Njuns
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Preliminary thoughts going into day 2:
- New heroes are mostly fun & unique, not 'it's x hero with y ability'
- Lots of little changes that give a feeling of freshness
- Most perks seem insignificant but the concept is good
- The game still feels like OW (that's good & bad)
SVB@OW_SVB
It has been 2 years since I last played Overwatch, or any FPS game Well over a year since I had battle net installed Today, both those streaks end and I return to the motherland (at least on a tourist visa for now)
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@ACozyGamer Try out stadium mode, been only playing this since it released
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I haven’t played Overwatch in half a decade, that changed today! Here are my biggest takeaways from jumping back in for the first time:
1. The music and SFX crit me straight in the chest with nostalgia.
2. I wasn’t even five minutes into a match before someone told me I'm require to hate Sombra to play.
3. 5 years later and I still hate getting one-shot by Widowmaker.
4. Vendetta felt incredible instantly my favorite. So many new heroes to try (former Top 500 Genji/Pharah)
5. Perks are fire. some feel WAY better than others
6. Healing feels SO different compared to Rivals lol. I got punished for a while
7. I checked my old time played stats.. nearly 1,400 hours in season 1 alone. WHERE DID I HAVE THE TIME.
8. Still miss Jeff Kaplan. 🫡
Overall a good time, competition is extremely healthy for any genre! You're crazy if you think otherwise.
Dexerto@Dexerto
Overwatch more than doubled its all-time peak on Steam to 165,000 concurrent players with the launch of Season 1
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@ThisRedDoe @DamS_OW Pourquoi ils feraient encore des updates comme ça s'il etait mort ?
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@FoxxGrimm @mizliz_ Same question, like another spotlight event planned ?
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@mizliz_ Are we doing a showcase this year
I've been looking forward to it for months
Or is showcase gone because of blizzcon?
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Hammond ate our homework. He's a little menace. Can't leave anything out on my counters.
(But fr, we're working on a big ol Director's Take for next week. Thanks for your patience!)
Laurence @ Reign of Talon ❤️🖤@volskayadottxt
Okay who stole the Weekly Recall
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@ouiweenook @sugarbvnnie Manifesting a Bap Mythic AND his addition to stadium 🔥
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I believe we moved the hot fix to 10/1 (tmrw) actually, apologies for the confusion folks. I've been out of the office, so missed that shift in schedule.
Dylan Snyder 💙@chronofloss
@pampurins @meganleigh_r Fix goes live tomorrow I think
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Reminder, you can see your Phantom Thieves skins in all their heart-stealing glory in 3p if you play Stadium 😉 #Overwatch2
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We’re halfway through Season 18, but this party is far from over! 🥳
In our latest blog, learn more about the Midseason update with Tracer arriving in Stadium, the start of this year’s Overwatch 2 Anniversary event, and so much more! 🎉
✨ blizz.ly/46pVsub

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The Group Up! Podcast returns tomorrow for the first time after a 100 day hiatus for 'The State of Overwatch Debate'.
I'll be joined by @Flats_OW, @imAVRL and @Coach_Spilo on Thursday, 5pm EST
See you there 🫡
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@chronofloss I heard that bringing Ram, Bap and Sojourn to stadium in Season 19 might solve the issue, might give it a try ? 👉👈🥹
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@SamitoFPS @Coach_Spilo I keep praying we'll fully revert to 6v6 one day 🙏 (and I need 6v6 in stadium so badly too)
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@Coach_Spilo Ngl in 6v6 it’s heat, just ban tracer (no balance will ever be perfect that’s why bans are sooooo nice omg)
Map voting is awesome
I have no issue with tanks outside of hog n ball torture, every match up seems fair and beatable
Best state the games ever been in (6v6 for me)
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Really don't know what to think of S17's patch. Map voting is interesting, the new map seems great, and I'm gonna assume the lack of perk adjustments are because they're cooking up something next season.
The justification for the Reaper/Tracer buff is freaking weird, though. Listen, I'm THE Tracer advocate- she may be the single most healthy hero to be meta due to how punishable she is in 90% of ranks even when she is strong, but the explanation of "map voting/hero bans will help take care of this" feels not only optimistic but a little ignorant. I'll be focusing on Tracer, but a lot of what I'm going to say applies to a lesser extent with reaper:
1. Tracer is not particularly map dependent. This is based off my opinion of higher level play, not low/mid ranked play, and I'm ignorant of her winrates on other maps. Sadly that information isn't publicly available, but I'd be surprised if her winrate, even on high ground maps, was much worse than flashpoint.
2. Relying on 90% of the playerbase to intelligently ban based off map is insane. This is the same playerbase that will ban Zarya on Gibraltar in freaking Diamond, ban Sombra in 90% of games, and continue to ban "counters" that were nerfed last YEAR (I'm looking at Winston mains still obsessively banning DVA... in Diamond). Players don't strategically ban effectively until Grandmaster. People ban perceived counters, and hated/overtuned heroes, and community culture ALWAYS snowballs this. Sombra should have about 60% banrate, but because everyone just... goes along for the ride to be a good teammate, banrates accelerate almost exponentially. Expect Tracer banrates to skyrocket the second a couple support mains get tired of her.
I've got a couple of other thoughts, too. If a map mode has a significantly higher winrate for Tracer, a sledgehammer buff is probably just going to exacerbate how bad it feels when a Flashpoint map gets voted in. Heck, should ranked players even concern themselves with strategic map voting? This is partially mitigated by the probability format of the vote, but still.
Overall a pretty nothingburger of a patch, but curious to see what happens in the next few weeks. Oh and buffing Mauga/Moira sustain sucks.
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@regelegorila Sombre merde, tu sautes sur la vague d'un pseudo drama et t'en mord les doigts ensuite. Soutiens les au lieu d'essayer de les tacler, bouffon
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@PlayRematch Any plans to add region selection to the game? It feels drastically different playing on East than when you play on Central, for instance.
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What's yrou most anticpiated game right now? #SummerGameFest
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