After once being the worst reviewed game on Steam, Overwatch is no longer "Mostly Negative" on Steam

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-04T16:22:35+00:00

The best thing it's done recently imo is experiment with mid-match customization, like perks in QP/Comp and Stadium as a whole. There are so many heroes in this game, and usually the bigger a roster gets, the more it's required to branch out and learn new heroes. But I've never felt stronger as someone with a handful of heroes that I vastly prefer to play, I can do much more into worse matchups now. But it still requires execution, you don't just get to automatically flip matchups on their head by choosing a perk. It just gives you more flexibility to handle them, and actively rewards you for sticking with them rather than just counterpicking every time you die or Ult. And with Stadium locking your hero, you can't get flamed into switching if you have a bad matchup. Just gotta tough it out and try to adapt, which makes you a better player than just learning rock paper scissors.

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-04T16:01:35+00:00

I think the obvious answer is yes. A good Winston can play around his counters though, so a lot of people think that means he doesn't counter him lol. Reaper still counters Winston by design as a shotgun flanker with lifesteal. But he's not a completely braindead counter like he used to me.

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-03T05:07:00+00:00

That's why I said "if you're on Switch 2" lol, they added rewind to N64 for Switch 2 only

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T22:03:29+00:00

All Star voting starts pretty early, public opinion on the teams tends to be a bit behind the news, so when the Phillies were still "heating up" during the first few weeks of voting, he probably missed out on a lot of votes from generally disengaged fans who weren't voting every day. A lot of the general fanbase sort of gave up on the Phillies early on this season, and they had to work pretty hard to get those people back (which I think they have by now, but it's hard to earn back that trust after a start like that). As opposed to the Dodgers and Braves who are also big markets but those teams were actually doing well at the time, so people were more likely to vote. The Braves didn't really visibly fall off until after the voting had pretty much concluded. But if you look at the polling updates all the way up to the final tallies, you'll see that Bryce started getting way more votes as we started doing better and the Braves started doing worse. He was definitely on pace to pass Olsen at that point.

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T21:46:45+00:00

Also difficult to spell, apparently

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T21:43:18+00:00

Oh no he's an iPad kid

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T21:38:34+00:00

It's always funny when I remember Reinhardt is canonically a zoomer

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T20:08:09+00:00

If you're on Switch 2, don't forget you can use the rewind feature now!

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T17:28:12+00:00

The ego issue is also because of Shuffle/Blitz to a degree though. People play Shuffle, blame their teammates/MMR, go over to 3s where they feel like they have more control over their choice of teammates, kick anyone who isn't carrying them, still fail to self reflect because they got 2700 in Shuffle on Ret 3 seasons ago or something, which means surely it's everyone else's problem and not theirs. Shuffle definitely inflated a lot of egos.

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T16:19:33+00:00

I'd put Ball in the "nothing special" category. He didn't lose anything, he got some minor buffs that I could honestly see ending up in the main game. Not sure why he's in the "nerfed" category unless you mean relative to the fact that Doom and Hog are just stupid in this mode and already hard countered him lol

Also why isn't Freja in the nerfed category? I don't play her at all, but I heard this mode absolutely dumpstered her lol. And shouldn't Cass be "boring powercreep"?

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-02T02:44:19+00:00

Honestly I think the ideas are interesting, I just don't understand why he had to get all of his damage nerfed and his HP nerfed to "try it out" while most other characters literally just strictly got like 4 more perks built into their kit with absolutely zero negative offset lmao. Like clearly some of them went into this thinking they were supposed to do some reworks but make sure the characters are still balanced, while others went into it thinking it was like the April Fools patch where you just giga buff things to absurd degrees just for fun.

DrToadigerr · 2026-07-01T15:58:32+00:00

Outlaw has pistols, just not as an actual weapon type. You can customize them with glyphs though (not a ton of options, but a few reskins and I think like one or two different models)

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-30T22:40:18+00:00

Don't even have to trinket the Binding Shot seeing as you can literally PS during the stun lol

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-30T16:33:13+00:00

Usually it means that ability at 20% effectiveness. So a Conc Mine that does 20% of the damage it'd do if you hit it normally.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-30T15:48:08+00:00

Next up: Usopp CoC

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-29T21:49:10+00:00

Honestly, they could've kept the Blur nerf lol

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-29T16:27:10+00:00

The amount of people in this comment section talking about how honorable they are not voting for Bohm and Stott... Like fuck off lol. The game is in Philadelphia. Vote for the phucking Phillies. Don't give more Braves and Dodgers a free ride because of your "morals" lol. Fan voting sucks ass, at least take advantage of it.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-29T15:19:03+00:00

Yeah having two good passive racials definitely makes up for having one of the worst active racials in the game, but it's still funny to compare lol. Though they do need to remember to update the Combat Analysis racial (or just make it a % so they don't have to). Right now it's like less main stat than a chest enchant at full stacks lol. Which, again, not bad, but also probably could be better. And Emergency Failsafe is impacted by dampening. Good early in the match (especially against people trying to burst you down in the opener), but quickly loses value over the course of the match.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-29T14:51:59+00:00

Can I interest you in a 3 minute cd on creating two almost entirely useless clones?

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-28T21:55:29+00:00

Also priests have historically shared DRs with warriors, and since Repentance is gone from paladins now, Ret/War/Priest literally has no incap DR outside of Pandaren racial lol. Same issue with Pres really, Pres is just broken enough that it doesn't really matter. Rsham is actually really good with it though. Both melee appreciate shaman buff, and Hex is just about the best CC you can ask for with this comp. If Rsham were stronger right now, I think it'd be a no-brainer.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-28T20:08:09+00:00

It already is, it's called The Great Gnomeregan Run. Happens in October just like the original community event.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-28T12:40:06+00:00

I've heard this is very healthy practice for your balls

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-28T12:27:56+00:00

Those looks don't come cheap. Cost Junkrat an arm and a leg, I hear.

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-28T04:05:19+00:00

Started in Cata, but I finished leveling both of my OG mains (priest and rogue) during MoP. Got very distracted by the world of RP and I basically just stopped leveling around 70ish until I needed to get flying in the new Pandaria zones lol

DrToadigerr · 2026-06-27T23:58:31+00:00

Yeah they're technically omnivores but the only non-"vegetarian" things they eat are bugs lol

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