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.*
I started playing OW last year, season 2, and for me was pretty fast unlocking them all, no problem
Just play the game and you’ll eventually unlock every hero
The only issue was the need to activate each role challenge, I think it was a dumb decision.
If I wanted to unlock Kiriko, win 40 games or so as support, for Sojourn win 40 games as DPS, and so on
I don’t know how’s the system these days with Illari and Wifeleaver