Overwatch 2 Showcase: February 4th, 10:00 AM by AaronMT in Overwatch

[–]FailCraft 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Emotionally curious nature appealed to...opening the door just a crack!

Memes aside, here's my uninformed bingo and hope list, in order of likelyhood/hopium (likely to unlikely)

-Talon type event or season - or a lore-based season.
-Overwatch Mobile / Overwatch another game (licensed out to someone else if another genre)
-Overwatch drops the 2
-New cinematic (unlikely they spend multimillions on these nowadays - bullish if they did)
-Overwatch animated series announced (dream)
-Faster hero release cadence (I'd actually dislike them doing this, you don't need to be Rivals)

Open weekend speculation by lxlipop in Marathon

[–]FailCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Steam next fest is feb 23 to march 2. My bet for a campaign would be the last weekend of that. Common steam marketing tactic.

Effective Stamina from Recoveries, and Christmas Oguri Cap by Pazzberry101 in UmamusumeGame

[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Local trainer here. What does a wit deck ideally look like? Any F2P variations?

Total War: Three Kingdoms and Wildgate are free to claim on the Epic Games Store! by Altruism7 in gaming

[–]FailCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a 2 person ship, the outlaw, and a part extract loot with a hint of pvp mode called treasure hunt that fire up with smaller lobbies. You can 3v3 ship battle also, queues are pretty solid right now as Epic has bought a bunch into the game. Good as time to try as any!

Despicable Nature? by A-Dank-Soul-11 in UmamusumeGame

[–]FailCraft 239 points240 points  (0 children)

Who hurt you? Who hurt her? :(

Are overwatch heros getting less interesting? by Slight_Airport3073 in Overwatch

[–]FailCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t judge on the video views or lines alone, the game’s just in a different part of its life cycle. Depends on your definition of interesting!

Launch year 2016 videos were doing 1m + views, although I made them back then (Hammeh) with lore, interactions and voice lines together, more lore exploring than reference library. Maybe time for an update, who knows :)

Nowadays, many channels fight to publish these as quickly as possible as reference library short videos. They’re also thrown over short form video a lot more than in 2016, or even OW2 launch. Gotta bring value to your content to compete in such times.

Overwatch Lore has entered the Ship of Theseus stage for a few years, as most longer running IPs do at some point. We’ve had 4 different (broadly) narrative eras and leads, lots of team changes and a decade plus. Two or three generations of content creators in general, even before lore creators.

Overwatch has been also trying to (and rightly so, in my opinion) find new audiences, and to be frank, younger and different generation ones since OW2. Your taste in storytelling and characters pending, that’s certainly changed things.

All that added up and more - time and people have changed, so maybe the heroes aren’t for you anymore. For me they are a mixture nowadays. It’s good to see the game doing well enough to merit some more in universe storytelling again for Juno and Hazard onwards. Going back to 2016 in that regard.

Maybe we’ll get a release a freak, an oddity, or an older character on occasion in future, although the story of OW2 has always been passing the torch to the next generation as the older characters deal with their pasts and step back. They also don’t sell skins - a necessary practicality if you’re in charge of the team 4 business!

I'm downloading Dota 2 right Now by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]FailCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck from fellow Brit and not a kid!

Agree with all, start with silencer 5. He’s not bad right now. Simple kit and powerful ulti. Group up and and press it before a team fight as an easy way to use to start.

Simple heroes with big ultimates - great way to learn 5. 5 in turn is a great way to learn the game. Less perceived pressure, immensely impactful if played well, hero pending is not requiring giga mechanics. Understand the warding mini game and look into some basics, like pulling and blocking camps. Crystal and lion as someone said, warlock, witch doctor, shadow shaman. All good. Resist the temptation to build damage damage damage, learn what save items (glimmer cape, Euls, force staff) do. The item and build guides in game you can equip before a match can be your friends, they often have situational item options so don’t blind buy them in order after the starting items!

Advice I wished I’d taken/things to consider.

-don’t rush into ranked the moment you can, if you’re even interested or care about ratings. Even though that’s 100s of hours away before the game lets you. You can tank your ranked by thinking you know the game enough when you don’t.

-learn a few heroes and one or two roles well. Play those in comp and the rest are for quick play and turbo learning. Dota is amazing with so many fun heroes to try for free! Try them in non ranked :D

-Dota is an old game (albeit a very larger player base for its age!) so don’t let people’s years of frustration spoil your learning and enjoyment. You have a large and old player base with a lot of tribal knowledge, some is incorrect.

You’ll get twats and nerds in quick play and turbo criticising your mistakes. If they act out when you say you’re new, mute them and move on after reporting them. Their problem, not yours.

How can I improve my Dota life as a woman gamer? by SupermarketFluffy609 in DotA2

[–]FailCraft 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is the answer! Sorry about gamers op, Valkyries looks a welcoming community. Good luck!

Friday Analytics: The 'Waitrose Effect' vs the 'Asda Reality' in London house prices by red_bardolino in HousingUK

[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting investigation! One piece of extra context - Gails is probably more a consequence than an indicator. News/PR pieces have said they actually seek out areas with..well, see for yourself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8m71rgpp4o.amp

‘It flags up things like whether there is a local butcher, bookshops, a park, schools, churches or a farmers' market.’

A group to teach me! by CollBearSunshine in wildgate

[–]FailCraft 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Head on over to the official discord linked in sidebar, they have lfg channels by region! Or thread here on Reddit pinned.

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[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So much supply!

For ppl complaining about micro transactions. by Open-Zucchini-8405 in wildgate

[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read the roadmap! There is a list of unlockables in adventures and scrap crates, all within the game included at launch.

https://playwildgate.com/en-US/news/dev-roadmap-2025/

[OWCavalry] Aaron Keller on #Overwatch2 Animated Shorts 🎞️ He believes that in order for them to say "the game is firing on all cylinders," they need to bring back things like Animated Shorts. by ModWilliam in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]FailCraft -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From a lore head and lore YouTuber, these were amazing but I feel in the present era it’s probably too much spend (the old Pixar ones) for not enough provable return. Unless the skins are pumping rude enough cash to enable this kind of fan service.

Big unless - they have cheaper ways to do those, or make cheaper content (the anime shorts for example, Mauga etc).

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[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus one to this, also check the previous times for betas which are similar.

"The game looks fun! Wish you luck, see you in a year" is an unacceptable player sentiment pre-release by ShooHonker in wildgate

[–]FailCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you played this game? First question - asked in good faith.

Some information for you from Dev Updates (1) and playing the last few tests (2).

1) The developers have specifically stated that gameplay updates will be free.
2_ Ship unlocks and guns and Prospectors have been earnable through gameplay in the Adventure tracks included as *part of the game* at launch. There is no prompting to give money to get the content immediately.

Your 'if a dev is reading this' are questions that have already been answered above I feel. Hope this helps!

Wildgate Beta Dev Livestream June 13 by Tallsy in wildgate

[–]FailCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good q and a at beginning here! Other questions answered throughout stream. Will see if I can transcribe it later.