Overwatch

[Medicated]

Apparently the Overwatch Workshop is more powerful than I initially thought. Here's a video running down some of the game modes people have created:

This may be the greatest thing I have ever seen:

r/Overwatch - Hey! Listen! We made Navi from Zelda with the workshop!

15,096 votes and 184 comments so far on Reddit

v.redd.it

Hopes are still in the ground but maybe they'll try to be more community centric rather than esports centric. Then again the whole browser thing was to just let the community somewhat create their own experience with a set of sliders to play with which effectively made every game feel the same no matter who made it. But I am weary of this considering the OW is terrible at actually creating things that isn't something they can fap to (Once again I bring up the game browser and the derivative games that flooded it).

Anniversary is out and the first two workshop levels to be turned into official playmodes are now live. No idea when Workshop itself goes live, but people are expecting soon since the ptr was just ended.

Meanwhile, blizzard just added a voice line you're going to hear spammed in every match until the end of time.

So is anyone still actually playing Overwatch and can give some feedback of an extremely unusual consumer-centric move from a major videogame company? I haven't been this shocked since Massive Entertainment was allowed by Ubisoft to put a basic dungeon generator in The Division.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

Anniversary is out and the first two workshop levels to be turned into official playmodes are now live. No idea when Workshop itself goes live, but people are expecting soon since the ptr was just ended.

Meanwhile, blizzard just added a voice line you're going to hear spammed in every match until the end of time.

How long until it gets taken away because of the crying on the forums. This is the same people who cried because of four letters being too toxic.

So is anyone still actually playing Overwatch and can give some feedback of an extremely unusual consumer-centric move from a major videogame company? I haven't been this shocked since Massive Entertainment was allowed by Ubisoft to put a basic dungeon generator in The Division.

I use to play it but for some reason I still like poking my head in to see what they've done to ruin it. I played it since launch and officiall quit the start of this year and I can't say I didn't have fun but things just got monotonous. If you wanna talk shit or say what you want have at.

 

[StoneKnightMan]

looks like someone at vice is complaining about brigitte's cop skin in overwatch. he made a little rant thats about him whining about a skin in the game. the guy who wrote the article is Dante Douglas

Stop Turning Overwatch Characters Into Cops

A new skin for Brigitte celebrates police militarization.

www.vice.com

"Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter that currently helms Blizzard’s competitive scene as well as captures the hearts of a massive fanbase eager to glean narrative content from a game that steadfastly refuses to give them more than the occasional morsel, has released details on the upcoming yearly Anniversaryevent.
Like previous years, Anniversary comes with a re-release of old Anniversarycosmetic items, maps, and missions, as well as some new goodies of decidedly questionable taste and intention, including the school uniform Academy D.Va skin that Overwatch Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan said would “break the internet” (according to reddit user PfeiferWolf, summarizing a livestream by Overwatchstreamer OhNickel) and a new Riot Police skin for mobile tank Brigitte.

Blizzard is an American studio. If you haven’t been following American politics, these past few years have been a time of reckoning with the ongoing militarization of police forces throughout the country and the way that communities of color bear the brunt of this violence. According to website Mapping Police Violence, which tracks police violence by time, location, and available data, 1164 people were killed by police in 2018, following 1147 police killings in 2017. About one percent of those killings led to a police officer being convicted of a crime, even while reports argue that the vast majority of these killings could have been de-escalated by properly trained officers. The average time spent on de-escalation tactics by police recruits, however, is only about a seventh as much time spent on firearms training.
Overwatch is a game about shooting, bashing, and bludgeoning opponents in a structured environment. Everyone respawns, it’s all in good fun. Even in the game’s sparse established lore, the story of Overwatch is of a team of justice-minded ex-superheroes fighting to rid the world of the remnants of violent evildoers.
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And Brigitte’s a cop now. Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the “POLIS” logo on her chest armor (“Polis” being Swedish for “Police”, to reflect Brigitte’s in-lore Swedish background). Her “Riot Police” skin includes her trademark club being given a police-ized makeover (to more resemble a police combat baton) and her body shield being redesigned in the style of a modern riot shield.

Image: Loavesofbread/Wikimedia Commons
To be clear, the Overwatch skin lineups have never really been anything approaching “canon”. Among the skins mentioned above, this Anniversary update also includes a skin that turns giant ape Winston into a stone gargoyle (Win-stone, get it?) and down-under hook-wielder Roadhog into… some sort of demon in a hazmat suit. They’re not meant to play into the game’s overall fiction as much as they are meant to be fun riffs on the character concepts that Blizzard has already created for the characters.
Brigitte’s Riot Police skin isn’t Overwatch’s first foray into police admiration, that honor goes to Korean mecha-pilot D.Va’s “Police Officer” skin, back in 2017. But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with “the good guys” into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard. Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019.
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Brigitte is a character who, in lore, is shown as a valiant defender of the just and good, a modern knight in armor following in the footsteps of her idol Reinhardt. She can be that character, or she can be a riot cop, but she can't be both."

these were the literal images he posted on the article btw.

 

[Sho'nuff]

looks like someone at vice is complaining about brigitte's cop skin in overwatch. he made a little rant thats about him whining about a skin in the game. the guy who wrote the article is Dante Douglas

Stop Turning Overwatch Characters Into Cops

A new skin for Brigitte celebrates police militarization.

www.vice.com

"Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter that currently helms Blizzard’s competitive scene as well as captures the hearts of a massive fanbase eager to glean narrative content from a game that steadfastly refuses to give them more than the occasional morsel, has released details on the upcoming yearly Anniversaryevent.
Like previous years, Anniversary comes with a re-release of old Anniversarycosmetic items, maps, and missions, as well as some new goodies of decidedly questionable taste and intention, including the school uniform Academy D.Va skin that Overwatch Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan said would “break the internet” (according to reddit user PfeiferWolf, summarizing a livestream by Overwatchstreamer OhNickel) and a new Riot Police skin for mobile tank Brigitte.

Blizzard is an American studio. If you haven’t been following American politics, these past few years have been a time of reckoning with the ongoing militarization of police forces throughout the country and the way that communities of color bear the brunt of this violence. According to website Mapping Police Violence, which tracks police violence by time, location, and available data, 1164 people were killed by police in 2018, following 1147 police killings in 2017. About one percent of those killings led to a police officer being convicted of a crime, even while reports argue that the vast majority of these killings could have been de-escalated by properly trained officers. The average time spent on de-escalation tactics by police recruits, however, is only about a seventh as much time spent on firearms training.
Overwatch is a game about shooting, bashing, and bludgeoning opponents in a structured environment. Everyone respawns, it’s all in good fun. Even in the game’s sparse established lore, the story of Overwatch is of a team of justice-minded ex-superheroes fighting to rid the world of the remnants of violent evildoers.
ADVERTISEMENT

And Brigitte’s a cop now. Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the “POLIS” logo on her chest armor (“Polis” being Swedish for “Police”, to reflect Brigitte’s in-lore Swedish background). Her “Riot Police” skin includes her trademark club being given a police-ized makeover (to more resemble a police combat baton) and her body shield being redesigned in the style of a modern riot shield.

Image: Loavesofbread/Wikimedia Commons
To be clear, the Overwatch skin lineups have never really been anything approaching “canon”. Among the skins mentioned above, this Anniversary update also includes a skin that turns giant ape Winston into a stone gargoyle (Win-stone, get it?) and down-under hook-wielder Roadhog into… some sort of demon in a hazmat suit. They’re not meant to play into the game’s overall fiction as much as they are meant to be fun riffs on the character concepts that Blizzard has already created for the characters.
Brigitte’s Riot Police skin isn’t Overwatch’s first foray into police admiration, that honor goes to Korean mecha-pilot D.Va’s “Police Officer” skin, back in 2017. But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with “the good guys” into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard. Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019.
ADVERTISEMENT

Brigitte is a character who, in lore, is shown as a valiant defender of the just and good, a modern knight in armor following in the footsteps of her idol Reinhardt. She can be that character, or she can be a riot cop, but she can't be both."

these were the literal images he posted on the article btw.

Just based off of the few lines I could actually read, that "writer" deserves their own lolcow thread. If only to makes them aware of it and farm sweet uninformed tears from it.

On topic: I've just started playing again since I stopped around mid season 2. Of all the characters they've added since, I think Baptiste is the only one that doesn't make me gag on how niche and poorly designed he is. Which is sad considering he is essentially Healer 76.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

lel overwatch takes place in the future and bridgette as a cop from sweden is armed to the teeth, lel

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Imagine being such a soft little babyskull that you find yourself thinking Overwatch is too right-wing. I know this is Vice we're talking about, but wow. Dante is the guy that won't eat soy because of he opposes separating young soy beans from their mother-plant during the harvest.

 

[Medicated]

looks like someone at vice is complaining about brigitte's cop skin in overwatch. he made a little rant thats about him whining about a skin in the game. the guy who wrote the article is Dante Douglas

Stop Turning Overwatch Characters Into Cops

A new skin for Brigitte celebrates police militarization.

www.vice.com

"Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter that currently helms Blizzard’s competitive scene as well as captures the hearts of a massive fanbase eager to glean narrative content from a game that steadfastly refuses to give them more than the occasional morsel, has released details on the upcoming yearly Anniversaryevent.
Like previous years, Anniversary comes with a re-release of old Anniversarycosmetic items, maps, and missions, as well as some new goodies of decidedly questionable taste and intention, including the school uniform Academy D.Va skin that Overwatch Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan said would “break the internet” (according to reddit user PfeiferWolf, summarizing a livestream by Overwatchstreamer OhNickel) and a new Riot Police skin for mobile tank Brigitte.

Blizzard is an American studio. If you haven’t been following American politics, these past few years have been a time of reckoning with the ongoing militarization of police forces throughout the country and the way that communities of color bear the brunt of this violence. According to website Mapping Police Violence, which tracks police violence by time, location, and available data, 1164 people were killed by police in 2018, following 1147 police killings in 2017. About one percent of those killings led to a police officer being convicted of a crime, even while reports argue that the vast majority of these killings could have been de-escalated by properly trained officers. The average time spent on de-escalation tactics by police recruits, however, is only about a seventh as much time spent on firearms training.
Overwatch is a game about shooting, bashing, and bludgeoning opponents in a structured environment. Everyone respawns, it’s all in good fun. Even in the game’s sparse established lore, the story of Overwatch is of a team of justice-minded ex-superheroes fighting to rid the world of the remnants of violent evildoers.
ADVERTISEMENT

And Brigitte’s a cop now. Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the “POLIS” logo on her chest armor (“Polis” being Swedish for “Police”, to reflect Brigitte’s in-lore Swedish background). Her “Riot Police” skin includes her trademark club being given a police-ized makeover (to more resemble a police combat baton) and her body shield being redesigned in the style of a modern riot shield.

Image: Loavesofbread/Wikimedia Commons
To be clear, the Overwatch skin lineups have never really been anything approaching “canon”. Among the skins mentioned above, this Anniversary update also includes a skin that turns giant ape Winston into a stone gargoyle (Win-stone, get it?) and down-under hook-wielder Roadhog into… some sort of demon in a hazmat suit. They’re not meant to play into the game’s overall fiction as much as they are meant to be fun riffs on the character concepts that Blizzard has already created for the characters.
Brigitte’s Riot Police skin isn’t Overwatch’s first foray into police admiration, that honor goes to Korean mecha-pilot D.Va’s “Police Officer” skin, back in 2017. But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with “the good guys” into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard. Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019.
ADVERTISEMENT

Brigitte is a character who, in lore, is shown as a valiant defender of the just and good, a modern knight in armor following in the footsteps of her idol Reinhardt. She can be that character, or she can be a riot cop, but she can't be both."

these were the literal images he posted on the article btw.

The most interesting thing he said was the schoolgirl skin Kaplan claimed would break the internet. The entire article reads like a drunken rant from a pink haired bearded soyboy at a microbrewery place in SF at 2am. I get more info about the actual game from random forums. Or doing the legwork myself.

 

[Niggernerd]

I'm already tracer

 

[Y2K Baby]

Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter

Get it, because only fat chicks play it.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

looks like someone at vice is complaining about brigitte's cop skin in overwatch. he made a little rant thats about him whining about a skin in the game. the guy who wrote the article is Dante Douglas

Stop Turning Overwatch Characters Into Cops

A new skin for Brigitte celebrates police militarization.

www.vice.com

"Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter that currently helms Blizzard’s competitive scene as well as captures the hearts of a massive fanbase eager to glean narrative content from a game that steadfastly refuses to give them more than the occasional morsel, has released details on the upcoming yearly Anniversaryevent.
Like previous years, Anniversary comes with a re-release of old Anniversarycosmetic items, maps, and missions, as well as some new goodies of decidedly questionable taste and intention, including the school uniform Academy D.Va skin that Overwatch Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan said would “break the internet” (according to reddit user PfeiferWolf, summarizing a livestream by Overwatchstreamer OhNickel) and a new Riot Police skin for mobile tank Brigitte.

Blizzard is an American studio. If you haven’t been following American politics, these past few years have been a time of reckoning with the ongoing militarization of police forces throughout the country and the way that communities of color bear the brunt of this violence. According to website Mapping Police Violence, which tracks police violence by time, location, and available data, 1164 people were killed by police in 2018, following 1147 police killings in 2017. About one percent of those killings led to a police officer being convicted of a crime, even while reports argue that the vast majority of these killings could have been de-escalated by properly trained officers. The average time spent on de-escalation tactics by police recruits, however, is only about a seventh as much time spent on firearms training.
Overwatch is a game about shooting, bashing, and bludgeoning opponents in a structured environment. Everyone respawns, it’s all in good fun. Even in the game’s sparse established lore, the story of Overwatch is of a team of justice-minded ex-superheroes fighting to rid the world of the remnants of violent evildoers.
ADVERTISEMENT

And Brigitte’s a cop now. Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the “POLIS” logo on her chest armor (“Polis” being Swedish for “Police”, to reflect Brigitte’s in-lore Swedish background). Her “Riot Police” skin includes her trademark club being given a police-ized makeover (to more resemble a police combat baton) and her body shield being redesigned in the style of a modern riot shield.

Image: Loavesofbread/Wikimedia Commons
To be clear, the Overwatch skin lineups have never really been anything approaching “canon”. Among the skins mentioned above, this Anniversary update also includes a skin that turns giant ape Winston into a stone gargoyle (Win-stone, get it?) and down-under hook-wielder Roadhog into… some sort of demon in a hazmat suit. They’re not meant to play into the game’s overall fiction as much as they are meant to be fun riffs on the character concepts that Blizzard has already created for the characters.
Brigitte’s Riot Police skin isn’t Overwatch’s first foray into police admiration, that honor goes to Korean mecha-pilot D.Va’s “Police Officer” skin, back in 2017. But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with “the good guys” into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard. Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019.
ADVERTISEMENT

Brigitte is a character who, in lore, is shown as a valiant defender of the just and good, a modern knight in armor following in the footsteps of her idol Reinhardt. She can be that character, or she can be a riot cop, but she can't be both."

these were the literal images he posted on the article btw.

This retard just missed the fact that "Overwatch" itself was a barely monitored mercenary organization until Reaper kicked their shit in?

 

[Niggernerd]

This exceptional individual just missed the fact that "Overwatch" itself was a barely monitored mercenary organization until Reaper kicked their shit in?

Not sure how a skin correlates with "police militarization" in the US. Also the police wouldn't need tactical gear if niggers and sovereign citizens didn't act like a bunch of small brained Winstons.

 

[Marissa Moira]

One of the police skins really should have been a Patlabor reference.

 

[Y2K Baby]

One of the police skins really should have been a Patlabor reference.

One of the police skins should have the shrunken heads of black people hanging from a belt.

 

[Marissa Moira]

One of the police skins should have the shrunken heads of black people hanging from a belt.

Witch Doctor is Diablo not overwatch.

 

[Niggernerd]

One of the police skins really should have been a Patlabor reference.

D.va and her robutt would of been perfect for that.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Witch Doctor is Diablo not overwatch.

Like they care about internal consistency. One of the heroes is a hamster.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

looks like someone at vice is complaining about brigitte's cop skin in overwatch. he made a little rant thats about him whining about a skin in the game. the guy who wrote the article is Dante Douglas

Stop Turning Overwatch Characters Into Cops

A new skin for Brigitte celebrates police militarization.

www.vice.com

"Overwatch, the gargantuan shooter that currently helms Blizzard’s competitive scene as well as captures the hearts of a massive fanbase eager to glean narrative content from a game that steadfastly refuses to give them more than the occasional morsel, has released details on the upcoming yearly Anniversaryevent.
Like previous years, Anniversary comes with a re-release of old Anniversarycosmetic items, maps, and missions, as well as some new goodies of decidedly questionable taste and intention, including the school uniform Academy D.Va skin that Overwatch Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan said would “break the internet” (according to reddit user PfeiferWolf, summarizing a livestream by Overwatchstreamer OhNickel) and a new Riot Police skin for mobile tank Brigitte.

Blizzard is an American studio. If you haven’t been following American politics, these past few years have been a time of reckoning with the ongoing militarization of police forces throughout the country and the way that communities of color bear the brunt of this violence. According to website Mapping Police Violence, which tracks police violence by time, location, and available data, 1164 people were killed by police in 2018, following 1147 police killings in 2017. About one percent of those killings led to a police officer being convicted of a crime, even while reports argue that the vast majority of these killings could have been de-escalated by properly trained officers. The average time spent on de-escalation tactics by police recruits, however, is only about a seventh as much time spent on firearms training.
Overwatch is a game about shooting, bashing, and bludgeoning opponents in a structured environment. Everyone respawns, it’s all in good fun. Even in the game’s sparse established lore, the story of Overwatch is of a team of justice-minded ex-superheroes fighting to rid the world of the remnants of violent evildoers.
ADVERTISEMENT

And Brigitte’s a cop now. Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the “POLIS” logo on her chest armor (“Polis” being Swedish for “Police”, to reflect Brigitte’s in-lore Swedish background). Her “Riot Police” skin includes her trademark club being given a police-ized makeover (to more resemble a police combat baton) and her body shield being redesigned in the style of a modern riot shield.

Image: Loavesofbread/Wikimedia Commons
To be clear, the Overwatch skin lineups have never really been anything approaching “canon”. Among the skins mentioned above, this Anniversary update also includes a skin that turns giant ape Winston into a stone gargoyle (Win-stone, get it?) and down-under hook-wielder Roadhog into… some sort of demon in a hazmat suit. They’re not meant to play into the game’s overall fiction as much as they are meant to be fun riffs on the character concepts that Blizzard has already created for the characters.
Brigitte’s Riot Police skin isn’t Overwatch’s first foray into police admiration, that honor goes to Korean mecha-pilot D.Va’s “Police Officer” skin, back in 2017. But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with “the good guys” into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard. Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019.
ADVERTISEMENT

Brigitte is a character who, in lore, is shown as a valiant defender of the just and good, a modern knight in armor following in the footsteps of her idol Reinhardt. She can be that character, or she can be a riot cop, but she can't be both."

these were the literal images he posted on the article btw.

What even is supposed to be the issue or is it just pointless rule bending. Mecree's a Peacekeeper and is techincally involved in the idea of law enforcement and Pharah talks about "JUSTICE" all the time.

"Her new skin recalls the black-clad troopers that menaced anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Chicago, Portland, and countless other cities. According to the Washington Post, 360 people have been killed by police so far in 2019."

It's a skin to a fucking video game character with the incentive of players spending money to randomly get it in a loot drop what even is there to cry about with this. I ask that rhetorically as assuming this dude actually does play the game this is the same community up and arms because a character had a pink colored skin.

 

[Y2K Baby]

dude actually does play the game this is the same community up and arms because a character had a pink colored skin.

Where

 

[Snake of Diamond]

Where

OVERWATCH FORUM CRIERS: TRIGGERED TWITTER EDITION

Overwatch Forum Criers - The Triggered Twitter Edition. If you didn't know already, someone recently took some of my content out of context with the ashe ski...

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It was more of the people on the forum whining about something.

 

[Y2K Baby]

OVERWATCH FORUM CRIERS: TRIGGERED TWITTER EDITION

Overwatch Forum Criers - The Triggered Twitter Edition. If you didn't know already, someone recently took some of my content out of context with the ashe ski...

www.youtube.com

It was more of the people on the forum whining about something.

Who is pink