Why Balancing Overwatch is So Hard

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Canada Viveros
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Overwatch 2 (formerly Overwatch)
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Overwatch 2 (2023)
Duration: 29:17
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How hard could it possibly be to balance an Overwatch? $10?

Balancing Overwatch - like balancing any other game - is a lot more complicated than we sometimes recognize, and maybe understanding what factors go into making this complicated can help us to understand why games end up in the states they’re in.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
02:18 - Part 1: Complexity & Butterflies
07:51 - Part 2: What Kind of Game is Overwatch?
16:07 - Part 3: The Tendency Towards Meta
28:34 - Conclusion



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