It looks like the ability to enable and disable the Workshop Inspector and Log File settings have been removed from the gameplay menu. These are used extensively within the scrim scene to log data and track player performance. As of my testing, the current values for the settings still work, but accounts that did not have these settings turned on cannot easily make changes to these settings. The Workshop Inspector can still be enabled through the Open Workshop Inspector button, but the log file setting does not seem to be changeable.
Iām not surprised, they have completely neglected the workshop. There was an issue for MONTHS where there were two identical versions of each gamemode in the āModesā section of Custom Game Settings
What was their solution? Simply hide it from the players, instead of actually removing them. The Result? A nightmare for Workshop Developers. You basically have to guess which oneās the correct gamemode, wait THEY MADE IT WORSE???!!!Itās now 3 identical escorts, controls, hybrids, that all look the sameā¦ I just noticed this
Heck CactusPuppy just retired from Workshop Development, one of the biggest guys in the community, and he sighted a lack of care for the Workshop by Team 4 as one reason. I think that shows you that Team 4 either donāt care, or donāt have the resources to improve or maintain the Workshop
If anyone from Team 4 is reading this, I just want the Workshop to be better and for issues like these to be fixed, itād be a big help to us, donāt mean any hateā¦ Iām just frustrated that for issues like this one, Team 4 has:
Been radio silent
Taken obscene amounts of time to fix
Released half-baked solutions
Maybe I havenāt been looking and there has been communication about this
My big thing is, as Aaron said āOverwatch 2 is a competitively focused gameā, can we focus on making sure Competitive Players can get the experience they have for years?
Also let me clarify that I am the Workshop Developer behind Scrimmie, a popular scrim code with almost 8000 views on workshop.codes and that consistently trends on the website in the top 30 when thereās a new update. I have worked closely with Caldoran (Developer behind the most popular scrim code, ScrimTime) on a few bug patches to fix these such issues, thatās why I want them fixed, for the players
Curious for anyone who did not have this setting enabled, did they just remove the button?Like will the Log Files show up in your Documents Folder?Or did they just remove the button with no thought at all?
My friend Mantis had it enabled previously and it still goes to their logs folder but myself who did NOT have it enabled cannot access logs without manually copy pasting them in the inspector.
Iāve worked with Caldoran as well, Iām the developer for Parsertime, an app built to handle the log files and show player stats to the user. This feature being absent makes it very hard for players to use the app since it requires log files to be effective.
I wish Blizzard would put in the effort to support the Workshop/competitive scene, this change is such a minor one and I canāt see it taking a long time to fix. The fact that they seem to neglect the Workshop community and the scrimming/competitive scene leaves a very sour taste in my mouth as someone who has played the game since 2017.
We at Stano Swell would love to use Parsertime as our Esports Org has teams from Bronze to OWCS. Our team S.S. Axolotls just competed in group 3 of the OWCS qualifiers and this would have been an amazing tool for them to use.
Bump. This issue has been present for months, and is degrading my and a lot of other workshoperās experience.
If you had Log to File enabled before, and donāt want it enabled, then you are out of luck. The game will create a text file for every single match you host. This takes precious space from your hard-drive, and you may not even realize it.
If you didnāt have Log to File enabled before the Season 11 update, but would like this for some reason, then you are out of luck too.
It is a somewhat underutilized feature, but I know some people who were working on some really cool stuff using it.
For example, there was a fellow workshopper who was working on a tool to see logs from the game in real time on the browser, with plans to add debugging tools for the Workshop. There is also Overwatch with Proximity Voice Chat, featured by Jay3, and only made possible because the mode creator/host happened to have Log to File enabled before the update.
First of all, thank you guys for all of your work! Iām quite active in the scrim scene and I find it very depressing to see how Blizzard has never cared about the competitive scene and probably never will. Especially these days. That makes it even more wonderful to see players passionate enough to invest a lot of their time into developing for the community!
Can any of you or someone else tell me if thereās another possibility to now save and read log files if one hadnāt enabled it in the settings before it was removed? Any kind of workaround? Thanks in advance!
I HAVE FOUND A WORKAROUND. Making a tutorial video right now. Iāll probably upload it tonight. It relies on copying the log file and manually saving it since you canāt use the log inspector file.
they can unnecessarily buff mauga but cant fix the workshop inspector logs!
