Is this worse than Overwatch 1?

[Roy]

Not trying to bait, genuinely confused as to what is different.

Isn't this basically Overwatch 1 but with 1 less player and downgraded maps/characters?
I only briefly tried it on the nintendo switch and i couldn't find any matches even on crossplay so i haven't really seen it for myself.

[Hyden]

No, not worst.

OW1 was game "4fun"

OW2 they trying to get even more balanced , each month, theyre working hard on this.

OW2 is amazing on ranked, OW1 was a mess.

[uinon]

Originally posted by Hyden:

No, not worst.

OW1 was game "4fun"

OW2 they trying to get even more balanced , each month, theyre working hard on this.

OW2 is amazing on ranked, OW1 was a mess.

Amazing? Not all the time. There's always that guy who can't play DMG that will always say it's tank fault, or the guy who pick support but think he's playing DMG, or the guy with tank pushing alone and dying over and over and blaming the healers who can't reach him because he's always too far ! Ranked is a great adventure when you decide to play solo !

[PryingTheThirdEye]

Overwatch died the day Jeff left.

[miChi]

at the end of the day it's subjective, but as someone with 1500hrs playing solo que OW1 I dipped and sold my account the instant OW2 launched.

6v6 was unique and vastly more suited to the map designs, team compositions etc. I ended up maining all tanks and solo tanking is not what made tanking so much fun in OW1, in OW1 having two tanks helping each other and synchronised made you feel 10 times stronger than a solo tank with buffed stats, nothing compares to how it once was.

the old 2CP mode that was removed + its maps were really iconic and the replacement mode of the robot tug of war literally suffers from the exact same issues 2CP has but now it's worse, it was just pointless to make that move and they have map pools now in OW2 so you get less content overall (unless you just activate all modes/maps in custom gamemodes)

game wasn't a microtransaction f@$%-fest.

I'll be checking it out next weekend with a fresh account simply to attempt a nostalgia trip in custom modes, might try to make up a OW1 reverted gamemode since I dabbled a bit with workshop before OW2, only that though, I won't play matchmaking because fresh accounts now have to grind out heroes...

also biggest change with OW2 was there was strictly a "no magic rule" in OW1 with character designs, as in no "this character can teleport because um uh well because they can" but since OW2 that's gone out the window and we now have half a dozen heroes whose design is fundamentally bulls#%@. we're talking teleporting, flying platforms that can lift a team wherever they want etc. and it's just a mess now, as a new player you'll likely rage quit over the amount of crap that can kill you without grounded reasoning behind it.

[Tallon]

OW1 was sold as a full game where you would get the new heroes as they release. OW2 locks heroes behind a battle pass that you could pay extra to skip. So you don't automatically get new heroes but hey, at least there's no loot boxes to get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anymore. It's a new (worse imo) monetization system they disguised as a "free" sequel that replaced the original game.

[ChocolateZVO]

DONT PLAY OW2

[Lios]

Instead of updating OW1 they choose to dilute the playerbase to squeeze more money from its audience.

[Densiz]

ow1 was trash because of 2 tank system. Imagine playing aganist two shield team. It was rly bad... All we did was combine ultimate abilities with our teammates.

[Lmao Dze Dong]

a lot of people left the game, this is why they try steam.

[Densiz]

Originally posted by Lmao Dze Dong:

a lot of people left the game, this is why they try steam.

r u sure? i tought it is microsoft thing and every game will be in steam in time.

ppls says ignorance is a bless but i dnt think so because of internet.

let me waste 10 second to check :
https://www.ign.com/articles/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam-starting-with-overwatch-2

[Hanzo The Rain]

Yep. The biggest reason is removing 6 vs 6 and switching to 5 vs 5 to pander impatient FPS fanboys who couldn't handle dealing with 2 tanks (it's a team based game FFS) and sitting in the queue for 5+ minutes if they opt to pew pew heroes. Queue times for FPS got worst since they introduced role queue where you have to tick one role for an even matchup (2 tank - 2 dps - 2 healers) or else the team would likely collapse if they choose all attack.

6 vs 6 Overwatch was one of the best game. There was no reason to remove it to piss the older playerbase off.

The menu layout was all clean and minimal. You can either unlock everything through grinding coins, relying on loot box from end of the game or buy them with your money. Now, it turned into a complicated Fornite season cash grab crap.

[聖風羅⁷]

This is still overwatch 1 with big update, overwatch 2 is supposed to have full PVE integration. dont be fooled.

[RebelStorm]

OW1 had more people playing it as a paid game than OW2 has as a free game. That tells you all you need to know. The only ones defending OW2 are Blizzard employees that steal breast milk.

[fubar]

Its the same thing just like cs 2 renamed from cs go.

[Grim@FU_BARRACUDA]

It's worse than OW1 and for a very simple reason so many studios still don't get after 30 years of gaming. This game is primarily played in public lobbies by random players. In such a game, you can't have just one tank and everyone has to rely on it. There are so many matches where the tank is some random Bob who has no idea what to do. In OW1 you could fix that to some extent, since you had good chances as a DPS or support against one of the two tanks. You could do flanking attacks with the second tank and a DPS to take some pressure off the other tank.

There is so much pressure on one person here in OW2, it's more torture than anything else. On the other hand, if you have a great tank and the other team has a trash tank, you go through them like a hot knife through butter and the game is a waste for everyone. There's rarely a match where both tanks were evenly strong and I agree those matches were good. But you could have that too with a lot more variety in OW1. The truth is that OW2 was only made by Blizz to sell their Battlepass stuff and new heroes for money, that's the only reason, not the new gameplay ;-)