Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Overwatch 2’s Launch is ROUGH”.
Um all right in other news, OverWatch 2 had a pretty rough launch this week. Have you played? Have you tried to play? I guess I’m a more valid question. I’Ve tried to play. I have not played um yeah very funny, very, not surprising, given that it’s blizzard – and this is how every single game that they launch goes um but yeah, OverWatch, 2 launched October 4th sort of players were stuck queuing with tens of thousands of other players blizzard president, Mike Ibarra, initially tweeted that they were experiencing server issues he later tweeted that they were experiencing a massive DDOS attack. There are known bugs many of them. Some are very bad. There’S a known bugs list.
There was a beta. I don’t know why they bother. Sometimes, if they’re not going to do anything about the things that were found in the beta, there was four hours of downtime Thursday evening during prime time.
That is specifically what I tried to play. Hooray very cool cues are apparently still really bad, even without the issues. Some critics are still upset at OverWatch 2, just in general.
This has nothing to do with the launch problems. They’Re saying that it’s basically OverWatch one with a couple very minor feature updates to be fair. They literally told you that um not cost extra.
No, it doesn’t yeah and they said that the like the multiplayer is going to merge in and like you, wouldn’t have to pay for it uh. In order to play like, I think you gained like single player stuff, if you pay for it, it’s one of those types of things which people were praising at the time and they got it and it wasn’t different and now they’re upset. I don’t know um, there’s not much of a graphical update as far as I’ve heard.
It’S basically like it’s six hours later, like every map that is like sort of nighttimey is like kind of morning and every map that was nighttime he’s like or you know what I mean it’s just every map seems like it was pushed slightly further in the day. Um and the battle it’s a battle pass instead of loot boxes, which I mean, maybe that’s better pick your poison. I guess maybe it’s not um the PVE mode got delayed. I didn’t know that this is basically the only true new feature of OverWatch too.
As far as my understanding was back in the day, that’s why they did it uh that they were mentioning, and now it’s delayed like Halos campaign co-op. I’M sure it feels very similar. The cosmetics and their pricing has been heavily criticized. As per usual uh. There’S a rare skin that costs three or a rare skin costs 300 coins, which will take over a month to acquire and legendaries cost 1900.
So you’re spending many months if you want to get a legendary okay, is this me being out of touch? Why do you care just use the default skin? Yeah? Let’S go, I agree um. I well. I also don’t want like ridiculous priced things for people that are going to buy it, but yeah I I just I wish people would default skin more often um and I think it’s like ridiculous and stupid and should be frowned upon um when anyone criticizes anyone else For not having skins in video games because, like wow, that’s the probably the least valuable purchase you can make in your day, um other than okay.
Actually, that’s very, not true, there’s a lot of other things that could be worse but anyways. It’S not great uh. There’S a discussion question Windows 11 was a free upgrade from Windows. 10 is Blizzard doing the same with OverWatch but worse, seeing as OverWatch 1 servers are shutting down, so you’re required to upgrade. If you want to keep playing the game, I don’t think it’s necessarily that much worse, because I don’t think it’s that different the whole.
The whole argument of the game has barely changed, means that I don’t think you can really complain too much that OverWatch servers ended. Overwatch One servers ended. I do know that player teams went from six to five. So if you had a friend group of six people that all played OverWatch that sucks a lot um, I didn’t see like that too, particularly in any part of the notes, but I think that’s going to be quite brutal. I think they went to five, because basically every other game is five, so it’ll make it easier for friend groups of five to transfer over to OverWatch um.
That makes sense, and you can’t really have you – can’t really maintain the competitive balance at five or six yeah. But then, if they didn’t it’s gon na be rough. Make many changes to the maps anyway, then maybe it didn’t matter, maybe it never matters. I don’t know.
Yeah, I I find the launch issues to be funny just because it’s such a blizzard thing, um every launch they’re like what we got ddosed like every other time, no way In fairness, that’s probably a really big DDOS, because, oh, it’s probably really hate blizzard yeah with Good reason so yeah there’s that yep, okay yeah playing games on launch as fun as it sounds uh if you’re not ready for this type of issue. In the modern day you just it’s gon na happen with, like basically everybody, it’s pretty crazy. I do find it interesting um that old school game launches went a lot better in a lot of cases, because it was a lot more common for old school games to have dedicated servers yeah, so it like wasn’t really much of an issue. So if there was a problem, people could just spin up another server and it would be something nobody spinning up the server, so nobody would think to attack them.
They’Re, like yeah yeah, either your individual server gets ddosed or if there’s too many players I mean well, your server just filled up and you as an individual. If you’re the server host, you probably have reserved slot, so you don’t care yeah, no big deal yeah. I don’t know it’s interesting, can 00403 and float plane chat goes. How did I not notice the move from six to five players? I don’t know I yeah.
Maybe it just didn’t matter. .