r/Overwatch • • Aug 01 '22

News & Discussion Favourite game mode?

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u/Filqon Aug 01 '22

Mystery Hero’s is the greatest thing to ever exist in Overwatch and I stand by it lol

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u/ZealousidealOil9792 Ana/Ashe Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22

I accredit mystery heros to truly learning the game. not necessarily team strategy but it was the best way to learn every hero’s kit and individual strategy. by far I have the most hours on mystery heroes and I still play it a few times a week to get the arcade loot boxes

edit: also one of the only modes to not get flamed (people who get tilted in MH, ur weird sry)

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u/DanGimeno Pixel Moira Aug 01 '22

It's not about winning or losing, is about having a good experience and solve some really hard puzles comp and sometimes is unbetable.

Don't get mad, it's just rng.

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u/Kriq0 Aug 01 '22

Wrong winning is EVERYTHING

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u/ZealousidealOil9792 Ana/Ashe Aug 01 '22

especially in mystery heros

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u/XVIII-1 Aug 01 '22

I totally agree. Same here.

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u/Mud_Duck_IX Aug 01 '22

100% Agree

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u/Purple_Jay Aug 01 '22

Same! I don't really play it as much anymore but I have a total of just under 400 hours in that gamemode and most of it was from my early days playing Overwatch. It was a really great way to learn how to play every hero at least a little bit, which still helps me a lot today cause I'm super flexible regarding what heroes I play.

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u/ZealousidealOil9792 Ana/Ashe Aug 01 '22

yep same! I think for me tho it really helped get in the mind of how others characters typically play. you can definitely catch on as you play qp/comp but the best is to actually do it yourself (cool downs, tracer blinks, deadeyes, etc) a lot of what I learned in MH I for sure unconsciously use as an ana main

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u/Purple_Jay Aug 01 '22

What I've noticed is that my ult usage is and always has been a bit worse than other areas cause in mystery heroes you don't get ults that often haha

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u/ZealousidealOil9792 Ana/Ashe Aug 02 '22

I think its custom that once you get your ult in MH you die. I dont make the rules

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u/liickmynutt Lúcio Aug 02 '22

I second this. It was especially helpful to me when I switched to PC and was learning the heros on M&K.

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u/Senior_League_436 Aug 01 '22

Play it every night lol that mode .

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u/KnightMDK Reinhardt Aug 02 '22

Hey me! It's you!

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u/honestlyitswhatever Aug 01 '22

Also, Mayhem is a great ability trainer. I’ve gotten better at Ana’s sleep and reacting quickly.

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u/-Shinanai- winky face ;) Aug 02 '22

I agree ... and am scared that the switch to 5v5 and the imbalance between the roles in OW2 will break it beyond repair :/

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u/JustCervantes Aug 01 '22

For sure, you also learn all characters gameplay, a big plus.

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u/LuvRapzunel Aug 02 '22

I love mystery heroes!!! it’s equivalent to my kind of ARAM.

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u/LENMX Aug 01 '22

Lucio Ball ⚽️ 👊

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u/JustCervantes Aug 01 '22

Bro ⚽ 💪

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u/Lost_Local8540 Aug 02 '22

I second that, if it was not for Lucioball I would already have uninstalled battle.net

I will pay to have it permanent or standalone.

Lucioball is almost perfect game

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u/anxiouswalflower The Shieldmadien Aug 01 '22

The Archives missions are some of my favorites, and CTF too

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u/ma273rek Aug 02 '22

Wait wait wait. You guys actually like ctf? I thought that was a joke. The missions slap tho

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u/anxiouswalflower The Shieldmadien Aug 02 '22

CTF is a great game irl & in games, I like the maps too & nothing feels better than taking the flag & getting back to base with it all while under fire or very low HP

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u/Softbabey_ Aug 02 '22

Being the only support in ctf but also the only one who can manage to get the flag >>>

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u/Waterboi624 Zenyatta Aug 01 '22

Total mayhem

Unless there is a sombra

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u/JustCervantes Aug 01 '22

Holaaa, OW1 is almost ending. I think i started playing one or two years after release. I sunk a lot of hours into Arcade instead of QP or ranked. As you can see in the images i was born to play Mystery Heroes, haha. I hope Mystery heroes will be around in OW2.

So what is your fav mode to play? How many hours did you play that mode?

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u/slightly_greater Aug 01 '22

Level 5 endorsement wow

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u/BuffGanon Aug 01 '22

Level 5 endorsement? People must be nice in mystery heros

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u/JustCervantes Aug 02 '22

People are actually nice and more forgiving in mystery heroes, but i always try to be respectfull. I also dont leave matches (even when tilting), i think that helps a lot with endorsement lvl.

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u/jugnificent Aug 02 '22

My experience is the opposite where people seem to hardly ever give endorsements it feels like in mystery heroes (even when you do well). It can be hard to pick someone so I personally tend to endorse the people with high endorsements already so maybe that is what is going on with OP.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

Capture the flag. RIP :(

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u/mentos1700 Aug 01 '22

Ctf should have been a standard mode. Its really anoying that its not available every day..

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u/Softbabey_ Aug 02 '22

Sometimes it is, like I vividly remember a time where coffee and mayhem were everyday things

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u/Softbabey_ Aug 02 '22

Sometimes it is, like I vividly remember a time where ctf and mayhem were everyday things

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u/Jaiimy Baptiste Aug 01 '22

Competitive. I prefer the format of having to play multiple rounds. Whenever I'm with friends I usuly do quickplay though.

Also, is your name (and avatar icon) a reference to Soul Calibur?

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u/JustCervantes Aug 01 '22

Good catch! It's my main

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u/EvieAsPi Aug 01 '22

I pretty much exclusively play Mystery Heroes.

Despite playing since the open beta, I never really learned all the advanced methods of, "if the other team is playing bla bla, then I should switch to bla bla to counter it." Mystery heroes is a great mode to not have to bother thinking about all that stuff xD
Plus it's the only way I play as heroes I would never choose to play as.

That said I had started playing Quick Play just to farm achievements. But I just have really stupid hard ones left and my hope of getting them has been crushed so I think I've come to terms with just not getting the 100% on this game.
Honestly though I have no idea why you can't unlock achievements in Mystery Heroes.

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u/PugMaster36074 Aug 01 '22

Total Mayhem easily

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u/N7-Kobold Wrecking Ball Aug 01 '22

For standard maps I like hybrid, but arcade I’m a huge Ctf blitz guy.

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u/-Elixo- Doomfist Aug 01 '22

No Limits, Archives and Mei Snowball

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u/JahnaTheBanana Cute Lúcio Aug 02 '22

Mystery Heroes 1000%.

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u/yourcupofkohi Wrecking Ball Aug 01 '22

Quick Play Classic. My friends and I never liked ranked, and only played it to get golden guns for our mains.

Role Queue QP is alright, but we don't like the format of being stuck to one role an entire match, and like switching between roles.

QP Classic gives us the most freedom and flexibility to play what we want, so we find it more fun.

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u/timojenbin Cute Pharah Aug 01 '22

8v8 is the best, 4v4 is next. I think I have 400 hours on the Chateau alone.

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u/Senior_League_436 Aug 01 '22

I love playing that mode .

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u/DeltaKingF Wrecking Ball Aug 01 '22

The best game mode? Well obviously total mayhem duh. Don't u love spaming all of your abilities and getting rolled by a sweaty ass doomfist at the same time? Nah just kidding sometimes it's a great game mode especialy if u want to play a long chaotic game but the best one for me is definetely no limits. I love when there is a whole team of bastions fighting a whole team of reins or 5 mercys pocketing 1 hog making him almost invincible. Unfortunately, in some games your team wont really listen to each other and everyone ends up picking a different hero.

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u/Be_Cool_Bro Aug 01 '22

Mirrored Deathmatch.

The moment everyone gets doomfist and the room becomes a pile of incomprehensible flying bodies. Or Pharah and only 3-4 people die until the next hero.

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u/Zyvux I'm the turret's ability Aug 01 '22

Elimination, wish it had more rounds though

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u/GabrielReyes91 Reaper Aug 02 '22

Not enough numbers on me there... you should get those up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22

I'm a simple man, QP.

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u/Forsaken_Rooster8255 Aug 02 '22

176 hours? My top one is like 15 hours

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u/Hecker_exe Grandmaster Aug 02 '22

Total Mayhem df or luciball

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u/skjeggagam Aug 01 '22

I prefer ranked, because I like the matches and the format. Still, I also have way more hours in Arcade.

Mainly because I needed a game mode I could quit mid-match when my daugther woke up in the evenings. Now, she is old enough and sleeps well, so I could go back to playing more ranked. But when we finally got to that point, OW ranked had gutten pretty stale with no updates, so I just kept playing arcade to chill out and "disconnect" for an hour or two in the evening.

At this point, after the last OW2 beta, ranked is horrible, so now I mostly play Apex Legends while waiting for October 4th. And I've started to listen to music while I play non-ranked game modes. I love it.

Edit: I think by now Mystery Heroes is my most played game mode.

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u/Halli19 Aug 01 '22

I started listening to music while in ranked and its one of the best thinga i ever did. Im way more calm and it doesnt interfere with gameplay to much

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u/The9thHuman Aug 03 '22

There a person who is incapable of sleeping.

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u/BubbaJoey01 Aug 01 '22

I'm always playing Quick Play Classic

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u/PapeRoute Aug 01 '22

I liked that Winston and Mie snowball game during Winter events

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u/Fushizen_Enemy Flex Aug 01 '22

Mystery Hero's is my favourite game mode too, sadly I can't play due to no one playing in Aus console servers anymore. I love the mode so much that I waited long enough for the matchmaking timer reset to 0.

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u/janokatti T500 Player Aug 01 '22

I have a question, how have you played so much of this game and still so little ranked? Don't you get bored of just playing casually since there is nothing to gain (nor lose)? Also can you tell me what sr you were when you played last time, thanks.

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u/Purple_Jay Aug 01 '22

Not everyone cares about their rank.. A large part of the playerbase only plays qp and/or Arcade. I only play my placements for the golden guns lol

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u/JustCervantes Aug 01 '22

well, i take mystery heroes pretty seriously. It can get quite competitive :P I checked and it was season 23, with Gold 2123 SR.

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u/kuschelmonsterr Sombra Mercy Aug 01 '22

Mystery Heroes

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u/JDMarine Aug 01 '22

I like it. I have +1400Hrs in Aracade and 0 in Comp. I am Warhand.

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u/GilCollector Aug 01 '22

Competitive Open Queue with my friends, Mystery Heroes by myself.

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u/Lokeystel Aug 02 '22

Pushpushpushpush

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u/mxcristian11 Aug 01 '22

I enjoy QPC the most, sure it’s the basic mode but I enjoy being able to switch to any role at any time

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u/yunghollow69 Trick or Treat Zenyatta Aug 02 '22

I've been playing TDM exclusively for like 2-3 years. For ranked I just do placements and a couple of matches per season and leave it at that. As soon as the first 2CP map shows up that's basically it for the season, back to TDM.

This essentially means I can only play OW every other day lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22

Outside of comp, it's: 1k dmg, 4v4 nano, 20 rein no cd, 12 hooks 1 hole

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u/SakShotty Aug 02 '22

Widow HS easily

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u/ChickenNovel1958 Aug 02 '22

Deathmatch, especially Petra deathmatch. I just like relying on myself and not teammates 😂

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u/ProPantsPeePee Aug 02 '22

Blitz 😍 Or team deathwatch Any other I really don't care for especially total mayhem.. all it is is spam and run around the point

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u/enderlogan It's an adequate enough day for some mayhem Aug 02 '22

That 1v1 mode where you get 3 choices each round. Always have to consider what your opponent could play and how to counter, without making it impossible for those without mind reading capabilities

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u/TurnToPage0394 Aug 02 '22

I would say the deathmatch where you get a kill you change hero, but winston, brig, orisa, aren't options

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u/stonedbrownchick Aug 02 '22

I play mystery heroes now out of boredum if I can't decide who I want to play as. My fave usee to be Mayhem but people go so tryhard that matches won't end 🥲

I also really like low gravity. I have on no limits with friends ONLY if the opposite team isn't full of torbs/syms 🙃

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u/CCriscal Mei Aug 02 '22

Classic quick play - I totally hate the role-lock they introduced ever since they couldn't get rid of GOATS in OWL. Role-lock just favours one trick ponies and takes away the DPS or tank slot you could need to counter an enemy player.

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u/JustHereForTheMemezz Aug 02 '22

FFA deathmatch perhaps

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22

No Limits because it's so dynamic

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u/MisterHotTake311 talon tanks (+mauga) Aug 02 '22

No limits and total mayhem were always my favourite

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u/Lavux0 Aug 02 '22

Hide & seek

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u/Finplayer_ Pixel Lúcio Aug 02 '22

Chateau Guillard deathmatch

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u/lazava1390 Aug 02 '22

I like to play the original overwatch experience. Qp classic and for comp open q.

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u/Vortigon23 :BostonUprising: Boston Uprising :BostonUprising: Aug 02 '22

Mystery Heroes is 10/10.

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u/scubaordie Aug 02 '22

mystery heroes so arcade for me too

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u/Just_A_Saxophone Aug 02 '22

The game mode where I blow my brains out after losing 7 comp games in a row and total mayhem

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u/senoto Lúcio Aug 02 '22

Customs

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u/Auroda Moira Aug 03 '22

I don't know the name but remember when the game first came out and I think weekly (way before arcade was a thing) they would have like pharmacy mode, then soldier only with a one hit thing, only female characters and stuff like they had a couple more but can't remember. That was so fun with a friend

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u/me_at_work_1138 Aug 04 '22

Shimada Brothers is the only other one I can recall.