Was it silly of me to expect updates on the issues plaguing the game?
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Yes
No
Maybe?
I’ve found that it’s honestly best to have low expectations these days, then you shouldn’t be as disappointed or potentially feel foolish.
They did a developer stream and addressed a TON of things.
OhNickel, Fareeha, & Nateson Developer Stream Summary with Kaplan
Havana will be on the PTR very soon. Payload map.
Console patch larger - remaster/data clean up.
PVP map will have some differences - No storm, different time of day.
Storm started off as a sandstorm in Temple of Anubis.
Echo is amazing. Not the next hero. Neither is Sojourn. Jetpack Cat will never be made. Big plans for Junkerqueen and Maximilien.
Mama Hong 2nd most controversial hero behind Hammond on the team. Kaplan on Team Mama Hong.
Concept for Hammond was around before Overwatch was released. Sojourn was started on in 2014/2015. Orisa, Baptiste, and Moira were newer hero concepts.
Team currently focused on features. Some requested by community, some not. A feature that no one has asked about is coming soon before or around Anniversary.
D.va will get a skin “that breaks the internet” for Anniversary.
Coming later this summer/early fall are two features requested by community.
Neither upcoming feature will be guilds, but the team wants to add guilds. Really cool ideas - technically challenging - want it to work on console
Fans of cross-play - challenging from a technical and business standpoint.
Comics in development.
Not looking to rework any heroes. Not a fan of reworks just to keep things fresh.
“Overwatch would be better” on 2/2/2 lock/role queue. Jeff is a big believer. Biggest challenge is the queue times for DPS(13-26 minutes). Need to motivate more tank and support play to go along with the discouragement system. Heroes would need re-tuning such as Brigitte for 2/2/2.
No plans for free to play anytime soon.
No plans for OW on Switch anytime soon. Doesn’t rule anything out besides Jetpack Cat.
Wants to do better for visually and hearing impaired players. Mentions subtitle system.
Design team’s ranks range from Bronze to GM.
Figure in the end cut-scene is an omnic.
Top two requested features are story mode and new game modes. Story mode would be comparable to making a new game.
Cool PVP surprise coming to PTR soon.
Added timestamps and some details.
(Le stolen from a reddit post - just wanted to share the context here)
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yeah… no information when it comes to addressing issues. Just look out into the horizon for x or y stuff. Honestly I’m fine if they literally stop adding heroes, maps and events for an entire year as long they put all their focus into fixing the issues with the game. This game was a lot more fun a year back and there were less things in it…
I disagree fully and feel that the things they touched on may address many of them
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So where are the talks about the unbalanced game state, the issue with one tricks, throwers, an actual answer to role queue?
FYI this is not an answer to the question, they just re-iterated what they said last time. the only new info is giving ball park estimates.
I guess they dropped a ton of info on a livestream. If you want a location, I guess that is it.
nobody should feel foolish for expecting a gaming industry giant like Blizzard to have something more than an indie company
keep expectations low if you don’t want to feel disappointed, but certainly not “foolish” for expecting better of them
This was pretty much a useless developer update.
Once again, says very little of substance or anything that concrete to actually relating to the future of the game. Or anything related to actual gameplay.
“We thought about this. We thought about that. Some secret stuff is coming. We’d like to implement this but it would take time.”
Yawn.
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Wait, did you guys totally miss what Jeff actually said about Jetpack Cat?? He said it would be so ridiculous, it would be like putting a hamster in the game. WE HAVE A HAMSTER IN THE GAME!!
Jetpack Cat confirmed someday!
that’s… actually interesting to think about if true
i haven’t actually bothered to watch it yet since i assume anything important would be everywhere