Overwatch 2’s new season is considered one of its most sturdy. On prime of including the brand new Stadium mode and the sport’s forty third hero, the crossbow-wielding Freja, Blizzard additionally applied hero bans for aggressive play. Gamers who’re queuing up for ranked matches can now vote to ban 4 heroes, with solely two of them being allowed to fall in the identical position. So you possibly can’t vote to have your 4 least-favorite DPS heroes banned from one match, however you possibly can possibly get one or two of them put in jail for the sport.
I don’t normally play aggressive matches, so I hadn’t been paying a lot consideration to hero ban traits, however a buddy who is aware of I typically play the hacking saboteur Sombra hit me as much as let me know each match he had performed one evening had my lady banned. What I didn’t notice was that this had turn out to be a development for the Overwatch 2 participant base.
Look, as a lapsed Sombra principal, I get it. I stopped utilizing her as a lot after Blizzard reworked the character to not have infinite invisibility. The stealthy hero now has to make the most of cowl extra typically to get throughout the map undetected, and as a lot as I really like my lady, I don’t have the persistence for that. Nevertheless, I think about if folks extra devoted to everybody’s least-favorite Talon agent have caught together with her, she’s nonetheless simply as annoying to the enemy staff as ever. Sombra’s hacking talents can shut down team-wide setups with a flick of her wrist, and no one likes worrying about her harassing the backline whereas cloaked. She is, by design, a hassle. So if in case you have the choice to take away that from the sport, even just for one match, I do know these bitter Widowmaker and Mercy gamers will swat that fly.
My deepest condolences to my Sombra-playing brethren. Simply play Fast Play if you wish to get again to hacking. I nonetheless most likely gained’t use her once more except Blizzard brings again her everlasting invisibility. That change took the wind out of my sails, and I ended taking part in Overwatch 2 as a lot after. However I’m getting again into the groove recently due to the Stadium mode, which brings again the chaotic enjoyable of previous Overwatch in a method that I can get behind.
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