Week 2 Is Pretty Terrible
I'm sure I'll get flak for this opinion. But the Showdown mode is simply not fun. The fact wins don't count double either (not that I end up being on a winning team anyway) and I have to play 15 matches of this mode to get all the rewards is misery. I have to play 6 more matches of this and I can honestly say I have not had a single ounce of fun the entire time. Week 1 pretty solid I enjoyed it a bit, still wasn't my cup of tea but I never played the original release so it was new to me so it had that going for it. But this showdown wannabe gun game mode is just enraging.
This mode absolutely refuses to let me play any of the characters I actually know. I can't hit scan for the life of me. I simply do not have the reflexes for it nor the time to become a hit scan god. And this mode will put me through every single hit scan character before it puts me on a projectile character. But of course at that point the match is already a loss. All I get to do is feel completely useless dead weight to every single team I end up on. It's all RNG. I get it it's my fault for only being decent on maybe 8 characters across all the roles. But man it sucks that the only way I get to move up to a new character 90% of the time is when I die twice.
And then when I finally do get on a character I know that fun ends after one kill. I never liked mystery heroes because of the RNG factor. Being at the mercy of whether dice roll in my favor is never fun. If I wanted to experience that I'd just go play craps at a casino or something. Hopefully Week 3 will feature something that's actually fun. I wish I could have fun with this but really all this event is, is a giant chore. Man last seasons event I was logging in every single day and completing every single challenge with a smile on my face, but this, this just makes me want to stop playing overwatch. The loot box FOMO is the only reason I'm doing this event.