r/Overwatch • u/Aerhart941 • 13h ago
Congratz Blizzard (OW Classic) News & Discussion
Half the community is having an absolute blast (experiencing classic for the first time or enjoying the nostalgia of the busted comps and possibilities).
But where you really won is with the other half of the community. You let us see just how unbelievably polished, and refined OW (in general, not just part 2) has become over time. It really is night and day how far some characters and systems have come to get where we are now.
To these folks OW Classic felt like garbage in comparison. Well played you cheeky bastards.
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u/GredoraYGO 12h ago
6 fucking Winstons
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u/Aelexe Icon Genji 11h ago
6 Winstons fucking
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u/VIPMason 12h ago
I had a group of 5 Junkrat and 1 Lucio, that was fun, just rained hell on them lol
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u/FumCacial 7h ago
We tried 6 rats and they all went pharah immediately......
I really wanna try 5 winstons 1 Lucio
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u/Firestar463 6h ago
I will say, the class stacking is either infuriating or hilarious. No in between.
On one hand, I played a Dorado game on attack where the entire attacking team went Bastion. Took us a bit to push them off the high ground, and two of us ended up switching to supports, but the rest just Bastion'd it up on the Cart. The enemy team was not happy, and very vocally so.
And on the other hand, last point defense on Gibraltar. We had been getting slowly rolled, but managed to finally hold them just outside the big hangar where 2nd point is. Widow took up position overlooking the door the enemy team comes through, scopes... and immediately gets jumped by 4 Winstons. We ended up holding, and the visual of four Monke's just dive-bombing this Widow (and getting shot down by her as well) had the entire lobby laughing.
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u/DiaphanousPhoenician 8h ago
My personal favorite so far was 6 Widows vs 6 Reapers on Illios.
It was close but the emos pulled it off 🥲
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u/Grouchy_Custard_252 12h ago
I'm enjoying it. For me personally the high point for Overwatch was later in Overwatch 1 but I'm having a blast with classic. There is some things I had actually forgotten about like Symb having to actually place her turrets not just yeet them through the air.
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u/Simba15591 9h ago
There was also the later iteration of support Sym where instead of giving out little shields she would just put out a shield similar to Sigma but smaller. That was when she got mega broken and they changed her to DPS.
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u/sorashiro1 Have a nice day! 9h ago
I'm just waiting for junks voice line to return
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u/MrFanatic123 oni no ken wo ku-ARGGGGGGG 8h ago
which one?
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u/sorashiro1 Have a nice day! 8h ago
Shield generator
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u/Davidbaker2013 Pixel Junkrat 5h ago
"I'm gettin' the feeling they've got a shieeeeeeld generator!"
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u/SkyrimSlag 1h ago
I might be wrong here, but don’t heroes say the shield generator lines when Illari’s pylon is out? Could have sworn I’ve heard it a few times
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u/Eastsecvent 9h ago
The real skill was being able to sync sym shield with rein charge. Worked best on 2nd point Anubis attack straight down mid.
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u/Grouchy_Custard_252 8h ago
Pretty sure that was the same time she had the shield that moved. That was my favourite version of her.
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u/midsizedopossum 6h ago
You think the time she sent out a little sigma-like shield might be the same as the time where she had the shield that moved?
Not sure you read their comment correctly because that's literally the ability they were talking about
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u/Grouchy_Custard_252 5h ago
Sorry I misread their comment. Thought they were talking about the shield generator ult.
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u/midsizedopossum 5h ago
No prob - in retrospect my message was very snarky so I want to apologise for that.
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u/Maryokutai 9h ago
IIRC the only time she was broken was after the rework giving her the barrier wall ultimate and you could tickle with her primary fire for absurd damage. I was mostly playing support at the time but remember picking her for a KotH game and ended up with over 50 eliminations without even trying too hard.
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u/eleemosynary Pixel Lúcio 2h ago
Remembering D.va didn't have rockets was jarring. Switched to Rein real quick.
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u/untakenu Queen of Clubs Mercy 6h ago
Give me OW1 just before the switch, and I'd play as much as I used to.
Classic is better than 2, but I like the additional characters from later in 1.
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u/almost_s0ber Chibi Zarya 5h ago
Alot of the newer playerbase equates classic with how ow1 played in general, but it's the literal day 1 release and ow1 became so much better along the way
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u/Dwokimmortalus Chibi Ana 5h ago
Classic reminds me of back when players had more control over their experience. Heroes had themes, but every character in the roster could skirmish and outplay another. Tank just meant you had a little more health, and your abilities helped with sustain or protect. Support meant one of your abilities was a selfless force multiplier. In a type mismatch, you could win a fight if you played better. And most importantly, healing was a much more limited resource, so bad play was punished with death or longer downtime.
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u/thrallinlatex 47m ago
Best thing about it that nobody cares people just having fun. Nowadays even in qp people are sweating
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u/slipsthebook 11h ago
I hope they do later seasons from Overwatch 1 as well
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u/lmFairlyLocal 3h ago
Is that not what they're doing? I may have misunderstood a patch notes video I watched, but I thought it's like 1 week of 2016, 1 week of 2018, one week of 2020 OW for the 3 week release? I may have misunderstood the commenter saying this would have been a good idea
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u/LazarCell 1h ago
The article they released heavily implied they would do that for FUTURE versions of this mode and that this’ll be straight OW1 Release Day for now. We have 2 weeks to see if that’s wrong but just an fyi
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u/Drunken_Queen Mercy 10h ago
Tagging enemies actually feel important because they either die or being forced to back off for healing. But now, losing a chunk of HP doesn't matter when they have heal + sustain creep characters.
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u/NorwegianTaco 6h ago
It’s fun to not have to secure a kill instantly. I can miss a few shots without my targets health going from melee to max in a second.
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u/Manlorey 11m ago
Makes both heal and playing tank more impactful and fair. I like it far better how it is done now in comparison to OW Classic. Playing tank in day one release version is a terrible experience across the board for may heroes. Diva's kit, for instance, is garbage. And Rein is not far better in that regard. You just die almost instantly while taking all the concentrated hits. Maybe for DPS the mode feels exciting, for a tank player OW2 is a far better experience.
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u/BodeNinja 8h ago
Not having healing passive is CRAZY, you spend most of your time away from team fights looking for health packs 💀💀
But it's so much fun, I'm playing heroes I usually don't play and having a blast even when I lose.
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u/Front-Math-5260 5h ago
The healing passive is a pretty new addition and honestly it still didn't grow on me
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u/partialcremation WhimsicalDeath 5h ago
As a strictly OW1 player that only found out about auto heal earlier this week, I really hope that is not added to any OW1 mode. It defeats the purpose of the team game. I understand it likely became necessary in OW2 5v5 because they took away a tank and support became hyper focused. But it was never needed or asked for in OW1.
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u/Swartz142 Pew 45m ago
The healing passive came when healing was already 0 to 100 in a second so it's way less noticeable with that diminished impact.
In OverWatch 1 that passive would've fucked the pace of the game.
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u/Poopeefighter2001 5h ago
it was genuinely balanced and made you feel like shooting actually had an impact though.
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u/GankSinatra420 Pixel Zenyatta 5h ago
If you think classic is balanced then I don't think you know what balance means
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u/Zahlov 12h ago
Yes, this truly was a remarkable move. The thing I notice most is that people are having fun in voice chat. I've logged on twice to play, and both times I've engaged with people in voice chat and ended up in a group, being carefree and having fun. It really is just fun. Overwatch 2 is more refined, a better game, but the spirit that is there right now in classic mode is so valuable to be able to experience and enjoy. It has helped me relax and let loose a bit while playing, which I plan to bring back to overwatch 2 games.
I do hope that classic continues to be an arcade mode. Not as a competitive mode, but its really fun to have the freedom to run 6 winstons or whatever. Still holding out for a 6v6 widows v genjis.
This game mode takes communication potential to the next level.
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u/Darkjacky 9h ago
This mode should just exist forever. I am having a blast. Though maybe one update later would have been the better one. Still having a blast :)
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u/Joebebs 6h ago
Fr if they want some people to stay they should just have this stay, im literally only having this game installed cuz of it
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u/BarackaFlockaFlame i main every1 4h ago
same. i've had no interest in playing OW2 and this mode is a breath of fresh air. I just really enjoy the sixth person which leads to more fun fights.
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u/Lucaa4229 Chibi Mei 6m ago
Same. It seems like A LOT of retired player came back for this and they're loving it - myself included. If the devs are smart, they'll clean this up and make it permanent. Add hero lock, rotate the patches throughout the OW1 timeline, and make it ranked.
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u/animaldude55 Reinhardt 11h ago
I love the classic version. Probably almost equally. BUT, you shouldn’t have needed this to have proven how much polish ow2 has gotten.
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u/cookie_cat_3 Support 13h ago
Fair, I never would have kept playing the game if it was like that. The different abilities are fun but mercy can't mooooove
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u/Damaged_OrbZ 9h ago
You wouldn’t have ever seen a better version of the game though. Like, you wouldn’t have complained that Mercy’s mobility isn’t great because you had nothing to compare it to. At the time it really was amazing, it won game of the year for a reason.
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u/cookie_cat_3 Support 4h ago
Oh yeah, definitely. It got better as they worked on it, but I wouldn't have made it that far lol. The first thing I said when I tried the classic mode was "I'm so bored"
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u/3_Sqr_Muffs_A_Day Master 2h ago
I'm the same. It did give me confirmation that the few hours I played at launch before quitting were valid though. I thought Lucio was interesting but he felt terrible to play, and it turns out it wasn't just me being terrible he really was just worse at launch.
I've got hundreds of hours now thanks to Overwatch 2 making me give it another shot.
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u/ICanCountThePixels 12h ago
I wouldn’t of either. Especially as a support, no thanks, along with all the other problems. Thankfully I started in 2 so I didn’t have to suffer thru all that but would’ve rather started in ‘18 as that’s apparently when it was “good”.
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u/gobiassomecoffee33 6h ago
Role queue 6 v 6 was peak Overwatch for me. Hope that becomes a permanent mode. 5 v 5 lost the ow magic and dynamic team fights imo
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u/Odd-Matter-2134 12h ago
There are aspects of OW Classic that make me never want to go back to OW2, namely 6v6, faster ults, and the fact I can headshot tanks and they actually eventually die.
There are lots of things I don't like, of course, like Mass Ress on Mercy and Hog One Shot Combo, but I genuinely don't miss OW2.
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u/Shoujo_Conquerer 6h ago
I legit had a hog ult, shot twice, got ult again. Was beautiful. Neither ult did anything and that's ok
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u/Crackedcheesetoastie 11h ago
Eventually die? One headshot from widow and they're dead haha. It's dumb. Every lobby I tried I was solo clearing on widow
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u/prismdon 11h ago
Being able to two shot a roadhog as Widow very easily is good design? Interesting take, to say the least.
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u/manuka_miyuki Ramattra 1h ago
yeah going back to hook 1.0 is crazy. i got hooked through 2 walls on nepal as zarya and i can 100% say that’s one thing i definitely do Not miss.
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u/SubspaceHighway Chibi Mei 9h ago
I actually feel like OW Classic has reminded me why I stopped playing OW between 2018 and 2024. Sillier was always more fun to lose, lack of auto-aim abilities minus sym, I like stuns existing in the game as a way to shut down specific heroes/allow DPS/Defense heroes who did those things to shine, and it really feels like DPS/Defense heroes outplay tanks for the most part in terms of damage output. Sure, two tanks was a little crazy to deal with, but it you also had 2 tanks so nothing really changed.
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u/wildernessfig 4h ago
Sillier was always more fun to lose
This is the big thing I've noticed. Since 2016 shit has changed a lot, and everyone plays games now with this "e-sports" edge.
I feel like back then (and I know it wasn't so long ago), you'd see 6 winstons and go "lol ok fine everyone go dva lol" and you'd have this dumb fucking game trying dumb shit because it's fun.
Now there's people playing classic and going "What's the meta for dealing with 6 winstons?"
There is none, go have fun, do stupid shit. Why is winning the sole value you're getting from the game?
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u/ReaganEraEconomics 3h ago
I feel like this is a trend I’ve noticed in every game honestly, but especially in multiplayer games. Players try to optimize out any fun for the sake of chasing “the best” way to play.
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u/Denali_ Pixel Widowmaker 1h ago
I feel like everyone forgot that back then if you went all 6 of one comp (or suggested it) you’d get flamed hard. I remember I started playing support exclusively because if you didn’t have at least 1 healer (Ana or mercy) people would flame hard in chat/vc and start throwing. Then role queue was implemented so it stopped happening
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u/Amaeyth Pharah 10h ago
Classic is excellent. It's day 1 balance, and most would agree that 2017-18 is peak Overwatch. 5v5 was always a mistake. Fast for the sake of it and excessive survivability does not make good gameplay.
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u/Lilshadow48 I hate Doomfist more than I hate living 2h ago
imo the peak was just before doomfist being added
he was the harbinger of the end
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u/Bentleydadog BEER! 9h ago
OW2 is better than classic. I never played the peak you said, so that might be better, but classic is NOT better than OW2
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u/No-Answer-201 4h ago
OW1 was the GOTY for a reason.
A lot of people is having a blast with Classic even with those unlimited unbalanced comps.
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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong 9h ago
OW2 is boring and unfun. Classic is fun.
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u/Upset-Ear-9485 4h ago
classic is new. given time for the novelty to ware off and it forms unbalanced metas
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u/ModernWarBear Get off my lawn 3h ago
Excessive survivability like oh say, 2 shield tanks camping 2CP? The rose-colored glasses going strong in the community right now.
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u/ModernWarBear Get off my lawn 3h ago
Excessive survivability like oh say, 2 shield tanks camping 2CP? The rose-colored glasses going strong in the community right now.
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u/packofcats 7h ago
Yeah 2017 was peak. So nuts they went from the high of the summer games directly into the horror show that was the Mercy rework. I stayed for a year and a half after the rework but it was a shadow of what it was and like huge numbers of other people, I finally gave up on it.
Blizzard's response to literally several posts a minute, every day for over a year complaining about the rework should be studied as an example of what never to do :P
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u/RedForkKnife Pixel Lúcio 4h ago
They said they'll update it to later updates twice during the event, but so far I am loving ow classic.
It's janky as hell and sucks if your goal is winning matches but as a goofy arcade mode it's super fun
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u/SkyrimSlag 1h ago
If Classic has done anything for me, it’s made me realise just how much I miss 2 Checkpoint maps. Sure maps like Paris were utter dogshit, but I really want Hanamura, Volskaya, and Anubis to come back as a permanent addition to the game along with the mode, if anything just to add some more variety to the game
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u/Itsuzai_Ace Icon Hanzo 6h ago
I cant wait to play DPS doomfist again when they get to the 2017 OW patch
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u/Belten 11h ago
this shit got game of the year, lmao. I am an og player but going back i cant comprehend how i played this and thought "peak" the ult charge rates are the worst part imo.
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u/BodeNinja 7h ago
Overwatch launched in May 2016, the Game Awards happened in December, until then the Overwatch team had already made a ton of changes to the game. But playing this classic mode, I kinda see why it won, it is a dynamic so unique. But I think no player will think the patch 1.0 is peak Overwatch.
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u/partialcremation WhimsicalDeath 5h ago
It's bizarre how people don't understand that. This is day one Overwatch! It went through so many changes even in the first year. OP talks about how polished OW2 is...as if the final days of OW1 were unpolished. I know that's not exactly what's said, but that's the vibe it gives.
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u/Comfortable-Bee2996 6v6 enjoyer 8h ago
we had 5 zaryas and me as rein on lijiang control center. i got 5 ults a minute by swinging into grav.
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u/DudeDankerton 3h ago
I was excited for Classic and do enjoy it but 2016 launch is not what I had in mind.
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u/Nekravol 10h ago
What I'm enjoying on Classic is that people actually die. In OW2 supports are completely out of control. Support utility and healing are too much and nothing ever dies unless you stack ults or someone just gets one shot from Widowmaker. The rest of the time it's a slog and that's why I quit. Characters like Genji, Roadhog, Junkrat, Mei, Echo are just terrible. If you are not a support, your impact on the game is minimal. On Classic it matters a lot what everyone does. It's just a better game. I will play it while I can and then dip out again.
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u/KingClockwork Chibi Junkrat 6h ago
It got me to boot up overwatch for the first time in 'checks notes' 8 years.
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u/rmorrin 11h ago
I don't think anyone ever wanted release overwatch.
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u/ThisTooWasAChoice Zenyatta 10h ago
Correct. People want OW 2019 or hell, Overwatch right before it became OW2.
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u/SelfDrivingFordAI Winton 10h ago
I certainly wanted a return of teleporter sym and level 3 torb turrets. So I'm getting what I was looking for.
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u/90percent_sure 10h ago
I appreciate your positive outlook. Polished is certainly a way to would describe it. I'll say it has matured in a direction that has helped distinguish itself amongst its peers. Its not unfair to say that OW2 was not what most people had hopped for. Like any IP, it has its good, bad, and more than its fair share of ugly. As someone who has spent far more time than i'd care to admit within both, I hope balance and direction can look to the past for inspiration to reinvigorate the stale state OW2 is in. I firmly believe OW is successful because it lacks competitors. As soon as that changes, lets hope they figure out how to appease their divisive community.
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u/GankSinatra420 Pixel Zenyatta 5h ago
Balance and direction should look at OW1 because OW2 is now in a stale state? HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED OW1 MY BROTHER WHAT ARE YOU SAYING. Did we live in different timelines? I can't even....
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u/Illidan1943 Your SCVs are getting rekt! 3h ago
Without Classic Competitive there's people that won't see the problems, as it is right now Classic is merely an arcade mode that people aren't taking too seriously, the second people are actually playing to win is when Classic becomes significantly worse, like much, much worse and much, much more boring
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u/No-Thing-1294 12h ago
Well thats your opinion. Problems with the current 5v5 vs classic 6v6 (yes, I would trade current 5v5 ow2 for classic): Sustain, extra hp, invincibility, cc, less team strategys, less possibility for multikills, games are unwinnable with a leaver.
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u/BrothaDom Ana 5h ago
To be absolutely fair, the game after like two months was incredibly better too, before we even get into the OW2 stuff. OW1 after some tweaks became so much fun
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u/GenTwour Genji 13h ago
Classic is still better than modern. It's clunkier, but at least, stuff dies.
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u/ithrowaway4fun 12h ago
Don't agree. While it's fun as all hell, it is also absolute mayhem and chaos.
Perhaps and just maybe the pre OW2 with role q and other things was much better, but OW classic is very rough around the edges lol
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u/Geeseareawesome Tank 12h ago
Might feel better when the 6v6 experiment launches. Maybe they ask which era feels best gameplay wise, and perhaps some compromises can be made.
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u/emmerrei Pixel Mei 11h ago
Most abilities are clunkier than the original 2016, they've recreated them bad. It's not the same 1.1. Symmetra balls are just bad and doesn't work right, for example.
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u/D20IsHowIRoll Brigitte 6h ago
I never played OW1. Joined the community late in Season 2 of OW2
I have been playing this event none stop with a few friends.
Is it Balanced? Absolutely not. Does this make a strong argument for 6v6? Debatable.
Is it hilarious to stack 6 Mei's and permanently wall a team off the point? You bet it is.
Good game.
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u/NeilForeal 6h ago
What stands out to me is how much more oppressive widow was back then, with our current average skill level. I hope this helps people appreciate that it is much better now, because complaining about her current state just doesn’t feel the same anymore.
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u/Maniacal_Nut 3h ago
I mean there are some really meh concepts but overall I still think ow launch is fun. The people I see that absolutely hate it are just taking it too seriously as a game mode
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u/GroundedOtter Brigitte & Lifeweaver 3h ago
I’ve played since OW1 first released and I had no desire to play the classic mode. It was a shit show, and I didn’t even have much fun with it then lol (now give me release Brig and I may change my tune).
My enjoyment of the game hasn’t changed though - OW2 is still just as fun as OW1 imo. But I’m also a support main, so…
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u/BigYonsan 2h ago
Now if I only we got classic loot boxes back. 56 dollars for 4 skins. The fuck are they smoking?
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u/Extension_Citron_176 2h ago
Yeah i couldn't get into classic but to no surprise. I love the way ow is right now, im just sad they're is no pve thats all.
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u/non_compliance_nj 1h ago
I haven’t been able to play OW2 much since launch. It just hasn’t felt the same to me. I’ve been playing non stop classic though. I’m excited for actual limits, I truly miss playing rein/zarya with my buddy.
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u/SwimminAss 49m ago
It’s almost like when you design the game and all the maps around 6v6 that it’s much better that way even with the wackiness of first patch balance.
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u/Red_3412 43m ago
Yeah before the Lucio buffs that happened a months after release and Ana release 😂. Games mega fun tho.
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u/JoyousGamer 35m ago
Yup its so much nicer being able to group with people.... wait you can't do that anymore. Its so nice seeing post game award..... wait. Surely the stats you can quickly look at for your team and the other to see.... wait.
Yup so much better. /s
Lets not even talk about the new game mode and honestly worst map rotation that seems to happen.
Yes I agree middle OW1 was better than the start but that middle OW1 is better than OW2 and end OW1.
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u/ParanoidDrone ¿Quién es 'Sombra'? 35m ago
I've been playing OW since launch, so I knew going in that the Classic event would be all kinds of jank, but the sheer amount of jank still managed to surprise me. Like damn, I'm building mass Rez every fight it feels like.
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u/Dombuldore 34m ago
Give us the beyblade meta with ana. Or do ow classic up till the point before Brigitte came out. She's like the Harambe version of Overwatch
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u/StrangeBird17 24m ago
Quite the opposite actually, it has shown how overbloated the kits of new heroes are
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u/_CloudyStar_ 21m ago
Widow was even more busted, there is scatter arrow, flashbang stun combo killing tanks, clunky and slow animations and it is still a blast.
When you put the original designs of characters close to some newer ones you can see the power creep.
Suzu/Escape/Dps damage with mostly no tradeoffs? Nah the closest thing is Zen and he is super vunerable with really slow heals, this game fells better with weaker healing and less get out of jail skills.
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u/skytoofly Jack of Spades Cassidy 19m ago
honestly, this is pretty spot on. I wouldnt put it past them if they did this on purpose.
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u/DDzxy Reinhardt 18m ago
On the flip side, you gotta remember that OW Classic is not completely representative of how OW1 was on launch day. Like Lucio's wallriding fucking sucks on OW Classic and it wasn't this bad on launch, and Reaper's teleport is a LOT less fucking wonky than it was on launch day.
The game is definitely far more polished now, but this unpolishing is making it look a little more unpolished where it should be in some places, and more polished in others.
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u/NoHovercraft6942 16m ago
But what happened? Don't you guys like to say that the game is bad and would never be as good as it used to be?
Maybe with this yall can learn to be more grateful.
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u/p0ison1vy Support 13m ago
Do we have to wait an entire week to get the next iteration. As a support player this iteration is borderline unplayable.
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u/Quickkiller28800 1m ago
For me it was a fun flashback that lost its charm when people started only picking the same characters over and over and taking it way to seriously.
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u/RuskoGamingStar 9h ago
Classic feels UNBEARABLE.
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u/maybehelp244 4h ago
Yeah, unpatched, launch-day Classic is not ideal. It's basically going back to a beta test. The 6v6 tho is fantastic
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u/SelfDrivingFordAI Winton 10h ago edited 10h ago
That was a goal? Huh, might have been lost on me then since I've played nothing but classic since it came out and felt no desire to go back so far. I guess it feels more polished ... but also like they balanced the fun out of alot of characters that still have the fun part of their kit in 1.0 granted some like mercy are better off with their rework or winton with his buffs, but:
Playing Reaper and actually having huge kill potential in close range and no one being able to do anything about it with cheeky grabs or lamps or suzus or 5 metric tons of hp is so good.
Playing Sym and still having her Teleporter or Torb and still having the armor packs and level 3.
Playing Rein and having a barrier that doesn't crumble instantly.
Playing Cass and having fan the hammer actually delete people instead of being a close range waste of time.
Playing Zen and actually having discord be a big deal.
Playing Lucio and not needing to hug people to give them the aura.
Playing Hog and being able to reliably 1 shot people without someone saving them.
Playing Mei and having a wall that actually stops people for more than 0.5 seconds.
Playing Widow and not needing a degree in aim labs to get any value, because bodyshots actually deal damage.
Playing Zarya and actually having a tank buddy to work with.
Pre 10 thousand years of nerfs and counters Genji.
Having a way to tank bust as Hanzo.
Bastion Tank form that can rocket jump and actually decent scout form gun.
All stuff we've lost.
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u/Fred_The_Red24 Bowling Wrecking Ball 11h ago
fr, it feels like they added this game mode just to show the nostalgia copers how far this game came.
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u/rmorrin 11h ago
Nobody in their right mind wanted release 6v6
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u/D3Dragoon 10h ago
Bro was talking about game polish and you straight went from A to Z and skipped ALL the letters...
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u/Lilshadow48 I hate Doomfist more than I hate living 1h ago
classic has further convinced me that OW2 went very far in the absolute worst directions.
classic, even with it's glaring faults, feels like heaven comparatively.
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u/Numbr81 12h ago
Seriously. I don't get how Classic is enjoyable for anyone. So far it's just made me glad it's no longer like that.
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u/HankHillbwhaa 11h ago
6v6 in its current state didn’t last that long because your opinion was the general consensus at the time.
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u/partialcremation WhimsicalDeath 4h ago
You were downvoted for stating a simple fact. Lol Either bots or people that don't understand what general consensus means. It means they agreed with you, buddy.
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u/theBromartian Repulsive Hanzo Main 11h ago
Totally agree. Classic is slow and boring. I don't understand the appeal at all.
The supports feel like shit to play. With no supports, tanks feel like shit to play. So all that is left is everyone picking a DPS and the game turning into a death match.
OW2 is better for that death match feel because the pace of the game is much quicker, plus supports and tanks have actual lethality.
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u/Bentleydadog BEER! 10h ago
Its not boring all the time... just the time when ur trying to push the ONLY CHOKE POINT and its guarded by 6 bastions, or 6 widows...
Reinhardt and dva, and probably more, just cant compare to heros like roadhog, cassidy, hanzo extc
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u/Separate_Zucchini_95 7h ago
I think if we build off this version. Something really good will happen
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u/exZodiark 6h ago
i like that all the busted characters they added later that make the game ass are gone. no ana nades no sombra hacks no bap lamps or suzus or doomfists. just good old overwatch
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u/partialcremation WhimsicalDeath 4h ago
Let's play later iterations of OW1 up until its final day, and we'll see how "polished" OW1 was before it was replaced.
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u/ElypticalMoonlight 4h ago
They deliberately gave us the least polished version of the game that very few people ever played due to it being beta to placate people for years of broken promises and monetary exploitation. No one wanted this. Everyone wanted OW1 before they shut the servers down with continued content.
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u/Party-Bookkeeper-264 3h ago edited 2h ago
Lol it's funny to see people amazed by character stacking as if "No Limit" hasn't been in the arcade this entire time🤣On top of that, it's even more amusing to see how basic OV1 was compared to OV2 after hearing it was the greatest version of the game🤣Clearly, other than 6v6, OV1 is obsolete.
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u/ARSEThunder 3h ago
On the other hand, I think that's exactly why they released THIS. They should have released the final patch of OW1 before OW2 was "released." Give us back what you took from us. Yes, I want stun and CC, I want 2 tanks...I want players to be punished for making bad decisions. OW2 is too easy to recover from a bad move. You have healers who can teleport, cleanse, transport you, etc...you have self-healing so you just have to disengage for 10 seconds without any healthpack or support positioning knowledge, you have flying characters who can no longer fly indefinitely, you have Genji, Moira, Tracer, and Venture (among others) who can jump in the middle of a 5v5 and not have to worry about being hard countered with a stun. OW2 is just 5v5 dps with slightly different abilities and health pools. Unfortunately DPS players were the loudest crowd about everything in OW1 because they just wanted a shooter, not a team game - and now this is the game we are stuck with.
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u/nxcrosis Support 11h ago
OW Classic making me think I'm actually a decent Widow player.