Things need to change
I’ve been on these forums for a while now. I read things people post and though I never thought to comment myself this will be a long one. It seems like the devs worry more about their spread sheets and pick rates more than the actual feedback they get from long time players and even some of their pro players. Conduit has been called out for a long time for needing a nerf. She is to strong. But what do to the devs do? They see her low pick rate but a high win rate and say, “ we should buff her so people play her more because she is even more over powered.” It’s a disconnect from what actual long time players have been feeling. We have watched this game change so much from what it was originally. some changes were welcome to add to the dynamic of the game, like the evo upgrades for shield progression. Other changes have been negatively received and got constant backlash but it seems the devs are just doubling down like if they just push that issue a little harder people will start enjoying the thing they hate so much about the game, like this non stop push into increased momentum of the game. Stop making movement the core aspect of the game. Movement was a thing that came with skill, took time to learn and made the game fun because it was earned. Now movement is given to every character you buff or put out. The first time Axel was announced and her kit explained, all I thought was “ please don’t”. I knew she wouldn’t be healthy for the game and after her release I know she was 10x worse than what I could of even imagined. Whoever was the dev who thought her up, whoever approved her coding, and whoever actually coded her into the game, you should all be fired. She was the worst decision of so many reasons. It’s like you took octanes whole kit and put it into her tactical, of course minus the stim damage. It’s a slap in the face face of every octane main in the game. And to add insult to injury she gets an ultimate( sometime two) that not only seeks an opponent no matter if line of site was never established, but also does damage, stun, an bounced them in the air so the whole team can act like a firing squad. She needs an immediate and indefinite removal, people need to be fired. Movement needs to be nerfed across the board for other characters to shine again. Stop giving movement passives to characters because they can’t compete with the movement characters you’ve buffed way to far. You complain that the pick rates show that movement characters are being picked at a higher rate than non movement characters, the easy fix that would appease most players would be to nerf movement players like octane and Valkyrie. Instead you start buffing characters that never needed a buff in the first place. Valkyrie has been long overdue for a nerf. A lot of people including myself never agreed that her latest buffs were healthy for the game. Octane never needed a second stem, another unhealthy update for the game. This coming from a player who has spent a lot of time playing octane. There needs to be changes made that are more inline with the player base. Stop looking at your spread sheets and do more player interaction. Listen to the base that keeps your game alive. This game has real issues your team just blatantly ignores for shiny cover ups. We didn’t need a new legend, we needed nerfs to movement to balance the characters. We didn’t need ban wave after ban wave, we needed console and hardware bans so they can’t just create new accounts and continue cheating. Players stopped playing fun characters to play movement characters because you’ve created a game where if we don’t, you’ll just be steam rolled by a movement team. You’ve created a game where pre made teams either focus on movement or defending against movement, and it shows in the pick rates. All the characters at the bottom of the list are there because of the ridiculous changes you’ve made to the game. I know you’ll look at the numbers an say this season has had the most players in a long time for you. How many of those new players are just people who had to make new accounts because they’ve been banned 5 times since the season started? Your devs have stated yourselves in ranked there is a minimum of 5% cheat rate. Well in every lobby that means there is a minimum of 3 cheaters. EVERY LOBBY! And that’s just ranked. That number only gets worse when you’re in pubs, or a game mode. And lastly but most importantly, DELETE SEER AND GIVE REVENANT BACK HIS SILENCE ABILITY! Revenant was my favorite character for so many seasons, and you ruined him. I was fine with his ult change but just giving away his tactical to a character no one wants to play was inexcusable. Do better devs.
