Overwatch

[Mooger Meng]

A moment of silence for Aussies and Kiwis, who pop culture can't seem to represent as anything other than anarchist punk dykes (or schizo explosive-phile amputee men)

At least they aren't huffing petrol on-screen. That's an improvement.

 

[Belvedere]

Lmao Blizzard can listen to retarded shit like "homeless intolerant architecture" and change it but hasn't done a single thing to alter the biggest gripes the playerbase has been telling them about since 2016. (Archive)

This dev team is a fucking joke lmao.

Considering how much has been changed and removed from the game already because of the whining from the outrage mob, it shows that the OW Team is spineless and will continue to bend over at the pettiest of request. They simply are unable to say NO to the hacktivist because Blizzard has fostered this type of weak mentality.

Kinda makes me wish the 3D artist that modeled those benches and was asked to change these to be more "homeless tolerant" would have done the opposite and added spikes all over just to spite the person who made the request. If these virtue signaling faggots really wanted or cared for the homeless they would volunteer at a soup kitchen or food bank in RL instead of advocating for the imaginary homeless in a video game.

 

[Tanner Glass]

This is what happens when you make your hiring pool get infested with SJW shit. Instead of sitting down and coding, designing, and discussing balancing. It becomes bogged down by inane politics. I do think Microsoft is going to massively restructure there and fire a lot of people.

Don't be surprised if you see old faces return, they will offer a big pay cheque and assurance of crap like this not happen. I honestly think though a lot of the old devs quit because of the pay and politics bogging down. Jeff Kaplan saw the writing on the wall and left but I would not be surprised if they paid through the ass to come back.

I'm a big Microsoft fan, but there's a 0% chance any of this happens. Microsoft bought Activison, not just Blizzard - they're looking at the much larger titles first (Call of Duty and King's mobile lineup) and I don't think they've shaken up any studio they've purchased so far.

Blizzard has sadly mismanaged themselves into relative worthlessness - none of their titles are exactly worth while for Microsoft. Overwatch (+2) is already in the Xbox ecosystem so there's nothing for them to do there (except maybe some skins? - which MS staff could easily do instead). They'd probably just put a bunch of the back library on GamePass (Warcraft 1-3, Diablo 1/2/3, Starcraft 1/2, etc) and call it a day. The only things that might get a look are putting World of Warcraft on Xbox (extremely unlikely, considering the work needed) and scraping out the extremely predatory and comically evil microtransactions in Diablo Immortal (MS didn't pay $70BN for this level of extremely bad PR) and trying to salvage it (via a different team) into something less garbage.

 

[I don't swear]

Microsoft has been proven to be very hands off with the studios they do acquire.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

i cant tell whats funnier, blizzard removing bars on a bench because a fag went "((( this hurts my feefees overwatch is supposed to be an idealic future" or blizzard doing that while ignoring whats basically annoying australian tank brigitte 2.0 being busted as fuck

speaking of, the overwatch twitter community would be a god tier community watch thread

All they needed to do was add a button to the bench that made the bars go in and out of it when you melee.

Boom. Idealistic future where you can have both a homeless person sleeping next to you, and sitting on the bunch like a chair at the push of a button.


Blizz devs are not only spineless, they thoughtless drones that don't think about the world.

 

[Tanner Glass]

All they needed to do was add a button to the bench that made the bars go in and out of it when you melee.

Boom. Idealistic future where you can have both a homeless person sleeping next to you, and sitting on the bunch like a chair at the push of a button.


Blizz devs are not only spineless, they thoughtless drones that don't think about the world.

All they actually needed to do is suggest that "in the 2070s and Overwatch's super saccharine setting - homelessness and world hunger are solved issues" (you know, like in star trek). You can even tie it into one of the character's lore - have Torjborn previously invent a portable 3d printer that's able to print self-deploying simple houses. they aren't amazing but provide shelter, warmth, some essentials, and can be deployed basically anywhere (like his turret).

You could even go so far as to have the art department come up with a schematic as to what it could look like. Maybe have some of the other character setting them up in the aftermath of of an otherworldly invasion - to house the survivors.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

All they actually needed to do is suggest that "in the 2070s and Overwatch's super saccharine setting - homelessness and world hunger are solved issues" (you know, like in star trek). You can even tie it into one of the character's lore - have Torjborn previously invent a portable 3d printer that's able to print self-deploying simple houses. they aren't amazing but provide shelter, warmth, some essentials, and can be deployed basically anywhere (like his turret).

You could even go so far as to have the art department come up with a schematic as to what it could look like. Maybe have some of the other character setting them up in the aftermath of of an otherworldly invasion - to house the survivors.

But that requires thought, a spine, knowing the world the story takes place in.

The Devs, Can't think outside of Alphabet soup nonsense, are spineless, rather remove then to add onto, and likely don't know anything about the world that isn't related to some diversity nonsense.

 

[Sho'nuff]

I've been playing a bit more, the game has been a little bit better, but it's still not great.
Losing the second tank is still hurting everything and the changes made apparently in response to double shield which... only exist in OW2 which can't have double shield... are hurting the game. Insta gib is the new meta, and I can't really tell if they will address it because I haven't seen word one about it. Insta gib is basically dual dps that can instantly kill your players, so Widow, Hanzo, Sojourn 67. The problem is in dual tank comp, widow and hanzo had to contend with dual shield or a diving tank, so they needed that one shot power... because of Hanzos lack of unique angles like Widow, he got storm arrow which is mainly for shield breaking. And sojourn was designed with dual shield in mind, her Lazer charges off of shield hits, similar to how Sym can do that to help break shields. Except in ow2 there are no dual shields and what shields there are, are now weaker; which means its a fucking free fire zone. Normally you'd just have a tank go dive, but that's not possible, because you lose your front line and the fight is lost anyway, just now widow isn't what killed you.

Moira was also given a troll ability that she lost damage orb for and basically took a massive nerf across the board. But in the short term orb is worth the lulz because people don't know how to play around it.

Zen the robot asshole is a lot of fun until you encounter insta gib and he can't effectively pump damage all the time. Then you realize he is just an easy to kill dps which accidentally heals sometimes.

Junker Queen is not a tank and gets fucking shit housed by actual tanks to the point where it's comical. Sometimes it's fun doing JQ on JQ matches because their natural healing, battle shout, and general low burst damage turns it into a funny never ending battle. If you want to beat JQ every fight, just play rein and don't let go of left click. There is nothing she can do, I've never seen such a disparity between 2 tanks. In fighting game terms, it's a true 10:0 fight.

 

[I don't swear]

I've been playing a bit more, the game has been a little bit better, but it's still not great.
Losing the second tank is still hurting everything and the changes made apparently in response to double shield which... only exist in OW2 which can't have double shield... are hurting the game. Insta gib is the new meta, and I can't really tell if they will address it because I haven't seen word one about it. Insta gib is basically dual dps that can instantly kill your players, so Widow, Hanzo, Sojourn 67. The problem is in dual tank comp, widow and hanzo had to contend with dual shield or a diving tank, so they needed that one shot power... because of Hanzos lack of unique angles like Widow, he got storm arrow which is mainly for shield breaking. And sojourn was designed with dual shield in mind, her Lazer charges off of shield hits, similar to how Sym can do that to help break shields. Except in ow2 there are no dual shields and what shields there are, are now weaker; which means its a fucking free fire zone. Normally you'd just have a tank go dive, but that's not possible, because you lose your front line and the fight is lost anyway, just now widow isn't what killed you.

Moira was also given a troll ability that she lost damage orb for and basically took a massive nerf across the board. But in the short term orb is worth the lulz because people don't know how to play around it.

Zen the robot asshole is a lot of fun until you encounter insta gib and he can't effectively pump damage all the time. Then you realize he is just an easy to kill dps which accidentally heals sometimes.

Junker Queen is not a tank and gets fucking shit housed by actual tanks to the point where it's comical. Sometimes it's fun doing JQ on JQ matches because their natural healing, battle shout, and general low burst damage turns it into a funny never ending battle. If you want to beat JQ every fight, just play rein and don't let go of left click. There is nothing she can do, I've never seen such a disparity between 2 tanks. In fighting game terms, it's a true 10:0 fight.

Knew I was never gonna seriously play the game ever again.

 

[Kier Starmer]

They utterly fucked Moira, rest in piss Orb Waifu. After playing JQ, meh her tool is so shit, it's really uninspired and she is not a tank. I don't know why she is but apparently, she is. Sojourn is just dull too and the maps just exist. Did this warrant 3 years of dev time and shuttering one of your most successful games. No, and as for the graphical changes, I have to look hard to notice them.

Even as a F2P, I don't think it is even going to be successful. It honestly just plays like a shit Paladins.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Having only one tank definitely makes the game feel harder and I'm not big on Moira's new necrotic orb. Also Sojourn is incredibly annoying.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

been playing some overwatch 2 beta. the game has become a lot more aggressive and with how big and open the new maps are, you have to be really careful were your standing or else you get killed fast. still dont know if i prefer it to the original game. i dont like some of the character changes like Moria losing her damage orb, Ana gun being slower and harder to aim with, or mecree losing his flash bang. the waiting time for tanks is just so stupid and i hope they fix that.

on the up side, Zen is alot of fun to play with. his damage is good and his dis orb is just deadly.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

The original game made more 'sense'?

You had two tanks to stay on the payload or deal with DPS, DPS to (supposedly) deal with shields and healers, and healers to back up the tanks. Everyone had their role!

Now the tanks are gone. Who sits on the point? Squishy Moira? Junkrat? If this was a TDM one tank like Roadhog or Junker Queen would work.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

The original game made more 'sense'?

You had two tanks to stay on the payload or deal with DPS, DPS to (supposedly) deal with shields and healers, and healers to back up the tanks. Everyone had their role!

in alot of games, the dps and heals would run ahead of the tank beacuse he was to busy pushing the payload and they got easily picked off. some games, they all would forget to push the payload and make no progress lol

in other news, my oshi Selen has become the ambassador of overwatch

 

[Sho'nuff]

I have a running balance change head canon that I think would massively improve the game. Turn some of the tanks into "bruisers" in the DPS tree; this way even in the 5v5 framework, you could have more flexibility with teams and kind of cover for tank diff situations, not to mention people wouldn't be queuing tank and playing an off tank that doesn't hold ground the same way Rein does.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I have a running balance change head canon that I think would massively improve the game. Turn some of the tanks into "bruisers" in the DPS tree; this way even in the 5v5 framework, you could have more flexibility with teams and kind of cover for tank diff situations, not to mention people wouldn't be queuing tank and playing an off tank that doesn't hold ground the same way Rein does.

Having a balance change head canon means you're putting more thought into the balance than the OW devs are.

You could also have the team be 2 DPS/1 healer/1 tanks/ and 1 "support" and put a bunch of the "kind of" heros in the support category (Lucio, Robot Monk, offtanks, etc) so a team can at least make some kind of compositional decision on what strategy they want to run. Maybe instead of support you just make it "any" and you can run 3/1/1 if you want.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

At least they aren't huffing petrol on-screen. That's an improvement.

wrong

 

[Takodachi]

I still cant get over how awful D.va feels with only 1 tank. Just tune her numbers and make her a DPS, because she sure cant tank for shit anymore.
Also fuck you blizzard, let Mei freeze again, that was literally her unique selling point and you just gutted her.
Why pick a hero that takes 5 seconds to kill a squishy when you can pick literally any other DPS and do the job in half the time.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Also fuck you blizzard, let Mei freeze again, that was literally her unique selling point and you just gutted her.
Why pick a hero that takes 5 seconds to kill a squishy when you can pick literally any other DPS and do the job in half the time.

Apparently it was unanimously agreed across competitive videogames players that it's bad to take away control from others in multiplayer games, hence nerfing Mei and McCree's flashbang effect. So now Mei has a flamethrower. Enjoy.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Apparently it was unanimously agreed across competitive videogames players that it's bad to take away control from others in multiplayer games, hence nerfing Mei and McCree's flashbang effect. So now Mei has a flamethrower. Enjoy.

Flashbacks when Riot Games adopted an anti "anti-fun" policy for their balance of LoL; a lot of mechanics were removed because "gosh darn it it's just not fun to play against certain heroes and abilities".