Overwatch

[fat bunny]

I wish they would add some more minigame modes and at least some more skins or something. How do they expect to keep the game alive until OW2 if they keep delaying it? It's already dead compared to before - 4 minute queues for DPS? what?

saying that I have been having fun mindlessly shooting things *mostly walls I can't aim over the Halloween event

Also for anyone that's used their free btag change already you can get another free one until Nov 5 because of McCree:

Limited time free BattleTag name change

As we introduce a new name, you might have the desire to do the same. Read on for more information about changing your BattleTag for free.

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[s0mbra]

I wish they would add some more minigame modes and at least some more skins or something. How do they expect to keep the game alive until OW2 if they keep delaying it? It's already dead compared to before - 4 minute queues for DPS? what?

saying that I have been having fun mindlessly shooting things *mostly walls I can't aim over the Halloween event

Also for anyone that's used their free btag change already you can get another free one until Nov 5 because of McCree:

Limited time free BattleTag name change

As we introduce a new name, you might have the desire to do the same. Read on for more information about changing your BattleTag for free.

news.blizzard.com

Dubs picks my new battletag

 

[coolguy69]

Dubs picks my new battletag

rolling for ligger nover

 

[Absolutego]

Just update OW1 with more than 4 good skins every season, actively balance your game around the active user base and not the e-sports league, update your fucking seasonal event game modes, add more maps and shut the fuck up.

It's so fucking easy and yet they keep failing at doing the bare minimum. It's infuriating.

Fun fact: Blizzard has officially put more effort into erasing Jesse McCree's name in-game in a few weeks/months than they have done tweaking a six year old game mode like Lucio Ball to, y'know, work.

"AT LEAST THIS WAY IT WON'T BE LIKE CYBERPUCK 2077," the pundits will inevitably chime. You're a fucking disease, deaf, and blind, I reply.

Hell, you want to bring players back to the game? Remove the hero limit in quick match and stop making it a practice competitive league. If I had the opportunity to find some friends and do 5 Torb matches again, I might come back.
Blizzard obsessing over e-sports revenue has killed at least two of their games now. Retards.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Typically, any time anything about the game was announced, it was in order to try and draw attention away from Blizzard being on fire, so I’m not surprised it’s been indefinitely delayed. I really doubt there was very much of it done to begin with.

 

[Alter Ego]

Also for anyone that's used their free btag change already you can get another free one until Nov 5 because of McCree:

Limited time free BattleTag name change

As we introduce a new name, you might have the desire to do the same. Read on for more information about changing your BattleTag for free.

news.blizzard.com

Now's the opportunity to change your name TO McCree!

 

[ZMOT]

Dubs picks my new battletag

Now's the opportunity to change your name TO McCree!

mccree it is

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Typically, any time anything about the game was announced, it was in order to try and draw attention away from Blizzard being on fire, so I’m not surprised it’s been indefinitely delayed. I really doubt there was very much of it done to begin with.

Well it was announced because "Guys so sorry that we're china shills that want to sell you mobile games, so here is Diablo 4 which we have a demo build right here we made with the d3 engine in a couple of months, oh look at that trailer sooooo cooooool. Oh here is Overwatch 2, What? a sequel so soon for a shooter. guys we're totally not activision and this isn't call of duty, it just gonna have a pve mode and it's gonna be like left 4 dead with robots with progression and shit, oh yeah there is another wow expansion we have to announce, do people still play this game? whatever, at least it isn't Battle for Azeroth, so it must be good right? See all those rumors that we totally not shared with Jason to build up hype were true and we haven't sold out on you guys. Blitzchong what?" *adjusts pride pin*

 

[YourFriendlyLurker]

blizzard issuing new comic that should lore-wise explain why McCree changed his name. It's gonna be shit storytelling as usual, but what really hit me is the quality of art. I guess all good artists also left the company and bliz outsources blue-haired fangirls from twitter directly.

Spoiler: At first I thought it was another fanart, but no. It's an official blizard art.

 

[Cactus Concerto]

New Blood #1
"Recap" aka Autistic Sperging because I'm the idiot that still gives a fuck

Spoiler: We start in Route 66, the entirety of America.

His internal dialogue is written in 2nd person. Don't mind it is but I'm not roleplaying as McCree here, I'm a spectator. This isn't in-game dialogue, this isn't a diary entry. Why the fuck is this 2nd person instead of 1st? There's a lot of internal dialogue. Personal preference but shit just feels wrong here.

Anyway, he waxes poetic about how he could have retired but he didn't. He gets a letter from Ana asking to meet in Cairo. The skin is shit and dull, even in the comic. This would be fine if Blizzard released more than 1 skin per century, or even offered recolors for their purple/blue cosmetics, but no, we need to go below the bare minimum. You have to win games for this shit. Fuck me. Moving on.

Despite some of the art oopsies and weird-looking panels, it's endearing seeing McCree and Ana catch up and talk. Paired with knowledge of their in-game, non-canon dialogue together, it paints a really nice picture and doesn't feel forced or as awkward as 76/Ana did for me.

Ana starts talking shit about how the old guard of Overwatch should not be involved in the new Overwatch because reasons. "We fucked it up before, wah wah." In the words of a true hero: FIGHT TOE TO TOE, YOU COWARDS. The fan base has been with old guard Overwatch for half a decade and you're telling me you wanna sideline them for some new shit? Fuck off.

I hate this writing direction. 76 and Reaper on opposite sides of the field, fighting off decades off shit, is GOLD. It's cliché but without a leg to stand on, Blizzard needs as much help as it can get. Ana, 76, and Reaper having to go up against each other to try and sort out their mess of a history is how they deserve to 'go out', fuck this new blood bullshit. "I'm too old, we need a new generation, wah wah." Then can literally both of you, 76 and Ana here, STOP ACTING LIKE OLD-AGE BATMEN AND FUCKING RETIRE OR GET THE FUCK BACK IN THE BATMOBILE AND FIGHT.

tl;dr: Reinhardt is the superior old daddy. We continue.

Lame fight scene, Ana spewing dialogue as they're getting shot it (while getting shot at!) that's lamp-shaded by McCree who says it isn't the time. No shit. Doesn't make your shoddy and sloppy expo-dump any better.

Ana: I don't want to be a part of the fight.
Ana: has several hideouts all over the country with computer step-ups, keeps tabs on everyone, knows everything

Pick a lane, old mama.

She suggests McCree starts a new team with D.Va, Pharah, and Zarya showcased for the reader. What the fuck happened to Mei, Rein, Mercy, and whoever else was in that animated short? Which team is Echo supposed to be in, especially after McCree was the one to let her catch-a-riiiiide? Are we just going to have multiple teams again? LIKE THEY DID BEFORE? ARE WE NOT SEEING HOW HISTORY IS ALREADY REPEATING RIGHT NOW? This shit is so stupid.

McCree meets up with Pharah first and I ship it. To be continued.

Thoughts
I could hear Ana's voice through her dialogue for the most part which was nice. McCree is doing what Winston has been doing for the last six years and seems to be en route to finishing this goal in five comic books, so maybe he should lead the Overvengers. Except not because his dry personality and easy-going nature are not great leadership qualities. He's a side-kick, the quip guy, the quiet danger in the back. I don't know whose idea it was to try and make McCree the new 76 but it's stupid and needs to die.

They have three options as far as I'm concerned: Winston (break the cutie), Reinhardt (respected veteran finds family and a purpose once more), or Pharah (overzealous overachiever must come to terms with her own weaknesses and overcomes her inability to have an interesting personality). McCree's a loner cowboy, I have no clue why they're trying to push this onto him. Hopefully they realize that and over the course of these 5 editions have McCree figure that out himself.

I was looking forward to #2 and then I read the teaser (family bullshit, Pharah won't join because of her mom issues, blah blah) and I'm decidedly less excited.

And that's what you missed on the Overwatch Lore Crumb Dump.

 

[YourFriendlyLurker]

And that's what you missed on the Overwatch Lore Crumb Dump.

That's what happens when you don't have any holistic worldbuilding or even idea of what your characters are. I always wondered why it was so hard for bliz to hire actually good writers for OW. Now it's too late and useless anyway, but in its golden era? At first it was Choo (did I recall that guy correctly even?) whose idea of lore was telling who is gay on his twatter, even plebbit fanboyz complained on that shit. Now it's just total nothing with some outsourced writing who has no idea of what those characters are shitty retcons attempts.

because I'm the idiot that still gives a fuck

Lol feel your pain. Bliz was my fav dev once, now I feel like a forensic autopsist, sperging over that corpse of the company and all those dead franchises and collecting "what went wrong-s". Well, at least it's fun too.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

blizzard issuing new comic that should lore-wise explain why McCree changed his name. It's gonna be shit storytelling as usual, but what really hit me is the quality of art. I guess all good artists also left the company and bliz outsources blue-haired fangirls from twitter directly.

Spoiler: At first I thought it was another fanart, but no. It's an official blizard art.

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its hilarious how much time and money they spent on book burning rather than fix the issue of the game or better yet, focus on overwatch two. im glad im no longer a slave.

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

And that's what you missed on the Overwatch Lore Crumb Dump.

Lmao love how they're painting Ana here after the in-game Ana is polarly opposite to this one. Her voice lines and battle quips all imply she prefers doing whatever badass shit she can over being retired. The mong they hired to write this shit obviouslt hasn't even spent a minute playing at all or even bothering to read what they already had.

Spoiler: Leaked panel of the next installment of this comic

 

[Belvedere]

Lmao love how they're painting Ana here after the in-game Ana is polarly opposite to this one. Her voice lines and battle quips all imply she prefers doing whatever badass shit she can over being retired. The mong they hired to write this shit obviouslt hasn't even spent a minute playing at all or even bothering to read what they already had.

Spoiler: Leaked panel of the next installment of this comic

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Anyone who at this point thinks Blizzard cares about the Overwatch lore is delusional,

The overarching story line of OW is the most basic bitch science-fiction 101 take you could possibly have as a backdrop. The robot uprising / sentient AI cliche has been done to death and there is really nothing groundbreaking or subversive as to how it is done here.

Expecting good writing from Blizzard perhaps is a bit too much but at the very least you'll think they'll keep the internal logic of it consistent. Furthermore, if you think about it the entire story line makes no sense; we are supposed to believe that this takes place after a human/robot war yet there is very little in the way of an aftermath of this event (Eichenwalde being the only map showing some hints of what happened) yet all other cities in-game show no signs of said war ever happening. Moreover humanity won the conflict yet sentient AI robots are still around and mingling peacefully with humans as if nothing had happened, and as to further emphasize the stupidity of allowing AI to persist, a second robot uprising is the story that motivates the events moving forward. What?! As if humanity would even allow AI to ever continue existing after it rebelled against its creators. Humanity would go full reverse-Terminator and destroy every last robot on Earth and permanently ban any research and development of AI in the future.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

No, how can we have a story about racism without being racist?

 

[I.B. Niggin]

Hell, you want to bring players back to the game? Remove the hero limit in quick match and stop making it a practice competitive league. If I had the opportunity to find some friends and do 5 Torb matches again, I might come back.
Blizzard obsessing over e-sports revenue has killed at least two of their games now. Retards.

You know what, I miss pure unconcentrated cancer too.

 

[Absolutego]

You know what, I miss pure unconcentrated cancer too.

Heaven forbid we have a game mode for silliness and there's a space where I can't be screamed at by teenagers bitching about not adhering to the latest meta.

 

[Acrid Alchemist]

Heaven forbid we have a game mode for silliness and there's a space where I can't be screamed at by teenagers bitching about not adhering to the latest meta.

There is a game mode for this. Its called No Limits and it rotates in and out of the Arcade every day. Its awful but it does exist for crazy people like you.

 

[MooseGump]

There is a game mode for this. Its called No Limits and it rotates in and out of the Arcade every day. Its awful but it does exist for crazy people like you.

I remember when Kaplan said this same thing and he got lambasted for it lol

 

[FatalTater]

I'm old.
Whenever kids on the voice chat would get all NOOOOO that's not the way I wanna plaaaaayy!!! I just ignore them. It is a game after all, for playing with.

Unrelated thing - I wonder if I point out to the world that back in the day a girl named Jennifer bothered me and now I'd like for no one to be called Jennifer anymore, would people stop using that name and maybe go back and republish yearbooks and newspapers and stuff using different names? My feelings matter more than reality and logic so that should be no problem, right?