Never let the Overwatch community cook... | OW2 Suggestions Box #1

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[@dantiongson3014]

Suggestion: Since Kiriko has the smallest hitbox, has a invincibility ability, teleport, lock-on healing, OP ult, and wall climb... give her only 200HP. Treat her like the Tracer of supports in a way that she's punishable when out of position and maker her one-shotable (Sojourn Rail headshot, Hanzo headshot and Junk's nade even). The fact that she has 250HP is criminal considering all of her advantages.

[@jasontai7730]

THIS. I've been saying this forever. Either 225 or even 200 HP would be perfect for a character like Kiriko, who has a slim and small hitbox, can make herself invincible for about a second, and teleport to an ally within 35 meters. She's way too forgiving if you happen to be poorly positioned, and reducing her HP is a good way of nerfing her without touching her abilities. Though, her abilities can definitely be nerfed, too, like increasing the cooldown of Swift Step, and removing the intangibility effect of Suzu and reduce its healing. Also, reduce her kunai ammo count. 12 or even 10 Kunai would be more than fine when she already has one of the fastest reloads in the game. Why does she even need *15* kunai to work with?

[@naliskun4222]

​@@jasontai7730 this might actually knock her down a bit she already can't two shot anymore suzu heals way too much tho but 225 and suzu heal nerf might be great

[@microbolt9746]

I have been saying this forever, kiri would feel way more fair with less health

[@SILK97]

In the recent balance AMA, the devs mentioned experimenting with lower HP pools of the more evasive heroes

[@jonasdowner]

gimme the two tap back and you have a deal. otherwise her use rate is high, and her win rate is low so why fix what ain't borken

[@jasontai7730]

Suggestion: Make LW's Petal Platform work like Sigma's Experimental Barrier. Have it on a 4 second cooldown, 400 HP, restores 50 HP per second while it's not out, and have it last indefinitely until it either gets destroyed or LW manually recalls it. This would make Petal Platform a much more prevalent part of his kit that LW players can more frequently look to make a play with, rather than the part of the kit that most LW players forget about and instead reserve for when they get flanked or dived because it's on a 12 second cooldown and it's generally more worth it to save it for yourself. Also, as it is with a 12 second cooldown, you can very easily get screwed by weird level geometry that it won't raise, and welp, guess it's useless and you can't do anything with it for 12 seconds. There's already so many other things you can do with Petal Platform (blocking off stairs, raising up someone from Grav, giving someone high ground to work with, saving someone who's slept or shattered, raising Winston bubble, etc. etc.) that making it work like Sigma's Experimental Barrier can reward LW players who play him as more than just a healbot.

[@flameofmage1099]

Weaver main, not sure if this would actually get people to use it more. It's still a situational ability so unless you need to do a bunch of these things at once I don't think it would change much.

[@psyjinx]

The fake-outs lifting d'vas bombs would be hilarious.

[@Carnagemode]

@@flameofmage1099 it would be a huge buff imo

[@Koriiii]

Petal platform is just an ability that gives LW repositioning and a better opportunity to escape being focused. Adding all this power into an ability is worthless and makes LW more painful for everyone else. Its kinda like buffing Torb turret for no reason. "Lets give Torb turret and petal platform 300/400hp so it makes it an even more annoying ability!" What an awful idea I'm sorry but you have to realise it

[@thefatherinthecave943]

Make it heal people on it as well

[@kingofnerds576]

Suggestion: Kiriko's Swift Step should have a cast animation during which she would be susceptible to damage, similar to Reaper's Shadow Step. This would accomplish two things: A) Limit her ability to apply pressure from any angle, as she would have to teleport earlier to avoid being killed. B) Force players to be more careful when using it to save an ally, as if she uses it too late, the ally might die. To add some synergy with Suzu, the cast animation would be as long as Suzu's invulnerability, so she can still use it to escape a dangerous situation, but she would have to use a Suzu, creating more opportunities to bait it out.

[@bobothebob4716]

Game dev here. The map issue likely isnt spaghetti code. Loading a map involves lighting, textures, maybe some custom fixes here and there. Loading both would be an issue, even if you have references here and there and don't hold things entirely in memory. The reason Blizz games actually feel smooth is the low level devs actually know what they are doing and basically code at a super low and light level. That's why even games like fortnight lack responsiveness - so much bloat and abstraction. I'm ok with sacrificing time of day to have a responsive game.

[@bryangomez1029]

hi there! i'm the suggestion submitter! i don't think the time of day works like how you describe. if I'm understanding correctly, you believe the map loads first, and then the lighting/textures I think it's more like karq said, where each differentiation is a completely separate map, just copied so that they can co-exist in game. The time of day is currently seasonal, but there is a reason why all times of day can be played in custom lobbies, and it's actually exactly what they do for their esports.

[@noname-vw5qw]

Yeah im 99% they are just seperate map files. They could just randomly pick 1 of the map files before you loadin.

[@tbtlhart]

Suggestion: make more enabling abilities instead of more preventative abilities. It seems to me that their hero design philosophy for the most part has been to make abilities that prevent ability usage, movement, healing or damage. Imo it was way more fun to hit the clutch nano or perfect firestrike through window or a perfectly timed speed boost than it ever was to hack, anti, or stun a character into oblivion. I think that's why so many people bring up 6v6. The synergy of 2 tanks was often one of the most engaging experiences in ranked. At least when it came to rein/zarya and winston/dva. Now the tank gets hit with so many abilities that either prevent the tank from taking space at all or nullify any value they get in team fights. The fact that a support cooldown can completely negate a tank ultimate is kinda crazy to me.

[@TheWayOfTheWott]

6v6 had tons of preventative abilities though? tanks were all about preventative abilities: barriers, bubbles, knockbacks, matrixes... i feel like supports getting preventative cooldowns is a circumstance of having one less tank in the game to give these preventative windows so new supports were given the ability to make up for it.

[@tbtlhart]

@TheWayOfTheWott sure i will say barriers were probably not good for the game in their state, but the tanks job was to use damage mitigation to create space. They could've solved double shield with orissa rework. Also bubble and dm were tools to enable your main tank to move forward in a lot of cases. Suzu and life grip are not that. My main comparisons were hack, anti and stuns but you could also include cage, lifegrip, lamp, hinder, dps passive and probably a few others I'm not thinking of. The Suzu vs shatter point was just kinda an afterthought tbh. My main point is we need more abilities like speed boost, nano, rush and damage boost and less of the others.

[@chrisnorton6476]

Suggestion: LW's primary fire should charge x amount of healing per thorn hit for the next heal blossom so he can swap to doing damage more reliably (up to maybe 40 or something but not full)

[@friezeray]

W suggestion

[@MrHastygamer]

The Emote thing just makes sense because nobody is buying another emote when they’ve got the max 4 they can use on a character so for profitability makes sense.

[@Rebron177]

Suggestions: (I have one for Mauga Orisa and Mercy) Mauga-- get rid of the crit effect on his alternate fire gun and instead replace it with a debuff (fire/burn is a linear debuff so an accelerated debuff that starts slow and ramps up as you hit shots might be cool) and have the debuffs layer effects depending on the order that you apply them. This way you can lean into cardiac overdrive being his main source of sustain rather than his damage Orisa -- lean in to the african drum idea of her kit and instead of gold form making her take a ton of less damage, make it into a rhythm shot where if you shoot with a specific rhythm you gain mitigation ability and/or can apply buffs to nearby teammates. Mercy -- make her ult be rez again BUT instead of being mass rez have it be for a single teammate and when they come back they get buffs to speed or attack speed or damage, etc. this leaves open a second mobility ability on her E to make her more dynamic to play.

[@im_snoopyrs8947]

Since the mirrorwatch event, ive been hard stuck on thinking Sombra should be support with the changes mirrorwatch made, and then put zen in dps.

[@KalleDemos666]

OR maybe just keep Sombra as a DPS and make another support, why change the entire role of one of the cooler heroes?

[@itsnotjinxx]

@@KalleDemos666 sombra and cool should never be used in the same sentence

[@JamieDanger]

Suggestion: Lifeweaver’s pull should cleanse - pretty much every other movement ability (fade/rewind/translocate/even bubble) cleanses; this would be an indirect nerf to Ana without messing with her kit.

[@Cabbywabbytabby]

what they NEED to bring back is the voting screen at the end I miss it It adds flavor I miss it I miss it

[@masterfy24]

I miss it ×3 as well

[@13576bard]

And now there's barely any time to type in match chat after a match ends!

[@greedisbad9890]

Majority of player just left 0.5 second after the game ends The priority is not the biggest

[@13576bard]

@@greedisbad9890 okay?

[@BlueLemonsXX]

Most of the time it was used to trash talk at the end of the game lol maybe with the increased chat regulations though, it might not be bad

[@mushroomsvsmarshmellows1875]

Suggestion: Give Winston the ability to hang onto walls/ledges like Spiderman for surprise engages and fun positioning

[@Taexer]

Suggestion, We need a hero progression leaderboard! I feel like a top 500 leaderboard for hero levels would be nice to compare and compete against other players who main your hero. Im a level 60 tracer and i NEVER see other tracer players so id like to see how many people are higher than me. Its always fun to see people high levels on their main heroes. It would also be more useful than the hero mastery and hero gauntlet leaderboard that tracks time trails and scores that no one looks at after the two days it comes out.

[@justinwillis2112]

Suggestion: Change Kiri's suzu to not negate CC. It can still cleanse, make you invulnerable, and heal slightly but not make you intangible. That way doom can still punch a suzued hero and kiri can't immediately save her team from a PHAT shatter.

[@bodacious12]

Or make it single target so she can't counter an entire ult like shatter or rampage, and she can't suzu herself

[@spacerangerfromoverwatch]

Suggestion: Give us some new edited maps for the arcade. I would love to play a deathmatch game on one of the Suravasa points or play a CTF game on Samoa. I understand that arcade will never be their priority but it sucks to see it get no new content outside of seasonal LTMs that very rarely return, and I don't think cropping existing maps for arcade would take an unreasonable amount of effort.

[@greedisbad9890]

10:40 Ball best ability is not really the gun form but the survivability Crab mode took that survivability away and especially after getting hacked usually everyone will target you because that's when you're the most vulnerable

[@ray2351]

there should be a category in hero gallery for each hero of all their interactions when in hero select/ waiting room. A neat way to add this would be that after a new interaction has been triggered by players it will now be available in the interaction menu of said hero in the hero gallery for players it triggered on those that heard it. That way players can learn when a new interaction has been added and try discover new interactions

[@allgamerprogram344]

Map vote, when everyone loads into a game have a 15 second timer for a vote, 3 random maps and times. Most voted map wins and thats what you play. This will also allow the devs to know what maps are liked and disliked by the entire community and be able to make changes accordingly.

[@Zathren]

Ive been saying since Sombra's release that she should have been a support. It only felt more justified since MirrorWatch was a thing and her kit felt great for enabling your team. Real freaking shame the deves took Sym out of support. They should have just added Torbjorn to Support instead. Proof that Supports weren't there just to heal if one gave shields and another gave armor.

[@griffionow1468]

Proof that they are healers.

[@KlebinDaBoca]

Swapping Doom to tank was probably one of the best moves. Sombra, Mei and other heroes should have similar treatment. Blizz needs to figure what they want sup and tank to be.

[@azseal2669]

I remember reading somewhere that in her design she was originally *supposed* to be a support and that hacking her teammates was her playstyle. So MirrorWatch just showcased what she would've been like.

[@sharkvirus8710]

Yea Sombra was already more of a disruptive support before they kept changing her to be more and more of a assassin. Mirrorwatch showed what kind of things she could do as support so its sad that they just waste that. They could do so many things with the ally hack and it pretty much solved most of the common complaints about her.

[@bellsgg]

As a sombra main, I didn’t like her mirrorwatch changes. I also haven’t heard anyone who is a sombra main say they liked that. Most of her change ideas come from players who don’t like playing against her and want her pushed out of the way. She’s fine right now, and I think they should make her translocator hit box smaller since it collides too easily in narrower room situations which leaves her trapped instead of getting out as intended.

[@umbreeunix]

When it comes to dropping souvenirs: I honestly think this mechanic could work if it emulated something like old Reaper's soul drops or Mercy's rez. Souvenirs could simply float above the point where the player died (similar to the current emotes), linger for about 0.5-1 second, and then disappear. At least this way souvenirs have a better chance of being seen by ALL players and not just your teammates, like the rest of the cosmetics do. Not to mention the clutter would be brief and wouldn't have a chance to hide traps (since it's not touching the ground). Otherwise I personally still don't see much of a point in using (or in KarQ's case 'equipping'?) souvenirs if only half the lobby would get to see them most of the time.

[@Envy-phthonus]

Suggestion: Lifeweaver should be able to reload their secondary fire (thorns) uninterrupted while still having access to petal platform or life grip. It makes it hard to ever fire more than a single clip when reloading your thorns leaves you inflexible. I don't like having to decide between finishing a reload to protect myself or saving a teammate with grip. This issue doesn't exist when using healing blossom. Lifeweaver doesn't even use his thorn hand for the abilities that interrupt the reload.

[@vking7]

Suggestion: Inspired by the talk around roles and moving characters from one role to another, I'd like to bring back an idea I had early on in the days of 5v5 - Make some characters be playable in two roles, with slight tweaks when played in the new role. Partial examples: Bring back DPSfist; let Tank Brig have the stun on Bash full time, in exchange for removing Inspire and repair kit, or maybe letting inspire stay but weaker on allies; maybe let supp Sombra move a hacked medkit a small distance to make it more convenient for her team; give supp Zarya a stronger projected barrier in exchange for personal, and turn charge level into some other teammate buff idk; Tank Reaper becoming a lifesteal god.

[@demyxsk8r42]

My ideas Kiriko: remove cc immunity from suzu, lower current health by 25 Venture: getting hit by javelin/rocket punch and any other heavy cc ability now heavily decrease the vertical mobility from emerging from the ground, encouraging venture to mix up their play. Rein: charge has more control, perfectly timed jump after cancelling/end of charge gives a litle forward momentum. Ramattra: vortex projectile speed increased by 10%, vertical hitbox now increased by 30%, it can now be placed on any surface. Echo: focus beam dmg buff triggers when health is below 40% Reaper: Weapon spread decrease by 10% Fall of starts at 13 meters wraith form rework. duration decreased to 2 seconds, movement speed increased by 80%, now has vertical mobility Junker queen: calling back gracie does the wound damage Instantly instead of overtime.

[@duckboyguru6164]

suggestion: the button to cancel emotes while you’re doing them, accidentally hitting emote when i meant to ask for healing or saying hello is so annoying

[@dinopower901]

Or just make it so if you move it takes you out of it like the sit emotes

[@sharkvirus8710]

Hanzo eating emote where youre stuck in the animation for half a minute:

[@skyler7017]

Can do it because people will abuse it to look around walls, there should be a max amount of time that you are locked tho like 2 or 3 seconds so that you can at least standardize the amount of time you are locked out

[@SekundesCCFFVII]

Suggestion to fixing Kiriko's Swift Step : The core issue is the "TP through wall" thing, but it"s also core to the character's identity. So I think they should do this -> Give it a line of sight check, if the target is in line of sight, Kiriko can TP her normal 30m distance. But if the target isn't, then she can only TP to them if they're like, 10 or 12m away from her behind the walls. That way, if Kiri TPs through a wall, you know you can chase her since she couldn't TP too far from you.

[@hellfers16]

Suggestion: Customize indication of damage received. Now, very often, being at 30% health, I have no idea about it. I would really like to be able to 1. customize the display of injuries (redness along the edges of the screen) and 2. markers of received damage (stripes around the crosshair indicating the direction from which the damage came). For example, on a tank I don't need red pulsing only at 10% HP. I would like it on the screen at 60-70% HP when my armor drops. At the same time, I don’t need this on Genji, because... 50% HP on this character - working condition) Selecting values ​​for the hero individually. Same to the dmg recieved marks. I want to customize it :D Why rein's hit with 100dmg looks like a giant fat quadrant, Hanzo's arrow looks like a tiny pixel? :C I'm used to the display in OW1. During the OW2 alpha, I even made screenshot comparisons (because I couldn't understand why I was so uncomfortable) and the difference is huge. + Quite often, in the heat of battle, I don’t notice how half of my team dies behind my back. The volume of the sound notification about the death of an ally cannot be adjusted. The kill feed at the top right of the screen cannot be configured. Wouldn't it be cool?

[@bianglegaming1127]

Suggestion: PLEASE let the patch notes be a menu option when you're in the practice range, or anywhere really. I don't know why it's only available on the main screen.

[@petartejic8924]

Suggestion: yes this is biased but i want to see torbs builder/engineer character expanded in game too, make him able to choose between a few different types of turrets (similarly to how moira chooses her balls), or maybe even turn him into a support with the same ability for choosing damage turrets, and replace overload with utility buildings he can choose the same way with damage turrets, keep his shotgun, give him a way to heal teammates and change his ult to his old one, but the buff his turrets and buildings receive for the ult duration wouldnt be as big as it was many years ago

[@snarkyshane58doe50]

Suggestion: Give BOB the tank passive instead of the DPS passive. Not sure how difficult it would be to code from a dev standpoint, but having him be harder to remove seems more fitting than applying a healing debuff

[@isaacaland5087]

Hot take: What if tank's armor was immune to the DPS passive? Might require some tuning of the armor and health pools for tanks, but the net impact could help tanks out?

[@Freshprimememes]

Suggestion: give lifeweaver is old passive back but lower the heal to 200, only visible to ailles, and no longer heals enemies. It will make lifeweaver better

[@personalbudakai9161]

The problem w/ his old passive is that it incentivises your team to not help keep them alive, but to allow them to die just to get a free "healthpack" it just dosent work.

[@kevinkalani]

Suggestion: Delete Lifeweaver 😂

[@Freshprimememes]

@@kevinkalani I’m a weaver main

[@personalbudakai9161]

​@@Freshprimememes As a mercy main myself i get were both suffering these last few seasons, but i just dont think lw passive was any good for the game. Its similar to reapers old passive its cool in concept just dosent really work functionally well for the game.

[@kevinkalani]

@Freshprime55 fair. Everyone has their opinions on heroes but my gripe is with Lifeweaver as a hero, not the people who play them. I play tank and there are so many things on the enemy team that take away my ability to play the role, having the potential for one more on my own team is not something I look forward to. Life grip can be used in super clutch situations, but also I am getting pulled from securing a kill, holding a corner (taking 0 damage) or canceling a cooldown

[@Vorusen]

Support Sombra in mirrorwatch was super fun and I really enjoyed enabling teammates without having to hold blue beam on them and essentially give up my spot on the team for it a well. A harasser that can enable your team sounds like a really fun support ... to play lol idk about playing against though

[@Slorple]

Suggestion: Rework Kirikos Suzu into a single target invincibility with an AOE heal

[@jmmz1529]

Suggestion: Since there are more dps like supports (Zen, Lucio etc), there should be tanky dps, such as bastion or torb, helps with the tank's alone protection, so you could do 1.5 / 1.5 / 2 instead of 1 / 2 / 2 if you get what I mean

[@antonerjavec662]

Suggestion: Since a major issue for tanks is CC, and there are half the amount of tanks, half the effects, half anti, half knowckback, half sleep, half hinder (either reduce the slow or reduce the time), etc..

[@Jolllypop]

Suggestion: Have widow make there 1 hit kill indirect. Give it as example that widow can max 240 damage and then have a bleeding effect for a bit this should be strong enough so you get killed if nothing is done but if a support notices you got hit in that breef time you can still be saved

[@TheGreatPewpyOne]

Easily the most dogshit suggestion in these comments lmaooo

[@salinaember9527]

would be better if widow can only kill from headshots only. any body shots leave enemies at 1hp max.

[@Anonymous-lv4di]

Suggestion: SVB's idea of a 5v5 semi-open que with a cap of 2 heroes on each role

[@puzzlethief]

Suggestions: - on the topic of player portrait boarders, I’ve always wanted earnable cosmetic ones. There could be ones tied to mastery, some that replace lame souvenirs, and animated ones tied to mythic skins and top 500!! - rework illari ult into a hitscan beam instead of a projectile. You fire it and then it causes the AOE that marks enemies at the point of impact. She’s too easily countered by barriers, dva, sigma, Orisa, and especially kiriko. By removing the possibility for the projectile to be eaten, its usability will go wayyyy up. To balance you could shorten the mark duration or increase the time it takes to cast

[@Athalos732]

Suggestion for a Mercy Guardian Angel rework: Make it so she doesn't need to fly to an allied player and remove the second part of GA where she can cancel it to fly off in another direction. Right now, her movement can be so team dependent that it can be useless in some team comps and broken in others. This GA change makes it so she can still fly without nearby teammates (maybe to a point 15m where she's looking), while allowing her to fly to allies she's looking at or has her beam attached to. I also suggest they give her the Zarya treatment and give her 2 GA charges on a 2 second cooldown. This would let her use lots of movement quickly when in danger, but make her vulnerable for a longer time afterwards. It's not really a part of this but I also suggest they give something for her to use resurrect while all allies are alive. Maybe a delayed (like 1 second channel) burst of healing on her current beam target (could probably put the ability on a 20 second cooldown if used this way). Mercy has a lot of issues right now but this should hopefully find a movement state that both she and her attackers can be happy/tolerant with.

[@El9thBean]

Genji's deflect should be put on something like Hogs take a breather, Switch his main attack to something a little faster then Kiriko's single shot Put his Q on a longer timer and have his Ult give something like speed and armor

[@INeed333Quid]

i think/thought the lighting rotation was supposed to reflect the irl season. Like in (northern hemispheres) spring Kings Row is dark and rainy, in Summer Kings Row is dark and rainy, in Autumn Kings Row is dark and rainy, in Winter Kings Row is dark and snowy

[@jaredparks4713]

Suggestion: Let us pick which voice line is heard when using an ult. Example: I can choose to hear "Vide bal sou yo!" instead of "Light them up!" when I use Matrix, but everyone else still hears what they'd normally hear (the former for allies, the latter for enemies). This would also not affect what I hear when others use Matrix.

[@MichaelSmith2233]

Hot Take: Give Tanks a “Super” button as a Role Passive. Put it on a long cooldown or once per round, or make it charge up by total amount of damage mitigated relative to each character. You can giga bust any tank for a short amount of time but then shrivels them up with nerfs until cooldown is over or the round is over. You can choose to use this ability or not depending on your gameplay, differing from ults where most are necessary to win. It’s fun and gives the player choice, and might make counters more forgiving if you can win team fights with it and hold.

[@bakedbeings]

My guess re: day/night rotations is that elements of the lighting are baked, which creates extra assets (texture overlays, light probes etc). Those would add significant file size per map variation.

[@meowkat4043]

Suggestion: Unify Zen's controls: hit ONE key to automatically apply harmony on friendly and discord on enemies when targeting them.

[@yiklongtay6029]

It would become harder to finesse the right target as there are twice the number of targets. Maybe a negligible amount, maybe a significant amount

[@S85B50Engine]

Suggestion, since it's better to have weaker abilities more often than it is to have fight winning abilities every so often, those abilities (Lamp and Suzu being prime examples) need to be reworked. Rework them into something that's not as strong but is available more often, so you can have more APM as those heroes and those abilities are less frustrating to play against. Regular abilities shouldn't be stronger than pretty much every single ult in the game.

[@fireblitz3438]

I think for hero borders, they could introduce some type of customization for hero portraits. Mayber perhaps borders that entail the characters or something.

[@CoopMoe]

In regards to the progression badge colors... It's the same as wow, which really kind of set the precedent for rarity colors in gaming (Fortnite used the same gray

[@NotJustLeeWilliam]

I think we should keep 5v5 for now, only with 1 tanks, 1 dps, 2 supports, and a new "role" where we can flexibly switch between tank and dps. It would reintroduce tank synergies, without too much power (maybe?)

[@aegislight5996]

There will just be 2 tanks every single game. To many instant win ult synergies while also simply being tankier (duh) by default, no reason to pick dps or a 3rd support, it would be the same as open q.

[@salinaember9527]

he went over this suggestion in the video. 2 tanks is not going to work in the 5v5 meta. its okay in open queue, but only when both teams opt for the same lineup. ive been suggesting the tank role to be the flex role. either 1-2-2 standard, or 2-3 / 3-2.

[@finnnnnnlol3650]

Suggestion: Make symmetra a support. Don’t go back to 1.0 or 2.0 and turrets should NOT heal. Maybe making beam lock on to teammates and heal would be nice while also keeping the rest or her kit which is also good. If we really don’t want turrets, give her back her old moving shield that (maybe?) healed teammates who passed through it. But turrets could be better maybe for a support character. TP would be the main utility. Orbs are a good primary that MIGHT need a slight charge time buff or increased minimum damage. Ultimate could be reworked to a different type of shape or have added properties but I think it’s fine now. KarQ, since you are a support main I would really love your thoughts on a support symmetra.

[@KapeKrusader]

Suggestion: To make highlight intros part of the character select screen when you hover over which hero to play to bring out more life towards the highlight intros and not having to possibly throw a game because a player wants to see their highlight intro. Plus it'll shine a personal light for support mains. I understand if it's not possible due to an engine limitation but it would be really neat.

[@toffi2390]

Maybe a support who can shoot teammates with a railgun like sojourn to heal teammates would be a nice addition. And the hits could cause a small explosion on impact on either on teammates, enemies or environment that damages enemies.

[@chibong7922]

Suggestion: You should be able to switch roles with another player mid match if both of u are in spawn. If your tank is doing bad and ur dps is a good tank, u should be able to get a request to shift roles (like a friend request) and if both players accept u can switch roles. this may be nice and teams can work together

[@salinaember9527]

the reason this wont work is because of rank.

[@Slorple]

Suggestion: let us use highlight intros on the hero select screen!

[@jerrybarbados5995]

Suggestion: theres enough heroes in the game now where player decided hero bans could very well work. Even if its one shared vote between both teams with a random choice in the event of a tie. Im just tired of playing against tracer genji every single game

[@MichaelSmith2233]

A good idea for a support would be one that’s all about buffing and nerfing allies and enemies via skill shots, like an ana thats primary goal is to pump allies with fire rate buffs or damage amp or reducts and pump enemies with the reverse, and then has DoT abilities to compensate for lack of actual damage

[@SekundesCCFFVII]

Suggestion : One of the game's biggest issue, is binary interactions in buffs and debuffs, hear me out. Think of what infuriated players to play against over the course of Overwatch's existence : Brig bash stun, Cass flashbang, Mei freeze on her primary fire, Ana's anti-heal, Orisa spear stun, Zen discord orb, Kiriko Suzu, Weaver Life Grip, Mercy damage boost, etc. All of these things have that in common : interacting with them is binary, it's either applied or it isn't, and you can't do anything about them beside killing the character or "baiting out" the cooldowns. The other thing they have in common is how reliable and (relatively) easy and consistent to pull off they are. This combination of easy to land + nothing to really do about it makes it a frustrating experience. On the flip side, skill shots like Ana sleep dart were hardly a problem, because the skill shot component compensates for the hard CC nature of the ability. So do this : make these "easy" abilities either skill shots (like, make Life Grip a Hog hook on your teammates and not an autoaim), or make their interaction non-binary, example : make Suzu not a full cleanse, but something that reduces the remaining timer on the debuff, make Ana anti-heal something like "heal 200 HP to get rid of it, or wait out the time", have Discord Orb and Damage Boost needing to ramp up over time to their full power. Doing this would help in not having straight up denial of impact, or unmitgatable impact, and in not having a character straight up denying another character's overall existence with a single ability.

[@Brofessional_]

I like this suggestion, in the example of discord you could hide behind cover after being discorded before the damage percentage ramps up to full which would give more counter play options

[@BandannaBread]

Suggestion: Use Mirrorwatch Sombra as an outline for a Zenyatta Rework. Here's something I whipped up for Zen based on it. -Orb of Destruction: Base Damage increased to 50 (Or 55/60) per Orb (Buffed due to Discord Orb Changes) -Harmony Orb: Grants an Ally 75 Overhealth and a 25% increase to their Attack Speed - 4 Second Duration (Mirrorwatch Hack) -Discord Orb: Deals 60 Damage Over Time and decreases Damage dealt from the Target by 50% - 4 Second Duration (Mirrorwatch Virus) -Transcendence: Grants 300 Overhealth and gives Harmonry Orb to the User and nearby Allies. Every 2 seconds, 75 Overhealth is removed. After 5 seconds, Harmonry Orb is removed from all Targets. (Mirrorwatch Anti-Virus)

[@inexperiencedknife]

Keep all mirrorwatch changes. Mercy could be a combination of mirrorwatch and the April fool's Day damage beam replaced with a staff gun

[@izab3ru]

Shield Doom is not a thing that can exist in the game

[@inexperiencedknife]

@@izab3ru loved it, he felt like a real tank

[@kaychan7242]

Suggestion : widows Akers mines are obsolete and she needs something new here. I liked the mirror watch widowmaker with the if hit you can see whomever you tagged through walls. Instead have this as a enablement ability like Hanzo storm arrow where it enabled and you have a short time to use a set ammo set then goes on cd.

[@eldenmeow5123]

Suggestion: make it so damaging a tank does not provide ult charge or reduced ult charge. This would require rebalancing some tanks but it would change how enemy teams interact against a tank and prevent having to deal with enemy teams constantly having ults when you’re stuck with a feeding tank

[@toffi2390]

I think souvenirs could be part of the winning team pose. Each hero's souvenir would show up above their character (if they don't disable it)

[@NotJustLeeWilliam]

Why aren't there more weapon colors? Gold and emerald are cool, but I've been silently wanting more for forever! It was cool when they added emerald, but it feels like they aren't doing more with that

[@MAVERICK_JAC]

Suggestion: bring back end of match upvotes on player cards. It's so simple and a fun flex for your friends. If the reason they took it out was too much time spent in the after game lobby, then just add a require button to the bottom of the screen.

[@BandannaBread]

16:00 For their argument here, I can see why they are making it. Counter swapping the enemy Tank as a Tank won't do much, but if multiple enemies swap then you are forced to swap. Another example is Reinhardt. The enemy swaps Orisa. Not the best thing to deal with, but you can make it work. The issue here though is that they have 2+ other people swap to Pharah, Echo, Kiriko (They probably already had Kiri), etc. When the Tank swaps the other Tank, it isn't a necessarily a problem. The issue is that there is only 1 Tank, so counter swapping is infinitely more effective against them. If 2-3 members of the other Team are counter swapping you, you will never have fun. That 40-60 matchup against a Counter basically shifts another 10 per Counter that you're up against (Ex: Being up against 3 Counters would basically make your odds a 20% vs 80% chance of succeeding as your current character). Edit: I should have waited a bit longer lol. This got mentioned a minute later. It did feel like this got pushed to the side a bit in the vid though, but I feel like what I said is still valid anyway. The Counter Swapping issue isn't when a Tank Counter Swaps another Tank, it's when multiple Players Counter Swap the Tank. In order for Tank to be fun, this would have to not be the case, but I don't think there's an easy answer for that.

[@Thudd224]

Suggestions: Reaper. Mercy. Kiriko. Sombra. Sheild tanks in general. Reaper: Give him a secondary fire that shoots a slug. It can be 70% - 85% the strength of a full spread, with a headshot multiplyer to balance the damage. This would allow him to retain his tank busting identity with minimal change. Mercy: increase her self heal from cadets staff usage. That's it. Kiriko: there's not really anything that can be drastically changed without breaking her on a fundamental level. However, I think changing her kunai to have fall off damage would be a good place to start. Sombra: imo her invisibility is way too strong of an ability. It should have a button to activate it. Perhaps it could be activated like baps jump boots by crouching. Sheild based tanks: damage blocked via sheilds should count towards ult charge.

[@stpSEP]

Suggestion: After Symmerta's DPS rework her gun lost its uniqueness and Symmetra herself became a much worse basketball player, which i find quite upsetting. So, my suggestion is to bring back the lock on as well as orbs phasing through barriers/players -and watch the world burn- but change it to be less annoying. First, change the beam charge up mechanic so it ramps up gradually from 0 to 100 when you pinpoint an enemy (more like Zarya, instead of 3 levels, and minimum dmg can be literally 5) and decreases when you're off target but within the lock on radius (make the radius fairly small), if the target is out of the lock on radius the beam breaks immediately; probably should increase the beam's reach compared to Sym 1.0 cos it was pretty short if i'm remembering correctly. If ramping up/down will be quick it will make Sym better at doing dmg right away, instead of having to find an opportunity to charge up you beam, while still encouraging good aim. For the orbs, make it so they pierce through enemies and barriers (still explode when hit a wall?) BUT if they pass through a barrier they do 25-50% of their dmg; speed, damage, and size of the orbs is whatever seems appropriate to devs Also, while we at it, maybe turn her Shift into a "builder mode" ability (sort of like when Moira is choosing between her orbs) where while it's active you can press M1 to throw a turret and M2 to build a TP. That would free up an ability slot for the Sym 2.0 photon barrier, this ability would make her better against heros like Hanzo/Widow/Ashe/Pharah/Echo, alleviating some of her struggles I have some other ideas regarding other heroes but i feel like i'd overstate my welcome making the the comment even bigger, will spare some for the future videos

[@AdrianCooper-if5yl]

Like the Sombrero support idea, but she would have to do some sort of passive healing to fit in, maybe she cud passive heal 1 nearby teammate when invisible

[@UnrebornMortuus]

i liked the borders they should just unironically bring it back somehow, but yeah, iterate on it somehow. it adds cosmetic variety and when i suck with very high levels its funny also just have a toggle off on your bad idea instead of no in ranked.

[@avadanocum6495]

Suggestion from a tank player: idea of taking less dmg the more people target u is good, but there is a simple way to do it, limit the amount of health tank can loose in 1 second, bc playing into ana feels bad bc of oneshots after sleepdarts, and hog is good at tank trades bc u get hooked and die. This change wont affect any 1v1s so support/dps players wont whine that tanks are op

[@iwoso]

suggestion: Remove the invincible aspect of suzu or half the time of effect, possibly buff another aspect to compensate. its called cleanse not anti-death nade

[@zc8673]

Suggestion: There should be weather effects in QP/Arcade

[@michaelgoforth5280]

Sombra should be a support

[@jmmz1529]

sooo, what the video said?

[@bearfanks92]

Suggestion: I often can't tell when I'm being healed or not. I've been playing Diablo and they show different color parts of the health bar for dot and heal over time. Maybe something like that could work for ow so you could tell when they are out damaging healing received.

[@chaseisawwesome]

I mean, there already is an indicator for being healed. Since midseason, youll notice your status icon go dark/empty when you arent full hp, and a thin yellow line when you recieve healing from any source at all, lasting for as long as the healing does or until you reach full.

[@bearfanks92]

@@chaseisawwesome I'll look out for that next time I play, I know about the one for ana nade and the dps passive. I'm more looking for something that will give me a better idea when I'm receiving full healing and still dying. In those situations I often think I'm just not being healed.

[@chaseisawwesome]

@@bearfanks92 fair enough, it only displays if youre recovering hp at all, not how much. not sure if thats something that could be done outside of edge cases like zen/mercy actively healing you and full knowledge that your other support is healing you too

[@darrickhughlett9685]

In quickplay at the end of the match it just reset and just switch the teams (attack to defense, defense to attack) it would be fun to have a map u like and get to play on the other side if u like one or another

[@AsexMedic]

Suggestion: Make it so you lose ult charge or lose 25% percent of it when you die, to make it more valuable and limit ultimate spam

[@ethantonin5564]

Suggestion: Every hero should have their own unique passive beyond just a role passive. Only 40% of the hero roster actually have passives compared to those that do. (16 out of 40) Passive's play a core part in each hero's kit making them more fun to play. I feel like hero's that don't have one are missing out on very cool and interesting idea's on how each hero can benefit from a very small buff or quality of life change that acts in the background. I've already come up with interesting and fun passive's for each hero that I think would be a great addition to the game, as I enjoy doing stuff like that in my spare time.

[@laughing5752]

Suggestion: why is our progression in ranked (when we see how far into a rank we are, % wise) only shown after a game had finished. Every other iteration of Competitive has atleast had a tab or an easy way to check your progress within a rank -Sr was a physical number which you could see on your career profile and if i remember correctly when you went to queue for ranked you'd see your SR -the whole 7 wins 15 loses although didnt see your rank it showed how close you where to re-rank However its almost like nowadays they believe that showing our progression within ranked was the issue with old competitive and have removed the feature to even see your progression. Sure wr have the competitve tab but that only shows the rank icon and not the % of the rank. I'm not quite sure why i haven't heard this from anyone else because it makes no sense to not be able to check how close you are to ranking up outside of when a game has finished

[@rexoverwatch]

7v7 no hero limits with unlimited avoid as teammate slots, new accounts start at the bottom of the ladder, and open source then entire game of Overwatch

[@Bl1tzkriegx]

Suggestion: JunkerQueen should be able to use her axe to chop down LifeWeaver tree in one shot, or do bonus damage to the tree. It makes no sense that an axe doesn't chop down a tree.

[@insiderdtleftright5585]

Ahh yes the classic trade a cooldown for ult suggestion

[@MomsAgainstCatboys]

It also doesn’t make sense that Lucio can use his ult while in sigma flux as he’s in the air and not slamming down on anything, but game mechanics has to win over actual logic sometimes for the sake of balance. Also, if you took an axe to a tree that size, it would take more than just one swing to fell it, unless the axe was traveling at a speed exceeding the sound barrier, the edge was sharper than a razor and/or the total mass and force behind the swing was astronomically massive (Symmmetra’s 1km tall axe? + a cannon?)

[@thegaminglord2190]

​@@insiderdtleftright5585well, support always do that with cool down vs dps/tanks ults i don't see the reason why it's not the opposite for once

[@itsnotjinxx]

@@insiderdtleftright5585 u say that like kiri cant suzu 75% of ults away

[@BandannaBread]

4:50 I could see this working better for when they have the DPS Passive applied instead of when they're being multitargeted. Likely shouldn't apply to anyone with the DPS Role, but it could work for what the commentor was aiming for. Probably should only be for the Tank Role as well. We don't need people trying to focus a Tracer and them having higher sustainability because they took splash damage before engaging lol That said, I don't know if I'd want this change either tbh

[@BrotherrBear]

Suggestion: Instead of Sombra locking out all your abilities, when they hack you they make your abilities have a debuff. For example shields have lower max health. Dynamites, Bombs, and damaging ability does less damage. Dashes go shorter. Healing does less. You get the idea. I feel like this would help with the insanely oppressive feeling hack gives you and gives you time to counter, while still keeping hack viable. (This was a hot take I made that I now realize is more of a suggestion)

[@BeeWiseman]

Ball falls out of ball from from hack because it's a permanent shift. Whereas Ram's, and other forms are CD's. This is why Bastion no longer loses his form when hacked, like he did in OW1.

[@friezeray]

The progression badges are akin to RPG gear qualities Green=Common Blue=Rare Purple=Epic Orange=Legendary

[@ginpachi1]

😂 lol I just made a comment like this, but technically white/Gray is common, and green is usually uncommon 😝

[@itsnotjinxx]

doomfist should come back as a dps how he was in ow1, but with punch damage halved, so it cant outright 1 shot squishys

[@kittycecil3253]

I would love to have an off tank option. Tweaking some of the numbers for hp and stuff that is applied would be fun. It could help with a lot of the issues normal tanks have with being giant targets.

[@Crazycazper]

Suggestion : Give all tanks a way to convert damage taken For example doom block(damage taken empowers/reset ability cooldown), Zara bubble (damage taken increases your damage)sig grasped (convert damage received to overhealth) The next ability could convert damage received in a spot on the player to ult charge, faster cooldowns, or being able to store the damage/ability taken and spit it back out as a new skill shot projectile with size and damage it does scaling with how much was absorbed

[@xXWyTeBreaDXx]

To the end of you video about hero and player progression, I am one of the people who cares a lot about it lol I feel pride in my level and hero level because I’m a OTP so it shows my dedication to mastering the character.

[@trav8787]

Suggestion: - Move arcade games to the quick play menu, to increase awareness and therefore participation. - Try out a forfeit option, but 4 or 5 of your team have to accept it. It works in rocket league. - Show the enemy's team composition before first spawn, this way you don't get constant counter swapping after the first fight, rather you can prepare what you want to do from the start.

[@danielortega5088]

Suggestion: they should lean into Sombra as they did Tracer, a fast high risk - high reward assasin. Reduce her hp to 200-175. But to compensate, up her damage and make her translocator be on a shorter cd, faster cast time and travel speed.

[@benjaminglazer7217]

Suggestion: damaging sombra while she’s hacking should put it on some sort of cd. Whether that’s half or full idk

[@nidoqu33n]

Suggestion: Give Lifeweavers petal platform a stem that can provide cover for smaller characters.

[@Anonymous-lv4di]

Suggestion: Less ult on swapping, as counter-swapping is braindead

[@forcekin1350]

Suggestion: There should be minor changes to the maps at different times of day. Move minor cover to different locations. Like the taxi on first point in Kings row could be moved to a different location on the point. This would make the maps feel slightly different and fresh just from changing time of day and it'd make the maps feel more alive.

[@DokuDoki]

Suggestion: I think Mercy should ger her old GA cooldown back (no extra +1 second upon using slingshot) and get her HP lowered to 225 or even to 200. That way her mobility and evasiveness is rewarded by those who play her and those who target focus her are also rewarded. It would also indirectly nerf Resurrect because she can't tank as much damage.

[@kingtswasey]

All the suggestions are now gonna be hot takes 👍🏾

[@LeeWhit337]

Suggestion: When queueing multiple/all roles, the time you spend queueing into the roles you don't get should remain and be carried forward to your next queues until you receive the role. This way all roles isn't the same as tank only queue.

[@Carnagemode]

Suggestion: make widdow like ana so her one shot gets turned into a damage over time effect set at like 0.5 seconds to give some form of counterplay like burst healing, lamp or suzu etc

[@anarpurevbaatar4945]

Suggestion: Blizzard should give the ball QoL treatment to some other heroes. I'm specifically talking about the 1 second cooldown if cancelled. Some examples: doom's punch 1 sec CD if cancelled, Sig shield 1 sec (or none) if cancelled w/o taking damage, 1 sec deployable CD if it didn't take dmg (torb turret, pylon, sym turret), etc.

[@MKViableManatee]

I genuinely had just come off Tekken before watching this and had to pause and double take my Steam hadn't glitched out on me and not actually closed the game lmao