I like this idea because it poses the question "should I change my passive" before the question "should I change my tank"

Tried this last night; played Mercy and Kiri with the 20% cool down reduction. Rez and Suzu felt BUSTED.

That 40% reduction to negative effects for tanks is so good bruh

Armor on zarya is giga cursed because it goes underneath her shields so when you take damage at full health the shields are hit but when you are at low health you have a whole layer of "screw tracer and reaper" armor to retreat to safety with

"gold damage what does that mean" hit me like a wet fish

The cooldown reduction one is busted on brig, you can get three shield bashes per rally and brigs abilities are just so good that getting them faster is huge

Don't give a fuck, this should say till season end. The only time this season I enjoyed Genji, and I don't want it to end.

5:20 I like Flats’ idea for character specific passives and we can see it works with Paladins, but I do think this iteration could also work. It seems lopsided because the game isn’t balanced with these things in mind, so it’s not impossible to make this work competitively with a few tweaks here and there. Although, whether or not the balance team is able to actually do this successfully is… questionable at best

The increased healing perk on aoe supports like lucio and brig is crazy btw.

Btw extra ammo on sojourn breaks her ammo counter on her gun it remains at 45 although she has 54 rounds

The pick a passive is just a small version if paladins in match item/passive shop. (For those that don't know pladins as game goes on you can buy passive up to 4 of them and you can upgrade them.) While there a few passive that are good for all characters (ult charge and cooldown) there a few that only certain characters get (like in crease sheild health, reload speed, and increase jump after a kill) and they others that are only use as counters (increase damage to sheild or deployables/turrets or in certain modes (life steal and siphon see more use in the death match mode)

Pickable passives are a ton of fun. I think long-term/hardcore players will like it especially because it creates more depth.

Gets 1 more bullet and left click doesn’t work anymore😂

Love watching Flats villain arc develop lmfao

You flaming that viewer was perfect!

Honestly found the cooldown reduction to not really exist as a tank. Like your first opening fight there is a great example, you only had it alive for a few seconds, which got you your knife about a second faster one time. For the rest of that whole fight it was just Queen being Queen (you actually hit like 3 people with the opening carnage hence the why the cooldown was so low.) ive found the armour to just and a shocking amount of tankyness to every tank that its so hard to change, though the debuff one is nice in specific cases.

I saw your overview video of the passives last night and it convinced me to play. I had a blast. I only played support, mainly mercy, and I definitely agree that the cooldown reduction is great for zoomies. I did find that if my other support went something with a little less healing output than ideal (Lucio) then taking the healing passive was super beneficial. I really like the idea of being able to tweak your character during the game to suit team playstyle and needs.

Seems to me a lot of heroes have a "correct" passive that you should apply 100% of the time when you play them. Like on support, Zen should get the extra healing on low-HP targets, Kiri should get the cooldown reduction (for Suzu, and for teleporting around like a low-budget Tracer) etc. Not exactly a compelling new layer of strategy, but it is fun to buff up your favourite heroes.

rammatra with ult and last stand is just: *FOR WHAT IS A MAN! WHAT HAS HE GOT! IF NOT HIMSELF, THEN HE HAS NOT!*

So... just unused code from PvE?

Doomfist with the 50% cooldown reduction is really strong with a 2 sec punch and a 3 second jump

Lore-accurate Junker Queen

The passives are fun and i hope they stay afterwards, at least only in quickplay, but man they gotta add it to the scoreboards so i can see what the enemy chose

Dude the gold metal shit was so true I can't count the times I've had gold dmg or elems and someone else in the voice chat would scream and yell "Nuh Uh I do" and then we have nothing to do but argue back and forth bc neither of us could prove it and I would be lying if I said I haven't done the same a time or two those were the days lol.

50% cooldowns on ram is crazy

this made the game a blast for the weekend, looking forward to more hacked quickplays

So in theory you should pick a passive so it reduces pain points for your characters. But in practice you just pick what buffs their strong sides even more, become giga broken and become even more countered

Everyday Overwatch becomes more and more like Paladins...

Passives are dope. Hope they go back to kitchen and prepare 3 passives which are character specific and then they get implemented in season 16 or whatever

The length of the queen blade is longer than I thought

But they were all of them deceived, for another Gold Medal was created: Gold Objective Time

flats' storytime voice is hilarious after medals he should talk about double shields from his rocking chair

Mauga with the 50% cooldown is so unkillable its unfair tbh

Still higher accuracy than I usually get

Helltaker music at the start, nice.

Mercy finally felt playable for the first time in ages....

Love the helltaker music in the background lol

Gotta love the helltaker OST in the background

How does it work when copying other roles on echo? Do you get whatever passive they picked or keep your dps passive on that hero?

I feel like the passives should have a counter balance, like Your cooldowns are 40% faster under 50% hp but you do 40% less damage. Or you can see critical health enemies through walls but EVERYONE can see you when you're critical health through walls..... But you could also choose to play without any passives and stay in neutral.

Quite honestly, I hope they keep this feature. Adding more armor and W-keying into the enemy with Reinhardt is just too fun. 🤣

Moira with CD reduction is obscene

I usually play ball, but man is JQ fun in this game mode

Dude, imagine Sombra with 20% more ammo... 60 ammo to 72... 😮

Echo and reaper with the speed boost passive is fun asf

Cassidy: *shoots 7 bullets* The enemy: I count 7 bullets from that 6 round gun

I like the tale of the "all so hunted medals of the old age of OW", could be a audio book by flats xD

i always liked the paladins card concept. idk about the application but i do like that you can adjust justttt a bit to make the current problem work

I like how the whole time he was talking about the gameplay but when he was on moira he just turned his brain off and started talking about random stuff

Thanks you flats, you have motivated me to start working out and lose weight. I can’t imagine myself living like this any longer

From what I have played so far, *In my personal opinion* this is mostly still just a "fun tank mid-season" with their passive abilities being a lot more OP w/ the amount of Health they do alongside the amount of DPS they can do. It's like how DPS has been the only true fun role for a while, until they decided to gigabuff every tank. Certain passives make certain Tanks OP while other Tanks are still pretty useless no matter the new passive picks. For example, Zar is basically un-killable. If she chooses cooldown reduction when low then you'll never kill her due to the fact that she'll always be bubbled. If you pick extra armor, that armor is below her already existing shield! This means that you'd have to not only get past her bubbles, you'd have to get past her shields, to then get past her armor to THEN get to her actual health. The Duration Debuff's are the only one's I can see being the least effective on her, but even then that means sleep or anti or anything is hella reduced therefore she's back up and kicking. I can use other examples for other tanks, but Zar is the most out there I can think of. I'm not saying that is certain tanks that cannot be picked or are not able to use the new passives, but it's still the issue of "pick this or you lose" or "oh you picked that? too bad I swapped to this!". The DPS have the same issue, where it can work with certain hero's and not with others, which puts you in a new bubble. As I saw DPS as a more open option when it comes to picking what you actually wanna play & not be stuck to certain hero's. Even then, playing DPS stills feel the same even w/ out the passive's due to the passive's not feeling as useful as Tanks or Supports passives. The supports is practically back to "babysit your team" simulator. That's not fun, and not how certain supports should be played in the first place. The only 2 passive's that are actually useful would be the one w/ extra healing when an ally is low & the reduced cooldowns. I've heard that Kiriko & Mercy are fun w/ reduced cooldowns but even when I played them the enemy Tanks & DPS who could easily catch up even w/ reduced cooldowns made it so the reduction didn't really matter. The extra healing passive sometimes help, but again the enemy does too much dmg for anything to really matter or for me to even notice the boost in healing. I'm glad they're trying something "new" and I hate to seem so negative about everything. However I can tell you earlier experiments have been more fun for me. At this point OW2 is just constant "OW2 Beta Testing". It makes me sad cuz I don't wanna be so negative and I'd like to look at the positive but it's so hard to do so w/ everything up to this point. Of course this is just meant to be a fun new "Game mode" type testing things that won't last long, and it's fun for a few games until it ultimately becomes annoying again.

I think this is a fun quickplay hacked except for when playing dps. The dps passives are garbage except for the movement speed one so there’s not much of a choice in what to use unlike tank and support.

man, you make OW actually look fun, GJ!!!!

Brig with lowered cooldowns is awesome lol

POV: Cassidy ASMR

Another well rounded video from flats

video starts with vitality in the background FLATS W

The extra ammo with tracer was broken af even u have bad aim u could still just one clip people

sombra with extra ammo felt dirty, i loved it

Did anyone else notice how at around 13:30 he steals a big from the rein causing him to die 😅 damn flats ok.

Played Ana with the 20% cool down, let me say it was awesome and the enemy tank hated me so much and eventually only focused me. Enemy team didnt switch to Kiri, so I had a bunch of fun with my nades and sleeps 😅

Winston with the 50% cooldowns was kinda crazy, especially during primal rage.

15:32 My type of pain as a Moira main, specially next to a health pack

Vitality, nice. I enjoy discovered it from Helltaker, still enjoy listening to it.😄

the cooldown one is very good on lifeweaver, and the extra healing is super good on bap

Damn, he used the helltaker ost. Banger ost

This is so huge, I'm really enjoying the game right now, not even touching comp

I like this mode, game feels fresh and i wish this to be till season end

wrecking ball + fast cooldowns or debuff reduction is iiiinnnsaaaaaaane

that viewer at 18:16 XD, take his advice flats

0:25 Tell me you don’t know how carnage works without telling me you don’t know how carnage works…

This is really good, cant wait for it to just not get implemented in game

100 years old technology XD

Eyy, more Mittsies OST

The Helltaker music is such a bop!

Hot take genji should have that 20% movement speed passive after every kill it was so fun

Thank god it's only a couple days... it's just a shame that, just like how anti-nade ruins regular OW, anti-nade with a 20% cooldown reduction ruins what would probably be a really fun event. I bet Ana's are sure having fun tho.

playing around with this, I think all the passives that reduce cooldowns are too strong and the Support one where you heal more when someone is under 35% is annoying to deal with.

So is there a way to tell what passive someone picked or do you have to deduce it? I didn't see anything on the scoreboard.

brig with 20% feels fantastic and def allows more backplay

ye JQ is insane, armour is also goated if your supports are slacking since you can top yourself off and its 'always on' i was also playing support bap/kiri/ana and the cooldown reduction is way too strong and the only choice 90% of the time

Pickable passives are a great idea, but I think they need to be by hero not role. Totally fine for some to appear on multiple heroes, but role wide doesn’t quite do it.

i went against a Cassidy that ONLY right clicked.. never even used his nade. x)

I also immediatly picked the cooldown passive on JQ lmao

YEAHHHH HELLTAKER RAHHHHH

I totally forgot about gold damage \ gold healing \ gold rem. We didn't have a scoreboard! WOW.

Flats I love you but you gotta explain yourself on that moira gameplay

ram with 100 more armor goes brrrrr

I like these passive pickables.. maybe they can try to make it like every 3k damage/3k healing/3k blocked damage u can choose one of those for comp or something like that?

To be honest, having some ability to switch passives instead of having to counterswap heroes is a nice change. I think this should be explored a bit more, should deffo leave it in the game for a while to get some more data on it, maybe as an arcade mode?

Also we getting an exclusive venom mvc2 skin if you play the beta for rivals

Right-Click Randy’s on the case

I have done nothing but play Mauga with 100 more armour for the past 16 hours.

Why does flats sound like Joker 16:30 💀💀

Omg hi Flats, can you say your famous catchphrase

Tell me you didn’t play OW1 without telling me. “Gold damage. What does that mean?”

Didnt know the Cass new passive is right click only 😂😂😂😂 that was hilarious to watch and prob annoying as hell to fight against

imagine right click randy before the cass right click damage nerf (50 to 45 per bullet) Also I think it's crazy I don't see everyone taking extra ammo and rolling on tracer it is genuinely the strongest thing u can do

dude i’m so upset i won’t be able to play this mode 😭😭

Does Echo copy the enemy passive during Ult, or does she keep the one she picked?