2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.5 hrs last two weeks / 18.4 hrs on record (0.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 14 Aug, 2023 @ 4:34am

Good game, now easily installable and usuable on Steam Deck.
A bit overshadowed by lately bad buisiness decisions.

Pro:
- Unique heroes
- Competitive FPS Arena style gameplay (Quake III Arena or Jedi Knight)
- Colorful and engaging hero and map design
- Improved spatial audio (over Overwatch 2)
- Replayability
- Customizability through Workshop
- Replays and Stats

Negative (starting of with what went wrong in OW2):
- Promised to remove or reduce smurfs through phone verification.
Entitled smurfs and multi account users cried so badly, Blizz back peddaled.
Now old smurfs (the ones that ruined OW1 matchmaking to begin with) can still proceed to use their 10+ smurf accounts, some of which are botted
- Matchmaking sucked and will suck again, once the horde of new players is gone,
and desperate SR climbing addicts will resort to using smurf accounts,
essentially leading to the top 10% of players looking like the top 50% of players.
- We were promised extensive PVE content, so I can finally stop giving craps about the competitive integrity of a game, where nearly no one else cares about it.
But nope, PVE got severely downsized and yet again Blizzard back-paddled.
- The whole female workers being treated at Blizz scandal
- Removal of ways to actually gain cosmetic items through normal play in-game.
Now most cosmetic items are only really obtainable through real-money.

Older problems:
- Old patches remain completely unplayable, this means:
- We can't play using old abilities (Like old Mercy Rez or old Symmetra gun, even in Workshop)
- Certain bugs didn't get fixed for ages or ignored
- MM is broken, because the way players use loopholes.
- Game Balancing often ruined by new heroes, which are then made useless in the subsequent patches.
- Blizz still has no idea what to do with Mercy
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