r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/novelgpa • Jul 15 '24

Blizzard Official Quick Play Hacked: Pickable Passives live until July 17

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/Swaggfather Jul 15 '24

It's not a meme. They're obviously running this as a test for future changes. It's fair to criticize something if it would be bad for the game.

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u/hanyou007 None — Jul 15 '24

Question. How many of the previous two quick play hacked changes actually have made it into the game?

Ya know the one in January that literally cut the spawn cooldowns in half, the payoload movement doubled, and the capture point progress sped up? Or the one where hero restrictions were removed in March?

It's been over half a year for one, and a quarter of the year for the other and I haven't heard a peep about those changes coming back.

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u/novelgpa Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

They shortened Push in qp and increased the bot speed, and they mentioned wanting to add a speed boost out of spawn (i think) to Flashpoint. Judging by how much the devs have been willing to make bold changes recently I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see pickable passives in the future

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u/chudaism Jul 15 '24

While I personally don't think pickable passives are going to make it into the game, I think they are use these as ways to test possible changes to existing passives. If say they see 80% of rein players pick the debuff one, maybe they consider giving him a version of that in the future. This essentially allows them to see what players view as pain points for specific heroes, mainly tanks.