Overwatch

Heian said:

Yeah it's short. The temperature effect is great. It potentially introduces 2 new heros. We went from few character to a pretty interesting backlog of potential heros. That omnic at the end looked really great.

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Potential new heroes that will take Blizzard 10 years to implement. *yawn*

Adebisi said:

I started playing with headphones for the first time ever and I'm quite impressed with the sound effects in this game.

Is this normal for most games or does OW have something awesome going on?

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Using sound is very important in this game.

Heian said:

Yeah it's short. The temperature effect is great. It potentially introduces 2 new heros. We went from few character to a pretty interesting backlog of potential heros. That omnic at the end looked really great.

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If you mean the end of the Storm Rising cutscenes with Doomfist, I got the impression that that was Reyes/Reaper 1.0, not an Omnic.

I don't play Hammond, but I want to buy this Play of the Game highlight intro for him

I finally got caught up on the owl games.

The chinese teams are all fun to watch. But there's so much crap where a team will come out with dps and stomp 30 kills, lose one fight, then switch to goats for the rest of the match (and lose). One game the whole stage thus far had what you'd consider a worse goats team beating a better. People need to play what they are good at.

Also, doomfist exists! It's like only Wolf remembers element mystic (who could destroy every owl team but vancouver right now).

I'm just going to skip ahead when I see goats mirrors.

Valderen said:

Did my placements on my alt account...all on Mei, no flexing even if we're 5 dps, went 7-3 so pretty good. I did have to mute a lot of people though, people trigger a lot when you play Mei.

The funny thing is I think I had the most toxic person on what was maybe my best game of the night. I objectively was hard carrying in that particular game. I ended with something like 32/8 and 40 enemies frozen, 12 blizzard kills. It was one of those games where you wish there was a leaderboard during the game.

It was a good night overall.

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That's what I plan on doing this week when I do my placements. I'm just going to one-trick Mei though I may be tempted to play Baptise in some matches. I love playing Baptise just as much I love playing Mei, but playing him in QP doesn't work well for him to well due to people loving to spread out. Sometimes I'll get on the mic and bitch at people, but that's far too much work than I'm willing to put in most nights.

I haven't done placements on my alt account in a very long time. If I could skip all the 2CP maps, I would play Comp a hell of a lot more. Map preference at the very least needs to become a thing in this game, but Blizzard's pride would get hurt due to a bunch of people electing to skip 2CP maps. The latest 2CP map, Paris, is the worst map they have ever put out. It's just flat out terrible and very frustrating to play on.

As far as 2/2/2 is concerned, I think they need to re-balance healing output across the board before they resort to forcing the game to 2/2/2. I hope they would try to put a cap on how much healing a player can receive per second or make stacking healing aura's less effective. The sustain is far to high in this game and it enables the meta.

With that said I haven't really watched much of Stage 2. The one match I saw had Baptise + Bastion on Paris which was kind of broken. I remember watching Seagull about a week ago going up against Bastion + Baptise just in a regular ladder match and his team couldn't break it. If an OWL team can't break it, then on ladder it is pure cancer. Baptise's invulnerability field is going to be toned down eventually and his charge rate on his ultimate is WAY too fast for how powerful it is. If you can hit your shots with Baptise his ultimate charges so insanely fast it is stupid.

Er scratch what I said about Element Mystic. They lost some of their members to OWL teams I guess (but not sparkle wtf?), and they are falling into the same trap as the owl teams, trying to play goats vs better goats teams instead of rocking their amazing doomfist.

Bad coaching has really ruined this game as a sport. Go back and watch EnvyUS win apex. Now that was good overwatch. Players just deciding on the fly what to do and confusing the hell out of the overcoached enemy.

Well, of all the features Ive wanted added to Overwatch, this definitely wasn't on the list, but sounds interesting at least. Could be fun

I sort of feel like this mode was made to let the community come up with other modes of play because they have ran out of idea's. Who knows maybe someone will make 2CP fun to play on due to the Workshop.

Also, there has to be a mapping tool in the works or at the very least a scaled down version of the one they use internally.

Especially because Overwatch isn't even a subscription model. Might as well have the players make shit for you and take the best maps and put them in rotation like CS did.

Araxen said:

I sort of feel like this mode was made to let the community come up with other modes of play because they have ran out of idea's.

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Sounds like a win/win. Prospectively, whether an idea is good or not is not reliably predictable. The best ideas are often the most off-the-wall but somehow magically land in some kind of sweet spot. You need a metric fuckton of bad ideas in order to locate the good ones. Might as well outsource that.

Captain Suave said:

Sounds like a win/win. Prospectively, whether an idea is good or not is not reliably predictable. The best ideas are often the most off-the-wall but somehow magically land in some kind of sweet spot. You need a metric fuckton of bad ideas in order to locate the good ones. Might as well outsource that.

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It'll also help by enlisting a bunch of people that can think outside the box due to them having no prior experience in creating things like this.

Big Phoenix said:

I simply don't understand how companies do not see how beneficial modding is to games.

Dota? Started out as a mod
CS? Started out as a mod
Team fortress? Started out as a mod
Battle royal? Started with a mod

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Blizzard gets that. That's why I'd love to see the updated EULA for the workshop.

They've prolly updated it so that in case you invent the next PUBG or Fortnite, that shit is 99.9999% theirs.

I'll have a look soon, patching patching