Every Ability DELETED From Overwatch 

Hey everyone! Missed Moira's necrotic orb that she had in the Overwatch 2 beta. Definitely a big mistake to make. Sorry about that. Here is all the information about the ability. It was removed on the 11th of August 2022 during the beta. Necrotic orb split up Moira's orb ability into two cooldowns. One for the healing orb and one for the damage orb. The healing orb stayed how it was but did less healing. The damage orb became the necrotic orb. here's how it worked: Moira would fire a straight-moving projectile that exploded in a 3-meter radius on impact with an enemy or the environment. Enemies hit with the orb's explosion would receive the "weakened" effect which reduced their damage by 75%.

Remember when roadhog hook could straight up catch you in real life and bring you in the game?

"Seeing enemies that are low health through walls doesn't work" Says you, I remember the glory days of Sombra flanking, hunting down low hp enemies or turning wasted ults into mean assists. I miss it.

As a person who has only played overwatch 2 I gotta say that overwatch 1 seems way more fun than what we have now. Most likely it's ow2's change to being a much faster game with the removal of stuns and addition of quick/short abilities over ow1's stuns and slower abilities (slow as in Torb and bastion being ground by their sentry/sentry mode or abilities that have replaced older ones to be nothing more than a simple damaging ability). Torb having an upgradable sentry and scrap system allows for so much more fun than pressing a button to get an ai that does some damage or used as a distraction for an enemy. No more giving allies shields or timing a stun for your team, just move around quickly and aim your little abilities to do some damage, no real thought outside of maxing the potential of your damage. It's not even "old good, new bad" speaking here, being a slower game just looks so much more fun...

"Torb never had his lv1 turret anyways" This man speaks like his only experience with Torb is post rework. I have over 250 hours as torb, and more than half of those hours were before the rework.

This videos constant use of "balancing nightmare" to describe very basic mechanics has convinced me that the average OW player would not survive playing any other game. Also "Bastions is a more dynamic and fun character now" His new ult is just him standing still as he fires a worse version of a CoD Killstreak, at least give him the tank ult back

I feel like scatter arrow could have been saved quite easily by just adjusting the many, many pain points people had with it (myself included).

I personally prefer Bastion's old build. In my experience, bastion's stationary turret was the focal point of his abilities. Now, its led by his bomb. And because of his self heal, bastion, when played right, could survive on his own. And ive seen some crazy potgs from his old ult, whereas his new one is easily avoidable. One thing i find that people should realize about ults is that they should be a little broken. You actually have to work for this ability as opposed to spawning with your base ones. A good ult should be an objective game changer in the right hands. Not only that, but because of Sombra's enraging existance, characters like doomfist who live off their abilities are completely obsolete. So they should be strong enough to justify picking the character, or the character needs a reliable base attack.

3:05 I really liked that as sombra you could counter “5 res” so you had to keep the hack ready and be on watch out

Orisa hog meta was one of my favorites. Pull over the shield and hook it. Also Ana would nade the orisa pull so whoever got hooked first would basically die instantly. Then you had people who would way for the pull and use orisa fortify and would get launched in the air

i dont think they would re add orisa's supercharger just on the fact of the addition of juno, her ult both heals and provides a damage boost so mixing her with mercy is a little scary

Hey, nice video, i rly miss my doom dps :( You forgot to mention that sombra could charge her ult with hacked healing pack

I still don’t understand how magnade made it through concept. And why it didn’t just keep the flash bang explosion but have it hinder instead of stun. Took way to long to end up we’re we are

I just need them to bring back 6 turrets or make Symm’s cooldown for them faster 😭 I’ll set up the perfect net on the point, and my teammates will ignore the trapped enemies in front of them and chase someone miles away. Then I have to wait for more turrets and try to attack the enemies coming for me

The last time I played Overwatch was just before Doomfist release Imagine my shock

I remember the days when there were no limits on how many people could play the same hero. Ahh… good times.

Ah yes, rework flashbang 4 times instead of just reworking fan the hammer. Getting stunned is annoying, but taking away all stunning abilities from the dps while giving all the cc to the tanks and healers is very frustrating. Btw give tanks more dps than dps, more health than anyone and everyone of them gets cc! And the tanks STILL COMPLAIN! Because now those poor op heroes get counterpicked immediently! Oh no! What shall we do? Better buff them more so you can't counterpick them! That will balance the game. DVa now can just gobble up twice solidiers ammo with her damn defense matrix and mauga can survive bastion that shoots through baptiste ult in a 1v1 without even losing 70% of his health. Dont forget there are two pockethealers for him. While rein sits in a corner, ignored, and doom is a trollpick.

They really had no idea what the hell they were doing with symmetra

Honestly in my opinion, we could bring back bastions old ult, it was way more fun and skill expressive

Fun fact: Reaper's old "The Reaping" passive was originally intended as a counter to Mercy's Mass Resurrection during development. Any soul orb he gobbled up couldn't be resurrected by Mercy's ultimate. That specific interaction was removed because it was a little too niche, but the soul orb mechanic remained, at least until it was reworked into a basic lifesteal.

"This doesn't fit the gameplay of Overwatch" he says about half the abilities that defined the gameplay of Overwatch when I used to play it.

I miss old bastion ult. Just going around as a little tank and bouncing around with his blast jump was fun

Who remembers when Roadhog had to stand still to take a breather

16:38 COMPLETELY disagree with calling sombras passive “not the useful” being able to see low targets is definitely useful in my opinion in a lot of situations

So I guess OW finally reached the “talking about the past is more fun than the actual game” stage.

I think you forgot about the ability to have fun in the game

15:14 I'm sorry but..WHAT?! Bongo was the 2nd highest team fight winning ultimate (next to EMP), it was crazy good.

Don't think I've seen anything more blatantly wrong than Bastion's tank form being too ridiculous, it was PEAK fun, and it was replaced with a diet-meteorstrike.

It honestly shows just how much Overwatch has changed (for the worse IMO) now that newer players consider the older Overwatch 1 stuff crazy. Symmetra used to have a lock on laser beam attack and quite frankly, people still called her bad. We lived with so many of these "broken" things just fine, I really miss the old days to be honest.

"Old torb is so wierd and complex😢" Litterally just describes a dumbed down version of engineer tf2

Seeing Orisas old kit again makes me realize we lack an anchor tank in the current meta, one that can hold down a point and defend. it feels like all new tanks are just another flavor of offensive diver/push tank

My favourite part is Blizzard setting up lore for skills/abilities and then ignoring it or disregarding it altogether. Mercy's healing passive was because of her Valkyrie suit, explained in the comics she used healing technology on her suit to be able to serve during and emergency situations, Ana then used this same technology for her rifle/grenades which angered Mercy because it was being used as a weapon, not for protection. Then again, Blizzard completely ignoring their own lore isnt anything new, ever since OW1

Ouch, as an OW1 Bastion main, that hurt. Tank is by far a much better ult than Artillery. I'm not just talking numbers or viability, I'm talking FUN and SKILL EXPRESSIVE. Self repair defined a huge part of his Kit too, making Bastion have this incredibly weird and interesting roamer playstyle (think Tracer and Hampter), without being fast. He was his own resources, and the playstyle was fun. I don't believe gutting the old character people loved in favour of a new character they won't enjoy like the old one was a step in a good direction at all. The change to turret mode is, whatever, but still, with the removal of a shield, old bastion could probably make a full return.

if you dont think overwatch should have gimmicky characters you dont know what game your playing. this game lets you play as a gorilla, a hamster, two different cowboys, the grim reaper with shotguns, a magical robot monk, the heaviest human being ever, a green cyborg ninja dude, and a walking zombie

Calling Bongo "not all that good" is blasphemy. That thing literally was the ult with the highest teamfight winrate in the pro scene/high ranked.

There was more to Sombra that should've been covered. She originally had a timer on her invisibility and the translocator. They then changed the translocator to not have a timer, but then got rid of it so she could always be invis and have her escape at the ready at all times. The change that should be brought back is the translocator having a timer on it so she has to choose when to get in to do something before getting out. I hate how she currently has unlimited passive invis instead of it being on a cool down.

I always thought LifeWeaver's parting gift was removed because it incentivized and benefitted a dive comp to go after LW. So a tracer or a Genji could get healed immediately and then keep on going.

Bro says sombras passive is useless while showing a clip of how it’s useful 💀. Sombra in the clip literally stops a low health soldier from healing because she could see where he ran off to while low up to go heal. How’s that useless?

0:09 Deweted

Honestly, this just shows me that I miss the old game. I haven't even played Overwatch 2 but seeing this video? I don't WANT to. The game industry is already filled with fast paced, 5v5 shooters and I'm getting tired of it. I want whacky, fun hero shooters not movement competitive tryhard sweat fests.

Old bastion was 10000000x times better, they should keep him the same and just put the thermal management system of Orissa, I have been asking for that since day one of ow

Ngl this feels like blizzard propaganda glazing all these decisions and treating the original playerbase experience like some untamed Wild West.

Oh you forgot one- THE ENTIRE PVE SKILL TREE WE WERE PROMISED

Who remembers when you could stack heros. The rule being if three teammates went a certain hero everyone had to go that hero. So you could just make kill gates as sym

alot of this video feels a bit too in defense of blizz, alot of sym players loved old photon barrier because they could use it as a parry for certain abilities such as dva bomb or hook, most people were more upset with doomfists one shot and torbs extra health only really became an issue when paired with sym and old brig. opportunist was a really liked ability due to it playing into her assassin type of character and played into her as she had the tools to hunt down those weaker health targets

Most of the stuff is stuff I liked. And part of the reason I quit Overwatch when they were patched out. It made you feel skilled to handle the broken stuff, while now in Overwatch 2 it feels like baby's first FPS.

Bastion shield was removed first, didn't even make it out of the original Beta...

Most of the abilities on this list weren't as bad as they sound. It's kinda sad to see RU-vid who never actually played the earlier stages of overwatch trash these abilities. The game was very different in the earlier stages of its life. Each character had a lot more agency and more carry potential before the huge hiatus that overwatch went on.

The best one removed was the ability to play the first OW.

BRING BACK TORB COOKIES AND SUPER TURRET

If only they would return the ability to have a 6th player on each team

I don't care what anyone says, I miss OW1 Bastion. He is objectively a better and more balanced character in OW2, but man it was so much fun being able to plant on the payload and focus on aiming (with or without everyone going Pirate Ship meta). At the very least, I'd like the Self-Repair back in one form or another (his hitbox is way too big for his current health to sustain imo) Also, COMPLETELY disagree with 16:12, Opportunist was _incredibly_ useful for the old Sombra kit.

Honestly overwatch is one of the games i point too whenever I say "dont balance your game around comp, balance it with fun in mind". A lot of these old abilities made the game so much more fun than the sterile shit we have today. I will never forgive Blizzard for the bastion, sombra, and doomfist changes because they gutted what made those characters fun in favor of "balance".

while i agree with most points, i completely disagree on bastion. people like bastionmain and others got him to work even if the teamcomp wasnt build around him. he had a decent, but not high skill ceiling especially with his ult and i generally believe niche heros/comps should have a place in overwatch and shouldnt completely butcher a playstyle loved by the people who played him

I miss kits that helped your teammates. Torb's packs, Sym's shield generator, etc. Idk why the current devs think helping your team like that "isnt fun" or something.

Only a few seconds in and its wrong, bastion's shield was part of his turret configuration, which was removed during the betas, making it the first removed ability as it was mobile and reworked into turret form

10:10 honestly I disagree. Rising uppercut was broken for dps doom that could literally one shot everything, I feel like tank doom would benefit from rising uppercut since he cant just one shot people left and right anymore. It would add way more mobility to doom that I think he needs since hes been in a not so great spot since OW2.

I say bring back a lot of these old abilities, and prioritize fun over balance. It’s what made overwatch so fun in the first place, now it’s merely a shell of its former self

Damn the takes in this video are bad

We need a patch allowing us to play old versions of heroes

Thats what Blizzard gets for porting TF2 Enginners kit straight into OW without realizing he cant get metal from ammo pickups

anyone that reached higher than gold in ow 1 knows mass rez wasn't viable and hiding in a corner to rez 5 misspositioned teammates wasn't gonna get you anywhere and that's why mercy had a below 50% winrate until she got that invulnerability (that even though she wasn't good at the time, no one was asking for a buff) and mercy meta didn't arrive until they reworked it, cause valk on paper and on release is 20 times more broken than bringing 5 misspositioned teammates back to life

You didn't talk about the actual use of sym's old shied ability. It wasn't used to protect ally like a rein or sig shield. It was used for sym to engage against the enemy team. You would just pop the shield and run into the frontline and start microwaving any poor soul that was in your path. I personnaly found it very fun and would like a gamemode with old versions of the characters.

A lot of bias on from you on whether abilities could come back. Thought it was going to be a little more specific and objective. Not "it was bad for the game" or "It wasn't fun to play against".

Syms old photon barrier was a banger, I refuse to believe otherwise. Shatter? High noon? Old Doom ult? Pulse bomb? Barrage? No thank you. Not to mention just blocking regular damage so sym could close the gap safely, all with a relatively short cool down

10:37 - McCree's flashbang*

This guy is actually delusional on half of this shit

This video should be renamed to "Every ability that made Overwatch FUN"

If I remember correctly, Opportunist was changed from seeing enemies who are under half health through walls to enemies taking more damage while hacked and the hack ability was changed to have a shorter ability lock out time and to see hacked targets through walls.

8:56 your mind would explode if you heard about engineer tf2.

Have you played overwatch 1 at all? Most of your takes are just blatantly disregarding what the actual community liked and enjoyed. Many reworked characters were use in high elo and the league and got reworked for being too busted.

I made it to the very end without subscribing. :)

The old Torbjörn was just the engineer from TF2 with some extra stuff

Sure nobody likes getting stunned but the problem about removing CC from Overwatch means that high mobility heroes get indirectly buffed and their counterplay options go down. I wouldn't be surprised if Genji, Tracer, and Doomfist see their pick and win rates go way up this season now that Magnetic Grenade is gone.

Bro did you even talk to a single sombra main before making this statement at 16:37? as an assassin "get in & get out" type character this passive was very crucial for easy kills especially on squishies, loved this video until this very poor delivery...

Bastion was cancer but Tank Mode needs to comeback. Genuinely very skill expressive and fun. Fits current Bastion more than his current ultimate.

Reaping orbs would deny mercy rez because he ate their soul

You also missed syms beam locking on

15:25 I didn't like when they added this feature to the game. It just defeats the purpose of having health packs lying around the maps and (maybe) support characters. Before this, you had to know where all of the health packs were located and make sure that your supports heal you as well. Now it just feels like CoD where you attack and take damage, hide for a bit to regenerate, then attack again. Might as well just remove the health packs from the game since self regen for all characters is implemented.

Either give Bastion his old ult back or add to him Sym's old mechanic of choosing ults and add tank form as an option

so many of these abilities had charm, regardless of the devs ability to balance things.

I prefer old bastion healing and his ult . Today you shoot 3 doomfist ... it's literally that

I will say that bastions old ultimate was way more fun than his current one to use at least, but I like to think it was also more interesting to fight than just avoiding three circles. I will always advocate for rocket jumping, and while his grenade kind of does that, it is super clunky and not even satisfying to hit people with.

7:56 it’s just engineer from tf2

Who allows this man to have an opinion? It’s always the same. Overwatch 1 was nearly perfect and most importantly FUN. Saying Orisas ult is bad and Cass and Mei‘s stun „annoying“ is truly an „New Overwatch 2 Gold Player“ All those new Players who just Started playing Ow2 don’t know what the game truly was made for. They make the dumbest decisions, like 5v5 iS gOod. That never even should’ve happened. An game and abilitys made for 6v6 was turned to 5v5 with all the characters having to change. Wonder why the game feels ass and Ow1 players left. The shit ow2 Team only listens to the new players, why? Cuz they bring Money. Who needs the old ones having experience. Yt channels having trash ideas. Streamers acting like the game is good. Oh NOOO w w wh when they bring back Orisa shield, the double meta with Sigma will be back… WHEN THERES ONLY 1 TANK. I just don’t get these people, did they bumb their heads or sum? BUT IF YOU BRING BACK 6v6 THE TRADH SHIELD META WILL BE BACK. Then nerv the shields Omg is it so hard to think? Wonder why they want 2 bring back 6v6? But even if not, Tanks were made to protect the team not be an walking Thanos. You also said bastion was trash and not fitting 4 the game. Dude you say the air strike is better and healthier than the tank? Not being able to heal but shoot an random bomb is BETTER? ThE tEaM mUsT pLaY aROund hiM. In an team based game. Ok bro, I don’t even care about the new players the game or the new Lgbtq devs. Just let the people destroy the game themselves. (; I always wonders why they didn’t let Ow1 be and just created Ow2 as an Own game not changing ow1.

I’m still so annoyed to this day about how they didn’t try to look into using Photon shields as an equal or adequate replacement for regular healing. They could’ve easily changed the ability to make it so Symmetra just changes allies grey health to shield health for them to recover passively on their own for like 10 or so seconds of the buff lasting and fixed her healing issue, then make it so if you’re in a certain range of Symmetra the shield regen effect becomes uninterrupted by damage to the target. Ultimately allowing her to heal 30 a second in an aeo akin to lucio to handle direct incoming damage but not make it broken by having it be an uninterruptible effect like normal shield health when you’re out of Symmetra range. Easily then adding an equal “aeo/place and forget heal” like both Lucio and Zen in one but both stronger at their specific way of healing than Symmetra who combines it into two. Sym would ally regen 10 less than a lucio aeo heal and Sym’s place and forget way of applying the buff and how it regens passively even away from Symmetra’s range would be worse the Zen’s due to it being interruptible out of her range. Her duality could’ve been the thing to have her picked over those two beyond also her niche forms of utility in teleporter and turrets but instead they kinda gave up even attempting to do anything with it beyond an ultimate cause they were so tunnel visioned on healing being the only way they could get a form of ally health regeneration that also can mitigate incoming direct damage. Even some kind of overhealth buff that consistently regens but is uninterrupted in its regen in her range would’ve also at least given her something to sustain allies. The misconception that Sym wouldn’t be fit for sustaining only came from aesthetics alone and the unimaginative minds of early development. Not realising what they wanted/needed was something that practically acted akin to healing in certain circumstances with a different aesthetic and it being something Sym doesn’t have to maintain consistent focus on to do were the problems of her design alongside just weird limitations that had her kit so slow and niche by comparison. Like her other utility and rest of her kit would’ve probably had to be reworked and adjusted as the game changed formats but at the end of the day the myth or assumption that “healing wouldn’t have worked on Sym” comes from a misguided echo of really in all honesty unimaginative and stubborn developers who weren’t willing to either comprise on the characters identity or try to think outside of the box for a healthy alternative for her to use alongside the other supports for sustaining allies. This was a lot of yapping but I just will never forgive them for getting rid of a potentially unique support who sustains allies with a unique working buff rather than flat out healing or healing mechanics in general. Edit:I also reimagined the initial idea to it could’ve just been that she changes ally health to grey health for about 9 to 12 seconds and that for like the first 3 or 4 seconds she regens an extra 10 hp than normal shield recovery with it being uninterruptible for those few seconds, then afterwards if she continues to reapply the buff it simply extends the uninterruptible time period of that allies buff until the 9 seconds are up. Meaning she could continuely spam on a target to attempt to keep them alive but would be just spamming to maintain the uninterrupted recovery, but as a whole she would be best suited for place and forget giving guaranteed regeneration for the first 3 seconds and then the rest of the remaining buff is up to you to not take damage if Symmetra doesn’t extend the duration of it. Mind you her spamming it again may only extend it for like 2 or 2.5 seconds as to keep the premise of her relying on her allies being more independent in not taking damage on their own and utilising the buffs regen instead of her persisting on constantly reapplying to maintain uninterrupted regen. I could see it being a 9 second lasting buff, with 4 seconds of uninterrupted 40 shields per second regen then needing to reapply for the continued uninterruptible effect for an extra 2 seconds for the remainder of the 5 seconds its active on a target with it being 30 shields per second like normal after those first initial 4 seconds regardless of reapplying before the shield buff truly goes away and requires Symmetra to reapply the initial effect of altering grey health to shields. You could also have it so Symmetra’s ally shield health has the bonus of a faster activation timer between recovering after taking damage when it’s not uninterruptible ofc than normal shield health like it being 1.5 seconds instead of 3 to give it some actual regen use in the time the buff is active if Symmetra isn’t reapplying. Idk just another food for thought concept of what they could’ve reworked photon shields into back then to have given her an equal footing that involves shield health for an alternative option.

So nice to see all the gameplay differences consolidated into a single simple video. But creator has mad bias against things I actually liked and I would have enjoyed the video more if we exercised creative balance suggestions to these bad abilities. IMO many could and should come back but with proper balance changes… oh wait, ow team can’t balance things. I guess creator was right; we shouldn’t expect anything improved from these abilities returning :/

11:27 I got news for you

Bro are up joking, rising uppercut would fix doomfist in every way, it's been so long since overwatch 2 came out and doomfist is still extremely underpowered and absolutely cannot combo at all anymore, he shouldn't even be in the tank role

4:47 so uhh actually they bought it back... on creative mode...

When did you start playing.... OW1 initially was designed with FUN in mind. It was the shooter that didn't take itself so seriously and the player base was casual. There was no toxicity, no spawn camping, even little care about win/lose. Fast forward to now and it is an insufferable sweatfest of cheaters and hackers where people leave after one lost fight because they are so hellbent on their K/D. It's shifted from unique strategies to instakills. They got rid of most shield play and made bus sized hitboxes because of the crying DPS kids. Especially when you were talking about torb and "everyone needs to follow my definition of fun" it's clear you're in the second camp of players.

Alot of things cant come back simply because of how protected the community is now. OG OW use to be fun.

12:59 I’d take Configuration Tank over Artillery any day of the week, at least you’re still mobile with Tank, with Artillery you’re stuck in a single spot with 3 worse versions of Meteor Strike which basically tickled the enemy

You saying Torb is a one dimensional character is honestly just a skill issue, he’s actually extremely underrated now. Also I love how the modern Bastion ult would have completely de-railed the pirate ship meta back in the day. In the day where orisa was a mindless shield tank that got maximum of 3 kills per match

All of these sound super fun. Competitive ruined this game 🙄

Orisa orb would be so nice right now with all the damn flying

What I’ve noticed about ow1 is that it was very fun but also very much a group game. Most games had to be played with multiple people so that you could set up and coordinate these things

I never played Ow2 but i remember the old OW days! But McCree is now called Cassidy?

I disagree with the uppercut. The aspect of his kit that sucked to play into was the 1 shot Rocket Punch. That skill was a wind up and a free pick on squishy heros. Uppercut was great mobility and even was reworked so that heros weren't movement locked when uppercutted. Althought it probably wont get reintroduced because slam does the job of uppercut now

I hope that, some time in some way, we'll be able to play the game the OG way. I miss spamming "Hi" chain freezing the enemy hog. I miss pirate ship. I miss playing torb like a f2p engineer from tf2. I just miss the original ow.