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[Daria Morgendorffer]

Don't think the update is out yet. It's only on PTR.

Yes I mean PTR, you don't get 5 boxes on live

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Fucking finally, only took until AFTER the event with bullshit locked behind the anniversary gate and everybody scrambling to give them money.

 

[KingBroly]

Nirolak you should add that after you fill up your 30 slots you can export the highlights as video files and choose to do so in 4k/60fps and I assume above if you want.


Don't think the update is out yet. It's only on PTR.

PTR?

 

[DrArchon]

Not gonna lie, it was nice not getting any dupes in that Twitch Prime free golden box. Less dupes but still getting the same amount of gold sounds awesome.

 

[Twookie]

Changes are cool and all, but dat jersey tho..

I'd buy that jersey right now actually

 

[Hyun Sai]

Is this honest response to feedback, or is Overwatch is not growing like they want at the moment ?

 

[holysan]

Thank you Uncle Jeff \o/

 

[Col WillieSharp]

Wonder if there will be any form of rewards program for people who've bought a bunch of the shittier lootboxes in the past.

LOL, I wouldn't spend too much time wondering.

 

[PAULINK]

Hearthstone just announced nearly the same thing: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/20852959/

holy shit

 

[zelhawks37]

Looks like I got this game at a good time after all. Saving highlights is great news too!

 

[Rocketz]

PTR?

Public Test Realm on PC.

 

[heyf00L]

It's something, but we really just need full replay files you can save and load, like WarCraft, StarCraft, Source games, Halo, etc.

 

[Maximus.]

Finally. I am sick of all the dupes I kept getting. Too bad I've slowed down playing though.

 

[Strakt]

nice; waiting for the people from the multiple threads who said the overwatch devs never take any feedback lul

 

[KLoWn]

Is this honest response to feedback, or is Overwatch is not growing like they want at the moment ?

I really don't think Overwatch has any problem in the growing department.

 

[PAULINK]

so I opened 5 lootboxes they gave you in the ptr, not one duplicate in any of them, fucking black magic.

 

[BackwardCap]

Can't wait to see how much is "Way Less" for them.

 

[KingBroly]

so I opened 5 lootboxes they gave you in the ptr, not one duplicate in any of them, fucking black magic.

How do you get into this PTR?

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

How do you get into this PTR?

Only on PC, but in the Blizzard client:

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20157263

 

[zashga]

That's good, depending how much the dupe rate is reduced. It's weird that they went with "less dupes" and not "no dupes."

Now they just need to drop the 3x event skin pricing and the game will feel way less gross to play.

 

[Head.spawn]

Just opened the 5 free boxes to test it out, got 0 duplicates with them.

In the regular game I opened about 5 boxes this early a.m., I think 4 of them had triple-dupes. Whole lotta fun.

 

[Jeremy]

i'm legit surprised. THANKS I GUESS.

 

[antitrop]

Can't wait to see how much is "Way Less" for them.

I watched a streamer on a Level 800+ account open 5 boxes that he already had before the PTR (so the contents were already decided prior to dupe rate change), and he got 3-4 dupes per box there. Then he opened the new PTR boxes and there were only 2 duplicates out of all the items in the new boxes.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Did the say when the loot box changes are going to hit? have they already?

 

[Recall]

Took way too long to address duplicates.

 

[Rafus]

I don't understand why they had Sombra in the opening and closing of the video if the announcement is about D.Va this week.

D.Va got hacked.

 

[Exploratory]

That's good, depending how much the dupe rate is reduced. It's weird that they went with "less dupes" and not "no dupes."

Now they just need to drop the 3x event skin pricing and the game will feel way less gross to play.

Kidding right? These are not NEEDED. They're cosmetics. You get all the maps for free, you get all the heroes for free, balance for free, new features for free. You want them to have 0 sources of income.

 

[LycanXIII]

Hope my current 12 regular boxes will work under these new rules.

Nope, loot is rolled when the box is obtained.

 

[KarmaCow]

Some other changes I noticed from the PTR patch notes.

-Custom reticles. I haven't tried it myself so I don't know how customizable it is.
-Sombra no longer takes damage during the teleport animation.

 

[shira]

Look too thick, but wow fully stitched, that's quite expensive

 

[Visualante2]

Yeah after 300 hours. Most of my crates are all duplicates. It makes me wish I could just hide all crates like in Rocket League.

 

[Avinexus]

Thank gad. I only have about ~15 items for each character and I still get 1-2 dupes per box.

 

[therealist]

saving highlights is cool.

 

[MCD]

it's a shame all event boxes are locked though till further notice.

 

[Big Nikus]

Just need to do a thing that lets you buy old ass Event skins now

They're already doing it : it comes back one year later.

 

[Ramirez]

I don't understand why they had Sombra in the opening and closing of the video if the announcement is about D.Va this week.

What announcement?

People would actually wear that jersey?

 

[Gravidee]

Too bad this wasn't implmented during the anniversary event. I only got one legendary skin out of that and it wasn't the one I wanted.

 

[Yukinari]

I want everyone who said the loot box system is fine to eat their plate of crow.

Being able to buy event items with credits was a good change but it wasnt enough. This is way more substantial to improving the loot system.

Just a shame they did this after getting tons of money from the Uprising and Anniversary events.

 

[The Lamonster]

Sounds great. It just sucks that I've previously spent so many real dollars and gotten so many dupes and barely any credits for them.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Finally, we can save highlight videos! Now I no longer need to record them myself, and will be getting videos in a vastly better quality.

 

[super-famicom]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYJlPMdWNA&feature=youtu.be

Notes:
- Lootboxes will now give "drastically" less duplicate items (until you start to run out of content of course).
- In order to make sure you still get enough credits to buy the skins you want, they're significantly increasing the amount of credits you get from boxes, so that you will get at least as much, if not more credits from boxes than you used to due to all the dupes.
- Highlights can now be saved off as videos, and up to 32 at a time can be saved within Overwatch itself.
- The last five highlights are now persistent for 24 hours.
- You can press a button during a match to bookmark a highlight so you can go back to it.

Aw. Yiss.

 

[zashga]

Kidding right? These are not NEEDED. They're cosmetics. You get all the maps for free, you get all the heroes for free, balance for free, new features for free. You want them to have 0 sources of income.

No, I want a more traditional paid expansion where we get a respectable amount of content without the weird manipulation. The amount of actual content (not cosmetic) we've gotten since launch is kind of pathetic. Not impressed with it just because it's "free."

 

[Alucrid]

Tbh, I dont see why this is needed. Not pay to win in ANY shape or form, and just playing very casually you get a lot of skins and credits imo. Skins are a bonus, not something anyone needs. I would have made another change instead; when you buy themed boxes, you have increased drop chance for themed items. Maybe it already is like that.

i stopped caring about items and loot boxes three events ago but i'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth

 

[kaskade]

I wonder why the loot boxes are only in the PTR? I'd think that could be something server side but I could be completely wrong.

Either way that was a long time coming. My friend got 4 lucios during the last event.

 

[Horp]

I play very casually and that's horse shit of the highest order.


This is good now let us purchase the event exclusive skins and I'll be happy.

I do the same and it isn't.

i stopped caring about items and loot boxes three events ago but i'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth

Sure I don't mind. Just wasn't -needed-.

 

[Alucrid]

I do the same and it isn't.



Sure I don't mind. Just wasn't -needed-.

a lot of the qol updates they do aren't -needed- so saying they aren't -needed- doesn't mean much

 

[LiK]

What announcement?

People would actually wear that jersey?

D.Va VA said there's an announcement tomorrow on her Twitter.

 

[MUnited83]

Those highlight changes are fantastic. No more excuse for potato quality video anymore either, neato.

I play very casually and that's horse shit of the highest order.


This is good now let us purchase the event exclusive skins and I'll be happy.

Other than the anniversary event I got pretty much almost every skin I wanted in all events while barely playing.

 

[SargerusBR]

Should have implemented those during the Anniversary event.

Got so many dupes, lost my chance at Sentai Genji ;_;

 

[The Maverick]

I'm kind of burned out on the game really. Toxic community, smurf accounts in comp, anniversary event being weak...I'm done for a while.