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[Dylan Sexbang]

Overwatch is so much fun, that whatever mode they have planned and whatever "controversies" they are expecting, I'm sure will blow over quickly. This game is a blast. And I eagerly await any new game modes, characters, and whatever else. Wonder how weird Ana will be on consoles tho.

 

[Data West]

You can't please everyone, which is why I find these "controversies" so silly. Instead of celebrating how ridiculously diverse Overwatch is compared to most games, it's always just "But why isn't X in the game?"

There's always going to be someone who feels left out. You can't expect one game to represent absolutely everyone.

If a indigenous wasn't in the game, I wouldn't complain.

It's the fact that it's relegated to a skin that makes it an issue. A character that seemingly has no ancestral or even familiar ties to the group of people its representing(and the fact that the design is a mashup of all sorts of tribes in the most generic 'native american skin' sense you can get doesn't help). It's appropriation. If the skin didn't exist, I would just say, 'oh this game doesn't represent my people or other people of similar tribe ancestry. well that sucks but i'm used to it in video games sadly.' but because the skin is there, it has the undesirable look of, 'you're not good enough for a character. you're a skin at best. for a character that has nothing to do with it. you have no representation. this other unrelated person represents you'

and you certainly can't expect every game to represent everyone but no one should be condemned for expecting more diversity. There's no cap on diversity. More diversity is always something you should be looking forward to and asking for more of it isn't some critical 'you fucking racists' statement. There's not a quote you can ever hit on 'well we represented enough people no one can say anything.' You shouldn't stop expecting more of it because there's a bunch of games with a white woman with red hair on the cover.

 

[RexNovis]

Only one of each hero on a team, whoever you pick at the start is locked and you can't switch heroes during the match. That's all.

That's a pretty weak MOBA mode. Hopefully they'd add other modifiers to make it more unique and maybe add practice bots as creeps or something. That is if they are indeed trying to make a MOBA style mode for it.

 

[NumberThree]

Can't wait for the synchronized dancing mode in Overwatch.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

Give us a straight up Team Deathmatch so all those Hanzo fucks can stop wasting spaces in competitive modes.

Give us RIP-tire races so Junkrats can fuck right off.

 

[duckroll]

Give us a straight up Team Deathmatch so all those Hanzo fucks can stop wasting spaces in competitive modes.

Give us RIP-tire races so Junkrats can fuck right off.

That's Skirmish.

 

[Thoraxes]

Give us a straight up Team Deathmatch so all those Hanzo fucks can stop wasting spaces in competitive modes.

Give us RIP-tire races so Junkrats can fuck right off.

All the Hanzos are becoming Anas.

 

[jotun?]

As soon as somebody starts pitching a game mode where Tracer can’t blink anymore or she’s not allowed to use her recall, that’s where we step away from it and we’re like, “You know, we need the game mode that makes Tracer want to blink and use recall and that everybody thinks that’s cool and not a balance problem and broken.

Translation: No CTF mode

 

[Hero]

Did they say how end of season rewards are awarded?

Did my placements and got placed into 56 but with the crappy way competitive is, I'd like to preserve it if it means I'll get better rewards, but if it just takes into account your highest rating I might just play some more to see how many competitive points I can get.

 

[Actual]

Give us a straight up Team Deathmatch so all those Hanzo fucks can stop wasting spaces in competitive modes.

Give us RIP-tire races so Junkrats can fuck right off.

I know this is meant as a joke, but.... I think a race mode would be fun.

Obviously, it would need to be limited to one character or something. Like, a Winston obstacle race. A Widowmaker grapple race. A Genji platforming race. A Pharah air race. A Reinhardt sprint. It's silly, but it sounds fun to me!

 

[BigDug13]

I'm fine with the game modes we already have. Just get us more maps for those existing game modes.

 

[Bear Force One]

So, well-designed maps?

Oh we already have that! Maps are fantastic.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Oh we already have that! Maps are fantastic.

Yeah, there's like three I don't like and none that I hate.

 

[Kite]

Someone on r/overwatch extracted a bunch of audio files from the PTR and it gave some hints to the new maps and game modes :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4ta9lc/i_went_over_all_available_voice_files_on_the_ptr/

tl;dr new maps:

A castle in Germany
Korean Map
Underwater Map
Moon Map
Ordenance Bay (same as underwater map?)

New game mode:

I've heard almost every character say I'm on defense or offense. I think a new gamemode is going to exist in which two teams fight vs AI or something and one team has to defend and the other attack.

Winston - "I've leveled up. Time to assign those skill points."
Oh so this is what the announcer was talking about new champion level. This is possibly part of the new game mode.

There is also a lot of voice files of all the characters saying something like "One more win and we are back in this" "We have to just win one more time" Now I am not sure if this is in game but this is possibly for ranked rounds.

The announcer has a few quotes calling rounds above 5.

Announcer - Additional time added

Announcer - New heroes joining!

 

[Nirolak]

Maybe an Omnic War horde type mode?

Korea's position in the Overwatch universe is that they're constantly attacked by Omnic Kaiju.

 

[SerRodrik]

Someone on r/overwatch extracted a bunch of audio files from the PTR and it gave some hints to the new maps and game modes :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4ta9lc/i_went_over_all_available_voice_files_on_the_ptr/

tl;dr new maps:

A castle in Germany
Korean Map
Underwater Map
Moon Map
Ordenance Bay (same as underwater map?)

New game mode:

Yes! Ever since I heard about Winston's origins I wanted a map set on the moon.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Someone on r/overwatch extracted a bunch of audio files from the PTR and it gave some hints to the new maps and game modes :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4ta9lc/i_went_over_all_available_voice_files_on_the_ptr/

tl;dr new maps:

A castle in Germany
Korean Map
Underwater Map
Moon Map
Ordenance Bay (same as underwater map?)

New game mode:

So we're getting an actual MOBAwatch mode?

 

[ekim]

Maybe an Omnic War horde type mode?

Korea's position in the Overwatch universe is that they're constantly attacked by Omnic Kaiju.

Yeah.

- one team has to attack a certain point of interest that is spawning new AI enemies
- these AI enemies attack a second point of interest that must not be destroyed so the other team defends that.

Or those voice lines are just some addition for the existing modes.

 

[jello44]

After this, and this, I'm convinced that it's 50% Blizzard trolling us, and 50% us trolling ourselves. Sombra is going to be a gag like Asagi in Nippon Ichi games. They'll release Doomfist, Athena, Liao, and in 2017 we'll still be hunting down Sombra "clues"! I won't be fooled again!!!!

Please god, let it be this.

 

[Bear Force One]

Yeah, there's like three I don't like and none that I hate.

Awesome.




Also keep in mind some of those voice lines could have been from when skill points were planned.

 

[The Last Wizard]

Hopefully we get more than one map at a time.

 

[duckroll]

I wouldn't get too hyped. Some of those lines are probably not what we expect. Definitely getting a castle map tho.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Those maps sound awesome just by those few word descriptions lol

 

[Stone Ocean]

Those maps sound awesome just by those few word descriptions lol

Castle map sounds hype. Hopefully it's a daytime map.

 

[Dead Prince]

possible 4-5 maps? hype

 

[Zocano]

co-op raid boss mode gib.

 

[DrArchon]

Hopefully we get more than one map at a time.

I mean, if the maps are tied to new game modes, then we kinda have to right? No one wants to play a new game mode if it's just on the same map over and over and over again.

I guess that wouldn't be the case if the maps were for existing game modes, but then you'd have an imbalance with one mode having more maps.

 

[duckroll]

I mean, if the maps are tied to new game modes, then we kinda have to right? No one wants to play a new game mode if it's just on the same map over and over and over again.

I guess that wouldn't be the case if the maps were for existing game modes, but then you'd have an imbalance with one mode having more maps.

Why does this matter? Unlike heroes, we don't choose maps. They're queued in a playlist beyond our control. It would make zero difference.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Castle map sounds hype. Hopefully it's a daytime map.

Yup, I can't wait to see it in Overwatch's art style. Gonna be good!

 

[Sn4ke_911]

YES UNDERWATER MAP!

 

[LAM09]

A new map or two in the coming weeks would be great.

 

[_machine]

I wouldn't get too hyped. Some of those lines are probably not what we expect. Definitely getting a castle map tho.

This so much; I find it very unlikely that they have 4-5 maps so far in production that they would have completed map specific VO that has been signed on, recorded, post-produce and committed to game. It especially goes against what Jeff earlier said about map production pipeline (only in art polish pass).

A new map or two in the coming weeks would be great.

Two absolutely not, and I would say that depending on their priorities, they might wait until the end of competitive season before pushing out a new map.

 

[clockworkinyou]

I feel like the Brawl Mobawatch was a bit of a test for a possible MOBA/DotA/horde mode without the NPCs. I think they were just testing to see how the locked in picks worked.

 

[Nirolak]

This so much; I find it very unlikely that they have 4-5 maps so far in production that they would have completed map specific VO that has been signed on, recorded, post-produce and committed to game. It especially goes against what Jeff earlier said about map production pipeline (only in art polish pass).

Well, due to the nature of getting voice actors into the studio, Blizzard has had audio responses in Heroes of the Storm for characters that haven't been released for years.

 

[DoctorFling]

Damn, I'm so excited for this. Overwatch has really blown me away, I can't remember the last multiplayer game I've loved this much. Wish I had a gaming PC, but the PS4 version plays great anyway.

 

[Interfectum]

Damn, I'm so excited for this. Overwatch has really blown me away, I can't remember the last multiplayer game I've loved this much. Wish I had a gaming PC, but the PS4 version plays great anyway.

I have both versions, most of the time I play on PS4 anyway. This is the perfect game to sit back with a controller and a beer or three.

 

[duckroll]

Well, due to the nature of getting voice actors into the studio, Blizzard has had audio responses in Heroes of the Storm for characters that haven't been released for years.

Yeah but that also means a lot of it is prototype content which might not make it out or be released in the same form!

 

[Nirolak]

Yeah but that also means a lot of it is prototype content which might not make it out or be released in the same form!

This is true!

 

[Clark W Grizwald]

The should add a full on MOBA mode to just to put the final nail in the coffin for Battlebron

 

[Azoor]

Blizzard already have a MOBA and to think they'll add one to Overwatch is interesting.

And people still mentioning Batteborn? It seems like it'll be remembered as the game that tried to complete with Overwatch and failed.

 

[Kyzon]

They've mentioned previously that they want to add more builder heroes, but it hasn't been any more specific than that.

I have a hard time coming up with a builder hero whose niche isn't already filled by Symmetra and Torb, but I guess that's why Blizzard is making the game and I'm just playing it.

I'd want a builder who put up things like catapults and dash pads to launch and speed up your team while also being able to toss opponents around

 

[Bluth54]

Valve has had the beta of a moon themed map in TF2 since mid 2014 and I have little doubt that we'll see Blizzard's moon map first.

 

[Dmax3901]

Calling it now: warcraft/starcraft style game mode. Isometric camera angle and all.

 

[duckroll]

Calling it now: warcraft/starcraft style game mode. Isometric camera angle and all.

That would be really stupid. Overwatch is a FPS, it doesn't need pointless gimmick stuff like that. Lots more room for good FPS game modes and maps.

 

[tanooki27]

Calling it now: warcraft/starcraft style game mode. Isometric camera angle and all.

get the straitjacket

 

[Niks]

Did they say how end of season rewards are awarded?

Did my placements and got placed into 56 but with the crappy way competitive is, I'd like to preserve it if it means I'll get better rewards, but if it just takes into account your highest rating I might just play some more to see how many competitive points I can get.

It's all downhill from your initial ranking. :/

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Calling it now: warcraft/starcraft style game mode. Isometric camera angle and all.

You mean heroes of the storm?

 

[Shake Appeal]

I don't think we can conclude a lot from those files right now. Castle map seems likely, but the rest is highly speculative.

 

[Nibel]

I'd love a fresh take on horde mode

 

[Azoor]

I'd love a fresh take on horde mode

I wish they'd add a mode where you kill machines like the one in TF2.