I’ve tried to get a lot of friends into Overwatch but the main thing that puts them off wanting to play is not being able to play some of the heroes without grinding heaps/paying to unlock them.
In a game like Overwatch where team compositions/certain picks are sometimes crucial to winning games, *no* heroes should be locked. It is straight up not fair.
One team could lose a game for no other reason than they weren’t able to pick a certain hero when the other team was able to pick that hero.
Also, a bunch of heroes that I consider to be the best/crucial picks are locked. Kiriko for cleanse. Lifeweaver for mass heals. Rammatra for smashing through shields. *All* of these are locked.
With all of the major announcements they made at Blizzcon, it is insane that one of them wasn’t the removal of the locks on heroes.
*All heroes should be unlocked from the get-go, full stop.*
Hard disagree, it’s f2p now, if anyone isn’t willing to put in the time to unlock the characters they don’t really want to dedicate the time this game takes to learn.
Back when the game wasn’t f2p you had more incentive to learn, that being the money you spent.
The whole paywall thing isn’t right either tho. You don’t actually need to pay any money in this game, you can get all heroes free just by playing their corresponding roles
And this game isn’t just counter picks, and you don’t even have any clue how overwatch counterpicks work til way after your first 150 games to unlock all base heroes. You can basically just play whatever’s fun and by the time you unlock competitive you have the characters unlocked for the most part.