Overwatch 2: you can just rip off TF2

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Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

teagone posted:

Just to be clear, OW1 players who claimed the Founder's Pack get Kiriko for free (own OW1 before OW2 comes out and log in anytime before OW2 Battle Pass Season 1 ends to get instant access to her). But after that, yeah, it's battle pass grind to get any new heroes post-Kiriko unless you just pay for them outright. All new heroes will technically be free, but are gated behind 54 tiers on the free battle pass track.

So the Founders Pack unlocks the Healer, but what about Junker Queen and Sojourn? Will we have to grind for those?

# ¿ Oct 3, 2022 14:31

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 08:35

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

I said come in! posted:

I just want a Team Fortress 3 but Valve doesnt make video games anymore.

There was that fan mod that adds two new teams for 4-way matches, how'd that turn out?

# ¿ Oct 3, 2022 16:27

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Lister posted:

The official youtube channel put out a video with the most broadly generic, inspirational narration I've ever heard. It honestly sounds like a parody. I have no idea what the gently caress anything in this video is referring to and how it's supposed to relate to this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHiRgT9skFU

I can't decide if that feels more like a commercial for a new sports drink or Northrup Grumman. Either way, :kstarehair:

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 21:17

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Cowslips Warren posted:

I went from 40 people being in queue to 20,000. How the hell did that happen.

Each of those forty people were actually 500 people in an overcoat.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2022 17:09

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Concurred posted:

Overwatch 2 launch is a bust. They should scrap it and start development on Overwatch 3.

They're way ahead of you, PvE launches next year (in theory)

# ¿ Oct 5, 2022 17:49

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Hashy posted:

queue for a different region!!!!!!!!!!!

Unless you're on console, in which case Kevin is here for you.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 13:09

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

F.D. Signifier posted:

magic has always existed in overwatch, what did you think ryu ga teki wo kurau was?

A hard-light projection generated by stolen tech, per the former head writer.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 21:42

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

DoctorJones posted:

still a queue today. what did activision do to this game?

Are you on a PC or console?

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 18:07

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Zokari posted:

e: seriously could this have launched worse?

We'll find out when they launch PvE. :frogbon:

# ¿ Oct 8, 2022 03:02

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Bottom Liner posted:

I like the part at 1:22 where he lands a Meteor on like 4 or 5 in that small room and none of their health bars move and he immediately dies

Meanwhile, in DPS land...

https://twitter.com/ItsSomjuu/status/1578902622777774080?t=UxrDwUI-EVOfeIAc-Ejd7w&s=19

# ¿ Oct 10, 2022 14:38

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

KrunkMcGrunk posted:

Lol this is the worst blizzard launch by a mile

You know what makes everything better? Corporate crossovers! :v:

https://twitter.com/maccas/status/1579269619843739648?t=2eCUYI13edAsfK9FxuG_tw&s=19

# ¿ Oct 11, 2022 02:04

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

YoshiOfYellow posted:

Have to admit, it's impressive to make a system so bad that I miss lootboxes.

They probably spent a lot of money to accomplish exactly that result, too.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2022 03:22

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-gb/news/23865964/

Isn't match XP a trickle compared to Daily/Weekly challenges?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2022 00:07

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

If you are playing on console and chose to enable cross play for expedited matchmaking, you deserve to know Blizzard is putting you at a significant disadvantage for doing so.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2022 15:46

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Scholtz posted:

Does the fox spirit ever need a firmware update?

Monthly. Don't ask where you have to stick the USB cable, either.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 01:05

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

F.D. Signifier posted:

Pictured: hard light possessions and nano bots

https://i.imgur.com/K7dJCZf.mp4

That's just a thing Japanese people do when in extreme distress.

Source: Genji.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 01:10

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Quotey posted:

Didn't Hanzo kill Genji or something?

He did, but Genji got better so it's all okay.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 02:22

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

So dva zarya genji and sombra are all gonna get nerfed apparently? I dont love playing into either dps right now as a support main but im probably more interested in the tank nerfs. I never played either of them before ow2 but they feel super good right now compared to every other tank so i think its fair. Id like some kind of hammond buff but i can live without it. Hes still perfectly playable in bronze 3 and actually feels less countered by sombra at this rank than he was in 1

Zarya is primarily because her bubbles have zero downtime in Total Mayhem. It will be pretty funny if they nerf her just because of TM.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 15:31

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Countblanc posted:

I guess it's that thing most big games have now where it's Imperative that characters all look exactly as designers intentioned, which is also why I assume you can't mix weapons/skins aside from the gold one.

You would think that, but then there's that fantasy Ashe skin where I couldn't have told you what game she came from unless you told me. Or Sojourn's detective outfit with the longcoat and fedora.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2022 19:00

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Cowslips Warren posted:

It's worse when he's running in front of you and you can just about see his man-rear end. And full on in some skins, I believe.

It's still total bullshit that we don't have his Summer Games high diver speedo skin. It was the best idea and featured in the first god-damned seasonal event ever, and then five years of absolutely nothing of value.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2022 22:21

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

YoshiOfYellow posted:

Give us the goddamn skin Blizzard.

They were/are probably waiting for the opportunity to sell it for $49.99 USD.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2022 00:07

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Mega Comrade posted:

I think perhaps the weightlifting war criminal needs a nerf

Zzulu posted:

Doomfist is on that list so it's clearly doomfist we need to nerf

You two must be new, the devs clearly stated last week all tanks were within a 5% margin of error of having a perfect 50/50 win-loss rate and are therefore perfectly balanced.

I will always cherish that they said they were watching Doomfist for underperformance in the space of two sentences after saying that.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2022 13:10

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

More to the point: in a major game shakeup where Tanks were advertised as buffed to the moon, his kit was untouched.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2022 13:24

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Am I missing something, or is Sigma just an immortal death balloon who does nothing interesting in Bride's Revenge?

The new story mode feels very underwhelming compared to any of the three Archives missions from the previous title.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2022 03:05

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Bottom Liner posted:

What do you expect, it’s a brand new game there are going to be unexpected bugs

Lmao

# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 01:42

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

headcase posted:

I think it's because you have to practice SOMETHING ahead of time, so coaches converge on mirror strategies to avoid embarrassment. Unfortunately the optimal play is to go all in on 1 comp and 1 hero no matter what it is for months before the match. You can't just change unless you put effort into 2 different comps, which is sub-optimal.

I had this idea in the OW1 esports thread that if there were some kind of randomized, mirrored hero bans that were core to the game of overwatch, you would get more interesting play. If people had to be generalists, they wouldn't all fine-tune the same comp. (everyone told me to gtfo)

Why not just have a curated team for every season? If there's any anxiety about things getting stale, divide a season into quarters and rotate a unit or two out every Q.

New season, entirely new picks that saw no use last season.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 14:33

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Check your spam folders, because Blizzard is sending out surveys asking how people feel about the state of the game.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 22:37

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

The Slack Lagoon posted:

Did they reduce the amount of XP you get for winning a game? I was getting like 2.3k, but now it's like 1.2k.

That was only for the weekend, they're doing a few Double XP weekends because people weren't satisfied with the launch.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2022 00:16

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Pattonesque posted:

dunno how legit this is but:

https://twitter.com/ZekeFreek/status/1583064676933718017/photo/1

Just in time to require $9.99 to immediately unlock, too. :allears:

# ¿ Nov 3, 2022 22:32

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Countblanc posted:

arent the new characters on the free passes tho

At level 55, yes.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2022 00:41

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

The Overwatch Team posted:

"We're trying to move away from hard counters."

Pattonesque posted:

https://twitter.com/OverwatchNaeri/status/1588794592820105216

The Overwatch Team posted:

"Actually tho, gently caress fliers."

# ¿ Nov 5, 2022 22:20

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Blizzard and NetEase have broken up, effectively ending service for Overwatch 2 (along with all of Blizzard's other live service games) in China effective January 23rd of next year.

Not sure what this means for Chinese OWL teams, but drat. What was China's ratio of the player population?

# ¿ Nov 17, 2022 05:12

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

According to a blizzard comment she’s been like this since the Halloween patch and nobody’s noticed lol

"We knew it was bugged, but we were hoping you wouldn't notice." :shobon:

# ¿ Nov 20, 2022 15:11

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Oh hey, speaking of PvE news:

https://twitter.com/OhReallyJared/status/1595533910280052737?t=EBJIqmUAeu9RYzu-KQZffg&s=19

No new PvE news for the foreseeable future!

# ¿ Nov 26, 2022 15:22

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Speaking of Highly Anticipated Features, have they said if the Meis versus Yeti game is ready after the balance changes 2 introduced?

# ¿ Nov 26, 2022 16:26

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

just lol that they're releasing a tank that's "three other tanks but better"

And that you have to grind to unlock... or pony up some real cash. Classic Blizz!

# ¿ Nov 27, 2022 19:35

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1596931368046452736?s=20&t=dxymtl5-73lZxj9SayHPkQ

As I suspected, they're already cannibalising PvE content for PvP.

"...we created his Nemesis form because we still needed him to be a tank." :dogstare:

That's quite the Hero design process, I wonder what they call it.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2022 20:26

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Issaries posted:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23878812/

TLDR:
New map Shambali Monastery is an escort map.
There's going to be a map rotation for season 2, with Blizworld and Rialto are back, Gibraltar and Hollywood are out, Oasis and Nepal getting different time of day.

Christmas event coming December 13 through January 4 and Lunar New Year event starting January 17 through February 1.
Multiple Actual free skin drops from the events.

Blizz posted:

Players who missed out on unlocking Kiriko in Season 1 or brand-new players starting in Season 2 can unlock new heroes by selecting the Challenge for the hero they want to unlock, which sends you into the Practice Range to learn their abilities, and ultimately challenges you to win games of Overwatch. For those wanting to skip the Challenges, you have the option to unlock these new heroes directly in the in-game shop. As a reminder, Overwatch 1 owners automatically receive new heroes Sojourn, Junker Queen, and Kiriko, by logging in before the end of Season 2. Players new to Overwatch 2 received Sojourn and Junker Queen as a Season 1 login bonus.

I am curious what the former will entail, but putting instant unlocks behind an ala carte paywall is very in line with how the launch was up to this point (lovely).

# ¿ Dec 1, 2022 01:15

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Jack Trades posted:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-gb/news/23388102/refining-hero-pools-and-retiring-map-pools/

quote:

if the Map Pool were to rotate more frequently, it would stop providing the competitive season with the “identity” we were going for. In addition, if we change the Map Pool faster, you might not even notice that maps were missing or back from one cycle to the next.

Oh gently caress off. :nallears:

# ¿ Dec 2, 2022 00:19

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 08:35

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1599840019690229760?t=5LtwUkJZOdb7gaOkqlbaTw&s=19

quote:

After reviewing data for Season 1, we're moving Ramattra into Tier 45 of the Battle Pass and making a few more weekly challenges easier to complete,"

Thanks, Aaron! It's still too loving much and I hope whoever's responsible can get that concept through their thick skull sometime before the game joins Battleborn and Destiny 2 Y1 content in Lost Media Purgatory.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2022 20:25

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