This was recorded PRIOR to the midseason patch! Best change? Worst change? Weirdest change?

Inspire being visible feels like it should have been in game from the start

I remember Eskay saying that hers was gonna be like, an actual balanced patch until she found out that the others were just going crazy with theirs and so she had to do last minute changes, but it shows she wanted a balanced patch as all of the supports feel super good to play (IMO)

Bastion explodes on death, kills people, gets res'd, does it again. Sounds like a perfect combo of abilities!

Inspire icon not being in the base game yet is literally criminal. The amount of people who don't even know inspire is a thing ....

The tank section made tank REALLY fun like omg i havent had that much fun in ow in a long time please keep it

Enough with the silly creator shit. Let's use these moments to test the bullshit creators spew about fixing the game. If they're right, they're right. If they're wrong, we're one step closer to being right.

I loved the Ball changes. It wasn't as busted as you might think having two Piledrivers, given how telegraphed a cooldown it is.

I loved "Hault" but here was the problem with it. When the ball was in ther air, it would should tendrils attaching to anyone in range of being Haulted but sometimes when you activated, they would be out of range and it wouldn't work, even though you could still see the tendrils. Likewise, if someone was outside of tendril range, they could move into Hault range but not have a tendril at the last second and they wouldn't be hit by it either. The slight delay before Hault activated meant there were 2 different scenarios that occurred all the time where people should have been hit but weren't. If they had fixed that it would have felt much better to use, especially after they nerved the range. The ability never felt like it was in a great spot.

Custa was not cooking with those hanzo changes

>Fall 2024 patch >Brigitte gets a movement buff and a healing nerf >Is now a playmaking offensive character specializing in close range >Genji and Tracer: "YOU HAVE BECOME THE VERY THING YOU SWORE TO DESTROY"

I really like the Mauga run crit being bigger. Makes it so you don't just mow down the tank as much

That patch also showed why Moira headshoting was a bad idea (and any beam hero for that matter). It was way too hard to track making it only viable against tanks, basically making sure she was focusing tank since otherwise she deals no damage

I love emongg but why he didn't replace block with uppercut and instead gave doom a higher PROJECTILE SPEED ill never know

I've been having a lot of fun with Kiriko's new swift step. Being able to tp freely feels great. If they were to add it, I would change swift step to compensate: - Swift step cd increased to 10 - Decrease range to 25 m - Add a hold vs. tap mechanics like Illari. Hold will be her tp to teammates while tap allows her to tp more freely - Tap swift step will be half of the range and half of the cooldown. - Nerf her hp by 25 if needed. Sad that this mode is limited time. Gonna miss it a lot...

Damn Roadhog must have very strong arms to pull himself around like that 😂

i think for mercy they could do something like valorant does with their newer agent clove. Cloves ult allows you to rez yourself for a few seconds and you have to get an elim or an assist to stay alive and if you dont you end up dying again. It would at least kinda help with the weird stagger problem because then if you get the trade you dont die and have to reset but if you do die again or get timed out you get staggered and thats your punishment for not following up with the rez. If it ends up being to strong then make it so the person has a "zombie" debuff where you cant be immortal from suzu or bap, cant get heals or reduced heals by some crazy margin so that like only speed and dmg boost helps you when youre rezed so it doesnt allow crazy synergy with immortality stacking and the player rezed actually is still vulnerable. i personally really liked the mercy rez change idea. It just felt lack luster and frustrating on the dps end. I hated getting rez and trading myself out and getting another to just forced to take the walk of shame again

Gotta hate how the devs including the community still shit on Bastion.

No mention of the reaper changes? Interested in your thoughts on them, I've heard they make the character feel more dynamic.

well the bad thing is even this crazy patch is more balanced than canon patch right now

I completely agree with you on Orisa, she hasn't felt that fun and generally impactful in a while. I still wonder why the decided to keep fortify instead of Halt, since it's not really needed on her current kit and makes her really unbalanced. Orisa with a shorter javelin spin, javelin throw and halt is honestly the best future for the hero and I hope Blizzard will realise that.

Winston and reaper changes are my favourite

With the rez if you went bap and used lamp on the rez person they didn't die so I found that fun

God please make Wraith Form permanent, I can’t go back to normal.

What you could do with hook is increase the cooldown if it hits a player but have it be lower if it grapples a ledge or wall This means as a mobility tool it’s less punishing but if you go for your combo you’re stuck without that for a while

What did you think of junk ult being not controlled by the player

The sidejump/hanzo jump Ana had made more sense than exo boots. McCree's roll for Ana would be perfect.

5:15 Thank you for mentioning that junkrat change, I swear that change felt like a drug to me as a junkrat player, it was the most fun I had playing the character since s8 and I really wish they putted that in the live game, would be one of the best changes junkrat could ever recieve.

What’s the song playing during the roadhog section of the video?

I really liked the number adjustments on Doomfist. Haven't had so much fun in months.

No way bro predicted the future

“Mobility creep in overwatch is inane and needs to be stopped!” - every content creator Roadhog get mobility hook: “mobile hog is really fun and interesting”

For rein do the same as with brigs speed but with charge, have it maybe if you cancel charge rather than go for the big damage of pin or if you miss, give a short speed boost to allow for followups or escapes so he actually has the ability to get out sometimes or follow through on his charge

Nothing about Moira changes? I mean it felt a little broken to just give her headshot damage, but I can see a world that they can reduce her biotic grasp damage by 15% - 20% AND gives her 1.5 crit multiply It could help alleviate some of low elo frustration about how free value flanking moira is, at the same time gives Moira some skill expression on how good your aim is...

And no QoL changes for genji/hanzo/kiri climb mechanic? The least they could do is make it more consistent

If we examine it on a hero by hero basis, there were a lot of good changes and ideas. But some heroes got given really weird changes that should never be in the actual game lmao. Best changes were to Zarya tbh, projected barrier definitely should give a speed boost and her ult felt like an actual ult as well. Oh and Brig's inspire now showing up on the hud, that was a W change. Worst change was scatter arrow being a thing again. Weirdest change was Bastion exploding, it's a funny gimmick but I'd hate if that were in the real game.

Halt javelin combo with fortify and spin is double shield all wrapped up in one character. Javelin is sigmas accretion and halts back for the combo, spin is sigmas grasp, with excess health pools, passives and fortify being shields. Orisas ult gives her more fortify and a large round area of damage like sig ult.

No thoughts/comments on Hanzo?

Day one ow player and I just have moved on for this game , lack of skill expression and ez buttons plus the format really isn’t for me anymore . I will throw in a few matches a week maybe 10 , but I was doing at least 70 a week for many years

Sophisticated Fight, great song choice.

I would like Zen to have both kicks. If he kicks them, they go back. If you kick terrain, you go back. Purely for shenanigans and more interesting plays open up

Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig...

Make hog hook like Nautilus hook 🪝

the ball double slam was so broken i want it in the game

Honestly the Orissa hault needs to come back makes her more active not just sit fortify spin now she can make huge plays

i also enjoyed this version of sojourn so much. it just feels much more responsive and fluid.

Ayo, bug fables music!

With hog I think it would be interesting if they increased his hook cooldown by like 2 or 3 seconds, allowed it to grapple to walls (grappling to other players is fun but a bit much for a real game lol), get rid of pig pen and bring back his old alt fire and move heal to the old input, but keep the resource meter. Pig pen just is kinda boring to use and play against, and is especially painful when the hog just uses it for even easier one shot combos

Mauga's charge gives him damage reduction and CC immunity, if rein had that he would be able to close distance so much more easily.

Do I hear Undernight music playing 👀

Tbh the mercy change would have been better if you had to get a kill to fully ressurect. That would give it some alternative counter play

I am a support main who has hundreds of hours on lucio and zen. I spent the entire time of the community mode playing REINHARDT. SO MUCH FUN AND FELT SO HEALTHY. FOR HONOR AND GLORY Like, really. Prior to the game mode, I had less than 1 hour on Reinhardt. I had an insane amount of success and was able to keep up with my opponents very well, almost felt busted tbh

I liked bastions in that mode hope it actually makes it in.

Ok it's time for 6v6 lmao

That game was really called “steamers hate junkrat” cus his changes are dogshit

What if Lifeweavers placesbles match his team color? Like if it was blue on blue team instead of.... Red?

Give hog the grapple from titanfall 2

The Mei one I do in my own games all the time. For no particular reason, but still. I wish they'd add that.

From starting in late 2020 or early 2021 as a player. I don't fully understand why balance is still a huge issue, I thought going to 5v5 having two fewer people/ hero synergy. It would drastically help them with this issue. This might be a simple view but hearing things like the "goats meta" started because of Brig and Double Shield was horrible because they introduced Sigma. This all started because they wanted to implement sufficient heroes that might be going in a 5v5 scenario. So they should have been working and fleshing out their ideas for this instance back in 2018.

Balancing rez or this game in general is not hard. To fix Resurrect, all abilities should be on immediate cooldown and you cannot resurrect with over 300 HP. So, immediately after being resurrected, you'll only have access to your ultimate and primary fire, for the most part. Resurrect should not restore a hero to battle-ready. I really don't understand what's so hard about doing common-sense balancing for this game. Going on 9 years and it has never been done.

Souj rail should be a low damage fast moving projectile that you can stick into enemoes so they take more primary fire dmg, solved

I played ball in this mode cuz he was fun… still got counter swapped in arcade lmao

FINALLY

Was this meant to be uploaded hours before the mode ended and certainly aren’t “Live” anymore??

Hell no zen doesn’t need wall jump haha

Damn, no Lucio changes? It must be because he’s perfectly balanced.

One thing I wish they did with Ram is increase the visibility on the projectiles cuz istg I cant even aim the damn staff cuz those stupid pebbles are almost invisible

Orisa getting cooldowns for aggression is epic. Roadhog not being roadhog is epic. Ana getting bap boots is not epic, just 'fun' which imo takes away from seeing more useful changes that can actually save the game. Our tank leaderboard is top 500 at diamond 1 though... It's pretty insulting we're focusing on giving ana exo boots in a fun gamemode, when the game is in this state. I was excited for this patch for a chance for content creators to actually give input in what the game needs, but I guess 6v6 was off the table. Just not happy.

Will the balance change team actually have any desire to use these? I hope so

Sojourn change is bad: All they did was turn her into a better Soldier 76. We have enough of that going around as it is. I also don't care for the hog change you talked about. A grapple would be fine if it did NOT grapple against a destructible target, but everything else that isn't a destructible target. I still want my hook in, rather than me throwing myself into a feeding position that hog cannot escape, especially with the recent nuclear nerfs. Brig change is terrible: It will make BRush comps OPAF (Brawler Rush) and destroy Dive comp.

I enjoyed orisa on maps pepple didnt expect orisa. Haulting people off their high ground at the start of a match was so good. Sucking Tracer back into her own pulse bomb was peak orisa imo

the hog change makes him not hog

Anyone have thoughts on the Sombra changes? As a Sombra player, I didn't like them, or really understand what they were going for.

Everyone's getting nerfed. BUT YOU CAN'T TOUCH SUPPORT MAINS

The Roadhog change seems like a fun gameplay loop for a new DPS hero maybe, pulling themselves into or out of dangerous situations. And omg I've been wanting Mei to freeze the ground and move faster on it for SO long I'm excited to try this. Overall these changes seem like a lot of fun!! I'm interested to see what they do with some of the ideas and thoughts here :p

Roadhog does not need that buff wtf you even talking about💀

Yk it actually made the game funner than the actual game

😊theycooked

85 views in 3 mins Spilo going exponential!

sadly, no role queue is a dealbreaker for me. I wish they'd do more serious versions of these patches where they're implemented over the weekend in the QP Hacked or something

i’m curious as to what situations you had where you got staggered from the rez 10s version at 8:30 . in all my experience with this version all it does is allow you to fight during all or a portion of your respawn timer. i’m a mercy main and i loved this change a lot (other than incurring 2 deaths on the rezzed person), and i think we should go this direction for rez among other changes that are discussed in the community. it requires much more thinking with the ability and eliminates the most annoying rezzes imo, where you’re trying to break a choke and get a pick, and then mercy rezzes behind a wall with no counter play. Temporary rezzes wouldn’t solve every issue the cooldown has, and i’m not sure about it resetting in valk, but i loved this change. Maybe there’s some bugginess in how much of the respawn timer is effected but if it is fully taken up by the temporary rez, imo this should go live

nah custa nuked junkrat in this mode tho, like holy shit he is so bad compared to others (basically faster projectiles which is good, but now your tire is worse in every possible way)

Wow nothing to say about the Echo change? Being able to copy teammates is something Echo players have wanted forever.

I still think Zen should be able to levitate a little bit for QoL when setting up. It wouldn't be that useful mid-fight as the movement would be slow, and couldn't be use to reach super high spots.

Mei ult is really bad in this patch

I will made people who been res HP 1

Anybody in console gold comp wanna squad up today?

Halt was fun AF but busted.

Slightly late to the party, princess

26 views in 2 minutes, bro fell off

Good, now talk about the worst patch in OW history that came out yesterday 💀

6 views in one minute? Spilo is cooked

if Reinhardts sheild breaks, his suit triggers an emergency protocol. granting him 50% increased movespeed until the sheild is fully charged or pulled up again. this would help him rush for cover in dire situations, OR help him close the gap when going for an agressive play. this would also make dealing with reinhardt need a little bit more finesse, cause right now, the answer is as easy as = shoot the sitting duck from distance. the only thing he can do about it is to hide.

What if hog's hook is pull when its a squishy and push when its a tank

BLIZZARD, GIVE REAPER MORIA FADE, AND MY LIFE... IS YOURS

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boring, no one cares too many changes without common theme, most of my friends didn't want to bother reading up these and refused to play

I liked the lvl 3 Torb turret ngl

2 views in 55 secs, Spilo fell off :(

So basically Eskay has no clue how to balance lol. Not sure why she was chosen. She's good at the game but terrible with constructive feedback.