Amazing fact:Developers enjoyed the prototype of overwatch 2

[Kazooie-11122]

@RobotWizard-116887

I think they are going to keep with the “hero every 2 seasons” release cycle, at least until they don’t have any more slack from PvE hero abilities to use up.

They will have a lot of example abilities to use, so, that is good right?

Personally, I think their rate they are pushing out content isn’t sustainable. LifeWeaver was pretty 1/2 cooked when they came out, so you may expect the next one to be even further behind.

I would NOT be surprised if the dev team is burnt the hell out from the release either.

I was worried there would be serious workload issues with PVP and PVE

If a talent tree requires more work than an entire hero, and they already struggle to ship an entire hero, what does that mean for the workload? What does that mean for the balancing process and the iterative design process? With a workload that big and interconnected it’s like, are you just cementing yourself in place with tech debt?

The tiny silver lining I’m trying to see is that axing the replayable PVE means a lower workload for the team as a whole. so I’m expecting to see less “half cooked” releases moving forward lol. But that’s just an expectation I have of them, not what I think they’ll deliver

[RobotWizard-116887]

@Kazooie-11122

If a talent tree requires more work than an entire hero, and they already struggle to ship an entire hero, what does that mean for the workload?

It would mean it was unsustainable for sure.

@Kazooie-11122

The tiny silver lining I’m trying to see is that axing the replayable PVE means a lower workload for the team as a whole.

Yeah, death marches are not good for moral.

[HiddenWaffle-1455]

wait, are you people mad the devs had access to the builds of the game they were developing?

ya’ll crazy. wtf?

[Decepticon-11508]

I expect this game will be shelved like Hots in a year or two.

[HiddenWaffle-1455]

Hots was never big tho

[Decepticon-11508]

Maybe in two years the same could be said about Overwatch.

[AngryPuckmen-1981]

@SewerBait-1193

If they did we wouldn’t have a million huge bugs every patch.

I’m mean online games tend to be buggy as whole, as they need to keep a strict schedule. And can’t delay the game for months on end to clean everything up.

Doubly so when you consider that OW adds full on new mechanics, instead of just another reskinned gun like most other FPS games.

[AngryPuckmen-1981]

@Decepticon-11508

Maybe in two years the same could be said about Overwatch.

Considering that the community held strong while they literally stopped making content. At least enough to keep the game running, and were just now getting loads of new accounts flooding into here and reddit.

I think we got a solid for a good while.

[kongajinken-1805]

I wanted to comment on your post as I wanted to add to it, but than I realized that there’s nothing really to add, its PAINFULLY obvious the devs are not happy about this, they had to suck it up and eat it like good little workers and that was the only decision they had. You can clearly see that none of them are happy.

[Personne-11959]

As a player we aren’t getting pve, I’m not interested in their docudrama.

Everybody lied no one has my sympathies.

[CoolUsername-11445]

@Dodecahedron-11880

Can you blame him? He’s not a “yes man” like Keller.

It’s not 100% on Keller either but the decision to keep the entire process under wraps for over a year is for sure on Keller.

Kaplan left because he wasn’t going to invest his efforts or reputation into something he didn’t believe in.

Keller is a victim of doing what he has to, in order to stay in his position of power. He could have just as easily said he wouldn’t be the one to deliver the message and resigned.

Jeff is a multimillionaire who could start his own business if he wanted to or simply go years without working. So, Aaron can’t resign as easily as Jeff. Sucks, but he’s in a tough position.

[SewerBait-1193]

@AngryPuckmen-1981

I’m mean online games tend to be buggy as whole, as they need to keep a strict schedule

I get that, but how often are we getting bugs where a hero’s basic mechanics are bugged. Like when Hanzo, Torb, and Genji had their shakiness bugs. And the flying Sigma bug.

These are things that you’d think would be caught by the devs while they’re working on the game right?

[AngryPuckmen-1981]

@SewerBait-1193

I get that, but how often are we getting bugs where a hero’s basic mechanics are bugged. Like when Hanzo, Torb, and Genji had their shakiness bugs. And the flying Sigma bug.

It tends to be rare, but not unheard of. D.va for example has a habit of breaking whenever spawn mechanics are tweaked or added to the game.

Like she was fine in normal games, then they added arcade where she would rocket to the moon on most de-mechs.

Be it we should expect more as now that PVE story mode stuff is right around the corner.

As that was in it’s self a whole engine overhall to get that to work.

And it’s most likely were a lot of the recent hero bugs came from. As their slowly rolling out engine updates as part of things like star watch.

Some other stuff might have been testing for talents to before they got the boot. As that would require reworking some of the older bits of the heroes code.