Is there hope for PvE if Microsoft takes over?

Overwatch exists because of the work done on Project Titan.

All the assets Overwatch uses, it’s game engine etc etc. That’s all because of Project Titan.

And as per the latest blog post from Aaron Keller, the Overwatch team was always planning on making Project Titan a reality, but they chose to do so through Overwatch, using it as a stepping stone to what they really wanted, rather than seeing the game for the smash hit that it was/is.

Now that they’ve abandoned their plans to release Project Titan through Overwatch I hope the game will get a lot better.

My guess is that Microsoft signs the deal by this time next month.

And then they probably transition to full control before February 2024.

if microsoft taken over the servers likely would be crap and overwatch put behind xbox live paywall

Microsoft is the #2 most popular server company in the world…

Having a singular CC ability doesn’t make her anti-dive. All of the tanks have a way of pushing or pulling dive away from teammates.
Plus, Winston will ignore and avoid Queen, Doom will either bail or obliterate Queen, and D.va will just bail.
Seasons 1-3 Queen was curb-stomped by all tanks until Hog got his uber-nerf.
Now Queen is meta for the rest of the season while Hog is the weakest tank until season 7 or later.

Hope is a system of control used by capitalism to herd sheep.

Cynicism is a system of control used by capitalism to herd sheep.

Conspiracy theories are a system of control used by capitalism to herd sheep.

It’s hard to see with the wool over our eyes.

yeah but destiny exist and destiny is also ambitious they’re the first one who succeded making fps mmo a thing

It does when it’s on an extremely low cooldown, one that is easy to apply to said tanks. With exception to maybe d.va you have to bait the DM. or poke at her from angle.

That you can just leave them, pressure them with damage. Then pull the moment they press the movement ability.

You can basically never let them escape, or let d.va dive on to any teammate. (you want to pull the moment she stops moving, thrusters will keep going)

You basically have life weaver pull that works on the enemy.

shorter range of course, put keeping them in LOS is all that really matters. As they want to break that to be able to reset and do cycles.

yes and no.

Destiney 1.0 and Destiney 2.0

Were rather small games. With not a lot of depth or content.

I played the latter till I completed the story, felt extremely hollow and grindy. Never wanted to touch it again.

What they grew into does seem to be vastly different an amazing community experience. But they ah definitely crawled and walked before they got a chance to run.

But god I never wanted to touch a game like that after what I experienced.

The Microsoft PvE in question:

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After Microsoft bought Mojang Minecraft (Notch the creator sold out and would immediately buy a mansion and would be used as a PR Talk guy for future Microsoft events). The game was already heavily established so they basically just took an IP that’s already successful. Instant money can change people, they become less motivated and creative and it doesn’t always get you the talent needed.

The Java edition of Minecraft would go on to have no content for 2 whole years to focus on the pocket edition which was completely inferior, and they neglected the PC fanbase. And then they released one of the most controversial updates, failed promises like the hololens (2015) and plenty of lackluster content until the game was revived by a Swedish YouTuber with his Minecraft Let’s Play lol. A lot of huge updates would be released but eventually, Pewdiepie and other content creators would quit, and updates ceased. We’d go back to declining and Microsoft would go on to releasing more Minecraft spin-offs which are mixedly rated, 6-7/10.

Minecraft has the same problem that OW2 currently has. They too are understaffed. Thats why we are only having one major update annually. We can hope but i don’t think OW2 would get more staff to work on PvE/cancelled things.

It’s not a matter of throwing more monkeys at more typewriters, it’s a matter of understanding what PVE needs to be and actually working against a roadmap that has a clear goal. The way Aaron described the cancellation of hero missions was basically saying they had no clear vision of what “hero mode” was going to be, and because they didn’t have a real plan for it they were just kind of going in circles iterating on failed designs that didn’t get any closer to the end goal of a shippable product.

Adding more devs to this tortured cycle just wastes money, you’re not going to magically eureka a good product after throwing enough goons at the project.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this and was hopeful, until I looked up the Halo Infinite business model: Battle Pass, tiers, cash shop.

Not holding my breath.

Not really.
Winston will bubble and ignore it.
Doom will likely still have one method of escape or will gain free empowered punch off the Queen who’s about to smack him.
D.va will fly away, delete it, or put up her defense matrix until she can fly away.
Ball is Ball and is unkillable, at most it’s a minor inconvenience.

Though of course this is pre-season 4 where they giga-buffed her into being meta. We won’t stop having Queen meta until a balance change makes her weak again or someone else gets a giga-buff. If they don’t do either of those things, we’ll still have the Queen meta for season 5.

Have you even seen the matchmaking recently?
It has been loosen more than ever and is all over the place because nobody is playing the game.

yes and no, he will still have his landing impact. But that barrier is only up a few seconds in most satiations.

For him to secure kills and have impact he will need to face tank for a bit. That and sometimes his jump cooldown isn’t up at the point his barrier goes down. Basically, there will be time for JQ to place the knife. At which point she can pull it back at her convince.

JQ can also sustain herself through such via axe that will go through sheild and shout. If not ignore Winston completely with the latter. If he is caught up with something like a reaper or bastion.

sadly destiny was never the game that you will play for the campaign or story

it does become MMO well old school MMO so far since you need to interact with the community in order to do non matchmaking stuff like raid yeah you need to actualy find a group of people or create your own group to do raid

well destiny is game for everybody so yeah i can understand why people hating it especially the one who playing destiny for the campaign

No hope at all.

On the PC Game pass.

They leave games without updates or crossplay on the same pc as other people

https://www.theloadout.com/warhammer-darktide/crossplay

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/comments/qi2a8t/xbox_pc_game_pass_vs_steam/

These are the current main ones that people care about