Blizzard Overwatch

You’re right. League of Legends does fucking suck. Where does it say that I am not allowed to give my opinion of this game on this thread? Stop being a butthurt little bitch because I dislike a video game that you like. Sorry if I hurt your fee fees.

Then every single FPS game or ANY game within a single genre is “generic”. That’s not a very meaningful thing to say if that’s all you can come up with.

As for aesthetics being ripped form TF2, I think you should go back an examine that game, and Overwatch closer, they have very different visual styles. This isn’t even a taste issue, they just have very different styles.

If it’s TF2 with more shit then that’s the opposite of “generic”. In fact it’s actually still pretty unique as there really aren’t many FPS AT ALL that are like TF2.

https://twitter.com/theawakened_/status/731227177467908097

Damn, just damn.

I was going to post that in here but totally forgot. Mei is bae.

They said they are redoing Ranked based on the feedback from the closed Beta. It won’t be released until a couple weeks after the initial release of the game. There will be ranked, but apparently the way they were calculating it was all sorts of fucked and people were complaining.

We’ll see how ranked is when it comes out. If it’s anything like the old ranked system in closed beta, I will be very disappointed.

When you correct your fuck up and look cool doing it. I still suck with Tracer though =/

Tracer is actually a really lenient hero. She was the only one I was able to do crazy stuff like going 21-2 and whatnot. I think I only went negative in like 1 match with her, and that was when I learned to run like a bitch away from McCree, lol.

If you don’t get one shot there is basically always an option to get out of there because of her crazy movement and E.

Ha, that was like… the first thing I learned in training room with Tracer, Genji, D.Va, anyone with mobility.

halo2 was like this… Even tho pros struggled to get to 50 in that game… Hell i dont think many made it that high. I think most got stuck at 45-48… If its matching you against better amd better players then 50% wont be easy unless you are among the best players which makes sense.

Man, the animated shorts are kind of lame.

They really can’t figure out the tone they want. They have blood in the game, but then have this pixar aesthetic, and in the shorts, even though Widowmaker murders a robot dude, no bullets are spent on actual humans. Like, why make any of the guns fire real bullets at all. If they made them lasers or some shit then you could at least skirt by with not having lethal weapons, but they still want to keep “bullets” in it, but not commit to what that would actually mean.

I can’t tell if the tone is supposed to be serious or kid serious, or tongue in cheek or what. It’s so all over the place.

The game I think is fine, like I don’t think people’s heads need to explode, but when you hit a body with a bullet, they do freakin bleed at least so there is some sense of consequence to the violence, but the animated shorts have none of that so it makes Widowmaker assassinating a robot and having a human scream over it seem like a joke because there’s no consequences of violence to anything else.

I dunno, Widowmaker shot up a lot of other guys and their fate is kind of left unspecified.

I think the fundamental problem is that if bullets always have realistic effects Tracer and Winston would have been iced within the first minute of the shorts. So you have to have this kind of “bullets just do damage” game-logic. Except of course when the plot calls for robots to die.

Just like in 90’s X-men, particularly with Wolverine.

When he was fighting people, he always punched them, or kicked them, or threw them… never used his claws.

But as soon, as there were robots or machinery, it was claws time, ASAP!

At this point you might be saying Wolvie didn’t want to hurt the humans. (LoL! Yeah that’s Wolverine alright). But as soon as shit was getting serious and would take out the claws to fight a living being, he would get knocked out, or captured, or contained somehow. It was very convenient.

Alright, @RockBogart what do you disagree with?

If you just disagree that they’re lame cause you like em, then ok, cool.

I actually thought the fact that generally only robots get killed in the shorts is a good touch, because people hate the shit out of robots in overwatch. I mean the backstory is that there was a robot uprising but now the robots are cool, so it’s blizzards way of showing who is enough of a dick to kill robots but not people. The one subtle thing about their otherwise hilariously not subtle “equality” message going on with the game.

On a related note, the beta was mad fun and I clocked hours in, but I can’t see myself buying it on PS4. No amount of getting gud can make up for how ass it feels after playing it on a friends PC. I mean, I always knew a keyboard and mouse was the way to go with shooters, but with this game in particular its ballbustingly bad. I envy those of you who can not give a shit about it.

the funny thing is ps4 detects and is compatible with USB mice, just developers don’t actually want kb+m to work with their games because suddenly every rube without a spare mouse is at a massive disadvantage.

I thought the shorts were extremely well done, and they are doing their best to work around a lack of violence.

If FFXIV is any indication though keyboard / mice seem to not work 100% reliably. They can freeze up for a bit or skip. I played like this and 95% of the time it was indistinguishable from PC, but some times really, really weird shit would happen that never happened when I used the same KB/M combo on my PC.

So I’d agree if Sony updated their KB/M drivers to not be garbage.

FFXIV had a really REALLY good controller scheme and options, it was so good that I could legit have access to all 8 hotbars and access them comfortably and fast with the right options. Mitigated most of the controller vs keyboard downsides as pad with the exception of maybe playing something like Summoner or Healer. Never needed all 8 hotbars but it’s cool that I can.

This was coming from someone that enjoyed having 80+ binds on my keyboard with modifiers for WoW Wotlk arena.

That aside i’d kinda feel bad for the pad guys if Mouse and Keyboard becomes mandatory. Suppose it might be awkward for them to properly set it up for some rooms.