While I think it is a huge stretch to use such a change as “2.0”, the 5v5 change is significant and for the better in my limited experience.
I played some OW1 right before launch and the double shield or tank with off tank combo was a relatively slow paced shooter with each side slapping at shields or giant health bars a significant amount of a match. In OW2 they dropped one tank slot, removed most CC, and adjusted lots of abilities/health. The result is the game is still relatively slow, but now teams feel killable and the tactical breaking of an enemy’s configuration is more likely. It is like a competitive MMO experience (“go for the healer” or “DPS is in the open”) now instead of a 4 hour game of Supreme Commander where each side is struggling for a lifetime to nuke or artillery the other enough to break the defensive stalemate. So far I like the 5v5 format more.
FWIW, it seems like much more competitive experts (tournament level streamers) on the game seem to be in favor of the changes as well.
In every way. They took away a tank and nerfed most of the CC in the game, so now it’s more of a 5v5 deathmatch with objectives. The days of having a team play together seem pretty much over, you have one tank on each team diving the other team while duo DPS/healers play Quake. You think Hammond was bad in OW1, holy shit it’s nothing but Hammond/Winston dives from what I’m seeing on YouTube.
What’s stopping people from using 2 tanks anyway? Why can’t we use 5 tanks if we want to? Or, if they enforce the 1 tank role, what purpose to characters like D-Va or Zarya serve? Why are they even in the game?
today it finally gave me the prompt on xbox to merge my accounts together. says it will take ‘about a minute’ I checked half an hour later and same thing.
I played a regular game on Xbox and then got booted, and it then said to confirm an account to merge, and said it works merge my playstation account… So maybe something is happening. Now I’m in some queue for that.
Ah, but at least it seems like it unlocked all the characters and crap, so that’s an improvement!
They put out an update that claims:
-4 times server capacity (ie login queue)
-much more accelerated account merger (mine says it’s done now)
-some sort of watch pack preorder issue on console (fix in place, waiting for server shutdown to push
-update/shutdown soon for a little bit
There is also a Twitch drop happening now for Kiriko items (if you connected your accounts)
There’s an Asian mythos around written spells having power, I assume because calligraphy is so revered. I’m only familiar with it from Chinese vampire stories but it’s not unlikely the Japanese have it as well.
I don’t know if it is helpful, but I confirmed my account is now merged on PS5 from PC. Both have my unlocks, currencies, and friend lists. It was pretty seamless to play on one side or the other now. This is a pretty big deal for me as I enjoyed playing it on the TV tonight instead of at a desk PC. The PS5 feedback on the controller is pretty nice too.
The queue was non-existent once I tried on PS5. It was like 29 people or something that went away very fast. Games chained very quickly from one to the other once I was in a queue. It was too fast actually.
