Acceleration Broke Overwatch

Overwatch has had an almost unique problem for the 7 years since its launch. It’s acceleration system made engagement with the game at a base level easy, and allowed a massive audience to onboard into the game from Blizzards other products, but what balancing problems lie underneath the surface of such a simple system?

Now, 7 years later, what are they doing to fix it, and will it be enough?

Can simply changing the hitbox sizes do enough?

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00:00 Intro
00:51 Intro
02:00 Onboarding
03:40 Acceleration
03:28 Aiming
07:25 Other Systems
08:23 Does This Fit Blizzards Target Audience?
09:08 Quarantining
11:23 Blizzard Has Always Known
11:24 How Can Blizzard Fix This?
13:13 The Problems