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dogstile posted:I picked this up again and I expected to have a ton of hot takes, but really this just feels like overwatch designed by people who kinda sucked at overwatch. That is a good way of putting it. I personally liked old OW better, but this is pretty fun too. dogstile posted:E: also I guess they did an mmr reset? I was 4300 on every role and it dunked me in plat 4. This is gonna suck for a lot of people if I keep playing and decide to climb I think for the most part, your hidden MMR matches you against other people that got knocked down and the climb is pretty swift (because there is disparity between the quality of opponents and the SR). I get why they did this (aside from the monetization engagement). There are going to be a lot of people moving around because of the drastic changes. It's better to have a soft SR reset and let people find their level on the way up. headcase fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Oct 11, 2022 14:13
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Yeah the XP grind is way too much. I think like Jay3 was still in the 20s or 30s and that's playing the game every day for at least 10 hours
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Oct 11, 2022 14:55
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dogstile posted:
So, you're not a fan of ranked role? Could you say a little more about that? I'd be curious to hear what you think because I've seen you have some pretty insightful takes on Apex and I'm personally uncertain on Overwatch right now, I can't tell if I'm just very rusty can't process gameplay or if it's actually a big sloppy mess.
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Yeah. All the Big Streamers have hit GM1 and are waiting for the top 500 list to unlock.
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teagone posted:OW1 Diamonds/Plats were thrown into silver, and everyone below that no matter what were sent into bronze to fight their way out lol. I did pretty good in my placements and my trying hard was rewarded with bronze 5. Like, should I be plat? Absolutely not, but bronze 5??? Should have at least been silver or gold
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Oct 11, 2022 15:26
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Heh, pretty sure some of my dailies today are bugged and won't progress, plus the weekly challenge for healing somehow reset itself with two hours left  They probably need more than just a couple hours of emergency maintenance is what I'm saying
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Oct 11, 2022 16:36
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lol I can't be the only one but getting disconnected from a match for earning achievements is some real lame poo poo. Getting some real pavlov's response too, I Lucio ulted a full team Hanzo ult and got the "block x damage with Lucio" achievement It's like, ping! blue box pops up gently caress, NO disconnect edit - and because I'm a glutton, on lunch so I'm like "ok one quick play", someone was just talking about Winston so I'll try him out for the first time in a few years trigger ult, jump deep into enemy team, start swinging like crazy, get anger management achievement, disconnect. Lunch is over I guess Omnikin fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Oct 11, 2022 16:52
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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah the XP grind is way too much. I think like Jay3 was still in the 20s or 30s and that's playing the game every day for at least 10 hours There is no way. I played 20 hours this week and fully missed out on a days worth of challenges and I'm at BP level 35. At this rate I'll be done in three weeks with the season lasting two months. The BP seems fine. Being able to unlock the new character after two weeks of casual play seems fine. Ideally all the characters should be open on day one of the new season, but if they insist on locking it in there, this is not horrible.
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Oct 11, 2022 17:43
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3-4 hours a day doing all of the challenges is casual play?
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Oct 11, 2022 17:50
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20 hours in a week is less than 3 hours a day. I think that's pretty casual. It was an hour or two after work every day with a longer session with friends this weekend. This is compared to the guy I was quoting who said Jay3 plays 10 hours a day and is only level 30 in the BP (unlikely). Casual is relative I guess but we're all in a video game forum talking about videogames so maybe there is no casual here.
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Oct 11, 2022 17:58
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Yea chill buddy it’s fine that most players will take a month+ to unlock the new heroes in a game built from the ground up around hero swapping to build or counter synergies. And look, if you think otherwise, may I remind you that it only took me a few weeks of playing several hours per day to get it, so it’s not like it has to take forever!
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Oct 11, 2022 17:58
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It's a typical FOMO system. The bulk of the progress is the dailies, which probably take 3 matches to finish enough for the day. If you keep playing beyond that the XP earned is very low comparatively because they want you back every day.
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Technically it's two hours per day, but that's still more than casual. At that point you're committing a significant percentage of your free time. Casual to me is like, a couple nights a week and maybe a couple hours on each of those nights.Jack B Nimble posted:So, you're not a fan of ranked role? Could you say a little more about that? I'd be curious to hear what you think because I've seen you have some pretty insightful takes on Apex and I'm personally uncertain on Overwatch right now, I can't tell if I'm just very rusty can't process gameplay or if it's actually a big sloppy mess. I'm on the train so I can't really give this a proper response, gimme a few hours :p
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Oct 11, 2022 18:00
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drat they straight up deleted Bastion from the hero list to fix him. Can't even use in quick play
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Omnikin posted:lol I can't be the only one but getting disconnected from a match for earning achievements is some real lame poo poo. Getting some real pavlov's response too, I Lucio ulted a full team Hanzo ult and got the "block x damage with Lucio" achievement Same problem lmao.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:02
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Casual part time job maybe
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DrBox posted:20 hours in a week is less than 3 hours a day. I think that's pretty casual. It was an hour or two after work every day with a longer session with friends this weekend. casual is relative but you're describing a part time job as casual
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Oct 11, 2022 18:07
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Wheeee posted:Yea chill buddy it’s fine that most players will take a month+ to unlock the new heroes in a game built from the ground up around hero swapping to build or counter synergies. With 35 characters available and the game reworked to be less about hard counters, one character locked is not determining the outcome of the game. This is the same as having weapons locked behind the BP is Call of Duty. Is it ideal? No, but certainly not a game breaking experience ruining thing either. Herstory Begins Now posted:casual is relative but you're describing a part time job as casual DrBox fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Oct 11, 2022 18:08
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hello internet posted:I did pretty good in my placements and my trying hard was rewarded with bronze 5. Like, should I be plat? Absolutely not, but bronze 5??? Should have at least been silver or gold Plenty of people overestimate how good they think they are. Sorry, but it's true lol.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:09
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A few hours a day is pretty regular. Casual is that over a few days. Battle passes that expire are not casual friendly and it stinks. I'll complain about that expiration crap until I'm blue in the face forever because it's just bad.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:09
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DrBox posted:With 35 characters available and the game reworked to be less about hard counters, one character locked is not determining the outcome of the game. lmao take a step back and re-read what you’ve been writing
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Oct 11, 2022 18:11
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Wheeee posted:lmao take a step back and re-read what you’ve been writing So you honestly think not having access to any one character would make Overwatch games unwinable?
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Oct 11, 2022 18:13
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This is not blizzards worst launch by a country mile but it is particularly egregious because of how little they even changed. You'd think they had screamed "new year new me" and thrown thermite on the servers for there to be so many issues on what is essentially a rebalance patch on a game that had been running stable for years.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:17
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game's alright, it's just more overwatch I would have rather they had removed control and kept assault if only because assault is a more interesting mode but eh
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Jimbot posted:A few hours a day is pretty regular. Casual is that over a few days. Battle passes that expire are not casual friendly and it stinks. I'll complain about that expiration crap until I'm blue in the face forever because it's just bad.  I know all video games are simultaneously both pointless and inarguably meaningful because they're recreational and all that matters is that you enjoy it, but the grind on the battle pass is killing me because I play two hours a day on the weekend and not all during the week. The thing that a more traditional "currency" system can do is let someone like me pick and choose a few things to unlock instead of being now, currently, level 10, and that's after a three day weekend. If the levels are linear I'll probably only be level 15 next week. Whereas, if I'd played several hours of OW1 I'd probably have the thousand gold I'd have needed to buy the One Skin I Want Most, and not, what, a winston skin I don't even like? It's frustrating.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:18
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Jack B Nimble posted:Whereas, if I'd played several hours of OW1 I'd probably have the thousand gold I'd have needed to buy the One Skin I Want Most, and not, what, a winston skin I don't even like? It's frustrating. Yeah the free currency gain and skin prices are insane and destroy any sense of progression you had from getting a couple loot boxes and an account level after a play session. I really hope they change that stuff. BP levels are not a good or fun substitute for that.
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CuddleCryptid posted:This is not blizzards worst launch by a country mile but it is particularly egregious because of how little they even changed. You'd think they had screamed "new year new me" and thrown thermite on the servers for there to be so many issues on what is essentially a rebalance patch on a game that had been running stable for years. that is an interesting point: OW1 was one of the stablest and most polished games I think I've ever played. I had a ton of issues with the way the game was ultimately designed that I felt were contradictory to what the game was trying to be, but OW1 was incredibly stable just worked when you wanted it to.
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Did they gently caress up when challenges reset? My dailies reset in 4 hours but my weeklies in like 30 min. I thought they were synced Also just LOL at thinking three hours a day every day is casual. I do aerial sports that has less overall time commitment and I have to train
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Oct 11, 2022 18:29
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DrBox posted:So you honestly think not having access to any one character would make Overwatch games unwinable? So you honestly think this childishly reductive reasoning has led you to a position worth responding seriously to?
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Wheeee posted:So you honestly think this childishly reductive reasoning has led you to a position worth responding seriously to? It's not reductive. Your idea that you need one specific character to counter what the other team is doing is incorrect.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:34
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Orissa is both very fun and very strong. I love hitting those spear shots.
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DrBox posted:It's not reductive. Your idea that you need one specific character to counter what the other team is doing is incorrect. I’m afraid it is. If I need to explain to you the vast gulf between ‘you literally need X character to win’ and what is actually being discussed you aren’t going to get it anyway, sorry.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:41
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It sucks to be locked out of a character if you just play casually. I will probably just suck it up and buy the battlepasses with new characters since there's almost no way I'm getting through the BP to that point.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:57
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I never bought a battlepass but I have all characters, whats up with that
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Oct 11, 2022 19:11
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I bet it'll be faster to unlock new heroes here than in valorant. Both systems suck, but it's so slow in Valorant that it single handedly made me quit playing. Plus, you start with all but one (+ new ones whenever) unlocked here as opposed to the other way around (well except for brand new accounts, but they have a much faster unlock system than the battle pass junk). Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Zzulu posted:I never bought a battlepass but I have all characters, whats up with that same, I think it’s because I bought overwatch 1 maybe? idk
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Oct 11, 2022 19:15
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Yes, anyone that had OW1 gets everyone. Are the devs going to be forced to put a new hero in every battle pass? Because I do not think they will be able to do that in any reasonable way that doesn't make the game crumble.
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leftist heap posted:It sucks to be locked out of a character if you just play casually. I will probably just suck it up and buy the battlepasses with new characters since there's almost no way I'm getting through the BP to that point. It does suck, and I'm not at all happy that they chose this monetization scheme. However, I don't think it's nearly as big of a deal as some posters in this thread are acting like it is. Not having Kiriko will slightly limit picks and counterpicks, sure. But she's not so powerful or such a generalist that a player is crippled without her. It's an annoyance, but that's all it is. An annoyance. If someone can't handle that tiny limitation, they're free to pony up the  and solve it instantly.Bottom Liner posted:Are the devs going to be forced to put a new hero in every battle pass? Because I do not think they will be able to do that in any reasonable way that doesn't make the game crumble. I thought they said it would be every other, but I can't confirm that offhand.
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