Overwatch

[s0mbra]

OW has been dead to me for a while, but decided to muster up a few fucks to give to play Wrath of the Bride (I mean, come on. How could I not?) First few rounds I was stoked. It's pretty cute and has some neat things like going into the nightmare world, and JQs quips gave me a chuckle or two. but after playing it a few times it's...just the same shit? Wasn't the whole point of OW2 being a thing was because they needed to overwork everything and get a new system to make better pve? Heard somewhere the devs said the story pve will be on par with WotB so that killed any last interest I had. Not that I trust current Blizz to write any sort of actually good story at this point anyway.

Also as much fun as I had playing Junker Queen, why the fuck is she in WotB? Her entire kit is getting in people's faces, but everything explodes when you do.

I won't even touch the monetization shit. Everyone has already said it better.

At least we haven't had a tranny reveal yet. (Rip any last interest I had in playing Apex)

 

[Kheapathic]

I wish that with events like Junkerstein, you'd be able to unlock event specific skins by participating in the events.

Example: get 20 stars in Junkerstein, get a voucher for a Halloween skin or something. As of now, the only way to get limited time skins is to buy them.

Or even bring back the thing where they'd start an event and have a tier of stuff for every week it's active. It wasn't a time sink, just play a bit each week and get your goodies.

Also as much fun as I had playing Junker Queen, why the fuck is she in WotB? Her entire kit is getting in people's faces, but everything explodes when you do.

Blizz can't balance their games properly. Even when it comes to vs computer content. I can't count how many times a Junk Queen sucked an Al Qaeda Omnic into the group with her knife pull.

 

[Kier Starmer]

It's pretty arrogant of Blizzard to leave this character til December. The game is a walking PR disaster, one of the worst in a long time. The game absolutely 0 to its players on every single level. The new map design is incredibly sloppy and the balancing issues are prolonged to about 2 months which is completely unacceptable. Other companies running a similar service like LoL and I think apex would never allow that.

I thought OW2 would stand til the new year but fans are already done, the new reveal did nothing and did not really trend. The problem with games like OW is they are built on PR and opinion and as soon as those pillars go it's gone. A document Bellular covered implies that people have not been buying skins. Good, this is honestly fantastic because it hurts Blizzard as it takes control of them to an extent.

Competitive is a fucking joke, no one talks because the surveillance audio and the game is full of leavers. The game at this point is a fucking Queue simulator, so much time is in Q's that Blizzard is so high on their own supply if they think people are going to fork over money for a game that is probably 60% q's.

The reason why I stopped was the Qs but also the horrendous design and how vacuous the game truly is.

 

[MrGodSlave]

I finally snapped and now scream Kike Faggot Nigger KYS at those snarky soys trying to direct the team and demand hero swaps while they are mediocre at best. And the yammering women with a tryhard simp in tow. Those two archetypes infest competitive, and I've had it. Will continue this until banned.

 

[StutterBox]

I finally snapped and now scream Kike Faggot Nigger KYS at those snarky soys trying to direct the team and demand hero swaps while they are mediocre at best. And the yammering women with a tryhard simp in tow. Those two archetypes infest competitive, and I've had it. Will continue this until banned.

This has been my M.O. on one of my accounts for a while now. Started with 5 day to 15 day to 30 day bans. Still no perma.

 

[Jasper2K]

So taking characters out of the game when something about them is broken is going to be the norm Blizzard and your still going to sell your faggot skins for them (Mei) when you can't even play them? Holy fuck wow buddy wow.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Forgive the Yahoo link, but the faggots over on Reddit found this bit of fun - Blizzard may or may not be out of China in a few weeks

Spoiler: Article Link

Blizzard Games Including Overwatch Being Suspended in China

Professional Overwatch China teams have found themselves in a bit […] The post Blizzard Games Including Overwatch Being Suspended in China appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.

www.yahoo.com

The Short version - Blizzard's partner over in China, NetEase, announced that they've failed to reach a deal to renew Blizzards licenses in China. Chinese players have apparently already been locked out. Full honesty, they'll probably be fine and find a new partner. Outside chance though - considering China's going through it's own equivalent of "Quiet Quitting", and the CCP's history of preferring to solve problems with a sledge hammer? It'd be only fitting for a company that's pivoted so much to appealing to China get fucked by the party ruling China...

 

[Lichen Bark]

Booted the game up to see what it's all about and the first 20 minutes are troubleshooting screen tearing problems. (off to a great start). When you open the menu screen to fiddle with the settings the retard AI woman nags, and nags, and nags you to to X thing in the tutorial. I'm in the menu stupid, the game should be paused. Even with a recently built machine I feel like the game is optimized poorly and suffers from low frames per second. I think if you're doing an FPS the combat needs to look smooth like a Modern warfare, Doom Eternal or TF2. It's very frenetic combat, and you really need the best possible FPS, especially with all the crap flying at you. I feel like the game is struggling even with the very basic looking maps. Why?

The 5v5 is meh, you cant really hide amongst the ranks if you stink, any mistakes you make are amplified, this probably causes the insane amounts of leaving. If you have a bunch of other guys on the team you aren't just going to get blasted again as soon as you step out of spawn. A bigger team would be nice. You could get rid of that dumb queue system if the servers had a larger player count.

I am getting TF2 flashbacks with the payload objectives. The voice lines with half of the diversity crew are grating, and not funny, just mostly snark. The stories seem to be about "X character defends their home!" What even is the point of trying to make a background for each character? Torbjorn is like a shittier engineer, the Irish healer chick is a pain to play because you cant really lock onto the targets you need to heal. Maybe I am just getting fussier as time goes on. I can't wait to make it into voice chat, it sounds like that will be enlightening.

 

[FatalTater]

I know it's a little early for Christmas music, but I felt inspired by the comments on literally anything posted on the Overwatch twitter.

JT Music - Overwatch Christmas Song

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

I've only played the first game once and decided it wasn't for me but I've always been morbidly curious about the staying power of the series so I pop into this thread from time to time and I wanted to ask:
Do you guys think the second game has killed the series with all of its issues? Do you see it ironing itself out eventually? Or are the characters too popular for Overwatch to truly die? Or is there some middle ground or alternative option?

 

[The Last Stand]

Xbox sent me a code for a Pharah skin bundle ... that did not work. They guaranteed me that it'd work now. Not sure whether to blame Xbox or Blizzard for sending a dummy code.

OW2's menus suck. I cannot tell what is highlighted or not. And what is with this new engine that is regularly breaking characters?

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

I've only played the first game once and decided it wasn't for me but I've always been morbidly curious about the staying power of the series so I pop into this thread from time to time and I wanted to ask:
Do you guys think the second game has killed the series with all of its issues? Do you see it ironing itself out eventually? Or are the characters too popular for Overwatch to truly die? Or is there some middle ground or alternative option?

The game itself, I’d say it’ll limp on for a bit, but if the PvE content that’s allegedly set to come out next year doesn’t deliver - or worse, is actually shit - I think the games boned. The PvE is the one selling feature this glorified expansion has over the Original, and it wasn’t here at launch. They’ve recently announced 35M downloads, but I’d be willing to bet we’re going to stop hearing those kinds of milestones, and the player base will shrink down to maybe a bit higher than the core players who stuck around for the last 3 years of content drought.

The Porn will outlive the Game.

 

[MrGodSlave]

7 day PSN ban. Not only Overwatch. I was under the impression unless you type something in chat, you're golden to speak from the heart. They claimed to only be starting the AI Voice chat monitor in the latest patch, or season two. Using a backup account, but I don't like smurfing. There are honest to the Lord brain damaged people, or fetuses drooling upon controllers at the beginner level. Trying to crack the 50 QP win quota to access Comp is the 10th circle of Hell.

 

[74164978231]

I wish that with events like Junkerstein, you'd be able to unlock event specific skins by participating in the events.

Thats literally the way OW1 was. Well you would get event specific lootboxes with a chance to get the event skins.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

>OW2 was suppose to move away from the shield meta
>add more shield's anyway.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Damn when the new hero is announced and no one is excited. This might be it boys, I might be legit done with this series now. I cannot stand the idea of grinding 60 hours just to play a new hero when it was just given before. Fuck this company seriously, obviously, Microsoft cannot intrude yet because I feel they would just blast it out already. It's the fact there is no progression at all, the season pass is a joke.

 

[Cactus Concerto]

Season 2 official trailer. Personally, I am in love with the Greek Mythology bullshit and I dig a fair amount of the skins shown here. That said, what we get here is:

• One old map/setting re-tooled into a payload map, no return or progress (Sham-bali indeed)
• One new hero (Ram-that-wallet-gouging-shit-further-down-my-throat-daddy-attra) that is likely going to be OP to encourage BP purchases. Or, if Blizzard are even dumber than they've showcased, he'll be a middling tank that means nothing in the face of Zarya, D.Va, and Winston. Junkerqueen 2: The Current Stage of the Game is a Shitty Boogaloo.
• Based on this 'roadmap', we're looking at more lackluster content being put behind the OWL watch wall. Note that several people have reported drops not working for weeks now and the problem has been fixed for some and not for others and likely won't be dealt with in the future. Thanks for your 15+ hours of inflated watch time and viewership numbers, suckers!
• More skins (and actually decent looking ones this time, and though YMMV they at least look legendary-tier) being locked behind the shop with no feasible way of purchasing them without spending real dollar money
• The same Winter event as OW1 and the same We Love China event as OW1. Note that neither of these really ha PvE content attached in the game's 1.0 version so it's unlikely they've made an effort to create something new under this circus show arc.
• Will Mei still be able to freeze Winston in the PvP event? Will they add a map to CTF? Will they even balance the newer heroes (and older heroes) for CTF? The time is now and it's telling me no. No they absolutely will not.
• Small formerly-independent company working under the terrible first of Activision, you guys. The devs are trying their best! It's all Bobby!
• Seemingly no adjustment to the BP ("they added one more skin to the pass!" fuck off), with several hours necessary to gain anything of substance. Junkerqueen mains on suicide watch as they realize this is the only way to get a good JQ skin.

And, outside of this season:

• No news of balance changes necessary for dominating characters like Zarya and Soy-joke, or pathetic has-beens like Fwoomhand and Nerfette.
• The new ranked system is a joke and likely will continue to be a joke.
• No changes to the Push Gamemode which people have learned favours playing off the objective, blindly hunting for kills, and basically Team FFAing until the clock is on its last legs. Amazing main mode for this team game, really cool. Also, there are characters that are just plain bad to play in Push. 2CP and Payload modes had favourable characters for individual maps, sure, but an entire character being labelled as trash tier for an entire mode? Laughable.
• No word on 2CP's return or the state of all those maps locked away, never to be seen again. That's not even touching on the map pool forced on both casual players and those in competitive.
• No concern for how punishing this game is for tanks who make one single mistake, no fucks given for damage players who cannot lean on their teammates to help them with superior DPS on the opposite team because there's a single tank, less shields, more mobility, and no way to counteract one-shots in a team game that heavily features healing, no care for the sorry state of supports which has caused the Moira Surge and quasi-metas that are strongly followed... in fucking quick play. Characters like Genji, Hanzo, and Widow were always common in OW1 because people loved to play them, which is fine. This is two entire categories of players feeling like they need to play specific characters unless they want an automatic loss. Which is especially bad when you solo-queue, playing with people who only just got the game and know fuck all about anything (which there has been a rise in thanks to the F2P shift), and there is literally no in-game way of trying to find specific players, confident Tank/Support players, or even seeing how fucking long they've been playing overall to help gauge what pick would be best for a situation and how best to assist in team composition
• No word of the missing features being returned: XP progression, on fire animations around the character icon, a reason to play this trash heap beyond logging in to buy a skin, show it off in a match, then fuck off. There's numerous Reddit posts floating around with a bunch of small shit that's been scrapped because this half-baked pie got pushed out too early.

Finally - finally - these people realize that themed skins outside of events with themes that aren't the seasonal shit are good. Monkey-pawed into a glorified mobile game model of a product that has less than its predecessor. That reminds me:

• NO WORD ON THE PVE CONTENT THAT 'EXCUSED' THIS DOWNGRADE'S EXISTANCE IN THE FIRST PLACE

There's greedy business decisions and then there's stupid business decisions. OW2 is a glorious dumpster fire of the two combined.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Is that a man or a woman in the trailer image?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

why did they decided to give the Zues skin to a women?

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

• NO WORD ON THE PVP CONTENT THAT 'EXCUSED' THIS DOWNGRADE'S EXISTANCE IN THE FIRST PLACE

Fuck that, the excuse was PvE content. PvP was doomed from the moment they said they wanted to make matches "play faster" and axed the other tank.

No decent PvE content that lines up with what they promised 2 years ago at all