I played Overwatch 2 on a new account, and the grind to unlock its original heroes sucks.
Overwatch 2's new player experience, or First Time User Experience, locks the best parts of the game behind. After playing on a temporary new account given to me by Blizzard, I've seen how it works, and it's as bad as it sounds., people who never bought the original game will have a mountain of hero unlocks to climb. Most of the game's 35-hero roster isn't available from the start. To unlock them, you have to complete up to 150 games.
The order of hero unlocks doesn't have an obvious logic to it. Genji is a popular character so I can understand why he'd be first, but he's also a highly-mobile, projectile-based flanker hero that takes a long time to learn how to be effective on him; an actually new player would be much better suited with a hero like Mei, who for some reason takes a whole 70 games to unlock.
There were plenty of games where I got tired of playing the hero I had chosen from the start and felt restrained when I opened the hero select menu to a bunch of greyed-out faces. After getting team-wiped by devastating enemy ultimates, I was bereft of Zenyatta and his life-saving Transcendence. And for the 20 or so games before I could play Bastion, I wish I had a high-DPS character to pick when the enemy tank was becoming a pain.
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