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『supervise 2“List of Reasons Support Heroes Cannot Heal Allies” has become a hot topic among foreign users. Against the backdrop of the creation of this list, there appears to be the environment surrounding the support heroes in the previous “Overwatch” work and the existence of network memes.
“Overwatch 2” is an online battle FPS game produced by Blizzard Entertainment (Blizzard). As a sequel to the popular “Overwatch”, it was released on October 5 as a free-to-play title. In this work, the number of opponents has been changed from 6 to 6 to 5 to 5, the existing heroes have been changed and new heroes have been added.
Is there a reason you can’t heal allies?
There are three types of heroes in this work: tank / damage / support. Support heroes are characterized by the ability to heal allies. This time, a certain image related to the type of hero support has become a hot topic on Twitter overseas. Image courtesy of Twitter user MoneyFolder.
The image includes images of supporting heroes such as Lucio / Mercy / Ana / Zenyatta and the title is “Why didn’t you recover?” Below is a number of reasons why the support player either did not have or could not heal the other player. Here are the details:
- because I can’t see you
- Either you are already dead or you are returning from the spawn point.
- I was recovering and you didn’t know it
- because you were on the other side of the wall
- why don’t you stay still
- In my mind, tank recovery priority is high and you are not a tank.
- Assuming you are a tank, you are taking less than 10% of your health damage.
- Because I’m going where you are united
- Even if you are on a team, the whole team has left the payload behind and I’m the only one carrying it, so it’s the same as always.
- Because I’m annoyed with theses especially you
MoneyFolder called the image “the funniest picture ever”. He criticized the description in the image, saying, “The support hero player is trying to deal with it by making a list of excuses instead of playing it right.” Additionally, he said he mainly uses the support hero and a screenshot of the screen. of the battle record in the gameto send. By anticipating user objections, he is likely to show that he has some understanding of support heroes.
Some are of the opinion that it is appropriate
The MoneyFolder tweet received comments from various users, including their experiences. As for the description of the image, there are some opinions that it is reasonable. For example, the user below states that the claim of the image is valid and there are many cases where it cannot be recovered due to the location of the ally.
Basically, in this work, it is difficult to recover invisible heroes. Zenyatta’s Orb of Harmony can continue to heal even if the person who granted it is invisible, but if you are responding after being asked to heal, you must still see the opponent. For this reason, the above user probably sees points like “I can’t see my ally” and “My ally was on the other side of the wall” as reasonable descriptions.
There are also users who view such opinions negatively. In the description of the image, which shows the opinion “Relocation”objectionHe’s doing. There seems to be a big difference of opinion among users as to whether or not the support hero is responsible for each of the reasons why an ally cannot be healed.
On the other hand, there are many reasons why recovery is delayed. This job is a game where you fight in a team battle of 5 to 5 and during the battle, the enemy and ally will fight in a confused way. As the battle situation changes from moment to moment, the reasons for not being able to recover or not recover tend to be manifold. Another strategy is to kill or sabotage enemy support heroes to prevent them from healing. It is a natural flow of the game system that there are scenes where recovery is not possible.
“Need for recovery”
And I would like to point out that the image quoted by Mr. MoneyFolder appears to have been created in response to the previous “Overwatch” work on community environment and culture in the first place. In addition to the chat, there is also a communication function in this work. From several preset messages, you can convey various situations to your allies. Among them, the “I Need Healing” message is mainly used for allied support heroes.
This message was somewhat problematic on the part of users in previous work. This is because there have been reports of cases where this message is used repeatedly to urge support heroes to over-bounce or to criticize their game. “I Need Healing” is also recognized as a meme among gamers in Japan and overseas, and the image of Genji calling “I Need Healing” in particular has become established. There have been many cases where the same message was repeated in the netmeme (Know your meme）。
Genji is often operated on in a location away from allies and, for the reasons mentioned above, tends to increase the number of scenes where he cannot receive recovery from support heroes. There may have been instances where some Genji players have repeatedly shouted “I Need Healing” to the support hero as an unreasonable request. Also, there may be an aspect of Genji’s tendency to repeat injury and recovery, and there may be an aspect of asking for frequent recovery. On the other hand, even in Japan, on the official Blizzard forum, the repeated reminders of “ho need for healing “are a problem.indicateIt has been done.
And in the 6: 6 environment of the previous job, there were more teammates to heal than in this job, which was 5: 5, and there were relatively many requests for healing. In other words, it can be said that the “blast” for the support hero was stronger than “Overwatch 2”. Also, as for the image posted by Mr. MoneyFolder, it is a foreign SNS in 20179GAGYou can see that it has been published. The same image is an image created in the previous work “Overwatch”, which has a different environment surrounding the media. It can be assumed that it was created by a user at that time fed up with unreasonable “restore request” messages from other players.
In this case, due to the popularity of Overwatch 2, an image that can be said to be a “negative legacy” from the previous work attracted attention. The game system has also changed in this work, such as changing the number of teams. It is possible that the statements in the image are not in line with the current system. Also, the system’s “blast” against support heroes may have changed since then.
