ah, yeah. moira’s pretty powerful, and i only choose lucio over her more often because i just like the feel of his mobility so much. i often feel like i’m carrying the team as healer, too. but i would imagine you understand how this feeling often leads to frustration, and… to a point, i find that frustration compelling, addicting. it feels good to be the best healer who’s also likely scoring kills in the top 3 on your team regardless of what some on your team may have to say about it.
i’m kind of an idiot, and i’m also extremely depressed, so please forgive my snark!
when i’m not defending overwatch (i recoil a bit from “it sucks shit”) i can agree it’s maybe one of the ‘worst’ games i play(ed) obsessively and really like despite certain clear drawbacks.
honestly I’m pretty embarrassed RE: my post-reveal interest in Valorant because after seeing gameplay literally all of my hopes about it have been dashed.
Valorant’s smoke grenade is equivalent to Overwatch’s tank barrier
I think at the time of Project A’s reveal I was just desperately hoping for a shooting game that would steal my addiction away from OW, but I honestly just entirely dislike shooters that aren’t Quake Live or Quake III. I had a massive TF2 phase as a teenager and I tried reinstalling that this year, and I just immediately uninstalled after a few games because the curtains had been pulled from my eyes and my addiction had been transferred to OW. Waiting for the next host, I guess!
Or maybe I’ll actually get in school and learn fucking carpentry or something
As someone who was pseudo-addicted to overwatch and did genuinely enjoy it for a time, I just feel like Blizzard just want to please everyone but ultimately don’t really satisfy anyone. I think it could definitely work if they pick a lane and stick to it since the game mostly shines at mid-level play. Lootboxes, toxicity and a few design quirks just pushed me to quit in the end (even playing with friends didn’t really help).
I miss Orisa but there’s no way I’m going back since the game just fundamentally changes stuff too often. Keeping an eye on Valorant but I’m not holding out much hope.
In my shit-ass tier people avoid playing healers. I play Moira over Lucio because she can solo (or at least burst) heal while Lucio kind of can’t. But yes those are also my two most played heroes I think.
Moira definitely has the best HPS in the game, along with Ana (who recently got her healing nerfed because Overwtach lol). Ana takes Raw Clicking Skill, but has no movement ability.
but I play Moira primarily because bouncing an orb around and trying to pool shark her heals is the most fun mechanic the game’s ever had. It ALMOST justifies all of the maps having hyper-sterile geometry, but the maps are still really awful.
even then, getting the most of her healing relies on your ability to bounce the yellow orb in such a way that it stays on the same axis between two walls. and when I’m not playing healer I’m constantly (and gently) reminding the Moira to “please drop the yellow orb homie”
I agree with this, and we can’t forget that pretty much everyone but 4-5 people on this entire forum hates everything Blizzard has made after StarCraft II BUT
This is exactly what Overwatch excels at. I think a lot of the quick play user base is playing the game to do cool thing as an avatar they feel represents them or the play style they enjoy whether they win or lose. It’s a way more polished social time waster than something like Fortnite. I think Overwatch 2 is an attempt to more cleanly separate the casual and ranked crowds into distinct buckets that can be catered to individually, which sounds like a marketing nightmare, but I hope they figure it out.
So when you post something like…
I don’t think I understand why you’re enjoying or defending this game coming at it from that angle, because that sounds like precisely what someone I’d expect wouldn’t enjoy the game would say
At some point maybe I’ll post what I think about Battlefield 1 which I started playing over the weekend and is kind of related to this
well. i mean, i did say that i haven’t played it for nearly a year now, hehe. i do have my issues with it! like i said, i just think “it sucks shit” strikes me as a weird thing to say more so from someone who, unlike me, continues to play it. and may be a better player than me despite their boredom with it. to be clear, i was initially running on the impression that slime was just logging into the game to hate it while also not even being particularly good at it, and i thought that was offputting. i’ve had tons of people like that on my team before and it’s not fun.
idk, i think i’ve laid out my feelings on the game clearly enough at this point.