I'm not sure the meta is the only reason. Overwatch has had a great run and is not actually dead. But it's 100% dependent on competitive play. No single player campaign. Very little in the way of co-op. The online community got very toxic. All this alienates a large percentage of gamers, larger than competitive gamers want to realize. I think that's why we see Overwatch 2 diving hard into PvE content. Blizzard realizes they can keep the multiplayer competitive, yet dive into the large untapped pool of gamers that want nothing to do with sweaty PVP.
As for the meta, though...I think that's the price of adding as many heroes as they have. I think they added Brigitte because a big problem I see playing Overwatch is that too many players want to dance around the objectives until the last seconds. Then they want to jump in and fire off their Ults and wipe the objective with no time left for the other team to get respawned. I see it all the time, or the players just stay on the edges and expect someone else to go get the objective.
Insert Brigittte...Brigitte basically runs out there and says, "This is my objective. Come knock me off it if you can." Everything about her says aggression on the objective, and her shield bash and mace are good at countering these last second ultimate attempts. She forces the other team to decide just how bad they want the objective area. As I said, too many don't want to dig in and fight for it. I play support a lot because on PS4 they have to bribe people to play support with 25 credits or a loot box LOL!! Brigitte is one of the characters I play in rotation. She's not invincible or an instant win by any means.
TLDR - Apex I think is going to avoid going down the same path as Overwatch if they keep leaning into PvE stuff like this Quest mode. Start telling stories in game instead of on YouTube. Give people a reason to play when they are tired of BR. Overwatch 2 will be doing this, and Apex seems to have a jump on it here in year 2.
@ArchAngeL-PCX Yeah i noticed that support roles on overwatch are deeply unpopular lol.
I generally play bridgette or reinhardt for the exact reasons you've mentioned, i like to control the objective.
Occasionally doomfist on the rare occasion my teams overpopulated with support/tanks.
@MandatoryIDtagI also like playing Reinhardt for the same reason. I'm an objective hound. I don't generally care about personal stats. Reinhardt and Bridgette are two of my most played because of that. Honestly, before they added Bridgette, I was frustrated with the game. It's an objective based game, yet no one wanted to play the objective and a lot of characters encourage that.
I will say though, I've even successfully held the escort car objectives and such with Widowmaker lol. It can be done, you just gotta want it!!! lol!! That's what characters like Bridgette want to know. How bad do you want it? It's like people don't realize all you gotta do is get in front of it to contest, or they are too concerned with stats or something to do it.
@ArchAngeL-PCX Exactly haha, that's partly why i play doomfist if i'm forced to play to play dps. He's an absolute menace with the high mobility and powerful burst dps attacks,makes point control easy from an aggressive standpoint. Hell even pharah is good for it with those concussion shots.
You're exactly right about stat hoarders on overwatch though. Apex shares this issue in a different manner though and i would say its overall more problematic on apex due to the lack of continuous respawns that a standard fps offers. Obviously i'm not saying making it easier to respawn is the solution for apex...that defies the genre.
Basically put though as long as people feel they are defined by their stats and there isn't enough done on respawns part to promote teamplay then we'll forever see hot dropping rage quit rambo's and similar antics.
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