i've been wanting to see content like this for a while and you delivered perfectly. Bro this channel is SEVERELY underrated. Maybe next do the history of experimental modes in OW1!
i remember the first round of experimental changes where they did 1 tank, 3 dps and 2 supps. They also did some "over-the-top" balance changes and my favorite of them was when they brough back MASS REZ. healing sym was fun too
One April fools thing they did that barely anyone noticed was in the first one they did allowed Sombra to contest point with infinite invisibility which was very funny to me
Great video, i never got to play the april fools events aside from 2024 this was a fun watch. Also... Hearing the wii photo channel music was so nostalgic for me omg
Thank you for including me in this video (at 10:20), I just learned about it! I wish you credited all the streamers in your description though and not only the big streamers that everyone already knows 😕
My bad bro honestly I go through some many videos for these that I genuinely just forget but your right especially you because your name is literally right there unlike others that just have a clip thank you for letting me know
@@mercyI_I Thank you, I appreciate it! I understand it's not always easy to find the source but for future reference I think you should try to credit as many people as you can
Yeah I guess that’s fair tho I feel like that would’ve taken a lot longer and some of the stuff I feel like you can look at and see what’s different but if you want me to explain anything I gotcha
6:47 I'm the kiri in that potg lmaooo. I remember how busted ashe was, because of that glitch, they straight up disabled her in the april fools gamemode. I posted a video of this exact potg on my twitter complaining about it.
The Ashe change was actually so broken, they had to disable her in the mode. Because the fire wasn’t working as intended. The afterburn was resetting and stacking off of itself and as well as spreading to teammates. That’s why it was melting people. People lit on fire were guaranteed to die
Reaper tp yeah, mei as a tank she would need a large rework like new abilities type shit like you could make it work but it’s really not as simple as what they did in the patch and than doom punch yeah I mean it would have to have an animation change cause it looks normal for the doom player but looks so unnatural for the others like
My bad there was a lot and I didn’t want to make super crazy but I’m ngl I completely forgot about it but it would have def got a segment with all the eskay and frogger clips that shit was so fun I loved that
2:05 The best version of Sigma ever put in Overwatch bar fucking none. I am beyond baffled that an OW April Fools update could make a more engaging, more fun and better balanced Sig than like 6 years of OW development.
i love how you didnt include symms healing turrets, because they sucked so much. kinda crazy support mains still say they arent listened by the devs when they gave them illari,and the exact same issues everyone predicted happened with her. and thats considering illari has long range and crits, imagine if she was a short range hero like symmetra lol
Lmao she did have multiple turrets and the cooldown was way lower than sym’s but yeah I see why you mean also yeah I couldn’t find a lot of footage for it which is why it wasn’t in it (I can’t tell if your saying that illari pylon sucks which I don’t think it’s bad it just got hard nerfed by the dps passive but I think have more than one turret can either only be annoying or there either bad kind of like lifeweaver who will only either be bad/very niche or annoying and toxic for the game and this is coming from someone that plays Ana and Illari lmao sorry if that was a lot)
@@mercyI_Ii got it a bit twisted. essentially some time ago symmetra had a experimental patch made by creators, but it was hilariously bad and it was because they treated it as a april fools patch. THATS where symmetra was given healing turrets and the concensus was tht they were ass since they were well... healing turrets. but some support players insisted on wanting symmetra having healing turrets so they made illari, trying to keep in mind all the feedback they had on that one experimental/creators april fools. except it still sucked and the issues people predicted happened
Yeah back in ow1 everyone that played against doom hated him honestly well dps doom was fun I still have a lot of fun on tank doom and I feel like it’s better for the game tbh
I feel like for April fools, they just implement every mechanic they wanted to put in to make the characters lore accurate (except mei being huge, I think someone had a little too much milk from the fridge that day)
smoluga was definitely the highlight of this year's april fools, and by god was he fun; Like so fun that i wish he was like that in the main game cause he didnt feel shit to play against and was fun as hell to play. they unintentionally fixed the hero in a shitpost gamemode lol.
Why do some of these with a bit of tuning seem like actually good buffs like being able to walk activating reapers teleport or spiderbrig Also this seems like it would be fun as like a permanent mode where they just throw random joke buffs at a wall for characters
it would be pretty funny to see them give the option to be any character without a limit. so if everyone wanted to be idk doomfist you can 5 stack doomfist
Maybe it's just watching on the TV but the music is too loud vs voices. Also I had no idea what some of them were doing. Soldier visor what? Edit: ok they got better and I figured out the Crit on soldier lol.
The zen kick... oh damn i miss this. I would be fine with nerfing his primary fire damage in return for giving him this movement ability once every 10 seconds.
Lowkey it would be cool to be able to control it to like diff designs but honestly her wall is already really good so buffing it would be make it super busted tho it would be fun and maybe it would work idk
the april fool patches are a lot funnier and more balanced than regular 5vs5 ow2, developers put more effort on a joke patch than the whole fucking game
@@mercyI_I when they stop thinking on how to balance the game based on what happens in the league and let her mind get crazy they nail the game, maybe more balanced is not the right word, but sure is more fun and a lot less frustrating, so is balanced in terms of fun, which is what should matter
@@verguco6051 honestly yeah flats said it best the game doesn’t need to be perfectly balanced it’s just that things need to be changed up and adding fun new things are more enjoyable than playing the same shit lol
@@verguco6051 I feel like it’s not that simple cause ow1 was not a perfect game either will it fix a lot of the problems w 5v5 yes but it will also bring its own changes honestly im not opposed to 6v6 honestly think it was better but there needs to also be some changes to the game that honestly I don’t know tho wdym by nerf tanks?
I couldn’t find many clips of of the bomb dropping and him being able to control when they explode but I think I put it in the mentions at the end but yeah that’s my b
@@mercyI_I that's even worse. I really hope they come up with more inventive concepts for Junkrat in the April Fools patches, he gets the most boring treatment
Dude ok I literally had that in the original video but I decided not to include it because it was a custom game which is why it bugged it but that’s so funny that someone brought that up lmfaoooo
Let me know what yall wanna see next and sorry this took and awhile and if it was a little long lmao lot to cover
i've been wanting to see content like this for a while and you delivered perfectly. Bro this channel is SEVERELY underrated. Maybe next do the history of experimental modes in OW1!
thanks dude ur chill keep posting OR Else ty
i remember the first round of experimental changes where they did 1 tank, 3 dps and 2 supps. They also did some "over-the-top" balance changes and my favorite of them was when they brough back MASS REZ. healing sym was fun too
@@fracturedzone7225 lmao noted
One April fools thing they did that barely anyone noticed was in the first one they did allowed Sombra to contest point with infinite invisibility which was very funny to me
I love how Ramattra kept yapping during his ult
Bro was suffering fr fr
@@mercyI_I nah bro made us suffer fr
@@roadkilled_possum as he, Ramattra, has suffered
@@TrixterTheFemboy because our torment will outlast the stars
I love how most of these are: “They fly now.” and Pharah’s is “She moves now, while flying ofc.”
Lmfao
literally because Northstar from Titanfall 2 lol
Can we all agree that the April fools patches were absolutely incredible
Agreed
11:44 My favorite part. The giant brig.. the mommy-calling baby mauga.. chef's kiss.
Lmao
that doom punch is quite fun to use tbh
Fun ya. Would be too op, also ya..
Yeah it was pretty op but super fun
I think it would be brilliant, it would be a much better meta than hog orisa mauga
@@whrench2676 everyone thinks doom meta would be better until it’s a doom meta and support queues are 4s while everyone else waits 15m.
@@KiaSoulEV-rt4sg still would be better than current meta
2023 Cassidy has stamina while rolling is ridiculous af. He has become a souls player.
Bro was playing Elden ring in overwatch
I love how Zen's changes made him able to fly in 2021, 2023, AND in 2024.
Bro be flying
The people yearn for a flying Zen
The way Ram's April Fools change just makes him a better-designed character-
You forgot the sleep that makes you fly, it was very funny 😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
Bro has unlocked CORE memories
These patcjes where fun, chaotic and my favorite.
Fr this shit got me so nostalgic
Leaving out the Lucio Ult instakill is truly a travesty.
Great video, i never got to play the april fools events aside from 2024 this was a fun watch.
Also... Hearing the wii photo channel music was so nostalgic for me omg
Thank you my guy also glad you liked the music
I forgot Ashe's Dynamite gave you Covid.
Lmao
they always wanted to make zen to fly
I never realized it but yeah they always make my boy fky
Ping pong ball will remain my favorite change ever
That shit was actual peak gameplay
I was able to play the 2024 April Fool’s event, and Spider Queen was quite fun to play.
I love spider queen probably in my top 5 changes of all time from this event
When they did april fools patches its to temporarily have bad design, Overwatch 2 is the longest running April fool's patch
@@The_ASMR_Listener lmfao
I was laughing so hard at the sigma dogfight lol
That shit was a Star Wars battle as flats would say lmao
Lil Mauga (aka Mwauga :3) was the most fun I've ever had in this game. It was so stupid looking and his high pitched voice was so funny
Fr lol
Thank you for including me in this video (at 10:20), I just learned about it! I wish you credited all the streamers in your description though and not only the big streamers that everyone already knows 😕
My bad bro honestly I go through some many videos for these that I genuinely just forget but your right especially you because your name is literally right there unlike others that just have a clip thank you for letting me know
@@myseglis your added now 👍
@@mercyI_I Thank you, I appreciate it! I understand it's not always easy to find the source but for future reference I think you should try to credit as many people as you can
zen's melee knocks back enemy make sense and proves how much force he is applying, he could literally flyyyyy XDDD
as someone who recently started playing, i wish the video told us what specifically they changed
Yeah I guess that’s fair tho I feel like that would’ve taken a lot longer and some of the stuff I feel like you can look at and see what’s different but if you want me to explain anything I gotcha
I’m sure the patch notes are somewhere online
2:13
Lore accurate Sigma
What I'm saying
0:23 Hey I know that guy
aha, found you
Been waiting for this one for a while and it did not disappoint
Thank you my guy
6:47
I'm the kiri in that potg lmaooo. I remember how busted ashe was, because of that glitch, they straight up disabled her in the april fools gamemode.
I posted a video of this exact potg on my twitter complaining about it.
Imagine a competitive april fools. Or a collection of all the april fools where you can play each one
Honestly now that doom punch doesnt 1 shot, they should change the punch to go wherever u are aiming at. Not just horizontal movement
Lowkey I feel like it would be cool it would let me save my slam more when I’m trying to go up
Nah, that would kill the fun of diags.
@SpiritedFalcon honestly it'd make doom on console way easier idc if it lowers his skill cieling🤣
My favorite April Fools they did was when they anounced that Overwatch 2 would have PvE
Zen flying is just natural HE'S FLOATING ALREADY
I wish they added a voiceline for the flying Rein of him saying something like "Thruster misaligned, I keep going up! Damn you Torbjorn"
The Ashe change was actually so broken, they had to disable her in the mode. Because the fire wasn’t working as intended. The afterburn was resetting and stacking off of itself and as well as spreading to teammates. That’s why it was melting people. People lit on fire were guaranteed to die
Imagine thinking you could exist on Soldiers screen when on April 1st 2021.
Fr imagine that lmao
Tbh the ''Upward punch'' for Doomfist should have been a thing from the start than him just rocket punching in one direction.
My favourite change was always being able to stop and start moira balls. Was so fun to just stop it in the middle of their team to disperse them
Reaper teleport walk, Mei as tank and Dooms punch should have been implemented in current game. Change my mind.
Reaper tp yeah, mei as a tank she would need a large rework like new abilities type shit like you could make it work but it’s really not as simple as what they did in the patch and than doom punch yeah I mean it would have to have an animation change cause it looks normal for the doom player but looks so unnatural for the others like
Bring back directional punch, since they removed uppercut. Doom gotta somehow recover
14:19 youngbloods will NEVER know the pain of sym doing this with the ancient teleporter
AndrewJrt and si not found are so nostalgic for me
the fact that lucios 2024 boop passive is missing hurts my Lucio heart :P
My bad there was a lot and I didn’t want to make super crazy but I’m ngl I completely forgot about it but it would have def got a segment with all the eskay and frogger clips that shit was so fun I loved that
2:05 The best version of Sigma ever put in Overwatch bar fucking none. I am beyond baffled that an OW April Fools update could make a more engaging, more fun and better balanced Sig than like 6 years of OW development.
i love how you didnt include symms healing turrets, because they sucked so much. kinda crazy support mains still say they arent listened by the devs when they gave them illari,and the exact same issues everyone predicted happened with her. and thats considering illari has long range and crits, imagine if she was a short range hero like symmetra lol
Lmao she did have multiple turrets and the cooldown was way lower than sym’s but yeah I see why you mean also yeah I couldn’t find a lot of footage for it which is why it wasn’t in it (I can’t tell if your saying that illari pylon sucks which I don’t think it’s bad it just got hard nerfed by the dps passive but I think have more than one turret can either only be annoying or there either bad kind of like lifeweaver who will only either be bad/very niche or annoying and toxic for the game and this is coming from someone that plays Ana and Illari lmao sorry if that was a lot)
@@mercyI_Ii got it a bit twisted. essentially some time ago symmetra had a experimental patch made by creators, but it was hilariously bad and it was because they treated it as a april fools patch. THATS where symmetra was given healing turrets and the concensus was tht they were ass since they were well... healing turrets.
but some support players insisted on wanting symmetra having healing turrets so they made illari, trying to keep in mind all the feedback they had on that one experimental/creators april fools. except it still sucked and the issues people predicted happened
Honestly, the directional punch for Doom wouldn't be that bad for him. Just limit how high/low you can punch forward and it would be solid.
@@PerfectedVenus_Monsoon yeah they def could make it work
No way mauga became oddjob 2.0, the world is healing
Lmfaoooooooo
Anyone else feel like the April Fools changes are what Total Mayhem should really be?
Imagine if Symmetra's Wall blocked everything, enemy and ally alike. Movement through it, ranged fire, only sight.
Some of these look so smooth they look like real changes
Honestly that’s so facts like well some of them were broken a lot of them were super fun to play
god I miss Overwatch 1, I miss the visuals and stuff actually being able to die and there is so much more going on on the map
the biggest april fools update is releasing overwatch 2.
I started 2023 April Fools, I originally thought the Ashe “Bob” voice line was normal and same with rein flying.
Nobody:
2021 April Fools Day Orisa: HELICOPTER HELICOPTER
watching old doom makes me depressed.. I loved dps doom so much, tank doom is just no that fun
He was unfun to play against
Yeah back in ow1 everyone that played against doom hated him honestly well dps doom was fun I still have a lot of fun on tank doom and I feel like it’s better for the game tbh
I feel like for April fools, they just implement every mechanic they wanted to put in to make the characters lore accurate (except mei being huge, I think someone had a little too much milk from the fridge that day)
excellent clips of sinf and andrewjrt
Jq this years april fools was the most fun ive had in this game since doom was changed, god i hope they'll cook with the creator patch
You know the phara started stressing when the queen started flying towards her
... nobody gonna point out that doom upward punch isnt a April fools thing
Yeah it was wdym?
LOVE THE MIITOPIA MUSIC
smoluga was definitely the highlight of this year's april fools, and by god was he fun; Like so fun that i wish he was like that in the main game cause he didnt feel shit to play against and was fun as hell to play. they unintentionally fixed the hero in a shitpost gamemode lol.
Mostly april fools changes are like lore accurate XD
April fools patch is always so fun. Im hoping 2025 would be more creative
They're all funny, but the 2024 ones were certainly the most fun to use in my opinion.
@@AMagicalTortoise agreed
That up and down doom punch looks like so much fun!
Why do some of these with a bit of tuning seem like actually good buffs like being able to walk activating reapers teleport or spiderbrig
Also this seems like it would be fun as like a permanent mode where they just throw random joke buffs at a wall for characters
I miss the dps doom, they honestly should bring it back for next april fools update
2021 pharah has flight core
I miss you Rocket Jump Pharah
Seeing all the OW1 maps made me so sad ☹️
To be fair there all in overwatch 2 but I see what you mean
@@mercyI_I wait are HLC and Hanamura still in game???
@@Ow-jl1rg yes their in arcade assault mode
This is the best gamemode hands down
Truer words have never been spoken
They need to make the 2021 changes to Soldier's ult now, Visor feels so shit as a Soldier main especially in Season 11
it would be pretty funny to see them give the option to be any character without a limit. so if everyone wanted to be idk doomfist you can 5 stack doomfist
2023 Symmetra's turrets activated mid flight and also healed
Reaper teleport walk and fly should be a thing
Wait until you see Zen in the community crafted mode
why tf was upward punch removed..
Old ow team was dumb lmao
I missed Zens flying kick. Also, I called small Mauga Smalga
knowing my teammates theyd still mess up the soldier ult
Moving during Pharah Ult should be something you should already be able to do imo. Town down the Ult damage though with the change maybe.
Canonically accurate overwatch
Maybe it's just watching on the TV but the music is too loud vs voices. Also I had no idea what some of them were doing. Soldier visor what? Edit: ok they got better and I figured out the Crit on soldier lol.
They need to implement all of these live
W little prince and yeah that would be insane lol
Some of these should be legit in game.
The zen kick... oh damn i miss this. I would be fine with nerfing his primary fire damage in return for giving him this movement ability once every 10 seconds.
Tbh this was the only time i truly had fun when playing Overwatch
overwatch 1 UI was better
Bastions grenade launcher is almost his old ult
Fr lmao
Its actually a good bot, Lynxes don't understand I CAN HIT YOU, IN STEALTH, I DON'T CARE!
Seems like they were developin in an Airport
genji bugs next pls :)
Genji ball and doom could have bug videos that are like feature length films lmao
This 100% feels like they were just testing features
I really liked the super mei wall they should implement that
Lowkey it would be cool to be able to control it to like diff designs but honestly her wall is already really good so buffing it would be make it super busted tho it would be fun and maybe it would work idk
the april fool patches are a lot funnier and more balanced than regular 5vs5 ow2, developers put more effort on a joke patch than the whole fucking game
Idk about balanced lmao but yeah it feels like they put in way more effort into a joke than the real game
@@mercyI_I when they stop thinking on how to balance the game based on what happens in the league and let her mind get crazy they nail the game, maybe more balanced is not the right word, but sure is more fun and a lot less frustrating, so is balanced in terms of fun, which is what should matter
@@verguco6051 honestly yeah flats said it best the game doesn’t need to be perfectly balanced it’s just that things need to be changed up and adding fun new things are more enjoyable than playing the same shit lol
@@mercyI_I who? what we need is 6vs6, nerf tanks and gg
@@verguco6051 I feel like it’s not that simple cause ow1 was not a perfect game either will it fix a lot of the problems w 5v5 yes but it will also bring its own changes honestly im not opposed to 6v6 honestly think it was better but there needs to also be some changes to the game that honestly I don’t know tho wdym by nerf tanks?
I miss OW1….
turn up the music! i can almost hear the video!
Bro didnt even mention Junkrat, that's how bad his April Fools changes were 😔
I couldn’t find many clips of of the bomb dropping and him being able to control when they explode but I think I put it in the mentions at the end but yeah that’s my b
They were pretty boring tho
@@mercyI_I that's even worse. I really hope they come up with more inventive concepts for Junkrat in the April Fools patches, he gets the most boring treatment
@@mercyI_I nah, I don't blame you. At least he showed up in the mentions
There was that time where mei one shot when landing ice block on an enemy and lucio one shot with beat
huge W to blizzard for taking time to make us laugh :D
Hanzo is like Gaige from BL2 :D
Why did you not include the big skull from KarQ
Dude ok I literally had that in the original video but I decided not to include it because it was a custom game which is why it bugged it but that’s so funny that someone brought that up lmfaoooo