I would have put this in the Overwatch 2 space but for some reason it’s locked? Oh well.
I have a fairly standard gaming PC and can run Overwatch 1 smoothly on medium graphics and 120fps. Yet my PC just crashed three times when playing Overwatch 2.
I understand that I could just simply “get a new PC” but no, that’s expensive.
I find it frustrating how I can play Overwatch 1 perfectly fine and have done for the last six years and now the game is going to be replaced and eradicated by another one that is simply far too “good-looking” for my PC. I have barely played the new beta, which has possibly the most egregious and over-the-top hero I have ever seen (JQ), and am still playing Overwatch 1.
This means that the only way I can play my favourite game now is purchasing a brand new PC, which has to be better than my £700 one. I simply don’t have the money to afford that, preferably I’d want the Overwatch 1 servers kept online despite the inevitably low player count but that won’t happen so instead I would like a refund on the Watchpoint Pack - seeing as how I won’t be able to play the game I’ve spent money on.
But I am also aware that the Watchpoint pack was a stupid investment from me seeing as the team haven’t actually told us it’s worth - really?
Just buy a £250 console which is better than your £700 PC.
I agree about losing OW1 though and still say both games could’ve easily co-existed, and in fact, that their co-existence would have been mutually beneficial.
I think you need to pay monthly for some gamepass if you wanna play online on consoles… You also cant use mouse and keyboard in Owerwatch because its considired cheating in connsole version.
A lot of what you’re complaining about is just the nature of PC gaming. Overwatch 1 is a 6 year old game. The performance requirements will go up in 6 years. It sucks for you, but that’s just…. How it works? It’s something that should have been expected on your part.
And we have pretty solid metrics for what the Watchpoint pack is worth. At it’s core we have 2 legendary skins, which paid legendaries in the OWL store cost $10, so for both of them that is $20. You get the first premium battlepass, which is widely assumed will cost $10-15. You also get 2000 VC, which the devs have stated is enough to buy 2 more battle passes. That’s 27 weeks of battlepass content. It’s pretty much accepted at this point that $5 is 500 VC, so this is $20 in VC, which lines up with the $10 battlepass idea. So on the conservative end the Watchpoint bundle is now worth $40, beta access not even being counted as a thing with monetary value.
I feel for you about just not being able to afford something you really want, but you do have to be realistic.
OW2 will be f2p, so no monthly payment required. And if Blizzard were based, they’d allow M&Kb in PC lobbies, but nah, they wanna still be pretending it’s 2008.
Yeah game can be free to play, but I think console players have to pay extra to Microsoft if they have Xbox and extra to SONY if they have PS if they want to play online. Its a paid subscription or something like that. I would never buy console because of how greedy their makers are and it wouldnt be worth it anyway, its better to buy PC in which you can just switch parts to upgrade or repair (If you dont have Dell or HP or something with atypical parts)…
Do you perhaps have multiple accounts and are posting on a different account from the one you have beta access on? I think only accounts that can access the beta can post on the forum.
When you say crashed - did your PC crash as in hard shutdown or did the game crash and you were back at the desktop?
No, if you can get 120FPS on medium settings no one should tell you to get a new PC. Games can crash because the PC playing them isn’t performant enough but they can also crash for a host of other reasons.
Quick things to check:
temperature of CPU/GPU during gaming
driver updates available for you GPU?
You must consider the fact that you are playing a beta which is unfinished and you might be experiencing a bug which needs to be patched/fixed.
Jumping to the “I need to buy a new computer” conclusion is a bit much.
Not anymore. F2P games no longer require Xbox live to play. At least not for Xbox, idk if Sony does the same thing now or what, but Microsoft made that change about a year ago so you only need to pay for the online service if it’s a paid game.
I was joking about OP getting a console anyway. Nobody who has played Overwatch on PC can go back to play it on console without going insane.
I’ve gone back and its just fine. Both the PS5 and series X offer 1440p120hz with HDR modes for ow2 that are rock solid. Fast SSD speeds are supported too so the difference isn’t that massive compared to OW1 launch
It’s not the visuals, brother, I still only have 60fps on PC due to playing on a 15 year old TV, my issue is with going from mouse aim back to controller aim. It feels absolutely horrible and is the only reason I was never able to go back to Xbox.
I mean OW2 is supposed to be an e-sports game. And just because their game engine is newer shouldn’t mean you have to fork out a beefy gaming PC just to be able to play it.
I get more FPS from Valorant than I do from Overwatch 1 and the former is a newer game. And the game doesn’t look like it’s twice as nicer looking graphics wise. So if OP is having performance issues even on medium graphic settings in OW2, that’s concerning.
To OP, have you tried playing on the absolute lowest graphic setting? If so, what did the game look like? Did it still look somewhat decent? Make sure your render scale isn’t set to 200% because that can really cost you FPS. Render scale only needs to be at 100% for the game to look nice.
Also are you just crashing or is your FPS dropping when you’re on medium setting? If your game is just crashing constantly, but FPS is staying the same, it might be caused by other issues in the game (e.g. bugs), rather than your PC not being powerful enough to handle the game.
And join a locked software ecosystem? Nah. There’s a steep price for that route. And the graphics are kinda pukey in most cases compared to PC. When just the graphics card is the price of a console, that speaks volumes about capabilities.
Any modern gaming PC with dedicated GPU will get you more than 120hz. Overwatch is mostly played arround 240 rock solid. Buying console instead of PC just doesnt make any sense, especially if you have to pay monthly fees so you can play online games youve already bought… No thank you. And probly the worst thing is you cant switch parts like RAM, MOBO, CPU or GPU which means if one part dies and youre after warranty period then youre pretty much done and you can just buy whole new console. With PC you can always switch anything you want (not in laptops and not in HP or Dell pre-builts). PC is much better purchase in long term really… +Not being able to use mouse in fps games is really something you need to be used to and any PC player couldnt play on console.
And probly the worst thing is you cant switch parts like RAM, MOBO, CPU or GPU which means if one part dies and youre after warranty period then youre pretty much done and you can just buy whole new console. With PC you can always switch anything you want (not in laptops and not in HP or Dell pre-builts). PC is much better purchase in long term really… +Not being able to use mouse in fps games is really something you need to be used to and any PC player couldnt play on console.