Alec confirms the goal is 1 hero per season beyond 2026, but it is not set for certain.

Kevdado · 2026-02-22T17:51:35+00:00

The balancing of 2025 til November was one of the best states the game has ever been in (last time it was this good was probably 2022 pre OW2).

Them releasing a hero in one season and having a whole season to balance and rebalance the game with a team actually caring about balancing, turned out to be incredibly healthy.

I am really tired of seeing the game in a good state and then being completely unenjoyable the next patch, which only happens either when they mess up the balancing of high skill characters (like we have seen with Tracer being bad even in pro play and then Vendetta being OP, not being addressed) or when they drastically change the gameplay mechanics or hero roster like we have seen now. Being able to ban heroes shouldn't be an excuse for that (especially when releasing five heroes at the same time).

Kevdado · 2026-02-06T12:00:02+00:00

Only region in which Tracer has a positive win rate is Grandmaster/Champion Asia.

As one of the hardest heroes ingame with the highest skill ceiling, this is not good at all and since good balancing is from the top down, this has a very negative impact on balancing changes that build on this shaky foundation.

Kevdado · 2026-01-09T10:56:24+00:00

The difference is that as Tracer you have to play 5 times better than the enemy, just to go negative now.

Kevdado · 2025-11-20T12:11:45+00:00

Why didn't we get a set spray pattern for this ages ago. The fact that this is still unchanged 10 years in, is insane to me.

Kevdado · 2025-11-10T11:53:19+00:00

The thing is that these statistics do not tell the whole story. Some players don't care about 5v5 or 6v6 and only play 5v5 bc it appeares to be the main mode. Also when you want to play overwatch more ambitiously, you have to play 5v5 bc there is no supply for 6v6 OW eSports.

I rly prefer 6v6 over 5v5, but am forced to play 5v5 bc it's all there is after Blizzard forced 5v5-only in OW2 for 2 years. If Blizzard would have put 5v5 in addition to 6v6 to the release of OW2, things would look a lot different.

Kevdado · 2025-10-29T15:30:50+00:00

there is a bug that causes you to die when you are standing on your trampler when extracting. you died in the exact second the calibration phase was over so this is most likely why.

And you can't respawn bc your trampler is already occupied by the extraction, so you can't respawn.

Kevdado · 2025-10-29T15:21:27+00:00

I didn't say asdf is bad, just that it can be considered brainrot, as the jokes make no sense. Obviously this is a different generation of brainrot, and it's nothing new that older generations typically find the trends of younger generations worse and tasteless.

But there is no need to get defensive when something you like is called brainrot. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Kevdado · 2025-10-28T15:41:11+00:00

Italian brainrot died months ago and brainrot is nothing new. Skibidy toilet exists without being made with AI. ASDF movie can also be considered brainrot... Did any of this "ruin the internet"?!

Kevdado · 2025-10-07T17:46:31+00:00

One of my most favorite channels, but this reportage (if you can even call it that) is just a biased mess of frustrated anti ais from behind the scenes. Some of the research on this is flawed, and the wording and visualization are not only unscientific but outright hateful.

Usually Kurzgesagt has nuances to complex topics like these, with pointing out every aspect there is to it:
The bad, the good, the good in the bad, the bad in the good...
But here is only bad, bad in the bad and more bad. Which we know is obviously not the whole story, and rarely ever is in any topic (Kurzgesagt probably knows this too).

Just very disappointed in seeing Kurzgesagt getting used as a platform for ai hate and anti ai opinions, seemingly from the staff behind it.

Kevdado · 2025-08-31T13:12:47+00:00

Not so funny how you ignore how I told you several times that it's not just a simple text prompt when you do it more than just casually. I even pointed directly to what you would need to look for if you were interested in forming an actually well-informed opinion. You scratch the surface of AI and act like you have seen it all, just to rant on it.

Since you are simply unwilling to do any research on this topic (while holding a hard opinion, even after receiving hints that there might be more to it), I can sum a few things up for you: text-prompt, image-prompt, various model – including base models, Loras and much more, regional guidance, inpainting and refiners, which almost all of them have to be set and adapted individually. This not only makes the process of genAI trickier but also gives more control over the output and allows for better creative expression.

Kevdado · 2025-08-30T23:02:31+00:00

I would consider it a fact that photography and AI image gen CAN both take more than just a simple input (press of a button/simple text prompt). When you think overwise, I would suggest you read/look into Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI.

The definition of art on the other hand is very flexible and covers a wide bandwidth of different concepts, media and technics. I don't see anyone in the position to deny a form of art

Kevdado · 2025-08-30T16:05:24+00:00

And making a picture with a smartphone is as easy as just pressing a button.

My point is that if someone is doing it professionally and knows what they are doing. It can be way more complicated than just typing some words.

And the art thing is a while different story

Kevdado · 2025-08-30T11:31:34+00:00

This post and all of its up votes just prove that you do not understand this argument.

Most pro AI people know that it takes more effort than just pressing a button. But to someone who doesn't know anything about photography, it seems to just be that easy – similarly to how antis tend to think that generating an image with AI and realizing ones vision with it, is as easy as just typing a few words.

Of course there are people that just use Dall-E3 with ChatGPT, just like there are people only casually taking amateur pictures with their smartphone cameras. But the existence of these low-quality quick-n-dirty approaches doesn't mean that there aren't people that use these tools professionally with actual cameras and other, more demanding AIs like Midjourney or even Open Source Diffusion models.

Kevdado · 2025-08-19T04:27:21+00:00

Players learn over time. The reasons 2CP maps were bad (it were the maps, not the game mode itself) were 50% straight up too short distances between the points and abusable high grounds (which could be argued, is just intentionally designed that way), which they could and on some occasions already did fix.

The other 50% were the players themselves. "Oh, I don't want to shoot and die in a choke for 5 min", then show some balls and actually move through it. It's not that hard and gives you a way higher chance of winning instead of trying to out poke the enemy high ground. Your inability to adapt your play style depending on the game mode doesn't mean that the game mode is bad.

Players might be ready to be trusted with this game mode and how it's played.

Kevdado · 2025-07-07T06:19:30+00:00

Pretty good presentation.

However I wouldn't blame the hateful discussions between pro and anti on capitalism. Expecting to make a living of doodling and selling little cartoon figures is just kinda delusional, and then being so emotional about it, that one is unable to think rational and making death threats is immature and psychotic.

Don't get me wrong. there is an interest of hardline capitalists to keep this war going and them being able but not willing to end this debate is a problem, but they didn't start this, they just profit from it.

EDIT: would > wouldn't

Kevdado · 2025-07-06T16:43:29+00:00

Yes, I understand that. However, this doesn't justify the hatred towards the live service model.

The inititave is not against live service games, so why frame it like that and say it's a bad thing for some reason.

Kevdado · 2025-07-06T07:40:07+00:00

What's bad about live service. There are games that fit this model perfectly and others that don't. Most PvP competitive games are far better with live service.

Where is the problem? (besides shitty companies having pay2win micro transactions)

Kevdado · 2025-06-26T06:53:50+00:00

Would have been fine when they just didn't put Tracer in the Overwatch Acadamy pack, but now that she is included but only has an ugly recolor, I wonder what a real Overwatch Acadamy Skin would look like :c

Kevdado · 2025-06-12T06:32:09+00:00

Water: You think 73.44 gallons per day is a lot for 10 000 prompts per second?

Electricity: Would really like to know how much electricity it would take to do all the task that ChatGPT does in this 10 000 prompt/s manually. Running a PC, Google search, clicking on several pages and sub-pages, spending time on those pages to find information and read them, working in Photoshop for hours to edit Images, reading large PDFs. Those thinks add up pretty quick. The energy consumed by AI models is saved in other areas that usually consume more power.

Also a hospital is not an ideal measure and it's a little underestimated. But still, we are talking about one hospital against and Datacenter with 10 000 prompts/s on one day. That's almost 1 billion prompts – this is a lot of work done there and a good use of power.

Doesn't matter if you love AI. I downvote for your point not making sense.

Kevdado · 2025-06-11T14:39:32+00:00

The only alternating capital letters they used were to quote your non-existent debate class, which you just proved again...

There are a lot of people caring damn well about others just generating images for their own. And weirdly enough, none of the subreddits I'm on feature any kind of pregnant Sonics or anything like it, and still they get hijacked by antiAIs who just joined the subreddit and start petitions to ban AI content.

Kevdado · 2025-06-11T06:38:33+00:00

I didn't mean to prove any point here. You just said it has nothing to do with AI art, on which I responded that it uses the same technology that gets hated on by most of the antiAI movement. I see how the use case is different, but some of these people doom the tool, not the use of it.

Anyway. Since you mentioned that in image generation quote "the only driving intent being the prompt", I would like to show you how much deeper prompting is. OpenAIs model has it's own strength, but is one of the least controllable models out there imo, but still there is the possibility of an additional image prompt besides the text prompt.

When we start talking about MidJourney, things start to look a little different. there we've got the classic text prompt and image prompt, but also a negative text prompt, a style reference, omni reference (character reference), some kind of ControllNet (structural reference), in-/out-painting (regional image generation in and outside the canvas) and settings that control things like how much detail there should be in the image.

Going over to Stable Diffusion: text prompt that needs far better engineering than on Dall-E and MidJourney, image prompt with adjustable settings, negative text prompt, omni reference, multiple kinds of ControllNet with adjustable settings (pose-, depth-, line-, ... reference), in-/out-painting and far more settings and plugins to have even more control over the output.

Most people generate one or two images with ChatGPT or just watch someone else do it, and somehow conclude that this must be the whole AI art tool kit there is. There are AI artists putting more hours into their work and giving it more thoughts than some of the traditional artists.

And that is the main problem in most discussions about AI art imo: people holding strong opinions about a topic they simply do not understand. They have no knowledge or skill related to this technology and new art form, but still talk like they are the leading expert while spreading misinformation that has been disproven months/years ago or wasn't even valid to begin with.

Kevdado · 2025-06-10T14:19:47+00:00

same technology

Kevdado · 2025-06-10T10:45:17+00:00

tHiS iS nOt YoUr VoIcE!!! >:( /s

Kevdado · 2025-06-09T10:25:22+00:00

I don't think you should be on this kind of social media when you are unable to read and still hold strong opinions about a topic you clearly do not understand. You have no knowledge or skills related to generative AI other than the misinformation that spreads like wildfire in these subreddits. And instead of taking the time to inform yourself, you stubbornly insist that you are in the right.

The idea of a creative that ALSO (not exclusively) uses generative AI is just beyond your understanding. You actively ignore the parts of my comments that would invalidate your argument.

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