The Morningside Overwatch Team is in a pickle after the Overwatch 2 release. After release, the game went through some difficult changes.

Overwatch is a hero FPS game that is highly played both casually and competitively. The game has been out for 6 years, and soon recently got a sequel to the game leaving Overwatch 1 in the past of the forgotten. Now leaving Morningside in a scramble to get the team ready before the game a week after release.

 The game moving from the original 6v6 to a 5v5 had some hard changes to the final roster of the team. I had the chance to speak with a couple of the players from the overwatch team. 

Speaking with Ben the team’s starting tank had some words on how the team is looking.

“It’s kind of hard to say because we do have a brand-new player but then we also have someone swapping to a new role. From the one scrim that we had, we look pretty good, but I don’t know yet.”

Bringing on a new player to the team is putting stress on the rest of the 4 to pick up the slack that there might be with the new player, making it look like a difficult season up ahead.

The game rather did not have a smooth release not only for the team but for the overall player base of the game. There were game-breaking bugs and super long queue times just loading up the game. Leaving it very difficult for anyone to get a chance to play let alone collegiate teams to practice.

Gavin a DPS for the team was upset when he states “The company needs to get their act together or the NECC needs to reschedule the game for a new date.” How do they expect teams to be ready after such a difficult launch? Well, the short answer is they don’t. After multiple complaints on Twitter and in the official NECC Discord about these circumstances the dates remain the same.

The game underwent a lot of reworks considering the change to a 5v5 and that also includes the heroes you play as. As expected, there will be some overpowered heroes. Asking Engle bird the team’s healer he said, “right now the most difficult thing to work with right now are these heroes there is no balance whatsoever.”

Overwatch has yet to make major balance changes to the game resulting in the team comps that are being run. The game relies on counter picking but from the looks of it, some heroes are hard to counter.

I asked Gaven what’s one thing the team needs to work on going into this season to be a dominant force in the league. He responded with “playing like a team, there are a lot of ways you can get punished for in this game so sticking with the team and the heal comp will win games.”

Overwatch is a fast game when it comes to movement and action. For example, if a DPS character pushes too far in their flank, the enemy team can turn on you in a sec and melt you down leaving the team to a 4v5 and resulting in pulling the team back out of the fight.

The Morningside team placed second in both spring and summer league and made it to nationals. Morningside is considered a dominant team in the Necc. The coach of the Morningside Overwatch team Quentin Charbonneau had some things to say about the team.

“If the team can perform as well if not better in this upcoming season, I can see the team going to great lengths and a very good chance at the title this year. It all depends on what the devs and my team will pull through this season.”

Coach Quinton has a lot of hope in the team this year to get the championship. He mentioned the Devs, they are the developers of the game and are responsible for any future changes to the game. In recent reports, the Developers are taking into heavy consideration the changes the community wants and are acting on them fast.

A report that was published by IGN states “ Overwatch 2, and the developers have come up with post-launch updates for the title. These updates will help the player understand the changes coming to hero balance, map pool, competitive mode, and gameplay.” 

The Overwatch 2 devs are hard at work on getting the game the fixes it needs to make the game feel more balanced and make the playing field at a wider range considering what heroes are overpowered. After this work Morningside will have to change the way, they play but it will change for the better. 

The Morningside Overwatch team has had a rough start to the season due to the game being unplayable upon launch. The Morningside team is fast at work on getting the team together and being able to play as a full unit before their first match of the season. 

“The Overwatch team has been through some rough times, but I have seen year after year the team overperforms to what is expected.”- Quentin Charbonneau

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