Overwatch 2: you can just rip off TF2

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CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I reinstalled the game to give it a try, and the high points were, it's still Overwatch, Mystery Heroes is still in, and in a very pleasant surprise, Mystery Heroes doesn't give a single poo poo who you've got unlocked.

The downside, and it's major, is that after just one evening playing, I miss the lootboxes.

I played enough to clear three Daily Challenges and got up to rank 3 on the battle pass. In OW1, that would've been four lootboxes -- 2 level-ups and 6 Arcade wins. Four lootboxes means I would've gotten 16 things, even if any amount of them would've been dupes.

My haul for the night: one player icon.

This seems like an insane grind for very little reward. Pay for the battle pass or get next to nothing at extremely spaced out intervals. Even if you do pay for the battle pass, get the same cosmetics as everyone else. Want to get what you want for the hero you like best? Get hosed, buddy -- you get 60 coins a week. Max. If you grind eleven challenges, every single week. A single skin costs 2000 coins.

So basically I'm looking at a new game where my choices are to get absolutely no cosmetics, or pay money every nine goddamn weeks to get the same cosmetics as everyone else, where if I grind like a madman day in and day out, I can have one skin of my choosing per year. As a treat. Oh, and also if I don't want to pay money and I fall behind on the grind, I can get locked out of entire goddamn heroes, possibly permanently? Or, at the very least, judging by skin costs, without shelling out an exorbitant amount of real money later?

gently caress this. Rather than playing for a while until something else comes out that grabs my attention for a bit or I get sick or just don't want to play and I fall unrecoverably behind on the grind and can't catch up, why don't I just skip to the end and stop playing right away?

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:39

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Does crossplay allow console players to play with pcplayers in comp now? That seems like an oversight. Console comp was a lot softer and pretty fun when you only played against console pool so thats a bummer. It also runs surprisingly well on switch but screw queing comp if its a global pool

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:39

Bottom Liner: Feb 15, 2006; a specific vein of lasagna

CapnAndy posted:

I reinstalled the game to give it a try, and the high points were, it's still Overwatch, Mystery Heroes is still in, and in a very pleasant surprise, Mystery Heroes doesn't give a single poo poo who you've got unlocked.

The downside, and it's major, is that after just one evening playing, I miss the lootboxes.

I played enough to clear three Daily Challenges and got up to rank 3 on the battle pass. In OW1, that would've been four lootboxes -- 2 level-ups and 6 Arcade wins. Four lootboxes means I would've gotten 16 things, even if any amount of them would've been dupes.

My haul for the night: one player icon.

This seems like an insane grind for very little reward. Pay for the battle pass or get next to nothing at extremely spaced out intervals. Even if you do pay for the battle pass, get the same cosmetics as everyone else. Want to get what you want for the hero you like best? Get hosed, buddy -- you get 60 coins a week. Max. If you grind eleven challenges, every single week. A single skin costs 2000 coins.

So basically I'm looking at a new game where my choices are to get absolutely no cosmetics, or pay money every nine goddamn weeks to get the same cosmetics as everyone else, where if I grind like a madman day in and day out, I can have one skin of my choosing per year. As a treat. Oh, and also if I don't want to pay money and I fall behind on the grind, I can get locked out of entire goddamn heroes, possibly permanently? Or, at the very least, judging by skin costs, without shelling out an exorbitant amount of real money later?

gently caress this. Rather than playing for a while until something else comes out that grabs my attention for a bit or I get sick or just don't want to play and I fall unrecoverably behind on the grind and can't catch up, why don't I just skip to the end and stop playing right away?

You know you can just play games because the gameplay is good instead of grinding meaningless cosmetics you can�t even see. You know that, right?

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:42

Jack Trades: Nov 30, 2010

I like how the game doesn't show you any more what rank other players are. Presumably because they're relaxing matchmaking requirements to solve the queue times.
The whole "we won't tell you what rank you are until you lose 20 times" thing would support that idea as well.

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:42

Bottom Liner: Feb 15, 2006; a specific vein of lasagna

Jack Trades posted:

I like how the game doesn't show you any more what rank other players are. Presumably because they're relaxing matchmaking requirements to solve the queue times.
The whole "we won't tell you what rank you are until you lose 20 times" thing would support that idea as well.

Also the dread of seeing rank go down every match because you had a troll or leaver really sucked the desire to play out of a ton of competitive players.

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:44

Jack Trades: Nov 30, 2010

Bottom Liner posted:

Also the dread of seeing rank go down every match because you had a troll or leaver really sucked the desire to play out of a ton of competitive players.

That's just a post hoc explanation on their part.

They claim a lot of things, like changing the balance to not require hard counters anymore. Yet Pharah is completely unchanged.

# ? Oct 7, 2022 19:45

Voltage: Sep 4, 2004; MALT LIQUOR!