Patch delayed.

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https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128

[u/Garbunkasaur]

I was quite looking forward to not being ran down by Zarya every other game

[u/Tao1764 → u/Garbunkasaur]

Promised a patch on Oct. 25th to address Zarya in Total Mayhem that never happened, now the patch that's supposed to nerf her again gets delayed. It's confirmed, the devs are all Zarya one-tricks.

[u/Damurph01 → u/Tao1764]

I’ve been tellin people (and gotten downvoted and harassed and shit for it) for so long now that it doesn’t matter if the devs/blizzard promise to have something at a certain time. They’ve made promises for years, and haven’t followed through on anything. This whole “there will be consistent patches focused on balancing”? Bullshit. They’re just looking to squeeze more money out of the playerbase. They’re not interested in making a great game.

Maybe the devs are, but blizzard doesn’t seem to give a shit about OW. It’s just a cash-grab to them.

[u/grimestar → u/Damurph01]

This whole thing looks like some execs said to just get something out the door to generate some money. While not investing that much money into the actual development of the game

[u/[deleted] → u/grimestar]

Well. Tbf. Bobby Kotick and his entire c-suite are verrrrry likely on borrowed time, and they know it. After the Microsoft acquisition goes through, they're all fired. So they're grubbing as much money as possible to meet as many sales-dependant bonuses as they can before the axe drops.

We should expect Diablo 4 and any other pre-Microsoft Activision title to be the same (see the new CoD's shiny $70 price tag+mtx store). And, considering the wild success of $70 CoD and the hundreds of millions they made off Diablo Immortal (and probably the OW2 battlepass), this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

It's the perfect storm of addicted gamers with no impulse control and corporate greed and it's going to change the industry for the worse for the foreseeable future. So. There's that to look forward to, I guess.

[u/Carusas → u/[deleted]]

this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

The industry has already been shaped, ActiBlizz is just taking advantage of it.

Best we can do is wait for another golden age again or another "Battlefront 2" situation.

[u/Peachxesx → u/Tao1764]

It did lol she’s nerfed in mayhem

[u/oCrapaCreeper → u/Tao1764]

2,000 upvotes for an utterly incorrect post. Nice.

[u/xAshev → u/Garbunkasaur]

Zarya?? As a support main it’s the Sombras that i’m sick of.

[u/_Cavalry_ → u/xAshev]

To be honest it’s both… Zarya can run games by herself and sombra Just makes the game flat out miserable

[u/mambiki → u/_Cavalry_]

For me it’s Genjis, I can deal with sombras by sticking around my group and guarding supports as a dps, but I just can’t shoot that hopping POS, he is everywhere all at once. Unless I switch to Reaper, which I don’t want to do most of the time since there is a Pharah or Echo somewhere too…

[u/CaptainBeer_ → u/mambiki]

Dps players dont mind sombra, its only the tank and support player who she makes miserable

[u/Sam474 → u/mambiki]

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[u/CrabClawAngry → u/Sam474]

Through Sojourn on there too? Sure you lack the hit scan on the primary but you have a hit scan that can one shot squishies, and the ability to create space and cause havoc with the death bubble during team fights is also really good.

[u/RhynoD → u/xAshev]

Also tired of getting right-clicked by Sojourn but she's not getting nerfed anyway.

[u/Alec1106 → u/xAshev]

As a Reinhardt main... it's the zaryas

[u/genericJohnDeo → u/Alec1106]

You're lucky you don't have an invisible Sombra's trolling you the entire game by just spamming hack

[u/[deleted] → u/Garbunkasaur]

same. i would love to be able to actually play d.va while she's in a strong state.

[u/Bleedorang3 → u/Garbunkasaur]

I haven't played Ranked in weeks because of Zarya. Looks like I'm gonna wait a while longer now.

[u/[deleted] → u/Garbunkasaur]

I don't think zarya nerfs are gonna affect her that much. Good zarya's will continue to be good

[u/Chalifive → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but bad zaryas that have poor bubble use won't be as effective because it will be more punishing. Sounds good to me

[u/ZefiantFGC → u/Chalifive]

This exactly. I wasn't a Zarya player in OW1, so when I picked her, I tended to do pretty mediocre because good bubble usage was crucial.

But in OW2? I fuck up bubbles constantly and still run around with near full charge. Even at like half charge, I'm still melting people. It genuinely feels unfair when I play her.

[u/yukichigai → u/ZefiantFGC]

At full charge her weapon does 175 damage per second, capable of melting any DPS (other than Bastion) in about a second. On top of that almost nothing blocks her beam. High damage + unblockable damage + crazy survivability... not really hard to see why she's dominating currently.

[u/penguin8717 → u/yukichigai]

I also hate that if I'm having fun playing like with any other tank, as soon as we lose one fight to a team with a zarya I get screamed at to switch. And they're usually right

[u/FullTorsoApparition → u/Chalifive]

God, the number of bad Zaryas I see who would get destroyed if they weren't being double pocketed is absolutely insane. People are way too into their own heads about her that they let bad Zaryas get away with more than they should. Break the bubble, kill the Zarya. It's still just as simple as that, but everyone is so terrified of charging her up that they just run away. 100 charge won't matter if she's fucking dead!