This conversation dovetailing in this direction is my fault folks.
I shouldn’t have engaged with the comment, regardless of my intent. I get where MissEdgy’s comment comes from, and I do want to assure you that I am not in any way responsible for decision making around design and balance.
My role is to facilitate communication between the developers and the community, something I’ve been passionate about for years. We’re required to have empathy for both the player experience and the developer experience, and walking in both worlds can be a bit tricky, as shown in this post.
Let’s get back to hearing about your weekend plans, and I sincerely hope that everyone has a great night.
How is a bronze supposed to relay any feedback to the devs? Sorry but I think you probably dont understand half the things people even talk about here.
I wouldn’t conflate understanding with ability. There are plenty of people out there who have a deep understanding of their game of choice, but are not competitive participants themselves.
Good luck I tried humankind, my brain was not big enough to understand it
My problem with games like it and Anno is that I suddenly look at the clock and it’s 6am on a Tuesday.
Support players will remember that.
Support is a role I’m a lot more comfortable on. Peaked high silver previously, but haven’t really focused on the role unless I’m flexing to generate priority tickets. It’s also a role I’ve usually played in other similar games, so I tend to understand where your feedback comes from as it relates to the role.
Ooh!! Whats ur rank? just out of curiosity
Peaked at high silver around season 1, currently climbing back from Bronze.
The last 6 months has been a lot of me focusing on learning the Damage role better, and playing a lot of heroes I’m uncomfortable with, like Doom and Genji, as opposed to ones I’m more comfortable with, like Soldier, Cowboy, Ashe, etc…
I won’t even touch Widow yet. I don’t think I’m ready mechanically.
(been playing since the friends and family beta, so this has been a long journey)
Happy Friday to everyone!
This weekend I plan on agonizing over whether or not I should buy Humankind (spoiler alert, I will), working towards my goal of +50 SR/night on Damage and Tank, and smoking a pork shoulder for some delicious pulled pork sandwiches with the family.
Whatever you’re doing, be safe, be well, and I hope it brings you happiness .
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During the PvP stream back in May I had the feeling that Zen and Mercy were played very often, due to damage boost and discord orb. Is there a chance that these abilities are getting slightly nerfed? It was crazy to see how a Winston or Reinhardt got melted from a Reaper + discord orb on him.
On paper, Discord is theoretically weaker with 1 fewer person per team benefiting from the debuff. Thus far in our playtests, Mercy’s Damage Boost hasn’t shown any major issues. That said, there’s still a chance we end up tuning both Discord and Damage Boost down, if we see they’re causing issues in further testing.
I’m pretty sure you guys said this in the live stream back in May, but is it true that flashbang is being removed? Just wanted to confirm
It is something we’re considering
Have you heard if there is any consideration being put into dps heroes who, at least on paper, may heavily underperform in the new 5v5 format? For example with significantly less shielding and faster gameplay how will slower projectile heroes such as Junkrat, Sym etc compete with mid-long ranged hitscans?
I’m not prepared to talk about DPS today.
Apologies!
Curious, will you be looking at damage as well? since the addition of Baptiste and Sigma the damage output has been much higher
I said this in the thread last week, but it bears repeating here: none of our hero design and balance changes for OW2 are being made in a vacuum. A change as fundamental as going from 6v6 to 5v5 has far reaching implications and requires us to examine every part of hero balance and design.
Sorry, It’s just there are rumours that she’s being reworked so I’ve been really scared about it.
Rumors thrive and take root in the absence of information. My goal in being here is to cut down on the rumor mill and to provide you all with as much insight as I can as to what’s happening.
Hello does this include Moira too? I’m a bit concerned that you just mention Bap and Ana here after they mentioned both Grenade and Orb
Don’t read too much into the examples I gave. They’re just “for example…”
Her name is Brigitte
Doh! (I always make this mistake…)
Fixed thank you.
Can you give us at least a high level idea on what lines are you exploring for Brig re-balance?
Not today, sorry!
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In my head that played as that tiktok sound.
You know which one I mean.
In all seriousness, it’s understandable if folks have strong feelings about this direction. I’ll be sure to account for all of the sentiment we hear.