• JTskulk@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I’m still grateful that Blizzard did the Overwatch free weekend so I could determine for myself that it sucks ass.

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    4 hours ago

    I hatwcwhen guess try to add too many characters

    Earlier on, it felt like I could competently play all characters and, when i saw another in the field, knew what to expect from them

    Now, I feel like constantly learning new characters is a chore at best

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    15 hours ago

    Fuck whatever morons think dumb shit like this is acceptable:

    I swear, everybody is such a goddamn sellout these days.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      Why are they storing that content in a third party cookie?

      Seems like their webmaster needs to update it.

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      12 hours ago

      This dumb shit isn’t acceptable, and if I see something like this I just don’t go to the website.

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    13 hours ago

    just play TF2 or marvel rivals at this point

    edit: maybe TF2 Is the better option(and its mods)

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      14 hours ago

      I play Marvel Rivals almost every day. Compared to Overwatch, it’s more casual and fun oriented, not that balanced at all. And its in third person, not first person. While Rivals has some Overwatch energy and can be played as a replacement, it is not a full replacement. And no other of these games will probably reach peak Overwatch and does not have the same charm.

      BTW I recently installed Team Fortress 2 Classified, a mod that got its own Steam store page. It has lot of stuff from early TF2 days recreated and looks very interesting. Still need to try it out.

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        13 hours ago

        And its in third person, not first person.

        ohhh yeah i forgot

        it’s more casual and fun oriented, not that balanced at all

        Yeah fair enough

        BTW I recently installed Team Fortress 2 Classified, a mod that got its own Steam store page. It has lot of stuff from early TF2 days recreated and looks very interesting. Still need to try it out.

        i think its also Team Fortress classic and maybe scraped tf2 features aswell

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      16 hours ago

      TF2 is a different game and Rivals is definitely not as good in areas that matter like gameplay and maps

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          22 hours ago

          It’s been that way for a long time. The term smurfing, I think, originated with Warcraft II.

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            It was an a****** dude that no one wanted to play against in high-ranking ladders because everyone knew his name because he was a f****** a******.

            So he made two accounts. One called Papa Smurf and the other smurfette. Then proceeded to s*** on low-ranking. Players made fun of them and was he general a****** till everyone learned those names and started avoiding him as well.

            Smurfing since its inception has been fundamentally something only assholes do where this whole purpose of being an a******.

            Ranked systems only work if everybody only has one account. It’s also why most games restrict you to only one account for ranked purposes.

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        17 hours ago

        Smurfing was probably a side-effect. I remember their main reasoning was to ban people who trash talk in voice comms/chat so they cant just create new account using same number.

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      14 hours ago

      I hate that shit. But there is actually a reason for. It’s part of their ongoing battle against cheaters or bad actors, as the game is free to play.

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      I’m right there with you. I miss having 6v6 with like half the characters they have now (so I can actually learn them all), with Jeff Kaplan keeping me excited to play. What a fun time that was.

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      I’m right there with you. I think the hamster was the last new hero I played with.

      Those were good times.

      Now they’re adding a cat with a jetpack, which I would love if they gave her a better name than Jetpack Cat.

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        I mean, to be clear, I never liked Overwatch. Back when it was new, my friends were so into it that playing it with them was the only way we’d spend any time together. They’re the ones who miss that launch game, lol.

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    Overwatch is close to being a decade old btw.

    It’s so unfortunate what they did to Overwatch, wonder how Jeff Kaplan and the original Team feels about all that.

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      As great as Jeff was, he’s the one that did all the stuff to Overwatch.

      As far as I’ve heard/read he was never really interested in making a PVP game, he wanted to make Titan, the MMO. Then he got another chance with OW2 and the PVE mode, and even got an offer to make a separate dev team that would focus on PVP, so he could put his all into PVE, but declined, so the game was left to die (even though it never really died). Then PVE in OW2 was a bust again and he left.

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        17 hours ago

        Oh, I have never heard of that. Also forgot that he was still around when OW2 launched. Still believe it sucks big time to see a project go down this route especially after being such a big success. It might not be dead, but it definitely is just a shell of its past.

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    There used to be an r/EmreMains when the name first appeared in lore. That must have been almost 5 years ago, and now they’ve finally released the hero. I don’t know what they expected, but I’d figure that almost everyone who was there previously has moved on, I certainly have.

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        I love both (personally like Quake 2 better) and consider Quake 2 to be “Quake 1 again.”

        Though the visual tone of the game changed, it was still a fast paced action shooter with an identity that was different enough from Doom to be called “just Doom again.” Many improvements were made, but at its core it still felt like Quake. It didn’t feel like I was suddenly playing Mario, or even another shooter at the time like Turok, Heretic/Hexen, or GoldenEye.

        I guess I am trying to say I understand what the headline is trying to say, but it doesn’t really do that good of a job.

    • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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      Sequels are meant to be drastic improvements from the first game. Like everything. Visuals, story continuation, character development, new mechanics and features .etc