'Overwatch' Competitive Play Will Not Have Sudden Death In Season Two, Goodbye Coin Toss

Jeff Kaplan, Overwatch’s game director, has come down from the Blizzard clouds to talk to us mere players once more. Today, he announced that Season 2 of Overwatch will do away with Sudden Death in Competitive Play.

I swear, Kaplan communicates more with the Overwatch community than every other major game company combined. As a Hearthstone player, I’m lucky if game director Ben Brode teases one shred of content every six months.

Players have struggled to deal with lopsided matches in Overwatch’s Competitive Play when it comes to sudden death. One team will always have an advantage on an asymmetrical map, which makes playing on them extremely aggravating. It’s pretty much whichever team wins the coin toss, wins the game.

Kaplan commented on the Blizz.net forums on June 23 that the Overwatch team was thinking of getting rid of the coin-flip mechanic, but had no better alternative. I guess they must have found one, because Kaplan just posted:

“Sudden Death is going away for Season 2. For Beta Pre-Season we had a symmetrical sudden death solution but we received feedback that it wasn't fair to go to a different game mode, so we removed it based on that feedback.”

Overwatch players still have to deal with toxic players, AFKs and unfair matchmaking in Competitive Play, but Kaplan and his team are working to fix these problems. Just last week , Kaplan posted about how the Overwatch team is going to change its approach to dealing with players leaving matches and the punishments they receive.

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