Summary
- One Overwatch 2 player suggests adding critical health icons for Support heroes to improve their ability to prioritize healing and prevent team deaths.
- These icons would indicate which players have low health without requiring them to use the chat option, reducing chat spam and helping healers know who to prioritize.
- The idea could be expanded to heroes outside the Support role and may help reduce stress for healers, making the game more enjoyable for Support and Tank players.
An Overwatch 2 player suggests adding a critical health icon for Support heroes. Since the release of Overwatch 2, Tank, Support, and Damage heroes have fulfilled their own roles, but this gamer has an idea to improve the Support hero's quality of life.
Overwatch 2 carried over many concepts from the original game, including the roles that players can choose between. Tank heroes usually absorb the most damage, while the Damage characters lower the enemy team's health, and Support heroes boost the health of allies. Though each hero may see balance changes that increase or decrease their viability in these roles, players can usually rely on a Reinhardt tanking and a Mercy healing. One gamer has an idea about making the healers' lives easier with a UI change that could properly notify Support heroes of which players to prioritize abilities for.
Reddit user Meme3ssar recently shared an image showing the perspective of Overwatch 2's Ana on the Dorado map. With no allies in front of or below Ana, there are plus icons in red on either side of the screen. According to the Reddit user, these icons are meant to indicate which players have low health without requiring that they use the chat option indicating that they need healing. These icons would theoretically reduce chat spam as healers would know which allies are about to die. Although these icons all appear the same, Blizzard could make adjustments so that the ones at the lowest health are more obvious than the others.
Meme3ssar suggested the idea after playing a match in which they died behind a healer who may have been unaware of how low their health was. Because the gamer was behind an Overwatch 2 Support hero for around 10 seconds before dying, the healer could have prevented their death. The Reddit user admits that using the chat option for healing is one way of notifying teammates that they're low on health, but even players at full health can use this. Because any player can spam "I need healing," this critical health icon may help Support heroes know exactly who to prioritize. The Overwatch fan also stated that the quality of life feature could be expanded to heroes outside the Support role.
Given that Blizzard continues to update Overwatch 2, it's possible that more quality-of-life features will be added in the future. Support and Tank players often bear the brunt of an average match and this critical health icon may help reduce some stress for healers.
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