Blizzard is trialing some small adjustments to Overwatch 2’s format in a collection of short-lived Hacked Occasions. In keeping with a Blizzard weblog put up earlier this 12 months, that is an efficient approach to “rapidly perceive what [players] like and presumably implement adjustments to enhance gameplay.”
The Earlier occasion launched quicker respawn occasions, payload speeds, and match begins. Whereas I did not massively adore most of those adjustments, they did not make an actual distinction to my video games, not like the newest occasion, Double Hassle.
Opening Overwatch 2 after an extended day simply to see the Fast Play icon flip purple is disarming sufficient, however studying that this was a part of a Hacked Occasion, which removes the one hero restrict for Function and Open queue, permitting groups to play two of the identical assist or DPS heroes, was sufficient for me to shut down the sport and get an early nights sleep—no less than that is what I ought to have finished.
Double Hassle is barely round for twenty-four hours, and within the quick time I skilled this occasion I can safely say that that is most likely for one of the best. Going through up towards groups with two Mercys and two Pharahs is a sickening ordeal, which saps all of the enjoyable out of what needs to be chill Fast Play video games as you must lock in and work twice as exhausting to counter the bizarre duos which emerge from the enemy spawn. At one level, I assumed I had began hallucinating as two Moiras chased me via the snowy streets of Nepal Village, fading out and in consecutively and poking me with harm orbs till I took my life into my very own arms and threw myself off the aspect of the map.
However I’m not solely with out fault—I’ll have spent a few matches doubling up with my teammates. At varied factors, we had two Anas, Soldier 76s, and even the occasional double Mercy, which I would really like the report to indicate that I didn’t endorse. Having two of the identical heroes makes a major distinction, and should you decide the suitable ones, it will possibly utterly sway a match—two Soldier 76s with a Mercy pocket every isn’t okay.
Whereas Double Hassle would not inflict an excessive amount of hurt (aside from the psychological harm of coping with two Moiras), it might have been good if the Hacked Occasion was simply added to Arcade as an alternative of hijacking Fast Play. Having to decide on between enjoying on your life in Aggressive and coping with seeing double in what’s meant to be the much less traumatic mode is a alternative I do not wish to need to make once more any time quickly.