Overwatch

[Miller]

Pretty good video from Richard Lewis on the OWL:

 

[Tanner Glass]

On the subject of Overwatch and sex, there's a "Sexual Harassment" gametype making waves in custom games and video game journalism.

The name itself is embarrassing, why even play it?

It's intentionally bad.

When Starcraft 2 (and WC3RF) launched - the ToS dictated that maps/modes/custom lobbies/etc that you created in those games belonged to Blizzard in their entirety. People responded (and still respond) by making troll maps (aka Sexual Harassment Simulator, Hitler's Magical Adventure, etc).

 

[Cactus Concerto]

From Blizzard: Nothing we did was wrong and you're all the idiots incapable of understanding out stupid processes. Anyway, we're looking into several issues the community has pointed out for eons and will deal with them soon (tm). We're just a small indie developer taking on the reigns from juggernaut and veteran Blizzardvision Active so we've got a lot to iron out and absolutely no access to all of the things missing in this sequel that was present in the first game, like polish and some semblance of giving a fuck. You know, those silly business basics. Please play with us in Season 3!

Speaking of Season 3, it looks like it's going to be 1 new map that will have its 'newness' will vanish within days thanks to the map pool they've implemented. Likely no balance changes that actually affect what needs to be affected because Sojourn is their new queen, long may she reign, and the developers continue to ignore the fact that one shots should not be in a PvP game where half the team's entire purpose is to heal and support the rest of the time, whilst also claiming to encourage teamwork and objective play, when there are even less people on each team to try and deal with the sharpshooter hiding in the trees that only a fraction of the roster can reach.

The brain drain that occurred once Jeff left is strong. Overwatch was in a state during its life support days, don't get me wrong, but it was not this fucking bad. And it'll likely only get worse, if having only one new skin for the entirety of an annual Overwatch event wasn't signal enough when their entire practice since OW2's launch has been gutting their player base over cosmetics; now they can't even cough up cosmetics.

Onwards to Season 3!

 

[Thiletonomics]

From Blizzard: Nothing we did was wrong and you're all the idiots incapable of understanding out stupid processes. Anyway, we're looking into several issues the community has pointed out for eons and will deal with them soon (tm). We're just a small indie developer taking on the reigns from juggernaut and veteran Blizzardvision Active so we've got a lot to iron out and absolutely no access to all of the things missing in this sequel that was present in the first game, like polish and some semblance of giving a fuck. You know, those silly business basics. Please play with us in Season 3!

Speaking of Season 3, it looks like it's going to be 1 new map that will have its 'newness' will vanish within days thanks to the map pool they've implemented. Likely no balance changes that actually affect what needs to be affected because Sojourn is their new queen, long may she reign, and the developers continue to ignore the fact that one shots should not be in a PvP game where half the team's entire purpose is to heal and support the rest of the time, whilst also claiming to encourage teamwork and objective play, when there are even less people on each team to try and deal with the sharpshooter hiding in the trees that only a fraction of the roster can reach.

The brain drain that occurred once Jeff left is strong. Overwatch was in a state during its life support days, don't get me wrong, but it was not this fucking bad. And it'll likely only get worse, if having only one new skin for the entirety of an annual Overwatch event wasn't signal enough when their entire practice since OW2's launch has been gutting their player base over cosmetics; now they can't even cough up cosmetics.

Onwards to Season 3!

When your FPS game somehow has less post-release content, than Battlefield 2042, you're on your own level of "YOU FUCKED IT UP!"

 

[74164978231]

Tried this again for a few days after reinstalling to let my nephew check it out.

Uninstalled already. Played 5 games in a row where my team was rolled with ease. Last game I played support where I did 25k healing, twice as much as the other healer on my team and 50% more than the enemy healers. All that effort to end up with a shit loss.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Angry Joe put OW2 (or in his words, OW1.5) as the 8th most disappointing game of 2022:

 

[Cactus Concerto]

Season 3 Trailer | Season 3 'Roadmap' | Patch Notes (February 7, 2023)

It seems OW will finally be monetizing their coomer base with a visual novel and a Valentine's Day themed event. They also have a One Punch Man collaboration. There's supposedly going to be a New Game Mode (event-locked) coming, to do with Pachimari. This comes with the typical Season 3 pack where the theme seems to be a toss up between 'Bees' (likely following Mei's Bee Keeper skin) and Japanese mythology. I find it laughable that they can't stick with one theme throughout an entire season for the battle pass but that's neither here nor there.

As far as monetization goes, they're finally making some sensible decisions (in league with mobile games and their models—right now I'm not comparing them to full prized titles and anything that isn't in the paid content & cosmetics space). The crossover potential with skins alone is huge. They massively missed the boat on Marvel & DC and there's nothing on the horizon or in the pop culture sphere currently that would garner that much attention right now, but falling back on known Japanese media and animation isn't a bad play. They have fumbled the ball so thoroughly they can only go up from here.

TL;DR on Patch Notes: 1 new map () but their engineers will only figure out how to undo map pools in Season 4 (allegedly). Changes directed towards all tanks (base HP) in non-Role Queue game modes; basically everyone has less HP outside of Role Queue modes. Ramyouintheass's ult now goes from lasting infinitely (potentially) to stopping at 20 seconds. McCree's sticky bomb aka Tracer's ult on a cool down with a more generous sticky radius has been left untouched. Sojourn has been left untouched. Widow has 175 HP again. Sombra got a minor buff "while we make progress on a small rework for her abilities." And Mercy got absolutely gutted (or at least severely rearranged, YMMV).

Spoiler: Triggered Mercy player incoming.

Instead of dealing with the heroes that she enables (primarily Sojourn), the devs decided Mercy was the problem and went with changes that encourage gameplay reminiscent of her rez as an ult days: pocket and hide, bitch. All because the top DPS players in the world can't deal with the top Support players in the world being capable of surviving and adequately helping their teams. It's kind of like support players might need to be really fucking good at outlasting whatever damage is being put out to help their teams and win games. But no, all support players get for doing exactly what they need to do to win is get shit on because of what basically amounts to, once again, one shots. I wonder what the fucking problem is.

Never mind the fact that supports are heavily targeted in the 5v5 space, more so than before, and rightfully so: the moment a team loses their supports, a team fight is essentially won and lost unless the remaining DPS and tank do gangbusters with damage and defence. Characters like Mercy need abilities like Guardian Angel to get the fuck out of dodge, especially if the player cannot reliably hit shots (why the fuck do you think they're playing support and not DPS) or they've just been pulled in some direction by a tank and need a quick way to get the fuck out.

But now her movement and entire gameplay flow is being danced on because "oh my god, Mercy in high-level play is really hard to hit. Oh no, she keeps pocketing that Sojourn." When they could have easily made it so Sojourn can't fucking headshot with her abilities or, alternatively, can't zip around the map so easily. Maybe even both.

Nah, Mercy's the problem. Fuck's sake. Their top-down balancing philosophy and unwillingness to realize that one shots, in every form, do not belong in this game pisses me off every fucking time.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

And Mercy got absolutely gutted (or at least severely rearranged, YMMV).

Isn’t this like, the 4th time Mercy’s been nerfed into a hole? And she’s basically just the Support you break out if you can’t aim but want to do more than exist as Lucio or flail blindly as Brig before dying because she’s also been nerfed into a hole?

Everything else in the notes makes me glad I stopped playing this dumpster fire. Seriously, the game was arguably the most fun during the first two years of it existing - roughly before the League came out and balance shifted to slobber on it’s non-existant cock.

Least I got my Sombra trophies before I quit and she inevitably gets demolished in a rework…

 

[The Fair Lady]

Figures that the only options they're including for the "dating sim" are Mercy and Genji.

 

[Mr. Idiot]

After about a year of not touching this game at all I installed it again 2 days ago and played two matches before I uninstalled it again. That I won the 2nd match didn't even make me want to keep on playing because at least with 1 underneath the bullshit e-sports scene, adjustments of characters and the political agenda's there was still a game I could somewhat get my bearing in.

Now we got another major rework to most of the existing cast and it's such a clusterfuck that along with the disgusting monetization program is just the game looking even more unappealing to play anymore that I can't even make out what's going on compared to OW1.
Fuck that shit. TF2's way better to play and to make out what's going on anyway. Whoever thought adding even more characters to a 30-something roster already didn't know shit about good balancing.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

most of these patches don't seem to fix any of the actual problems in the game so it furthers the thing people are saying that this team of trogodytes in charge of OW now are even more incompetent than the team before. Out of all the new skins the Doomfist one will be talked about more and my compliant is they're dangling an actually cool skin in front of players for the worst tank in the game right now. The Mercy nerfs are comedic at this point because instead of looking at every hero and how they work paired with her they instead try to stop her from healing efficiently. It's like severing the healthy limbs to the diseased limb doesn't effect them it is the most backwards, dumbfuck way i've seen devs try to fix issues in their games.

 

[Kier Starmer]

The problem is the dumb "balancing" just exasperates people to leave because heroes keep getting fucking ruined. Support may as well not exist because of how strong DPS is. Mercy is broken, as well as Brig and Moira is "usable". I feel they hired a bunch of danger hairs who have no idea to code or balance. I have followed gaming antics for years but OW2 is probably one of the most mishandled shitshows I have seen.

I can only laugh though because companies like Sony are crying like babies because MS buying ABK but if they look at the true picture. ABK is a company on life alert. No Chinese players basically propped up their monthly active users and did not have actual growth, it was only plastering over the holes.

HearthStone is on its death bed, yesterday they announced its recent game mode after one year of life being shuttered because players did not succumb to its egregious monetization practices.

Wow has had so many people leave that its speculated there are less than 2 million players. Players are about to drop off more too as the game is basically forcing people to raid as content.

I could honestly write a 10,000-word essay on the omega failings of Overwatch and Overwatch 2 alone. Nothing is positive and so poorly handled that PVE mode is going to release, players will get bored after a week and then the game will lose probably 95% of its audience because that is what they were only waiting for.

Come on a fucking dating sim for an event and mark that with content as everyone leaves you. I'll log in right fucking now, they still use FOMO too and it's such a shit practice because it only makes players leave eventually.

The game isn't even on life alert, it's fucking flatlining on the table also season 3 is probably the blandest-looking season to date.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

The problem is the dumb "balancing" just exasperates people to leave because heroes keep getting fucking ruined. Support may as well not exist because of how strong DPS is. Mercy is broken, as well as Brig and Moira is "usable". I feel they hired a bunch of danger hairs who have no idea to code or balance. I have followed gaming antics for years but OW2 is probably one of the most mishandled shitshows I have seen.

I can only laugh though because companies like Sony are crying like babies because MS buying ABK but if they look at the true picture. ABK is a company on life alert. No Chinese players basically propped up their monthly active users and did not have actual growth, it was only plastering over the holes.

HearthStone is on its death bed, yesterday they announced its recent game mode after one year of life being shuttered because players did not succumb to its egregious monetization practices.

Wow has had so many people leave that its speculated there are less than 2 million players. Players are about to drop off more too as the game is basically forcing people to raid as content.

I could honestly write a 10,000-word essay on the omega failings of Overwatch and Overwatch 2 alone. Nothing is positive and so poorly handled that PVE mode is going to release, players will get bored after a week and then the game will lose probably 95% of its audience because that is what they were only waiting for.

Come on a fucking dating sim for an event and mark that with content as everyone leaves you. I'll log in right fucking now, they still use FOMO too and it's such a shit practice because it only makes players leave eventually.

The game isn't even on life alert, it's fucking flatlining on the table also season 3 is probably the blandest-looking season to date.

As long as the mouthbreather consoomer exist companies won't learn nobody wants this. We can yell and scream it to them but ion order to stop dumbfucks from being preyed on we need to teach them to stop being dumbfucks. Blizz is one of the reasons i don't take gaming controversies seriously anymore as effectively "morality" has been weeded out of the industry because companies have gone under for less than Blizzard has been confirmed for doing and is still doing. Inside their games or at the company itself there is no reason to keep Blizzard around besides being a write off for shareholders.

It's amazing how they are getting away with the nonsense in this game because people just don't care anymore and slacktivism every time one of these companies like Blizzard fuck up is encouraged.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

some people thought the saitama skin for Doomfist was them blachwashing saitama for a new one punch game. i dont know what's worse, people being so buck broken or have no idea what overwatch is.

 

[74164978231]

As long as the mouthbreather consoomer exist companies won't learn nobody wants this.

That applies to every facet of consumption nowadays. The fact you can make a good living off of being a consumer and sucking globohomo dick aka being an influencer means this will never change.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

So people are having hissy fits over the nerfing of Mercy.

She’s my main and I tried her out in a few matches. Couldn’t “feel” a noticeable diffference. If anything, the “heals quicker for people under 50%” felt more effective than before.

 

[Power Glove]

Figures that the only options they're including for the "dating sim" are Mercy and Genji.

No love for Widowmaker it would seem. If you're gonna play an Overwatch dating sim, and you do not have Widowmaker as an option, what are you even doing? It's almost like Blizzard makes no effort these days. Huh.

 

[I don't swear]

Season 3 Trailer | Season 3 'Roadmap' | Patch Notes (February 7, 2023)

It seems OW will finally be monetizing their coomer base with a visual novel and a Valentine's Day themed event. They also have a One Punch Man collaboration. There's supposedly going to be a New Game Mode (event-locked) coming, to do with Pachimari. This comes with the typical Season 3 pack where the theme seems to be a toss up between 'Bees' (likely following Mei's Bee Keeper skin) and Japanese mythology. I find it laughable that they can't stick with one theme throughout an entire season for the battle pass but that's neither here nor there.

As far as monetization goes, they're finally making some sensible decisions (in league with mobile games and their models—right now I'm not comparing them to full prized titles and anything that isn't in the paid content & cosmetics space). The crossover potential with skins alone is huge. They massively missed the boat on Marvel & DC and there's nothing on the horizon or in the pop culture sphere currently that would garner that much attention right now, but falling back on known Japanese media and animation isn't a bad play. They have fumbled the ball so thoroughly they can only go up from here.

TL;DR on Patch Notes: 1 new map () but their engineers will only figure out how to undo map pools in Season 4 (allegedly). Changes directed towards all tanks (base HP) in non-Role Queue game modes; basically everyone has less HP outside of Role Queue modes. Ramyouintheass's ult now goes from lasting infinitely (potentially) to stopping at 20 seconds. McCree's sticky bomb aka Tracer's ult on a cool down with a more generous sticky radius has been left untouched. Sojourn has been left untouched. Widow has 175 HP again. Sombra got a minor buff "while we make progress on a small rework for her abilities." And Mercy got absolutely gutted (or at least severely rearranged, YMMV).

Spoiler: Triggered Mercy player incoming.

Instead of dealing with the heroes that she enables (primarily Sojourn), the devs decided Mercy was the problem and went with changes that encourage gameplay reminiscent of her rez as an ult days: pocket and hide, bitch. All because the top DPS players in the world can't deal with the top Support players in the world being capable of surviving and adequately helping their teams. It's kind of like support players might need to be really fucking good at outlasting whatever damage is being put out to help their teams and win games. But no, all support players get for doing exactly what they need to do to win is get shit on because of what basically amounts to, once again, one shots. I wonder what the fucking problem is.

Never mind the fact that supports are heavily targeted in the 5v5 space, more so than before, and rightfully so: the moment a team loses their supports, a team fight is essentially won and lost unless the remaining DPS and tank do gangbusters with damage and defence. Characters like Mercy need abilities like Guardian Angel to get the fuck out of dodge, especially if the player cannot reliably hit shots (why the fuck do you think they're playing support and not DPS) or they've just been pulled in some direction by a tank and need a quick way to get the fuck out.

But now her movement and entire gameplay flow is being danced on because "oh my god, Mercy in high-level play is really hard to hit. Oh no, she keeps pocketing that Sojourn." When they could have easily made it so Sojourn can't fucking headshot with her abilities or, alternatively, can't zip around the map so easily. Maybe even both.

Nah, Mercy's the problem. Fuck's sake. Their top-down balancing philosophy and unwillingness to realize that one shots, in every form, do not belong in this game pisses me off every fucking time.

I like you. One shots is why this game is a joke. Hog going from trash (or so-so) in 1 to top-tier, now in 2, because of his unimpeded ability to one-shot without resistance is why the design of this game is a joke. Same with basically having to play Widow against a Widow who is singlehandedly carrying their team.

 

[ZMOT]

I can only laugh though because companies like Sony are crying like babies because MS buying ABK but if they look at the true picture. ABK is a company on life alert. No Chinese players basically propped up their monthly active users and did not have actual growth, it was only plastering over the holes.

sony cares about cod, because that's where the money and it's retarded consoomers are. no one gives a shit about blizzard. besides sony already owns bunghole which caters to the "please shit in my mouth so I can give you more money" crowd blizzard has cultivated.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I can only laugh though because companies like Sony are crying like babies because MS buying ABK but if they look at the true picture. ABK is a company on life alert. No Chinese players basically propped up their monthly active users and did not have actual growth, it was only plastering over the holes.

ABK isn't a company on life alert though. Blizzard is, but Activision and King are constantly doing gangbusters. King is more of a mobile game maker, but Activision is absolutely making money hand over fist via milking the Call of Duty series.

Blizzard is a company that has a lot of value in its IPs as well. Blizzard itself clearly has no fucking idea what to do with them, but Sony is likely worried about a "what if" scenario around other Microsoft Studios and Blizzard IPs (aka What if World of Warcraft 2 was made by a team not staffed by drooling retards and Xbox exclusive, or one of the Call of Duty Studios made a Starcraft FPS).