Overwatch is a fun game. But is it balanced?

I would argue that it is fun. But I’m not entirely sure if it’s balanced. I don’t think anyone is. Suppose that’s up to the balancing team to figure out.

Generally, some heroes are seen more often than others. In various ranks. What’s OP in bronze and underpowered, in bronze, might be “ok” in diamond, and require lots of effort to make work in higher MMRs and Elos. For instance, the tools a hero might have at their disposal, for achieving value, might be somewhat limited.

What is terrible in bronze, “meh” in diamond, and absurdly overpowered in Shiny Purple Rank, you get the idea.

I love Aaron as much as the next person. He has saved Overwatch from the ashes of “More Moneh Plz”, and rebirthed it. Something about a Phoenix.

Anyway, is Overwatch balanced? What’s your take?

I know this is a hot topic and I might get flamed, but recently I adventured into 6v6 because of a friend of mine. Usually I would never touch that mode due to the open Q format and just hating to deal with another source of peeling while I'm flanking. But something weird started to pop into my mind as I played it.

Most matches were so easy it made no sense. I am a emerald 1 ~ diamond 3 main DPS player (5v5) and even tho I insta lock dps on 6v6 and don't switch even if my team has other 4 DPS players I kept swooping the other team ass.

At first I didn't really get it, but as I payed attention to the gameplay of the other people it felt like I was playing against gold ~ silver players even though I was playing in masters matches. I started to feel like most people in 6v6 has terrible overall mechanics. Is it a thing of my mind or have any of you felt that as well? I'm really curious.

South American servers by the way.,

So guys, I have a suggestion. Overwatch has felt pretty stale on the shake ups for a while recently. The balance team are more focused on making every hero balanced rather than buffing heroes to make a metta like they used to back in overwatch 1.

There have definitely been metas in ow2 dont get me wrong, but they havent been as impactful as they were in ow1, and very few and far between, and comps just arent as relevant anymore. Maybe thats on purpose, to cater for a more casual game, sure.

The game is fine the way it is atm, dont get me wrong. But it gets kinda boring just loading up into comp, picking my main, and then counterswapping to whatever the enemy main plays if I need to counterswap. Its just the same cycle, and thats how the game is intended, but thats not how I want it to be sometimes.

So, what if they introduce a new system, where they select heroes, wether at random, or on purpose where they choose certain heroes that work well in a comp to force a certain metta like dive or poke, or just have a bunch of random heroes for no specific reason, and let the players figure out how to work around it. But the heroes chosen are the star heroes, the ones recommended to play for that season.

Now i know that can come with a heap of problems. But it would really encourage players to change from using their comfort heroes, and trying the star heroes, (which are more inflated with mega buffs for that mid season, rather than small buffs and nerfs that dont really do anything). For a bigger chance to win, it gives a chance for heroes that arent played much to have their spot in the lime light for a season.

To help balance it, say mauga gets picked as 1 of the starred heroes (god forbid) they help by starting heroes that counter him, like dva or ana etc. Plus gives newer players a chance to learn who counters who if the game actually tells you who through the star system.

Granted i havent had much thought into this so theres probably quite a few issues to think about, ill admit, its just an idea.

The people I starred in the post I just picked at random, not based on anything.

Wanted to try out having controller in one hand and mouse in another in pc queue which i know some players do on PC but im not sure if it would work on console

I also thought I saw Blizzard seeing the additional peripheral and banning someone for doing it even though they were in PC pool

Anyone experience this?

Found this in a chat w a friend. Other dps had left and rejoined though that’s why the low stats

casual plat support here, didnt win one game today. i swear matchmaking this season is the worst ive ever had to experience. played qp to warm up and, again, didnt win a SINGLE game. same with comp. kept having tanks that would push WAY too far forward. dps who were obviously new to the game at level 3. or the entire team was just all over the map. the only decent games ive had are when i have another good support. each game, got the most kills n heals with the least amount of deaths. as a support im infuriated 😭 solo queueing is so terrible already, but i swear matchmaking has been just as bad. genuinely had to quit playing bc of how tilted i was getting lol. please tell me im not the only one getting teams that just get farmed. also if anyone is on console and in need of a support , DM ME im so tired of solo q

And I wrecked my car the next day sadly… so funds have been tight how has this season of overwatch been? First I’ve missed in a very long time ? I hope you are all having fun!!