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[Freighter]

Seems you don't like the game in general.

For me, I keep it nice and simple. Delete Winston (so I can play Mystery anything again) and bring back Mercy's "Big Rez Q"

Edit: Actually Deleting Winston would be unfair to those that like him, I would add a Blacklist option to the Mystery Heroes category, where you can blacklist 1 or 2 heroes that YOU will never get.

I liked the game until they added way too many things which makes you lose control of your characters movement and aim, like the pushing around. It pisses me off to no end when a doomfist jumps me and I get pushed around by him, then comes orisa and pulls me right when I get control back and then when I'm going to hook her to kill her I get pushed by the fucking lucio, making me miss my hook. If I play a non-tank, it doesn't piss me off as much because you die before you can do anything but tanks just get pushed around all over the fucking map because you don't die by it.

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You forgot Mei. Also just remove Flashbang entirely since it slowing wouldn't make any sense at all.

You can kill Mei before she freezes you, up until you're frozen you're only slowed. She's so bad. You can't really do that to the others plus Mei doesn't fuck with your aim by pushing you around.

[Projectmars]

You can kill Mei before she freezes you, up until you're frozen you're only slowed. She's so bad. You can't really do that to the others plus Mei doesn't fuck with your aim by pushing you around.

It's still CC that prevents you from moving. And the "you can kill ____ before they" argument can apply to anyone.

[Maxilian]

Not all Mercy mains played that "Hide and Rez"tactic. Sure, you did try to LoS Ults, but the"Ok I've got Rez, go die on Point" started when they found out that Mercy's Metric for Comp point gains was based off her Rezzes, and not something more important, her healing. I always thought it was a pisspoor Support that hopped for their team to die, so they could rez and rank up better, than a Healer that didn't need to rez because they kept their team alive. Not saying this is you, just how most Comp Mercys became before her first Major rework. But to each their own, everyone enjoys thing differently. Hell I preferred to be a Front Line Mercy, even throwing down suppression fire on Widows from behind Rein shields. Never had I called that "Die on Point" BS, and would usually just GA to our Widow when I heard an Ult call out. And yeah, Sick of getting winston 85% of the time in Mystery heroes. I actually kept a tally on my desk, and when we lost suicide option, never played Mystery- anymode.

Fair enough, but still there were those moments that you had to wait as you knew that the enemy team had their ult, and they were waiting to:

A) Kill you to use it (Or kill you with it)

B) Wait for you to use yours before they use theirs

Well.... at least we still have the nice dancing around the battlefield while using guarding angel, that's still fun

[Steelangel]

Serious answer: More emphasis on guns and less on MOBA abilities and healing.

So play TF2 then?

[Freighter]

It's still CC that prevents you from moving. And the "you can kill ____ before they" argument can apply to anyone.

Ok, how do I reliably kill doomfist before I die if he jumps me? He'll kill me before I can kill him unless I play a tank or get external help. With mei, she doesn't fuck with your aim when she's freezing you, the only thing she does is slow you down and if you aim for her head you can finish her off quick enough or force her to stop and block or die. She also have to run by foot and the freeze starts losing effectiveness if she loses the beam for even 0.1 seconds, that's why it's harder to freeze highly mobile heroes like genji or doomfist than more stationary heroes like roadhog. Even if she does manage to kill you she is pretty vulnerable to your team because she can't get out of there fast, because she has to run by foot with no abilities to help her get out of there. Doomfist? He comes jumping in from half the fucking map away, fucks with your aim, punches you up in the air and fucks with your aim again then left-click you and you're dead and then he jumps out of there again. He pissed me off before but now after the cd reduction on his abilities, I'm close to rage quitting every game someone picks him. I hate being pushed around like that and abilities fucking with my aim.

[schwank05]

I'd make it more like Apex or Fortnite so it stays relevant.

[Projectmars]

Ok, how do I reliably kill doomfist before I die if he jumps me? He'll kill me before I can kill him unless I play a tank or get external help. With mei, she doesn't fuck with your aim when she's freezing you, the only thing she does is slow you down and if you aim for her head you can finish her off quick enough or force her to stop and block or die. She also have to run by foot and the freeze starts losing effectiveness if she loses the beam for even 0.1 seconds, that's why it's harder to freeze highly mobile heroes like genji or doomfist than more stationary heroes like roadhog. Even if she does manage to kill you she is pretty vulnerable to your team because she can't get out of there fast, because she has to run by foot with no abilities to help her get out of there. Doomfist? He comes jumping in from half the fucking map away, fucks with your aim, punches you up in the air and fucks with your aim again then left-click you and you're dead and then he jumps out of there again. He pissed me off before but now after the cd reduction on his abilities, I'm close to rage quitting every game someone picks him. I hate being pushed around like that and abilities fucking with my aim.

Then why do people consider her a counter to highly mobile heroes like genji and wrecking ball?

[Ealyssa]

I'll code what I'm told to do by my superior obviously.

Blizzard hired a developer, not the new game director.

[Freighter]

Then why do people consider her a counter to highly mobile heroes like genji and wrecking ball?

Wrecking ball is fucked because he struggles if the beam connects because of the slow, he can't lose it easily once he's started being slowed by it due to lack of vertical movement to lose the connection. If the beam loses contact, it slows down the freezing and if you lose it long enough, you have to start over again. Unless you're really good at tracking, you will lose the contact on Genji if he knows what he's doing. When I was gold/platinum genjis were just trying to run away or deflect it while taking it to the face instead of trying to lose the beam or dashing away, which just resulted in their deaths.

Mei can also only freeze genji if she's close enough, genji can stay at range, he doesn't need to go melee range with a mei.

edit: Sorry, shouldn't say track because you have to actually anticipate their movements and aim where they will be because it's a projectile weapon. With a genji who knows what he's doing, this is hard because his movement is erratic. The only time you can be sure that you will kill a genji as a mei is if:

1) There are no walls he can climb
2) He has dash on CD(lol)
3) He has nobody there to help him

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Make expansions. Maps. Characters.

You know... support the IP instead being happy with the cash grab.

[Topornic]

Seeing how much Overwatch is being developed I could do nothing and get my paycheck

[Battlebeard]

Remove Pharahs pushing on hit with rockets, remove the push.

Pharah jetpacks actually make loud sounds. Like a jetpack should do.

Remove doomfists pushing.

Remove brigitte push.

Remove Lucio push.

Remove McCree flashbang stun, make it a slow.

Put 3 sec double jump and wall climb on genji, can't dash for 3 seconds after doing either.

Remove perma invis from sombra.

Remove rein push from his weapon.

Remove orisa pull.

Remove brigitte stun.

Put a shared CD on blink/recall, so you can't recall instantly after blinking carelessly.

Remove zenyatta damage orb.

Remove reapers leech.

Put CD on junkrats mines so he can't use 2 consecutively. Remove root on trap, make it a slow.

Remove slow from symmetra turrets.

Remove ana sleep dart.

Reduce area of genji deflect. Make it unable to deflect melee attacks or hook.

Rework DVA matrix to reduce effects/damage instead of completely deleting projectiles.

Remove bastions damage reduction.

Remove hanzo, widowmaker and ashe. Snipers that can 1-2 shot ruin the fun in any game.

Rework sombra hack to put next used ability on 6 sec CD or prevent next ulti.

No dash reset on genji ulti.

Implement solo queue(Can't end up with or against premades) and premade queues.


I hate not being able to control my character and being pushed around all over the map or being stunned as soon as using an ability. All CC in WoW PVP is why I quit PvP, half the game you're just standing there unable to play.

For those who want the TL;DR version, Remove all fun...

Honestly, almost all of these things are the things that make the game fun. As an example, Sombra was UNPLAYABLE before she got perma invis. Rather nerf her damage if you think she is too strong, but finally she is actually fun.

Personally, I think heroes are pretty good. I would simply do THREE things to save the game:

1. Change the way you get Golden Guns. Jeff Kaplan even regret putting them in competitive, and it's never too late to fix it. Make they obtainable through other modes.
2. Placement resets every season. If you placed somewhere during a season, you will place in the same rank the next season regardless how good you play. Only the FIRST time you do placements does it take personal performance into account. That sucks. That's why so many people are much higher ranked on their second accounts. My 2nd account is ranked 500 above my main, cause I improved from back when I did Season 1.
3. Remove Endorsement decay. Maintaining high endorsment level is a full time job. Say goodbye to playing with friends (cause you cant endorse them vice versa) and forget about staying in the same group more than 1-2 games, cause they cant endorse you anymore. If you want to maintain high level, you gotta play with new people every time and 90% healer. That SUCKS.

[HumbleDuck]

RoleQ and reset ladder.

[Eapoe]

1). Rank completely resets every season. Placement matches matter again.
2). Put a role limit in comp. No more than 1-2 of any role. Not sure about this one, but could work since there are so many heroes that the limit could potentially improve the game and put an even bigger emphasis on checks and balances style gameplay from limiting number of roles.
3). Banning of full accounts for cheaters. Not just a ban on Overwatch, but all of Blizzard’s games and possibly even an IP ban so people can’t just purchase a new copy.
4). Ladder style climbing for rank. No more SR calculated by how well you do against people in your rank of that same character skewing the bell curve. Instead, rank based off of W:L ratio, putting more emphasis on team play and what’s best to secure a win instead of how your personal play determines how much you climb or fall.
5). Don’t think it would work, but if it could I always thought it would be interesting to have different weapon types do differing damage based on whether Organic or Omnic. Examples would be Winston’s Tesla cannon doing slightly more damage to Omnics vs Organics. Zen’s orbs doing more damage to Organics. Genji and Hanzo doing more damage to Organics as they have blades weapons. Widow doing more damage to Organics since she has real bullets vs 76 doing more damage to Omnics since he has a laser pulse rifle type weapon. Nothing to game changing, but just a little number difference to flesh out the world and make character choices a little more meaningful.

[Sencha]

Also hanzo is deleted from the game.

^ this.

/10c

[Lawlhero]

Add opposite gender skins for some of the characters (I saw that female crusader in the Reinhardt animated short, lemme play as her!)

Add a guild system for making your own skrims.

Add a full in depth story campaign for each character (at least the original overwatch cast)

Reduce the amount of randomness genji can have in his 2nd jump

Add hero bans in OWL

Add better global chat channels for guild finding / skrim group building

Find a way for matchmaking to balance teams based on player's time spent in a particular role (so one team doesn't get 4 support main, and the other 0)

Permanent FFA Deathmatch ranked

Must have at least one star to play competitive. (Only putting this here because i'm frustrated with all the smurfs in lower elos, don't know how else to combat it)

Platinum and Diamond Guns (6000, 9000 cost respectively)

Just a few off the top of my noggen.

[Ralphi]

Make Battle Mercy a thing again =(