to enjoy it. Then made my own when OW2 was released. I mainly played Hanzo/Junkrat/Echo and then became a Doom Main. The playstyle is so unique. Looking back, i now see what all these original OW1 Pros said about how bad some changes from OW2 are. For me, i now had to stop play Doom, cause its literally impossible to enjoy the game. And looking at him for an example, i see the game having core-issues but only new stuff added. I play OW2 when i stop playing other games but i accept, that i cant main this game anymore in this state. (Edit: Im GER so sorry for my spelling, hope its right :)
honestly lol tanks are awful to play with and against. imo, the highest skill tank in low skill in OW2's own bubble because of it. (not to be confused with playing good players hard the actual mechanics and skill requirment)
I like to play tank, you just need to turn on a second neuron and do stuff with a purpose. Ever since I onetricked for 6 months Doom my performance got 10 times better on every other hero as well.
@@imrendered I used to play Overwatch before the rebranding to the second edition. Tanks were my favourite characters to play. When I was playing as Sigma, I was the one who really knew how to play him optimally. I was even able to play him successfully in deathmatches. I don't know how it looks like now, but 4 years ago they were really powerful, but extremely demanding to master.
I have a solution to that: Force activity to maintain top 500 (or 100 in this case) You can't camp many slots if you HAVE to play often to maintain a slots, because playing also means going up and down
@@violet9214 I agree, but they tried that years ago in og ow, and people cried and used the excuse of "I don't have time to play all the time". And that is fair, because most normal people with a 9-5, really wouldn't have time to play hours each day to hold top 500/100. What ruins it, is people stream/content creators, who play the game like a fulltime, because at the end of the day, it is a fulltime job for them. It would suck to be knocked out of top 500/100 because you don't have time to play, but at the same time, if you did have enough time to play, it would give people a chance to take up slots that streamers/content creators can't camp on.
@@violet9214tbh that wouldn't work either unless you had to play a large number of games. Pros/streamers can easily play 10 games a week on multiple accounts you would have to require a pretty high number
Story telling: they nearly had a deal with Netflix for an animated Series and then they sued them for what ever reason and it got pushed away.... ActiBlizz at its best again, fumbling the probably best video game adaptation ever...
Great job, Yeat. Overwatch has become such low hanging fruit for rage bait that its nice to hear from someone who genuinely plays the game and sees it for what it is, instead of what it isnt.
@@willdriscoll7454 I guess that explains why so many people are leaving, and why they are no desperately trying to revive the soul of the game by bringing back 6v6 OW is just the latest game blizzard killed the soul of, you also got retail wow and WC3 reforged, it is a pattern at this point that they are desperately trying to fix, as they should But if you want the game to die keep trying to make fun of people who love the game ofc
honestly the biggest thing for me is just how terrible the map pool is at the moment. Most of my games are either flashpoint, clash, or robot, which genuinely bore me
Honestly,it feels great hearing a reasonable,positive opinion from a veteran.I started playing half a year ago so I can't be mad how the game was back then,I quite enjoy playing it despite the fact that most people say the game got worse.Great vid
@@Cooltorito yes its a problem, every single FPS you can inspect but in overwatch NOOOO you gotta pay for it, classic blizzard never change the game is destined to die one day. Might be good/ok now but what about in 10 years.... probably not, I would like to be proven wrong tho.
I recently came back and besides a month or so when OW2 launched, i haven't really played since 2019 or 2020. I aggree that they improved a lot of things and there is a good foundation now. But the most disappointing part to me is just the level of toxicity even in quickplay. After role queue launched, there was almost like this golen age of QP. The games had somewhat good quality and people where very chill for the most part. When i came back, i've spend the first couple of days just getting flamed for not knowing how to play. And that just seems to be the normal experience these days. It feels like people expect you to take QP as serious as comp and if you want to try out new characters, you just have to accept that you're getting flamed for the entire session. I also don't recall running into people throwing QP games in OW1 but in OW2 it happens all the time. It's just very exhausting and after talking to some friends, they also recommended to not just leave VC but also mute text chat. Which is very sad, but also very reasonable imo And after 3 months, alongside visibile scoreboards i think the main reason for this toxicity is that blizzard punishes you a lot more for leaving QP games. I don't think players got more toxic but in OW1 if someone got tilted, they just left the game instead of making their anger everyone elses problem. In OW2 you're kinda stuck with every lobby, so people get angry and can't leave. But it's still QP so they also don't have a reason try to win. Toxicity and throwing just seems to be the logicial consequence of that.
Literally this right here. I personally have always said that punishing people for leaving the casual game mode is by far the worst thing they could ever lean towards. All it does is create this incentive for people to throw games or argue with their team because they're forced to be stuck together unless they want to suffer matchmaking penalties. I never understood why people pushed for this so hard when it's just made things infinitely worse in the long run.
The point closest to spawn is uncappable if the enemies aren't griefing and a guaranteed win for the losing team + they get to take positions on the next point because they lived the fight/whoever died is way closer. So you can lose one equal fight one almost equal and win a completely one sided and the score is only 1-2 out of 5 and now you have the advantage again. Ridiculous thinking by blizzard
@@Swatotasticyeah I was playing with my friend in GOLD and they got us to the last point and they just sat on the same point they capped and I was like “what the hell, how do they know about this?”😂
Regarding what you said at the end, an Overwatch animated show could be incredible (*if done well and not just made as a cash grab). Imagine the best shorts with a half-decent story arc. We would eat that shit up as OW slaves and there's massive potential for them to make so many new fans.
Riot spent $10 million per episode on production alone for Arcane. They probably spent another $30-40 million on marketing. There's just no way Blizzard would ever be willing to spend that much on what is essentially a prestige ad campaign. Not just because of a difference in corporate principles, but because a cursory cost-benefit analysis will tell you that there's simply no way they could get a return on investment for Overwatch, which has a much smaller player base than League of Legends and low penetration into the all-important East Asian consumer base
It sucks since they were working on a show at one point, but it ended up getting cancelled. Not sure if we’d ever get to see an Overwatch show in the future.
one major thing that i noticed this year and i feel like people aren't talking about is that fan-made content is here again! obviously it has always been there but it really peaked at around 2017 with tons of animations, fan art, unique youtube content, memes and even just clips. this year feels so much more alive than any other year since 2018-2019. it truly makes the game feel way more alive for me when i can just go on twitter and see hundreds of tweets of awesome fan art and fan noncanon lore, and i can go on tiktok / youtube and see animations for the first time in forever and some posts getting 100s of thousands of likes
I personally would love if you completed the battlepass, COMPLETELY even the last bits with the little titles and all that, you get the next battle pass free.
@@BananaWasTaken they should at least allow you to buy previous battle passes after you've completed the current battle pass. Able to complete the season battle pass and just two weeks
@@BananaWasTakenDon’t underestimate how many people buy the battle pass and how few complete level 200. Level 200 of the battle pass is a metric shit ton of grinding, I don’t think they’d lose that much money at all
@@blazex224 fair point. And I suppose the possibility of getting the next battle pass free might encourage more people to buy the battle pass so they might make more money if they do.
The problem is that would be fine if it was a brand new game. But for those of us who adored OverWatch 1, OverWatch 2 will always leave a sour taste in our mouths.
I might be in the minority (I started playing OW1 consistently in 2019) but I still really enjoy the core gameplay. It's very fast, dynamic and rewards quick thinking/good decision making. Comboing ults and abilities with perfect timing gives a special kind of dopamine. It feels very satisfying as a sweaty gamer 😅 Even though sometimes it's just a chaotic mess, it's a beautiful chaotic mess imo. Of course more could be done as far as certain characters receiving skins, balance changes etc. I like how the game feels and still truly enjoy grinding ranked (I have a lot of friends who play which helps IMMENSELY) and improving my game sense/mechanics 🤙 I still see myself improving even after playing for 5 years. @@nathancasey7712
I'm a GM DPS player. 6v6 feels a lot better for DPS for me, if we're using the 6v6 custom as a basis for comparison. It is always brought up that we have more individual player agency in 5v5. This may be true for Tank, but certainly is not true for DPS. In 5v5 there are 4 targets we can meaningfully interact with. The tank is excluded, since as an individual DPS player, we can't do anything against a tank a vast majority of the time. In 6v6, there are 6 enemies we can meaningfully interact with, as we can actually threaten a tank. That to me is more agency, and I have enjoyed it in the 6v6 custom.
Tanks definitely also have more agency in 6v6. 5v5 involves getting hard countered by 3 people at once and/or face tanking all the enemy team's cooldowns. I've had so many games where I've hard carried but then lost because the enemy team at some point decided to prevent me from playing the game and my team couldn't capitalize. I think supports do gain a lot in terms of agency in 5v5. In general, supports and DPS have more space to work with since the off tank isn't there to lock down every off angle.
I'm quite bad and I agree with this. Even when the enemy tank is clearly lost and alone (happens a lot in silver) there's virtually no point to interacting with them 1v1, its just absurd. Didn't used to be like that.
@@averageagarthianman I was there when we had the double shield tank meta and it was horrible. A lot of people quit there too. So I'm not at all convinced 6v6 will be better than what we have now. It's certainly better to counter Widowmaker but I can't see support jobs having more fun with that. Their ults are also pretty OP when combined. They couldn't balance it in OW1, when there were fewer heroes, what makes you think they can now? But I guess we'll find out soon enough.
@@Seraphina_FF14 I didn't necessarily like double shield or whatever previous metas existed, although I didnt really mind as a Mccree player. What I certainly don't like is the current state of these colossal tanks. I would rather shoot at shields than to tuck my tail and run away whenever I encounter one of them. I preferred it the old way, I didn't feel so impotent as a DPS. But I've really lost track of all the changes, its likely a larger combination of stuff that makes me feel so weak now. 6v6 is not the answer to the problem I perceive anyway, I would just hope that it leads to a revert of tank buffs.
@averageagarthianman if you are getting hard owned by an enemy tank in a 5v5 format. You are likely to get destroyed by 2 tanks in 6v6 format as well. If you want me to guess, you were gold or silver back ow 1 ,maximum plat.
No matter how flawed and hated a franchise is I always find a way to enjoy it because of how cool and charismatic the characters are and Overwatch is a perfect example of this.
"cool and charismatic" characters come from the stories, not from how they look, what stories do the new characters bring? If you were speaking about OG characters/stories than yea you are right.
Played a bit of Overwatch when I think Doomfist was just coming out, but I'm revisiting it with friends again, and I am pleasantly surprised how fun it is to pick up again. Still frustratingly difficult at times though lol. Thanks for the video!
6V6 will be so much better. I miss the off-tank role. I used to play all 3 roles consistently in OW1, but when it went to 5v5, i stopped. I'm so bad on tank now that I apologize after each match when doing my tank placements.
Hey buddy, you know the role coming back from 6v6 will be MAIN tank and not off tank right? A shield tank will now be mandatory just like it was in OW1. And now tank players will be pressured to play shield tanks more than ever before in OW2.
@@georgealvarez1195you can definitely get away with playing just off tanks in 6v6 and you won't be forced to swap due to counterswaps as they were not as bad in 6v6 to deal with
I might be misremembering but I'm pretty sure they said the 6v6 playtest won't be until season 15 or 16. there's a lot of stuff they need to change to get 6v6 going, namely optimization on the new engine (adding 2 extra heroes' bullshit is hard for the wee little switch)
i recommend trying the soft role lock thing they're gonna try next season (?). dk for sure if they're doing it next season but it seems like it'd be fun for some games to be 2-1-2 or 2-2-1
This video was awesome. I've been wanting to play overwatch again, but was nervous because of how it was when it released. I'm glad to see that they made some much needed improvements. Thanks for the video. First time watcher and I happily subscribed
In OW I played duos with a friend of mine (we both main tank) so the release of 5v5 just had us stop playing alltogether, I really hope that 6v6 will stay and I can't wait to play with my friend again.
i mean for a game that is still active for the past 8 years, it is a very big feat already. some dont even last for 2 or 3 weeks . nothing lasts forever. OW is already a very succesful game in its own right.
I would love to see them bring back old battle pass items in the shop (or just unlock them). I still kick myself all the time thinking about the game or two I could've played to get Kiriko's "I run with blades all the time" voice line in season 1 battle pass.
Maaaaan I’m new to OW (little over 24hrs as of rn) do you know how pissed I get every time I open the heroes menu to be reminded that black metal Junker Queen just doesn’t exist for me because I didn’t play back then. I main JQ and I think black metal is her best skin by far but I’ll literally never get to use it because I started playing last month. So I agree. Bring back old battlepass skins for fucks sake Blizzard ☠️
I play a lot of OW2 but do not pay anything for it. Even if I want to buy stuff for a hero I start to main or on my alt account, I can’t do it! I could spend so much money on this game. Big shop with all content at decent prices (say 4-5 euros for a OW1 skin).
thank you!! i'm so sick of youtubers just making another hate video and mentioning the sexual assault allegations for the nth time and reducing the game to where the company the is MANAGING it could end up in the future. overwatch was a better game even in brig's heyday than most of other shooters out there.
So happy i gave up on this game. i will give OW some credit for being the first mainstream hero shooter success in the last decade but then died a silent death because ' insert drama'
great video, came back at season 9. best state of overwatch pvp. The lore department cuts hurts though, especially knowing a netflix animated series was in the works
it's so refreshing to hear someone not shit on overwatch. Speaking from a new players perspective - I've played for 2 weeks and I'm having a blast, also I am having a blast playing TANK, is it going to change when I will play ranked? Possibly, I might suck at the game and won't go past silver, which will cause me to be frustrated, but skill issue ig and it won't be a problem if my attitude towards the game doesn't change. I think that ow2 player base has the same issue League of Legends' player base has which is community itself, League when played with turned off chat is a whole different game, same goes for overwatch, as long as I ignore people raging at me for diving 1v5 as doom and insta dying I am having fun, when I pay attention to them it ain't fun anymore ( also ik league's in a terrible spot but it's besides the point and the devs already are working on making the game fun according to Tyler1 and making T1 say that is quite a accomplishment). So yeah that's my bullshit rant Cool vid bro
The people who shit on the game are the people who came from a superior version of the game you play. The game is bad when compared to OW1. It is BAD, because the only time I'll have fun on tank is in openqueue, the flaws stick out like a saw thumb when you have experience with the game. The worst of OW1 is better than what we have now
@Number1RichPianaFan nostalgia for what? The content drought? I am not an OG player. Actually, I only started playing the game in 2020 after echo's release. What do I HAVE to be nostalgic over? A dead game I am nostalgic over? Sure.
can I just say that ranked feels worse. like winning and losing is up down 20%, streaks mean nothing, but the worst thing of all by far is the ranked resets. Like in lower ranks I am placed with ppl who don't deserve teh rank higher or lower and it's hell
In the last weeks I've been playing Overwatch 2 (last time was something like november 2023) and, to be honest, I'm having a lot of fun. I have only played unranked matches for now, but this game is a lot more balanced than it was in release and a lot more funny.
i took a break from season 12 and ive actually been really enjoying the game recently, it doesn’t feel as tedious whenever something happens anymore its just been super chill
I really liked what you said about the speed at which community feedback effects balancing now. I used to be neutral on 5v5 vs 6v6, but having seen firsthand that they really don't know how to balance 5v5, I've become a pretty strong advocate for the return of two tanks. Many people I've spoken to about it whine about stuff like Goats or generally horrible eras of balancing like double shield as a point against it, and I honestly don't think people give enough credit to just how badly a lack of ANY balancing effected 6v6. During Overwatch 1's lifespand, the dev team seemed very willfully ignorant or accepting of absolutely broken heroes almost as though they couldn't see how they could ever get things wrong (see launch Brig), but nowadays the dev team (for all the shit we give them) is actively engaged with the community. While sometimes they'll put out some ASS patches, its so important to recognise that dogshit patches usually only stick around for a few weeks max, as opposed to a year and a half as they would have previously. In my eyes, the only real argument against 6v6 that holds up to scrutiny is queue times, but I would argue with two tanks making hard counters less of an issue, and the dev team being more proactive with balancing, its not unlikely that tank could become popular enough to counter the lengthened queue times we'd see from 6 players per team.
Let's not forget the sheer number of Off Tanks and DPS-Tanks compared to Main Tanks, even if you get a game with 2 DPS players on Tank you won't be at a disadvantage.
@@aaronolson6736 This is actually a very good point, I've seen people whining that two tanks will only result in one tank taking Roadhog and going on dumb flanks and to be honest I do not see the issue. I would rather have one main tank with a flanking Roadhog than one tank who's getting diffed any day. It's also good to analyse "off-tanks" as they are now, trying to fit into a system not made for them, because it's very easy to hypothesise what the meta tank will be based on recent balance patches before the meta even forms. Dva and Winston becoming strong after the armour changes was EXTREMELY easy to predict because they have been turned into main tanks for a 5v5 environment, and their kits are far too versatile to be easily balanced for 5v5 because they can easily accomplish so many jobs with little in the way of hard counters. Fortunately for some, this is actually a meta where Ball is quite good because of rush/dive being strong right now, but people may have noticed how easy it is to tell when Ball is going to be absolutely fucking useless for a season, because his nature as an off-tank first and foremost means that he still doesn't have the capacity to cover teammates who aren't self sufficient. I also think it's worth stating that I absolutely agree with designing the game around giving individuals more agency, OW1 WAS far too teamwork reliant in a game where 99% of players, even at high ranks, aren't truly coordinating. I just think 6v6 can coincide with that increased agency, especially keeping in mind how little hard CC exists in Overwatch 2.
@@epoch7661If my tank is getting diffed I can just go Zen/Ana and force a tank diff in my tanks favor. With 2 tanks that wouldn't be possible because Zen just wouldn't survive with the amount of mobility creep two tanks can just roll you over and Ana would go back to being forced to healbot both tanks with no time to make any proactive plays.
@@WindReiter10 Do you know how much would have to be rolled back or changed? It's not just slapping another tank in the mix, obviously, but the idea would be for heroes like Zen to be playable even into two dive tanks. It might be tricky, but you'd walk back things like knock back reduction, lower sleep dart cooldown, etc, and health numbers would once again be brought down. Zen has been perfectly playable for many OW1 metas, and even current Zen relies heavily on peel from others to survive, I think you may be overestimating the difference in oppressiveness between current dive and a hypothetical two tank dive given all the changes that would need to be made for two tanks to return anyway.
It's a breath of fresh air to hear someone who isn't shitting on the game and whining about nostalgia for ow1, the gameplay of overwatch I think is objectively the best it's ever been, but the controversies with pve and blizzard in general have really put people off this game. If. Ow2 was the original game it would still win game of the year
Someone being positive and actually providing evidence instead of just complaining about recolors over and over is such a breath of fresh air. Very cool review ^^
All sounds great. I'm speaking for myself as someone who's played since OW1 beta, but, too little too late. Came here to see if I missed anything after qui5ting a few months ago. OW will have a place in my heart, but Blizzard really knows how to burn the bridge to their customer
Yeatle stop, your video was too positive, remember that everyone hates overwatch and no other emotion is acceptable. Next video needs more complaining and less answers okay
As someone who recently quit the game. In terms of content and updates it’s in an amazing place especially compared to the end of ow1 life cycle. But when it comes to the gameplay it only feels like it’s been getting worse and worse. I can’t put my finger on it but whatever it is it got so bad it flicked a switch in me to quit after 7 years of playing
One big thing i hope they do different this time is that drives thing for the namecards, they look great and extra flair is always good but 2 days is just not enough for casuals, if you were to forget it was that weekend and miss saturday you now have a day (more like a few hours more likely) to finish everything. especially when some people (including me) had broken pages that just wouldnt track and after 1 loss and 6 wins i was still at 0😔, i was very bummed because the drive was something i really hoped would make me want to grind again but i just missed most of it and got nothing for doing exactly what they said to.
Imagine an Overwatch series like Arcane where they go deep into character backstories for characters with less screentime like Lucio, Sym, Moira, even Baptiste
i pretty much agree with yeatle. the game is fun and IMO it's been fun basically the whole time. the only time i really stop playing OW is when i have a backlog of singleplayer games that suck up all my time instead. the worst period of OW for me was the year before they added role lock where every match was a standoff on who would be forced to play tank or support so the rest of the team can have fun. i never cared about pve or about cosmetics at all, so it's been pretty much smooth sailing. i do genuinely miss playing off tank zarya and off tank dva, but support got more fun so i play that instead. i think most of the people clamoring about 6v6 need to learn the idiom "you can't go home again". 6v6 isn't a panacea, it solves some problems and creates others, but no matter what, you will never get back the 'magic' you believe was lost when the game went to 5v5. it's impossible. you are not the same person and it is not the same game.
After 2 years they changed and added a lot of things. And probably this is the best moment for ow2. I never played tank until this season, but now I'm trying it and I don't feel frustrated when playing it
I love the game even with it's flaws. As a tank player I just accept the fact tank is worse in 5v5 playing other roles has allowed me have a lot more fun even if I'm only master on DPS
i wish my role (DPS) got a player removed and I got giga buffed, now in SoloQ tanks literally just press W on me and im dead. 5v5 is fine for professional play but horrendous for soloq,
I think it’s crazy you saying they are responding quick when there is a bug that has been now for 1 and a half week. It is a golden gum bug and the support has gotten bombed with it and they still don’t fix this small bug
What an eloquent breakdown of this year, I'd say the only other thing worth mentioning is that they added mythic weapons with weapon inspects that have been kinda controversial
I concurr. I have hundreds of hours on doom. The fact that they literally deleted that character and gave us tankdoom who imo is far less fun to play is bullshit.
@@Gerolix he was easily countered. But regardless, I loved it and my experience was ruined. Other people’s experience means nothing to me when it comes to playing videos games. Play video games is purely a self centered/selfish hobby. So whatever, I blame the devs.
@@Gerolix Dps Doomfist was dogshit and easily countered. For a while he was a literal throw pick. He was meta for a short while when bap came out because he could uppercut bap out of his stupid immortality lamp, but that's it. If dps doom consistently giving you problems you're objectively bad at the game.
Honestly, the recent Halloween event... feels appalling... They put a progression system in the PVP mode, and what's the reason why we can have that in a PvE again??
if you think about it, its a lot of work for just.. a 2 week halloween mode. Like sure a lot of the base mechanics were there from pve, but like the UI, the thought put into like not being able to swap, all the details in all the mutations. This might be a precursor to something bigger. pausechamp
@@notreyayou think it's a lot of work, because you compare it to the shitty and lazy updates they did over the years. In any other game that kind of mode is not out of the ordinary. It's not hard to make from a development standpoint. I think they are afraid to overdeliver. They DO NOT want to set up expectations. Remember the genji mythic skin? Yeah, they hate to do quality content. They want the playerbase to be content with the current game and to buy reskins.
When you mentioned rivals i perked up, and i think honestly on of overwatches biggest issue is most people playing now have been so for 6 or more 8 years, and our issues are the "its not like how it was" and that some people need to step away for a bit (I just want rivals now)
Your point that if Overwatch made a tv show for the game would boost player count is totally correct. Not only would it be cool to see, and the least they could do after pve’s downfall, but that would revive the game if done correctly. Edgerunners made me buy the game and DLC for cyberpunk, and I don’t like DLC’s because usually they’re planned!
I would say the cinematics recently weren't awful (the Mauga one was actually pretty cool imo and has an art style ripe for a "Saturday night" Talon cartoon), but seeing a series cancelled at Netflix was so heartbreaking. Had they not made the game F2P, it wouldn't have lived as long as it has, but that can only go so far due to the criticisms about the monetization you mentioned. With that said, I still have so much fun in this game and I only wish the best for the remaining members of the OW team especially considering all the massive layoffs and awful controversies at Blizzard.
Ngl the 6v6 playtesting will probably bring very inaccurate results Due to the fact that some tanks were designed around 5v5 while others around 6v6, there is likely gonna be at least 1 game breaking issue that will ruin ANY chance of 6v6 coming back. Also, since tanks were mega buffed into raid bosses to increase survivability unless the dev team decreases all tanks survivability in the 6v6 playtesting then tanks are just gonna be super unfun for dps and support to play against, and ngl I don't trust the dev team in making a change like that which should otherwise be very obvious and needed change for this playtesting.
Not even a "conspiracy", but I think 6v6 is doomed to fail because the devs will not put enough effort to balance things (in other words, revert the game to mid 2022, remove all the new heroes and maps from 6v6, rework them in the backstage, add them later little by little), too much hassle for a dev team who is slowly walking to the gallows anyway (and Marvel Rivals will not help their morale). Dare to bet Overwatch will enter on a pseudo maintenance mode, just like Halo Infinite, in mid 2025~early 2026 tops. Again, if even Halo is not too big to fail, Overwatch is no different, no one is safe in this crazy entertainment market that bombard us with "content" from all sides
I will take this as a chance to review the devs instead of the game. The devs are amazing and I don't think they hear that nearly enough. Thank you for all your hard work to make this game better, for listening to the community, and for working hard to regain player trust so that the community can begin to heal from the past.
I came back after being off a little bit after the ow2 came, and I’m enjoying it. Since I only play offline games, going to a competitive game from time to time. Of course it doesn’t has the same feeling like I did have back in the early seasons of ow1, those were the golden days. But now it’s cool, not that bad as people make out to be.
hmmm in your segment about monetization, I feel you brushed over on tiny detail we get 80 prismes by season. which was nice when there was a only a mythin skin that cost 80 prismes. but they added the mythic weapons. which cost more prismes. then in this season, aspects, which cost even more prismes so at this point, the prismes you earn from the paying BP only covers half at most of the cosmetics you can buy with them.
I was an OW 1 player and when OW 2 released i hated it but recently i picked up the game again and i'm having fun ! So yeah the game definitely improved
I love 6v6 and yes i was there back in OW and agree that double shields made everyone’s life hell but if they could find a way to have only 1 tank shielder, that could make it work again. Like if you have a reinhardt, you can’t bring a winston or something like that.
@@Cooltorito I never got that.. I dont need constant change and new heroes to enjoy comp. New maps, modes, skins, shorts etc.. It´s plenty enough.. Don´t need a new hero every other month making balancing harder. It´s more special if it´s like 2 every year... And build some hype up around it.. Leaving clues.. etc... Sadly the only thing I see about those sort of things tho is when people made vids about them afterwards. This chase after new stuff often end up in removing something that was good and replacing with something worse.
Personally I just want the game to be balanced for fun. Blizzard seems to be actively doing the opposite, the way they keep buffing anti-fun heroes like hog or moira.
as much as i want to say that the balance is stinky because of bad balance patches and questionable direction for the identity and state of some heroes, i look to arcade and realise i have more fun with the unbalanced goofy changes, altered environment and chaos, compared to even the likes of role queue quickplay. in FACT i even find open queue ranked more fun than qp, which suggests to me that the problem isnt balance but dilution of gameplay. an example of this is how many times ive been bored to death with shooting the enemy tank and baby sitting my team instead of focusing more on making plays and making use of my cooldowns! in arcade game modes, every character is stronger in a way that isnt just - MORE DAMAGE - or MORE HEALTH - which provides surprisingly fun options for engagement for even the weakest of heroes. Community crafted is 14X closer to my ideal ow2 and it has fricking lucio with his 2000 overhealth beat lmao
Naah, it's not impossible, Street Fighter 3 is literally perfectly balanced. And the most impressive example of them all: KOF 2002, this game has 60+ characters (including final bosses and whatnot) and they are ALL balanced, humongous feat on a design standpoint, every trio is viable, combinations that can be properly countered, etc.. And yes, these games are comparable even if they are fighting games, the core of both SF, KOF and Overwatch is the "competitive" gameplay and KOF has hundreds of combinations between tags, team composition and whatnot. If SNK on it's dying bed was able to perfect the formula, Blizzard and other devs have no excuse, Overwatch is a thing for 8 freaking years, if the devs are walking in circles all this time, nowhere near to perfect the formula, it means they never had real talent to begin with, awful direction ruined this golden goose
Idk they always say that 5v5 brough less teamplay and more individual impact, but what I noticed is that it is not less teamplay, it is zero. If I am tank, I am alone, and the other team members wander around or even are somewhere else. On dps the only interactions are supports healing you if they feel like it. Supports are self centered. Ult combos are basically extinct.
I never got bored with Overwatch 1. I started off in late 2020 as a 1400sr tank player who hadn’t picked up a video game in eight years. I put 2k hours into the game before Overwatch 2, and after Overwatch 2, I hit top 500 and get bored playing more than an hour or two at a time.
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Lol, you forgot the wrecking ball rework (but tbf, I understand why)
you're actually right I completely forgot about that one 😂😂😂
lol. God. What a flop of a “rework” 😂
@@yeatle Geez I wonder why .
What? The grapple changes were pretty dope
@@X_MANGO__ As a ball main, the rework was good in that it didn't mess up any tech and gave extra options to reach high ground for those who don't know the tech. But it didn't fix anything that was fundamentally problematic (CC stacking, Sombra, Junk trap etc). They need to make a game-wide change around CC. Right now, I hard roll teams with no counter-picking (which shouldn't be so easy) but once they pull out 3-4 counters, Ball is like torture (which shouldn't be the case). A middleground would be nice.
Also ball still sucks against 90% of other tanks.
"The problem is two years later the only new PvE content is illari's pylon" XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Jesus so good XDDD
illari was so good, then every DPS complain her damage is too big and now shes forgotten LMAO
@@safiragemsdps players never cared for her damage, we just hate her pylon
@@safiragemsare u a biased support player, cuz thats not true at all lol. What everyone wanted was that pylon gets a timer on how much time it was active, the pylon having the potential to be active all game if its not broken is insane
@@le_m4cho965 but that’s every turret, I understand the pylon is annoying but so is the other turrets
im glad people are still finding joy in this game because personally i can barely play 3 game per month before burning out
I played OW(1) on a friends account and got to enjoy it.
Then made my own when OW2 was released. I mainly played Hanzo/Junkrat/Echo and then became a Doom Main. The playstyle is so unique.
Looking back, i now see what all these original OW1 Pros said about how bad some changes from OW2 are.
For me, i now had to stop play Doom, cause its literally impossible to enjoy the game. And looking at him for an example, i see the game having core-issues but only new stuff added.
I play OW2 when i stop playing other games but i accept, that i cant main this game anymore in this state.
(Edit: Im GER so sorry for my spelling, hope its right :)
this games not even fun to come back to on a smurf every 6 months anymore
That may be a you problem tho, some people are just way too emotional is certain scenarios
reminder that 5v5 and reworks were the only gameplay changes
@@its_lucky2526 that is a pretty big change tho
It says a LOT when Tanks are basically Raid Bosses now, YET STILL nobody wants to play them.
honestly lol
tanks are awful to play with and against. imo, the highest skill tank in low skill in OW2's own bubble because of it. (not to be confused with playing good players hard the actual mechanics and skill requirment)
I play them i keep getting dumb dps teammate and its horrible
I like to play tank, you just need to turn on a second neuron and do stuff with a purpose. Ever since I onetricked for 6 months Doom my performance got 10 times better on every other hero as well.
@@imrendered I used to play Overwatch before the rebranding to the second edition. Tanks were my favourite characters to play. When I was playing as Sigma, I was the one who really knew how to play him optimally. I was even able to play him successfully in deathmatches. I don't know how it looks like now, but 4 years ago they were really powerful, but extremely demanding to master.
Counter picking isn't fun
If you cut top 500 to top 100, then about 30-40 people will have all of the top 100 spots.
I have a solution to that:
Force activity to maintain top 500 (or 100 in this case)
You can't camp many slots if you HAVE to play often to maintain a slots, because playing also means going up and down
@@violet9214 I agree, but they tried that years ago in og ow, and people cried and used the excuse of "I don't have time to play all the time". And that is fair, because most normal people with a 9-5, really wouldn't have time to play hours each day to hold top 500/100. What ruins it, is people stream/content creators, who play the game like a fulltime, because at the end of the day, it is a fulltime job for them. It would suck to be knocked out of top 500/100 because you don't have time to play, but at the same time, if you did have enough time to play, it would give people a chance to take up slots that streamers/content creators can't camp on.
Top 250..? Maybe
@@DDan42 like the thought but i think anything that doesnt skip straight to 100 just doesnt have that ring to it
@@violet9214tbh that wouldn't work either unless you had to play a large number of games. Pros/streamers can easily play 10 games a week on multiple accounts you would have to require a pretty high number
I was a tank main in OW1. Playing tank in OW2 still feels terrible, i never finish my placements anymore
Dude, I haven't played tank since the last rank reset. Still unplaced.
@@joeburch6754 same. You couldn’t pay me to play tank in ow2
In my case I climbed from silver 1 to plat 5
skill issue
Still think they should have done 1 support and 2 tanks. Separate the tank role (main and off) and then gigga buff the supports who'd struggle alone.
Story telling: they nearly had a deal with Netflix for an animated Series and then they sued them for what ever reason and it got pushed away.... ActiBlizz at its best again, fumbling the probably best video game adaptation ever...
to be fair netflix lowkey poached their cfo
Great job, Yeat. Overwatch has become such low hanging fruit for rage bait that its nice to hear from someone who genuinely plays the game and sees it for what it is, instead of what it isnt.
He glazzzing
I play it, it's shit. I've been playing it for just as long as yeet. It's shit
@@emilio1516 why do you play a game you don't like? That's weird behavior
@@willdriscoll7454 TALK TO EM’!
@@willdriscoll7454 I guess that explains why so many people are leaving, and why they are no desperately trying to revive the soul of the game by bringing back 6v6
OW is just the latest game blizzard killed the soul of, you also got retail wow and WC3 reforged, it is a pattern at this point that they are desperately trying to fix, as they should
But if you want the game to die keep trying to make fun of people who love the game ofc
honestly the biggest thing for me is just how terrible the map pool is at the moment. Most of my games are either flashpoint, clash, or robot, which genuinely bore me
Clash is so awful and repetitive, it made me finally quit the game completely. Fighting in the same "squares" over and over and over again smh
Honestly,it feels great hearing a reasonable,positive opinion from a veteran.I started playing half a year ago so I can't be mad how the game was back then,I quite enjoy playing it despite the fact that most people say the game got worse.Great vid
I remember when they showed off weapon inspect in the original trailer and now it seems like it will be locked off to specific mythic skins.
you saying that its a problem or
its a florish not a weapon inspect
Who tf cares, most people aren't brainrotted so much that they need to be twiddling their gun every second.
Yeah thats so fucked that they did that lmao. They baited us so hard with the weapon inspects.
@@Cooltorito yes its a problem, every single FPS you can inspect but in overwatch NOOOO you gotta pay for it, classic blizzard never change the game is destined to die one day. Might be good/ok now but what about in 10 years.... probably not, I would like to be proven wrong tho.
I recently came back and besides a month or so when OW2 launched, i haven't really played since 2019 or 2020. I aggree that they improved a lot of things and there is a good foundation now. But the most disappointing part to me is just the level of toxicity even in quickplay. After role queue launched, there was almost like this golen age of QP. The games had somewhat good quality and people where very chill for the most part.
When i came back, i've spend the first couple of days just getting flamed for not knowing how to play. And that just seems to be the normal experience these days. It feels like people expect you to take QP as serious as comp and if you want to try out new characters, you just have to accept that you're getting flamed for the entire session. I also don't recall running into people throwing QP games in OW1 but in OW2 it happens all the time. It's just very exhausting and after talking to some friends, they also recommended to not just leave VC but also mute text chat. Which is very sad, but also very reasonable imo
And after 3 months, alongside visibile scoreboards i think the main reason for this toxicity is that blizzard punishes you a lot more for leaving QP games. I don't think players got more toxic but in OW1 if someone got tilted, they just left the game instead of making their anger everyone elses problem. In OW2 you're kinda stuck with every lobby, so people get angry and can't leave. But it's still QP so they also don't have a reason try to win. Toxicity and throwing just seems to be the logicial consequence of that.
Literally this right here. I personally have always said that punishing people for leaving the casual game mode is by far the worst thing they could ever lean towards. All it does is create this incentive for people to throw games or argue with their team because they're forced to be stuck together unless they want to suffer matchmaking penalties.
I never understood why people pushed for this so hard when it's just made things infinitely worse in the long run.
qp always been toxic
It's kind of funny when the people who played competitively in 2018 don't know how the game works anymore in 2024.
Lmao real i cant take how there are people flaming each other in QUICKPLAY
the second most basic training combat mode
This is why I just mute all chats.
I think the biggest problem with clash isnt how fast it can end its the fact that it punishes you for doing good
Yeah that never made sense
The point closest to spawn is uncappable if the enemies aren't griefing and a guaranteed win for the losing team + they get to take positions on the next point because they lived the fight/whoever died is way closer. So you can lose one equal fight one almost equal and win a completely one sided and the score is only 1-2 out of 5 and now you have the advantage again. Ridiculous thinking by blizzard
@@Swatotasticyeah I was playing with my friend in GOLD and they got us to the last point and they just sat on the same point they capped and I was like “what the hell, how do they know about this?”😂
Regarding what you said at the end, an Overwatch animated show could be incredible (*if done well and not just made as a cash grab).
Imagine the best shorts with a half-decent story arc. We would eat that shit up as OW slaves and there's massive potential for them to make so many new fans.
Riot spent $10 million per episode on production alone for Arcane. They probably spent another $30-40 million on marketing. There's just no way Blizzard would ever be willing to spend that much on what is essentially a prestige ad campaign. Not just because of a difference in corporate principles, but because a cursory cost-benefit analysis will tell you that there's simply no way they could get a return on investment for Overwatch, which has a much smaller player base than League of Legends and low penetration into the all-important East Asian consumer base
@@jakemertens8828 I appreciate the analysis. Still, one can dream 🙃
It sucks since they were working on a show at one point, but it ended up getting cancelled. Not sure if we’d ever get to see an Overwatch show in the future.
@@KyleJFalconI feel u lol but being realistic I just feel like it wouldn’t be good knowing blizzard😭
one major thing that i noticed this year and i feel like people aren't talking about is that fan-made content is here again! obviously it has always been there but it really peaked at around 2017 with tons of animations, fan art, unique youtube content, memes and even just clips. this year feels so much more alive than any other year since 2018-2019. it truly makes the game feel way more alive for me when i can just go on twitter and see hundreds of tweets of awesome fan art and fan noncanon lore, and i can go on tiktok / youtube and see animations for the first time in forever and some posts getting 100s of thousands of likes
oh my gosh yes! everytime i open twitter i always see new artwork of the game
I personally would love if you completed the battlepass, COMPLETELY even the last bits with the little titles and all that, you get the next battle pass free.
I doubt they’d do that. I’m guessing that the people playing the game that much, are the same people willing to spend money for the battlepass.
@@BananaWasTaken they should at least allow you to buy previous battle passes after you've completed the current battle pass. Able to complete the season battle pass and just two weeks
@@BananaWasTaken I'm almost level 1000 on it lmao, It's my favorite game.
@@BananaWasTakenDon’t underestimate how many people buy the battle pass and how few complete level 200. Level 200 of the battle pass is a metric shit ton of grinding, I don’t think they’d lose that much money at all
@@blazex224 fair point. And I suppose the possibility of getting the next battle pass free might encourage more people to buy the battle pass so they might make more money if they do.
Fact: Overwatch has it's problems but it's a SOLID AF game. Not as nearly as bad as some players and haters paint it out to be.
The problem is that would be fine if it was a brand new game. But for those of us who adored OverWatch 1, OverWatch 2 will always leave a sour taste in our mouths.
I might be in the minority (I started playing OW1 consistently in 2019) but I still really enjoy the core gameplay. It's very fast, dynamic and rewards quick thinking/good decision making. Comboing ults and abilities with perfect timing gives a special kind of dopamine. It feels very satisfying as a sweaty gamer 😅 Even though sometimes it's just a chaotic mess, it's a beautiful chaotic mess imo.
Of course more could be done as far as certain characters receiving skins, balance changes etc. I like how the game feels and still truly enjoy grinding ranked (I have a lot of friends who play which helps IMMENSELY) and improving my game sense/mechanics 🤙 I still see myself improving even after playing for 5 years. @@nathancasey7712
@@nathancasey7712 Problem is OW1 was only good from about S2-5 the rest was unplayable dogshi
@@WindReiter10 🧢
@@WindReiter10 Just not true lmao
funny, this was the year I stopped playing cause I got tired of pretending there was any magic left in the game
The magic was all there right up until double shield meta. Role q was a good change as well to rid of goats.
@@jjglaser double shield was better than OW2
@@avatarofdeath Yeah and if i would have known what they would replace 2 cp with I would take 2cp any day. The 2cp maps were more fun.
@@avatarofdeath fuck no it wasnt
@@Gerolix ya it was
What a great video! Completely slipped my mind that this was probably the best season of Overwatch I've played in awhile.
Incoming Flats and Samito reactions 😂
I'm a GM DPS player.
6v6 feels a lot better for DPS for me, if we're using the 6v6 custom as a basis for comparison. It is always brought up that we have more individual player agency in 5v5. This may be true for Tank, but certainly is not true for DPS. In 5v5 there are 4 targets we can meaningfully interact with. The tank is excluded, since as an individual DPS player, we can't do anything against a tank a vast majority of the time. In 6v6, there are 6 enemies we can meaningfully interact with, as we can actually threaten a tank. That to me is more agency, and I have enjoyed it in the 6v6 custom.
Tanks definitely also have more agency in 6v6. 5v5 involves getting hard countered by 3 people at once and/or face tanking all the enemy team's cooldowns. I've had so many games where I've hard carried but then lost because the enemy team at some point decided to prevent me from playing the game and my team couldn't capitalize.
I think supports do gain a lot in terms of agency in 5v5. In general, supports and DPS have more space to work with since the off tank isn't there to lock down every off angle.
I'm quite bad and I agree with this. Even when the enemy tank is clearly lost and alone (happens a lot in silver) there's virtually no point to interacting with them 1v1, its just absurd. Didn't used to be like that.
@@averageagarthianman I was there when we had the double shield tank meta and it was horrible.
A lot of people quit there too. So I'm not at all convinced 6v6 will be better than what we have now.
It's certainly better to counter Widowmaker but I can't see support jobs having more fun with that.
Their ults are also pretty OP when combined.
They couldn't balance it in OW1, when there were fewer heroes, what makes you think they can now?
But I guess we'll find out soon enough.
@@Seraphina_FF14 I didn't necessarily like double shield or whatever previous metas existed, although I didnt really mind as a Mccree player. What I certainly don't like is the current state of these colossal tanks. I would rather shoot at shields than to tuck my tail and run away whenever I encounter one of them. I preferred it the old way, I didn't feel so impotent as a DPS.
But I've really lost track of all the changes, its likely a larger combination of stuff that makes me feel so weak now. 6v6 is not the answer to the problem I perceive anyway, I would just hope that it leads to a revert of tank buffs.
@averageagarthianman if you are getting hard owned by an enemy tank in a 5v5 format. You are likely to get destroyed by 2 tanks in 6v6 format as well. If you want me to guess, you were gold or silver back ow 1 ,maximum plat.
No matter how flawed and hated a franchise is I always find a way to enjoy it because of how cool and charismatic the characters are and Overwatch is a perfect example of this.
You weren’t there for overwatch 1 then. They ruined it and the heros feel bleached.
"cool and charismatic" characters come from the stories, not from how they look, what stories do the new characters bring? If you were speaking about OG characters/stories than yea you are right.
@@trc7343 Overwatch is one of the best examples of character being expressed through gameplay, especially from the first person perspective
@@ludwigvanbeethoven8164 🤦♂️
Played a bit of Overwatch when I think Doomfist was just coming out, but I'm revisiting it with friends again, and I am pleasantly surprised how fun it is to pick up again. Still frustratingly difficult at times though lol. Thanks for the video!
This is an awesome video. Also nice to hear someone be positive for a change in these videos.
non-doomposting about ow2, todays a good day
telling the truth is not “doomposting”
Y’know my friend? You’ve actually, maybe convinced me to do something I might never have said. I actually might make my return to Overwatch.
Don't do it, your mental health is precious
Really well made video! Redownloading OW2 rn I gotta get back into the grind now
Still no torb cinematic
6V6 will be so much better. I miss the off-tank role.
I used to play all 3 roles consistently in OW1, but when it went to 5v5, i stopped. I'm so bad on tank now that I apologize after each match when doing my tank placements.
not the way its currently balanced lol
I’m just scared that the shield meta comes back. Literally made me quit the game back then
Hey buddy, you know the role coming back from 6v6 will be MAIN tank and not off tank right? A shield tank will now be mandatory just like it was in OW1. And now tank players will be pressured to play shield tanks more than ever before in OW2.
@@georgealvarez1195
@@georgealvarez1195you can definitely get away with playing just off tanks in 6v6 and you won't be forced to swap due to counterswaps as they were not as bad in 6v6 to deal with
Nice a positive video. I'll wait for 6v6 to hop back on. Hopefully next season.
I might be misremembering but I'm pretty sure they said the 6v6 playtest won't be until season 15 or 16. there's a lot of stuff they need to change to get 6v6 going, namely optimization on the new engine (adding 2 extra heroes' bullshit is hard for the wee little switch)
@@mattcampea2482 Oof, well guess I am waiting for a while then.
i recommend trying the soft role lock thing they're gonna try next season (?). dk for sure if they're doing it next season but it seems like it'd be fun for some games to be 2-1-2 or 2-2-1
Play marvel rivals if you’re waiting for 6 v 6
@@L0yalEcho It's not out yet though or I would
This video was awesome. I've been wanting to play overwatch again, but was nervous because of how it was when it released. I'm glad to see that they made some much needed improvements. Thanks for the video. First time watcher and I happily subscribed
In OW I played duos with a friend of mine (we both main tank) so the release of 5v5 just had us stop playing alltogether, I really hope that 6v6 will stay and I can't wait to play with my friend again.
i mean for a game that is still active for the past 8 years, it is a very big feat already. some dont even last for 2 or 3 weeks . nothing lasts forever. OW is already a very succesful game in its own right.
The fact you're treating it like an 8 year old game literally shows the problem there is. OW2 is NOT 8 years old.
@@OhItsNoctu ow 1 and 2 are more or less the same. nothing much has changed. so yea, to me it is an 8 year old game.
I took almost 2 years break and just came back and am having a lot of fun :)
I don't watch many TV shows but I would watch an Overwatch TV show. Those cinematics are fire.
I would love to see them bring back old battle pass items in the shop (or just unlock them). I still kick myself all the time thinking about the game or two I could've played to get Kiriko's "I run with blades all the time" voice line in season 1 battle pass.
Maaaaan I’m new to OW (little over 24hrs as of rn) do you know how pissed I get every time I open the heroes menu to be reminded that black metal Junker Queen just doesn’t exist for me because I didn’t play back then. I main JQ and I think black metal is her best skin by far but I’ll literally never get to use it because I started playing last month. So I agree. Bring back old battlepass skins for fucks sake Blizzard ☠️
I play a lot of OW2 but do not pay anything for it. Even if I want to buy stuff for a hero I start to main or on my alt account, I can’t do it! I could spend so much money on this game. Big shop with all content at decent prices (say 4-5 euros for a OW1 skin).
thank you!!
i'm so sick of youtubers just making another hate video and mentioning the sexual assault allegations for the nth time and reducing the game to where the company the is MANAGING it could end up in the future.
overwatch was a better game even in brig's heyday than most of other shooters out there.
So happy i gave up on this game. i will give OW some credit for being the first mainstream hero shooter success in the last decade but then died a silent death because ' insert drama'
uninstalled a few months ago and agreed. so happy i gave up on this game.
Haven't played in more than a year but i'd come back for 6v6.
great video, came back at season 9. best state of overwatch pvp. The lore department cuts hurts though, especially knowing a netflix animated series was in the works
I still can’t get over how badly ball was shafted in ow2. It’s so sad. I hate playing ball in 5v5.
Bro has speed and a massive health pool it's just so FUN
fun to play as until your teammates keep telling you to switch.
@@ilove3dsomuch He really is very fun... Until the enemy team goes roadhog junkrat sombra ana every single game even in open queue quick play.
it's so refreshing to hear someone not shit on overwatch. Speaking from a new players perspective - I've played for 2 weeks and I'm having a blast, also I am having a blast playing TANK, is it going to change when I will play ranked? Possibly, I might suck at the game and won't go past silver, which will cause me to be frustrated, but skill issue ig and it won't be a problem if my attitude towards the game doesn't change. I think that ow2 player base has the same issue League of Legends' player base has which is community itself, League when played with turned off chat is a whole different game, same goes for overwatch, as long as I ignore people raging at me for diving 1v5 as doom and insta dying I am having fun, when I pay attention to them it ain't fun anymore ( also ik league's in a terrible spot but it's besides the point and the devs already are working on making the game fun according to Tyler1 and making T1 say that is quite a accomplishment).
So yeah that's my bullshit rant
Cool vid bro
The people who shit on the game are the people who came from a superior version of the game you play. The game is bad when compared to OW1. It is BAD, because the only time I'll have fun on tank is in openqueue, the flaws stick out like a saw thumb when you have experience with the game. The worst of OW1 is better than what we have now
@@Chazza-01 Nostalgia.
@Number1RichPianaFan nostalgia for what? The content drought? I am not an OG player. Actually, I only started playing the game in 2020 after echo's release. What do I HAVE to be nostalgic over? A dead game I am nostalgic over? Sure.
can I just say that ranked feels worse. like winning and losing is up down 20%, streaks mean nothing, but the worst thing of all by far is the ranked resets. Like in lower ranks I am placed with ppl who don't deserve teh rank higher or lower and it's hell
In the last weeks I've been playing Overwatch 2 (last time was something like november 2023) and, to be honest, I'm having a lot of fun. I have only played unranked matches for now, but this game is a lot more balanced than it was in release and a lot more funny.
i took a break from season 12 and ive actually been really enjoying the game recently, it doesn’t feel as tedious whenever something happens anymore its just been super chill
my biggest gripe is the inconsistency in map details. specifically, the tops of skinny walls cant be walked on any new map
I really liked what you said about the speed at which community feedback effects balancing now.
I used to be neutral on 5v5 vs 6v6, but having seen firsthand that they really don't know how to balance 5v5, I've become a pretty strong advocate for the return of two tanks. Many people I've spoken to about it whine about stuff like Goats or generally horrible eras of balancing like double shield as a point against it, and I honestly don't think people give enough credit to just how badly a lack of ANY balancing effected 6v6.
During Overwatch 1's lifespand, the dev team seemed very willfully ignorant or accepting of absolutely broken heroes almost as though they couldn't see how they could ever get things wrong (see launch Brig), but nowadays the dev team (for all the shit we give them) is actively engaged with the community. While sometimes they'll put out some ASS patches, its so important to recognise that dogshit patches usually only stick around for a few weeks max, as opposed to a year and a half as they would have previously.
In my eyes, the only real argument against 6v6 that holds up to scrutiny is queue times, but I would argue with two tanks making hard counters less of an issue, and the dev team being more proactive with balancing, its not unlikely that tank could become popular enough to counter the lengthened queue times we'd see from 6 players per team.
Let's not forget the sheer number of Off Tanks and DPS-Tanks compared to Main Tanks, even if you get a game with 2 DPS players on Tank you won't be at a disadvantage.
@@aaronolson6736 This is actually a very good point, I've seen people whining that two tanks will only result in one tank taking Roadhog and going on dumb flanks and to be honest I do not see the issue. I would rather have one main tank with a flanking Roadhog than one tank who's getting diffed any day.
It's also good to analyse "off-tanks" as they are now, trying to fit into a system not made for them, because it's very easy to hypothesise what the meta tank will be based on recent balance patches before the meta even forms. Dva and Winston becoming strong after the armour changes was EXTREMELY easy to predict because they have been turned into main tanks for a 5v5 environment, and their kits are far too versatile to be easily balanced for 5v5 because they can easily accomplish so many jobs with little in the way of hard counters.
Fortunately for some, this is actually a meta where Ball is quite good because of rush/dive being strong right now, but people may have noticed how easy it is to tell when Ball is going to be absolutely fucking useless for a season, because his nature as an off-tank first and foremost means that he still doesn't have the capacity to cover teammates who aren't self sufficient.
I also think it's worth stating that I absolutely agree with designing the game around giving individuals more agency, OW1 WAS far too teamwork reliant in a game where 99% of players, even at high ranks, aren't truly coordinating. I just think 6v6 can coincide with that increased agency, especially keeping in mind how little hard CC exists in Overwatch 2.
@@epoch7661If my tank is getting diffed I can just go Zen/Ana and force a tank diff in my tanks favor. With 2 tanks that wouldn't be possible because Zen just wouldn't survive with the amount of mobility creep two tanks can just roll you over and Ana would go back to being forced to healbot both tanks with no time to make any proactive plays.
You do know that the old dev team isn't there anymore? It's a brand new team that are only a few years old. Give them time to cook
@@WindReiter10 Do you know how much would have to be rolled back or changed? It's not just slapping another tank in the mix, obviously, but the idea would be for heroes like Zen to be playable even into two dive tanks. It might be tricky, but you'd walk back things like knock back reduction, lower sleep dart cooldown, etc, and health numbers would once again be brought down. Zen has been perfectly playable for many OW1 metas, and even current Zen relies heavily on peel from others to survive, I think you may be overestimating the difference in oppressiveness between current dive and a hypothetical two tank dive given all the changes that would need to be made for two tanks to return anyway.
It's a breath of fresh air to hear someone who isn't shitting on the game and whining about nostalgia for ow1, the gameplay of overwatch I think is objectively the best it's ever been, but the controversies with pve and blizzard in general have really put people off this game. If. Ow2 was the original game it would still win game of the year
Someone being positive and actually providing evidence instead of just complaining about recolors over and over is such a breath of fresh air. Very cool review ^^
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Go into gold and shatter 3 people, get slept and lose the game. That’s about all the fun I get from this game.
Have you thought about asking yourself where the Ana is before you shatter?
@ far away. I’ll give gold Ana’s one thing, they can hit dart.
All sounds great. I'm speaking for myself as someone who's played since OW1 beta, but, too little too late. Came here to see if I missed anything after qui5ting a few months ago. OW will have a place in my heart, but Blizzard really knows how to burn the bridge to their customer
excellent video, I agree with most of your points and although I also think that they can do better, its clearly improving.
11:25 you only get the t500 title if you end the season in the leaderboards so it's not really a participation trophy.
Yeatle stop, your video was too positive, remember that everyone hates overwatch and no other emotion is acceptable. Next video needs more complaining and less answers okay
I agree overwatch changed because greedy but not as much as valorant and then they fixed it. Overwatch is the true villain here
You sound like someone who mentions “twitter” and “cancel” a lot
keep licking those Blizzard boots buddy
As someone who recently quit the game. In terms of content and updates it’s in an amazing place especially compared to the end of ow1 life cycle. But when it comes to the gameplay it only feels like it’s been getting worse and worse. I can’t put my finger on it but whatever it is it got so bad it flicked a switch in me to quit after 7 years of playing
One big thing i hope they do different this time is that drives thing for the namecards, they look great and extra flair is always good but 2 days is just not enough for casuals, if you were to forget it was that weekend and miss saturday you now have a day (more like a few hours more likely) to finish everything. especially when some people (including me) had broken pages that just wouldnt track and after 1 loss and 6 wins i was still at 0😔, i was very bummed because the drive was something i really hoped would make me want to grind again but i just missed most of it and got nothing for doing exactly what they said to.
Imagine an Overwatch series like Arcane where they go deep into character backstories for characters with less screentime like Lucio, Sym, Moira, even Baptiste
Thanks for this. Maybe ill give it another try. I playrd ow1 A LOT and when 2 came out I was so disappointed, never played since.
i pretty much agree with yeatle. the game is fun and IMO it's been fun basically the whole time. the only time i really stop playing OW is when i have a backlog of singleplayer games that suck up all my time instead. the worst period of OW for me was the year before they added role lock where every match was a standoff on who would be forced to play tank or support so the rest of the team can have fun.
i never cared about pve or about cosmetics at all, so it's been pretty much smooth sailing. i do genuinely miss playing off tank zarya and off tank dva, but support got more fun so i play that instead. i think most of the people clamoring about 6v6 need to learn the idiom "you can't go home again". 6v6 isn't a panacea, it solves some problems and creates others, but no matter what, you will never get back the 'magic' you believe was lost when the game went to 5v5. it's impossible. you are not the same person and it is not the same game.
After 2 years they changed and added a lot of things. And probably this is the best moment for ow2.
I never played tank until this season, but now I'm trying it and I don't feel frustrated when playing it
I always felt off enjoying this game since general consensus is that everyone hates it. It's really good.
I love the game even with it's flaws. As a tank player I just accept the fact tank is worse in 5v5 playing other roles has allowed me have a lot more fun even if I'm only master on DPS
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i wish my role (DPS) got a player removed and I got giga buffed, now in SoloQ tanks literally just press W on me and im dead. 5v5 is fine for professional play but horrendous for soloq,
0:45 Aaahahaha _the only new PVE content we have to show is Illari's pilon_ 🤣
Usually if I’m not in a good state, I just drive home and out of New Jersey.
Funny
I think it’s crazy you saying they are responding quick when there is a bug that has been now for 1 and a half week. It is a golden gum bug and the support has gotten bombed with it and they still don’t fix this small bug
Yea idc I love playing this game and nothing's changing that
The Mythic currency is not available in the free battlepass. You have to pay for the premium pass to unlock those.
What an eloquent breakdown of this year, I'd say the only other thing worth mentioning is that they added mythic weapons with weapon inspects that have been kinda controversial
5v5 deleted my favorite hero, dps doom. Ruined my experience and sentiment ever since.
I agree. I used to play Dva in 6 v 6 but with only one tank it's not the same anymore...
I concurr. I have hundreds of hours on doom. The fact that they literally deleted that character and gave us tankdoom who imo is far less fun to play is bullshit.
nah doomfist was absolute shit to play against, worse than today's sombra
@@Gerolix he was easily countered. But regardless, I loved it and my experience was ruined. Other people’s experience means nothing to me when it comes to playing videos games. Play video games is purely a self centered/selfish hobby. So whatever, I blame the devs.
@@Gerolix Dps Doomfist was dogshit and easily countered. For a while he was a literal throw pick. He was meta for a short while when bap came out because he could uppercut bap out of his stupid immortality lamp, but that's it. If dps doom consistently giving you problems you're objectively bad at the game.
There's no way you put "Season 9" and "good balance changes" in the same sentence.
Honestly, the recent Halloween event... feels appalling... They put a progression system in the PVP mode, and what's the reason why we can have that in a PvE again??
if you think about it, its a lot of work for just.. a 2 week halloween mode. Like sure a lot of the base mechanics were there from pve, but like the UI, the thought put into like not being able to swap, all the details in all the mutations. This might be a precursor to something bigger.
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@@notreyayou think it's a lot of work, because you compare it to the shitty and lazy updates they did over the years.
In any other game that kind of mode is not out of the ordinary. It's not hard to make from a development standpoint. I think they are afraid to overdeliver. They DO NOT want to set up expectations.
Remember the genji mythic skin? Yeah, they hate to do quality content. They want the playerbase to be content with the current game and to buy reskins.
if Juno would get a nerf to lock on dmg or hp I would have way more fun in ranked she is more obnoxious mercy
When you mentioned rivals i perked up, and i think honestly on of overwatches biggest issue is most people playing now have been so for 6 or more 8 years, and our issues are the "its not like how it was" and that some people need to step away for a bit
(I just want rivals now)
Your point that if Overwatch made a tv show for the game would boost player count is totally correct. Not only would it be cool to see, and the least they could do after pve’s downfall, but that would revive the game if done correctly. Edgerunners made me buy the game and DLC for cyberpunk, and I don’t like DLC’s because usually they’re planned!
The pokemon pearl diamond shop music goes hard mr editor 🔥😭
I would say the cinematics recently weren't awful (the Mauga one was actually pretty cool imo and has an art style ripe for a "Saturday night" Talon cartoon), but seeing a series cancelled at Netflix was so heartbreaking. Had they not made the game F2P, it wouldn't have lived as long as it has, but that can only go so far due to the criticisms about the monetization you mentioned. With that said, I still have so much fun in this game and I only wish the best for the remaining members of the OW team especially considering all the massive layoffs and awful controversies at Blizzard.
As a F2p player who started playing with overwatch 2, the heros not locked behind battle pass brought me back to the game.
Ngl the 6v6 playtesting will probably bring very inaccurate results
Due to the fact that some tanks were designed around 5v5 while others around 6v6, there is likely gonna be at least 1 game breaking issue that will ruin ANY chance of 6v6 coming back. Also, since tanks were mega buffed into raid bosses to increase survivability unless the dev team decreases all tanks survivability in the 6v6 playtesting then tanks are just gonna be super unfun for dps and support to play against, and ngl I don't trust the dev team in making a change like that which should otherwise be very obvious and needed change for this playtesting.
Not even a "conspiracy", but I think 6v6 is doomed to fail because the devs will not put enough effort to balance things (in other words, revert the game to mid 2022, remove all the new heroes and maps from 6v6, rework them in the backstage, add them later little by little), too much hassle for a dev team who is slowly walking to the gallows anyway (and Marvel Rivals will not help their morale). Dare to bet Overwatch will enter on a pseudo maintenance mode, just like Halo Infinite, in mid 2025~early 2026 tops. Again, if even Halo is not too big to fail, Overwatch is no different, no one is safe in this crazy entertainment market that bombard us with "content" from all sides
4:41 thats sum wrecking ball main type gameplay tbh, love the implementation
I will take this as a chance to review the devs instead of the game. The devs are amazing and I don't think they hear that nearly enough. Thank you for all your hard work to make this game better, for listening to the community, and for working hard to regain player trust so that the community can begin to heal from the past.
amazing how? by turning a former game of the year to the worst rated game on Steam? LMAO
Sick background music choices, fam.
I came back after being off a little bit after the ow2 came, and I’m enjoying it. Since I only play offline games, going to a competitive game from time to time. Of course it doesn’t has the same feeling like I did have back in the early seasons of ow1, those were the golden days. But now it’s cool, not that bad as people make out to be.
hmmm in your segment about monetization, I feel you brushed over on tiny detail
we get 80 prismes by season. which was nice when there was a only a mythin skin that cost 80 prismes.
but they added the mythic weapons. which cost more prismes. then in this season, aspects, which cost even more prismes
so at this point, the prismes you earn from the paying BP only covers half at most of the cosmetics you can buy with them.
I was an OW 1 player and when OW 2 released i hated it but recently i picked up the game again and i'm having fun ! So yeah the game definitely improved
I love 6v6 and yes i was there back in OW and agree that double shields made everyone’s life hell but if they could find a way to have only 1 tank shielder, that could make it work again. Like if you have a reinhardt, you can’t bring a winston or something like that.
Everyone keep thinking they will fix every single hero with the patch note but making the game 100% balance is litteraly impossible
fr and once they do reach the "perfect balance" people going to start getting pissed that theres no more balance patches
@@Cooltorito I never got that.. I dont need constant change and new heroes to enjoy comp. New maps, modes, skins, shorts etc.. It´s plenty enough.. Don´t need a new hero every other month making balancing harder. It´s more special if it´s like 2 every year... And build some hype up around it.. Leaving clues.. etc... Sadly the only thing I see about those sort of things tho is when people made vids about them afterwards. This chase after new stuff often end up in removing something that was good and replacing with something worse.
Personally I just want the game to be balanced for fun. Blizzard seems to be actively doing the opposite, the way they keep buffing anti-fun heroes like hog or moira.
as much as i want to say that the balance is stinky because of bad balance patches and questionable direction for the identity and state of some heroes, i look to arcade and realise i have more fun with the unbalanced goofy changes, altered environment and chaos, compared to even the likes of role queue quickplay. in FACT i even find open queue ranked more fun than qp, which suggests to me that the problem isnt balance but dilution of gameplay.
an example of this is how many times ive been bored to death with shooting the enemy tank and baby sitting my team instead of focusing more on making plays and making use of my cooldowns! in arcade game modes, every character is stronger in a way that isnt just - MORE DAMAGE - or MORE HEALTH - which provides surprisingly fun options for engagement for even the weakest of heroes. Community crafted is 14X closer to my ideal ow2 and it has fricking lucio with his 2000 overhealth beat lmao
Naah, it's not impossible, Street Fighter 3 is literally perfectly balanced. And the most impressive example of them all: KOF 2002, this game has 60+ characters (including final bosses and whatnot) and they are ALL balanced, humongous feat on a design standpoint, every trio is viable, combinations that can be properly countered, etc.. And yes, these games are comparable even if they are fighting games, the core of both SF, KOF and Overwatch is the "competitive" gameplay and KOF has hundreds of combinations between tags, team composition and whatnot. If SNK on it's dying bed was able to perfect the formula, Blizzard and other devs have no excuse, Overwatch is a thing for 8 freaking years, if the devs are walking in circles all this time, nowhere near to perfect the formula, it means they never had real talent to begin with, awful direction ruined this golden goose
Ball still needs work
I have a friend thats a grand master mercy player and I always told him why is he still playing, he said to me "because I hate myself".
Lol.
I play about 3 games for the dailies, but that’s about it. Even then, I’m spending most of the games going “why am I still playing this?
I heard Driftveil city. Also if they gave the battle pass out for free the quality of it would just drop and more things would end up in the shop.
they could also make hitboxes less absurd... Great content Yeatle !!!
my goat still on ow2 🔥
I'm going to not be angry just to spite you
i just realized its yeatle video after checking comments
Idk they always say that 5v5 brough less teamplay and more individual impact, but what I noticed is that it is not less teamplay, it is zero. If I am tank, I am alone, and the other team members wander around or even are somewhere else. On dps the only interactions are supports healing you if they feel like it. Supports are self centered. Ult combos are basically extinct.
I never got bored with Overwatch 1. I started off in late 2020 as a 1400sr tank player who hadn’t picked up a video game in eight years. I put 2k hours into the game before Overwatch 2, and after Overwatch 2, I hit top 500 and get bored playing more than an hour or two at a time.
fun video :) ty for making it
One of the most level headed streamers and content creators for Overwatch! Great work, Yeatle. Always a pleasure to hear your take on the game
the projectile size for me its the big mistake that ruined the game for me.