As much as I love this game, it's so full of cunts.

Just playing a game now and a trio of guys on our team are having a go at the Mei player (who has gold elims and damage). We stomp the other team in the first round. Second round comes and we're struggling to push through, partly because they're being tools and just charging in. Also, the Ana is only healing the Rein. Obviously.

They tell me to switch from Brig. I say, uh, no... I'm on 65% Ult and I'll use that then switch if we haven't got through. They then proceed to lambast me constantly, telling me to switch when I'm on 95% Ult. I say again - I'm on 95%... I'll ult for this push then switch. They're saying I should have changed. I hit the Ult and we push through with the nanoed Reinheart and get the team kill. Oh no, they start saying, it's all him. I just hit Y. No skill. No skill.

Absolute morons.

Need to play consistently again and get back to a more better rank. Too many cocks around low Plat.

That sucks, Tiger.  Wish I could say it was a one off and it'll all be better next time, but as you well know, you've only got more of that to come.

Toxicity is always gonna be an issue in competitive video games, when people are heavily invested in their rank, and that rank is on the line with every match, they can act like complete and utter cretins.  I've had experience at low-gold to low-diamond group levels in OW, and honestly, there wasn't that much difference in the number of people with bad attitudes that I came across.  The quality of the games might have been better higher up the ladder, but toxic behaviour was everywhere.  The most obnoxious, antagonistic person I've ever met in OW was a mid-master ranked player, a friend of a friend.  The guy couldn't get through a single game without raging at someone.  

I just wanna have fun without pressure to be in permanent try-hard mode, so it's mostly QP for me these days.  Go in with a group of friends and each game is entirely what you make of it.  Memes or sweat.  Whatever butters your muffin.

Sigma is out since yesterday, and 2-2-2 comp is in effect.

This was a reaction to the prevalence of Goats in competitive play.

In my opinion however, it may have made it worse, as bunker comp is now the go to strategy.

Orisa and Sigma provide the shields, and Baptiste can make everyone invincible for a short period, and increase overall healing once that wears off.

The invincibility generator can be protected by the shields, and with only having two high damage dealers (three if you choose Roadhog as one of your two tanks), breaking the shields is quite hard.

Mercy can sit behind them damage boosting too.

I'm not a role-lock fan either, but the Overwatch team have been spectacularly unable to balance their clusterfuck of increasingly ridiculous abilities and heroes, and I've feared this was how things would end up.

I still love this game for what it was and what it did, and I'm happy people are still playing and enjoying it, but it's increasingly feeling like it's not my game any more.

#feelsbadman

IMO peak Overwatch was when they added Ana, they should have stopped there. Going back to it now it's just a bit off-putting with the number of whacky heroes.

Most of the heroes added since Ana are fine.

It's more the change to damage, shields, and barriers that are causing the issues.

Orisa is fine, Sombra is fine, Doomfist is fine, Wrecking Ball is fine, Brigitte is now fine.

Baptiste needs a bit of a rework, and Sigma is too new to say, but he definitely immediately improves bunker comps.

Wrecking ball isn't fine, imo. Hate how he impacts on the game.

Best time for OW was Wheel of Death (Ana & Reaper) and Hammertime (Ana & Rein) comps were prolific. When PharMercy was a stalwart. An awful long time ago, but the game was a lot more entertaining back then.

I'm awful at this nowadays. Still have fun when I jump in but it's not the same. No idea how Blizzard can mix it up though

I could srsly rant for hours about everything Blizz did wrong with this game after launch (not that it was perfect at launch) including many of the post Ana heroes, some appalling reworks, poor map design, and the rise of terminally boring team compositions, but I don't wanna do that.

The game's a mess right now, but I can't help myself and still play it every bloody week.

I can't see any world where Wrecking Ball is required. There will be plenty of other ways around bunker comps.

2-2-2 has really been needed for years, goats didnt really have much to do with it imo.

With how the SR system worked, players are ranked on performance of the heros they play, say DPS. Once said DPS player had to fill onto a Main tank, they would perform way below the required level needed at that rank, leading to uneven games and an even more toxic enviroment.

With the new system brings new problems ofc and a lot of the heros will need to be rebalanced but that will now be in theory easier in a 2-2-2 world.

Bunker is strong for sure and in certain situations still viable in future hopefully but the new Tank, Sigma really wrecks shields so that is a step towards ending its dominance.

Overwatch has really struggled to both have a rewarding comp scene and a Pro league maybe they are onto something now and can build towards OW2

Or 5 and a Lucio...

I fully intended to try out Sigma on the PTR but never got round to it, his potential is pretty crazy though. I hope it's not just bad crazy again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for any rebalancing, despite massive reservations based on past experiences. Balancing in any hero game is tough, but the OW team seem singularly inept at times.  

Been thinking about the sequel, I'd assume they'd go the fighters route and keep a core of popular characters alongside a few new ones. It'd also allow them to take a fresh look at things and rework some of the current game's baked-in mechanics that are not the best options for what OW has become, though again I'm not holding my breath. There's still so much about the idea of a competitive hero game that the OW team just doesn't seem to be able to grasp. And who knows, maybe they'll even add a new game mode at the expense of 2cp?

Those early leaks about Overwatch coming to Switch in the near future seem legit, and should be confirmed during tonight's Nintendo Direct.

Ouch.

Aye, that'd be okay.  I mean shit, I bought an entire console and upgraded my internet just to play it at launch.

I regret nothing.