Anime Overwatch

[SkiNNyBane]

Blizzard is fucking dead.

Hots trailer = anime weeaboo loli with daddy issues, getting angry and beating her dad in a dbz fight, jumping all over the place and shooting energy beams at each other. Fucking cringe. I can't believe there were 20+ year olds clapping for this in the room.

WoW trailer = cringe. Anduin looked like was about to cry at all times.

Overwatch trailer = new waifu in another cringy PG12 trailer with more DBZ fight scenes with people getting shot and thrown grenades at, but no blood and they just get knocked unconscious.

Hearthstone = alright, I guess. More of the same if you like HS. Too bad the game is shit anyway. Atleast the art is good. https://i.redd.it/7evoit9d0zv11.png The priest one looks amazing.

Warcraft 3 remake. It's amazing how this 15 years old trailer was better then all the new ones. No cringe. Just cool af, and it actually has blood in it. Truly from a different era. Looks good, but it's sad how the best Blizz can do today is a remake of a 15+ year old game.

Diablo trailer = characters doing anime fighting with slow motions and impossible jumps. Rips off the Balrog entrance from Lotr at the end. New game is a mobile game developed by a chinese company (lmao) and is basically exactly the same as D3. The same classes, the same models and visuals. MVP of Blizzcon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKlmNLTkXM

Diablo is dead, and so is Blizzard. But hey atleast you get a free Destiny 2 copy form the Blizz launcher, and don't forget to buy the new CoD!

Come on you know OW shorts are fucking amazing. No need to go full edge where it isn't deserved.

I am really glad companies are starting to realize they can't make better game and just remake old once. I was hoping that would happen.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

Yet another streamer/pro player telling everyone they only did it for money the last few seasons. I know he quit pro scene before and tried to enjoy it streaming only, but in the end the game is so trash, that even streaming it is worse then working in mccdonalds. Deal with it.

https://twitter.com/dafran/status/1060188914311487488?s=21

 

[abija]

He "quit" pro scene? He is an attention whoring child who got banned for being a retard.

Very few people can turn their hobbies into full time jobs and still enjoy them. I doubt unstable kids make it in that list.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Flash news! There is players who are sellouts playing competitive games where they are good at just for profit and they don't even like or enjoy the games the play! But I'm curious how it can be related that with the game being trash.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

He "quit" pro scene? He is an attention whoring child who got banned for being a retard.

Very few people can turn their hobbies into full time jobs and still enjoy them. I doubt unstable kids make it in that list.

No he actually quit. He was so bored of pro scene despite being arguably the most mech gifted dps in OW. He then started throwing out of boredom and frustration. Eventually he thought maybe if not pro scene he could still make $$ streaming and find a way to enjoy OW that way. But OW is so trash that he can't take that shit either.

Plenty other streamers openly said the same about OW but decided to stick to streaming for $$ or switched games despite financial loss. Including Mendo, Grego, Aimer7, Wraxu, Poke, Lassiz, J00mla, Timthetatman, steel and thats just off top of my head.

I have some people on my flist that still play but they are all either something like rein, winston, or mercy mains - i,e they don't give a shit about the game in terms of its shooting mechanics etc...

I could see how someone would deliberately chose to brush off dafran as unstable or whatever the fuck interpretation to avoid the obvious conclusion. You can't keep doing it for the bazillion players that flat out quit or switched games while openly talking about how trash OW is on stream on the daily basis without showing any instability or any lack in ability to milk it for $$.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

Flash news! There is players who are sellouts playing competitive games where they are good at just for profit and they don't even like or enjoy the games the play! But I'm curious how it can be related that with the game being trash.

If you don't understand how pro/streamer scene thinking the game is a joke and is only good to entertain retards that play it, you have some THICC fanboy lenses on. Also if you are kinda new to the game. Enjoy your honeymoon. Nothing wrong with it.

 

[abija]

Yeah yeah, mendo plays tracer and goes emo about diva, wraxu plays hanzo and goes ape shit cause tracers are cancer and so on. And why the fuck would you even include tim in a list like that?

Btw, all competitive team games have that issue, pros being frustrated on ladders/streams. It's completely natural just like children turning into drama queens when they have an audience.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

Yeah yeah, mendo plays tracer and goes emo about diva, wraxu plays hanzo and goes ape shit cause tracers are cancer and so on. And why the fuck would you even include tim in a list like that?

Btw, all competitive team games have that issue, pros being frustrated on ladders/streams. It's completely natural just like children turning into drama queens when they have an audience.

Bullshit. This is the only game outside of maybe SF5/PUBG to some degree where pros/streamers actively think the game is trash and not just getting tilted once in a while.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

If you don't understand how pro/streamer scene thinking the game is a joke and is only good to entertain retards that play it, you have some THICC fanboy lenses on. Also if you are kinda new to the game. Enjoy your honeymoon. Nothing wrong with it.

Two things:

- A pro thinking the game is trash means nothing by itself. His opinion or his point of view is not more true just for being a pro. That's an argumentum ad verecundiam fallacy.
- 9 pros (I would have to study each case separatedly btw) thinking the game is trash means nothing by itself. The amount of people thinking the same thing means nothing. That's an ad populum fallacy.

That guy is not the first who does that. You are truly fabulously optimistic if you think that every person who gets in the competitive world does it for the same reason. That said, is very easy to start hating a game when you are forced to play it a high level. I remember when I did follow CSGO competitive scene years ago, and saw the "lifestyle" of the players. Having to study the maps, the metagame, the skyboxes (For throwing grenades), practising aiming, practising recoil control... and training/playing daily for being ready. It's very rough. It's work. And when you play videogames not for pure enjoyment but for job, it's very easy to start to hate them.

PD: Honeymoon? I've been playing the game actively since its launch. I saw good days, and bad days. Now I'm pretty satisfied what they have done with Ashe overall design for example.

 

[abija]

Bullshit. This is the only game outside of maybe SF5/PUBG to some degree where pros/streamers actively think the game is trash and not just getting tilted once in a while.

And dota 2 and CS and so on and on and on. It's normal, because the game shouldn't be balanced around pros trying to find practice with random people (even if high skilled, there's a huge difference in work put in the game between the 2 categories) while getting their ego stroked by viewers.

 

[Gambler]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiv...247j/hero_pick_rates_world_cup_finals_nov_23/
Dat balance though
>Symmetra completely redone at the end of June
>0%

To be fair, right now the game has the least number of completely unplayable characters than ever. But it took them 2 years, and it doesn't "trickle up" to the professional level.

Overwatch League creators wanted it to be like a "real" sport. Well, they succeeded. It's as boring and full of empty hype and drama as most professional sports. Watching good yet non-professional streamers is way more interesting, because they actually try stuff instead of playing like robots.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

Full autism.

 

[Zer0wing]

Why is Bastion so unpopular in competitive games? Aren't Shield+Bastion is the most common defense tactic ever?

 

[Zombra]

Why is Bastion so unpopular in competitive games? Aren't Shield+Bastion is the most common defense tactic ever?

that would require working together

 

[Gambler]

Why is Bastion so unpopular in competitive games? Aren't Shield+Bastion is the most common defense tactic ever?

It's too predictable and static for pro games. Static Bastion defense is trivial to counter through hero swaps, positioning and ults, you can't easily retreat with it and it's nearly impossible to reestablish once you lose your preferred position.

Bastion needs to be useful outside of his turret form. This is so obvious. I hope it doesn't take them another year to figure out and fix. Personally, I think his turret form (with updates) should be the ultimate and tank form (with downgrades) should be the second "normal" configuration.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lGo-HVVbE

 

[SkiNNyBane]

Damn even fan favorite Seagull couldn't take it anymore and came out.

"The State of Overwatch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lGo-HVVbE

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

I still don't understand why people play this game in first place, I mean all this game has to offer:
1) Poorly done characters, their personalities is fucking bland and their motivations and actions has no sense at all. Not to mention that characters oversexualized as possible, so Blizzard was able to sell a game to horny people and preying on their unhappiness with their sexual life. However, I pointed this out not because I am against sex in computer games, but because retards from Blizzard made an attempt to ban rule34 about their game.
I mean, Blizzard made a fetish driven game and sacrificed every other aspect of character development, but attempted to suppress anyone who was actually helping to sold their game, by promoting sexual elements from game.
Porn is fine, everyone have their fetishes after all, but when character has offer close to 0 anything besides porn and even porn censored - game bad at offering a interesting characters.
2) Awful and inconsistent setting, with contradictions and lack of logic everywhere. I mean, funny setting with parody elements is fine, but when devs with serious faces trying to sell idea that you can meet hamster, gorilla, blue skinned chick, cowboy and bowman from japan on same battlefield and timeline - it's a fucking lazy design. It's looks like some kid tried to paint a crossover picture with references and parody, but it end up a fucking mess filled toxic colors and vague sexual symbolism.
But at least messy kid's painting don't make me puke, unlike cringe explanations why some idiotic bitch can manipulate time without affecting whole fucking planet. Also seems standardization in world of Overwatch isn't a thing, because everyone wear random clothes instead of normal armor or at least uniform.
Not to mention, that (according to Blizzard) there is no blood in wars of the future, no rape, no looting and no building destruction. And no civilian causalities, ofc. In another words: all battles looks like conflict on annual fetishist convention, with usage paint ball guns and rented apartments. I have nothing against weird or exotic games, but not when devs trying to sell it as serious shit with epic story.
3) Balance. Blizzard famous for their "awesome" balance since WoW, where they can't properly balance 12 classes. In Overwatch it even worse, there already 27 and more coming. Nuff said.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Seagull: Characters like Brigitte and Doomfist makes the game frustating!

Overwatch dev team: Say no more

Brigitte

• Shield Bash
  • No longer can travel or stun targets through barriers

Developer Comments: Brigitte’s Shield Bash is a strong ability that often feels difficult to counter. This change will offer new options for counter play, enabling shield tanks to better protect themselves and their teammates.

Doomfist

• Rising Uppercut
  • Loss of air control duration lowered to 0.6 seconds from 3 seconds
• Seismic Slam
  • Maximum range reduced from 20 meters to 15 meters

Developer Comments: Doomfist’s high mobility allows him to engage and disengage from extremely long ranges. Decreasing the range of his targeted aerial version of Seismic Slam requires him to get closer before engaging an enemy and makes it slightly harder for him to escape from combat. The loss of air control on Rising Uppercut was a frustrating mechanic for players, but it allowed Doomfist to set up combos. We’ve found a decent middle ground by limiting the time Doomfist has to line up his next move.


This post is to track further updates to the PTR as we make them. The following changes are planned for a PTR patch that will probably come on Monday.

Brigitte

• Shield Bash
  • Damage reduced from 50 to 5
• Inspire Passive
  • Cooldown reduced from 1.5s to 1.0s
  • Duration increased from 5s to 6s
  • Total healing increased from 80 to 100

Dev Notes: Reduces Shield Bash’s damage reduces her total stun combo damage potential while still allowing Whip Shot and her basic melee attacks to retain their full strength. Brigitte is a hybrid tank/healer, and lately we’ve been reducing her effectiveness by reducing the power of her non-healing functionality, but we want to make sure she is still a viable pick so we’re increasing the uptime of her Inspire passive to help increase her overall healing output.

Doomfist

• Seismic Slam
  • Victims no longer lose air control while being pulled in.
• Meteor Strike
  • Inner ring damage radius increased from 1.5m to 2.0m. This is the ring where Meteor Strike deals its full 300 damage.
  • Max damage outside of inner ring decreased from 300 to 200. This is the ring where damage falloff happens, which still reduces the damage down to 15 at max range.

Dev Notes: The PTR Doomfist changes are all about trying to give his enemies more opportunities to effectively fight back, and these changes are no exception. The Meteor Strike changes will make it harder to secure a “free” kill on heroes without mobility such as Zenyatta or Ana, while still preserving its max potential damage when aimed well or when combined with other abilities such as Graviton Surge or Sleep Dart.

Overall we’re looking carefully at the amount of crowd control abilities (such as stuns and knockbacks that remove air control) and seeing if we can remove or reduce some of the effectiveness of some of these. Any further changes to this PTR will be posted in this thread as well.

RIP Baguette

 

[Gambler]

Yeah. I don't know how Brigitte passed their internal playtesting on release, and I'm not sure anyone will play her when her main ability is disrupted by barriers.

They should have done the sensible thing and reversed the effects (stun vs displacement) of shield bash and mace throw or whatever it's called. Right now, shield bash is movement + stun + damage + safe healing initiation. Too many things rolled into one. Nerf it too much, and she becomes useless.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

It has been revealed on a comic that Soldier:76 is gay.

The butthurt is real from all sides, of course.

 

[Azalin]

What is this Ellie scandal?Time to use google

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[Gerrard]

Poor Sky broke from the inanity.

Also, this is some epic level of damage control: : "How do we get people to stop talking about the Ellie failure?"

 

[Blaine]

From the Forbes article:

But then you have the point that even a fake female player was subject to harassment, harassment that would probably not have occurred if this players was supposed to be an anonymous boy, not a girl. Or at least this wouldn’t have blown up the way it did.

Yeah, boys NEVER get doxxed. They have patriarchal immunity.

Still, I guess he's right. A boy pretending to be a boy wouldn't have blown up quite the same way a boy pretending to be a girl did.

Behead professional victims and their enablers.

 

[Zer0wing]

Whatever, Sombra is better now anyway.

 

[sullynathan]

Still haven't played overwatch