I just only play "Boot Camp", and not interested in the "Mann Up".
Blizzard balancing doomed Overwatch to failure - any balance change they made would either make a character completely worthless, or make them so overpowered the meta would devolve into either playing that character, or playing characters that specifically counter them. Which, in a hero shooter, where character choice is a fundamental part of the game, having more than half of the cast be unplayable at any given time due to this fact isn't exactly great game design.
I haven't played Overwatch in a long time, so I'm not sure how bad the balancing is now, but I remember it being pretty well-balanced on release. These days, I've heard it's devolved into the same thing over and over because of how badly they fucked up balancing the new heroes. It seems like they break the game more every time they add one.
Some of the new heroes were broken on release, with Brigette being the worst offender - several people I knew quit after she was added. Several other heroes ended up becoming broken after being buffed, like when Bastion got buffed, and the meta for several weeks devolved into who could keep their Bastion alive longest to kill the other team's Bastion.
I never understood the appeal of competitive TF2, personally. The game was never designed with competitive play in mind, so getting it to work is a nightmare. Some classes are hilariously weak, some classes are way too strong, some weapons break the system and need to be banned, so on and so forth. Outside of a casual environment, TF2 doesn't really hold together well.
I think another issue is that there are only so many classes that have immediate fire power or utility. I refer to it was Ready Set vs. Wind Up gameplay.
do you really think the competitivefags care? they want to host tournaments and make millions of dorahs just like their CS competitivefag fwiends, also ego rubbing.
any esport game is doomed to fail to be honest, competitive focused games being released lately often die in matter of months and the esport scene is well defined already so no need for new areas to trod. if a nibba paid me to do a esport focused game i'd do it no problemo, but i wouldn't fucking support it because you can't compete at all with the games that already fill the slots of the scene, it will die faster than a fish out of the sea.
They love to blame Valve for the lack of support, failing to realize that Valve never designed TF2 for competitive play and only added it at all to please the autists demanding it.
FPS’s in general just have such entitled autistic fanbases. Ya know what? Call me a basic bitch, I loved COD MW. I love COD, the games before MW2 were great and honest to god Wild West good fun. But holy shit, is that community so wide and far entitled, it gives the Undertale folks a run for their money, if for different reasons.
Youre not wrong about 6v6 class composition being the same as it was in 2007, but the meta in terms of how those classes are played has actually changed a lot. Originally the pocket soldier was considered the most powerful role and would take the majority of the heals and almost every ubercharge, but now both soldiers are basically just used as pawns for the rest of your team to follow up on. Scouts used to not do much besides watch the flank and finish off weak targets but now they are your medics main heal target and take the majority of the ubers. Some of this is due to updates like adding gunboats and medics now running at scout speed while healing them, but theyre also consequences of people getting much better at the game over all of these years. Even an average competitive scout has movement light years ahead of the best scouts in 2009. The only class that hasn't really changed that much in terms of how it's played is demo.
Stagnant / static metas like this remind me of chess. The base game of chess hasn't changed at all for centuries, but people (and computers) are still finding new strategies and play-styles today. The emergent complexities of games like chess, go, and such is actually pretty interesting but most people want their electronic games to have a lot more flash, style, and unpredictability it seems. Also competitive vidya / '''esports''' attracts the worst sort of spergery so that doesn't help.
Ethiomod died of cancer?
No it was Kitty0706. I think Ethiomod re-uploaded it to his channel after the original was taken down due to copyright reasons.
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